My Dearist Friends & Honorable Leaders,

It is with great pleasure I cordially invite you and yours to Rome Paradiszia for the First Annual Summer Formal. It will be a grand affair taking place at Il Grande Palazzo Imperiale della Casa di Paradis's Glass Ballroom, a vast open glass structure with a white marble floor, a painting covering the entire ceiling, beautiful crystal chandeleirs. All are welcome, it is a non-political non-religious event.

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~What: The First Annual Roman Formal Summer Ball
~When: June 21, 2004 at 7:30 P.M-12:00 (Roman Time)
~Where: Il Grande Palazzo Imperiale della Casa di Paradis, 1400 Strada Imperiale, Roma, Paradiszia (The Grand Imperial Palace of the House of Paradis, 1400 Imperial Road, Rome, Paradiszia)
~Who: Yourself and five honorable guests (No Children Under 20!)

~includes a three corse dinnder, live classical music proformed throughout, alcoholic beverages will a sereved~

All of it must be role played, we are all the charactures of our national leaders. No one can start ANY trouble, or they will be 'removed' from my palace. A special forum may be needed. It is to be a peaceful, non-political meeting.

I will be role playing as Emperor Pierre and the entire Imperial Family.If you wish to 'come' please state your nation's name and who you will 'be'. This will be very similar to NationStates forum role play, except we are all normal. ;)

Thracia is sending to the "Summer Formal" its minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonis Ladas, who will be accompanied by his wife Zlatka Lada.

ooc:
A special forum can be created tomorrow.

The Royal family itself will attend the summer formal.

Unfortunately, representatives of Srpska Kosovo will not be able to attend. The 24th of June is only 4 days before St. Vitus Day, our national holiday and the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo Polje and all of our governement officials will be involved in the preparations for the holiday. We would like to invite representatives of all Balkan nations to attend the St. Vitus Day ceremonies on your way home from Paradiszia. Further details will be posted in a seperate thread.

That is no problem, the new official date is the 21st of this month. The 21 is the first day of summer!

I'll give an example of the role play format:

*Walks in and looks around at guests, moves to the corner where the Minister of Foreign Affairs is standing*

"Who is that? I can't reconize these people by their faces! What kind of diplomat am I?!"

"Well, Your Majesty, wasn't the whole point of this to get to know everyone?"

*Gives the Minister a look and walks away. Sees the Thracian representatives, gose to talk to them*

"Hello, how are you all? Nice music, eh?"

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So, as you can see when you make an action you put * stars around them*, and when you are talking quotations "", in my example I asked the Thracians how they were, then they would begin talking back to me, and eventually start doing something else. You could all talk amongist yourselfs if you want.

ooc:

I am sorry, but I won't be able to participate in such a detailed role-play.
However, you may use my representatives in your own postings as you wish.

The special forum for the "Summer Formal" is now open!

The Prime Minister (Sir Francis M. Cybulski IV) and his esteemed wife, Elizabeth Tandry, would be honoured to attend the formal. Accomanying them with be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfred Blanckovich, and their military attaché, Fleet Admiral Dade Carter.

We look forward to arriving on the 21st.

OOC: Did you get this idea from the "Meeting of the International" thread in International Incidents on the NS Forum?

I Shogun Oda Nobunaga and my son and heir Oda Nobutada will be honoured to meet King Pier Paradis XI on this ball.
We will be ready.

No, I got it from a topic like that about a year ago when I still had my own region, I was a role player back then. I think this will be fun, we can exercise our charactures in a non-political way, we can 'meet' each other and socialize. I hope to do this every summer in Rome, and if Paradiszia ever goes, whatever nation controls the city can carry it on. So lets let this one set the bar for years to come!

I thank all the people who are coming, and I urge them to urge more people to do it.

OOC: Ok, cool, its just it seemed very similar.

However, I think this shouldn't just be every summer - perhaps every seasonal equinox/solstice, one for spring, summer, autumn and fall? Could be interesting... its a very good idea, I hope more people can attend.

Well, yes but maybe other nations can host different formals for different seasons, I just want this one to be truly Roman.

OOC: Sounds like a good idea to me.

IC: The Prime Minister, a practising Catholic, will be sure to visit the Vatican during his trip to the region, and pay his respects to the Balkan's own Pope. He looks forward to the journey, and will be travelling by train to Rome. He will board "L'Internationale" (the Prime Ministerial train) tonight with the rest of the D.F.I.T.'s delegates.

Well, the Pope will be at the ball. You are more than welcome to stay at my palace till Sunday then we can all go the mass at the Vatican.

ooc: does that palce thing apply to all guests?

What do you mean? If you want to stay over, or..?

you said that X (dunno who) would be most welcome to stay in the palace. By saying that, you meant someone secial or all the guests?

O! Yes well, anyone can stay if they like, I just thought of it when he mentioned about the Pope.

OOC: Well, I'm going to be away on the 22nd, (stupid friends demanding my presence), but I will be there on the 23rd.

IC: The Prime Minister and his wife would be more than happy to attend Mass. We look forward to it. As for the Pope, there are some little bits of Church dogma he would like to discuss...

The Emperor thanks Paradizsia for its kindness, and the Holy Roman Emperor will be welcome in 'Nova Roma', Constantinople in other words, any time he wishes.

That sounds great.

Majesties: We intend while in Rome to visit the final resting place of Our ancestress Katarina Vuksic-Kosaca. We will as well attend the mass in the Vatican. The Princesses Jelena and Teodora will also attend. We look forward to this very much. Is there any special thing We can bring from Zahumlje, mead, rakija maraschino? rose brandy? smoked salmon? smoked trout? let us know and We will bring it. We are bringing Foreign Minister Efendi Imam Hodza Nasrudin.
Regards to all
Katja of Zahumlje

Minister of Truth Salah Kellocz will attend this event, representing Annoyastan.

Well, mead and smoked salmon sound very good Your Majesty! Thank you for coming. And Annoyastan, thank you. I happy to see that most nations are coming.