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

ROOM 109

[sunsbreath]

[ After the first week, Thorns will wake to find that room 109 has a patio now. Not that he asked for one, nor was he notified of the change: Ephrim simply stood in front of the wall facing outside, decided he wanted to be able to get from his room to the outdoors without bothering with the lobby, and grew out the plants from the stump of his right arm and had them remove a part of the wall. He then stomped outside, plants blossoming from his sleeve. He has a shovel in his hand. A vine grows out of his arm to hold the handle of it steady.

He digs. He digs straight into the neatly trimmed grass. He gets at the dirt underneath. He keeps digging. He turns over the dirt, sees bugs, worms, living things. Dark soil. Good. He continues to dig, marking where he wants tomatoes, corn, strawberries, lettuce, honeysuckle and morning glories. He continues to dig furrows, plants coming up in his wake to make trellises, pots, flower beds. He goes at it for days. The staff come by to fix the wall; he tosses them away with vines and trunks and, one time, his left hand applied to their collar.

He keeps going. He digs. And digs. He buys seeds from the strange paper packets in the fuel station, plants them. And digs.... ]

[awn]

[ leaving thorns in the enviable position to watch all this happen. enviable, because there's very little else to do, but also because a garden like this would be enviable in iberia. nothing grew well, in iberia, not after the great silence. not after the sea started to swallow their land whole. the wall being removed is new, but he supposes it makes for an easy exit out into the open where thorns feels a little less claustrophobic anyway.

it's on the third day of watching his roommate dig that thorns, sitting cross-legged on the side of the garden patch, speaks up. ]

Are there pollinators here?

[reverent]

[ on the fifth day, yuesi finds the secret garden.

all in all, he supposes it's not that much of a secret. right out there on the first floor with a hole right out the hotel wall, it's actually rather hard to miss. but the fact that there hadn't been a garden anywhere near the hotel and now there's one just sort of growing out of the ground is exciting to yuesi in a way that he can't quite describe. it is a secret, he just doesn't quite know what the secret is about yet, or who it's being kept from. though he supposes that some of the best secrets are the ones that everyone knows.

the next time he comes around, he has with him several bags of fertiliser. yuesi grins as he plops them down onto the ground next to the growing garden patch, then crouches so that he can breathe in the scent of the freshly tilled earth. loam and all those good things. the soil looks a little dry to him, and he's not sure what the rock content is like beneath it all, but he has a lot of hope that this garden will thrive. ]

Hope you don't mind that I brought these over. I read the labels and they're probably okay for regular garden plans, unless you're planning on planting something fancy.

[nowhither]

[ one day, a dark-scaled dragon sticks his snout in above a small patch of tilled earth.

he nearly sneezes. ]