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EVENT 01: Welcome to the Pentagon!
WELCOME TO THE PENTAGON!
Picture a Las Vegas sized hotel, but with no casino. It's just very big. And there is no gift shop.
The Pentagon welcomes you...
You wake up from a doze seated in a firm lobby chair. Walked through a set of automatic sliding doors, bag in tow. Where did you get that bag? Listen, don't worry about it.
Things to do:
OOC:
- I will make a receptionist thread. please feel free to add your character to the queue for a randomly selected room! if you would like to also have a conversation with one of our three randomly selected receptionists, please say so in your comment. thank. EDIT: room assignments are here! please add any new characters to any random rooms you like. if you change rooms, please be sure to update the spreadsheet. thank yoooou
- i'll make up how to make money and pay for stuff later. for now please don't starve just buy stuff it's Fine
- electricity works. there's local internet but search engines bring up very little about the area. gps does NOT work (for now)
- uh that's it i'm tired please tell me if i missed anything
Picture a Las Vegas sized hotel, but with no casino. It's just very big. And there is no gift shop.
The Pentagon welcomes you...
You wake up from a doze seated in a firm lobby chair. Walked through a set of automatic sliding doors, bag in tow. Where did you get that bag? Listen, don't worry about it.
- All guests to the Pentagon arrived with a medium-sized standard rolling bag. It is filled with any items they would have brought with them if they had time to pack a standard rolling bag before they left. Weapons are okay!
- All guests may bring one living animal. The animal will retain any powers it may have as long as it is not worldbreaking.
- All guests will have their powers. They will not be allowed to use it to break the world. They may break other things, but they will be pulled aside by one of the receptionists for a Talking To. They may be barred from the hotel for the night and it gets cold outside the Pentagon!
- Guests are not limited to standard entry to the hotel. However, if they break hotel property upon entry, they will be expected to pay for repairs. Method of payment will come as soon as I'm not fuckballs tired.
Things to do:
- Check in! There is a handy dandy receptionist at the front desk ready to take your name and your reservation. Yes, you have a reservation! It's here, in this shared suite. You don't remember making that reservation? What a pity. Well, while we get you resituated in the system, I suppose you will have to make peace with your roommate. Please don't fuck up your relationship with your roommate, that would be so terribly awkward. If you would like to trade rooms, that is fine, but please notify the front desk with all involved parties with the details of the room change! Also, please allow one day for admin to catch up with bookings before you trade rooms! Try to be nice to your one night roomie okay okaywelcome nerds. enjoy your stay!
- Get breakfast! A free continental breakfast is served from 6 am to 10 am. Please come by for fresh food!
- Chill in the lobby! When it isn't doubling as the breakfast area, the lobby area functions as both a waiting room, a meeting place, and a chill seating area in case you don't want to eat your gas station hotdog at the gas station like a neanderthal. wow.
- Find your room!Each suite has a:
- kitchenette (one pot, one pan, plastic silverware, paper plates and bowls. no food. that's at the gas station across the street.)
- microwave
- fridge (with drinks! you will have to pay for them if you take them. it's going to be Esspensive.)
- two beds (small, but very comfy)
- bathroom with bath and shower (with standard toiletries. if you need more, you can call the front desk! there are towels, but if you make a real mess, call the front desk for fresh ones.)
- toilet (no bidet)
- closet (3 hangers, one extra set of sheets, one extra comforter, two extra pillows, a small ironing board, an iron)
- shared side table (two drawer compartments, one for each bed; there are outlets for electronics)
- wardrobe (just one, but it's big! please share.)
- desk with rolling chair (just one! again, please share. also: a notepad with a cheap ballpoint pen, a phone, and a phone directory for standard hotel amenities)
- pullout bed couch (for more guests! this bed is far less comfy than the standard beds.)
- television (with standard cable and standard trash programming. nothing particular stands out about the programming.)
- book shop? ... There is a bookshop where the gift shop should be. Where did it come from? Perhaps it's always been there, in the same way the faceless staff of the Pentagon have always been there. There is currently caution tape over the front entrance. Although the entrance isn't locked, it is not advised to enter the bookshop early. Who knows what might happen (the people who were in the City knows what will happen no don't touch that—)
- gas station? across the street? The street stretches into the horizon. This place is flat. so very flat. but there's a gas station.- fresh produce (limited, but good variety. may be slightly wilted.)How do you pay? the gas station guy will charge it to your room! Who's paying for your room? Erm. Tehe. pero
- standard basic groceries (including pet food for your Living Creatures)
- liquor section (we in the south now boyzzz)
- lotto ticket machine (?)
