House Silmontaix's
Masquerade Gala

April 29, 2022
7 PM EST to 12 AM EST
Balmung, Lavendar Beds, Ward 19 Plot 36
(This is an IC Ishgard location)

Music

Music this evening is brought you via cytube. Please use for an immersive backdrop for the evening.

Silent Auction

Items have come in from Ishgard and beyond, ready for new homes for a good cause. All proceeds from the silent auction will all go to the Sacred Heart Orphanage.
((All items and gil exchanged are IC ONLY.))

Dance Roulettes

Per feedback from last year, two roulettes will take place this evening, one beginning at 8:30 Eastern, the other at 9:30 Eastern.

Silent Auction for the sacred hope orphanage

Auction Rules

  • Each item will have a link to a bidding sheet. Please use the bottom row for your bid.

  • Room has been left to leave messages along with your bid. Have fun, throw some shade, but remember IC is not OOC, please keep all shade throwing IC.

  • No OOC gil will be used, use your discretion for what your character can afford. No OOC items will be exchanged either.

  • This is all fluff! Bragging rights, laughing after the fact, what have you.

  • Don’t write over someone else’s bid. Don’t be that person.

  • The bidding commences at the start of the Masquerade, and shall go until 11:45 PM Eastern. Once the sheet is cut off, it is the bidder's responisbility to check and see if they won or not.

Auction Items

Hand Written Combat Manuals
Donated by House Silmontaix

Starting bid 50,000 gil

The knowledge of a Master-Of-Arms spanning over thirty turns of experience in the field. Baron Aramis Silmontaix, retired Knight and Dragoon. He has taken meticulous detail in documenting techniques, strategies and tips learned in the field. An item beyond worth, yours for the taking if only you wish to bid the price.

Mounted Griffin
Donated by House Allaire

Starting bid 500,000 gil

The trophy mounted head and shoulders of a Gyr Abanian true griffin, complete with certificate of authenticity (should such a thing have ever been in doubt) detailing the exact location the beast was slain.

Scandalous Books & Wine
Donated by House Vigneaux

Starting bid 50,000 gil

Summer Love Bundle: A bottle of snurbleberry wine from the Vigneaux winery and the entire collection of the Count de Bouef series, including the as yet to be released novel Summer Snow, all copies signed by the ever mysterious Madame V.

Possibly Haunted Vase
Donated by House Amedelune

Starting bid 5,500 gil

A ceramic plum vase bearing a vibrant painting wrapped around the whole object, depicting iconic historical moments during the Dragonsong War. The vase has a generous opening that shrinks inward around the neck (though not by very much) and then expands outward for the main 'body.' The base is narrower than the torso. Standing at roughly 4'5", this vase is perfect for displaying blossoming branches and can also fit a small child or lalafell. (50/50 odds the item is haunted.)

Academic Texts
Donated by Anonymous

Starting bid 10,000 gil

"From Man to Dragon: A Cycle, Study, and Treatise on the Effects of Dragon's Blood Upon Spoken Man and Chimerical Flower Breeds: A Study and Reference Guide are a duology of studies written and illustrated by Viscount Valentin de Lemarquis during his stay in Old Sharlayan. Both books feature his extensive notes, drawings, research, spells, and commentary from both his subjects and his own thoughts on the various experiments he committed in the name of his passions and obsessions. Included with the Chimerical Flower book are two samples of his last experiment in trying to double the aetheric potency of the flower, Seventh Heaven. The result is a crossbreed known as Final Heaven- within the two glass containers, a brilliant cutting of the flowers sits, seemingly untouched by time. The chemically sealed and warded glass keeps the flowers from growing out of control- so buyer beware in handling these samples.Donated by an unscrupulous but anonymous gleaner."

Watercolor Landscape
Donated by Master Stravinsky

Starting bid 5,000 gil

A massive watercolor painting of the glaciers of Coerthas. It's slightly blurry, where one can hardly tell where the sun-bright sky and the bleached snows begin. Dark crags of rock and bone intertwined jut viciously from the ground like trees. Ishgard is like a spire in the distance, rising to pierce through the clouds. But there is not all coldness in this painting, it is not all white and grey. There are purples and blues and greens and sunset tinges of pink and orange. There is life and warmth held gently in the cradled palm of the snow.

Five Piece Teaset
Donated by House Carbonneau

Starting bid 250,000 gil

A five-piece silver teaset decorated with ornate vines and trillium flowers. Custom made at his request. Includes a spirit kettle & burner, a coffee pot, a teapot, a cream jug, sugar bowl, and tray.OOC Note: Aesthetically along this line

Pair of Staves
Donated by House Endarin

Starting bid 1,000,000 gil

A matching pair of staves, one hand-carved from the darkest of ebonwood, the other from a fine strain of astral birch. As a set, they are equal and opposite.The first is lacquered black, hand-carved runes of power running along the sleek surface. Intricately-shaped wooden flames creep upwards to encircle a pulsing amethyst, alive with magic and flickers of the arcane.The second is stained almost white, its tip curving upwards in a winged motif to end in a lily-shaped sapphire. If one looked closely into the gem's depths, one would see a whirling torrent of power, kept closely in check by its delicate confines.Engraved upon each is an inscription inlaid in gold, one bearing the first half, the other the second.“Let the past be a lesson and remember.”“You are stronger together."

Vandalized, Probably Stolen GABRIEL
Donated by some Coerthan

Starting bid 1 gil

A reconstructed, fully functional Garlean GABRIEL that's been spraypainted pink. Defaced with the etching "LXIX" on it's front and a note saying: "Thanks for loaning Xoly the books."

Warmth of Nophica - A Crafted Blessing
Donated by House Lieuxmordt

Starting bid 450,000 gil

Warmth of Nophica - A crafted blessing of the House Lieuxmordt. The tree is styled to appear like a chest level oak bonzai. The leaves are incrediblely life-like and gives off the faint sent of the deepwoods. Every 48 hours, ten acorn shaped stones appear on the branches, they give off a gentle warmth, defending the bearer from Coerthas' biting cold. The stone's power ebbs over the next day.

Matching Haircombs
Donated by House Dansereau

Starting bid 500,000 gil

Two matching haircombs resembling dragons encrusted in diamonds quarried from a mine in the Slate Mountains.