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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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unliminal: (GS (244))

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unapologetically— ]

Yup. Don't get any weird ideas. [ Look. It's just the nature of the beast, quite literally, because he can't carry anything with these paws? Please. ] Throw it.

[ He sits back on his haunches, looking expectantly up at Astarion. He is not above using this doggy body to get his way — one of the many advantages to being fully and utterly shameless. ]
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their mousechief....

[personal profile] fixtures 2024-02-07 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Are Sumina and Giselle about to use their know-how in the service industry for evil... yes, yes they are. She plops back down from her hind paws, scratching a little idly at her snout. ]

It is likely that the waitstaff follow a pattern — in the way they walk about the dining room, I mean.

[ That's how maids are too, because letting everyone go in whatever direction they wished, all the time, would cause chaos when there's 30 maids running about along with guests. Ever so gently, she peeks her head out from underneath the tablecloth, just enough to get a glimpse, before turning back to her more timid companion. ]

We need only observe to find an opening. I suspect the pantry is adjacent to the kitchens — and that you would have a greater variety to choose from there.
unliminal: (374)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, he deserves this...

...for letting his guard down and letting Winter grab him before reinstating his Infinity! Not for any of his crimes, if they can even be called that. They're more like good-natured and loveable pranks, in his estimation.

Anyway, he's wiggling mid-air, reaching behind himself try and swat at Winter's hand while his tail flicks in annoyance. ]


Hey, hey, not the shirt! It's designer!
cardsharked: (13)

[personal profile] cardsharked 2024-02-07 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Clara might be new and not someone Odette's had the pleasure of meeting previously, but it doesn't make much of a difference: She's going to continue the conversation with the same casual air. It's almost disarmingly friendly, though never overly familiar.]

Don't know. Get this itch sometimes, like this ain't exactly where I belong. If this sea actually went anywhere, I think I'd be tempted to hop in and see what's on the other side.

Hell, I'm kinda tempted regardless. I wanna know what's on the other end. [Even if it's probably just a wall or a short landing to access another elevator, she's never seen what's beyond the horizon, even if she's looked out at it since her first day staying here, when she stood calf-deep in the water outside her room.]

Here to sunbathe?
unliminal: (013)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a hell of a lot going on in her suite right now, and under normal circumstances, he might have taken this as a sign that Sumina is overworking herself again, but he has other priorities at the moment — priorities that will, most likely, garner her attention away from whatever she's working on, one way or another, so everyone gets what they want, right?

(Mostly, Gojo gets what he wants.)

Anyway, heedless of her outburst, he persists in nuzzling into her neck and hair, her familiar scent and warm skin enough to set his purr motor running, ears relaxed against his head. As she leans away, he instinctively follows, his body arcing and pressing against her own, even as they very near to losing balance... ]


Hm...what are you doing, Momo? [ Ignoring the question entirely. This is normal! ] Feeling crafty?

[ Hold up...are those Valentine's cards? ]
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[personal profile] cardsharked 2024-02-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Hopefully he's prepared for her to show herself, as the enormous killer whale surfaces as close to to the pier as possible, easily dwarfing its width. The water's very shallow at this angle, so when she rises most of her back crests the water.

Odette chuckles again, and this time it sounds a little more like a clicking chatter at the base of her mouth.
]

What's up. That you, Winter? [Of course it is, but she's asking like she still isn't entirely certain.]
cathasahat: (Honeysuckle tea may soothe sore throats)

II

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-07 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lynette looks the same as usual (and now like all the other hotel guests). She definitely has more feline instincts than usual, though.

...which is why she's crouched on top of a nearby piece of tall furniture and watching Kokomi-fish swim around with a sort of hypnotized fascination. Her tail is also slowly swishing back and forth until Kokomi speaks, whereupon it puffs up a little in surprise. ]


--oh, you're not a normal fish.
cathasahat: (Genmaicha = green tea + brown rice)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her ears twitch restlessly at the attention, as does her tail.

But she does look back at her snacks. ]


Hm...this one doesn't have chocolate in it.

[ She drops a small piece of a shortbread cookie in front of Sumina. ]
cathasahat: (Passionflower tea increases GABA levels)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-07 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hm...let me check.

