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Hotel Caelum Staff ([personal profile] caelumstaff) wrote in [community profile] hotelcaelum2024-02-02 08:06 am

Event Log #005



EVENT LOG
number 005




Happy February, folks! The hotel is chugging along as it always does and nothing really seems that out of the ordinary, actually. Mr Bennet is at the front desk as per usual, greeting new guests, checking out old ones, generally being mediocre at his job but there's something a little... off about him this morning. A little more Springtime focused. Is it the suit? No, no, that's the same as it always is. Is it the face? No, Mr Bennet's face is unable to be perceived by eyes as per usual. No, it's the —

The bunny ears?

HOP TO IT

It seems Mr Bennet has developed a pair of bunny ears and a tail overnight, but he's not the only one. Every staff member and guest of the hotel will find that they have grown a pair of animal ears and a matching tail when they wake up that morning. It's nekomimi time, y'all! But not just neko, characters will find themselves with all categories of ears and tails. Cats, dogs, rabbit, deer, fish. Whatever animal best suits the characters are what they'll find themselves sporting.

For all intents and purposes, these will be part of your characters bodies and real additional limbs. It will hurt if someone hurts them and they will bleed if someone cuts them. There will be some added bonuses as well as characters will also take on the traits of the animals they become. However players want to interpret this is up to them — it can be light like a cat person just being more aloof or heavy like a spider person having multiple eyes and limbs. Whatever is most fun for the player and most hectic for the character, of course.

This effect will last till the end of the month.

Of course, an additional note: For characters who already have animal ears and/or tails — they will either keep those ears and tails and develop more traits of that animal. Or they can become something entirely different for the month. Player preference!

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Mr Bennet has found this to be hysterical though so he has set up a stall in the main lounge that's advertising animal crackers. They're a little less cracker and more cookie though, and larger than the traditional animal cracker. They also come in all shapes and sizes. If you can think of the animal, you can have an animal cracker with it. There is a dog cracker. There is a whale cracker. There is a spider cracker. All kinds of things. Even fictional animals, like gryphons and dragons!

The only catch is — once your character eats the cracker they will become that animal entirely. This is probably tipped off by the bunny rabbit hopping around the lounge in a little hotel jacket, huh. Thanks Mr Bennet. The effect of these crackers will last as long as the player prefers and characters are free to eat another cracker and become another animal afterwards.

One thing though, as the animal, characters will still be able to speak in animal form. So there's that!

The animal crackers will also be available till the end of the month.




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eyescar: (pic#16986711)

[personal profile] eyescar 2024-02-20 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yuji can't say he's feeling much better after his tears, but he's at least more able to tuck it away and push the feelings aside for now, to let himself focus on Gojo and the knowledge that, at least right now, he's completely safe and nothing is going to bother them. It's going to take him a little while to really feel safe here, to feel at all settled, but... He can manage it, eventually.

He doesn't really have a choice, especially if he wants to keep what is going to happen to them in the future to himself. Gojo and Nanami aren't the kind of people to let him be upset and alone for too long, so a brave face it'll have to be. ]


I'll try.

[ But, oh, the notion of training - he speaks before he thinks, rattling out. ]

I've learned some cool new stuff, sensei! You have to let me show you, okay!
runir: (018)

[personal profile] runir 2024-02-20 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ak;sdfa oh no, sorry buddy]

I think so, too. Walk with me, then?

[Turns, though hitching a brow in his direction to see if he follows.]
animated: (📖 063)

[personal profile] animated 2024-02-20 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ BRO? ]

Could you not have done that while you were a crocodile?
animated: (📖 006)

[personal profile] animated 2024-02-20 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh jeez. Okay, here we go.

[ Gonna just try to wedge his beak under the door to give the spider a nudge. He's resolutely keeping his mouth shut so he doesn't give into the avian instinct to EAT BUG. ]
runir: (006)

[personal profile] runir 2024-02-20 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[WELL...YEAH...BUT....]

Torrent moves faster than a crocodile. Getting from one end of the hotel to the other was a slog without him. And if you mean when he was running wild, I would've gone flying off as soon as he disappeared.

[So Charlie went flying off instead.]
vecna: (pic#16981241)

[personal profile] vecna 2024-02-20 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[please don't eat him he probably tastes like slimy jerky

He's pushed, and pushed a little more, and still stuck. Eight legs scrambling for purchase on the ground.]


