[crystal]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bartimaeus
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: You missed a hell of a show
WHEN: Mid-afternoon, now-ish
NOTES: Noodle incident post-script for THE GRAND CUN...SENSUS. If you character was there, feel free to make up the scandalous details. No, these stories absolutely don't need to be consistent.

[Hear ye, hear ye! This message coming at you from a perfectly respectable post-after party hangover recovery hour.]

If you weren't in a very particular quarter of Val Royeaux last night, then I have terrible news. You've missed the only theater production worth seeing. —No, scratch that. You've maybe missed the only thing ever worth seeing. May as well just go lie down in the nearest convenient ditch and wait for someone to come along and heap grave dirt over you. There's just no point what with the Divine election drama having been officially concluded.

[Puns are a very base form of humor, but let's just say he's inspired.]

For those of you who were there, yes. I can confirm that Antoine has been rescued from the pillory.

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[ ????? this can't be good. ]

Bartimaeus, what did you do?

I didn't do anything.

[Well, no, he did. But, shockingly enough, that's hardly the point today.]

But I did supervise a very tasteful stage production starring a nice young man who you'd swear was Clorentine herself allowing for the help of some creative costuming and a distance of about ten feet.

Believe me, you wouldn't have wanted to be any closer.

[ Ugh. ]

Uh huh. And what did the nice young man do at this very tasteful stage production.

Let's just say I'd have recommended that healthy distance in the interest of keeping you out of the splash zone.

What was spl...Actually, no. I don't think I want to know.

[Sensible girl.]

What I will say is that I think even you might have liked the dance number in the second act. Practically seditious.

[ A little skeptically: ]

Yeah? What was it like?

You know, I got the distinct feeling that the playwright wasn't exactly big on the rule of nobility somewhere between the chorus of starving peasants being made to do high kicks and the woman with the paper mache lion's head who Clorentine--

Well.

Who Clorentine - What? Killed?

No.

Tortured?

...Wandered into the mouth of?

Are you saying that the lion-woman ate Clorentine?

As a matter of fact, I believe it may have.

Huh. I don't get the satire.

Has anyone ever told you how earnest you are, Kitty?

What?

[ She feels like he's making fun of her. Probably because he is very, very likely to be making fun of her at essentially any given moment. ]

No. Because that'd be a really weird thing to say to a person. Who organized this play, anyway?

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An exceptionally spirited performance! And an exceptional performance by the spirit in Act 2. Such creative use of choreography, to emphasize its shifts from corporeal to incorporeal.

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Of course. The choreography. But surely all the green organza helped.

And the additional spirits carrying it, of course. But if we are discussing the props, I would be remiss if I did not mention the use of beadwork. I can't say it made the prosthetics very life-like, but it was certainly unique.

You know, I believe that charming designer must be some lady's dressmaker in another life. She was oddly keen on textiles, wasn't she?

You should have tried to recruit her. The Inquisition could do with a little more flare.

[ Laughing— ]

What did you do to my city?

And which theatre house was willing to allow it?

Some might say it's been considerably improved. That advertisement painted along the Grand Ru should be preserved for future generations.

As for the rest-- I've been sworn to secrecy.

Are you gonna reenact it?

I'm not sure there's a balcony in the Gallows from which to do the third act set piece properly.