gistful: ([Midnight Hotel])
Anton Shudder ([personal profile] gistful) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2016-05-04 09:10 pm

[Midnight Hotel] May catch-all

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of MAY, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post! 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 overtone in the Hotel this month is rather melancholy. Anton is back on full-time duty with his usual courtesy after the visitors have left, though he rarely smiles, unless looking at some particular pictures. There have been a few other notable changes.

For one thing, Anton will not wear his usual funeral-director’s suit this whole month. He will, in fact, wear colour. For the most part he wears a three-piece suit of understated purple, accompanied by various complementary shades in shirts and waistcoats. (It was a gift.) Occasionally he breaks out, grudgingly, a kedanese variant of a traditional three-piece suit, though admittedly still dark in tones.

For another thing, the tablet at the desk which habitually chimes with a perky voice is gone, but there are a multiple of photographs pinned to various places at reception (to say nothing of his private office). All of these photographs are of the same group of eight men—Anton included, as well as Erskine Ravel and Skulduggery Pleasant—in various states of handymanship, craftsmanship, and physical labour as they renovate a building (in various states of completion). None of the images are posed, and some of them have an air of wistful uncertainty, but others an air of unthinking camaraderie, where the laughter is free.

The third and possibly most noticeable change is that the resident janitorial cleaning faery, Erskine, has apparently moved out. It is for that reason that Anton is regularly not available in the late evenings, since someone has to check up on Erskine now he’s living on his own.

Other than that, the actual Hotel’s workings remain as normal. The restaurant begun in April is continuing with reasonable popularity, running a little more smoothly than it did in the beginning. There is slight tension in the kitchen, as some of the kedanese cooks work out the hierarchy, but it never reaches a point where Anton has to step in. Still, there are some jaundiced glares being thrown around the kitchen and dining hall.

Meanwhile, the sleeping-bags are packed up and stowed away, and the commons are returned to their usual states after having been appropriated for the giant slumber-party.

[ooc: 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.]
shroudofgray: (Defiant)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-09 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," Yorda said quietly, as her concentration broke and her body sagged. She approached the door and checked the handle - still locked. She hadn't really expected otherwise. There had been no burst of light, no sensation of magic pouring from her, nothing. There had been nothing. But she checked regardless.

"I cannot figure it out. But I will."

Her tone was set with a quiet determination and just a hint of defiance.
ten_zero: (horrified)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-09 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
"What is it, exactly, you are trying to figure out?"
shroudofgray: (The opened way)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-09 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
"My light," she said, as if that explained everything.
ten_zero: (aback)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-10 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
"... what does it look like?" She was trying to be helpful.
shroudofgray: (The opened way)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Bright."

Because that helps. But Yorda wasn't sure how else to describe it. She made the effort to be a bit more thorough.

"It comes from within, opening what is closed, showing what is hidden, and giving memory to what has long been forgotten."
ten_zero: (worried)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-11 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
"If it comes from within, you'll have trouble finding it in a closet, I think."
shroudofgray: (Follow the lady girl)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-13 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
"It is in the door that I am looking for my answers, not beyond it."

She ran her fingers over the wood. She already knew what was inside the closet.

"Do you know about magic?"
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-13 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm vaguely aware of the concept. This is about Anton's runes?"
shroudofgray: (Last reserves)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-13 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
"No," she shook her head as if to emphasize her point.

"The gates opened and the shadows dispersed. But there is more to it here, I think. I do not know what is missing."
ten_zero: (horrified)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-17 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Bisi was definitely confused by the way Yorda spoke. It didn't seem to be intentional, though, so she tried her best.

"Is there anything I can do to help?"
shroudofgray: (Intrigued)

[personal profile] shroudofgray 2016-05-17 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yorda stared at the door for a while longer before finally giving up for the day.

"Do you know about magic?"
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-24 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not really."