This is ridiculous-
mehrakulous: (stubborn)

[personal profile] mehrakulous 2024-02-20 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not all beauty and grace and easy words; Kaveh definitely squawks again like a bird at the compliment.]

That's what's on your mind right now? That it looks good?

[Not that he dislikes looking good like this- no, wait. Everything about this is awful.]

How about a potion to make this not happen?
mehrakulous: (headache)

[personal profile] mehrakulous 2024-02-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Tighnari would know exactly what this is like. He'd probably also tell me to get used to it. It's his every day life! And my temporary issue.

[Actually? Pretending at advice from Tighnari...kind of helps. Because it's true. He just lives like this. His job lets him use it to his advantage. On the other hand, the people living in Gandharva Ville aren't really loud. Even the people in Sumeru City aren't, really, unless there's something exciting going on.

Some of the guests in this hotel just seem to be turned to maximum volume normally. Other Paimons of the world.

Kaveh has kind of a long stride, though, so he is trying to level it out for Aether's comfort.]


Which...is probably the best advice I'm going to get, isn't it.
startraveler: (pic#16591277)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-20 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[They're both trying to be considerable to one another!

Aether ponders over that question for a moment, before nodding with a small smile and a brow arched upwards.]


Sadly, I think there isn't that much that can be done about it.

[Tighnari would likely agree. They can't go around asking people to be quiet for... as long as this is going to take. And Kaveh can't just hide away forever either.]

But look at the positives. You have a soft tail and ears now.

[His hands raise up as if he was itching to try to touch said tail and ears. He's not going to do that, though. If that was his intention he would ask for a permission by now, but he doesn't want to add up to Kaveh's headache, so he'll leave it as a joke.]
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[personal profile] cardsharked 2024-02-21 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hah... at least that part sounds nice, getting a change of scenery every now and then. You must get lonely, though. [On the surface, she could easily just be talking about the lack of people - it's a point of deniability that Odette more or less expects Giselle will instantly bury into to hide.

As they reach one of the atriums on this floor, hallways opening up into a wider, clearer space with more places to go, Odette cuts around quickly.
] Hold up.

[Even if they are animals, getting anywhere in the hotel still requires the usual methods of transportation. If they want to go anywhere else, the goat and the herding dog are going to have to wait for an elevator to come to their floor. As massive as she is, Odette's snout is still within pressing range of the call button, which she does.

After that, she steps back and resumes pacing, warily looking to see if Giselle will capitalize on the more open opportunity to go on an adventure or wait patiently, or if she might need to bounce on her heels to drive her into the open lift.
]
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[personal profile] cardsharked 2024-02-21 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The water rustles, moved back and forth by the lazy sweep of her tail. Cats definitely aren't known for their friendliness, but don't they sometimes die of loneliness all the same?]

Gonna save you the boring-ass pedantry, but whales ain't fish. And judging by the markings, these are the fins of what some countries call a killer whale. [Her teeth catch the fake-sun coming off of the water's surface, glinting in a smile. Doesn't he think it's fitting? There aren't many people who question what killer whales have done to earn their name.]

... Anyway, I've lived on the sea ever since leaving home. Easy as. Are you thinking there's something more going on than that? [It's an honest retelling, even if it's a superficial one, rewarding his curiosity with truth. And she isn't about to insult his intelligence by believing for a second that he doesn't think there might be even more similarities there.]
unliminal: (261)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-21 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Trying is enough for Gojo right now, though he'll offer encouragement where needed, even if that means bodily hauling Yuji off to karaoke or something. This place has a way of disarming them, and Yuji is one of the most adaptable people he knows. He just doesn't want to see him bottle up when he's clearly hurting.

...Even if that's exactly what Gojo would do in his situation. Has done. This ain't about him. Anyway, more importantly — ]


You have?! You didn't find some new, less-cool sensei, did you? Better not be Kusakabe. He couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

[ With all due disrespect. ]
eyescar: (pic#16293309)

[personal profile] eyescar 2024-02-21 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
What? No, it wasn’t Kusakabe-san. He didn’t know what I was learning.

[ Which, now that he’s saying it, Yuji thinks he should maybe be keeping this to himself. Telling Gojo what he’s learned is a sure fire way to make sure that his teacher is aware of how bad things have been, but… He shakes his head, mustering his courage.

Whatever, he’s kind of in the deep end now, isn’t he? ]


My brother and Noritoshi-senpai were helping me learn.

