EVENT 01: Welcome to the Pentagon!

[unrequite]

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.

- 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 okay

- 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.)
- 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

How do you pay? the gas station guy will charge it to your room! Who's paying for your room? Erm. Tehe. pero

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!!

welcome nerds. enjoy your stay!

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

Comments

[testfire]

[ Melanite stares at the food. Nothing in this world is free. Well... Not on Rhodes Island, but that's different. On Rhodes Island, when HR advises you to take a vacation, they mean it. Here... Melanite doesn't know. ]

Do you want anything?

[oathlantern]

For the food...? [Illuga chuckles.] No, I don't need anything. Just tell me if there's something you really like, I can cook it more often.

[testfire]

[ ... A small frown. ]

Would you want something for that?

[oathlantern]

[She really thinks about things in terms of transactions, doesn't she? Illuga's not unfamiliar with that line of thinking, although he'd never make such demands himself. It's simply not the Lightkeeper way.]

Well, it makes it easier to plan for what to cook and that's enough for me. Since I don't have to buy the ingredients this doesn't cost much for me to do.

[testfire]

[ ... ]

It costs you time and effort. There isn't much else to do here, but it's not nothing.

[ Melanite says this with her usual lack of affect, so there isn't much indication about how she feels about this. With her thoughts so far, though, she is probably still feeling him out for any caveats rather than judging him one way or another. ]

[oathlantern]

But those are things I'm having to spend on everything anyway, right? [He lets out a breathy laugh.] It's okay, I like doing this so it doesn't really feel like a job to me.

[testfire]

It's... a hobby?

[ ... A small frown, but mostly in thought rather than suspicion. She was trying out hobbies at Rhodes Island: reading, gardening, perfumery. Slowly... creeping closer... it does smell good. The very tip of her tail slowly curls around a nearby table as though to physically lock her in. ]

Why do you like cooking?

[oathlantern]

Well, I started doing it just because they needed a hand around the kitchen. But as I continued, I realized that it was something I could do to make the people around me happy. And if they're happy, so am I.

[testfire]

[ The tip of Melanite's tail lashes, but slowly, as though she's paddling herself across a lake. Thinking. ]

Is that important to you? Happiness.

[oathlantern]

Most people want to be happy, right? [It's what keeps them going in hard times, and worth protecting easy ones.]

[testfire]

[ Well, that's not wrong, but... Melanite's tail continues to swish, trying to consolidate what Operator Midnight and her therapist tells her in a package that makes sense. ]

Is your own happiness important to you?

[ ... Look, she is neither her therapist nor Midnight, nor is she actually trying to apply therapy directly to the affected area. She just needs to know what's up with this guy!!! ]

[oathlantern]

I definitely prefer it to being sad. I'm just like everyone else that way... though I guess it comes to me naturally just by doing what matters to me instead of looking for it specifically.

[Keeping the people around him safe, whole, healthy. Their happiness fuels him, and he hardly needs anything more than that.]