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.]
redfiend: (neutral)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-11 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Dante looked over, chuckling a bit. "Thanks. They're custom-made to take out demons." Given how he was slowly understanding this place, demons probably weren't a very far-fetched thing to talk about. "Part of my job back at home."
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-11 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't fortunate enough to come back with any weapons myself. I happened upon one of my warframes recently, but it is still a mystery if I'll be able to commune with her.

"Finding some weapons for her would also be of benefit, if just for comfort, and also in case something happens here. Cultists seem to be the largest looming threat, currently."
redfiend: (confusion)

sorry it took me forever ;n;

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-22 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Warframes?" He sounded confused. "What is that suppose to be?" And better yet, it can be given weapons? The thought of it possibly being alive didn't shock him too much -- he had weapons that could count as being 'alive' after all -- but something with the word war in and possibly having its own weapons sounded odd to him.
ten_zero: (smile)

no worries

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-24 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"A warframe is many things. At a fundamental level it's a humanoid weapons platform. It's highly mobile, very durable, extremely formidable. It lets a Tenno fight when we otherwise couldn't."
redfiend: (welp)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-25 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
That was a lot of information for one to dig in right away. Where does he even start with the questions going through his head? "Okay... so, is it like a weaponized robot or human-like?"

And then, "And what's a Tenno?"
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-25 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm... both?"

Everyone was always asking her what a Tenno was. And what a warframe was. She was more comfortable doing the latter than the former. "I am a Tenno."
redfiend: (man)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-25 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Guess he'll take that answer. It's not like he knows that much on sci-fi stuff... which this sounds a lot like. "You look like a human kid, though. Are you?"
ten_zero: (thinking)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-26 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes." She had decided. Even if the Orokin had disagreed. "I am that as well."

"Although my apparent age is limited to biology alone."
redfiend: (Default)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-27 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"So, you're older than you look, huh?" Somehow, that didn't surprise him. "What's your name, by the way? Mine's Dante."
ten_zero: (worried)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-27 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bisi. And thank you, that's a very succinct way of putting it."
redfiend: (neutral)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-29 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome... I think." Honestly, he wasn't sure. "So, uh, are warframes sentient or are they pure technology?"
ten_zero: (smile)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-05-30 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm, I don't think those two are mutually exclusive but... they definitely have a personality, in my opinion. I don't think they would be 'sentient' by traditional definitions."
redfiend: (detachment)

[personal profile] redfiend 2016-05-31 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That's interesting. They have personalities but aren't really sentient? "What do you mean by that? Them having personality, but not being sentient?"
ten_zero: (confused)

[personal profile] ten_zero 2016-06-01 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well... that gun you have. Is it just like every other gun you've used, or does it have its own quirks? Is it temperamental, or extremely reliable? Does it seem always ready for action or does it sometimes feel hesitant?

"Warframes aren't complete minds, but they bring their own identities with them when you control them."