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

[Reckless, but it would've been advantageous if there had been hostiles. She can't fault him as she quickens her pace and crosses the threshold, where she nods briefly in thanks before tailing him up the stairs. A bit of excessive force isn't so bad when she's with such a thoughtful partner.]

Then what are you hoping for?

[ A good question. What is he hoping for? Floors on the hotel don't seem to follow any sort of logical order, there could be a petting zoo behind the next door for all he knows, and they'd simply have to deal with it and all the smells and sounds that came with it. He huffs out a quiet laugh, shrugging half-heartedly. ]

Less pink? Ah— no offence.

[ Traces of a sheepish smile cross his face, before that straight-faced expression slips back into place as he pushes open the door to the next floor proper. Immediately there's an open space spread out ahead of them, no narrow corridors, just black carpeted flooring and dark navy walls with what looks like educational posters about planets. It's promising, he supposes, if they're looking for somewhere dark, though it's hard to tell if anything is moving along the floors. ]

None taken.

[She takes the apology in stride with a steady smile that falls off once they enter the new floor. Her lips even out in thought as her gaze sweeps from the ceiling down to the floor, whose carpet she tests with the experimental slide of a heeled foot.

Winter would like this floor if he hasn't already visited it.]

Is this dark enough?

It could be.

[ While there's no corridor to speak of, there are still doors leading off to mysteries unknown. He passes by a few of the posters, not really paying close attention, until he realises the images on them aren't quite what he'd expect. Curiously, it looks a lot like the solar system, but parts of it don't look right. Is it even the one he knows?

Pushing open the closest door, he finds himself staring into a darkened room with a small amount of tiered seats and a domed ceiling. ]

A planetarium? In space?

[ As if the ones he'd have found at home aren't also technically in space. ]

Why not? It saves us the travel.

[Having determined an absence of shadowy hands along the carpet, she steps up behind Abbacchio. She isn't very knowledgeable when it comes to space, but that doesn't seem important. Rather, what matters is how much darker this particular room is.]

Should we go inside?

That's… [ he frowns at her statement. She's not wrong, so he'll leave it at that. ] Sure, with the door closed it'll probably be much darker, too. The only thing left to wait for is the shadow.

[ Assuming this floor isn't too dark for it and the light theory is actually correct, that is — and he doubts it is, but it can't hurt to explore their options, though. He pushes the door open more, shouldering it to allow Reiju to pass as he gives the rest of the room a cursory glance for any movement. ]

[Heehee.

She can't help smiling wider this time, not that it's helped by the looming darkness around them.]

So gentlemanly.

[Then she steps inside, looking this and that way for potential visitors. She runs a hand along the back of a nearby seat. Question is, what to do if this fails?]

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