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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hotelcaelum2024-02-02 08:06 am
tall tail
Which brings her here, outside Tingyun's door, in the optimal front-row seat to hear her panicked shrieking. The reverberation bounces off her strangely even filtered through the wall and hallway, a sound that she feels nearly as well as she hears. She leans her side against the wall casually, dorsal fin preventing a true, arms-crossed, back-to-the-wall position, and lifts her chin to project:]
You fall in, lady? [The chunky whale tail protruding from her lower back could do some damage if slammed hard enough against the door, but she's never been one to throw herself into the fray for the sake of saving someone else.]
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.. no, that won't do, especially not now, when she's earned the attention of someone else.
the door cracks open, and tingyun's green eyes peer through the gap, trying to hide as much of her face as possible, but the red markings still show, despite her attempts. she bites her lip. ]
Ah, I'm so sorry friend, I hadn't meant to startle you.. I'm, um, I'm okay.
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The markings are another thing entirely, so they draw more of her interest. Odette is tall and muscular, so while she doesn't force the door to stay ajar, she does lean her weight against the frame, a "suggestion" that it stays open long enough to continue the conversation.]
You've gotta be in shock if you think I look startled. What's up? You cut yourself?
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[ it isn't obvious? she looks hideous!! how can odette even bear to look at her!! tingyun straightens up a little and pulls the door open a little wider. she's only wearing a sleeveless top and sleeping shorts, so it soon becomes obvious that these markings are all over her body. ]
These.. these red spots. They're all over me..
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No shit. Thought it came as a package deal with the ears and - [her gaze slides just slightly backwards.] tails. [If this is some sort of mythological beast look, then how concerned she should be probably depends on where this girl is from, doesn't it?]
It ain't like I'm normally sporting flippers, either.
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[ tingyun shakes her head, tugging awkwardly at her fingers. she's not usually self-conscious at all, but she's not used to looking like this.. and she's a teensy bit vain. also, yeah, up until this point she'd assumed that the shark features were naturally a part of her.. oops. ]
- you're not? [ a beat. ] I always have my tail and ears.
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[Which...might be sarcasm; Odette doesn't give off the air of someone who holds herself in such generic regard.
She's always got the ears and tail, so what's the big deal? Odette ponders this, hand against her chin.] But not the spots and stripes and extras? It's a little funny to me, 'cause every myth I've heard is that more tails adds up to more power.
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Yeah, all these markings.. and more tails?
[ the tails are.. weird, but it's the marks she's more upset about. stripes all over her skin is not her style. she'll get over it in time, but the initial shock was quite jarring. she doesn't have enough makeup for this!! ]
And more power? I don't know what I'd use that for, really, I'm not much of a fighter. So you really weren't.. shocked when you woke up like this?
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What a waste it'd be if I got all worked up over every batshit thing this place throws at us, [Odette needles, maybe honing in on the shriek that brought her here in the first place. Not much of a fighter, is she? She'd guess that's supposed to be enough to explain the rip of panic, even from someone who wasn't a complete stranger to her animal features.] Take a big, deep breath: You feel normal otherwise normal?
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Okay, okay, you don't need to rub it in..
[ she says, with a little frown, her ears folding back against her hair, a pink flush climbing her neck and cheeks. pushing the hair from her face, tingyun huffs, then exhales softly, before taking a nice, deep breath. she nods. ]
Mm, I think so. Nothing feels out of place besides the obvious.
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I've been getting the occasional buckwild seafood craving, but that's about it. [And, her tone suggests, that probably isn't much of a problem. Hell, when couldn't she be convinced to go for some high-grade seafood?] So just tell me if you start getting any hankerings for whale tail.
[After all that commotion, surely Tingyun is ready to take on the day now?]