Glorious Twelfth RSVP

Captain Katharine Sunderlin

Attending: The hunt from mid-morning onwards and the garden party.

What she wore: As usual, the Captain is dressed in her Navy uniform at all times. Except no bicorn because I can't stand them.

Her horse, Regina of the Thousand Steps:

Her hunting hawk, who shall go unnamed for personal reasons:

ISO's (In Search Of's) for possible interactions:

1 - During the hunt: Kat spends some time at the edge of the wood, far away from the shooting. She is quiet and solemn, and appears to have something weighing heavy on her mind. Instead of taking to a rifle (despite rumors of her excellent eyesight and unerring aim), she bids her white hawk hunt instead. Do you challenge her hawk to catch something specific, strike up a conversation, or merely enjoy the silence?

2. During the garden party: Kat lets young Alexander (her boy of 3) play in both the fountain and down by the riverbank, where he gets completely wet! Do you comment on such unruly and undisciplined behavior? What does the boy think he is, a duck? And shouldn't his mother be teaching him better manners?

3. During the garden party: Kat, Gabriel, and Captain Griffen relax on a picnic blanket by the river walk. While Gabriel watches over young Alexander by the river, the two Captains appear to be having an emotional conversation. Closer inspection will reveal that Kat is crying, but she embraces Captain Griffen all the same. Do you watch? Do you ask what's going on?

During the event, Kat does the following:

- Arrives a little late with Captain Griffen, her son, and her companion Gabriel.

- Stays relatively quiet and solemn, hunting by herself in the morning with her hawk, but never riding above a walk.

- When Prim & Percy's wedding is announced, Kat gives a joyful cry. She rushes up, grasps Prim by the waist, and spins her around before kissing her on both cheeks in the familiar French fashion.

- Just after congratulating the future couple, Prim & Percy drag Kat off to the house with somewhat serious expressions, and when Kat is next seen with her family and Captain Griffen, she is much more subdued and serious.

- (any ISO responses!!)

Lord Percival Andrew Moore will be attending both the Grouse Hunt and the Garden Party. He will be hanging around Lady Primrose Hazelton for most of the day and during the Garden Party he will be playing with the children, playing his violin, and being very much charming chap.

Callisto will be very excited to finally meet THE FLORA. The one from the paper, the one that talks so highly of her fashion. She will appear very emotionless when she meets you, but she will be screaming of joy from the inside.

Flora Owen will attended the hunt & party.

She will be late to the hunt but arrive driving a cart pulled by a wooly miniature horse. Her two dachshunds Beatrix & Ollivander will be in tow.

Flora will seek out @Callisto Rose (RustingRabbit) and introduce herself.

Flora will warmly greet Lady Lorelai & Aramis Beauclerk. She will also introduce herself to Sir Peter Fells, complimenting his attire and remarking she too is particularly fond of the color orange.

(more to come but wanted to get the rsvp in!)

Name: Sir Peter Fell

Attending: Both the hunt and the garden party afterwards

Actions: Arriving on a dappled horse with a well-tended to older model rifle slung across his back that once surely belonged to an older member his family, Sir Peter is resplendent in a muted orange waist coat embroidered with stumpwork thistles at the lapels, leather riding breeches, and a dark overcoat. His wild mass of curls is half-tamed with a ribbon that precisely matches a gown Lady Bruce-Hervey recently wore to a ball. He is polite to everyone he speaks with, if somewhat reserved. This is the second time he has ever been seen at a Society function, and his demeanor is reserved in the politest sense that perhaps further cultivates the air of mystery surrounding him -- though he flirts with a cat-like air as if testing the waters to any who speak with him. During the hunt he dispatches five grouse with admirable skill, especially considering the rifle he uses would have been popular a generation previous at best. One is given to Lady Hervey-Bruce, the rest are donated. For the garden party he changes into a damask waistcoat, embroidered silk stockings, and black breeches. On seven out of ten fingers he is wearing rings, and he makes a great show of showing his hands to Lady Bruce-Hervey as if proving a point.

Name: The Honourable Carrington Starling, Baron Hartwood Regis

Attending: garden party

Actions:

The Garden Party:

Carrington arrives at the garden party with a nurse, content to people watch from a shady spot. He was very happy to be able to attend his first social outing in some years. Any change of scenery from his own estate was a very welcome one. Eventually, he would venture forth to associate with the other guests, but returns to his shady spot in between.

ISO: Conversation: Carrington is interested in just about anything a person could want to talk about. He is more interested in listening to others than talking himself, but tries to be an engaging conversationalist. Carrington's most knowledgeable subjects of conversation are literature and the arts.

