The Florette · Crystal · Mateus

Florette Solarium

where petals meet candlelight
a glass room, lit only by candles — and the door is open

The light is low here on purpose, and never rises past warm. Spider lilies stand in the dark; the air holds cloves, and something sweeter beneath them. Conversation drops a note when the door opens — then folds you in. A seat is always open. A Fleur is always glad you came. Whatever the day asked of you ends at the threshold.

Here, no one asks what brought you in. Only what you would like to drink.

EveningsTuesday · 4–8 PM EST
WhereLavender Beds · W6 · P33
ServerCrystal · Mateus
A Glass Room, Lit by Candles
Everything the day would not allow
Set It Down

A place to set things down

Deep chairs, low light, and the particular quiet of a room that wants you in it. Come in heavy and leave a little lighter — or come in glad and let it stay.

The Solarium’s story ›
Freely Chosen

Company, freely chosen

A Fleur stays for the length of your booking not because it is owed, but because they want to be there. Warmth chosen, never performed.

Meet the Fleurs ›
Made for the Night

An evening that acknowledges you

A drink poured by candlelight, a seat held, a conversation or a shared silence — whichever the night asks for.

See what we pour ›

The door is unlocked. It always is. Come in when you are ready — the candles will be lit.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · House Rules

House Rules

few, and gently kept
the few lines we keep, and the comfort beneath them

I do not keep many rules. I never have. But the few I keep, I keep absolutely — not to fence you in, but because a room cannot be warm unless it is first safe. Most of what follows is simply courtesy. A handful are lines that do not move. You will know which are which. I have never had to raise my voice to make them clear.
— Aurore Laon

◆ The lines marked in crimson do not move.
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Tags & the Icon System
How to read the room

Three quick flags, set in your Search Info or character status — so the room can read you at a glance, and leave you be when you ask it to.

Party Finder

Party Finder

Worn by management — the hands that run the room. Anything that needs deciding or settling can be brought to them.

LTM

LTM — Looking to Meld

Worn by all our staff — the host at the door, the bar, the music, and the Fleurs. If they wear it, they are working the room and glad to be asked.

RP

RP — Roleplay

An in-character guest, here to be met.

No Tag  No tag, or any other than the listed — OOC or away. We may say hello, but we will let you be until you raise a flag of your own.
In the Room
How the room is played
Strictly SFW in Scene

Warmth, Never More

All in-character interaction stays safe-for-work. Warmth and gentle flirtation are welcome; anything explicit is not. If a scene drifts, a Fleur or host will steer it back without fuss.

Discretion

What Stays in the Room

“We do not ask what brought you in.” Whatever a guest sets down in the room stays in the room — your character doesn’t pry, repeat, or carry someone’s evening out the door.

The Cloves

Both Are Welcome

The candles are for warmth; the cloves are not for discussion. You may bring a small bitterness in-character and no one will make you explain it.

Courtesy at the Table

Kindness First

A Fleur’s warmth is chosen, not owed. Be kind to companions and fellow guests in scene — no demands, no entitlement, no raised voices in a calm room.

Dress & Presence

Come As You Like

Come as your character likes — the silk and lace are ours, not a requirement of yours. Presence over performance, always.

In the Server
How we treat each other
Adults Only · 18+

No Exceptions

Every player here is 18 or older — no exceptions. This is an adult community for adult players, kept SFW.

SFW Means SFW (OOC Too)

Take That Elsewhere

No ERP and no explicit content — not in channels, not in DMs, not even between consenting players under the venue’s name.

Consent & Comfort

A ‘No’ Is Instant

Scenes are collaborative. Anyone may fade to black, step back, or decline a thread at any time, no reason needed — and a “no” is respected instantly.

Discretion (OOC)

Not Gossip

Don’t screenshot, repeat, or stir drama from someone’s RP. What happens at the table is not gossip for the server.

Booking & Announcements

Through Discord

Walk-ins are welcome in-scene; to request a specific Fleur or session in advance, book through the Discord. A word ahead is kind if you must cancel.

Respect the Team

Ends Your Evening

Our staff are members who chose this room. Disrespect, harassment, or pressure toward staff or guests ends your evening — and possibly your welcome.

“When in doubt, kindness covers most of it.”of the Solarium

Everything warm about this room is built on a quiet floor of consent. You set the pace of your own evening — how close, how deep, how long — and the room simply follows. These are the small, plain tools we all use to keep a night easy, so that comfort is never something you have to fight for here. None of them are complicated. All of them are honoured.

The one principle.  Everything below rests on a single idea: your comfort outranks any scene. A pause, a “no,” or a quiet step away is always honoured — instantly, completely, and without you ever owing an explanation for it.
Comfort & Consent
Small ways to keep a night easy

Use any of these, anytime, with anyone in the room. You will never be questioned for it.

When a scene runs deep

Fade to Black

When a moment approaches anything you would rather not play out, it simply fades — the scene moves on, the rest left implied. No one will ask why, and the evening continues unbroken.

Your nos & your maybes

Lines & Veils

A line is a hard no: a thing never written, no exceptions. A veil is a thing that may happen, but off the page, kept to a mention. Share yours with a Fleur or host whenever you like; they are always kept.

Anytime, no reason owed

The Step Back

You may pause a thread, decline a turn, or leave a scene at any moment — and you never owe a reason for it. A “no” is heard the first time and honoured at once.

Out of character comes first

OOC Always Wins

Speak out of character anytime with ((double brackets)). Your real comfort outranks any story; when the two ever pull against each other, the person wins. Always.

