Event Log #005

[caelumstaff]

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. NAV | PREMISE | RULES | FAQ | TAKEN hotelcaelum | caelumserver | caelumooc

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[caelumstaff]

[vecna]

Do characters still possess their canon abilities/powers/etc even in animal form?

[airdnd]

🐭 1. a bit of mousekeeping

[ The magicks of this place have seen fit to give murine features this month, with large, round mouse ears on her head, a long tail that tapers at the end, and whiskers on her face.

She can be found at her usual haunts like coffee spots, lounges, and the various library floors with her usual spread of parchments and books and journals... and also a plate just full of many different cheeses along with other random assortments of snacks that don't necessarily all go together... Is Sumina Heartleaf, the foodie, committing food crimes? What's gotten into her?

Other times, she can be found... housekeeping! Mousekeeping? Not unlike her earlier days in the hotel, Sumina appears to be tidying up around the hotel, but rather than simply cleaning, she is more... collecting things? What things? A lot of random things, apparently. Like jars of sugar and vases and random wall decor? Think Arrietty, but she's still a full-sized woman— she doesn't even seem to be completely aware that she's collected all of these objects in her arms while she's simply roaming about, either, as if it's all just some kind of animalistic impulse... how strange! ]

🍪 2. when life gives you cookies

[ Sumina can't resist complimentary cookies... and as food is the only thing she finds herself willing to be adventurous with, you'll find her transformed into a few different animals now and again throughout the month, wherever, whenever.

Take your pick between tiny mouse, which you can find scurrying about the dining room or at one of the many food establishments... She's not trying to cause a health code violation, she swears, so she's very frantic about trying to get out but also very very prone to being distracted by food. Hopefully it's not yours...

Other times, as a small white dog, she can be found strolling about like nothing is amiss. Just act natural... Though at some point she will, once again, go on a culinary detour after picking up the scent of somethign delicious... Hi, there's a little pomeranian at your feet looking up at you, now. With big puppy eyes. Begging.

But also, how was she supposed to know a larger-than-the-rest hamster cookie would signify a giant space hamster? Yes, those are a real D&D animal, and yes, you can ride on them... This one will just bump straight into you and then give a very Sumina-sounding yelp. She's not used to being large! ]

wildcard
( as ever, easy as sunday morning, just hmu on discord or leave me a bespoke starter I'm down for anything! )

2. Pomeranian

[cathasahat]

[ Lynette is taking advantage of the many restaurants in the hotel and is in fact seated at a table with some tea and snacks.

She looks the same as usual (to someone who's met her before), but though she's usually fine with dogs, today her tail puffs out a little in surprise when she first notices Sumina.

It returns to its normal size quickly once she notices that Sumina's dog form is rather small and unassuming. She gives her a long, considering look while sipping her tea. ]

Unfortunately, I don't think sweets are good for dogs.

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[vecna]

[There's a little mouse scurrying around the dining room, and a Borzoi with a golden coat strutting around the same area.

Henry's hard to miss, given his long gait and noodle-like anatomy. (None of these things are new to him, to be honest.) And a mouse might normally circumvent his attention, were he not suddenly in the shape of a dog bred for... hunting.

Bred for hunting game far larger than a mouse, but the instinct kicks in all the same when he hears a skittering of small mouse-feet from one end of the dining area to the next. It feels like a spring unloading in his mind, then made manifest in his limbs, and he doesn't even think about it: he just lunges forward in a sprint, headed directly and quite worrisomely...

Right towards mouse!Sumina! I'd say it's probably fine but it's not!!!]

You!

[i'm sorry]

gisumina TANDEMAUS!!

[fixtures]

[ The idea of being turned into vermin is, quite frankly, disgusting, at first. Rats and mice are hardly thought of as cute, in her time: they're thought of as pests to get rid of. Perhaps particularly so, living as a servant as she does.

However, blissfully, her head is somewhat emptier, since taking on this form. She, too, is easily distracted by food — more the aroma of it and the innate dsire to hoard it than out of a desire to eat, but the important part is that she's on the same page as Sumina. And that food up on top of this pristine table is looking (and smelling) mighty delicious...

She's taken the form of a long black mouse, and she still has her lil maid headband atop her head because I said so. And she is huddled close to Sumina (rat cuddles), standing up on her hind paws to sniff sniff sniff at the air in a very mouse-like fashion, trying to locate where exactly atop this very tall table the food might be at. ]

My, are you keen on retrieving supper from here, my dear? [ They are in a restaurant... and thankfully under a table so that no one can see them squeaking about stealing and/or chase them out due to the aforementioned Health Code Violations™. ] Perhaps I may assist.

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[icyspicy]

[ Winter can and often does move quite quietly, but it’s even worse now that he’s taken on the traits of a big cat, and he pads up to see Sumina-mouse lifting a random painting from the wall somewhere? One of those stock affairs that seem to be in every hotel.

He sits back to watch her for a moment, snow leopard tail twitching. ]

My, my. And I thought I was the art thief here.

2 - Hamster

[staffcocked]

[As for Yeyasu, he was munching on a banana as he had a sudden craving for that particular fruit! After eating one of the animal crackers, he had grown a monkey tail and his usual pointy demonic ears were more human-shaped. Even the sides of his cheeks had become slightly hairier than he what considered "handsome and soft"!