Flirtation: Carrington is open to flirtation from anyone, but he will probably just be oblivious and/or give confused faces. Which is adorable.

Friendship: Carrington would love to make a new friend or two or get reacquainted with old ones

Garden Wallflower

The Honourable Carrington Starling was given a last minute approval from his doctor to attend the Garden Party at Athelhampton. The baron spent much of the afternoon seated in a shady spot, his nurse bringing him refreshments as he watched the goings-on at the party. Not having attended many social events before, Carrington didn't know many people at the party.

Do you introduce yourself to the quiet baron and try to engage him in conversation? Or are you too intimidated by his quiet nature?

Tavvi will attend. Like @(Rachel) Hazel Wynnewood she would enjoy a ride, but is disinclined to hunt. If this is unsuitable for whatever reasons, she would be delighted to tour the orchards and gardens, and perhaps speak to the person(s) in charge of same; she is always interested in exchanging knowledge. She will write a bit more later.

RSVP: Lady Tabitha Catherine Louise de Beauchamp and her young son, Lord Gavroche de Beauchamp

Attendance: Hunt and Garden Party

What she wore:

For the Hunt: With some aid from her dear friend, @Primrose Hazelton, Lady de Beauchamp ensures her ensemble for the hunt is appropriate and to the tastes of the English ton. Matching her son's attire for the day, as well as that of Mr. James Moore, the elder brother of Lord Percival Moore, she dons light khaki breeches with a blue tweed waist coat over a white blouse and dark brown boots. The ensemble is completed by a burn orange cravat and matching ribbon holding up the young lady's incredibly long ebony locks.

For the Garden Party: Lady de Beauchamp's gown for the garden party is far from simple, unsurprising for the young, French beauty. Keeping to a similar color scheme as that of her hunt attire. The base color of the empire waisted gown being a bright, almost cerulean, shade of Persian blue. The gown has a front closure over a center panel of light golden orange, matching the detailing found throughout the gown. With this ensemble, her long, luscious, raven tresses are pinned up properly and accented by a cluster of feathers that match the tones of the gown, a peacock feather at the center of the adornment.

Gavroche's Attire: Gavroche's attire is similar to that of his mother's and an exact match for that of Mr. James Moore. Brown boots, cream breeches, white blouse, blue waist coat, and burnt orange cravat.

What she did: Late Morning: Central Fountain: Lady de Beauchamp has just returned from the hunt and is searching for her mischievous little boy, Gavroche. Earlier you had seen the small blonde "nearly 6 year old" boy leading a parade of children with a small black puppy at his heels. Where did you see them go? What were they up to? Do you inform Lady de Beauchamp of her son's location?

Early Afternoon:

Kitchen Garden: After having changed from her hunt attire into the gown for the garden party, Lady de Beauchamp sets eyes upon @Eleanor Buxton (Kath), her face joyfully lighting up as she sees the young woman. The two promenade through the gardens and sit on a bench by the riverwalk. They can be seen chatting happily, and Lady de Beauchamp asks Miz. Buxton a question to which Miz. Buxton seems to answer in the affirmative, smiling widely. At this point Gavroche joins the pair, along with their puppy Minerva, who engages Miz. Buxton's puppy, Reginald, in play. At this point they seem to have a serious discussion and Lady de Beauchamp asks her son a question. After more serious discussion between mother and son, he smiles brightly, answering in the affirmative and throwing his arms around Miz. Buxton. Do you notice the conversation? Do you engage Lady de Beauchamp or her son in conversation after the group disperses?

Cloistered Garden: Some time after Lord Moore's big announcement, he is seen ushering his fiance and young Gavroche de Beauchamp towards the cloistered garden where his elder brother, Mr. James Moore stands with Lady Tabitha de Beauchamp. Do you follow them? Are you curious as to what is occuring? An expression of confusion upon Lady de Beauchamp's face, Gavroche hands a sealed letter to his mother, and as she reads the missive, her expression is replaced with one of pure joy. She is seen joyfully embracing Mr. Moore. Do you move close enough to hear what is being said or do you make assumptions? When the group parts, do you approach Lady de Beauchamp?

Mid Afternoon:

Riverside Walk: Lady de Beauchamp is walking upon the Riverwalk, light upon her feet and smiling brightly. Do you approach and walk with the young French beauty? Do you chat? What do you discuss?

Name: Lady Primrose Hazelton

Attending: Hunt and Garden Party

Dressed exquisitely in masculine clothe for the Hunt Primrose wears a green tweed waistcoat, silver cravat, and ivory breeches along with a straw bonnet embellished with flowers and green trim.

