hotelcaelum | Event Log #005

EVENT LOG
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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ It's impossible to be a sorcerer and die without regrets. It just doesn't happen. They all know this intimately and so Nanami knows that even as Megumi asks him the question, the answer is no. Of course he's not okay with everything. There's no way he could be. Yet how does he explain that to a fifteen year old even one as mature as Megumi? How does he make him see that without feeling burdened by his death? ]

I'm glad that helps with your worry. Take this time to rest, you certainly will need it.

[ And then a pause as he tries to figure out how to answer still. What's he supposed to say to this? ]

I am... not. But that doesn't change the situation as it is. This is what it's like being a sorcerer and we all know this. There is nothing for me to complain about when this is the life I have chosen.

[ And he chose it more than most people. He left. He didn't need to come back, but he did. ]

[ That's about the response he had expected. Their lives are dangerous and short, and as his teacher had told him, they often die alone. Some might call it a miserable existence. Even if Nanami chose this life for himself, it doesn't mean he's not allowed to lament how it went. It also doesn't mean no one should grieve for him.

Because the more time they spend together right now, the more Megumi can feel himself start to grieve, as paradoxical as that is. The last time he saw him, the older man was protecting him, and that's just the sort of person that he is. He's one of the very few adults that Megumi has abundant respect for. ]

You're still allowed to complain. [ They live in an unfair world, so he thinks it's fine. ] Does that mean you've decided to live here instead?

[ Nanami laces his fingers together over his stomach, leaning back in his seat and watches the ocean waves outside the window lined wall that leads to the porch. These are questions that he expected from Megumi most of all. Yuji was just happy to see him. Gojo's response was complicated, like their friendship. But Megumi, of course he cuts to the core of the matter.

In a way, Nanami appreciates it. ]

I could, but I'm not going to burden you with my complaints, Fushiguro-kun.

[ He is a child, even if he is a competent one. What kind of adult would he be if he let out his frustration and anger over being dead right now to someone he should be caring for instead? It's just not done. ]

And I wouldn't say instead. If I had the choice, I'd go back home immediately. But I do not have that ability. I'm not ready to move on though, so I'll stay here for the foreseeable future. Find a bit more life in my own way.

[ He is not expecting to stay here for years, for the rest of his life, nothing like that. But... for now. It works for now. ]

[ He would have listened to them, he thinks. Megumi doesn't exactly see himself as a child or someone to protect. Nanami or Gojo have never depended on him, but sometimes he does want to be depended on too. Of course, he also doesn't push the matter when told no. ]

What have you been doing with your time then? I can't sense any curses to exorcise.

[ And nobody would expect him to jump back into that, even if all evidence points to the fact that he probably would. Mostly, he's curious. They don't have much time to talk back home. If not a sorcerer, what does the older man want to be doing? ]

[ It's interesting, he's never been ... not a sorcerer around Megumi. He's always been Gojo's sorcerer friend. So, he thinks Megumi might actually be curious about the things he gets up to now when he's in the hotel and not... being Nanami, the grade one sorcerer. ]

There aren't any, no.

[ It's... peaceful here, for the most part. ]

I've been catching up on my reading and meeting the other residents here. Sleeping in. Having good meals. Things I could never really do back home. It's been... nice.

I'm glad you could have that time. [ It's bizarre to think about, though. Just ... doing what he wants. Having relaxing quiet time. Not having to worry about whether or not his friends will survive their next fight with some curse. ]

Has it been difficult to get used to?

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