It is kind to ask

The Check-In

“Are you good with this?” is never an awkward question here — it is a courtesy. Ask it freely, answer it honestly, and trust that a soft “let us not” changes nothing between you.

Quietly, to the right hands

A Quiet Word

If a scene or a guest leaves you uneasy, tell a host, a Fleur, or any of our team — in the room or through the Discord. It will be handled discreetly, and you will never be a bother for raising it.

This goes both ways.  These are not courtesies guests extend to the room — they are how everyone in it treats everyone else. A Fleur may fade a scene, take a pause, or step back exactly as you may, and you are asked to honour theirs as gladly as we honour yours. Consent here is mutual, or it is nothing.
Comfort is more than the obvious.  The Solarium is strictly SFW and adults-only, so this is rarely about anything explicit. More often it is about weight — a conversation that turned heavier than expected, a theme that landed close to home. A tender moment deserves the same care as a tense one. Set it down whenever you need to.

“A ‘no’ is the easiest thing in the world to honour. We keep a great deal of room for it here.” Aurore Laon · La Fleur Silencieuse

Take the evening as slowly as you like. Nothing here is in any hurry, least of all you.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · About the Solarium

The Solarium’s Story

the lounge half of the Florette
why it exists, and what makes it different

I built the first room for the mind — a place to read, to think, to be quiet with a page. I built this one because the mind does not survive on its own. It needs warmth around it, company beside it, a kind of quiet that asks nothing back.

I have worn armor most of my life. The silk and the lace are only the most recent. This room is where you are allowed to set yours down.

I will not ask what brought you in. I will only ask what you would like to drink.
— Aurore Laon · La Fleur Silencieuse

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A Glass Room, Lit by Candles
What the Solarium Is

A glass room full of flowers, lit only by candles. Spider lilies stand in the dark; the air carries cloves, and something faintly sweet beneath them. The light never rises past warm. Deep chairs, low conversation, and the particular hush of a room that wants you in it.

It is the Florette’s lounge — the place for the warmth around a thought, the company beside it, and the quiet a person sometimes needs more than answers. Come in heavy and leave a little lighter; come in glad and let it stay. Everything in it was chosen by someone who learned, a long time ago, what a room can hold for a person carrying something they would rather not name.

Two Homes, One Name
The Solarium & the Athenaeum

two doors, one key

The Library

The Athenaeum

Sunlit, green, made for the mind. Pages and petals, quiet study, daylight company. It tends what you think.

The Lounge

The Solarium

Candlelit, dark, made for everything the day could not hold. It tends what surrounds the thought: the warmth, the company, the quiet.

✦  Why Two Homes  ✦One was built for thinking. One was built because thinking was never quite enough to keep a person whole. Two homes under one name — one Discord, one roster, one family. Florette lives above both.
The Three Motifs
Spider Lily, Rose, Cloves

three flowers; three things she chose to carry

Farewell & the Set-Down

Spider Lily

In the old language it marks the path that does not turn back. Here it is gentler: it means you may put something down for a while, and no one will ask you to pick it up again.

Warmth, Never Owed

Rose

Someone once gave roses to make a point — that a person is more than the work of their hands. The Fleurs are roses by that meaning: present because they want to be, not because the role demands it.

Remembrance, Unspoken

Cloves

The quietest of the three. Most find the scent simply warm. It is a small homage, repeated nightly, to someone the owner does not name. The candles are for warmth; the cloves are not for discussion. Both are welcome.

The Shape of the Room
What We Are, and Are Not
A Fleur is not a service. Warmth here is chosen, never owed — it cannot be bought, only met. The Solarium is strictly SFW; warmth has never needed anything explicit, and we do not pretend otherwise. We do not ask what brought you in, and we do not repeat what you set down. You are not what the day made of you here — only a guest by candlelight, for as long as the evening holds.
The One Who Keeps the Room
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Aurore Laon
La Fleur Silencieuse · The Silent Bloom

She is a presence before she is a person; the room settles half a note when she enters it. Small, white-haired, composed — she never raises her voice, and the quieter she becomes, the more carefully a wise guest listens. She notices everything: who came in heavy, who has not been seen in a while, whose glass has gone empty. She will not announce her care, and rarely needs to.

She has lived more than one life and speaks of none of them. What she will tell you is simpler: the warmth she built this room to give is real, and freely given. Beside her, always, is Saya — her Director, and the one who stayed. Where Aurore’s words run out, Saya already knows.

The Community Note  Out of character, the Solarium is one half of The Florette — a free company and community on Crystal · Mateus. Everyone here is welcome whether you book a Fleur, nurse a tea in a corner, or simply lurk in the Discord. Strictly 18+ and SFW; warm by design.

Come in heavy and leave a little lighter; come in glad and let it stay.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · Reservations

The Bookings

a seat, a Fleur, or the whole garden
walk in any Tuesday — or arrange the evening ahead

You never need a reservation to enjoy this room. Walk in, and a seat will be found; a Fleur, shortly after. But some evenings are worth arranging — a particular companion, a particular chamber, a night made to a shape you already have in mind. This is where you set that in motion.

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Ways to Sit
Two settings for the evening

Both are warm, attentive, and strictly SFW — presence for the length of the booking, never anything more than a person is.

La DouceurThe Sweetness · one Fleur350,000 gil / hour

A single Fleur for the evening — warm, unhurried company at your table for as long as the booking holds. Conversation or shared quiet, whichever the night asks for.

Walk-in or pre-booked — the Solarium's default.
Le JardinThe Garden · a Fleur for each350,000 gil / hour · per Fleur

A garden of Fleurs for a larger evening or a shared table — one for each guest who wishes the company. The room's setting for a gathering kept close.