- chargers/small electronics
- wall o candy
- basic amenities and toiletries(fancier than hotel amenities but not by much)
- magazines!
- slushy machine
- coffee machine
- rolling hotdogs
- hot fast food
- car maintenance products. you know. for your car
- gas station guy. nice guy
You can also go to the gas station guy and buy a bus ticket to Sin City for a vacay. Sin City is great! Lots to do in Sin City. Buses to Sin City leave every Wednesday evening — don't be late! However, after a month at maximum, you will be back in your room in the Pentagon. Guess the hotel likes you!
Other hotel amenities. This hotel isn't 5 star, but it isn't 3 star either! Standard fancy hotel amenities, such as a small gym, a pool and sauna, a well maintained laundry room, a small spa, and a business center with computers and print station also exist. The only amenity that does not exist is the standard fancy hotel restaurant. Make your food yourselves!!
OOC:
- I will make a receptionist thread. please feel free to add your character to the queue for a randomly selected room! if you would like to also have a conversation with one of our three randomly selected receptionists, please say so in your comment. thank. EDIT: room assignments are here! please add any new characters to any random rooms you like. if you change rooms, please be sure to update the spreadsheet. thank yoooou
- i'll make up how to make money and pay for stuff later. for now please don't starve just buy stuff it's Fine
- electricity works. there's local internet but search engines bring up very little about the area. gps does NOT work (for now)
- uh that's it i'm tired please tell me if i missed anything
RECEPTIONIST
MIDNIGHT
ROOM 300
SYMBOLI RUDOLF
ROOM 206
ELYSIUM
ROOM 304
YI SANG
ROOM 306
JI
ROOM 103
NARITA TAISHIN
ROOM 209
THE MEDICINE SELLER
ROOM 307
NOWELL
ROOM 309
EPHRIM
ROOM 109
*MUTE
ROOM 108
Illuga
ROOM 205
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Dehya
ROOM 206
Alhaitham (city version)
ROOM 301
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Syrlya
ROOM 305
Yesod
ROOM 208
KAVEH.
ROOM 204
FLINS.
ROOM 102
AVENTURINE.
ROOM 303
NILL.
ROOM 202
YUESI.
ROOM 304
LOGOS.
ROOM 300
THORNS.
ROOM 302
ANAXA.
ROOM 309
NYX.
ROOM 203
netzach
ROOM 204
HONG LU.
ROOM 203
PURE VANILLA COOKIE.
ROOM 202
shadow milk cookie
ROOM 207
VIL SCHOENHEIT
ROOM 203
MELANITE
ROOM 201
MINATO.
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ryan farrow
ROOM 202
DIESEL.
ROOM 205
SEHNO
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KEN ICHIJOUJI
ROOM 208
EIJI HINO
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MOMIJI SOUMA
ROOM 303
ROOM ASSIGNMENTS
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Hello. Do you have a preference?
[ She gestures to the beds. ]
I don't, but if you need the bed closer to the bathroom, you're welcome to it.
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Alhaitham + Kaveh 2 for 1 special
this was not, strictly speaking, anything anyone asked him to do. in fact, a non-zero number of people in the City had asked him - politely, firmly, and once with a drawn diagram on the back of a pamphlet with some very strongly worded threats - to stop doing exactly that. but needs must, and the kaveh had found himself in possession of several components that were clearly not meant to coexist but had excellent potential if encouraged to do so. gently, of course. with style, because he wasn’t alhaitham. a power conduit here, a luminescent signage core there. a suspiciously cooperative canister salvaged from a transit terminal because they sure weren’t going to need trains if all this worked out.
the City, as it turned out, was very generous with materials, provided one ignored the implied warnings. or the overt warnings. or just warnings in general. but day five hundred and thirty seven into their entirely non-con stay in this backwater dredge of a city, and kaveh wasn’t particularly interested in warnings anymore.