Though after bumping into Hamster!Sumina... He falls on his butt with some more monkey sounding yelps. Now he's used to Prinnies looking like penguins, but a giant hamster was enough to throw him off completely!]

EEEEEEP! W-Who's keeping a jumbified hamster around here?! That's a Hinomoto brand only technique!

2 doggy date time

[unliminal]

[ What if they were both doggos, and they met under the table where someone is eating something that smells really good, and they held paws?

...Wait, is that Sumina? It must be — he would recognize her scent anywhere. ]

You look cute like this, Momo-chan! Hehe...

[ Too bad he can't pet her. Dog on dog petting action would probably look kinda... ]

Want me to knock this table over? Just say the word!

[unfastens]

HOP TO IT

[ he wouldn't have complained about the frequent outfit if he knew the hotel would go ahead and up the ante immediately. Now he has new body parts. Wonderful. All things considered, it could be much worse - a tail is fairly innocuous, and the floppy dog ears at least blend in slightly with his hair - but, again: it's the principle. That, and the fact that he had to cut a hole in his pants. Unbelievable.

He came downstairs for some minor reason - to pick up more coffee, maybe - but he finds his plans forgotten quite rapidly when he catches sight of the elevator doors closing behind Mr. Bennet and his little cotton tail. Unbeknownst to Bucciarati, those floppy black ears perk right up on his head. ]

Hey. What direction was he headed in - up or down?

[ questioning whoever is nearest quite seriously... unless they happen to have the traits of some other small, highly-chaseable critter, in which case the questioning is followed by him narrowing his eyes. ]

ANIMAL CRACKERS I

Here. You dropped this.

[ Visiting the floor with the beautiful fields of flowers to get a break from the madness of the hotel? Too bad. There's a talking dalmatian here now, speaking with a smooth, even (somewhat familiar-sounding?) voice and looking quite dignified with a (somewhat familiar-looking?) golden collar, and he's brought you something in his mouth. Maybe it really is something you dropped, a key or a bag or something more precious, and the dog is being very gentlemanly in retrieving it for you. Or maybe the dog instincts are beating Bucciarati in this moment, and he's brought you a ball. Why does he have that...?? ]

ANIMAL CRACKERS II

[ Rest assured that he is not eating these animal crackers on purpose; the hotel has to be putting them in the food. He doesn't have much of a sweet tooth, and certainly not for cheap animal crackers, and doubly-certainly not for ones that turn you into a seal. This is the predicament he currently finds himself in: stuck on the wrong floor of the hotel, turned completely into a pinniped with nary an opposable thumb to his name. Some clever use of his Stand managed to get him into the elevator without being seen (this one actually is kind of embarrassing), but, unfortunately, his plans have been halted by the actual buttons inside said elevator. He's not tall enough to reach them like this, and he no longer has the manual dexterity for his Stand to do it, either.

So he waits for someone else to enter the elevator. The next person who decides to change floors will find an entire spotted seal sitting there in the corner, somehow wearing an extremely serious expression. ]

Take me to the fifth floor.

animal crackers i.............

[fixtures]

[ She is, in fact, in a field of beautiful flowers — giving in to the more animalistic instincts of wanting to frolic about in a big open field (quite contrary to her usual routine, which is to remain mostly indoors, aside from tending to the garden). The reason would be obvious enough from one look at her: elongated black ears at the sides of her head, sharp horns sprouting just in front of her maid's headband, and most eerie of all, rectangular, horizontal pupils in her green eyes, which narrow a bit as he approaches her. While the majority of her form remains human, she's beginning to take on the features of a black goat. ]

Oh?

[ She holds out a hand to receive the AKECHY BALL™, moving it this way and that in her head to try to discern if there's something special about it. Huh, sure does look like that one kid. Anyways. Strangely, she feels a little on edge, looking at his canine form, but not quite enough to run away, pulling the ball close to her chest. ]

My, is it that you would like to play fetch? As a hound would?

[ Her eyes crease as she smiles, leaning down a bit to inspect him. Sadly, she doesn't connect the dots that it's Bucciarati, even if it's obvious this person (dog?) is a guest. Maybe they're enjoying being a dog she's not gonna take that away from them???? She is asking genuinely, not even mockingly, about the fetching. ]

[icyspicy]

I ✨ WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

[ Winter is looking far more winter-y with the ears and long, fluffy tail of a snow leopard. While he hasn’t gotten to the point of holding his tail in his mouth like a real snow leopard would, he definitely treats it like some kind of security blanket, often holding it close to his chest with his hands, or draping it over his shoulders like a fashionable feather boa. When he’s not toting it around, it definitely gets in the way, bumping into others in the hall or getting into their faces. ]

Ah… sorry. First my Halloween costume and now this. Just my luck, hm?

O[ therwise, you might catch him on the elevator, or just exiting it, having come from some snowy floor, cheeks flushed and melting snow clinging to his hair. Hopefully he’s not going to make himself sick? He seems perfectly happy, though. ]

II ✨ DISPLACED BEAST

[ Hey, who knew there were animal crackers in the shape of D&D monsters in the mix? Winter sure didn’t and when he ended up with what looked like a cat with too many limbs and undefined features, he just thought it was a weird cookie and not an actual creature. Silly him.

Anyway, there’s now a full-grown displacer beast wandering around the hotel. Or, sometimes more than one as Winter projects duplicates of himself. Don’t worry about it!

