Shavaris smiles at Delph, "Thanks little guy.  You have a crazy plan, eh?  Well, should I be worried?"  she starts to head into the fray when Kerwyn stops her and asks her to dance.  She gives him a questioning glance, but seeing he actually isn't sulking about still being in the labyrinth and using the guise of blending in, she figures what the hell.  She takes his outstretched hand, and with a bit of trepidation, lets him lead her across the dance floor. 

While dancing with Kerwyn, she keeps an eye on the room, seeing if she can recognize anyone.  As he leads her to the right side of the room, her body tenses up as recognition dawns on her and she quickly pulls Kerwyn in the opposite direction, heading towards the left side of the room.  She checks to make sure Delph is still on her shoulder as she does, "Stay with me Delph, please" and then they watch as Travin trips over the scarves she draped him with and fall flat on his face.  She has to stifle a laugh as they continue across the floor, but she finds herself warming to the strange little man.

As they get to the other side of the room, she sees her.  Shavaris audibly gasps when she does and breaks away from Kerwyn.  Trying not to make a scene by running to her, she walks over to the one called Sarah and tentatively says, "Are you ok?  I uh, I saw you in a dream, then we tried to save you from those monsters, but you were killed, and now you are here?   Can we help?"

As soon as the words Stay with me Delph, please are spoken, she realizes it is too late as the fairy is completely ignoring her.  Shavaris quickly whips out her fairy bag and snags Delph before he can cause trouble before they are ready.  

Delphinium seems to find something the are looking for and then flies off as they whisper to Shavaris, "I found my plan.  You all do whatever you need to.  I'll still be here and able to help if you need me."  The fairy then uses an ability they don't get to often.  They get smaller.  Far smaller then the tiny form they normally have.  It's one of the few spells that Delphinium was really interested in learning.  Anyone watching would see the fairy become almost too small to see and then they fly off in some direction.  They seem to be trying to get lost from sight as they zig and zag to disappear into the crowd to some destination only they know.

Ward notices the miniaturized Delph and smiles. "Good thinking friend." He mumbles to himself and begins to hover around the drink table, taking a few sips of whatever is closest as he scans around the ballroom.

The young woman, previously busy looking around as she waltzed her way across the floor, stops when Shavaris approaches her.  He looks puzzled and a bit surprised.

"I...was dead for a little bit."  She says meekly, finally gathering that this strange Elf woman before her must have been one of her saviors.  "Jareth said...I guess Hoggle...they took me to Meg Mucklebones at the far edge of the bog...and then...well Jareth...he gave her one of his crystal balls...and she brought me back.  I guess that was the price.  If you're one of the ones who saved me...I thank you.  I don't know that you understand what you did, but thank you...  Jareth said that because I'm not like you...because I'm..."

She pauses and looks unsure of herself, then shakes her head, sending the mass of lavishly teased hair bobbing.  She watches Shavaris try to grab the tiniest, tiniest fly with a bag then decides not to question what's happening.  

"Nevermind that.  I'm trying to get to Blix before the battle of the Goblin City can take place.  It was awful last time.  This time...this time it'll be worse.  Jareth sort of explained to me...things.  What's going on here.  I can't do much, but maybe I can help.  But Blix...that Goblin that had used me to lure Jareth into the Bog...  Help?  You can help me get to Blix."  

With these words, the young woman, barely an adult, looks determined for the first time since Shavaris has laid eyes on her...

Delph has little issue getting to Blix, who fans him away like an annoying gnat once he's close.  This new Goblin King is having a grand time talking to patrons of the ball...and all of his talk is mostly garbage.  Little...what?  Small talk?  And he's trying to broker deals with some of them for support of a new Goblin Kingdom, a Kingdom where Goblin kind may be left to their devices instead of subjugated and persecuted beneath the brains and brawn of other races.  He spends most of his time talking and laughing and being very jovial and speaking in riddles and rhymes during it all.  

Kerwyn looks around for a drink tray when Shavaris stops dancing with him and she starts chasing after the young woman.  “This party is dead anyway..” he says to himself.  He gulps down a glass of champagne and then another as he gets further into the swing of things, trying his hardest to have a good time.  He spots Blix and a little champagne glurps out of his mouth.  He looks around for his friends, says “Is that the guy?  Whas the plan, Stan?”

