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Gilbert Norrell ([personal profile] hurtfew) wrote in [community profile] undergrounds2015-10-27 12:03 pm

[SEMI-OPEN] Written by the Victors

Date: 30th of October, pre-Samhain celebration!
Plot: Smug Victory Dinner, with political manoeuvring
Areas: Westminster



It may have been a struggle, but Lambeth has finally been won over. A week of hard work to drive out all the unspeakable sorts, and another week of trying to keep control and tidy up, and it's looking like things are slowly beginning to settle. Gilbert Norrell is very pleased by this. Now he has proven he can be a leader, can lead them to victory -- and over a difficult area too! Of course, there were difficulties. Were small problems and losses along the way, but that does not matter now.

A dinner is not normally his style, he refused to hold one himself, but Childermass persuaded someone else to hold this on his behalf and -- well, it would be rude to decline. So he attends, if reluctantly (he does not like parties) and smiles as people applaud him. It is a rush of success, of ego, and as people come to congratulate him and find ways to carefully bring up their own causes and beliefs Gilbert Norrell feels that finally he is beginning to be recognised.

The table is carefully laid with glittering crystal glasses, candles and flowers. Not too ostentatious but still elegant and respectable, suited to the style of Norrell himself. Waiters and waitresses silently move back and forth serving people and taking requests or preferences, and the food is plentiful. If people can suffer the small-talk and ego coming from the head of the table, it will at least be a good meal.


[ ooc; log for the Daybreak victory meal! You can give me a ping if you want to be involved and replied already! It's set on Friday night so people can get drunk and slouch home without having to worry about the following morning, and can still attend Samhain things later. Entry is free, food and drink is free! The meal is being held by a lackey of Norrell's who wants to suck up to him since he's on the way up, and Norrell is therefore the ~guest of honour~. Dress code is black tie, thread with each other and mingle! ]
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[personal profile] tearmeanewone 2015-11-03 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Elizabeth can't sigh in relief while the men of the table are going on about 'ban the fae' and 'tighten the laws' and 'they have a perfectly good home elsewhere', but she can pick up the fork the woman has indicated and mouth, rather obviously, 'thank you' to the woman on her left. Then she's visibly restraining herself from bolting her food. This talk is making her vastly uncomfortable, food is her only companion right now. And the helpful lady she's next to.

"They're all going to starve if they don't stop this echo chamber and eat soon," she mutters to the woman.
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[personal profile] falsify 2015-11-14 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good thing she has food in her mouth, manners too good to laugh with a full mouth, Kathryn has a slight smirk tugging at her lips and she tilts her head toward Elizabeth once she's done with the tomato. Eyes darting around the table as she speaks in a hushed voice, "I think, perhaps, this sustains them just as well as food."