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

[abstractart]

[wow, there's a lot going on there!

it's been too long since he's seen either of them in person, at least the ones he knows-- and given that entrance, there's no question that they're the alhaitham and kaveh he was familiar with first. there's no need to check on anything there, to get any confirmation or answers.

so instead of saying anything, kaveh is going to find himself interrupted by a greenbean falling against him, arms wrapped around him, as if making sure he's actually here and solid over just saying hello. alhaitham isn't ignored, though; after a couple seconds, he loosens an arm enough to extend it to him like, c'mere. do it nerd.]

[fussiest]

[ for a moment, the world goes away.

not dramatically - no shattering, no collapse - but as if it simply loosens its hold, like a bated breath finally finding release. the noise of the place, the improbable hotel and the petrol station and the violence of arrival, all of it recedes to something distant and unimportant as netzach falls into his arms.

kaveh catches him without thinking. of course he does. his body knows this shape, this weight, this closeness, long before his mind can catch up. he pulls him in like a madman in mourning, because the only thought that matters is don’t let go. not yet. not again.

netzach is warm.

that, absurdly, is what breaks him. not the sight, not the timing, not the impossible grace of reunion - but the warmth of a living body pressed against his own. alive. solid. real. the kind of warmth that does not belong to memory or longing, but to the present, undeniable and unarguable. kaveh’s breath stutters. his hands tighten, fingers curling into the proof of netzach's being, the rough weave of his shirt and the scent of green things, of the leaves after the rain. the tears come before he can stop them, sudden and proud and utterly beyond his control, spilling down his face as if some part of him has been waiting for permission to finally give way. he bows his head instinctively to shield netzach from the worst of it. it does not, however, allow him to loosen his hold.

he has missed him. not abstractly, not gently - but with the kind of absence that hollows out the days and teaches the heart to ache quietly, so as not to disturb the world around it. he has missed him in the way one misses light, or music, or home. but he would know him anywhere. ]

Netzach. Oh, Netzach. You're here. [ and, with a jubilant, aching breath: ] You're really here. Oh, love, turn up your face. Let me get a good look at you to see what time's done.

[justscribing]

[Oh.

It shouldn't be surprising that wherever they end up might be to Netzach, given how it is he got out of the simulation in the first place. Kaveh gets to take the brunt of the moment, allowing Alhaitham more time to observe. Which goes from Netzach's face to his arm sticking out.

It takes a moment to register, but Alhaitham knows Kaveh needs this moment far more so he doesn't do more than pat Netzach's shoulder.]