Usually, he’s got enough wherewithal to tell people it’s him, but sometimes instinct takes over and you could have a fight on your hands!!

(Let me know if you wanna fight him. We can work something out!) ]

III ✨ WILDCARD

[ Did I miss something? Want to do something else over the course of the month? Feel free to toss another prompt my way!! ]

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[astarion]

[Maybe instinct's taking over at the most inopportune moment, just when crossing the path of a certain goose. And maybe that same goose flaps his wings in panicked instinct to avoid a sudden swipe of tentacle or claws, honking loudly!!!]

Gods—[HONK!!] I'll be going the other way then—[HONK!!]—thank you!

[TURNS AROUND AND WADDLES/FLAPS AWAY AT TOP GOOSE SPEED]

[crimsin]

i ⚜️ making fetch happen

[ It was probably inevitable that Nico would take on traits like the excitable puppy he already is, and is sporting the ears and rapidly wagging tail of a golden retriever. He zips around the hotel with more energy than usual (considering his vampiric speed and strength, that’s very fast indeed) and sticks his nose into everyone’s business instantly ].

Bonjour! Hello! How are you? Have we met yet? I am Nico! It is so delightful to meet you!! Are you going somewhere? Can I walk with you?? Oh! Walk!! I love walks!!!

[ And on and on and on. If you want to get rid of him, throwing something will work as he’ll zip off to chase it, but you better beat a hasty retreat because he’ll be coming right back with your object. ]

ii ⚜️ da na na na batdog

[ Those who have seen Nico in his bat form will probably recognize him: a small dark brown vampire bat with a blond crescent moon marking on his forehead, perched in various places around the hotel. He seems very contemplative for a bat, and after a few moments, there’s a flash of red light and the bat turns into…

A dog??? That’s right, Nico has gone full golden retriever now. He plops down to a sit, lifting a back foot to scratch at his ear. ]

Huh! That is not supposed to happen!

iii ⚜️ wildcard

[ You know the drill! Hit me up with whatever you want! I’m in the discord for plotting! ]

i.

[cathasahat]

[ Lynette doesn't seem to be sporting a new/different set of ears and a tail, but unlike her usual stoic self, she leaps away in surprise when Nico pops up near her. Her ears and tail both fluff up in surprise and she also lets out a surprised hiss before regaining her composure. ]

--Monsieur Nico?

[shardshot]

⭐️ funny bunny

[ Navia can be seen around the hotel sporting a pair of floppy, gold rabbit ears, with a little fluffy tail. She seems to be unaffected by the effects of gaining rabbit traits, as she can be seen early in the day sipping on a cup of tea while reading a book. Upon closer inspection, however, one may notice that she has some kind of vegetable between her teeth -- celery, lettuce, a carrot -- she's going through them like clockwork, and notably nibbling on them constantly. If someone greets her, she'll stop gnawing for a split second. ]

Good morning! What a strange day it is today, don't you think?

[ And then she'll go back to biting on her veggie. ]

⭐️ animal crackers

[ Eating a cracker was a mistake. At least it was a cute one.

Be careful where you walk, because there's a small golden bunny hopping around the hotel! And this bunny has zoomies. It's racing across the floor of the lobby and other miscellaneous locations of the hotel. Looks like it just wants to run. It'll even circle around someone's feet for a moment, and surprisingly, it will speak through heavy breaths: ]

Wow...this is surprisingly very exciting!

[ And then the rabbit will go up on its hind legs and look up. ]

I'm sorry, I'm not in your way, am I?

⭐️ wildcard

[ Nods fast, hmu with whatever! ]

ii. animal crackers

[cathasahat]

[ Lynette looks down at the bunny racing around her. Her ears and tail look like normal, though her tail slowly twitches back and forth as she watches the bunny's movements.

Though when it speaks, that changes to a surprised lash of the tail. ]

Is that you, Miss Navia?

[cardsharked]

i. desperately seeking a poirpoise in life;

[Odette can most often be found near aquatic habitats, lingering on one of the piers on Floor 5 or sitting on the lip of the pool completely covering one of the higher floors or standing in shallow water, upper body draped on solid ground instead. A rounded arrow of a fin curves from her upper back, but it's the enormous black and white tail flattened out behind her that demands the most attention. Every now and then the tail will sweep back and forth against the wood or stone or concrete, as if scratching at an itch that can't quite be satisfied, before eventually slapping the surface and giving up.

Needle-fine teeth, even sharper than her usual, catch a glint of light as she cranes her neck to get a better look at you - the dorsal fin makes periphery kind of a pain in the ass, and she seems less than pleased with the amount of bending required.]

Hey. Indulge my curiosity. You one of those people who thinks it's possible to feel homesick for a place you've never been?

ii. whale, whale, whale;

[This could have easily gone pear-shaped if she'd gotten herself stuck in the library or maybe floating around in that weird space-themed floor. Thankfully, Odette seems to have not been stranded on a desert floor or in another similarly dry climate before thoughtfully snacking on an animal cookie with fins. Even without Bennet to demonstrate, there's a nonzero chance she'd already made her calculations about what these were likely to do and set herself up somewhere comfortable before any actual cookie-eating occurred.

Anyone visiting one of the many hotel shores or poolsides will find them now apparently abandoned. Maybe Odette's gone elsewhere?

