>>5952517>>5953034As much as you'd love to keep stuffing your face and drinking all they have to offer, after awhile you feel overwhelmed by all the fawning and attention over you, and the forced social interaction. It's a nice place and all and you love feeling like a part of it, but dealing with so many people is exhaustive for you. Thankfully your rabbit-masked hosts become aware of this, and deftly manage to keep people from bothering you further. At least until the musicians take a bow to applause, and folks conclude the fancy dinner to head elsewhere in the estate.
<span class="mu-g">"Oh you're going to love this Cat!"</span>
<span class="mu-g">"It's still early in the year but you picked a good night to attend!"</span>
Although you wanted to keep eating and drinking, you're led along after everyone else instead. Feeling a bit disoriented and nauseous from the seemingly labyrinthine layout of the estate... although that might just be from drinking too much. Thankfully like everything else, Ryan and Robin take good care of you and escort you along with ease. A succession of regal rooms between fancy corridors until eventually you find yourself in a classy stage theater. Not to the scale of an opera house but still pretty large, all things considered, and with banners depicting unfamiliar iconography hanging about the place. The various guests from the dining hall and others from assumedly elsewhere in the estate mill about and socialize, but Ryan and Robin hurry you along to try and get seating front row and center.
It's a good thing you're wearing a mask then since between the comfy seating, dim lighting, the background noise and of course the exhaustion from the day, you end up dozing off after several failed attempts to keep your head upright. You assume it wasn't for too long though (and a good thing, else your body may have started softening and losing definition), as you jolt awake at Robin gently stirring you, finding yourself slumped against Ryan's shoulder and drooling on his sleeve some. Brushing off your apologies though, the pair of them direct your attention forward now as the lighting of the theater goes dark, leaving only the stage lighting. It seems everyone has already taken their seats for the start of the... show? As the curtains draw on what looks like some Greek or Roman architecture and environmental backdrop, to an otherwise empty stage apart from a center podium.
Visible standing to the sides however are numerous uniformly plain-masked and dark-robed individuals, one of whom makes his way to the podium.
<span class="mu-s">"Inheritors guide us!"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Inheritors bless us."</span>
<span class="mu-g">"Inheritors bless us."</span>
<span class="mu-g">"Inheritors bless us."</span>
The rest of the audience, Ryan and Robin as well, all murmur in response.
