[Midnight Hotel] November catch-all

[gistful]

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of November, 2015 (2016 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 Hotel’s processes are chugging along in November. Some absences due to Foreigners leaving means that the Hotel employees are fewer, and while nothing changes in terms of services, things are a little bit hectic. For this reason, some of the kedanese part-timers will be more prominent—particularly at the desk and in the lobby, and keeping the peace.

There’s also that incident with Ravel becoming a bunny rabbit, which puts a little extra strain on the staff, having lost one of their own … temporarily.

The kedan who know Anton well are tiptoeing around him a bit this month. Some of them witnessed him with China at the masquerade and there are some rumours going around the Hotel that the proprietor has a squeeze on the side. Those who actually mention it inside his hearing find out quickly not to do it again, and even on good days he’s tense and almost grumpy. The only times his mood lightens at all this month are when he has the care of the tiny white bunny Erskine’s become.

[ooc: The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top and ongoing status at the bottom. 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.]

investigations shenanigans become a catch-all

[peacefullywreathed]

Characters: Solomon Wreath, Tonks, Bakura
Date: Tonks thread is early November, Bakura's thread is later November
Location: Various sectors
Situation: A: One of Solomon’s cases is proving to be slightly less than standard. Tonks has noticed some weird happenings going on. Goals collide. B: Solomon's training is progressing. Bakura has tells.
Warnings/Rating: None so far, will update as necessary.

A: THE INVESTIGATIONS

Usually, Solomon’s cases were fairly straight-forward. They were either missing-persons or more rarely murders, and in both cases were usually brought to him by relatives or friends. He had taken to refusing murders brought to him by gang-members just wanting a name to seek for revenge, but other than that the occasional murder usually came with a body and were the simplest. The hard part was convincing the client that, no, they really didn’t need to see the body sit up.

Missing-persons required more legwork. They were more interesting and more challenging, and he could circumvent the part where he lacked the sight to look for visual cues. It was like a more challenging puzzle.

Except this time finding the person he was sent after had been laughably easy. That would have caught his attention, if not the fact that the subject was also still alive. His cases were usually easy precisely because someone had been killed.

Also strange was that he had tracked said person into Earth Sector, which was not usually the site of extracurricular unlawful activities; its people were just too damned honest. This would have been a very good time to have been able to see the clothes of the people meeting two tables away. He suspected, if he could have, that they would be wearing clothes more suited to the style of another sector.

Since he couldn’t, all he could really do was sit in the café, trying to eavesdrop from a distance. At least Earth Sector was his home these days, and most people at least peripherally knew ‘the shadow man’; he had justifiable cause for being there. Unfortunately, everyone also knew he did investigative work on the side. Hopefully, the people he was following would chalk his presence up to the former instead of the latter.


B: CATCHING OUT A THIEF

Fighting Bakura and Enjolras were, individually, more physically taxing than anything Solomon had to do during his cases. Granted, during his cases he defaulted to talking his way through any problems. Or intimidating people. Shadows were a great intimidator.

At least on both counts Solomon was in better shape than he had been, and he was getting better at defending himself blind. In Bakura's case, it was helped greatly by the fact that Bakura now had a metaphysical tell. Or perhaps Solomon should say once more had a metaphysical tell.

Which meant that, on some occasions, Solomon was now able to get one up on him unexpectedly.

"You're slowing down," Solomon teased after one such time during no particular bout, not long after Bakura had requested copies of Solomon's research. (Said copies were in Solomon's bag on this particular day, and he didn't doubt that Bakura had already noticed. If the thief didn't make an idle habit of seeing what Solomon carried with him, he'd be surprised.)

[OPEN] Well I got to keep it going keep it going full steam

[looksfine]

Characters: Aya & OPEN
Date: Beginning of November
Location: Stark Industries
Situation: SCIENCE
Warnings/Rating: none to start; will update if necessary....



There were some benefits to not sleeping.

...okay, depending upon who you asked, there were a LOT of benefits to not sleeping.  But Aya's favorite was the fact that she did not need to waste precious time resetting her processors when she could be working.  Her latest project was of great importance, after all.  It was up to her to offer the most reliable navigation directions in the attempt to move Asti to a safer location.  

Unfortunately, one of the few downsides meant that she tended to lose track of time.  Metaphorically, of course; her internal clock was regularly synched so that it matched the local timezone.  But there were long periods in which she did not leave her office.  Day or night, it did not matter.  She required neither sustenance nor rest, and her internal battery was self-charging.

Of course, that wouldn't stop those unfamiliar with her systems from worrying.  Nor would Aya object to the occasional visit.  She was, after all, far ahead of schedule.