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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gisumina TANDEMAUS!!
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.
tHE PROPHECY!!
Despite these impulses, however, Sumina remains rather meek and averse to adventuring, so even though she does want a piece or three of various cheeses, she may need some encouragement - or perhaps a partner-in-crime.
She's rather restlessly fidgeting with her little mouse... fingers? Claws? While Giselle is surveying the scent situation. ]
W-What do you think, Giselle? I don't even know how we would accomplish that... Unless—
[ Wait. Innkeeper knowledge kicking in... ]
I wonder if we should find the pantry...?
[ She is so going to faint when she returns to being fully herself and realizes all of the mischief she's getting up to... ]
their mousechief....
It is likely that the waitstaff follow a pattern — in the way they walk about the dining room, I mean.
[ That's how maids are too, because letting everyone go in whatever direction they wished, all the time, would cause chaos when there's 30 maids running about along with guests. Ever so gently, she peeks her head out from underneath the tablecloth, just enough to get a glimpse, before turning back to her more timid companion. ]
We need only observe to find an opening. I suspect the pantry is adjacent to the kitchens — and that you would have a greater variety to choose from there.
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Sumina nods along knowingly, picking up everything that Giselle is putting down. She's lucky to have her level head in this situation. Together, they are little mousechievous mousekeepers...
She takes a turn for herself to peek out, too, and it's then that Sumina spots an opportunity, so she hurriedly draws back and turns to Giselle. ]
A server is coming with a serving cart...! If we're lucky, they'll stop at this table and we can hop on or duck beneath to stay hidden!
[ Listening to all of her guests' crazy hijinks and shenanigans is really paying off here! ]
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Shall we?
[ With a final glance Sumina's way, she leaps onto the bottom shelf of the serving cart, right into a basket full of cozy, soft napkins, actually. It looks like there's some discarded bread rolls down here too, how delightful.... but soon as she lands, she spins around with her mouse ears perked up, making sure that Sumina had a safe passage as well. ]
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Sumina follows suit, ever at Giselle's side as they wait with great anticipation for the most opportune moment... Closer and closer the cart draws, and upon Giselle's signal, she nods, and.
Gods. They are really leaping onto a cart to hitch a ride into the kitchen and then the pantry. Like this is some sort of grand heist, the kind that her guests would boast about and regale the tavern with tales of... Her guests couldn't be further from her mind at the moment, though.
All to say, she is safely able to overcome this first obstacle with this nimble murine body. She blessedly lands into those napkins, too, and even... some appetizers for what surely will be a grand meal. Soon as that landing is completed, Sumina is already reaching for some little bits of bread and offers them to Giselle just as the other mouse is turning to check that she's alright. ]
Look what I found...!
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It would be best to carry what we can, [ She suggests, tucking the crumb close to her body. ] I do not think we will be able to make it back to this particular cart.
[ And, more than that... the rat urge to collect food so they can bury it and save it for later is quite strong. Since she won't be having her fair share, she's happy to collect and simply provide, the way one mouse might share its stash with those in its inner circle.
Anyway, the cart is swerving this way and that on the way to the kitchen and pantries, so their little basket they're in wobbles a bit. Now they REALLY need to be holding tails. The smell of food is so strong, the closer they get to it... ]
Is there... [ sniff.... distracted rat sniffs, before she turns her snout back to her friend... ] Anything in particular you should like me to look out for, my dear? In the pantry.
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Rubbing her little hands together while the cart continues to swerve about, Sumina takes up one of the napkins and bunches it up in her arms... so they can use it like a sack later... ]
Cheese... Mm, and... maybe some cured meats...? Ah, though things like nuts and seeds are going to be easier to transport in this.
[ She holds the napkin up. ]
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[ She tacks that on, committing Sumina's shopping (stealing) list to memory. And since she holds up that makeshift napkin sack, Giselle will go ahead and plop her bread crumb right into it — intending to let Sumina have it later. She got her fun out of collecting it... ]
With any luck, we will be able to find some of each that are already sliced.
[ In a fancy restaurant like this, surely there are meats and cheeses artfully sliced for charcuterie, right... well, they're about to find out, because the cart just whacked the doors to the kitchen open, which blows a gust of hot air down where they're hiding. The bigger shock is how much louder it is inthe kitchen, and how many more people are scurrying about — Mouselle waddles quietly up to the corner of the cart to watch where they're going, tugging Sumina along by pulling the napkin with her teeth. ]
Now, the pantry should be off to the side here in this kitchen somewhere...