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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.]
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[personal profile] no_light 2016-05-26 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"For you it might make no differences, but it does for me." For him it would be admitting to a personal defeat, and his inability to do what needed to be done. At least he had done it with Solo, even if it had turned out a terrible idea and had done nothing but destroy him more. But he had been able to go through with it, for all that was worth.

His entire body was taut with tension, close to trembling with it. Once again he turned away from Luke, not wishing to look at him any longer, yet at the same time he didn't dare turn his back on him. So he just ended up standing oddly twisted, caught in indecision even in this.

"You will be nothing, and I..." He swallowed hard. "You will be nothing. It will be as if you don't exist."
flyinglight: (not a jedi yet - daddy's got other plans)

[personal profile] flyinglight 2016-05-26 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That was not the body language or the determination of someone who was utterly sure in what they wanted, or wanted to do. Luke stared quietly for a moment, trying to think of the right thing to say, but he was a little wary of saying anything that might push Kylo either way, considering he didn't have anything useful to defend himself with.

"All right," Luke shook his head as he finally spoke, frowning, "but you know, if you have to struggle that much with a decision, you might want to reconsider why you're doing it at all."

Or not do it. Luke had come pretty far not not doing what he was 'supposed to' - even if he also felt a hot burst of guilt over not wanting to kill Vader, considering all he'd done. But he... couldn't.

Giving Kylo... Ben... one last look, Luke took a breath and walked past him - he'd been on his way in and he still needed to go there, but he was very aware of the taller man as he passed him.

He couldn't resist a last, quick look though, as much to be aware of if he'd moved, as wanting another look. He really did look like both Han and Leia.
no_light: (screaming)

[personal profile] no_light 2016-05-30 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Kylo Ren was just as aware of his uncle's proximity, and equally aware of how easy it would be to snatch his lightsaber and cut him in two. It wasn't too late. He could still do it, and maybe it would be easy.

Maybe it would be enough where Han Solo hadn't been.

He had to. He should. He... couldn't. He couldn't go through losing his father all over again.

Kylo kept his hands curled into fists at his sides, forcing himself to take deep steadying breaths until Luke had passed him.

"Go!" he barked. "Go, or I'll..." He didn't know what he would do, but right now he didn't wish to find out either.