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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...And yet, it need not be mine for you to enjoy it.
[ She smiles, bright and cold, at the sight of his wagging tail, finding his denial of wanting to play quite amusing and cute. It's something similar to watching over a shy kid who's embarrassed of wanting to have fun, which she has seen many times... and while normally it would not be proper at all for a servant to be so lax with a guest, to engage in playtime with them, she can also be something of the doting, teasing type, particularly with beasts, so she waggles the ball between her fingers to watch his eyes as he stands there tensely. ]
You are looking quite stressed. If you would like to play, I am happy to serve. Shall we?
[ Then, impishly, she tosses the ball underhanded in a big arc in the air, trying to maximize the airtime it'll have. She figures if he truly doesn't want, it'll hit the ground and she can just go pick it up. Though.... she has a sneaking suspicion that won't be the case. ]
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[ stressed, is what he was going to say, but he is immediately and helplessly distracted by the ball the moment it leaves her hands, and his body instantly reacts, regardless of what his brain might think. Never in his life has he so wholly felt like he needed to do something as much as he needs to catch this ball. At once, he's darting after it, moving at an exhilarating speed he could never hope to reach as a human that culminates in a leap to snatch the hapless Gorb™ out of the air before it hits the ground. The satisfaction in catching it is almost as great as the desire had been, only to be immediately replaced with a fresh desire to do it again, like he's a child asking for his dad to pick him up one more time. Before he knows it, he's bounding back over to Giselle, bootleg Akechi merch in his mouth and tail wagging furiously.
Bucciarati honestly doesn't remember the last time he felt this way. Carefree, having fun for the sake of having fun. It was certainly a long time ago - before his parents divorced, maybe, before he had to start thinking about the real world and his responsibilities in it. As his human sensibilities begin filtering back in, so does the faint shame at his own imprudence, and his tail slows.
At which point he says... something, but it's totally impossible to make out, seeing as he's talking around the ball still held in his teeth. Oops. ]
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Oh, dear. What was that?
[ Unflinchingly, she places a flat palm face up in front of his snout, waiting for him to drop the ball — doing so in the politest possible way that someone could play fetch. It might be smarter to just take the ball from him right away, but... she is unfamiliar with playing with animals, and he seems well trained enough. Given the whole, "is a person, allegedly" thing. Remembering that doesn't stop her from indulging his fun, though, because as long as he's enjoying himself, than who would she be to stand in the way of that? ]
Is it that you would like to play again, hmm?
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No, he must overcome this weakness!! His little doggy brows pinch in concentration, and Bruno speaks again. ]
No... I'm not myself. [ a beat. ] This is patronizing. I'm a grown man.
[ you're like 20 but go off ]