Anyone actually approaching the waterside, however, will find it less empty than it initially appears; very unlucky guests will promptly find themselves blasted by a spigot of water being blown from the surface or in the path of a wave stirred by a tail suddenly emerging from the depths. Think fast! The very water seems to be laughing at the playful display.]

iii. bah, ram, ewe;

[There are many different floors in the hotel, and most of them don't adhere to traditional architecture. No small number of them are wide-open spaces or peppered with alien geometries. Others, still, are just what one might expect: a long hall with destinations and pathways branching to either side.

Someone venturing down once such narrow hallway might find their path suddenly blocked by a hunched cryptid shape in the distance, large and somewhat gangly and staring with an intensity that can be felt even from several feet away. It barely moves, except to slowly, methodically shift forward, step by step, to deter each step closer to or away from it in kind.

Good enough lighting or a closer look will of course reveal the stone-still shape slinking in the hallway is just a very big dog stationed stiffly in the middle of the path, haunches sloped. Even its tail is completely still, if at rest.]

You wanna go the other way now?

iv. WILDcard; hehehe, get it?

[If you're actually interested in airlifting an orca to the pool floor or have an idea for another animal encounter, throw it at me or come hit me up to plot something else!]

iii!

[fixtures]

[ Odette will find that following her question spoken into the dim hallway, she'll be greeted by This Thing, little headband and all. Black goats are a foreboding omen, in her time, so it fits that she merely stands there eerily, ears flicking as she considers the warning.

Now, one part of her, the prey instincts, thinks that she should probably just turn around and flee. But, also... she feels much more stubborn than she might usually show, not particularly wanting to bend to the will of the hound before her, due in part to her newfound bullheadedness that came with being a goat. She doesn't advance, but she doesn't retreat, either, tilting her horned head innocently. There serene smile that would normally be there is practically audible in her voice: ]

Now, why ever would I do that? I am travelling this way.

[laevateinns]

--HOP TO IT
(don't worry he's had his shots (lying) )

[ the first day this effect takes place, akechi can be found creeping through the hallways with a hat covering his head and a Big Hoodie covering up the bulge of a tail in the back of his pants.

things may be different now, but... he still cares about appearances, okay, and he's wandering around perhaps trying to find a floor where this effect will go away-- hopefully permanently.

at other times in the month, he can be found actually, literally digging into a garbage can-- having submitted to the instincts that his new (and now visible) raccoon ears and tail have given him.

he looks like he's concentrating very hard about it-- picking up certain things and studying them carefully before deciding to keep them or not-- so at least some of his personality is still able to shine through.

ha! and he said he'd never dig through trash. ]

--ANIMAL CRACKERS
(a little on the nose)

[ as for animal crackers... akechi does not, in fact, eat the raccoon cookie.

he has an idea of where that will lead.

but... he can't help himself from grabbing the cookie with a bird on it. listen... he is the one who picked his own codename-- at least, in a way-- he does like crows.

and now he is one.

he's flapping about trying to figure out how to fly now, but if someone (or another animal) approaches him at first he might not answer in a regular voice, as if to conceal that it's him doing something so "embarrassing;" instead, all the other might get is an unconvincing "caw." ]

animal crackers!! cw for very small spider

[vecna]

[A very tiny jumping spider hangs from a single silken thread above, dangling from the ceiling and watching crow!Akechi flap around, trying to get a hang of flying below. And now greeted with a “caw” when he’s finally noticed.

He has no way of knowing that it’s Akechi, of course; there’s even the risk (unlikely, but still possible) that this isn’t a person at all, but an actual crow that could notice him and think of him as a meal. But Henry is willing to take that risk, knowing that he has his powers as a backup plan in case things go pear-shaped.

And so, a little voice from above:]

Hello to you, too.

[startraveler]

☆ Meow Meow?

[Waking up with cat ears and a matching tail has been an odd experience, but upon realizing that he's not the only one who gained animal features overnight, Aether relaxes. He's seen many strange things in his life, but he can't help wondering if maybe this hotel is doing it on purpose so the guests wouldn't get bored.

Regardless, the traveler quickly finds himself in a need of a nap. The library sounds like a nice, quiet place so that's where he heads to. Somehow he managed to find a fairly empty shelf located closer to the ceiling and he squeezes himself there to rest. Perhaps you will notice him while looking for a book?

If not, then a loud noise of a fallen tome is bound to eventually startle Aether awake and he jumps down right in front of you! Don't worry, he's totally fine, but he will recognize that his sudden appearance may be startling.]

Ah, sorry!

[His ear twitches as if still listening in for more noise.]

☆ Animal Crackers

[It is yet another time when he's eaten something here and transformed as a result. Honestly, at this rate he'll develop some kind of trust issues for the food here... but that is a problem for another time.

Even though he had cat traits so far after eating the cracker Aether has turned into a small bunny! He's so fluffy too and his trademark earring can be seen firmly in his flopped ear. But! He is also trapped in his cape and scarf, desperately trying to get out of the fabrics and getting tangled into them only more. Help!]

☆ Wildcard!

[Hit me with any scenario or let's plot on discord!]

double bunny time!

[feyfound]

Uh-oh, you look trapped! Let me help!

[ Comes the sing-song voice of a fellow adventurer who is eager to help! Coincidentally, she has also taken the form of a small, sort of bunny-like creature, though with a horn protruding from the top of her head.

...A horn which is coming in rather handy while she butts her head repeatedly against the heap of clothing on the floor and using that horn pull away at the fabric. ]

Watch out for the horn, please! I don't want to accidentally stab you!

