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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You are not. I am not! No, don't smear it there - this is ridiculous. Was there an attack in the night? [ as kaveh groans, running a hand through his extraordinarily gel'd hair. ] Alhaitham, get in the bathroom. We need a shower, or a bath, or we need to steam ourselves to death. One of the three. This had better come off. Why is this somehow worse than the durian incident? At least with the durians, I wasn't wearing it like a second skin!

Whatever this is isn't harming us. [It's just gross. But he doesn't disagree with Kaveh's assessment, so he rises to his feet and grabs Kaveh to drag him right up with him. To the bathroom!]

[ UGHHHHH. DRAGGED. ]

You know, normally I'd complain about us both trying to fit under that one showerhead in a space this cramped, but I'm suddenly a lot less bothered by it today. [ one, wet soggy nightshirt gets pulled over his head and dropped right by the door. kaveh reaches over to help with alhaitham's next, fingers quick and sure. and, of course, extraordinarily disgusted. ] What is this?

How do you expect me to know? [He sniffs, displeased, and as Kaveh pulls his shirt off he reaches to undo Kaveh's pants and help them down.] It smells like a hydro smile that's been left to rot in the sun.

Oh, no. [ says kaveh as he pauses over a pant leg. ] No, no, hydro slimes have a little bit of a fragrance to them, almost like the plants that they roll around it. No, this smells far more like if someone left a whole pile of wet books in the basement of the House of Daena and then had thirteen children who have been playing in the mud all day run down there and stomp on the pile with their bare feet.

[Alhaitham shakes his head. He shuffles out of his pants and underwear at once before walking to the shower and turning it on.] Regardless, it's going to make the room uninhabitable. The bed might need to be thrown out too.

Oh, don't remind me. And the scrubbing! That smell will never come out of the carpet. I'll need to tear it out from the roots. [ kaveh muscles in after him. it speaks to how often they've crammed themselves into tight little shower spaces that he merely circles alhaitham with a practised side-step to grab the shampoo. ] And what if it's seeped into the flooring below? Oh.

[ he shoves said shampoo into alhaitham's chest, then makes to clamber right out of the shower - ] I need to tell Netzach to get the hotel staff to start ripping up the carpet right now. Replacing the floor is going to take days!

[Alhaitham, who loves Kaveh enough not to let him humiliate himself in front of the man he can't bear to disappoint, grabs his arm before he can get any further out of the shower and pulls him back.] You're still naked, and Netzach isn't senseless. He'll get the staff to take care of it, so trust him.

[And like maybe don't flash him with your dick.]

[ kaveh looks down. then up. and then, with a chagrined look, slinks back into the shower. ]

Ah... yes, that's... I suppose I can do that. It's Netzach, after all. [ and uh... he's very, very naked, isn't he. ] And it'll just be a quick shower, and then I can head out and help. The slime is already everywhere, so a few more minutes won't hurt, right?

[Note that he's wrangled Kaveh back in, let him squeeze out some of that shampoo to knead into Kaveh's hair.]

There's no reversing the damage that's been done, and anything else it causes in the next few hours will only be to things that have to be replaced anyway.

What's with that lackadaisical approach? We've already blown up a barrier, and now this! We're going to be branded as troublemakers! [ even as kaveh cants his head into alhaitham's touch: ] And here I was hoping to stay under the radar, I'm sure the front desk is already thinking we're always up to no good.

[Massaging... trying to get Kaveh to calm down by how good this feels...] It's too late for that now. Good thing you won't wake up handcuffed this time.

[Just judged. Profusely.]

[ mrrrr... it does feel good. kaveh blinks very slowly, then frowns. ]

At least everyone didn't know about the handcuffs... and who would want to play a prank like this? Can this even constitute a prank? If it were up to me, I'd classify it as an assault! On the senses or otherwise! [ ugh. he grabs the liquid soap. a few pumps, and he's running his hands down alhaitham's sides to slough off some of the slime there. why is it everywhere. ] I slept late last night, and I'm pretty sure one of us would have noticed if someone snuck in with buckets of slime. How did they even do this?

Putting aside we still don't know the nature of this place, I know you've felt your Vision active again. [He smooths his hands down Kaveh's shoulders.] We don't know yet what the other people here are capable of.

Oh. Oh, right. Archons, I've been so used to everyone having the same limitations that I'd entirely forgotten that there must be all kinds of powers out there. [ kaveh gestures at the wall, then slaps another handful of soap onto alhaitham's shoulder. ] That just makes me even angrier! The fact that they've no idea how comfortable they have it with all of their faculties intact, and yet they use their abilities for something like this! When I find them, I'm going to have words. Paragraphs, even! This is entirely unacceptable.

And you, Alhaitham - how are you finding this acceptable? Why am I the only one angry here! That's your only black shirt lying in a puddle of goo on the bathroom floor!

Just because I'm not throwing a dramatic fit doesn't mean I'm okay with it. [He kneads into Kaveh's shoulders more firmly.] But right now my priority is to remove the worst of it from myself so I'm in a state to deal with it. Unless you were planning to drip slime all the way down the hall? Someone would have to clean that up.

[ kave flinches - then cows against alhaitham's hands. he leans into his shoulder with a sigh, then pulls down the showerhead to start giving alhaitham a proper rinse. ]

Fine, fine. We peel all this off our skin, and then we figure out who did this after. But there had better not be more slime traps in the room! I think the soap is working, however. You smell better already.

[ words punctuated by kaveh leaning right into alhaitham's bicep and breathing in deeply. a satisfied noise. ] Yes, much better.

EVENT 01: Welcome to the Pentagon!

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