A Beautiful Ballroom, Somewhere, After Dark

[arboreal_priestess]

Dancing bears,
Painted wings,
Things I almost remember...

Peaches and peach-based meals had shown up today all across the island. And for those poor fools who had partaken of them, well, after dark they would find themselves transported to the most wonderful ballroom, dressed in the most lovely clothes they'd ever seen. Even people who normally wouldn't go for these kinds of trappings - long gowns, brocade frockcoats, costumes straight out of fantasy - somehow finding themselves not minding so much. Maybe it was the music and how it made people want to whirl around the dance floor. Maybe it was the glittering masks that adorned every face and gave people that delicious feeling of anonymity. Maybe it was the glasses ever-full of
a heady wine and plates of fruit that were fizzy in the mouth.

In the end, it didn't really matter, did it? It was a ball and people had come to dance and so, dance they would. Dance and talk and laugh and feel all their cares and tensions and fears just floating away...

[OCD up! Masquerade NFB because it's some kind of weird shared hallucination.]

All Around The Town, Wednesday Evening

[arboreal_priestess]

While the dancers spun and whirled about the floor in the grips of an illusion, tiny, floating crystal spheres did much the same, bobbing and weaving along in the night. They looked almost like soap bubbles, thin and delicate, but they did not pop and did not break. In fact, a person could catch one, holding it in the palm of their hand, and watch an ever-moving image of a beautiful, almost other-worldly ball. A ball where, if they watched long enough, they might start to catch glimpses of faces they knew. People would had fallen into a deep slumber and couldn't be roused.

The crystal bubbles floated on, trailing the scent of peaches in the air behind them. And as long as they remained unbroken, the magic hold on the dancing dreamers would never, ever falter.

[Feel free to mod your own spheres! Ping in with your location, they can be found anywhere on the island. There are a handwavy number of them, so break as many as your heart desires!]