At the hunt Lady Hazelton does not begin shooting until after the first bird is downed. Until that time she checks her gun, calls the Hazelton Kennel dogs into line, and watches the other hunters.

For the garden party Lady Hazelton will change into a frothy ruffled gown of olive green with the same bonnet she wore for the hunt. She's jovial and generally the picture of blushing debutante after her engagement announcement.

RSVP Name: Abraham Griffen

Attending: Both the hunt and the garden party

ISO music makers. Captain Griffen is enjoying himself and the music that is being played in the Kitchen Garden, but it is too.......ummm....contained than the country songs he knows. He gets his guitar and sits down by the river and starts playing and singing out earshot of the orchestra. Do you chide him for upsetting the Hostess' party? Do you sit and listen quietly? Or do you join in with voice, musical instrument, dance or ?

Happenings at G12! Below is the final draft of events for Captain Griffen at the Glorious 12th. If you want me to edit, please DM me. If you want to be added, please DM me.

> Captain Griffen arrives, around mid morning with @Captain Katharine Sunderlin (she/her, Kim), her son Alexander and her companion Gabriel StSyrr

> As the Captains get ready to hunt, Lady @Primrose Hazelton comes to greet them fondly and eagerly gets to know Esme. Lady @Caroline Nsali Boscawen and her sister spot Captain Griffen and come to greet him and wish him luck. Captain Griffen introduces Lady Caroline and her sister to Captain Sunderlin as a neighbor in Cornwall. Captain Sunderlin pleasantly greets them and bids them adieu, mounting and walking her horse to the small woods to hunt with her hawk. Captain Griffen smilingly and very quietly wishes Lady Caroline luck in her own “hunt” for today. Captain Griffen holsters his rifle, mounts his horse and ,holding his bow with the quiver at his knee, he and Esme pad off into the small woods to hunt silently as Captain Sunderlin.

> After the hunt, delivery of birds and cleaning up a bit, Captain Griffen finds Lady @Octavia Thistledown (Tavvi) / (JL)waiting by the stables with her horse for the promised ride. They both mount and canter off into the woods away from the Shooting Field and as soon as they are away from the hunt, they slow down to a walk and talk about what has been happening to each of them these past weeks. There was lots of laughter and smiles as they talked, then parted ways.

> After returning to the stables, Captain Griffen changes into his party outfit. During the afternoon before and during the Garden Party, Captain Griffen:

• With Esme’s help, rescues Miss @Eleanor Buxton (Kath)’s puppy from a bush near the Kitchen Garden, and they talk about her concerns about her new love and their relationship.

• -Captain Griffen finally meets @Lady Bruce-Hervey, Marchiness of Ailesbury &c. in the Rose Garden. Once she is assured that Esme will not devour her poms like a pair of teacakes, they have a serious conversation concerning Captain Griffen’s sister Lady Euphemia and related topics. They part amiably.

• -Checks on Captain Sunderlin to find her with her son soaked from playing in the water. Captain Griffen, takes off his coat, waistcoat, boots, and socks, picks up the wet, wiggling, laughing Alexander and sprints to the river where he jumps in with Alexander and they swim about for a good while. @Miss Elisa Thomas (Kate) and Miss @(Rachel) Hazel WynnewoodHazel Wynnewood join them on the shore, with Captain Griffen splashing his cousin just enough for her to yell at him like they did as youngsters. When Alexander tires, Captain Griffen brings him back to the picnic blanket, dries him off and dresses him in clean, dry clothes, and leaves a tired and compliant Alexander with Captain Sunderlin and Gabriel.

• -At the start of the Party, just after the engagement is announced, Captain Griffen congratulates both Lady Hazelton and @Lord Percival Andrew Moore (Quinn) with a happy hug and presents them with a matched set of Baker rifles. He then bows extravagantly and laughingly scurries to get out of Captain Sunderlin’s way.

• -After checking on his horse in the stable and walking a bit with Esme, he meets @Lady Tabitha Catherine Louise de Beauchamp (Sam) on his way to the Kitchen Garden. After a friendly hug of greeting, and the two sit down and catchup, with Lady de Beauchamp talking about her new love and their relationship. Captain Griffen gives her some good news as Lady De Beauchamp blushes and smiles. They part smiling.

• --As Captain Griffen leaves the Rose Garden he spots his cousin Miss@(Rachel) Hazel Wynnewood and escorts her to the Kitchen Garden where they catch up with Captain Griffen telling her about the French pirate who stole his ship the Kestrel. They part with a hug.

