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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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cathasahat: (Romance in Ravello)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-23 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She hopes it isn't too heavy, or that the wheels help. ]

All right...do you have your key card as well?
tailcare: (049)

[personal profile] tailcare 2024-02-23 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh, well.. okay at least she wasn't the only one who had a bit of an extreme Reaction, even though she still feels silly for it. ]

Okay, okay, you don't need to rub it in..

[ she says, with a little frown, her ears folding back against her hair, a pink flush climbing her neck and cheeks. pushing the hair from her face, tingyun huffs, then exhales softly, before taking a nice, deep breath. she nods. ]

Mm, I think so. Nothing feels out of place besides the obvious.
tailcare: (032)

[personal profile] tailcare 2024-02-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she has foxed as hard as one could possibly fox..

but, oh! the hat! she fusses for a moment, because she'd hate to get fur all over his lovely headpiece, but it's far better than just being.. picked up. so after a moment's consideration, she hops right on into the hat, front paws resting on the rim. ]


Okay, ready!
startraveler: (about the unexpected)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does feel protected and it's calming.

At least until his keycard is mentioned. The bunny's ears shoot up as he opens his eyes as well.]


Uh... It should be in my clothes... somewhere.

[He completely forgot about it! Hopefully Lynette somehow picked it up along with his cape and scarf.]
cathasahat: (Butterfly Pea tea has an earthy taste)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, let's see...

[ She shifts him slightly so she can tuck him against her side and support him with just one hand as she searches through his clothes. After a moment, she fishes out a keycard ]

There we go.

[ She swipes it and open the door to his room, closing the door after she's inside ]
eyescar: (pic#16016002)

[personal profile] eyescar 2024-02-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I always got that too! It doesn't matter how much I told them it was natural, they all wanted me to change it, or make me join the track and field team in exchange for letting me keep it.

[ His tail flicks, then wags. ]

Yeah, first year!
warmaid: (105)

[personal profile] warmaid 2024-02-23 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ (Time to eat another animal cracker and become a cheetah, Jing Yuan.) ]

I appreciate your care. It means a lot, especially considering how vulnerable I truly was.

[ She's not going to outright admit it, but being a tiny fish stressed her out quite a bit. Especially with all the cats that she interacted... ]

I'd prefer to stay in the shallows for a little while longer, if that's all right? It's too shallow for swimming, but the water feels nice.

[ She splashes a bit with the end of her tail, as if to emphasize her point. ]
warmaid: (039)

[personal profile] warmaid 2024-02-23 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's a trait to be proud of, Aether! ]

I have, although not consistently. I've made a few trips back to Watatsumi Island to make sure all is well there.

Overall, I've been doing well. This place has been an excellent respite, strangeness and all. How about yourself?
warmaid: (015)

[personal profile] warmaid 2024-02-23 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have thought it rude, personally, but I see your point. Especially with regards to Mr. Bennet; he's eccentric, but not unkind.

[ "Eccentric, but not unkind" is exactly the kind of description that she would use for this solution, so honestly in hindsight she should have expected something along these lines. ]

I hope not to have to impose too often, but I appreciate the offer. For now, I have everything I need. And likewise, if there's something I can do for you, please let me know.
eyescar: (Default)

[personal profile] eyescar 2024-02-23 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's no way he can actually tell Fushiguro, can he?

No, there's no way. He already knows what Sukuna did to him, to bury his soul, so deep that nothing seems to have done anything to make him come back, not even what happened to Gojo-sensei. To tell Fushiguro that his sister is gone, that Gojo is gone, that Yuji is risking it all for the hope of saving him, to the point of eating his own brothers...

There's no way, the idea of it unfathomable. He doesn't imagine he'd be able to do it in the future, either. ]


... No.

[ There's a chance that Fushiguro won't accept that, but it's never been the kind of relationship they've had in the past. Yuji's ears droop, his tail hangs, the energy gone from him as he crosses his arms over his chest and clutches at his stomach. ]

Sorry, Fushiguro. I can't do it.
liongeneral: (pic#16853584)

[personal profile] liongeneral 2024-02-23 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Absolutely. Time to become something that can purr.]

I was worried about you too. [He flops back into the water, resting his head against her stomach and watching her big tail slap at the water with great interest.] You were so small and fragile if you were like any other fish. I was worried about jostling the bowl too much.

[If he'd accidentally hurt her while trying to get her somewhere safe... It'd have been terrible.]

I don't mind at all... [The water does feel nice. It feels very good on his paw pads and helps keep him cool with all this fur. He also, quite frankly, just likes spending time with Kokomi even as a lion or she as a fish. If she just wants to sit in the shallow water he will happily do that. So he gives a big yawn and kicks his back legs out for extra comfort as he settles against her.] Do you like this form better? [He gently reaches a paw out to pat at her tail.] I can only imagine how fast you'd swim with a mermaid tail...

[They'll have to try it another time.]
tailcare: (030)

[personal profile] tailcare 2024-02-23 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all! It's already being prepared.

[ she'd gotten it all started before looking in the mirror.. anyway once kokomi wheels herself on in, tingyun closes the door and steps further in. her rooms are quite nice, styled like her home in the luofu, with soft, gauzy curtains and plush rugs and many little trinkets. soft cushions on the couches, tapestries on the walls, and a nice little courtyard, open to the sky.

tingyun pads toward the kitchen area and takes the kettle off, carefully pouring the hot water into the teapot to steep. ]


Okay, I'll get changed, be right back.
startraveler: (Paimon why)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-23 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's completely still as she's looking for the keycard, ears dropped in worry. Thankfully luck is on their side and the card really was in Aether's clothes.