[ She pulls a top hat out of seeming nowhere and rummages around in it for a while before eventually pulling out a red rubber ball. ]

Will this do?
cathasahat: (White tea leaves are minimally processed)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-07 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her eyes narrow slightly in a way that doesn't bode well for Lyney. ]

He must have gotten distracted, especially with everyone else gaining new features. But anyway, do you need some help?
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[personal profile] airdnd 2024-02-07 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ They are very near to losing balance, and Sumina is well-aware of it. Her hands reach over to the edge of her desk to brace herself against it, though this leaves her with no way to push Satoru away. All she can do, then, is do her level best to tip her head away, to very little effect. Given his size, he's easily able to simply wrap around her and nuzzle away...

Well. She's used to him ignoring questions, but she's definitely not used to this, even given the growing displays of casual affection between them— ]


I'm making Saint Valentine's cards for everyone... Now will you please let go?

[ She has a distinct feeling that her request will go unheeded, perhaps especially because he is even more a mischievous cat than he normally is thanks to the hotel's present effects, but she can't let it go unsaid. ]

Y-You're purring so much...
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[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Neither of them are used to this, though Satoru doesn't seem to see anything weird about this. They have been growing more and more outwardly affectionate with one another, so this must be the natural progression, even if he doesn't usually purr...

Oh, well. It's cute as hell, in his opinion! As are her mouse ears, and something primal in him kicks in as she leans away as much as she can. ]


Mm, are you surprised? You shouldn't be.

[ Nuzzling against one of her big pink ears now — oh. Wait, what?

He draws back and stops purring, though he keeps her on the defensive with his hands on either side of the side around her. ]


"Everyone"?
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[personal profile] airdnd 2024-02-07 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Why shouldn't she be surprised? Gojocat has literally never been real. Is she supposed to expect all the purring when he's never had the purring feature before?? Of course she's surprised! She's surprised, too, when a whiny little squeak escapes past her lips when she feels him nuzzling her ear, though the sound is truncated by the suddenness with which Satoru draws away. ]

—Yes? As a token of our friendship... You didn't see Giselle's post?

[ Briefly, she glances down at way they're rather questionably positioned, her cheeks growing ever warmer by the second. She is truly a mouse caught like this, with his hands on either side of her... What should she do? Her gaze roams over all of the supplies on her desk again... ]
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[personal profile] mehrakulous 2024-02-07 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He came to the library in part because it seemed like things couldn't get too out of hand here. While he isn't one to while entire days away just reading, "be quiet" is the primary rule of the library. Pity the Akademiya students never learned this.

So, while he's a little surprised to be found, and more startled to be approached by a big cat of uncertain origin...

...he recognizes the voice. Hands halfway to his ears, he lowers them when Winter(?) swaps to a whisper. Who knew cats could whisper?]


Sorry. I'm fine. [Kaveh isn't whispering, but it's so soft it might as well qualify.] Just...hearing everything.
unliminal: (290)

[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ A discontented sigh rumbles in his throat, and he doesn't relinquish his position, either, gaze narrowing in scrutiny. Yes, he'd seen the post, but— ]

Hrm. I wanted to be Mina-chan's one and only Valentine.

[ And then comes the pout — sharp and pointed. Realistically speaking, he shouldn't be so incensed by this; giving Valentine's out to friends is pretty standard behavior, and it's not as though they had discussed spending Valentine's together, or anything like that. Hell, it hasn't come up at all yet, and they're not even a couple — and yet he still can't help the wave of jealousy, the impulse to hunt and corner her.

Like prey.

Oh... ]
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i

[personal profile] hathasacat 2024-02-07 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ You know, Lyney would've thought he'd notice all of these people around with animal-like features. Or maybe it was some sort of holiday? Either way, it has him wandering curiously around, lost in his own musings, which is why he ends up sputtering around an entire face full of snow leopard tail. ]

What sort of luck are you usually given-?
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[personal profile] riproduzione 2024-02-07 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ It would have been so easy to let it all pass if it weren't for the clattering of glass and the scent he catches on the air. It's weird, and he can't explain it, but it's caught his interest, and so he begins stretching languidly across the bar as he gets to his feet. Hopefully no one else is around to see the slight wobble as he balances on his giant paws.