[ At least she gave a warning!? Is this helping or just making the entanglement worse? ]

[warmaid]

🧜‍♀️ I. Mermaid

[To the surprise of pretty much no one, Kokomi finds herself sporting a half-fish (or half sea-serpent?) body. While she generally doesn't have any objections to the hotel's choice of animal for her, there are some significant drawbacks:

1. While she can still breathe air, she finds that she becomes anxious to the brink of panic if she's out of the water for any length of time.
2. She has no legs and cannot walk.

Luckily, the hotel staff have her covered. They give her a motorized bathtub full of water to drive around the hotel in. It's a practical solution, if a bit embarrassing to ride around in.

She can be found either swimming around the waters on the 5th floor or riding around various parts of the hotel in her bathtub-cart. Sometimes she'll be eating seaweed or a can of fish flakes meant for aquarium fish. Don't judge her.]


🐟 II. Fish

[After helping herself to some animal crackers, Kokomi completes her transformation into a fish. At first, she swims uselessly in circles in her bathtub. Eventually, she realizes she can speak and decides to request assistance from whoever might be passing by.]

Excuse me. Can you please help take me back to the 5th floor?


✨ III. Wildcard

(( I'm also up for whatever, if neither of these suit your fancy! Hit me up at asondeiru or asondeiru on discord if you wanna plot. ))

FISH

[laevateinns]

[ a crow tilts his head at fish kokomi appraisingly, as if trying to decide whether to even answer.

apparently, he decides upon “yes.” ]

I can’t imagine that would be fun for you. [ he kicks up a talon as if to demonstrate just how sharp they are. ]

[riproduzione]

i. hop to it

Oh, haha, very funny.

[ Abbacchio is in one of the many hotel elevators, glaring at his reflection in the mirror. Through his hair — does it look fluffier to you? — peek out two rounded, fuzzy ears. A long white tail with a fluffy tip swishes behind him and makes his irritation both very visible, and very clear. He doesn't sound amused at all, being afflicted with sudden lion-like features of his namesake.

He can be found variously around random spots in the hotel. Maybe you spot him at some kind of themed restaurant, eyes trained on what is probably an animatronic bird while he eats… is that raw meat? Can he eat that? And why does it look like he might attack the robotic parrot? ]

ii. animal crackers

→ the lion's share 🦁

[ There is a pale lion asleep in a bar. On the bar, in fact. It's not exactly the kind of drinking hole one would expect to find a lion, but here he is. Were you trying to get a drink? Too bad, the lion's ears flick at the smallest sound of movement, and his head pops up and growls, it's low and reverberates throughout the space. ]

Go somewhere else, I'm sleeping.

[ After he's finished napping, he can be found intermittently he can even be seen stalking through corridors, quiet on his feet and slow in his movements — almost like he's hunting? Get too close, and he might turn to you, lip curling as he tells you to be quiet. Or are you who he's stalking?

Eventually, his nose leads him to the smells on the mall floor. But once he's there, the source of the smells is nowhere near as interesting as the boring beige pile of boxes tucked out of sight. Hopefully no one sees the way he pounces at them, and starts tucking his lanky limbs underneath himself as he sets about… sitting in cardboard boxes? Or, at least, attempting to. He does not fits, he cannot sits, etc. ]

→ see you later, alligator 🐊

[ Eating another cookie is not something he thinks he did, but he must have, because he finds himself practically laying on the ground. Gone is the fur, replaced with thick scales and stumpy legs as he thrashes around, stuck on his back. He snaps out a guttural plea; ]

… help?

[ Whether he managed to roll onto his stumpy lizard legs himself or gets help along the way, he manages to wander around pretty slowly. Be careful not to trip over his tail — Abbacchio is now a ten-foot long alligator.

Fortunately, he disappears off into the hotel and into a swamp? Why is there a swamp here now? Has this always been here? Hot and humid, with large, grassy mounds emerging from the murky waters. Huge trees reach up and up, seemingly vanishing into the ceiling. It's not too bad traversing through the floor. Though, watch out for the driftwood, or you might find it hissing and lunging up out of the waters. ]

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[feyfound]

[ Oh. What an awkward time to be trying to sneak around the bar while the bartender is on a break to steal booze for herself and the other teens...

Especially because she is currently a little almiraj, but one with big butterfly wings on its back! Totally normal. Perhaps it's the sound of those wings beating that wakes the lion, though more likely it's the sound of bottles clattering together that comes with a little critter with no opposable thumbs trying to wrap all four of her limbs around a bottle of liquor to abscond with it. Or both.

Regardless, when his voice booms throughout this swanky little bar Juniper has infiltrated, she'll yelp and do her best to hide in the bottles. With a Stealth roll of, uh... 3. ]

[tailcare]

a tall tail;

[ at first, tingyun doesn't realize anything is wrong. she sits up in bed in the morning, stretching her arms over her head with a smile and a happy little hum, sets her feet on the floor and rises to stand, arching her back and shaking out her tails.

wait. hang on. tails?

tingyun glances behind her and immediately gasps - where there had once been one single thick, fluffy tail, there are now three. is the hotel at it again? what else has changed?? all but flying to the en suite bathroom, she examines herself in the full length mirror, and anyone nearby will hear her piercing shriek. both her face and body are covered with red and black kitsune markings, and tingyun isn't pleased. ]

Oh no. Oh no, oh no, oh no!

animal crackers in my soup;

[ she probably shouldn't trust these crackers, but for the sake of the vine it must be done. maybe it will fix her current predicament! there has to be a way to revert it, right? how much worse could it get? she selects a little fox shaped cookie because, well, she's a foxian, so it makes sense, doesn't it?

surely this will work!!

it doesn't work. ]

...

