hotelcaelum | 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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[The "next person" entering the elevator appears to be absolutely no one at first. The elevator doors slide shut with a hum, or nearly do, until they halt at the last second and are pushed back open with an invisible force.]

Hold on.

[-says a very, very tiny voice.

...Which belongs to a very, very tiny jumping spider doing his darndest to catch up, skittering quickly towards the elevators and making one quick leap inside.

It's taking him forever to get from point A to point B, being so small; and while his powers have been a blessing, they haven't exactly helped with this deficiency. He looks up at the seal in the elevators with multiple little dark eyes, obviously unbothered by Bruno's... new form. He's not in much better shape. (Even though he's a spider? And this is great in its own way? Sort of??? He's so conflicted right now.)]

My room's on floor three. Bring me there first, and then you can make it up two flights of stairs on your own, can't you?

[ understandably, it takes Bucciarati a few moments to locate where the sound is coming from - or even to be sure he heard it at all. The voice is so small that he'd have thought he imagined it if he didn't know better. For the first time, being lower to the ground has an advantage: he actually manages to spot the little bug running towards him, and without another soul in sight, he has no choice but to conclude that it's the one speaking. ]

... You're a person? [ tilting his bewhiskered face. ] You've got bad luck.

[ getting anywhere and doing anything must be terrifying and dangerous at that size... ]

Of course I am. I'm Henry.

[Which sounds like a hilarious little introduction, all things considered. And, in turn, he tilts his head back at seal!Bruno, looking at him like o_o with those two big front eyes.]

It's not so bad. Spiders are my favorite -- it's practically an upgrade.

[Normal things for a normal human being to say. Henry doesn't seem bothered, or anxious, or afraid of a world that is suddenly a hundred times larger than it should be. For good or ill, such emotions rarely reach him these days.

So, he skitters closer, then turns around to look up at the elevator buttons high, high above.]

I still have my powers. I can press the button for you. But I want to get to my room first, and it's taking a long time to get anywhere like this.

[ Huh. He hasn't met a Henry yet. This is a hell of a way to meet someone; there aren't exactly any memorable features in that little invertebrate face. Then again, he'd like to think he doesn't look much like a seal, himself...

The unusual choice of favorite animal goes unacknowledged (Giorno's favorite seemed to be snakes, so who is he to judge?) in favor of simply nodding, lowering his head towards the spider to try and hear him better. ]

That's fine, but it won't be a smooth ride. I'm warning you now.

[ There will be much flopping about. Unfortunately. Henry's voice is so small that Bruno feels like he needs to talk more quietly in turn, lest the tiny little guy get blown away - although he finds it very difficult to control his volume while in this form... ]

[He's sure there will be much flopping about, yes. He can't say he's ever ridden a seal before, but he has faith in his little sticky spider legs that can surely cling to a rubbery-feeling animal, so...

He skitters forward, still looking up at him.]

I'll survive.

Lower your head for me. I'll hop on.

Mm.

[ he lowers his head to the floor as instructed. Fortunately, he's not particularly bothered by the idea of having a bug crawl on him. ]

I didn't introduce myself. My name is Bruno Bucciarati.

[Henry hops onto him with the surprising speed of a jumping spider, crawling up Bruno's snoot and then atop his head, turning around to face the same direction.]

Bruno. I think I've seen your name floating around.

[He's trawled the server, even as far back to before Henry arrived.

At any rate, he "pushes" the button for floor 3 with his telekinesis; it lights up and the elevator doors slide slowly shut.]

You've been a guest at this hotel for a few months now, haven't you?

[ it's still a little jarring to be called by his first name, but Henry's not the first and probably won't be the last. It's not like he has any authority here, anyway - not worth it to say anything. Watching the button apparently press of its own volition is surprising only because he doesn't see a Stand causing the effect. Naturally, he's well past assuming every power he sees is associated with a Stand; knowing better, however, doesn't stop him from naturally expecting one. ]

I have. About four, if I remember right.

[ he tilts his head up to watch the floor counter change, now being a very squat animal. ]

[He doesn't know re: first names, no one's taught this 50's-America white boy any better.

The elevator carries them down, down, down...]

So then oddities like this are practically a dime a dozen for you.

What do you make of this hotel, besides that?

Event Log #005

animal crackers ii..... cw; the tiniest spider

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