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tushanshu_logs2016-04-01 08:49 pm
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[Midnight Hotel] April catch-all
Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!
The month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!
The month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]
Valdis | Open | Cat shenanigans
"No," she said firmly, opening the door back up and gesturing to the outside. "You don't belong here."
The cat yawned and looked up at her, green eyes blinking slowly.
"Get out!"
Another blink.
"Out!"
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He stormed over, broom gripped in his left hand, the other arm hanging at his side, useless. He didn't get too close though, stopped by another sneeze. Cats! In his full Sanzo priest uniform, sans golden crown, and more than a bit dusty, he was currently an odd mixture of dignified and ridiculous. Especially when he sneezed again and brandished the broom handle at the perfectly harmless cat.
"Is that damned thing yours?" He snapped, glaring at the cat like it was horrible, malicious beast. "Get rid of it!"
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"It's not mine." she hissed, "It just followed me here."
The creature seemed to take little offense, slipping past the broom to rub against the man's legs without a care. Then, with a flick of its tail, it looped around him and trotted off toward the kitchen.
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"Oh no, you are not staying here!" Sanzo turned to try to stop the cat in its path with the broom's bristles, careful to not actually hit it. He didn't actually want to hurt it! Just not have to clean up cat fur for the next several weeks! His head snapped back so he look at Valdis with his already narrow eyes even more squinty than usual. "You let that thing in here, get it out!"
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"Do not order me around," she replied, her voice cold, but she moved after the cat anyway, less annoyed the the fluffy white creature than the man brandishing the broom.
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"Telling you take care of shit you drag in is an order?" he snapped back, not quite pulling off the haughty tone he intended with his nose stuffed up like it was.
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Valdis didn't think this man was worth her time, he obviously had a sour personality, but he had struck a nerve with that order.
"If you have such a problem with him, why don't you get him?"
The cat had changed direction, now heading toward Anton's office.
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"It's your fault it's in here!" he snapped once his throat cleared. He could have sworn there was a hair stuck in his throat from the horrible beast. "You were going to get it anyway! It's just going to be a problem!"
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The cat jumped up, trying to get its paws around the handle to the office door to open it. Valdis eyed the cat with suspicion, that wasn't normal behavior for a street cat, but he looked too well groomed to be a stray. She walked over to the cat and scooped it up, holding it against her chest. It immediately began to purr and rubbed its head against her chin.
"Oh, aren't you sweet." She said, stroking his head.
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She wasn't entirely sure why she felt so protective of the cat, but this man wasn't going to throw the cat out and neither was she. Anton might have something to say about it, but she was certain he wouldn't toss it out either.
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"Keep the damn thing in your room if you're going to keep the beast!" he shot after her. If she wanted to deal with some weird, probably possessed cat, let her, but he wasn't going to be cleaning up the fur all the time! Ugh, he really needed a proper job, not sweeping up after every weirdo in this place.
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soooooo late to the party, but I bring catnip!
Of course, Valdis' snapping commends drew his attention at once, though it was quick to fall on the new animal standing before her. Hehehe. With renewed interest, the (now) kitten would bound playfully toward the fluffy white cat, ignoring Dove entirely as she came around the corner.
Sorry my reply took so long, I have been focusing on 4th wall
"No," she told him, her eyes narrowed, "You need to be nice."
Anani's white fur settled and he meowed loudly, his tone almost annoyed by her suggestion.
Re: Sorry my reply took so long, I have been focusing on 4th wall
Oh, well fine, then...
The kitten jumped back at the swipe and sudden hiss, regarding the cat--and now it's supposed owner-- with whiskers so downturned, it would almost appear that it was frowning. Then, without warning, the kitten burst into flame, much to the chagrin of the now quickly approaching owner.
"Era, no!"
The fire would spread then die, and Anani and Valdis would quickly find themselves standing before a large tiger, its eyes now level with the cat in the woman's arms and full of amused cockiness.
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"Looks like you need some manners too," she told the tiger, shifting Anani in her arms.
She turned and opened the door to the Fire Sector, taking the cat with her on her errands might be strange, but it was better than him getting into a fight with a shapeshifter.
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Silently, she watched the shorter woman disappear, her expression level and her eyes sharp. After a moment or two, once she was sure the hellhound was gone, she reached out to run her hand over the tiger's head and rumple his scruff.
"Good boy."