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tushanshu_logs2016-04-01 08:49 pm
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[Midnight Hotel] April catch-all
Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! 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 month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[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.]
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! 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 month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[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.]
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Okay try some Queen.
[Oh look, some glorious Bohemian Rhapsody. ]
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It's amazing. ]
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What a fun time for her. ]