• As Captain Griffen and Esme walk down to the River walk, Esme spies a flying object, chases it, leaps up to catch and then shreds it pink feathers and material flying. it. Chagrined Abraham catches up with Esme and apologizes and introduces himself to Lady @Callisto Rose (RustingRabbit), the owner of the hat. With a smile Lady La Belle thanks Esme as she and Captain Griffen cleanup Esme and the surrounding area. Captain Griffen tells Esme to hunt and go home and accepts an invitation from Lady La Belle to walk along the promenade and tell her stories of his travels in lieu of paying for a new hat.

• -Captain Griffen finds the Captain Sunderlin, Gabriel and young Alexander once again relaxing on the picnic blanket. Alexander pulls Gabriel back down to the river to play and the two Captains appear to have a very emotional discussion where Captain Sunderlin can be seen wiping tears from her eyes. Eventually the two Captains stand up and embrace, both smiling through tears. Gabriel and Alexander return and are included in the embrace. After the Captains return from a walk hand in hand and smiling, the group departs at the end of the party.

Hunt: Abraham will be dressed in his usually hunting attire of heavy cloth, leather breeches and boots, but without the greatcoat pictured. He will be riding a roan, 16 hand Cerbat Mustang named Kalaga (Tsalagi = “Star”). He will be accompanied by his Lynx Esmeralda (Esme) and he will be using a Baker rifle instead of a Brown Bess.

Garden Party: Abraham will change out of his hunting attire and wear this:

WIP

• Name: Miss Hazel Wynnewood, accompanying her younger siblings Mr. Isidor Wynnewood and Euphemia Wynnewood

• Attending: Both Mr. Isidor Wynnewood and Ms. Euphemia are going to go on the hunt. Hazel is not going hunting

• Actions:

The Hunt:

Hazel while the others are getting ready for the hunt is going to tour the house, admiring interesting paintings and things. She befriends @Callisto Rose (RustingRabbit) during the tour after the two of them make a game of creating backstories of the people in the portraits. This is surprising because Hazel seems very serious, so her doing voices comes out of nowhere. She will visit with the musicians as they get ready as Hazel is bound to know them. When the hunt starts she will go out to a safe viewing area until she gets bored. As she's a bit older, she's afforded a little bit more freedom than the young debutants. Hence why she's there to chaperone her siblings. Once board of that, Hazel heads back into the parlor to do some embroidering, and admires @Caroline Nsali Boscawen family's work. Caroline sees Hazel is stircrazy and they take a walk in the rose garden. I think she would be fascinated by her life in Boriken, having grown up much in London and not being able to travel outside of Europe yet. Hazel loves stories and would ply Caroline to lead the conversation and regale her with stories and images of places she couldn’t even imagine.

The Garden Party:

As Hazel is still healing from an injury, she has to sit out most dances, which kills her because she loves to dance. Her main objective is to keep her siblings from ruining their family name without staying glued to them. A lot of her work during the night is staying within eyeshot of them. This task makes her appear absolutely miserable though. She doesn’t imbibe anything alcoholic. After the two return from the hunt, much of the afternoon Hazel Wynnewood is keeping a hawk-eye on her younger siblings, and stepping in discreetly to interfere or apologize should their behavior prove uncouth.

During the party, Hazel will take a moment to sidle up to @Flora Owen and @Lady Tabitha to commend their auditions for her and to subtly inquire about their interests in the season and their schedules.

Hazel uses this time to catch up with her cousin.

@Abraham Griffen (Steve he/him), and hear his tale of his ship being taken by the French. @Miss Elisa Thomas (Kate) later in the evening does Hazel a great service by agreeing to keep an eye on her siblings, and Hazel takes some time to view the cloistered gardens and the kitchen gardens.

When Hazel returns, she comes upon her brother Isidor attempting to seduce Elisa. After taking her brother aside to give him a very deserved tongue lashing, she and Elisa take a walk down the river to catch up and dip their hands in the water. During this time, Abraham Griffen is swimming with Alexander. She will plop down and say her hellos to the boy, maybe get a little splashed.

On her way back, Hazel introduces herself to Carrington and they both introvertedly discuss books and plays.

• Fashions:

ISO:

Interesting Conversation: for Hazel that's not work related. She'll talk about her shows, but she's trying to find some work life balance.

Flirtation: A befuddled and overwhelmed Hazel is hilarious to me. She's so responsible, business oriented and straight laced that I'd love to have her beside herself.

Drama: heheeee

Like Herding Cats:

After the two return from the hunt, much of the afternoon Hazel Wynnwood is keeping a hawk-eye on her younger siblings, and stepping in discreetly to interfere or apologize should their behavior prove uncouth. Does an off color remark by Euphemia Wynnewood rattle you or does Isidor’s flirting go a little too far? Or are you bothered by the elder sister’s interruption.

