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tushanshu_logs2015-06-02 03:00 pm
gistful) wrote in tushanshu_logs2015-06-02 03:00 pm
[Midnight Hotel] June catch-all
Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of June, 2016.
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 numbers have dwindled slightly since last month, but there are some new additions of note – firstly, Jintou, an ex-Snake kedan brought there by Aqua and Akito’s Chihuelan mugger Marcil, the one with a noticeable scar on his cheek, who was recently bargained out of the Snakes’ imprisonment. Jintou, while still skittish, has relaxed enough to start getting bored by being limited to the Hotel, as he’s not allowed out unless escorted. Malcil, on the other hand, is lean and bruised like he came out the worst in a fight and has no desire to leave at all—he barely leaves his room, in fact. Any interrogation will make him clam up and back away.
For the most part both are given a decently wide berth by the other kedan in the Hotel, though the kedan are more likely to recognise Malcil as Chihuelan than Jintou as a Snake and he, therefore, bears the brunt of both dirty looks and intense curiosity.
Another notable newcomer is the unfairly gorgeous man who has been making himself known on the network recently. He can be seen around the Hotel, wearing a frilly maid’s apron and doing some cleaning, with varying degrees of skill but with a magical talent people may recognise as the same discipline as Skulduggery Pleasant – using air to lift furniture to vacuum underneath, conjuring water in his mopping bucket, and so on.
If anyone asks, Anton will just say he summoned a cleaning faerie.
It’s notable that this unfairly gorgeous man doesn’t have a room of his own – he can be seen coming in and out of Anton’s private bedroom. They obviously know each other well, since Erskine has a habit of stroking Anton’s hair given the opportunity. Several times throughout the month Anton will be slightly late for his shifts and emerge with his hair still damp and unbound, only for Erskine to come by a bit later and sheepishly plait it for him while he’s working at the desk.
While there isn’t much physically different about the Hotel this month, aside from the newly settled exit into Sky Sector, Anton himself is more protective. He’s more watchful, more inclined to look up even at minor signs of tension – though he’s no more likely to interfere than before. He will also regularly scout the Hotel's entrance for anyone who seems to be paying undue attention, thanks to Sokka's mugging right outside its door.
Anton's alert, and no wonder given the Hotel is now housing two essential fugitives.
[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.
[Both Jintou and Malcil can be threaded with by request to the mod account, though Jintou will be more open; however, any new information will need to be bought with reward requests.]
Date: Month of June, 2016.
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 numbers have dwindled slightly since last month, but there are some new additions of note – firstly, Jintou, an ex-Snake kedan brought there by Aqua and Akito’s Chihuelan mugger Marcil, the one with a noticeable scar on his cheek, who was recently bargained out of the Snakes’ imprisonment. Jintou, while still skittish, has relaxed enough to start getting bored by being limited to the Hotel, as he’s not allowed out unless escorted. Malcil, on the other hand, is lean and bruised like he came out the worst in a fight and has no desire to leave at all—he barely leaves his room, in fact. Any interrogation will make him clam up and back away.
For the most part both are given a decently wide berth by the other kedan in the Hotel, though the kedan are more likely to recognise Malcil as Chihuelan than Jintou as a Snake and he, therefore, bears the brunt of both dirty looks and intense curiosity.
Another notable newcomer is the unfairly gorgeous man who has been making himself known on the network recently. He can be seen around the Hotel, wearing a frilly maid’s apron and doing some cleaning, with varying degrees of skill but with a magical talent people may recognise as the same discipline as Skulduggery Pleasant – using air to lift furniture to vacuum underneath, conjuring water in his mopping bucket, and so on.
If anyone asks, Anton will just say he summoned a cleaning faerie.
It’s notable that this unfairly gorgeous man doesn’t have a room of his own – he can be seen coming in and out of Anton’s private bedroom. They obviously know each other well, since Erskine has a habit of stroking Anton’s hair given the opportunity. Several times throughout the month Anton will be slightly late for his shifts and emerge with his hair still damp and unbound, only for Erskine to come by a bit later and sheepishly plait it for him while he’s working at the desk.
While there isn’t much physically different about the Hotel this month, aside from the newly settled exit into Sky Sector, Anton himself is more protective. He’s more watchful, more inclined to look up even at minor signs of tension – though he’s no more likely to interfere than before. He will also regularly scout the Hotel's entrance for anyone who seems to be paying undue attention, thanks to Sokka's mugging right outside its door.
Anton's alert, and no wonder given the Hotel is now housing two essential fugitives.
[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.
[Both Jintou and Malcil can be threaded with by request to the mod account, though Jintou will be more open; however, any new information will need to be bought with reward requests.]
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"He was the only one of my siblings willing to admit I existed. He would pay for my meals every morning. One day he came to me and told me to stop. To go away, and not come near any of them again. The city thought they were haunted. The young man courting Sadh had backed off. People said the family was cursed." No one wanted anything to do with a cursed family. "He told me to go away," Anton repeated. "So I did. The gist didn't."
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Shudder's family... Erskine had very little to compare it to, no real frame of reference. He'd had his adopted parents but no siblings. How different life must be with people of your own blood in the world... and how painful had it been to lose them? Erskine could only compare it to the Dead Men. They had been his brothers--were his brothers. And he knew far too much about losing them.
"What happened?"
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Of course, by that point Anton hadn't known any of his kin. He hadn't known nephews or nieces or cousins. It was possible the gist would have taken their like blood as encouragement. It was possible Sadh ahd done the right thing, sending him away.
"She wanted to know the demon's name," said Anton quietly, and he hadn't meant to say it. He'd barely talked about his family. The only time Sadh had come up was because the others wondered about his aversion to Cork during the war, and even then all he'd said was he made a promise. "But I got my name from her. When I told it to her she went into shock. She died thinking she'd summoned a demon on me. That's when I left Cork, and after that--well, you've heard the story of the Werewolf of Ballinasloe."
It was a tale of the area, but moreover it was story Anton and Larrikin had told back when they were all still getting to know each other.
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They were what was left, Shudder and Ravel. The left-behinds.
"What were they like?" he asked quietly, after an appropriate pause. "Your brothers and sisters. You lot were the closest I ever had."
Still huddled up to Anton, Erkine felt the tension in his muscles release by degrees, stifled a yawn with his fist. It was hard to believe that only ten minutes ago, maybe fifteen, they'd both been asleep. Not sleeping well, on Erskine's part, but asleep.
He had a lot to think about. Shudder had caused him to question the entire direction of his life for the last hundred years. Everything he'd done since Hopeless had died.
For right now? He just wanted to hear Anton speak some more. To let the terror and the heartache fade for a while. "Tell me about them?"
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Anton took a breath and let it out. He hadn't spoken of his siblings in years. Never to this depth. Not even to the Dead Men.
"There were ten of us," he said. "Betha was the oldest, then me. The youngest were Sadh and Ruadhan ..."
There was a lot Anton could say about them. He just hadn't before. But he did now, not really thinking, until his voice soothed Erskine's heartache back into sleep.