hotelcaelum | Event Log #002

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[One did bite her, and she yelps, flailing at it more aggressively.]

Hey! Get off! I swear, I'm going to--!

[She topples, and knocks into the bookshelf the ladder is now leaning against.

Sorry if that makes you even more unsteady, Sprezzatura.]

[ both shadows sense opportunity. they lunge again, shoving Ringo into the already-teetering bookcase. Sprezzatura shrieks at a shrillness that pierces, almost surprises for how deep her voice otherwise is. ]

It is going to come down!

[ and, indeed, with the books toppling from the shelves

it seems true. ]

[Oops. Books tumble, she is knocked back into the bookshelf again, and she... just huffs.]

Sorry, time for you to get off that ladder!

[She is helping Sprezzatura along.

By kicking the ladder out.

Sorry.

For what it's worth, Black Frost is right underneath her, ready to catch her, surprisingly strong for his side (given he's a demon and all).]

[ SCREAMS AS SHE FALLS

into Black Frost's steadfast arms. ]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH—

[ ok we're fine ]

Oh.

[Black Frost puts her down ever-so-gently with a gentlemanly "hee-ho!".

And Ringo just swings around to aim a punch at one of the shadows.

It's a shadow so it probably doesn't do anything, but it sure is satisfying to try.]

Now leave! Nobody wants you here, jeeze, take a hint!

[ what happens is Ringo punches the spine of some books. the shadow does the ubiquitous "nyah nyah!" finger waggles at her and then flits around the shelf with its twin in tow.

Sprezzatura snarls, reaching down to fetch one of the fallen books—as though she were going to hurl it after them, but instead, she clutches it protectively to her chest. ]

Ne'er-do-wells!

Yeah, that was a bit of a shitshow.

[She's with you, Sprezzatura!! Ringo sighs, spreading her arms a little with a heavy shrug.]

You okay?

[ well, this aisle is a right fucked mess, and she feels so unsteady on her feet that she practically swoons into the shelf beside her, jelly-legged. ]

Blyat. Acting like fiends, they... Your hair, is it alright?

Oh, it's fine. I've had much worse.

[Ringo just starts picking up the tossed around books with an aggrieved puff of air.]

Still, they're a huge pain, aren't they? I haven't really come up with a good way to deal with them. I'm used to things being more... punchable where I come from.

[ so for her, too, this is not a noted phenomenon... ]

It defies logic. If I only knew how, then it would only be matter of time before I once more brought them to heel.

[ that was a little... intense? ]

... Fierce, but I'm into it.

[It's intense but also, those shadows were dicks.]

Still... I don't really have any good ideas either. Even a clue would be a good starting point.

It is something to do with this hotel. How it functions. This is why strange things are happening always.

Could be a manifestation of all of these worlds coming together... the influx of power bleeding over, or something like that.

Not to mention the amount of energy it would take to keep a place like this running.

You are thinking this hotel feeds off us.

It's possible. It's also possible that there's just such a massive influx of energy that it's causing this place to act all weird.

Lots of power in and of itself doesn't mean malice... just usually.

[ha ha]

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