Johnathan, sorry I mean lord Frecklin hobblestock Terlily the seventeenth gets bored waiting for some juicy gossip to come his way but it was all worthless. He turns to find Shavaris and meets up with the rest of the dawn guard. Hey, where’s Delphinium? And why are you swinging the fairy bag around Shavaris? Never mind. We need a plan. I don’t know what Blix looks like so it’s pretty hard to look out for him. I was thinking if he has the alicorn we can cause a distraction and try and take it from him. Or we could kill him now, he is away from the throne so he might be vulnerable. That’s when he notices Sarah among the group. Oh, you must be Sarah I take it. The dwarf screamed your name a lot during the bog. You managed to come back from the dead, not an easy feat. He gives her a curious look as he speaks to her. He didn’t know how this was possible or what price was paid. He will keep his eye on her. Not easy at all.

“S’piece of cake.  Mmmm, cake.  Hey, when is this party going to liven up?  Are we doin this or what?”  Kerwyn looks around for another little goblin waiter with a tray of drinks…

Sarah looks at the two men conversing behind Shavaris, looks nervous, and then watches as a Goblin carrying a tray of drinks walks past Kerwyn...

Ward sees the group moving together again and steps up. "I've got a few plans, have to keep on my own for them. Also, don't get any drinks from the main table. I might be putting this ball to sleep. Means fewer people getting needlessly involved. I don't know what he looks like so I need someone who does to tell me who he is. I shouldn't be too hard to be found considering." Ward says motioning to himself and the spiky parts of his body before beginning to move around the crowd and mingle, staying near the wall will the bathrooms. 

Kerwynn swoops in on the little goblin carrying the drinks, grabbing two glasses, double fisting his alcohol at this point.  "Ah, that will wet my whistle!"  He spins around in time with the music, and in four turns, both glasses are empty.   He makes a neat figure 8 and then deposits the same glasses on the poor goblin's tray, giving him a smile and a wink.  "Where are you from little guy?  Isn't it your bedtime?  No mommy or daddy to tuck you in and read you a goodnight story?" he says in a slur of words followed by an odd laugh.

As Sarah talks with Shavaris and thanks her, she puts her hand on the girls shoulder, hoping to settle her a bit.  She raises her eyebrow a bit when Sarah says she isn't like them, unsure what she means by that.  When she asks her about Blix, Shavaris leans over to the woman and whispers, "Yes, I have seen him.  Here is here.  What are your plans to take him down?  My friends and I will be happy to help..." she looks around and sees the shenanigans they appear to be up to, "Well.. I hope they will anyways."

By this point, with pockets full of fruit, Travin attempts to sneak back out of the party to hand off stolen nectarines to Gorky.

Completely oblivious to the parties plans or the fact that Blix is here, Trav will attempt to locate any of the party he sees once he has completed his task.

"I'm not silly enough to try to take him down.  I just want to make a deal."  Sarah says to Shavaris, her eyes wide.  

There is a moment where she starts to say something else, then there is a ruckus in the back of the room near the bandstand.  A woman shrieks.  There's a clatter and a lot of noise and the curtains come down.  The members of the band flee from the stage as a group of armor clad warriors, warriors unlike anything the Dawn Guard have ever seen before, steps from the shadows behind the curtains.  They carry strange, bizarrely shaped weapons as they step into the bright light of the candelabras and chandeliers and look around.  The weapons make distorted sounds.  

"Well well well, Flattus...what do we have here?"  One big warrior with antlers protruding from his back says.  He produces some sort of wand from his pocket and holds it up to his lips.  

"It looks like the puny ones are throwing some sort of masquerade, Blothor."  

Two more of the warriors, near the back of the small congregation of interlopers, can be heard having a conversation.  

"I left all my best moves on the dance floor...the cutting room floor...the killing floor...it was really sad..."

"People!"  The one referred to as Blothor says into the strange wand.  His voice suddenly fills the room and rumbles the bones of everyone before him.  "People of....the Labyrinth!  How are we doing out there tonight!?"  

He holds the wand out toward the crowd as one of the other warriors strokes his weapon...and strange music fills the room.  It's not a weapon at all.  It's an instrument like a lute...but...somehow worse...

"What in the world!?"  Sarah says...

Travins eyes grow wider than a kid at Christmas as he looks upon these warrior musicians in their battle armour, he shakes violently letting the shawls and scarves fall to the floor, casting down his masquerade mask and donning a goblin plate helmet from his chest of 'definitely not looted' items, he then stretches his goggles over top of the helm. He lights a bullseye lantern and secures it to his chair and then holds up his pan flute and yells "WE'RE DOING GREAT, YEH YEH! LETS FREAKING ROCK, YAHA!!!... Also how are you?"