the fact that something so inherently destructive was going to end as his magnus opus in the city didn’t sit well with him, but sometimes, needs must. for months, kaveh calculated blast radiuses and structural stress, and energy dispersion and collateral damage, and its potential to very efficiently tear past the seven different safeguards the simulation had thought would do something against particularly irate test subjects, as well as thirty percent of a city block that nobody lived in, and, if kaveh had it his way, it would have reached all the way into the next several dimensions, but given what he had to work with, he had to settle for just one. explosions, he had reasoned to alhaitham on day five of no-sleep and a diet of nothing but instant coffee crystals straight from the jar, were inevitable in poorly regulated liminal spaces that nobody wanted to be in, but ugly explosions were a failure of design. this was, from his perspective, absolutely the correct set of priorities. alhaitham had disagreed. alhaitham was, of course, wrong, but he usually was, so that was okay.
anyway, the bomb blew up spectacularly. it blew up in a luminously flattering way. that wasn’t so bad.
This brings our setting back to the resort. It has been no more than a few hours when about fifteen feet from the reception desk something rocks against the wall with months of pent-up rage. Perhaps a rage that could never be fully excised, not even with a bomb, but it is at least briefly cathartic for drywall and wood to burst like a pinata until there’s a gaping hole in the resort that, from the inside, doesn’t seem to lead anywhere at all.
Past the film of scattered dust crosses Alhaitham first, the edge of his cloak held over his nose and mouth as he crosses through the debris. He casts his gaze left first, and then draws a full panorama to the right. It’s bright. It’s (more) modern. It smells less like a stagnant museum preservation of human civilization. Okay, it smells like smoke and that’s probably just from the bomb. (narrator 1’s note: this was because kaveh hadn’t been allowed to add scented powder to the explosive materials, which he was still not particularly pleased about. but, again, needs must.)
He drops the edge of his cloak and crosses his arms before he glances back to the gaping hole. ] It’s no research lab, but you have managed to blow us into a new place. Congratulations.
[ kaveh emerges from beside the pumps, and shakes out his hand as if it had fallen asleep somewhere around the minute seven of bomb detonation, then sniffs, nose wrinkled, as if the fact that they’ve emerged next to a gas station to be extremely offensive. which it was. it probably had hot dogs. that’s not even real food. ]
Thank you. More importantly, did you admire the symmetry of the blast radius? I told you that my calculations would see to it that whatever mystery material the barrier comprised couldn't’ve possibly messed with it. Also, did you catch the gradient? I worked particularly hard on that. I just didn’t know if whatever light wavelengths that existed on the other side would portray it properly, but I suppose wherever this is isn’t so different after all. [ and then, in the exact same breath: ] Oh, no. Where is this? Why are there still buildings with the mirrors on it? Is this merely another section of the city? Was that just a city within a city? There’s such thing as a little too much irony!
[Alhaitham had initially attempted to refocus Kaveh away from the spectacle of the explosion to the direction of it, but it was day five of Kaveh eating instant coffee directly from the jar and in a relationship, you learn what battles to let go of for the safe of harmonious matrimony.]
I was expecting civilization to be in more dire straits given what we learned… [He gives Kaveh a once over and, assured he’s only a bit dusty and nothing more, returns to surveying the area. And the people staring.] There are some new faces. You should ask them your questions.
[Because Princess Alhaitham can’t, nor can the giant hole in the wall.]
Wait - [ kaveh whirls. he jabs a finger into alhaitham’s chest hole, because the wall hole is innocent. ] I was the one who spent all that time putting together that bomb! Shouldn’t there be a division of labour of some sorts? Isn’t that what a relationship is? If I’m doing all the hard work, then what exactly are you here for?
[Alhaitham is stone. He is the uneroded cliff face. His pec is slightly more mutable under Kaveh’s finger. His offering is dry as the dust settling around them:] Moral support.
Oh? Oh, that’s rich. Who in the wide universe would mistake you for being moral or supportive?! I’d have better luck finding a… a two headed shark to hold hands with!
[Please interrupt them, if only for an explanation about the hole in the wall.]
For Kaveh only because Ath is not threading with herself
Excuse me. [He clears his throat, makes eye contact with Alhaitham before turning to Kaveh because he doesn't much care for getting stared at like a science project.] I assume the explosion is your doing. Are you alright?
hi ath who is not threading with herself, it's me, c
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anyway hi alhaitham
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for alhaitham, because c is also not threading with herself thank u
All playercesting is to be handwaved for our sanity
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my one (1) toplevel of the year
that's it, that's the toplevel. ]
henlo, honse here
Are you... supposed to be down there?
henlo honse, it's birb
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Syrlya
And without anyone forthcoming, it's time to get a better understanding of this place. Find Syrlya standing outside the bookstore, contemplating trespassing. Find him at the gas station, bewildered by the tiny electronics (they don't run on magic?). Find him contemplating purchasing a ticket to Sin City because there may be things there that can provide a better understanding. This is just a place to bother the walking, talking plant.]