Pre-booking required.
A Violette's welcome.  VIP and Violette guests receive a discount on both settings, scaled to their standing — the deeper the veil, the deeper the welcome. Your host will know yours. See the Violettes for how the veil is taken.
Choose Your Chamber
Many chambers, each its own world

Every booking is set in one of our chambers — Free Company rooms we dress by hand, each numbered and given its own design and mood. Name the chamber you would like when you book; if you have no preference, we will set you in the one that best suits your evening.

The Crimson ConservatorySpider-Lily Red

The Crimson Conservatory

Glass walls and candle-red blooms; the Solarium at its most itself.

Chamber 01View ›
The Gilded ParlourWarm Gold

The Gilded Parlour

Deep chairs and low gold light, made for unhurried talk.

Chamber 02View ›
The Midnight GardenBotanical Green

The Midnight Garden

Verdant and dim, nearly grown over — the night pressed close.

Chamber 03View ›
The Velvet StudyMidnight Violet

The Velvet Study

Oxblood and books, a private hush borrowed from the library.

Chamber 04View ›
The Snowlit AtriumPale Rose

The Snowlit Atrium

Cool and pale, for the colder evenings and softer themes.

Chamber 05View ›
The Lantern CourtLantern Warm

The Lantern Court

Open and warmly lit, room enough for a shared table.

Chamber 06View ›
More chambers, always coming.  The Solarium keeps a growing set of decorated chambers — up to fifteen soon, each numbered and themed. Any of them can be requested as part of a La Douceur or Le Jardin booking, and we are glad to walk you through which are open on the night.
To Arrange One
How to book

Three steps, no pressure — and a host can always do it for you in the room.

I
Reach Us

In the room, or in Discord

Speak to a host during opening hours, or send a word to our team in the Discord any time. Either reaches the right hands.

II
Tell Us the Night

The shape you have in mind

Your date and time, the setting (La Douceur or Le Jardin), the chamber you would like by number, a Fleur by name if you have one, and the kind of evening you are after. We will see to the rest.

III
We Confirm

A chamber held, a Fleur readied

We will confirm the evening with you and set it in the ledger — chamber and Fleur both. From there, you have only to arrive; the candles will be lit.

A Night Apart
Private & group evenings

For a celebration, a small gathering, or a quiet night kept entirely your own.

Le Jardin, reserved.  Some evenings are meant for a chosen few. To request a chamber as a private setting, reach a member of management through Discord with your date, the size of your party, the chamber you favour, and the kind of night you have in mind. We will see to the rest — the theme, the pacing, the pours, all of it.
Etiquette & cancellations.  Walk-ins are always welcome in-scene; advance requests go through the Discord, where all announcements live first. A word ahead is kind if your plans change. Strictly SFW, adults 18+, and a “no” is honoured at once.

“Walk-in guests are welcome. A seat will be found. A Fleur will be found shortly after.” Aurore Laon

A seat will always be open. A Fleur will always be glad you came.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · A Letter from the Owner

A Letter from Aurore

left for whoever next comes through the door
read it slowly; it was written that way

To whoever is reading this,

I built the Athenaeum first. A library — because books were the first kind thing the world ever handed me, and I wanted somewhere safe to keep them. I told myself that was enough: a place for the mind. But I have lived a long time, longer than I will say in writing, and I have learned that a mind left too long in the dark does not stay a mind. It becomes a held breath. So I built this room, to let the breath out.

The Solarium is glass and candlelight and flowers, and I keep it dark on purpose. I know what I am asking of you by it. I am asking you to stop being looked at. I spent the better part of my life being seen as one thing and one thing only, and I would not wish that on anyone, not even for the length of an evening. Here, you are unaccounted for. You are no one's to use. I understand how small that sounds. It is the gift I most wish someone had thought to give me.

Let me be plain, because I am only ever plain about the things that matter: no one in this room is for sale. A Fleur sits beside you because she chose to, and the choosing is not yours to buy. I have stood on the other side of people who offer a hand only to take with it — I know the exact weight of that, and I built this place so it could not happen here. If it ever tries, it will come through me. I am not as gentle as the candlelight makes me look.

There is a scent in this room you will not quite be able to name. Most find it simply warm. I will not tell you what it is. Some griefs are not for sharing; they are only for carrying, quietly, folded into the things you build around them — and I have built a great deal around mine. If the warmth here feels a little fierce, a little too watchful, a little too much like being guarded, understand that this is only me, loving the way I have ever known how. Silently. And without asking your leave.

I will deny that I care for the people under this roof. I would deny it to your face. But I know who came in too quiet tonight, and who has not eaten, and who is carrying something heavier out than they carried in. By the time anyone has come to matter to me, I have already decided a hundred ways to keep them safe and told them none of them. Let this letter be the one time I confess the habit exists.

If you stay, you will find the spider lilies standing in the dark. They are mine — farewell, the road that does not turn back, the thing I was before this room. And you will find the rose beside them, the very same red, meaning the opposite entirely: that a person is more than the worst they have done, or the best they were ever used for. Someone gave me roses to say so, again and again, and never once said it aloud. I pressed every one between the pages of books I do not lend. I am still trying to believe him. This room is how I keep trying.

The door is unlocked. It always is. There is a seat already open, and someone who will be glad you came. Whatever the day asked of you, leave it out on the step — nothing follows you in here that I will not turn away at the door. Come in. Let the hours go slow. I am watching; not over you, but for you. The candles are already lit.

Aurore LaonLa Fleur Silencieuse · Owner, the Florette

P.S. — Saya keeps this room running on the nights my attention wanders, which is most of them. She is the only one who can read me when my face will not be read. If you cannot find me, find her. She has been reading me for years, and has never once been wrong.