Again?

wildcard;

[ come at me with anything, or hit me up for a tailored starter! ♥ ]

a tall tail

[warmaid]

[Mer-Kokomi hears the shriek from the hallway and turns her bathtub cart around so she can go knock on the door. Hopefully, she won't have to break the door down to assist--she doubts it's powerful enough to do so.]

Hello? Is everything all right?!

[curvaceous]

🐻 beary hungry

[ Anyone thinking of going to the kitchen will be met with a very strange surprise.

In the corner of the room is a brown bear, and said bear is sitting next to the refrigerator, snacking away at a piece of fruit. It is very fuzzy and looks pretty soft, but should anyone get close to it, the bear will stop eating and move a few inches away. It'll eye the newcomer, watching them, and it may be a little eerie...but it won't act.

Unless it opens the fridge. Then, it will speak: ]

Leave some fruit for me, please. I'm hungry.

🐻 beary inconvenient

[ Those near the elevator on the first floor may walk past a very interesting scenario.

The bear that was in the kitchen is now trying to enter the elevator, but it seems like it is a little too large for it. Still, it's trying to feel out the elevator, pawing around to see if there's a way in. It is taking quite a while and, potentially, holding up the line.

Fortunately, Kara!Bear gives up after a minute, and she backs out of the elevator before she notices a bystander. ]

I'm taking the stairs.

[ ... ]

You want a ride?

[ Her back is large enough to support a human or small animal up there, at least! ]

🐻 wildcard

[ Hit me up with anything! ]

beary inconvenient

[encoffins]

[A black raven, wearing a little red cloak with a high collar, hop hop hops closer to her.]

Wouldn't mind it.

[Everything made for human hands is... difficult when you do not have human hands, and this includes pressing elevator buttons. Imagine.]

You know, if this hotel was going to change us so drastically, you'd think it would have elevators to accommodate.

[mehrakulous]

🦊 there are worse surprises

[It seems Kaveh's little vacation is only getting more strange. This morning he woke up feeling so odd and then several things hit the floor when he caught his own reflection in the mirror - freshly sporting a pair of desert fox ears. (The tail discovery came later.) Kaveh likes desert foxes just fine, but he's never really wished or needed to be one.

It doesn't take him long to learn just how sensitive their giant ears really are, either. Unless or until he finds a way to muffle some of the sound, Kaveh goes around the hotel a little skittishly, with his hands alternately covering his human ears and his vulpine ones.

Approach?

He'll flinch away preemptively and lift his shoulders, as if he wanted to disappear into his shell like a turtle. (He's absolutely certain he should not think too hard about turtles. Just in case.)]

Not so loud, okay?

🦜 kaveh eats more cursed food

[It'll be a few days before Kaveh gets used to so much hearing all the time. He looks like he hasn't slept that well - if there's a way to request some sort of soundproof room adjustment, he hasn't found it. Mehrak is following along behind him, airborne, though his hands aren't busy covering his ears nearly as much now.

At least the lifts are working.

He finds himself in the main lounge without too many other people around, for a change. Kaveh sits down, letting out a quick and heavy sigh. A plate of cookies in animal shapes sits on the little table beside him.]

This has to be someone's bad joke. [He's not talking to anyone in particular; Mehrak beeps softly in response all the same. Kaveh picks up a lovely bird-shaped cookie and takes a bite. It's not bad. Not too sweet, not overbaked. For one terrible second it makes him want desperately to go home?

And then a beautiful bird is perched on the back of the chair, in Kaveh's place. The bird blinks several times - the floaty box behind it emitting a relentless stream of shrill beeping sounds - and flaps its wings.

And for the rest of the day, Kaveh swoops around the lounge and any floor he can manage to get a lift ride to. He's not the most coordinated at flight, so expect to be divebombed - accidentally, of course.]

💚 wildcard

[For anything else your heart may desire?]

worse surprises

[icyspicy]

[ Skittish desert fox, meet solitary snow leopard. He’s just hanging out by himself in the library, a place for being quiet if there ever was one, but of course he wonders what has the other man so on edge. So, he pads over to investigate. ]

Kav—

[ Not so loud? Okay. At a whisper: ]

Kaveh, are you alright?

[unliminal]

1. out of the bag

a [ It's telling, perhaps, that even sporting a pair of fluffy white cat ears and a matching tail, Gojo doesn't seem to be acting terribly different from usual. Maybe it's that his typical behaviors are ostentatious and unpredictable enough that it's impossible to say what's out of the ordinary for him, but he is particularly rare form now. At the continental breakfast, he can be found sitting on any of the tables — yes, "on", not "at" — carrying on as he eats his stack of donuts, or perhaps he's even sitting on the breakfast bar itself, tail flicking back and forth as he watches intently while you try to live your life and obtain breakfast. ]

Heheh...sorry, you can't have that.

[ Were you just reaching for sugar to put in your coffee? Too bad, because he just licked his finger and stuck it in the sugar jar. Yeah. His sugar.

