hotelcaelum | Event Log #005

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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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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.) ]

[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?

[ 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. ]

[Gods. Is he really going to make him do this? Once more, his tail twitches from behind him, but Astarion carefully reaches down and picks up the bone... with two fingers. Like it's radioactive or something.

Makes a face.]

I will throw it once for you. After that, you had better not bring this back.

Okie-dokie, I woooon't!

[ He can't help but sort of howl the long syllable of that last word. It's also a blatant lie; Gojo's doggo-infused nature can't override his inclination to lie to get what he wants.

As soon as Astarion lifts the bone, he readies himself to launch into a sprint as soon as its thrown, nose to the air and tail wagging madly behind him. ]

Okay, throw it, throw it!!!

[ BARK. ]

[If he had hackles, they'd raise instinctively at the bark. A cat does not appreciate being barked at!]

Don't do that! Just- fine, here!

[LOBS IT AS FAR AS HE CAN DOWN THE HALLWAY WHICH-

It's an average throw. It'll give dog!Gojo a good sprint down the hallway, but it's nothing special.]

[ Being a breed that's both quick and agile, Gojo takes off after the bone as its leaving Astarion's grasp, already angling for where it will land, and dashing forward, he catches it in his mouth with ease. He is so good at this whole fetch thing! But then again, he's good at everything.

Sprinting back to Astarion after only a few moments away, he drops the bone once more, ready for it to be tossed. ]

Okay, now do that again, but better!

[ Throwing game kinda weak, buddy. ]

[ Winter has been off at some table by himself watching Satoru be an absolute terror around the kitchen, and while his new instincts tell him not to get involved, he can’t very well let his friend run rampant.

Besides, he has a duty as one of the few people around this place who’s taller than Gojo. A duty… to scruff.

So, while he’s knocking the umpteenth breakfast plate off some poor person’s table, Winter walks up behind him to gather the back of his shirt in his hand and lift him from the floor. ]

Just what do you think you’re doing?

[ 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!

[ He’s going to hold on until he ushers Gojo away from the cafeteria, or until the man teleports. Whichever comes first. ]

Like you can’t afford another one.

[ Unfortunately for Winter, Gojo is in too much of a mood to simply allow himself to be escorted peacefully, so he teleports out of his grip with a snicker, appearing just behind Winter to grab him by the back of his shirt instead.

And he's, you know, hovering, to give himself a little extra height over his friend. ]

It's the principle. You know what a stickler I am for principles!

Edited 2024-02-08 18:51 (UTC)

[ NOT THE UNO REVERSE!!

Winter finds his feet suddenly lifted from the ground, and he gives a little indignant squirm in Gojo's grip. ]

You mean not at all? You can't just make things up and think I'll believe it!

Nyehehe... [ An appropriate catlike chuckle, from an appropriately catlike man. ] Maybe not, but you can't blame me for trying!

[ He sets Winter down again at least, though he does keep his Infinity barrier up this time. Just in case he gets any wise ideas. ]

Who made you the fun police, anyway?

[ It's probably for the best that Sumina is yet to witness Catoru's other feline antics - especially those around breakfast - or else we would need another presidential alert.

As it is, Sumina has taken to simply... stealing food away at night and hoarding it in her suite along with other knick-knacks, which Satoru will bear witness to when he teleports right in. Her suite always has a bit of an "organized chaos" feel to it, particularly when she's busied herself, but ever since the hotel gave them animalistic features, this place has really taken a bit of a maximalist vibe to it... Gojo's probably seen The Secret World of Arietty, right? It's getting there.

At present, the innkeeper is standing next to her desk, which is practically overflowing with all sorts of bits and bobs, cards and bits of lace and cutout hearts and flowers and washi tape, like a stationery store exploded all over her desk.

She is surveying her work and thinking that she really ought to go out and get more stuff when she feels a sudden presence against her, causing her to give a very mousey shriek, on account of her mouselike features. Big, round ears go rigid atop her head while a long, tapered tail lashes out from side to side, whiskers twitching as she drops the card she'd been working on. ]

Satoru!

[ ...Is he purring? Instinct tells her that she needs to get away, so she leans away from his nuzzling... ]

H-Hold on, what's gotten into you?

[ says mouse to cat. ]

[ 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? ]

[ 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...

[ 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"?

[ 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... ]

[ 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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