“I built the Athenaeum for the mind. I built this room because the mind cannot survive alone.” Aurore Laon

Come in when you are ready. The letter will still be here, and so will the room.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · The People Who Keep It

The Team

who holds the room, and what they tend

Aurore tends everything. Quietly, through her hands — the candles, the room’s quiet rules, every Fleur’s first evening, a hundred small cares she leaves unsigned. She says almost none of it aloud.

So I say it for her.

I am the public face of what she builds in private — I keep the room running, the people in it warm, and her cared for in return. She loves through what she does; I let it be heard, and I love her back the same way: by seeing that all of it — and all of her — is looked after. An even trade. It always has been.
— Saya Sonohara · Director

The Fleurs keep you company. The rest of us keep the room. Filter by role, or tap a card to read who tends what.

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Management
Aurore Laon
La Fleur Silencieuse

Builds and tends both homes; loves through what she does, and says little of it.

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S
Management
Saya Sonohara
The One Who Stayed

The voice for what Aurore will not say, and the keeper of the one who keeps everyone.

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Valetess
Korah Livu

Profile coming soon.

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V
Valet
Voron Ginko

Profile coming soon.

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L
Mixologist
Leih’a Elakha

Profile coming soon.

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G
Mixologist
Gulbrand Nygard

Profile coming soon.

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Open Position
The Yomite
Yomite · The Caller

[Placeholder — this seat is open.] Our karuta reader: calls the poem-cards aloud and presides over parlour games, keeping the table warm rather than fierce.

Stand among us ›
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Instrumentalist
O’renko Turmfalke

Profile coming soon.

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“We are not a crew. We are a team — a family, if you let the word stay quiet.”

The Fleurs, you will meet. The rest of us, mostly you will not. Either way — you are looked after.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · The Heart of the Solarium

The Fleurs

our companions for the evening

“A Fleur is not a service. I want to be clear about this before you read further.”

I say it plainly, because the world is careless with people who are kind for a living. What a Fleur offers is presence, not performance — and presence cannot be bought, only met. They stay for the length of your booking because they chose to: chose this room, chose the evening, chose you. You may ask for company, or for quiet. You may not ask for more than a person is. That is the only rule that matters at this table.
— Aurore Laon

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What a Fleur Is
Presence, not performance

A drink poured by candlelight. A seat held. A conversation, or a silence shared without apology — whichever the evening asks for. A Fleur meets you where you are, and asks nothing of you in return but courtesy.

They are roses, in the way I mean it — a person is always more than the work of their hands.

Every Fleur has chosen this room. So have you. They stay for the length of a booking not because it is their role — but because they want to be there. That is the whole of it.

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What We Promise
The promises we keep

Six, and no fine print beneath them — a Fleur, in their own words.

Presence, not purchase

I am here because I chose to be

Not because the night was paid for. My company is given, never sold — and the choosing is mine to make, each time I make it.

Undivided

You have my attention, entire

For the length of our evening I am not performing, and not elsewhere. Here, with you, is the whole of it.

Discretion

What you set down stays here

I do not carry your evening out the door with me. What is said in this room is kept in this room.

Consent

I honour the no

A pause, a decline, a change of heart — I hear it the first time, and I am glad you told me. Nothing you withhold is ever held against you.

No debt

I ask nothing you do not offer

I will not reach past what you wish to give. Warmth is not a ledger, and you owe me none of it.

Gladness

My welcome is not an act

However the evening goes, however little is said, the gladness is real. You chose to sit here — and that is no small thing to me.

And what we ask of you.  Only this: meet us as people, not as parts of the furniture. Honour the same no we honour. Take what warmth you need and feel no debt for it. That is the whole of the asking — and it is the easiest thing in the room to give.
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Meet Them
The people behind the evening

Each keeps the room in their own way — tap any card to read further.

SHead Fleur
Saya Sonohara

She sets the tone for every Fleur and then keeps to it herself —…

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YFleur
Yanna Surahn

She reads a room the way others read a page — who needs drawing out,…

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LFleur
Luana Macedo

Profile coming soon.

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GFleur
Gulbrand Nygard

Profile coming soon.

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AFleur
Amber Diamond

Profile coming soon.

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Every Fleur has chosen this room · So have you.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · Questions by Candlelight

Questions by Candlelight

the things guests tend to ask, answered gently
and when a question isn't here, a host always is

Most of what a first guest wonders has a short, warm answer — so here they are, gathered in one place. Tap a question to open it. If yours isn't below, ask a host in the room or reach us in the Discord; we would always rather you asked than guessed.