[ And, well, isn’t that a spoiler for the kind of cursed technique Yuji’s been learning? Unfortunately, Gojo is the kind of person to put two and two together. ]
hathasacat: (A boy with nothing but dreams.)

[personal profile] hathasacat 2024-02-21 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lyney's smile blooms into a far more sincere one for a moment, unable to hide how pleased Aether's words make him in turn. His sincerity in the friendship he's offered to Aether time and again will always be there, and though he knows he's hurt the other in the past, knowing there's a future to be had is just... ]

[ So nice. ]


That's all I could ask for then.
startraveler: (you have my thanks)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-21 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Aether doesn't respond right away. His cat tail swishes behinds him, his ears twitch a little and a soft smile appears on his face soon enough.]

You... really aren't worried about who I am? That one day I will get in your way?

[They are on different sides and yet...

Aether shakes his head.]


But in here... none of that matters.
startraveler: (slightly concerned)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-21 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
By "actual battles" we're not talking about a card game anymore, right?

[He's just checking.]
tailcare: (020)

[personal profile] tailcare 2024-02-21 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she stomps a little paw on the ground. ]

Just because you don't know what it is, doesn't mean I'm making it up. It's made by Xianzhou artisans, so if your world hasn't opened up to interplanetary trade, of course you wouldn't know what it is.

[ wait, why is she even arguing!! ]

Either way, you know as well as I do that you've never petted anything softer.
eyescar: (Default)

[personal profile] eyescar 2024-02-21 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure?

[ Yuji just... Follows after him, like a lost puppy. ]
tailcare: (003)

i lost this notif ahhh sorry!!

[personal profile] tailcare 2024-02-21 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose you're probably right.. they can't make me any more fox than I already am, right?

[ fox squared?? foxception?? anyway, she looks up at the table, a little forlorn, and sighs. she would like to finish her dessert, if possible.. ]

Are you going to lift me up?
hathasacat: (My steps have no more length.)

[personal profile] hathasacat 2024-02-22 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well... that sounds like a problem for the future. And I'm on vacation right now, which means no thoughts of future problems.

[ A little bit of a lie, there was no way Lyney could ever truly get his mind off of worrying about the future. There was too much waiting for him at home to think about, and while he could pause for a little while, he could never really stop. ]

But you're right. Here, we don't have the same worries, do we?
staffcocked: (Your shogun has returned!)

[personal profile] staffcocked 2024-02-22 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Sure am! I'm a shogun, y'know. I'm quite experienced with leading warriors into the battlefield.

[He doesn't act like the type, but whenever the switch was flipped... He has the potential to become quite a competent leader.]
unliminal: (GS (434))

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-22 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ She saves them both some time by not flat-out denying what they both know is true — or, at least, in Gojo's case, had a hunch was true. Maybe he was conflating fish and whales, but he recognized a killer whale when he saw one, and there's a reason she's one of those instead of a happy-go-lucky dolphin. ]

Oh, sure. And I'm a cat because I like tuna and taking naps in the sun. [ ...Both of those things are true, yes, but again — it's not as simple as that, and it's as clear to her as it is to him. Perhaps it's their similarities that make that so obvious. ] Sooo, killer whale, huh? You sound kinda proud of that. What do you usually hunt? Schools of little fish at the bottom of the food chain? Or something bigger?

[ She's free to take the analogy where she will, if she even takes it anywhere at all. He remains poised curiously with a hand tucked under his chin, gaze watchful and wary. ]
unliminal: (242)

1/2

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-22 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's absolutely no way that Gojo can let him off the hook after hearing one of his students has learned something new, regardless of the circumstances, so Yuji saves them both some trouble, even if — ]

Eh —

[ Come again. ]
unliminal: (315)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-22 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...Noritoshi? As in, Kamo Noritoshi? And... ]

You have a brother?! When the hell did that happen? Wahhh, you let someone else adopt you?!?

[ What in actual fuck is happening outside that box. ]
unliminal: (88)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-22 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds just like something someone would make up to cover their ass.

[ Why is she arguing when he's still petting her tail?? She's already won this battle, even if he won't admit it...and doesn't seem keen on holding up his end of the deal. ]

...How about this. I'll tell you your tails are the softest, and I don't have to eat an animal cracker. Sound good?

[ In true cat fashion, he is now feeling aloof and wary, the whole idea giving him cold feet. ]

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