【 Thank you for choosing the Golden Peacock, 5-Star Resort and Casino. You are currently registered as a WILDCARD in our system.
Due to unprecedented high demand we are temporarily unable to check you in to your reserved room. We apologize for the inconvenience. We have arranged for a temporary room while we work on processing your reservation as quickly as possible. We appreciate your understanding.
As a special wedding gift from us, we have arranged for you and your new spouse to stay in one of our junior penthouses while you wait. Congratulations on your new marriage. We are so pleased you have chosen our resort for your honeymoon.
You will be notified as soon as your official reservation has been processed. Your comfort and happiness are our utmost priority. We hope you enjoy the provided amenities and lose yourself in marital bliss. 】
EVENS
EVENS: NEW CHARACTERS
Music plays. Instrumental, the tune gentle enough not to disturb peaceful rest. The sudden insistent beep of the Watch is a cutting cacophony across an otherwise sweet lullaby. Upon opening their eyes, new arrivals will quickly discover that something is wrong. The quilt snug across their body is weighty. Crystals glint in a weave of embroidery and cotton shimmers with threads of silver. Dozens of decorative pillows surround the bed. The gauzy curtains of the canopied bed are drawn, obscuring the rest of the room.
Extravagant for a kidnapping. Too extravagent. What’s more, these new guests will find something even stranger than this new diamond-studded suite tucked into bed beside them. Someone else. Who are they, what are they wearing? What happened last night?!
Guests are encouraged to explore the resort from here! There are paper maps available for those who would like and staff are happy to recommend locations if they have any preferences. Enjoy your honeymoon, you lovebirds!
ODDS
ODDS: SPECIAL RE-ARRIVAL
Never trust a hallway in the Golden peacock.
Cross the wrong threshold and time begins to slow. A short hallway becomes long, sheds its doors, only leading to turns without end. Guests too eager to explore the resort have gotten lost before. For how long always varies, dependent upon capriciousness of the resort. Hours? Yes. Years? Yes. Every guest caught in the winding hallways has reported the same thing: time is different there and too difficult to discern.
Some wayward guests have been caught in the endless hallways since the FIRST TDM. Weeks pass before a single doorway appears in the distance. It creaks upon opening before everything goes topsy-turvy. These guests have been let out of a trap door in the depths of Crane's Respite.
All water corridors will eventually lead back to the populated areas of Crane's Respite. The waters are warm, the scent of bath salts returns, and staff are wild with joy at finally finding all of you. They have been beside themselves searching ever since you vanished!
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Because we love all of the new characters premiering on this TDM, we kindly request that our Evens prompt be top level exclusive for new characters. Current characters are encouraged to tag in to these prompts with the caveat that they’ve been picked up from their assigned suite (or wherever else they were before) and dumped into the new arrival’s bed. We would like for new characters to have this prompt unique to their top level comments!
▶ Players are welcome to have their current character riff off of these prompts in the log community with the exclusion of the new arrival element. This request is just for TDM top levels.
▶ Current characters and new characters are both welcome to freely mess around with the Odds prompt with the exclusion of the arrival element. For new characters, players may participate with the idea that their character is exploring Crane’s Respite after their unique arrival in the Evens prompt. The Odds arrival element may also be utilized by current player characters who may have been on an unofficial hiatus in January and did not tag as much as they would have liked, to explain any long IC absence.
▶ Octopi may be killed. If a character decides to eat one of the octopi they may find themselves taking on some of its traits. Which traits are up to player discretion.
ELEVATORS
ELEVATORS
The house has recently ordered a full changeout of art in all high traffic areas. The elevators in particular have received special attention with many different famous artworks and portraits studded to the walls for guests to admire. These artworks are treasures of the modern world that one would typically see behind glass at a museum. Guests may even find works from their own world hanging in the elevators. Even famous works that maybe have been lost to time. So this is where they ended up. Is that Vermeer's The Concert?
Guests may find their elevator suddenly stopping without warning. The portraits on the wall stir, curiously studying them, but there are three main portraits calling the shots. The portrait that controls that particular elevator will make their demands known with the threat that, if they are not obeyed, you will be trapped forever.
Elevators will function after the portrait's demands are met. Guests that hold out and refuse may find themselves trapped upwards of twelve hours. Guests with the ability to do so may crawl out of the top emergency door, free to go wherever they want from there.