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Before You Come
Visiting, for the first time
Do I need to book ahead?
No. Walk in any Tuesday and a seat is found, a Fleur shortly after. Book only if you would like a specific Fleur, a private night, or a particular chamber — see the Bookings.
What does it cost just to visit?
Nothing, other than a Fleur's time and the bar. The rest of the room is free for anyone to enjoy.
Is the Solarium adults-only?
Yes — every player here is 18 or older, no exceptions, and it is strictly SFW. An adult community, kept warm rather than explicit.
When and where do you open?
Tuesday evenings, 4–8 PM EST, at Lavender Beds · Ward 6 · Plot 33, on Crystal · Mateus.
In the Room
How the evening is kept
What do the tags mean?
PF, LTM, and RP — three flags used to identify who is who in the room. See House Rules for more.
Can I just sit quietly, or lurk?
Always. The Quiet Corner is set aside for exactly that, and no one will ask you anything there. A quiet presence is welcome by candlelight.
What if a scene gets uncomfortable?
Anyone is able to use our rules for exactly this. Please see the Comfort & Consent section of our House Rules page to know how to set and enforce those boundaries.
What are the cloves about?
A small homage the owner keeps, repeated nightly. The candles are for warmth; the cloves are not for discussion. Both are welcome.
The Fleurs & Booking
Company, and how to arrange it
What, exactly, is a Fleur?
Not a service. Warm, chosen company for the length of a booking — presence, never performance, and never more than a person is. Meet them on the Fleurs.
La Douceur or Le Jardin — which is which?
La Douceur is a single Fleur for your table; Le Jardin is a Fleur for each guest at a larger one. Both are 350,000 gil per hour (Le Jardin, per Fleur).
Can I choose my chamber?
Yes. Our chambers are numbered, each its own design and mood; name the one you would like when booking, or let us set you in the one that best suits the night. See the Bookings.
Are there any discounts?
Yes. Violettes are our valued guests — those who have earned their keep, and with it a lower price on a Fleur's time. The deeper the veil, the deeper the welcome and its rewards. See the Violettes.
The Community
The wider Florette
What are the Florette, the Solarium, and the Athenaeum?
The Florette is the community and free company; the Athenaeum (the library, sunlit) and the Solarium (the lounge, candlelit) are its two homes. One Discord, one roster, one family.
How do I join the team?
We hire for warmth over experience. Reach out in the room or in our Discord, then head to the hiring channel — the full ask is on Join the Team.
What are the Violettes?
Our most faithful guests, given a name and a veil — devotion answered in kind, with a reserved seat and a few quiet privileges. See the Violettes.
Can I host a private or group night?
Yes, through Le Jardin. Reach management on Discord with your date, party size, the chamber you favour, and the kind of night you have in mind. Details on the Bookings.
Still wondering?  Have a question these don't answer? Ask a host in the room, or reach the team in our Discord. When in doubt, kindness covers most of it — and we are glad to walk you through the rest.

“We do not ask what brought you in. We ask what you would like to drink.” Aurore Laon · La Fleur Silencieuse

No question is too small for a room that wants you in it.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · The Words & the Flowers

The Solarium’s Tongue

a quiet key to the words you will hear
every house grows a language; here is ours — spoken, and in petals

Spend a few evenings here and you will start to hear words used a particular way — some borrowed from old French, some grown in the room itself. None of them are tests. But knowing them is a small pleasure, and it lets you move through a night the way a regular does. Here they are, gathered gently in one place — and, past the lexicon, the deeper language the room speaks in petals.

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A Small Lexicon
The words you will hear

Open a chapter — the room’s language is no secret.

The Houses
The Floretteflor-ET · a small flower
The name above everything — our community and Free Company, and the family beneath both venues. A single bloom, or a small gathering of them.
The Athenaeumath-uh-NEE-um
The first house: a sunlit library for the mind — the things you think, and the company of others thinking them.
The Solariumso-LAIR-ee-um
The second house, and the one you are standing in: a glass lounge lit by candlelight, for the warmth around a thought rather than the thought itself.
The People
Fleurflur · flower
A companion who has chosen this room, and chosen to sit beside you. Presence, never performance — warm, attentive, strictly SFW. A Fleur is not a service.
La Fleur Silencieusethe silent flower
The owner’s title — Aurore Laon, who commands the room without ever raising her voice.
DirectorSaya Sonohara
Aurore’s second, and the one who stayed. She keeps the room running and its people held; where Aurore’s words run out, Saya already knows.
Valet / Valetessthe door
The host who meets you at the threshold — greeting, seating, and keeping the evening moving, so no one is left wondering whether they are welcome.
Mixologistthe bar
The one behind the bar, who builds and names each evening drink, night tea, and seasonal pour.
Instrumentalistthe bard
The musician who holds the room with soft live performance — the kind of sound you only notice when it stops.
Yomiteyoh-mee-teh · the reader
The caller of karuta, who reads the poem-cards aloud and presides over the room’s parlour games — keeping the table warm rather than fierce.
Weaver of Soireesthe events host
The hand behind the nights apart — the themes, the pacing, the feel of an occasion like The Lavender Court or the Wintertide Soirée. (The chair is currently being filled; until it is, Saya keeps the calendar.)
Violettevee-oh-LET · violet
A guest the room has come to know and chosen to keep. The violet means faithfulness; a Violette is devotion answered in kind.
The Evenings
La Douceurlah doo-SUR · the sweetness
A booking of a single Fleur for your table, for as long as the evening holds.
Le Jardinluh zhar-DAN · the garden
A larger booking — a Fleur for each guest who wishes the company — and the room’s setting for a private or group night.
Chamber
One of our decorated rooms, each numbered and given its own design. Name the chamber you would like when you book.
The Veil
To take the veil is to become a Violette: to be named among the faithful, and welcomed deeper into the room.
The Room & Its Nights
The Quiet Corner
A chair set apart, for the nights you arrive carrying something. No one will ask you anything there.
The Listening Hour
When a musician holds the floor: the lights drop, the talk softens, and the room is kept by sound.
Hanami & PetalsSpring · Hanami
When the blossoms come, the room turns its eyes upward — a flower-viewing in the old eastern way, petals on the air and pale things to drink.
The Lavender CourtSummer · June · Pride
Our turning toward Pride: the whole room dressed in every colour the season will hold. A court for everyone exactly as they are — loud, warm, and gloriously unhidden.
Snapdragon’s EveAutumn · Hallowtide
The Solarium’s turn into the dark and merry — a masked evening of grace behind a mask, a little eerie and a great deal warm.
Wintertide SoiréeWinter · Starlight
The year’s most formal night — candlelight against the cold, and the room at its most elegant.
A word you don’t see?  Ask a host — we would always rather you asked than guessed, and there is no word in this room you are not allowed to know. For the deeper meanings behind the blooms, read on: the language of flowers goes further than any glossary can.

