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 ASSIGNMENTS

[unrequite]

[ Please look for your room assignments in this thread! all rooms are the same. no penthouse suites for anyone (yet). thank u ]

ROOM 208

[sovereins]

[ When Dehya arrives, Rudolf is just finishing up storing her clothes away in one side of the wardrobe, her outer coat hung neatly in the closet. Her tail swishes and her ear flicks towards the door. She looks over and looks her new roommate up and down. Rudolf nods. This young woman immediately strikes her as friendly. A good sign. ]

Hello. Do you have a preference?

[ She gestures to the beds. ]

I don't, but if you need the bed closer to the bathroom, you're welcome to it.

[legendofthelion]

[Rooming with another girl at least means Dehya doesn't need to worry about sectioning off one of the beds.]

Hey. If you don't mind I'll take that one. [Easier to roll out of and into her makeup routine.] I'm Dehya by the way. I guess you just got here too?

Room 204

[justscribing]

[Alhaitham does not have a key to this room but that has not stopped him from following Kaveh in night one.]

[fussiest]

[ ...................... ]

Hang on. Alhaitham, didn't your room keycard say an entirely different number? One that isn't room 204?

ROOM 100

[anseungbuin]

[ It is 8 am the day after first check in, my dudes, and there is an unholy banging on the door at room 100. ]

Voirssi Voirssi Voirssi oh fuck oh fuck Voirssi please wake up are you there aaaaaaaa

[ Sung Shiwon is there at the door, all five foot four of her in her pink pajamas, pounding at the door with both of her fists. She is not bothering to be quiet. This is weird and she wants backup!! ]

[oathlantern]

[Illuga is already awake but the banging still causes him to jolt, staring tensely at the door before he places the voice as one of the receptionists from yesterday.]

Hold on! [He tugs his shirt over his head before scrambling for the door, waiting for a lull in the banging before he pulls it open.] Uh, hello. Voirssi already left but is there something I can help you with?

ROOM 108 (?)

[nowhither]

[ im all out of fuck-all descriptions, so there is a large dragon wound around the hotel the way a spring toy would around a post that it's been set to who is currently sticking one (1) very insistent claw into the open window of room 108 as he presumably attempts to fish the sole other person in the room out in order to take a better look at her.

the dark, scaly expression the dragon wears can only be described as an extremely reptilian quirk of a non-existent eyebrow. because nobody is quite sure if dragons have eyebrows. ]

[namjonyeobi]

HELP! HELP! OH MY FUCKING FUCK HELP ME OH SHITTING ANCESTORS I AM ABOUT TO FUCKING DIE HELP

[ Hey no! Fuck this! Fuck you!! *Mute is abandoning her luggage and bolting for the door. No claws! She literally JUST got a meat body but she knows what happens when things that big collide with meat bodies. Meat bodies go squish! She does not want to go squish!!! ]

ROOM 104

[reverent]

[ to absolutely nobody's surprise, sisi chen flings himself onto the first bed he sees, and spends a moment bouncing on it with a laugh. flip up! flip down! flip sideways! he's always wondered a little about what it would've been like a gymnast! surely it must always be something like this, with the world at dizzying, fascinating angles.

three more bounces, and he's popping upright, one hand reached out in a playful wag: ]

The bed is sooooo soft! Elysium, you really have to try this bounce! I'm on a cloud!

[comunicar]

[ Elysium looks up where he's diligently putting away clothes, grins, and abandons being diligent with basically no qualms whatsoever. Cue Liberi flopping right next to Sisi, his weight rolling Sisi right next to him. ]

So this is a cloud. By the saints, I could get used to this. Aaah... Let me see that pillow.

[ He drags a pillow under him and plants his face into it. Yep. Fresh, clean, fluffy. Perfect. ]

ROOM 203

[yyds]

So! [ says hong lu, as he tilts his head backwards. the waterfall of his dark hair spills over the edge and trails along the floor as he studies the upside-down visage of his new roommate: ] When do you think a stranger stops being one?

[predominant]

As soon as they start entertaining nonsense questions without wanting anything in return, for one.

[ Vil's at the wardrobe mirror, using the vanity desk inside as he touches up his lip liner. ]

I'll be using the vanity every morning. If you need space on it, tell me now. I have a lot of skincare that need homes.