GREAT TIT!
GREAT TIT!
Great Tit! is the Golden Peacock’s popular dessert bar and cafe. With its bright pops of color and whimsical treats, guests simply can’t resist stopping in for a butt shaped cookie and hazelnut coffee. After catching wind that the resort has decided to celebrate a dessert shop's most lucrative holiday, Great Tit! is ready to impress the masses. Advertisements for limited edition drinks and desserts rain the main lobby; one can’t go three steps without slipping on a neon pink coupon for 10 percent off nipple buns. Guests that decide to pass by the cafe will find themselves assaulted with confetti cannons and eager employees ushering them inside.
Guests will find a temporary communal shower room upon exiting Great Tit! where they can wash off after a fun day of rolling around in sugar. All guests will be gifted a tee branded with a, CHOCOLATE IS MY LOVER logo.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ This portraits prompt has been triggered by several characters expressing interest in and investigating the lore of the resort paintings. This is just dipping a beginning toe in, but congrats to all for poking around!
▶ Portraits in the elevator should not be destroyed, purely for continuity’s sake. If a character would go far enough to attack one of the portraits, the portrait will slap them back with ghostly power.
▶ Characters may also figure other ways out of the elevator if they have specific abilities to do so. While the portraits can control the elevators, they cannot control your character(s). Any destruction to the elevator itself is liable to result in a rush of security dragging the culprit(s) away to the Iron Net.
▶ Great Tit! is running a massive sale! Even characters who are on the broke end of the spectrum will be able to afford to join in on the fun and indulge in sugar at these prices.
▶ Players are encouraged to make up any other elements for the Hall of Chocolate. If it’s a dessert and edible, it’s there. Enjoy your sugar coma!
▶ While the chocolate boxes are ICly limited due to Alessandro’s skills as a chocolatier, this is only an IC mechanic. There is no OOC limitation on this prompt as far as chocolate rarity goes.
THE NEST
ALICE AND THE PARROTS
Fashion boutiques are a dime a dozen in the Nest. The shopping hub is massive, lined with stores all trying to aggressively appeal to guests. A challenge in itself — but the guests of the Golden Peacock are no ordinary people. Used to being pampered and fed excitement, if these boutiques don’t bust their bottoms to appeal to the fickle nature of their patrons, they won’t be in business for much longer! One particular boutique, Alice and the Parrots, is riding winds of romantic thrill and churning out a couple of brand new fashion lines sure to draw in loads of chips.
Guests are welcome to try on clothes in Alice and the Parrots' dressing rooms. These dressing rooms are small and can only accommodate two people sharing at a time. Such is the life of a small boutique store. Sharing is no big deal, right? And there’s no way you can buy clothing this expensive without giving it a test first.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Players are encouraged to make up whatever cute outfits they would like for this prompt.
▶ Wedding clothes do not have to be cute and frilly; this section accommodates tastes of everyone.
▶ Alice and the Parrots is more expensive than Love Dove. Their clothing quality is excellent but their price tags are high. Staff may watch low ranks extra diligently to cut off any stealing. Thieves will be chased by NPC security! Anyone caught gets a day in the Iron Net.
CASINO CHAPEL
CASINO FLOOR
A Pop up Chapel has appeared in the Phoenix Casino. Guests are delighting in playing out weddings and pretending to get married — and a few guests are even tying the knot for real. They aren't worried about the sanctity of marriage; they can divorce tomorrow if they get bored of each other. And everyone knows that getting married doesn't mean you can't fuck whoever you want!
Since the resort isn't keeping track of how many marriages a guest has, all guests are encouraged to marry as many people as they would like. The more the merrier!
Wild wedding events will continue all throughout the month of February, until the guests find it's gotten stale. A divorce rush will round out the fun at the end of the month.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Weddings are not legally binding. Birdvis is not registered as a real officiant, but he does have an excellent beak and pompadour.
▶ Prizes from easy mode slot machines are automatic and do not require mod thumbs up to claim.
▶ Chip prize from difficult mode slot machines is automatic. The special prize is 5 reward points to add to your bank on rewards. Players who wish to claim the special prize should link the finished thread (the kink in question has been completed) under their rewards header with the header, Wedding Slot Machine. If you do any combination of 6/6 (finger hand lol) we ask you somehow make this sexy or involve a climax in order to claim the points.