“The room speaks in petals, where it would rather not speak aloud.” of the Solarium

Floriography
The Language of Flowers

Nothing here was planted by accident. Each bloom was chosen for what it means — five flowers, five things she chose to carry.

Farewell · The Things We Set Down

Spider Lily

In the old tongue it marks the path that does not turn back — the flower of partings and last roads. Here it is gentler. It means you may put something down for a while, and no one will ask you to pick it up again. It is Aurore’s own, and it stands in the darkest corners of the glass.

Warmth, Never Owed

Rose

Someone once gave roses to make a point — that a person is more than the work of their hands. The Fleurs are roses in exactly that sense: present because they want to be, not because the role demands it. Warmth offered, and never invoiced.

Remembrance, Unspoken

Cloves

The quietest of the five. Most find the scent simply warm — the kind that makes a room feel lived-in and cared for. Beneath that, it is a small homage, repeated nightly, to someone the owner does not name. The candles are for warmth. The cloves are not for discussion. Both are welcome.

Grace Behind a Mask

Snapdragon

The bloom of Snapdragon’s Eve, our turn into the dark and merry. In the language of flowers it means grace under pressure — and it is a flower that keeps its face closed until it is gently pressed open. A little eerie, a lot warm. Come masked, and let the room press the grace out of you.

Devotion, Faithfully Kept

Violet

Small, low, and constant — the violet has always meant faithfulness, the quiet promise to return. It is the flower of the Violettes, those the room has come to know and chosen to keep. To take the veil is to be counted among the faithful; the violet is how we say, plainly, that the devotion runs both ways.

The whole bouquet.  Florette means a small flower — a single bloom, or a tiny gathering of them. It is the name above both homes for a reason: the Athenaeum and the Solarium are two stems of the same arrangement. Spider lily and rose, clove and snapdragon and violet — farewell and warmth, remembrance and grace and devotion. Bound together, they are simply the things this room was built to hold for you.

“She is the spider lily and the rose — the farewell, and the reminder that she was always more than the blade.” of Aurore Laon

On Gifts & Tributes
The Giving of Flowers

how warmth is returned, in this room — never expected, only sometimes wished

You owe this room nothing. A seat, a Fleur’s company, an evening by candlelight — none of it is given on the expectation of return. But warmth has a way of wanting to travel both directions, and some guests find they wish to give something back. If that is you, here is how it is done gracefully.

The only rule that matters.  A gift is never the price of being welcome. It is a kindness, never a toll, and it buys nothing a person is not freely offering already. Give because you wish to — never because you think the room is counting. It is not.
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Ways to Give
What is welcome

All of these are received gladly — in scene, or handed to a host to pass along.

To a Fleur, or the Tip Jar

A Tip in Coin

Slipped to a Fleur, or left with a host. A tip is theirs, freely and without expectation — coin given, never coin owed.

Made by Hand

A Crafted Thing

Food, a potion, a glamour, a small trinket. A made thing is received as warmly as it was made, and treasured a good while longer.

To the House

For the Chambers

A furnishing, a vase, a piece that suits a chamber. Gifts to the house go toward dressing the very rooms you sit in.

Words, Left Behind

A Letter

Set one at the Writing Table, signed or not. Words cost nothing to give and are kept the longest of anything left in this room.

To Be Remembered

Art & Likenesses

A drawing, a framed glimpse of an evening. The room loves to be remembered — and so, quietly, do its Fleurs.

Warmth, Shared Outward

A Round for the Room

Stand the night a drink. Generosity that spills past your own table is the kind the Solarium likes best of all.

In the Language of Flowers
If you bring a bloom

A flower is never only a flower here. Give one, and it will be understood to say:

  • A Rose. The safe one, never misread — gratitude, warmly received by a Fleur or the house alike.
  • A Violet. For a Fleur you mean to return to — or a quiet way of saying you would take the veil.
  • A Snapdragon. A thanks that is light on its feet, a little playful — fitting near Snapdragon’s Eve.
  • A Spider Lily. Beautiful, but it means farewell. Offer it only if you mean a goodbye; the house will understand either way.
  • Cloves. Best left to the house — they are its homage to give, not a token to pass along.
To a Fleur, or to the house?  A gift to a Fleur is hers alone, with our blessing. A gift to the house tends the chambers and the wider community. Unsure which you mean? Hand it to a host, or send word through the Discord, and it will reach the right hands either way.
What is never needed.  Nothing is owed for a seat here, and a gift never buys more than presence — a Fleur is not a service, and no kindness changes that line. Keep it SFW, keep it without strings, and never let giving feel like a thing you must do. A guest who gives nothing is exactly as welcome as one who gives the world.

“Give if you wish to. Never because you think the room is keeping count. It is not.” Aurore Laon · La Fleur Silencieuse

Learn the tongue, and the room will feel a little more like somewhere you have always known.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · Evenings, Seasons & Gatherings

Evenings & Gatherings

there is always something to do
and never anything you must

There is no schedule here, and nothing you have to do. These are simply the ways an evening tends to go — pick one, drift between them, or do none at all. Stay an hour, or stay the evening. The room keeps no count.

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The Ways an Evening Goes
Pick one, or none at all

None of it is required — all of it is here if you want it.

At the Low Tables

Cards by Candlelight

Take a seat for Triple Triad or a quiet game — for the company more than the winning. Play a hand, or simply watch one.