Sniffing the air, he paces down the length of the bar, hopping off at the end and following his nose to an impressive wall of shelves filled with bottles. Ears twitch at the tiniest of sounds, but he proceeds to go ahead and stick his nose between glasses on the lower shelves, before he stretches on his hind legs for a moment and swipes one of those massive paw at one of the higher shelves, sending bottles scattering and cascading to the ground. ]


If you're going to bother me… Why don't you come out of hiding?

[ Why doesn't he try and say that less like a threat? ]
airdnd: (094)

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[personal profile] airdnd 2024-02-07 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh...

What? ]


...What? Satoru, are you... jealous?

[ From her wanting to give cards to her friends? And what's all this about being her one and only Valentine? They're not even...

Casting a look over her shoulder to glance up at him only spells it all out more clearly, and at once there are too many things swimming around in her head. Confusion at his reaction, embarrassment at how he has her trapped like this, and an instinctual feeling of being hunted, of needing to get away, of needing to diffuse the situation. ]
airdnd: (180)

[personal profile] airdnd 2024-02-07 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her hand slides over her the materials strewn about on her desk, and grasp at a spool of ribbon. Not quite a ball of yarn, but maybe close enough, she hopes.

Lifting her hand, then, she throws it across the room, and the satin ribbon comes loose around the spool as it sails through the air, the delicately cut end of it fluttering in such an enticing way... ]


Woops. My hand slipped! Could you get that for me?

[ If he indeed gives chase, Sumina will of course use that opening to try and slip away from his clutches and her desk!! ]
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[personal profile] unliminal 2024-02-07 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ And just like that, his plans to hunt and trap her go right out the window, as that ribbon sails through the air, fluttering and alluring...how could he resist? It's so shiny and pretty, taunting him as it unspools. Sumina's gambit pays off, as Gojo springs away from the desk to pounce on the ribbon, deftly catching it and pinning it to the ground while doing, yes, the catboy squat. ]

Nyahaha, I've got you now!

[ Talking to the ribbon, yes. He bats it between his hands, wholly enthralled, his attempt to corner Sumina about her Valentine's all but forgotten — for the moment.

This is great. He's never wanted to do anything more than he wants to beat the shit out of this ribbon. A shame his nails aren't sharper, though... ]
startraveler: (everything okay?)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-07 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He genuinely feels bad for such a sudden entrance. His instincts easily take him over now, which is quite worrying on its own.

Before he gets to apologize again, his attention is caught by something else the other has said. Aether tilts his head slightly, glancing at his cat tail, then at Yeyasu.]


Don't Nekomata usually have two tails?

[That's how it was on Teyvat at least, especially looking at Kirara. There were also non-Nekomata people like Lynette or Diona who just had cat ears and tail.]

Ah, but I'm not one anyway. [He explains.] I just woke up with a tail and cat ears this morning.
startraveler: (ahahaha.......)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-07 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's definitely a pleasant surprise to see Kokomi here, but the fact that she's very... fish-like right now makes him take a step back, just to be safe. Since he's partially cat, he honestly does not trust himself, especially after his reaction to the noise.]

Yeah, it's me! Just a bit changed...

[He reaches up pulling a bit on his own ear.]

Are you alright? I didn't mean to startle you.
startraveler: (sweat)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-07 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry Lyney...

Aether gives a small, probably barely noticeable nod, before making another attempt to untangle his paws from all the fabrics he's currently stuck in.]


Um... yes. I could definitely use some help. I've been trying to free myself from these for some time now...
startraveler: (you sure you don't need help?)

[personal profile] startraveler 2024-02-07 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[And he grabs that tiny paw with his own, returning to a more upright position.]

Thanks. You really saved me.
cathasahat: (Lotus Mind white tea)

[personal profile] cathasahat 2024-02-07 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine, she'll just make him let her eat more dessert without complaining later. ]

Mm, it must be hard with only paws.

[ She hesitates slightly before reaching out to help him, but her hands are careful as she unwinds the scarf and cape. ]

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