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The Lotus - Open Mingle Post

Who: OPEN (Top Levels for Wei Wuxian and York)
What: An open mingle post for anyone that might enjoy the nightclub scene! Wei Wuxian and York will have toplevels for you to tag into, but feel free to start your own and party the night away with friends!
When: Open to any nighttime! Club is open from 7PM-4AM every day
Where: The Lotus Nightclub
Rating/Warnings: It's a nightclub so warnings for drunken and disorderly!

The Lotus is a hot nightclub that likes to have live performances all night for club attendees to enjoy. Singers, dancers, and more grace the stage at any given time. Performance times can be found on their social media pages. Music plays from open at 7PM until doors close at 4AM. A wide variety of music from DJs and performers will have you dancing the night away.

Not there for the entertainment but just to get your drink on? The Lotus has several unique mixed drinks that are sure to knock your socks off. Just ask the bartender about the nights Lotus Specials and be prepared. Some of them come in pitcher sizes intended to be shared with you and your companions.

Need a little break from the music and the wall to wall people? There is a convenient VIP lounge where you can sneak away and enjoy a little quiet time. Our performers like to hang out in the lounge to entertain their fans, so come and get an autograph or buy them a drink and become fast friends!

So come on in and have some fun! You might encounter a few familiar faces.

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York's been working here for about a week now. It's not anything he's done before, but he's greatly enjoying it. He basically just checks IDs at the door, making sure no one underage comes in, and he also has the responsibility of breaking up any fights and escorting people out who may be harassing the performers. He gets free drinks, free (really good) food, and a decent paycheck. It's decent enough that he's considering dropping the other job that he also obtained the same day with Councilwoman Smith's office.

The best part of all this, for now, anyway, is surprising his friends who show up at the door to get in. Yup, he's here, and it's up to him whether you get in! Not that he'd deny anyone that privilege without reason.

Tonight is a typical night at the club, at least as far as he's experienced it. It's still a bit early, which means there's a little bit of a line, but there aren't too many people waiting. York understands, of course—everyone wants to arrive before Xian performs. So he doesn't dick around—checking IDs is easy enough. He just has to pay attention to the numbers in the birthdates because he has an unfortunate tendency to transpose text if he's not paying enough attention.

When he notices someone from the population of friends that show up to the support meetings, he always offers them a smile and a hand for a handshake. "Heyyy," he says brightly.

It was evening and he was waiting in line, coming with a group of colleagues from the university for a drink and tonight's show. One by one, as the line becomes smaller, and when it's Lan Wangji turn to show his ID. He's wearing a business suit and a pair of glasses.

Blinks, then shyly. "Hello...? Hello." Being a very reserved man, he took a few moments to realized he wanted a handshake, so. A handshake he gives. Shake. "Support group, right? Do you work here?"

He nods at the former question, then:

"Yeah, just started this week," he says. "5 nights a week and free drinks. It's a good deal."

With a nod, pushing his glasses up. He's embarrassed he's here, but his colleagues are looking forward to the nightly shows later on.

"Mm. It seems like a fun job and sounds like a good deal. You get to work late nights?"

"Yes, but we can't stand here and blather right now," he says with a kind smile, patting him on the shoulder. "I'll catch up with you on the floor either."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to distract you. You can show me around later."

At that, after showing his ID, he disappears inside the night club with his colleagues. Lan Wangji can be found later in the lounge area with a glass of pina colada on one hand.

He's relaxing and sitting alone all by himself after the friends he came with left him to go find other patrons to chat and dance with him in the dance area of the nightclub. The DJ is playing music loudly in the background.

"It's all good." York turns to the next patron in line, nearly forgetting about the encounter as he works.

Later on he sees the other man sitting, and a smile appears on his face. He's been abandoned in clubs before, too.

"Hey, there," he greets him as he approaches. "Having fun yet?"

Once they meet up in the lounge, with a nod.

"I think so. My friends from university are having fun, but I have no one to dance with. I think the music is too loud."

Turning to him, "Is the dancing show is going to start yet?"

"The burlesque?" he says. "Yeah, should be in about...10 minutes. You want to watch together? at least for as long as I can, I'm on a 15."

With a nod, taking a sip of his pina colada. "Might as well. I'll join you, and see what is this is all about. My colleagues can't stop talking about it."

Hopefully the flashy dancers and the music won't give him a headache, and he can sit through it.

"It's a lot of fun," he says. "Don't worry."

Why would he think he's worrying? Something about the expression on his face.

"So you were telling me about your work earlier, weren't you? What is it you do?"

Just when they are going to where the audience is gathering to watch the show.

"Hm? Oh, I'm a student at a university. I'm working on being a professor to teach history and social studies and this year is my final year. My friends who came with me, they're students working on being teachers too." After some thought, "Though I probably might teacher younger students like middle school or high school, if I could manage."

He raises his eyebrows.

"You're working on a PhD? That's amazing! I couldn't even fathom starting school, so I ran off on my mom and started working on the oil rigs."

He raises his hand, as if giving a scout's salute.

"Honest."

"Mn, my parents don't help me." And he doesn't want or need their help. They didn't fully support his decision to be a historian and teacher, of sorts. "I get by through studying and earning a scholarship."

The drink lowers his shell somewhat. "You ran off on your mother? Why? If you don't mind me asking."

"She had all these expectations of me. She wanted one of us to be a doctor and one of us to be a lawyer. Well, my brother Will went on to be a doc, but I had nooo desire to play the lawyer game. I didn't want to disappoint her by saying no, so I just...disappointed her by disappearing, I guess."

He chuckles.

"I'm just not the super studious type."

"To study for a doctor or lawyer isn't any fun. I have tried. It was too much studies and hard work. I studied business, but I don't think the corporate world is for me. So I aimed for something easier and tried teaching. My father doesn't approves, but my mother was okay with it."

With a nod, "Well, it seems working here works out for you. Easy work. Do you ever think that one day you'll see your mother again? I know if I ever disappeared, my parents will be worried and even then, I have to give them a call or text to let them know I'm all right."

"Oh, yeah, I went home for a little while recently when my grandmother fell. Turns out, we figured out?"

He spread his hands.

"You don't get memories if you're away from New York. Weird, huh?"

His pina colada is gone by now, and he won't ask for anymore as he didn't want to get drunk. He still wanted to be able to go home while awake.

"Memories? Are you talking past life memories? No. I have traveled outside of New York to visit my relatives, but nothing else of that sort happened."

"Yeah. It was like that."

He nods at the empty glass.

"Want another?"

"Mn."

Shaking his head, "No. I hit my limit, so that's enough. Thank you." His cellphone vibrates and he reads the text. It's his colleagues that lets him know the show is about to start.

"I think the show is about to start. So, let's go."

"Sure," he says, following as Wangji leads the way. He doesn't intend to stick around long since he's on break, but he should be able to watch a couple minutes' worth.

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