Tips For Writing Those Gala Scenes, From Someone Who Goes To Them Occasionally:

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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Spoilers For The Gaslight District

first off, the box of text in the top right

Spoilers For The Gaslight District

it says "THE CHILD BORN OF YEAST SHALL BE NAMED BREADHEAD A GOLEM OF KINDNESS AND SWEET SWEET, SUGAR HE WILL BE LARGE AND SOFT. HE SHALL DESTROY BUILDINGS AND BE BIGGER THAN ANYONE ELSE HE SHALL BE DESTRUCTION"

Spoilers For The Gaslight District

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note that "anything" is actually mispelled in this as "anythign"

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the rock in the center is also a mystery to me, since this page involves alchemy my theory is it's some kind of philosopher stone, but i've got nothing to really back that

the remaining two places of text are just lists of ingredients or instructions that further reinforce this information

Spoilers For The Gaslight District
Spoilers For The Gaslight District

first image lists off ingredients and their amounts by some unit of weight, it says "FLOUR - WATER - SALT - YEAST - SUGAR - FAT"

second image says "MIX - SMACK - BEAT - CREATE - RISE"

Spoilers For The Gaslight District
Spoilers For The Gaslight District

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