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

[fussiest]

Somewhere. [ kaveh echoes, with a sinking pit in his stomach. ] I'm Kaveh. It's nice to meet you, ah... Mister Syrlya. Well, I think it's nice to meet you. It would have been better under nicer circumstances. I daresay I'm extremely depressed thinking about how all those months of work we put in only brought us here. To somewhere.

Ah- but never mind that. Um, have you been here long, or is this the beginning of this entire ordeal? Archons, I can't believe this is happening twice. Am I a veteran, now?

[chronosynthesis]

Well met, Kaveh. [His lips curl, wry.] Circumstances aside.

I suppose it's my beginning. I've only just arrived. Usually if I'm taking a portal somewhere I'm aware of it, but this...

[He glances away from the hole in the wall to the restricted everything else.] It makes for a very strange kidnapping.

[fussiest]

Strange? Insulting, more like! [ says kaveh, finally warming to the topic: ] I finally put my finger on what the smell is. It's hotdogs! How could they put the entrance next to a... a hotdog stand? Or wherever they're selling those, that's just obscene! Once the smell gets into your clothes, you won't be able to get it all out in days!

[chronosynthesis]

Hm, I can honestly say I've smelled a lot worse... wouldn't advise going through a sulfur pit. [He shakes his head.] But that really isn't the most important part right now, is it? If you aren't harmed, perhaps we might find who's responsible for this. And some answers.

[ 1/2 ]

[fussiest]

Look, if this is anything like the place where I was before, the answers will be very slow and unforthcoming, extremely esoteric, and delivered entirely through contextual clues vague enough to drive even seasoned cryptographers mad. But if I've been through it once already, then I suppose I'll just need to go through it all again. And this time, I won't wait five hundred days before I-

[ 2/2 ]

[fussiest]

[ ............... waitaminute. ]

... wait. Wait, wait, wait. Did you... [ syrlya had... didn't he just... come over with his hands raised? and with a very stern but soothing voice? as if he were- ] Did you come over because you thought we were a pair of trigger-happy bomb terrorists and thought you'd keep us from doing anything strange?

Because I promise, we're not that kind of people! It's just- this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing! Or it was supposed to be! Please don't get the wrong idea.

[chronosynthesis]

Does a bomb terrorist usually recongize themselves as such? [He's pretty sure not.]

I would prefer if this was the extent of your havoc for now. Since we're in the same predicament we'll get much further if we cooperate, yes? I don't think this is the time for another explosion.

[fussiest]

Ah - um, potentially! [ says kaveh, with an instinct born from years' of going 'um actually' to every possible, viable topic, ] Not that I'm saying that we're really bomb terrorists or anything, but don't bomb terrorists tend to make a spectacle in order to make a point? And they can hardly make a point without claiming credit, so in truth, they're the kind of terrorists most likely to claim credit...

[ ... ]

But that's neither here nor there. [ focus!! kaveh!!! ] Yes, right. Less explosions. Or rather, I've run out of the materials to make them. I wouldn't be able to gather enough materials again for several months- [ waitwaitwaitwaitwait - ] n-not that I was planning another bomb, or anything! [ kaveh's hands fly up furtively. ] Believe me, there's no such plan! I rather like the idea of cooperation, and that's much better than any alternative, believe me.

[chronosynthesis]

[... Let's start from the top.]

Absolutely none of that was reassuring, you realize. [He waves his hand. Try not to think about the sword at his hip, Kaveh.] Let's try this again: bombs have a place and time, and you agree this is neither the place nor time for one?

[fussiest]

[ hey, what are you gonna do with that sword. please don't do anything with that sword. ]

Ah... yes? In broad strokes and in spirit, yes?

[chronosynthesis]

[Don't worry about it.]

Fantastic. [Syrlya claps his hands together.] Then let us have a fruitful collaboration, Kaveh.

[fussiest]

[ ???? ]

W-wait, that's all? You're not going to make me swear to it or... you'll just believe me? [ a helpless gesture, ] I blew a hole through that wall back there, you know? Not that I am, really, but I could be very dangerous!

[chronosynthesis]

Would a swearing not simply still be believing in a promise? I have no way of magically binding you to it. [Unfortunately, there are practical limits here.] If you prove to be dangerous I'll just have to deal with it the way I did the last bomb terrorist.

[He's not expecting it to be anything that can't be resolved amicably given Kaveh radiates guilt in waves... but this isn't his first rodeo.]

[fussiest]

[ ??? ]

And... uh... what did you do? To the last bomb terrorist, I mean. If you don't mind my asking.

[chronosynthesis]

Beat him into submission and sent him off to prison. [:)]

[fussiest]

[ ..... :'D ]

W-well... it's certainly a good thing that I'm not a bomb terrorist, then!