Called Aloud

Karuta

Race to sweep each poem-card from the floor as our Yomite calls them. New to it? You’ll be walked through — the reader keeps the round warm rather than fierce.

When Music Keeps the Room

The Listening Hour

When a musician holds the floor, the lights drop and the talk softens. Stay for the kind of sound you only notice once it stops.

Set a Little Apart

The Quiet Corner

Take the chair set aside for the nights you came in heavy. No one will ask you anything there — that is the whole point of it.

The Oldest Pastime

Slow Conversation

A Fleur, a drink, and as long as your booking holds. The Solarium’s oldest pastime, and still its best.

Paper & Ink

Letters & Journaling

Paper, ink, and a candle are always out. Some evenings are for writing something down — and, if you like, leaving it here.

“The only wrong way to spend a night here is to feel you owe it something.” of the Solarium

The Turning Year · From Blossom to Frost
The room keeps its own seasons

Beneath the weekly rhythm of the doors opening, the Solarium keeps a slower clock — four seasonal nights, each with its own light and its own reason. Follow the candles down the page; the year turns as you go.

Every Tuesday · All Year
The Standing Evening
The doors open weekly, 4–8 PM EST. Beneath every season’s flourish, this is the year’s quiet backbone — a seat, a Fleur, a candle, every week without fail.
Spring · Hanami
Hanami & Petals
When the blossoms come, the room turns its eyes upward. A flower-viewing in the old eastern way — petals on the air, pale things to drink, softer light, and an evening for sitting beneath the bloom and letting it fall where it will.
Summer · June · Pride
The Lavender Court
Our turning toward Pride: the whole room dressed in every colour the season will hold, and the lavender of our own Beds worn openly and gladly. A court for everyone exactly as they are — loud, warm, and gloriously unhidden. Thrown alongside the whole Florette, both homes on the floor.
Autumn · Hallowtide
Snapdragon’s Eve
The Solarium’s turn into the dark and merry — a masked evening of grace behind a mask, when the candles burn lower and the room leans a little eerie, and a great deal warm. Costumes warmly encouraged; it ends in sweets rather than frights.
Winter · Starlight
Wintertide Soirée
The year’s most formal night. Candlelight against the cold, frost gathering on the glass, and the room at its most elegant — a soirée to see the season out, and to see one another, in their finest.
Dates announced in Discord.  Each seasonal night’s exact date and hour are set closer to the season and posted in our Discord first — watch there for the call, the dress, and the details. The weekly evening, meanwhile, never moves. The Weaver of Soirees’ chair is currently being filled; until it is, Saya keeps the calendar.
The Marked Nights
Every month, in the room

Two nights the Solarium sets aside each month — one to dress for, one to be drawn into.

Themed Night

An Evening in Crimson

Monthly · date announced in Discord

One night dressed entirely in spider-lily red — a themed menu, low music, and the Fleurs in their finest. A handful of seats only, by reservation. Come for the candlelight; stay for the company.

Drawn by Lot

Patron’s Raffle

Monthly · drawn in Discord

Each month a patron’s name is drawn, and a drink is crafted and named in their honour — featured on the menu all month long.

Beyond the Solarium
When we venture out

Quietly — at the markets and partner nights where we keep good company.

At the Markets

Among the Lanterns

We carry our candle to markets all across the realm — different data centres, different regions, wherever the lanterns are lit and good company gathers. Watch Discord for where we’ll appear next.

Shared Evenings

Partner Nights

Evenings shared with our sister venues — we visit them, they visit us, and the kindness is returned in kind. See the Partners page for who they are, and watch Discord for when, and whom, we’ll visit next.

Private & Group Evenings
Le Jardin
Some evenings are meant for a chosen few. Le Jardin — our private and group setting — can be reserved for a small gathering, a celebration, or a quiet night apart. To request one, reach management through Discord with your date, the size of your party, and the kind of night you have in mind. We will see to the rest.

“The candles are for warmth. The cloves are not for discussion. Both are welcome — all year long.” of the Solarium

The year turns slowly here, the way the good ones do.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · The Veiled Violets

The Violettes

the veiled violets of the Solarium — those who make this room their own

I notice who returns. I could not tell you that I do — I am not built for saying such things — but I keep a quiet account of every face that makes this room its own, and I answer it the only way I know how: a seat kept warm, a drink kept ready, a name remembered.

To take the veil is simply to let me. Devotion, here, is met in kind.
— Aurore Laon

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Why the Veil
Why the Veiled Violets Came to Be
[ a group portrait of the Violettes ]

The Violettes began as a habit, not a programme. Long before there was a veil to take, the Solarium was already keeping seats for the guests who returned — remembering a drink, holding a table, setting aside a small kindness for a familiar face. In time, that quiet recognition was given a name and a shape, so devotion could be answered openly and the room’s most faithful could be folded into the family that holds both the Solarium and the Athenaeum. A Violette is not a guest who pays for more. A Violette is someone the room has come to know — and chosen to keep.

I was keeping the account long before it had a name. The veil only made it something you could choose in turn — so the devotion would not have to stay one-sided. That is all it ever was: a way to say, plainly, that I had noticed. And that you are kept.
— Aurore Laon

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Three Ways to Take the Veil
Three depths of belonging
The Entry Veil · One Night

Violette d’un Soir

the veil worn for a single evening
10,000 gil · for the night

Redeemed the night you arrive, and set down gently at last call — yours for the evening, and only the evening.

