As a city with a size of over four million inhabitants, the the Free City of Jubylon has it’s fair share of civil servants, clerks and public sector leaders. What has drawn special attention in recent years is the purported unofficial practise of these loyal servants of the state to gather for wild parties, sometimes called orgies. In this abstract of our research article, we will outline our finding. We have examined whatever available evidence we have found and confidental statements given to us in anonymous interviews. First, we must address the terminology. When we speak of “orgies” in this article, we do not mean in the strictly sexual sense. What we mean is social gatherings where the usual informal rules of polite society are set apart and in general do not apply.
The reason that the practise came under special attention is the fact, that when rumours of the practise first appeared, the First Consul of the Free City of Jubylon made a statement. He made it abundantly clear that A) he knew nothing about it and B) he did not care about the private practices about anyone working for his government, as long as they did their job to the best of their abilities. Speculations has obviously been abundant as to whenever the First Consul knew or participated, but as far as we have been able to determine through our interviews, neither of those has been the case. What various of our interview subjects have mentioned is that the “extraordinary social events outside working hours“ as they were commonly referred to, was always spontaneous and took place in the same location: The second story of an old storage facility near the harbour with a view of the cathedral. The whole assembly is an unspoken rebellion of the rules that normally govern (pun intended) civil servant work, as none asked for permission to use the location or for that matter pay rent. We did some discreet investigations into the buildings matching that descriptions and could only find buildings that had been taken over by the city due to lack of heirs. All of them were closed off and locked “pending further notice”.
Regardless of what building was actually in use, the descriptions all match the same. The participants wore colourful masks and robes that were given out at random at the entrance. Clothing underneath optional. The events consisted of a surprisingly large amounts of culture, as in music and/or plays that had been prepared in advance for an unknown date, often quite improvisational in nature. There were at times heavy consumption of alcohol and other drugs, but quite a few people partied sober. The sexual nature was less common than rumoured and usually discreet, though of several independent sources mentioned one senior judge in his 50s as the “best giver of cunnilingus in the Free City”. What we especially notice was the same quote that were mentioned by all sources as always occurring spontaneously at some point in the evening so often that eventually it was written above the entrance. Yet none could or were willing to tell us what it actually meant.
“Out of the void S'ngac the violet gas had pointed the way, and archaic Nodens was bellowing his guidance from unhinted deeps. “