And That’s Why They Call It Cloistered- Cloistered Garden

Hazel has had enough for the evening. Maybe she forgets her siblings for a moment, maybe they’re surrounded by chaperones or maybe they drive her to cool her head. So Ms. Wynnewood ambles out to to the Cloistered Garden for some peace and neoclassical atmosphere.

Name: Lord Aramis Beauclerk Attending: Garden Party Only Actions: see above, but also Aramis is happy to lecture anyone who will listen about how dreadfully barbaric hunting is (because he's totally the guy to show up to a party based on hunting just to complain about hunting.). Also this is probably the first time Lord Beauclerk and Lady Bruce-Hervey are really seen to be publicly socializing with each other. Lord Beauclerk is dressed mostly in black, with dark glasses and a silvery grey waistcoat.

• Name: The Most Honourable Lorelai Bruce-Hervey, Marchioness of Ailesbury, Dowager Baroness of Ickworth

• Attending: Garden Party Only

• Actions: Lady Lorelai Bruce-Hervey and Lord Aramis Beauclerk arrive to the Garden Party early, and await the rest of the guests. they are visibly distressed by the ghastly sunlight; even though they are both sporting darkened spectacles to shield their eyes. The Lady is also making fine use of a black parasol, and has a layer of thick and very fair, (nearly white) stage-like makeup covering her face. We await the other guests to arrive from the hunt with a basket of our own wine and cakes to snack on, as two of my Pomeranians bask in the sun next to me. (The image below is the mood, not the characters, as neither one of us looks exactly like that, but is definitely how we present ourselves at this event.)
  

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Oooh, certainly Sophia would be delighted to attend. She wouldn't hunt, but she would be delighted to bring a basket of pastries to the garden party and to perhaps ride a bit recreationally without being part of the hunt!

RSVP: The Honorable Hugh Boscawen, His wife: Mrs. Diana Boscawen,

His daughters: Miss Caroline Boscawen and Miss Sarah Boscawen

Character Name: Caroline Boscawen.

Attending: Technically both? Although Caroline doesn’t hunt, her father Hugh Boscawen (Background Character) does, and she wanted to bid the hunter’s farewell. Caroline also heard the rumor that her love interest Betsey Martinez (Background Character) would be hunting, and she wanted to sneak in a chance to wish her luck. She will wait patiently in the parlor with some books and take walks with her sister by the Riverside Walk.

What the character did:

The Boscawen sisters went on a walk by the River Walk following behind the hunting party to see them gather from a safe distance. They chatted much about Sarah’s interest in eligible bachelors and tried to keep Caroline’s interest secretive lest their father caught too much of it, even at a distance. They admired the beautiful grounds and the glittering river. Once near the small woods they stopped and sat at a nearby fallen trunk. Sarah caught sight of Betsey Martinez dressed in the familiar masculine hunting clothes approaching close to them (much to Hugh Boscawen’s displeasure, although he made no move to forbid the approach) Caroline stood and approached Betsey as well. The two looked to exchange words and Caroline wrapped a light teal colored ribbon around Betsey’s upper arm. The ribbon matched her dress perfectly. There was much exchanged of words and smiles, assumingly as the young woman had given a favor for luck. Betsey grinned and joined the hunting party next to her father and Caroline rejoined her sister, who pulled her to bid farewell to their father. His smile was rather tepid but he did bid them farewell before leaving.

Caroline and her sister went back to the parlor to join their mother in her needle work. Caroline’s sister also practiced her needle work and pianoforte. Since Caroline did not take up needlework as part of her accomplishments, she did some of her beading work she loved to incorporate in ribbons and make bands of. The beading resembled much the accessories worn by the Taino in Boriken. When not beading, she took on some of her reading.

When the hunt was over Caroline joined the garden party, although she kept an appropriate distance from Betsey and only exchanged a few words chaperoned by her sister. At the party she did take a moment to greet Miss Wynnewood @(Rachel) Hazel Wynnewood of the Violet theater, and Miss Buxton @Eleanor Buxton (Kath) the famous modiste who they had visited in London for a few dresses – to the day still Caroline’s favorites.

-Letters- If anyone wishes a letter with more scenes or details of the event you can reply here.

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Eleanor will be at the garden party! She would bring puppy Reginald, who is not ready to go hunting yet, and have him on a leash with her.

Hazel’s going to the Garden Party for sure. Is there stuff to do during the hunt if people aren’t going on the hunt?

This sounds like fun. I hope I can write an interesting bit that fits the event amd gets to you in time 🙂

Please count Kat in as "tentative". Once I have my hands on the Gazette (ie know Navy things) I'll be able to give you a more concrete answer.