The bunny lets a small sigh of relief.]


Thank goodness.

[And here they enter! The room isn't very big, just enough for someone who comes and goes. It looks almost ordinary, except if you look at the ceiling there's a starry sky there just like the one seen on the clearest of nights.]
startraveler: (thinking)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-23 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I find it amazing that we can just come and go like that and this place is not in Teyvat, but connected to other... worlds.

[It's curious, to say the least. What can all of this mean?]

I was in Fontaine before appearing here. It was quite a surprise... but otherwise, I've been well, too. Some of my friends from Fontaine also got here.
seaurchin: (187)

[personal profile] seaurchin 2024-02-24 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whatever had happened, it's probably tragic - worse than anything they've been through to date. The other boy looks so shaken up and Megumi doesn't even need to be able to read his canine body language to know this. Maybe he's actually dead? Megumi feels like he would be at peace with that, so he doesn't think it would be such a bad thing if the other boy just told him.

Still, he knows how stubborn Itadori can be. If he says he can't tell him, there's no way to make him change his mind.

The more important thing right now is that his friend is in distress and he has to do what he can to make him feel better. While he isn't too good at comforting someone else, he will try. Megumi places a hand on the other boy's shoulder. ]


Okay ... [ He won't make him talk, but this is giving him such an ominous feeling for what's to come. ] You've probably been running around since you got here. I think we should go back to your room.
cathasahat: (Lotus Mind white tea)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-24 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lynette doesn't notice the ceiling at first, as she's busy kneeling so she can set Aether down. Once he's safely on the floor, she stands and her eyes widen as she takes the decorations in ]

Oh...
startraveler: (evening stroll)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Now that he's safe in his own room he can finally relax. His tiny head cranes upwards to look at Lynette and it takes him a moment to realize what she's looking at.]

It's really nice, isn't it? Almost as if we were outside.
netherese: (22)

[personal profile] netherese 2024-02-24 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Charming as it may be, I don't usually have a tail, no— and I'll now have even greater respect for those who do.

[You're a real one, Karlach.]

An anomaly for you as well, then! It should pass soon enough. Most things do, but we manage to have our fun with these little hiccups, for the most part. Only... some have been dangerous.

[So far.]
netherese: (82)

[personal profile] netherese 2024-02-24 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Those would be truly inconvenient, indeed.

[Stick? Big stick? Gale's own instincts are telling him that his staff seems especially biteable at the moment— maybe for the best that he'd left it in his room, but now it almost seems a shame, given that there's someone to share it with...

No, no more of that!]


Do you think the hotel is aiming to teach us a lesson with any of these happenings? If so, there are several I'd like to question, but—

[He hears movement in the elevator shaft as it starts to rise towards their floor again, one of his ears quirking upwards.]

Do you hear that?! Someone's coming!
netherese: (97)

[personal profile] netherese 2024-02-24 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Right— of course. Not your primary concern. I understand.

[He clears his throat as he proceeds to correct himself.]

Seeing people turn into animals is hardly an oddity where I come from, but admittedly, such things are usually done on purpose. I realize that is not the case here. Given a bit of time, I'm sure I could come up with an antidote, but I doubt this is permanent.

[He lifts the cookie he'd been holding onto, furrowing his brow as he holds it at eye-level and examines it.]

Now, how, exactly, was this feat of transfiguration achieved...?
netherese: (43)

[personal profile] netherese 2024-02-24 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Eccentric. That's an excellent word for it.

[One he's heard applied to more than a few wizards in his time, himself included, though he doesn't think himself to be anywhere near as enigmatic as their host.

At her offer, his tail starts to wag eagerly, and he clears his throat as he attempts to compose himself.]


I appreciate your offer, in turn. For the most part, I keep finding myself tempted to chase things.
cardsharked: (Default)

[personal profile] cardsharked 2024-02-24 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[interesting he should think that because dolphins are actually incredibly cruel]

And 'cause you like licking your ass, sure. [Said ribbingly, but with just as much perceived truth as sunshine and tuna.

The thing about most predators - and the thing about Odette, it would seem, given the way she seems to operate as some monstrous force of nature, is that they exist as they are. As intimidating as they may be, they act as they are. It would be understandable for anyone to see Odette in the same way: someone that blinked into existence exactly as she is, too.
]

Small fry ain't worth the effort, and you know it. I'll go after whatever I gotta, but I'm not the kind who talks a big game about beating up something that can't fight back. [He should understand the difference between not gloating about beating the week and flat-out refusing to do so.] Been dealing in some precious cargo, so I made a lot of enemies.
cathasahat: (Persimmon Moon autumnal tea)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-24 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's amazing. Did you ask for it, or did the hotel know?
warmaid: (050)

[personal profile] warmaid 2024-02-24 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
It is. But I'm not the only one inconvenienced by strange instincts, so I'm doing my best to take things in stride.

[ She does miss walking, though. ]

He's very insistent at making sure our experience is... um, memorable.
warmaid: kokofish (146)

[personal profile] warmaid 2024-02-24 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. One moment.

[ She swims down to where the key card sank in the water when she transformed. Once she has it in her mouth, she swims back up to hold it out for Lynette to take. ]

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