psltagon | 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.

- 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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ flins smiles. ]

It's reconnaissance, Young Master Illuga. What manner of battles do they fight in this realm? How are they able to survive? And if they fight no battles - what manner of peace have they managed to cultivate? Are these not aspects of a new land worth researching and bringing back to Nod-Krai?

[Illuga, about thirty minutes into Sin City, will not in fact believe there are any lessons to take back to Nod-Krai.

But for now, his gaze drops as he considers Flins' words. After a moment he looks up and nods.] Right, that makes sense. Even if it isn't the Wild Hunt, there are still things we can learn from other places. Tactics, prevention... recovery.

[ flins, thirty minutes into sin city, happily taking notes: ]

Precisely. That you can see it so clearly shows not only your character, but the hope you place upon the future of Nod-Krai. You are becoming a wise leader, one who can see beyond just the fight before us to the future that comes after.

[Illuga sighs.] But I still have a long ways to go, and anyway that doesn't mean I'll be the one making any decisions about Nod-Krai's future. So much has happened just in the past few weeks, who knows where we'll be in another ten years.

Leading the men into the future needs not someone capable of seeing ten years into the future. It merely needs someone who can see into tomorrow. It would give the men hope that you have a plan for peace.

And there are people more experienced than me that already do that. [He's not so ignorant that he doesn't see Nikita may want Illuga to succeed him, but is he really capable of that? If something were to happen tomorrow, Illuga's not sure he could do the Lightkeeper's right leading them. He can't even keep his squad safe.] But information doesn't need to be something only I can use. I'll make sure I bring thorough notes back to pops.

My. We'll need a nice, thick notebook for your endeavors, then. [ says flins with a pleased laugh. ] And pens enough so that you will never run dry of ink. But it's a fine start.

We worry about the future, Young Master, not what the past may or may not be.

You say that, but isn't the past what all your stories are about? [Suspiciously detailed about it, too.] Let's make the time to go together. We don't know what we'll find, and it isn't good practice to patrol unknown areas alone.

Oh? Are you asking me out, Young Master?

If I were, doesn't that mean you're always asking me in, Sir Flins? As you said, this isn't a vacation.

[ this is why, flins thinks, he will never tire of illuga. with him, he will never feel old. ]

Then, while my disappointment of this not being a date with you is immeasurable, I am heartened that you have kept me in your plans. It would be my honour to patrol with you.

From my observation, the 'bus' to Sin City seems to arrive only on Wednesdays. Perhaps we may make preparations for a sortie for next week.

[Illuga scrunches his nose and reminds his traitorous heart that Flins wraps his deflections into flattery and he knows better than to fall for them.]

Alright. I'll procure the paper and ink and try to talk to the staff in the meantime, in case they have anything to say about it.

Were we not to do that together as well?

Young Master... [ his hand flits to his chest. gravely. ] You truly know how to wound me.

Didn't you say only to let you know when I was going to? [You know, like reporting in. Illuga's brow knits.] ... Is there not much else to do around here?

You have experienced for yourself how little there is to occupy one's time with. Is that not why you have taken on cooking for the entire contingent here?

[Illuga sighs.] You've made your point. Oh, have you already got a room assignment? Mine is room 100, just down the hall.

Ah, as fortune would have it, I am assigned to room 102, a mere two doors down from yours. [ says flins, as if he didn't know already know this and has been haunting illuga's door for the past few days on end, ] It will make for simple communication on our part, to be so close to one another. A pity, however, that we were not assigned to the same suite.

Even being two doors down is much closer than usual. I'm so used to needing a few hours at least, no matter if I go there from Piramida or Nasha Town. So I can come knocking tomorrow morning?

I will need to confirm with the kind young man who shares my room, of course. But it should be no trouble.

And what about the one who shares your room? Are they treating you well?

Voir? They're nice. And technically employed here, although it doesn't seem like any of the front desk have more answers than we do.

Fortuitous, I can say the same for the young man I am living with, both in temperament and in his occupation.

[ flins shakes his head. ] It seems, then, that the hotel will not relinquish its mysteries so easily. We will need to stay vigilant.

EVENT 01: Welcome to the Pentagon!

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