Gathering: Halloween Gala

[concierge]

A large, decorative sign situated prominantly in the lobby reads:

The Nexus Hotel
proudly presents its
ANNUAL HALLOWEEN GALA

Formal Reception
Nexus Dining Hall
6 PM - Midnight

Monster Mixer
Nexus Basement
8 PM - 2 AM

Masquerade attire recommended for all guests

Most of the chairs have been removed from the Dining Hall to allow for ballroom-style dancing to the orchestra set up on the far end of the room. A polished cherry wood open bar is aligned along one wall. The adjacent Bistro is open for the duration of the formal reception, serving gourmet hors d'oeuvres.

Downstairs, the basement's largest storeroom has been converted into a spooky nightclub, complete with DJ, dance floor and cocktails.

Comments

[rangerbecket]

"Break shit that engineers build for me," Raleigh teased, flashing her a broad grin. It wasn't far from the truth.

"I'm a jaeger pilot. It's a kind of giant robot, if that makes sense at all."

[miss_vas_normandy]

"Like a mech?" Tali asked, her interest piqued. "I've never heard them called a 'jeager' before, but I suppose you could consider the words 'mech' and 'robot' interchangeable. How do you pilot them? How large are they, exactly?"

[rangerbecket]

"We use a neural interface," Raleigh explains. "And as far as size? As big as a skyscraper. They're huge but so are the kaiju, so we need to match them for height and weight."

[miss_vas_normandy]

"Is that not dangerous?" Tali asked, remembering Cerberus's Project Overlord, and the boy that had been turned into a hybrid of man and machine. Then she huffed a soft laugh. "Though something that large, well--we could have used something like that against the Reapers. Are these kaiju organic lifeforms?"

[rangerbecket]

"They are, but only in the sense that they're alive. They're genetically engineered, I think. At least, that's what our scientist says. Who knows if that's the truth." Raleigh isn't a scientist by any stretch.

"His name's Newt. I've seen him in the hotel a few times. Nice guy but a little...twitchy."

[miss_vas_normandy]

"I wouldn't doubt it if it was true. Did your own people engineer them?" That was something Tali could understand very well, given the quarian's history with the geth.

"I don't think I've met him...then again I haven't met that many people yet."

[rangerbecket]

"No, another species did," Raleigh explains. "They travel here through a rift in our Pacific ocean. There's a little tear in the fabric between worlds, as much as I understand it, and it allows cross-dimensional travel."

He laughs a little, awkward. "I'm no scientist. I'm not explaining it well."

[miss_vas_normandy]

"I'm not either," Tali assured him with a quick grin. "So as far as I can tell, you're explaining it just fine. I think you must be from a different Earth than the one that I know of, I don't remember anyone mentioning that bit of human history."

[rangerbecket]

"Weird, that there can be more than one," he says, thinking about how when he was a kid he would have never imagined that was possible.

[miss_vas_normandy]

"Very," Tali agreed, finding the idea strange but interesting. "It makes me wonder, is there another Rannoch, too? Maybe the history of my people is different somewhere else."