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

[yyds]

[ hmmm, hong lu thinks about this for a moment. it's true, he supposes. the ancestors in their little cave all had terrible skin and health issues, though, hong lu supposes that mists and towels and such aren't going to do much for them, especially for the ones that had already turned their bodies into automatons. still, it's nice to think about. he wonders if they're watching this right now. maybe they'll ask him to bring some moisturisers the next time he went down. they planned on living forever, right?

anyway, this is all terribly new to him, and it's not any interest in self-preservation that hong lu lets his roommate do as he will, looking up only once in a while to check out a towel or a mister with great interest. ]

Self-care, huh. So is there a term for care for other people? Or care for cats and dogs - like cat-care and dog-care?

[predominant]

[ ... A raised brow. Of course, his roommate can't see it, but this question strikes Vil as both preposterous and pointless, as far as he's concerned. He'll entertain it, though. He can deign to do that much for someone so cooperative. ]

That's just care. To care for others besides yourself is the foundation of the word. Adding descriptors makes it more specific, but caring is usually pointed outward, not within.

[yyds]

Do you think it's easier to care for other people or for yourself?

[predominant]

[ A soft, very elegant snort. Another preposterous question. ]

Myself, of course. I am and have always been my own first priority.

[yyds]

Why? Did nobody else prioritise taking care of you?

[predominant]

[ Another disdainful snort. The towel lifts; Vil lays it aside, then takes a cotton pad already loaded with toner and begins to pat his roommate's face with it, cooling his face. Toner, essence, then... no ampoule this time, Vil supposes. Just a humectant and an occlusive to seal in all in. No need to get too fancy. ]

Far from it. My father told me to care for myself the way he cared for me. Not that I needed much encouragement, mind, but to get anywhere in entertainment, I needed thick skin and a healthy sense of self-preservation. My father has his own ambitions, of course, but never let his busy schedule take him away from my accomplishments. I am deeply cherished, and I'm grateful for it.

[ Vil's features are haughty, severe, queenly, but as he talks about his father, his face softens. There is no pretense, no embarrassment. For as selfish and cruel as he can often be, he speaks directly and fully from the heart. ]

[yyds]

[ hong lu wonders what it's like, to have a parent who cherishes their accomplishments. though he supposes that it must be very much like having a parent who acknowledges your existence. that is equally a strange concept, and he supposes he can mull on it at length later.

how vast and bright this world is. ]

I've never met parents who cherished their young like that, so this is new. Do you love him, then?