He also might just. Wander over to your table at some point and knock your food on the floor. What the fuck. ]

Whoopsie! Hehehe...

[ Yeah, he doesn't sound very sorry at all. ]

b [ When he's not causing problems on purpose around the hotel, he's probably sleeping, because a mighty need for plentiful naps also comes with the territory. Of course, rather than sleep anywhere convenient, he opts for the worst places possible: in front of doorways, on top of bookcases in the library, in any box he can find that's large enough...

Will you wake him up? Step on him? Just leave him be while he has a nice nappy? He does look awfully cute and peaceful in his sleep, storing up energy for his next bout of cat crimes. ]

c. [ Of course, as with most cats, every once in awhile...he displays affection. It may not be terribly shocking to those who know him well, but he has a lot to give, and he's been storing it up through his various escapades, until he's feeling suitably sated and ready to bestow it on anyone nearby, whether he knows them or not.

Anyway, don't mind him just sidling up quietly (or perhaps even teleporting, for a little bit of mischief mixed with his affection) next to you and nuzzling close — to your shoulder, your arm, even your hair, and is he...

Purring? ]

2. dog days

[ You might expect that when Gojo tries one of the animal crackers, he would turn into the fabled Gojo cat of legend, yet it seems...Gojo cat is not real. Instead, he becomes a fluffy, white dog — with his trademark blue eyes, of course. In this form, he finds he's suddenly very intent on hunting, and the moment he spies any of the smaller animal guests around the hotel's hallways...

He takes off in a mad dash in their direction. Hope you're ready to play chase!

Otherwise, if you're in human form still, he trots up and drops a bone at your feet. Yes, a real bone. None of that rawhide shit in this house. ]

Don't ask where I got it. Just throw.

[ Throw it!!!!! ]

3. wildcard

[ Have another idea you want to throw my way? I'm all ears! (I just wanted to make that joke.) ]

2

[astarion]

[Astarion is more elven than cat, but he's certainly sporting fluffy white cat ears and a tail. It flicks tellingly when a big white dog saunters up to him, and despite immediately recognizing the voice...

His cat-like, fastidious nature eyes the bone and makes a face.]

Eugh.

[Eugh!!!!]

I will be asking where you got it. ...Have you slobbered all over that?

[eyescar]

( 001 ) arrival

[ The ding announces Yuji's arrival better than anything else does, and for a little while he looks utterly shellshocked, standing in the middle of the lobby as he tries to figure out where he ought to go and what he ought to be doing, with everything a little too explosive in his mind. Wrapping his mind around everything is a difficult task when it still feels as though there's charcoal or the metallic taste of blood on his tongue; he's here for a reason.

He chose to be here. It's better to be here at home, even if the anxiety of leaving everything behind makes him feel as though he might break into pieces right now. He has a room he can go to, and that seems like the best option, considering his instinct is to break down and cry himself into exhaustion for a few hours. Feeling a little bit like he's scraping himself off the floor, he begins to make his way up to the room on his keycard.

Along the way, it would be easy enough to stop him and force him into a conversation - he's not trying to get anywhere fast, not when it looks as if someone has cut the very heart out of him, and he doesn't do much more than nod at anyone he comes across. Clearly, something bad has happened and Yuji is doing his best to compartmentalise it all and make it make sense, even though that is practically impossible. ]

( 002 ) hop to it

[ "Settled in" might not be something that Yuji would claim to have done thus far, but he's feeling a little bit better about the whole situation.

Or he was, before the dog ears appeared on top of his head, a cute pink tail flicking behind him.

Having wandered away from his room, he's ended up hovering in the middle of a random hallway, lifting his hand and tweaking at the ears on top of his head. They twitch, one way then the other, and then flatten to the top of his pink hair as his tail droops. For someone who tries very hard to hide how they're feeling - let's pretend everything is fine and he doesn't feel like crying at all times! - this is a pretty distinct way of showing off the ongoing heartache that he's suffering through.

At one point during his wandering, however, Yuji stops and stands straight, as if someone's shoved a bamboo pole down his shirt. His eyes widen, and his head tilts one way then the other, painfully doglike as he sniffs the air. There's something that's caught his attention, but he's struggling to place what it is - he never scented his mentors as a doglike hybrid before, so he can't quite figure out what is going on other than he wants to find them.

So, throughout the day, you might find what seems like a teenager with the zoomies running around the hotel, trying desperately to find something that he can't place. ]

Excuse me! I need to get by!

( 003 ) animal crackers

[ Yuji has got to stop eating weird things.

He should've known from the ears and then the shape of the crackers, but he was hungry and he grabbed the first one that he could get his hands on, swallowing it down without hesitation. As a consequence - well, there's now a rather bright pink akita inu sitting in the main lounge, eyes comically wise as he looks around the room from the new angle of much, much lower to the ground. ]

Huh?

[ Lifting himself up onto his legs, Yuji turns and twists, as though he's trying to chase his tail, before he drops down to the ground with a low, whine-like groan. ]

I gotta stop eating weird things.

( 004 ) wildcard

( Feel free to do anything and everything else that you want! I am brand new and finding my footing, so do whatever. PM me and we can figure something out if you like! <3 )

2! jjk spoilers very very very imminent

[nonexempt]

[ Yuji isn't the only one who picks up a Specific Scent and has a very hard time placing it. It smells familiar, and a bit like home, and he doesn't know why it's making him a bit sad to smell but it is regardless. The blond wolf ears at the top of his head flatten slightly as he finds himself getting up from his seat in the lounge, where he's been drinking tea and minding his business, and instead takes off in search of the scent.