BLANKET CW: Aphrodisiac; Compulsion; Costumes; Dubcon; Entrapment; Foodplay; Gambling; Lingerie; Matrimony; Tentacles; NSFW Images and Language; NTR; Nudity; Roleplay; Sacrilegious Themes
▶ All new characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. The house is still observing and deciding. As rank and suits are assigned upon acceptance your new character's suit will not manifest until they are accepted into the game.
▶ All TDMs are game canon. This TDM acts as the game's February event.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. Please make sure to review the arrival prompt notes! Any current characters posting to the TDM should note they are current in their subject header.
▶ The top level directory is for new characters only. We want to make sure new characters are priority and receive attention!
▶ If you aren't satisfied with the prompts on this TDM please feel free to check out our LOCATIONS to explore more of the resort.
▶ Smut threads that take place on this TDM can be used for rewards. If both parties in the smut thread join the game, you may retroactively apply the character's initial card values to your 52 bank. If one character does not join the game the thread will not be applicable toward rewards (as that character would not have a card value). The character that does join would still receive a small payout for the encounter. Hopefully it was a fun thread anyway!
▶ We ask you to kindly add content warnings to your threads as appropriate.
▶ If you do not currently have permissions and kinks listed in your character’s journal we suggest leaving a note in your top level of any limits or boundaries for other players to reference.
▶ Thank you for spending Valentine's Day with us! You're our sweetheart this year. 💕
[Kotone had been debating the merits of wiggling her way through the crowd herself, both hands on her hips and cheek puffed out in a thoughtful pout when, as luck would have it, it sounds like someone wants to share. Good things do come to those who wait!
Something about this woman's way of speaking is almost painfully familiar, though, the strange formality and weird need to take everything literally. Her hand goes to her heart as if to hold that feeling close, then she turns, burying that wistfulness beneath a bright smile.]
Sure, I'd love... to?
[And yet, she can't help but tilt her head with a bit of clear curiosity, more confused than surprised. It's not like yellow eyes, that shade of hair, and a penchant for blue is unique to Theo, but-! It's still kind of strange, leaving her staring for perhaps a moment longer than is strictly polite.]
[ elizabeth's voice trails off and she does what she does best: immediately stares back. her gaze is unwavering, almost alarmingly so, and her head tips as something tugs at her heart. it's as though she knows this girl, everything about her even, and for the life of her, elizabeth can't figure out why. they've certainly never met, she would remember!
she eventually smiles, removing the lid from the topmost box of her small stack and plucks one of the chocolates from within before patting the seat next to her. the boxes are in the middle of the bench, easy for both of them to reach. ]
Please, feel free to join me, then. Indulge at your leisure.
bangs my fists on the table!! girl!!!! girl(s)!!!!!
[The sound of the other woman's voice seems to startle her out of her reverie, and in the blink of an eye, her lips are curved into another easy smile as she takes the offered seat.]
Thanks! I'm Kotone, by the way.
[She reaches to take a chocolate, though she doesn't pop it in her mouth just yet. There's something just nagging at her, and maybe this woman will think she's crazy for asking, but if she doesn't ask, she'll just wonder forever. A breath as she sits up straighter and glances sideways. Her smile doesn't waver as she tilts her head to ask,] Do you know someone named Theo?
[Like, again, it could be nothing! It's probably nothing! And yet, she can't shake this weird feeling...]
[ she's a hair's breadth away from biting into her first chocolate when that question drops on her like a bomb. elizabeth blinks, her surprise evident across her face as her head whips in kotone's direction. ]
Ah. So that is what I sensed in you.
[ gently, she places the chocolate back into the box and turns so that she can face kotone better. a smile settles onto her face, calm and placating, much like she would wear if she were at "work", as it were, and she nods. ]
Theodore is my brother. And you are a guest of the Velvet Room.
[The chocolate is going to start melting in her hand if she doesn't eat it, so in spite of the way she whips her head around in surprise, Kotone still pops the chocolate right into her mouth. Sorry for chewing when they're having an important conversation like this! But also these are the best chocolates she's ever had. Maybe she really should have waited to ask her question until after she'd stolen a few more chocolates-
There's a kind of gratification to guessing right, though! Tucking the half-eaten chocolate into her cheek, she claps her hands together and grins. Again, don't mind her talking with her mouth full.]