ROOM 103

[fafo]

Well, [ says aventurine, who is no stranger to hotel beds and even less stranger to having share said room with a man he knows nothing about, with peaceful cheer or what passes for it, ] shall I flip you for your choice of bed?

[needlepricks]

We could, if that's how you make decisions. Not the bargaining type, are you?

[ Ji was in the middle of inspecting his luggage when Aventurine hits him with that one, actually, wondering how they knew he wears this tunic more often than any of his others. Interesting. ]

ROOM 200

[unrequite]

[ There is no preamble! Both Sarkaz have unpacked and chosen their beds by now; they know what's up. What happens is this: Midnight walks in through the door, smiles at Logos tersely, then walks to the bathroom and closes the door behind him. And locks it. And goes to sit, shoes and all, in the bathtub. This is his initial reaction to realizing that Kaveh and Alhaitham are in the hotel. Not just any Kaveh and Alhaitham. Kaveh and Alhaitham smelling of the strange, thin scent of the city. Kaveh, leaning into Netzach's touch.

For most, this would be a joyous reunion. Midnight went in the opposite direction. He sits in the bathtub and sulks. He sits in the bathtub and closes his eyes and sulks so hard it creates a singularity of hurt around him, near palpable. Is he being irrational? Oh, very. Right now, though, he just wants to brood. ]

[nyoomer]

[ in all logos' years as a fledging of the convallis, and then the young upstart of the royal court, and then as the king of his people and an elite of rhodes island, he's never quite seen someone sulk nearly as much as midnight is currently sulking. if alive until sunset recorded an album called 'born to sulk', midnight would be on the cover of it, bathtub and all. the only thing that's missing is a floating tray with a glass of wine and break-up music playing loudly in the background from a stereo.

he allows this to go on for an hour or two before he picks his way past the linoneum tiles to stand by midnight's bathtub. logos slots himself against the rim of the tub, and cants his head. ]

Would you like for me to turn on the shower? It would suit your mood.

105

[chronosynthesis]

[At least they get beds? This is such a small consolation but also nothing has tried to kill them (so far) so Syrlya has decided to simply try and take this all in stride.

Once the door opens to his roommate he looks up.] Oh--you'll be staying here as well? Hello. I'm Syrlya.

[taima]

[ For a moment, the Medicine Seller simply stands at the door, whispering softly to himself. He then turns his head to meet his new roommate's eyes. What a strange creature. Mononoke? One with a strange name... Mononoke do not tend to introduce themselves, nor have an affable lack of guile.

After a very awkward beat of silence, the Medicine Seller actually walks into the room and shuts the door behind him. His box jingles and creaks on his back. He has not replied to Syrlya yet. ]

... I would prefer to sleep next to the window.

[ And so the Medicine Seller walks, dragging his luggage behind him, to the couch. He tugs it next to the window, then eases his box off his back, setting it down with a thump on the floor. ]

Syrlya. I am a simple vendor of medicines and remedies. This humble one greets you.

[ A bow. Sorry, Syrlya... this one's the weirdest one I got. ]

ROOM 106

[gitgvd]

[ Narita Taishin has been Gen Z maxxing hardcore while her new roommate has been putting his stuff away. (Why does she have to share a room with a guy she doesn't know, anyway? Ugggh.) Studiously, violently ignoring him with her phone plugged into the nightstand, frowning as she plays a game.

She sighs suddenly, pausing the game. ]

Okay, so I think we're still on Earth.

[wordchain]

[ Sharing a room with a stranger who appears to be a teenage girl with animal ears is an experience that Yesod wasn't prepared for, either (in addition to the strangeness of a room without Netzach and Midnight). It has been a very long time since he was a teenager himself, and interacting with Tiphereth in their current life isn't quite comparable to this, of course. He imagines that Taishin would prefer a roommate around her own age, at any rate.

While Yesod leaves the girl to her game, concentrating on unpacking and organizing his belongings before he assesses the rest of the room and beyond, Tagliatelle watches his new honse sister from his enclosure. Yesod stops to glance at Taishin, however, when she speaks up. ]

Then you recognize this location?

ROOM 204

[anseungbuin]

[ The night after the first slime debacle, Kaveh wakes up sometime absolutely covered in slime. He is, in fact, being spooned by a slime shaped person in his bed. The slime is soaking into the mattress. It smells like mold hell.

Sorry. Shiwon does not forgive Alhaitham. At all. ]

[fussiest]

[ THE SCREAM OF ALL SCREAMS. ]

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?