EVENT LOG
number 002
The hotel humbly hopes that you're settling in well and are taking advantage of the various pleasures on offer for your stay. In Mr Bennet's opinion, things have been going quite well and he doesn't think that the guests are unhappy at all. New guests have arrived, some have left, it's all going along perfectly. So, of course, this is when the next troublesome thing pops up.
SHADOWS
One morning, characters will find the hotel to be a little dimmer than usual, a little more shadowy. Yet if anyone asks Mr Bennet about it, he will claim to not have noticed anything different than usual. Either way, as the characters move on with their day, they'll start to notice a few odd things start to happen. PHASE ONE: Initially, characters will notice their shadow beginning to move a little out of sync with them. Discreetly at first until eventually, their shadow takes on a life of its own, mischievously playing with characters and enjoying their newfound freedom. Very Peter Pan, and completely harmless.
PHASE TWO: Now, shadows might disappear entirely, roaming the hotel to their own discretion and ignoring the characters they belong to. As the shadow takes on this free will, characters will begin to feel slightly off balance and have a hard time feeling whole without their shadow around. The shadow may become slightly aggressive as well if told they should return to their characters, fighting back in their own way from knocking things over to outright attacking other characters. It's a little hard to fight back though when your opponent is a shadow, isn't it?
PHASE THREE: The shadows have become fully aggressive now, fighting anyone who tries to get them to return to their original person. Characters will find themselves feeling weak and low energy as a result of losing their shadow. Eventually, the shadows will come back to their owners but the characters will find themselves sinking into their shadow, eventually changing places entirely with their shadow. The only way to rescue a character from this fate is for another character to pull them out of their shadow forcibly. The bright side is once a character is pulled out of their shadow, it all returns to normal and their shadow is no longer sentient. These phases will last over the course of the week and it is quite alright to stay in phase one/two/three. Not all shadows will become aggressive, not all shadows will be playful. Feel free to manipulate your character's shadow in the way that's most fun for you.
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[They can just E.T. it up for a second, that's fine. See? It's not biting. Even if it was, sometimes a guy just can't stand by and let someone else get injured, so he'd rather it be him than Astarion again. But that's the kind of thing that makes everyone uncomfortable if it's said out loud, so. Moving on!!]
Maybe it just needs someone else to occupy it for a little while? I don't mind.
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What, you think my shadow is bored? I assure you, it's just leading you into a false sense of security.
What I need is it returned to... to me. The way it should be! Perhaps you can wrangle it this way, since you're so comfortable with it.
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Well, let's see. [Hmm. Might as well... try the most obvious solution first, right? He turns back to the shadow, tilting his head slightly.] What'll it take for you to go back?
[He does not expect asking to actually work, but you never know.]
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And hmm, the shadow seems to offer its hand out, palm up. What will Kaveh do?]
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Swear that you won't bite first. Me or him.
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[The shadow looks aghast at the insult, nearly. But then it looks at Kaveh and nods vigorously. It swears! Hand over heart.]
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...Admittedly, this is rather bold of me to say, but--think a little more kindly of yourself, won't you?
[Even if it's true, no one's irredeemable. ...Well. Maybe some people are. But FOR THE MOST PART he believes this through sheer force of will.
He holds out his hand!]
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Don't make me tell you "I told you so," darling.
[And he's probably going to at some point, because-
The shadow is taking Kaveh's hand. And it's not biting him!
...But it is grasping hard, yanking forward, and then trying to fling him straight into the nearby buffet counter.]
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Fortunately, Kaveh's not a totally naive idiot, so between that and his fighting experience, he doesn't go sprawling across the buffet. He does hit the counter with a hiss, but he uses the momentum to try and swing the shadow in Astarion's direction.]
Quick, now--! [THINK FAST]
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Damn it-
[-he flings out his arms to catch the shadow, but instead his arms are grabbed instead. Grappled with. And since he rolled a strength save so badly, it's his turn to get thrown aside by the shadow, too, flung straight towards Kaveh with surprising speed.]
Hells!
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Yeah I got nothin. They're eating shit. Ow.
But uh, at least Kaveh's pained cursing is creative?]
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Anyhow, someone's going to get a faceful of scrambled eggs from the buffet. Astarion immediately tries to spring upright, food stuck on his shirt.]
Godsdamned thing!
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Ugh--
[Gracelessly, he clambers back to his feet, whirling around. SHADOW WHERE!!!]
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Astarion tsks with annoyance, whirling about to look at the other man.]
I told you it was not to be trusted. And now we've egg on our faces, very literally, to show for it.
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It was worth a try. [And it would've gone better if it weren't for that meddlin' dicebot, maybe, perhaps. More importantly, he is heading after it!! Let's go Astarion let's go!!!]