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

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[Illuga knows fuck all about arranging the dishes in an aesthetic manner, and is simply content to let Kaveh handle that. But there's gotta be a limit given this has been a serve your own buffet.]

Mr. Kaveh, you've been helping me for so long now. Aren't you hungry? I'll check on the dip, but after all that hard work it's our turn to enjoy the result don't you think?

Has it really been that long? [ a glance at the clock and kaveh blinks, very slowly. it really has, he thinks. goodness. ] Well, I suppose time passes quickly when one's having fun. Ah, I very much agree, but I want to make sure it browns just right... And I was thinking the dip can go in the middle of the bread arrangement, along with a few of the leftover vegetables. If we add a little more olive oil to the dip, it hit just the right notes to go well with bread. It'll taste almost like breakfast bread, where I come from.

But if we put the bread in again it might dry out. [They're past the point of no return there, but at least the dip is more doable.] How much olive oil? I can take care of that.

A small teaspoon will do it. And don't worry. Water in a small ramekin will keep the inside of the oven just humid enough that it won't dry out, while the broiler on top will provide the crisp.

[ vastly enjoying himself, kaveh finishes up the final touches, and then back in it goes. ] Actually, it's even better if you cook tomatoes on the bottom rack. Then, you get properly dried tomatoes and bread with just enough give beneath the crisp. It's a trick I learned from my mother.

[Kaveh is taller and Illuga is too polite to physically push a basically-stranger.]

Alright. [He looks for the olive oil and the measuring spoon to start mixing the dip. He is listening, though, and taking mental notes.] How did I miss you putting the tomatoes in there?

Hm? Oh, you were working on the salads, so I didn't want to bother you. [ and then, kaveh cringes with his entire body. ] Ah - you don't mind, do you? Sorry, if I've overstepped. It's your kitchen after all. I just thought it would work well if we had some properly dried tomatoes for tomorrow's lunch. It goes very well brushed on some bread with scrambled eggs.

No no, it's fine! It's not even my kitchen, I just didn't realize I'd been that distracted... of course you can use it to cook whatever you want yourself.

Oh! Well, it's hardly such a bad thing. You put your all into your work. Your passion is easily what has made this meal so enjoyable for everyone, I think.

[ beaming, and just a little relieved, kaveh removes the bread from the oven after a few, short minutes, and then sets it to warm so that the tomatoes have some time to properly dry.

then, he presents the bread so that the dip can be added into the perfect circle in the middle. ]

If everyone else has already eaten their share, then this will be ours.

For us, then. [He sets the dip into the hole.] And all our hard work.

[Illuga ushers Kaveh to the table, where there's less than a minute to enjoy the presentation before Illuga is already grabbing a piece and dipping.] There should still be some soup left, would you like me to pour you a cup?

[ kaveh waves a hand, back and forth. ]

No, no, you've been on your feet all day. I'll do it. Two cups, coming right up!

[ 'coming right up' apparently means several long minutes of consternated silence as the wording actually catches up to kaveh's brain, and he's forced to stand there at the buffet table wondering at it, because... aren't soup served in bowls? but what if nod-krai is a culture that partakes in soup in cups? wait, but this is a chowder - can chowder be consumed from a cup? is it strange if he brings a spoon?

alright, alright, he'll... he compromise. a few minutes later, kaveh lugs back both soup in a cup and soup in a bowl on a laden tray, complete with two spoons. just in case. you never know. ]

I'm back. Well- take your pick! [ hurriedly: ] I'll take the other, and I brought spoons, just in case.

[Were the small bowls all used up...? Ah, Illuga should have checked that.] That's fine, I'll take the smaller one thank you.

[He reaches for the cup and a spoon.]

[ smaller one? kaveh instinctively jerks back the tray. ]

Wait! Um, I'm not feeling too hungry, so - [ he shuffles the bowl in front of illuga, and then takes a seat with his cup. mug. thing. did he make a mistake? he didn't mean a cup?? ]

[Illuga fumbles to take the bowl before it can fall.] Are you sure?

Of course! Besides - you lot don't drink soup out of cups, do you?

Not the ones we drink out of, usually... but you can't always afford to be picky. [There's no decorum when you're out of the field.]

[ a small, felt groan as kaveh takes his little cup of shame. ]

I certainly understand it. But I just realised that I'd made an error after all. And here I thought cups were something you were perhaps more used to - I should have known that drinking soup out of cups makes very little sense! [ he plucks up the cup to look at it, then pauses. ] Oh, but now that I think about it, it's the right depth for dipping bread, isn't it? And because it's got a smaller perimetre and a little height to it, it's easier to decorate as well - say, with flowers or edible arrangements.

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