Night Banquet is a Story Suit that could be obtained via the Garden of Spiral Staircase event.
Completion Prize: A Styling Gift Box containing Sound of Nightmare, Delusion of Greed, Intoxicated Life and 40 
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Wardrobe[]
Hair: Sound of Silence
Dress: Dance of Mask- Coat: Neon Night
- Shoes: Fatal Danger
- Earrings: Gentle Baloney
- Handheld (Right): Taboo Kiss
- Handheld (Left): Fruit of Seduction
- Tattoo: Broken Greed
- Ground: Midnight Bramble
- Makeup: Midnight Slumber
Posed
- Hair: Sound of Silence
- Dress: Sound of Nightmare
- Background: Intoxicated Life
- Earrings: Delusion of Greed
- Ground: Midnight Bramble
- Makeup: Midnight Slumber
Lore[]
Story[]
The boy sprints down the desolate mountain road like crazy. He doesn't know where he's going, but he knows he can't stop.
Behind him looms a menacing billow of black fog. The boy trips and falls, he wipes his tears away, gets up, and continues moving his legs forward.
The scene changes, spins, and from the black fog reaches out a strong arm full of scars. With a slight push, he fell from the rough mountain road to a dark filthy warehouse.
A gun is pointing at his head, its pitch dark muzzle is like an abyss.
The moment blood was spilled, the boy lost his ability to speak. The crimson liquid slowly spreads over the ground.
The man who shielded him from the bullet turns his head slowly. What a familiar smiling face.
'Brother!'
The boy touches his body with his fingertips. The body is still warm, but he won't be able to smile at him anymore like he has always done with loving kindness.
'Mr. Reid!'
Reid opens his eyes. The hand waked him up belongs to his family lawyer.
Seeing that he has waked up, the lawyer steps back respectfully.
'President Rove wants to see you.'
The white sterile hallway is permeated with the smell of sanitizer. By the end of it is the only intensive care unit on this floor.
In the room full of advanced medical equipment and vigilant security guards lies Mercury Group's president, his father.
Despite his high social status, tremendous wealthy, and imposing power, what this dying old man can really reach is but this bed.
'Father.'
'You've come...'
The old man's voice is so weak and hoarse that it can barely be heard. However, the dignified air can still be seen on his face and in the last moments of his life, he's making decisions decisively.
'I, Rove Mercury, officially transfer my leadership as the chairman of the group to my son...Reid Mercury. Work hard and extend the glory of our family.'
His speech is discontinuous due to the cardio-pulmonary organ failure, but he manages to speak it clearly and then turns to look at the lawyer.
The family lawyer bows with his hand over his heart.
Reid holds the old man's withered hand with care and replies solemnly.
'I will not disappoint you.'
The old man's glassy eyes flash briefly. At this moment, the toughness he maintained his whole life seems to have a cracking, revealing the yearning and pain hidden inside.
'So alike...you and him...'
A voice answers with tenderness.
'If brother was still alive, I would be his right hand, and we would uphold the glory of the family together.'
'Pity...' The old man's fingertip moves. In his last moment, he gazes at his son's face, and in the vague vision, he seems to see a dead person.
As the old man's eyes shut, the heart rate monitor's rhythmic sound ceases. The room falls to a deathly silence.
'I'd like some time with my father alone.'
Quietly, the lawyer leaves.
What's left in the room are a living, a dead, and a haunting soul.
Sitting on the chair with his back to the bed, Reid looks down at the city quietly. However, on the french window before a somewhat familiar shadow gradually appears.
The person gazes at Reid with sadness and shakes his head slowly.
Lit by an unknown rage, Reid stares into the face that has not changed for more than 10 years.
He was young and weak, terrified to remove the mask of kindness. He fears he would be discarded when his image is broken. And as he has grown up, he finds out that the face on the window is just like his.
He looks at agitated Reid with the unchanged loving kindness. It's but a shadow on the mirror, but the emotion in his eyes are real.
That look only makes Reid get more and more restless. He lets out a bestial roar and punches the mirror.
Countless sad shadows in countless glass fragments. They all reach out for Reid like countless warm embraces.
Blood drips down onto the ground from his fingertips.
Suddenly, Reid regains himself. He straightens his suit and, across the ground littered with fragments, leaves. There's nothing behind to worry about now.
Item Descriptions[]
Reid has never been afraid of darkness or solitary confinement. He enjoys the silence and the sound of heartbeats.
— Sound of Silence
People in glamorous attire propose toasts and clink glasses with a smile. Everyone wears the same mask as Reid.
— Dance of Mask
The neon lights on the other side are vibrant, but in Reid's eyes, they are fake.
— Neon Night
Reid knows that he needs to be vigilant even in the dark because an open wound could turn into a fatal weakness.
— Fatal Danger
In the deep dream, he once again hears the voice he hates and envies calling his name gently.
— Gentle Baloney
The subtle stimulation alcohol brings when it grazes the tip of the tongue is alluring.
— Taboo Kiss
Behind brilliant facades lie fatal dangers. Weaklings fall prey to seduction but Reid chooses to control it.
— Fruit of Seduction
Only by deconstructing yourself can you gain greater inner strength. Reid has known this since he was small.
— Broken Greed
The night under the lights reeks of decadence. Roses and thorns bloom silently in this absurd grandiosity.
— Midnight Bramble
Human weaknesses often derive from the inability to control desires but those who are strong control their desires.
— Midnight Slumber
It's a nightmare for years. A shadow down a mountain road, and a gunshot from the remote bright place.
— Sound of Nightmare
Reid watches as those silly and phony people are driven crazy by greed.
— Delusion of Greed
Reid looks at the city below in its evening glamor. People who carouse in it think the revelry will never end.
— Intoxicated Life
Interpretation[]
Reid has a dark dream about his brother taking a bullet for him on a mountain road. He is awoken by the family lawyer who takes him to a hospital room where his father Rove, the Mercury Group's president, is dying. Reid inherits the position of chairman, though he says that if his brother was still alive, Reid would have been his right hand and worked together for the family. His father passes away.
Reid is still haunted by his brother, and is seemingly afraid of him and their resemblance, attacking the mirror with his reflection. If Reid is not perfect, his weaknesses will be his downfall. As he goes to parties and engages in the glamorous and fake world, he looks down on all the people there and believes he is better for controlling and removing his desires.
Etymology[]
Name by Server[]
 Version
|
Name (Romanized) | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 International (English)
|
Night Banquet | N/A |
 International (French)
|
Banquet Nocturne | Nocturnal Banquet |
 China
|
阑夜之宴 (lán yè zhī yàn) | Feast of the Night |
   Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau |
闌夜之宴 (lán yè zhī yàn) | Feast of the Night |
 Japan
|
闇夜の宴 (yamiyo no utage) | Dark Night Feast |
 South Korea
|
연회의 끝자락 (yeonhoeui kkeutjalag) | Banquet's Brink |
 Vietnam
|
Old: Đêm Tiệc Tàn, New: Dạ Tiệc Trắng | Banquet Night, White Banquet |
 Indonesia
|
Midnight Festa | N/A |
 Thailand
|
ปาร์ตี้กลางคืน (pār̒tī̂ klāngkhụ̄n) | Night Party |
 Southeast Asia (English)
|
N/A | N/A |
Gallery[]
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