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.]
inquisitor_lavellan: you haters ain’t shit to me (Envy Behind You)

[personal profile] inquisitor_lavellan 2016-05-29 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah it can," Alleyana had no problems agreeing with that last sentiment.

"There's no 'don't have to'," she grunted in response to the rest. "I always have to. Never not a fight around the corner."
badly_behaved_priest: (Rude: 4)

[personal profile] badly_behaved_priest 2016-05-29 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, see, that's what I meant." Sanzo shrugged and dropped the remains of his cigarette to the ground to snuff out under his heel. He'd pick up the butt before he left, no need to start shit with anyone over leaving litter around. He was already pulling out another cigarette as he continued his train of thought. "It's pretty fucking boring here. Not much to fight, honestly, not unless you go looking for it. I'm saying it's not the worst thing that there isn't a fight at every turn. I could use something to shoot, still."

As in many cases, Sanzo wasn't one to talk. He never left the hotel without his gun and, of course, the sutra.
inquisitor_lavellan: you haters ain’t shit to me (In Your Heart Shall Burn)

[personal profile] inquisitor_lavellan 2016-05-30 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose it has been awfully quiet," Alleyana agreed, frowning slightly. Not at Sanzo, but at that... quiet. It was unnatural as hell.
badly_behaved_priest: (Neutral: 11)

[personal profile] badly_behaved_priest 2016-05-30 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sanzo could agree to that. Unnatural and horrifically boring.

"I don't trust the quiet for a damn second but 'least this hotel has its fucking wards." Stupid wards that made his gun pointless! He hated that the most. It was one thing to not be allowed to use the thing, that he might not be able to do as much as he could to defend himself- and Amberdrake- if that became a risk, bothered him.