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Are you interested in entering this shop?
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yesod
[ A hotel and gas station/street exploration prompt. Yesod will be checking to make sure that the breakfast options are safe so that Netzach and Midnight can eat them without concerns before he investigates the supplies available through the gas station, planning to consult Kaveh for his thoughts. Being able to prepare their own food is best, despite the kitchenette limitations, and he would still like to cook for his partners. They have also all missed Kaveh's cooking... Yesod's feral horsegirl daughter should have proper nutrition, too.
Other than that, Yesod will examine the bookstore from the outside, and take a look around the hotel and its various amenities (the laundry room is pleasing to see). He's curious about the other people here as well, guests and staff. Friendly gas station guy... ]
ROOM 106
[ A prompt for visits to Taishin and Yesod's assigned room. Tagliatelle will be there, vibing and doing his snake thing in his enclosure. Depending on the time, Yesod might be in the middle of yoga, if he isn't using the gym for that, or tidying the room, or he's displeased by the kitchenette containing little to work with. ]
TEXTING
[ For any and all texting conversations with Yesod, anytime. ]
OTHER
[ Anything else! Yesod will want to see his huswives and friends as much as possible. They will make it happen even with mysterious hotel constraints. ]
room prompt!
He comes to the with some groceries, items that Yesod's cleared at the gas station. Having already texted that he'd be over for a late dinner a few days ago, he knocks with full confidence that Yesod was awaiting his arrival. ]
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around take 2!
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Everyone come get your cookin'
Which is why he's commandeered the kitchen and begun cooking a five-course meal including the appetizers. It's a delightful spread of meats, breads, fruity desserts, and as people filter in he looks away from where he's grilling, chopping, or washing and gestures to whatever dishes are currently ready with a smile.]
Hey there! Feel free to take as much as you want. If anything runs out I can just make more.
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[ Vil looks at the spread, aghast. Not that he disapproves, necessarily — he was wondering if anyone was going to take charge in any way, and this is as good way as any — but if this sassy lost child is going to feed everyone himself, that is a very large number of meals. (Never mind that Illuga's probably older than Vil...) ]
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... that's it. that's the entire toplevel. i write great toplevels. also, if multiple people are trying to catch and/or stop him, he will be doing this all day, at all hours of the day. have fun. he's definitely having fun. ]
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On this particular day, Anaxa's waist will find itself caught by large arms. Anaxa himself, if he doesn't resist, will be lifted over Arsalan's shoulders in a very effortless fireman's carry. And then... They'll go back to the roof door. No commentary. ]
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toplevel
runnin. watch them tits jiggle
exisizung. lift big thing up then put down. hes gonna be SO good at huggin
snoopin. bad vampire. drop it. (slaps his snout)
laundry. already? lbr he and the huswives have fucked 8 times in the first 2 weeks
and finally
in room. with bonus logos maybe. it's basically kazdel (neither of them grew up in kazdel)
(mario voice) wah ]
hi.
that's it. that's the entire tag. suffer!!!! ]
henlo!
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snoopin.
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runnin.
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some... where.
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in the aftermath of The Kavening:
the cooking progress saga toplevel
clown car 1 reporting in!!!
yesod is a sight for sore eyes. these past few days, kaveh has been learning the ins and outs of this kitchen with illuga. they've figured out how to work the convection function of the oven, and were doing a great job moving onto the logistics of what are the ideal usages for a warminig tray, and kaveh had gotten up early to try and get ahead of the morning rush for some self-study. yesod has always been a lodestone in more turbulent times. it occurs to kaveh that yesod ought to know a thing or two about interesting-looking kitchens. ]
Morning! There's you. Are you looking for something for Netzach and Midnight? [ kaveh peeks over yesod's shoulder, then rolls up his sleeves. ] Let me help. I've been trying to figure out this kitchen, anyway. Is it something to eat, or something to make something to eat?
for the midnight cornering thread.
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btw this is a free for all thread, just tag and threadjack at will yall
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foooor the arm-breaking thread.