gistful: ([Midnight Hotel])
Anton Shudder ([personal profile] gistful) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2016-04-16 07:41 am

[Midnight Hotel] Fourth-wall catch-all; 15-30 April 2016

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: 15-30th April, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: It’s the fourth-wall event and there’s a sudden influx of patrons! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the two weeks of the fourth-wall event, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. Regulars should feel free to continue using the non-fourth-wall Hotel post for pre-fourth-wall threads! See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!

Once more, it seems, the Dreaming has seen fit to lure in temporary residents. Luckily, the Hotel and its kedanese staff have done this before -- even accounting for the fact that it isn't exactly usual. If this goes on, they may start to predict the event!

It takes a day or so to sort things out, but once sorted the Hotel breaks out the same sleeping-bags as they had last time, and set aside as many areas of the common-room and even the lobby as sleeping areas. Any spare bed-rooms are also filled to the brim, though there aren't many of those these days.

The Hotel, like some of the other buildings around Keeliai, displays some occasional damage of the explosion-that-wasn't; in fact, seems to show it more obviously than most other places. Mostly it's cracks in frames or the smell of smoke in random areas, or some loose shingles; the worst that happens is the plumbing may be a bit unreliable until the wards can right themselves.

As before, Mr Shudder lets Foreigners without a soul-gem stay for free, as long as they follow the rules--which they are told upon entry. (Most notably, that's the 'no violence' rule.) Luckily, the new walk-in restaurant function means there's plenty to eat for everyone, and the cooking staff are on overtime this fortnight to make sure everyone is provided for.

Strangely, Mr Shudder himself is scarce for these two weeks. He does drop by in the evenings to make sure things are progressing well, but if anyone asks all he'll say is that some old friends have arrived and he and Erskine are helping them out elsewhere in the city. Anton will be around if anything untoward happens--but for the most part management is performed either by Anton's kedanese staff, or by Klaus von Reinherz.


[ooc: The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top and ongoing status at the bottom. PLEASE PM ME IF YOUR CHARACTER WILL PERFORM A VIOLENT ACT. The Hotel is a neutral-zone and the proprietor is very strict as to acts of violence, and it will receive a response.

It will not be necessary for fourth-wall characters to officially check into the Hotel during the event.]
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-04-30 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Bisi caught herself staring at Ghastly sewing the garments. She watched him mesmerized whenever she saw him, from the desk, from the lobby, from the cafeteria. Eventually she puzzled out exactly what he was doing and was no less tranfixed.

Eventually she decided to ask about it. She wheeled up to his chair in the common room during a slow period in the hotel.

"It must take a very long time to make a single article that way."
shopworn: (in the cold morning light)

[personal profile] shopworn 2016-05-01 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"It can," Ghastly agreed, cheerfully, without missing a beat. "Fortunately, I also have a sewing machine and a great deal of practice at doing things the long way, so to speak. This is just for the fiddly bits."

'Fiddly bits' did not have a trace of irony attached. He was well aware of the terminology, opting rather not to confuse someone who might not be versed in more technical terms.
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-01 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a useful shorthand.

"I don't think I've ever seen someone making clothes that way before, but I guess they don't have fabricators here, so it makes sense that at some point this is how they would have made them."
shopworn: (at the end of the night)

[personal profile] shopworn 2016-05-02 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Bespoke tailoring is less common than it was among mortals," Ghastly said as some measure of agreement, though 'fabricators' got a briefly quizzical look from him. "But clothing has been made by sewing for thousands of years. Granted, the Greeks preferred draping and creative pinning, but every civilization practically has to have a textile history."

He turned the piece of sewing around, carefully maneuvering the next stitch as he spoke. "It's how things are still made, even if they're mass produced in the time I'm from. Here they're a little more discerning."
ten_zero: (worried)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Most of the things I see people doing in Keeliai are handled by Cephalons where I come from. Artificial Intelligence in charge of running large facilities or small foundries."