Ward sees the band begin to play and it all clicks into place at once. First going towards the group and whispering to them. "Alright no more food and drinks. And a change of plans, were not putting everyone to sleep. We're going to turn it into a mosh pit. So I need you guys to get towards the edge of the area. I wish we had Delph here with us but once he gets back let him know what's happening, and that everyone should just have some bruises in the morning, not get really really hurt. Kerwyn, no fighting the other partygoers once it goes to shit, cause you I'm most concerned about. This should hopefully get Blix dragged out here, then we might be able to either find the Alicorn or get Blix into a vulnerable position. Does that work with everyone?" Ward says to the group and if they approve he will let Travin know the plan. As well as once he sees the Pan Flute in Travin's hand will grin and say "Keep the band playing no matter what if you can." Ward will say

Shavaris motions for Sarah to follow her as she heads back to the Dawn Guard that is grouped together.  "Johnathan, Kerwyn, where's everyone else?  We need to gather everyone.  Blix is here."  She looks up and sees Travin and Laz over by the door and she waves to them to come over and join them.  "Johnathan, you're right in that he isn't on his throne right now and possibly less than a threat, but he is still a huge one. Sarah here says she wants to try and make a deal with him and that if we try anything with him, we won't survive.  I'd like to try and steal the alicorn from him, but well.. after seeing what he can do.. obviously I'm not running off and doing it.  And there are so many around that could get hurt."

She looks around the room again and gives an odd glance to the band, so much blood...why?  she shakes her head a bit and returns to her friends.  "I'm open to discussing ideas, but please, lets talk before we do anything, speaking of which, where are Ward and Delph and what are they up to?  I mean do you guys know what he is doing to the food and drink?"  She realizes something and turns to Sarah, "Please, don't eat or drink anything."  

Guitars blare.  A bass riff rattles the bones of everyone in the room.  Drums thunder like the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen.  The frontman for the invading band roars and begins laying down lyrics as a weird amount of blood begins to appear around the stage.  It mists from stacks of amps that have appeared from who knows where.  It sprays from the necks of guitars.  It sprays from...well it sprays from the exposed nipples of these bizarre gladiators because why not?  The unfortunate patrons who were caught off guard and remained up front are splattered with spurting ichor.  The frontman laughs.  Just to be funny, it seems, he's singing a song about wanting blood...and getting it...

One of the patrons slips in blood.  

Another screams at that one.

Two patrons begin to jump about together...

Ward notices the Wyrms Whisper beginning to take effect in the crowd and sends a little prayer up to the sky "Man do these herbs come in handy. Also, preferably no deaths, if you could?" Before moving back towards the group, dropping his Disguise Self as he passes behind the backs of two patrons. As he comes back up to the group he spreads out his arms "Alrighty you guys, now let's get next to the doors so we have an easy exit." Ward says, grabbing the different scattered group members and leading them towards the door. "Now, no fighting, Sarah, is it? Stay in the center of us. If you have to hit someone, please just knock them out, and get them to the side, we should be courteous of course." Ward says as he counts heads and makes sure everyone but Delph is here. "Let's hope that fairy can get something done with the time we've bought, or that we get a chance get that bastard Blix." Ward half says, half mumbles.

After warning Sarah about the food and drink, Shavaris turns back to the band, watching as they play.. witnessing the ungodly amount of blood flow from, well basically everything that is on the stage.  It starts stirring something inside of her, suddenly Sarah isn’t even there anymore.

The song.. It even talks about wanting blood… blood… she stares, mesmerized by it all, all of the blood.  Ward comes over, appears out of nowhere and starts escorting them towards the door.  She aptly dodges the arms he is using to usher them and starts walking towards the stage.  Almost in a trance-like state. Ignoring Blix, ignoring the rest of her band she walks boldly towards the band, uncaring of anything else.

As she reaches the patron that has been completely splattered in blood and has slipped and fallen on the floor, you see her stand over the man, staring down at him.  There is a moment of a struggle across her face, but it is oh so brief and then her pupils dilate so large, you can no longer see her irises.  She stands over the man, watching him struggle and a devilish grin grows across her countenance.  As the grin grows… so do her teeth.  As the two fangs grow past her bottom lip, they catch the light and right when the man is about to gain his footing.. she pounces.

Shavaris falls on the man, animal hunger written all over her face as she plunges her fangs deep into his neck.  The man screams in pain and terror as he is overcome by the elf.