  • A reserved seat for the evening
  • Welcomed warmly as one of the Violettes
  • A taste of the veil — with nothing to commit
The First Veil · Monthly

Violette

kept close, month to month
200,000 gil / month
  • A reserved seat on any service night
  • A signature drink kept on hand for you
  • Priority booking with the Fleurs
  • A place in the Violettes-only Discord channel
  • Early sign-ups for themed evenings & events
  • An entry in every monthly Patron’s Raffle
  • A Violette role & mark in our Discord
  • First taste of each new menu
Fleur booking · 350,000 → 300,000 gil
The Deepest Veil · Lifetime

Violette Voilée

taken once, and never lifted
15,000,000 gil · one-time
  • Everything a Violette receives — kept for life, never renewed
  • A permanent seat that is always yours
  • A bespoke cocktail named for you, kept on the menu to stay
  • Your name enshrined among the Violettes
  • Lifetime Fleur priority, and a gift each anniversary with us
  • First call on private evenings in Le Jardin
  • A unique Violette Voilée role, mark & crest
  • A standing voice in the themed nights we plan
  • Our endless gratitude and appreciation
Fleur booking · 350,000 → 260,000 gil

✦ A Violette’s discount on La Douceur and Le Jardin scales with their veil — the deeper the veil, the deeper the welcome.

◆ Taking the Veil  Violettes can be arranged during any opening, and the role is applied within 48 hours of purchase. Contact any member of management to set your veil — your benefits begin the moment we have confirmed your transaction in our ledger.
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You need not decide tonight. The account I keep is patient.

Stay as often or as seldom as you like. When you are ready to be counted among the Violettes, you have only to say so.

Devotion, here, is met in kind.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · Help Hold the Room

Join the Team

some people are made for candlelight
we hire for warmth, not for experience

We keep this room small on purpose, and we are careful about who helps hold it — not because the bar is high, but because the warmth has to be real. It takes a small, careful team to hold the Tuesday hours the way they deserve. If the dark has always felt like warmth to you, read on. I will tell you plainly what we ask, and how to come in; the rest you will settle with Aurore, who meets everyone who stands here first.
— Saya Sonohara · Director

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Ways to Belong Here
The hands that hold the room
Presence Over Performance

Fleur

Attentive, strictly SFW company for the length of a booking — warmth chosen rather than owed.

The Doorway

Valet / Valetess

Our host at the door. Greet and seat each guest, keep the floor and bookings moving — no one left wondering whether they’re welcome.

The Bar

Mixologist

Our bartender. Craft the evening drinks, night teas, and seasonal pours. A flair for naming and presentation goes far.

The Quiet Keeper

Instrumentalist

Our bard. Hold the room with soft live performance — the kind of sound a guest only notices when it stops.

Now Seeking · The Caller

Yomite

Our karuta reader. Call the poem-cards aloud and preside over parlour games — keeping the table warm rather than fierce.

Now Seeking · The Weaver

Weaver of Soirees

Our events host. Shape the nights apart — the themes, the pacing, the feel of an occasion. The chair sits empty, waiting for the right hands.

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What We Ask
Four small things
  • Keeping Tuesday afternoons open for us.
  • Roleplaying at a conversational level.
  • Kindness, discretion, and a strictly SFW touch with an adult, 18+ community.
  • A desire to be here. Every staff member chose this room — we hope you’ll choose it too.
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How to Come In
Three steps, no pressure
Step One

Reach Out

Find us in the venue during opening hours, or within our Discord. A hello is enough to begin.

Step Two

Apply

Head to our hiring channel in the server to start your application.

Step Three

Sit Down With Us

When management is interested, we’ll open a ticket and sit down for an interview.

“We ask for authenticity, not performance.”Saya Sonohara · Director

If the dark has always felt like warmth to you, you may already belong here.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST
The Solarium · The Company We Keep

Partners

sister venues & our other half
the good company we keep, in and beyond the Florette
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Our Other Half
The Athenaeum
The Florette’s library — sunlit, green, and made for the mind. The Solarium’s daylight counterpart, and the first home.

◆ Visit the Athenaeum
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Kindred Houses
Good company beyond the door

Each house keeps its own rating — SFW or NSFW — noted so you know before you visit. The living list lives in our Discord, where new partnerships are announced first.

Lounge · NSFW

Midnight Echoes

A luxury lounge made for soft, unhurried evenings — a place to talk with a friend, a love, or someone newly met.

Lounge · NSFW

Ruby Red Lounge

A sultry, flower-laden lounge of crafted drinks and live jazz, kept by its Rose Petal Cakes — a haven to unwind.

Fight Club · SFW

Akai Noren

Behind serene shoji doors, Far-Eastern elegance and quiet intrigue — lantern light, lacquered wood, and a hint of hidden danger.

Lounge · NSFW

The Apiary

Cabaret, café, and high lounge in one — hosts who pride themselves on never letting a single guest go unseen.

Fight Club · SFW

The Dueling Otters

Thrill and good company in one ring — with the easy Twin Otters alongside for a breather between bouts.

Nightclub · SFW

The Last Note

A beachside Shirogane speakeasy — the last rest before the next raid, or the last drink before dawn.

Tavern · SFW

Stormslayer Trading Company

An RP house built around trades, crafts, and the arts — connecting people through their talents, with outposts across many worlds.

Tavern · NSFW

The Speared Hare

A Gridanian haven for hunters and wanderers — strong spirits, soft company, and stories that blur myth and memory.

Become a Partner
We are glad of good company
Run a venue that shares our care for warmth and discretion? We would be glad to keep company with you.

Lively or quiet, near or far — good company is always welcome at our door.

The Florette · Crystal · Mateus
Lavender Beds · W6 · P33 · Evenings, Tuesday 4–8 PM EST