It requires a bit of ... hunting, for lack of a better word, for him to find the source of the scent. He smells it initially on the first floor but then it takes him up the stairs to another floor... and then back down the stairs to another floor — it's a little confusing but. Nanami isn't deterred though, because all it takes is some slow, steady following of the scent until he finally catches up with it.

And there's Yuji. Nanami is frozen in place for a moment, not having expected to, well, ever see Yuji again. Their last moments replay in his mind and he swallows, feeling very much like turning away for a moment and going back to his room. To hide, really. Like a coward. His tail pins itself to his back, feeling a little too much at once and it's because of his hesitancy that the choice to run or to confront Yuji is taken away from him.

Because Yuji will turn and be able to see Nanami, right there, staring at him. He just looks right back at Yuji when their eyes meet and then, quietly — ]

Itadori.

[animated]

one. 📚 IN THE DOG HOUSE

[ Come to Hotel Caelum, they said. It’ll be a great relaxing time, they said. And Charlie had listened, ready to get a break from the oddities that plagued his everyday life. Silly him, because the moment he gets settled, he finds himself sporting a pair of sandy blond dog ears and a tail to match.

Hm. Hmmm.

He flicks an ear at whoever seems to be nearby, clocking their presence without seeming to mean to. He turns and indicates his floppy canine ears with a finger. ]

Excuse me, is this normal?

[ For a given definition of the word “normal.” ]

two. 📚 A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME

[ Oh, now he’s starting to get a sense that weird stuff is going to be a part of his life no matter where he goes, especially after an animal cracker straight up turned him into a little bluebird. At least getting to fly around is cool! Even if he’s not very good at it yet.

Speaking of, incoming! There’s a little bluebird haphazardly flying over to perch on you, feet scrambling to find purchase in clothes or fur or whatever you happen to be sporting right now. ]

Sorry! Sorry! I’m still getting the hang of it!

three. 📚 WHATEVER YOU WANT!

[ Obligatory wildcard. As Charlie is new, please drag him into shenanigans! ]

2!

[nonexempt]

[ There is a little bluebird on his shoulder. And it's talking to him. This should be more surprising but as it is, Nanami just seems perfectly at ease with this and assumes it must be another guest of the hotel. The fluffy blond wolf tail attached to him even wags a little. Oops. ]

It's okay. I don't have any advice for you regarding flying though, unfortunately. Just keep trying?

fushiguro megumi | jujutsu kaisen

[seaurchin]

🐱CATBOY CRIMES

[ If not for the fact that he can sense the familiar presence of a few people he knows around, Megumi would have left this bizarre, cosmic hotel right away. He doesn't exactly remember checking in, and he's far too skeptical to believe that some strange building could feasibly grant his wish. Those people that he can sense are far too important to him to ignore, however, and here he will remain for the time being, checking through every floor in search of one Yuji Itadori, Satoru Gojo and Kento Nanami.

There's a black wolf beside him that has its nose fixed to the ground as it tracks the scents of those hotel guests. On his head and sticking out of his pants are also the ears and tail of a black cat. They both make quite the fitting pair. ]

What's with all these floors? [ There sure is a floor that is basically a beach?? ]

[ Or one might catch the boy as he's overcome by the his newfound animal-like instincts. These behaviours can include:

1) Falling asleep in a warm spot or sunbeam, curled up on the floor with his dog against him.
2) Edging closer toward someone else and leaning against them when in a particularly cold room.
3) Knocking plates/cups/other objects over, then feeling bad and reorganising them.
4) Smacking a stranger somewhere on their body, if they have a fly, shiny object or dangling object that catches his eye. If he smacks anyone on the butt he will check himself into the afterlife.

He will be profoundly embarrassed by all of them. ]

🐱ANIMAL CRACKERS

[ Megumi is not a fan of sweets or cookies, but he's not impervious to hunger, or the friendly trickery of a close friend. That's why he's in this situation at all. He had eaten a cracker after Itadori had told him to. It looked innocent enough?

Anyway, he will be wandering the hotel as a rather skittish, skinny black cat with green eyes. This black cat will mostly be avoiding anyone he doesn't know, but he will still engage in cat-related shenanigans (as above).

Or, your character might catch him desperately trying to slip his way back to his room when he eventually changes back and finds himself buck naked in the hallways? ]

🐱WILDCARD

[ Do something else with me! ] ]

wildcard ily

[eyescar]

[ Yuji smells him.

He wakes up in his hotel room and there's a new scent nearby, but it's not new in the way that Juju-chan had been, or Sumina-san, it was familiar, like Gojo-sensei and Nanamin. What that tells him immediately is even if he's not sure who has arrived, it's someone he knows, someone familiar. The ache inside of him burns, demanding that he go and figure it out, and his hands shake as he pushes himself up.

He's afraid to hope. He's afraid of a lot of things, but... Hope terrifies him at the moment.

Stumbling out of his room, he immediately gets himself on the trail of whatever it is, and it's... Next door? No, it's just down the hall, and he turns his head to see... A dog? A boy? Cat ears...

There's no way. No way, right? His hands are shaking, his eyes are wide, and he chokes out the words as they rise up in his throat like bile. ]

Fushi... guro?