Oh! You have a drink named after you! [Theo had asked for it, and she'd had to search all over town to try to find it, so of course she'd remember. She can't help but sound a little hopeful as she adds,] Is he here?
[ she's surprised, to say the least. to think that her actions in the outside world had had such an impact! maybe it's all of the coins that she paid in homage to the water guardians. or maybe it was to the shrine. one of them had to be the reason for it.
elizabeth shakes her head and frowns a little. ]
I haven't seen him. There aren't-- attendants do not normally leave the Velvet Room. It is entirely possible that he took over duties after I left.
[ that's not quite the timeline, but it's not as though elizabeth knows that. she finally plucks her chocolate from the box once more and pops it into her mouth, her eyes widening to almost comical degrees. they even begin to well up, though they don't quite fall. ]
Or at least it has the same name. [Shrug! Whatever the case, she'd been able to pass it off to Theo for a reward, and that's what had mattered at the time.]
Oh...
[Forgive her for sounding just a little disappointed, but maybe it's understandable. She can't pretend to know what Elizabeth's relationship was like with her own "guest," but she'd definitely consider herself and Theo's relationship to be special.
Well, maybe he's here somewhere. She'll go look around later. For now, she just gives Elizabeth a smile and steals another chocolate. If she'd learned anything from her friends, it was that serious discussions should always be held over food.]
They're really good, right? But... you left the Velvet Room? Is that how you ended up here?
[ elizabeth nods because, clearly, there is only one of her and therefore the drink must be named after her. it only makes the most sense. if she ever gets back to port island she will have to find this beverage herself and thank its creator for taking such an interest in her.
the disappointment she can hear doesn't faze her, necessarily. she gets it. she'd like to see her brother, too, but she would also like to see him. as exciting as it is to meet another guest, there is one that still holds sway over her, whose memory she will never be able to shake.
another chocolate disappears (gosh, how'd it do that) and elizabeth chews thoughtfully for a moment. ]
It very well may be. The answer that I seek could be anywhere, after all. Mayhap it is here. This... prize that they promise, though perhaps too good to be true, could very well be what I am after.
[Maybe it's a little bit too personal of a question, but Kotone's nothing if not curious. Besides, if Elizabeth really is Theo's sister, that means they share some kind of connection, right? Maybe not the same as Elizabeth would share with her own guest, and certainly not the same as her own with Theo, but... she can't help wanting to know. She's met a few other guests of the Velvet Room while she's been here, after all, but this is her first time getting to meet another attendant.
Well, here, anyway. Margaret had been really kind of scary with all of those weird doors-! Like, in a hot way, kind of like Mitsuru, but still--]
[ normally, she would probably be reluctant talking about why she left her position. the conversation with her siblings had been... something, and even if kotone is a guest, she is still for all intents and purposes a stranger.
but there's something so tenderly familiar to her that elizabeth can't help but feel safe here, sitting on this bench with her. her eyes cast out across the strip in front of them, the clamoring at the confectionery shop starting anew as another wave of releases starts, but her gaze seems far away from the commotion around them. ]
I am searching for someone. He's a guest, much like you, and in his time with us he--
[ she shakes her head, her smile becoming faint and wistful as she pulls her focus back to the present. ]
He has gone somewhere, far beyond our reach. I seek the means to free him.
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ii!!! liz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something about this woman's way of speaking is almost painfully familiar, though, the strange formality and weird need to take everything literally. Her hand goes to her heart as if to hold that feeling close, then she turns, burying that wistfulness beneath a bright smile.]
Sure, I'd love... to?
[And yet, she can't help but tilt her head with a bit of clear curiosity, more confused than surprised. It's not like yellow eyes, that shade of hair, and a penchant for blue is unique to Theo, but-! It's still kind of strange, leaving her staring for perhaps a moment longer than is strictly polite.]
it's THE GIRL(s)!!!
[ elizabeth's voice trails off and she does what she does best: immediately stares back. her gaze is unwavering, almost alarmingly so, and her head tips as something tugs at her heart. it's as though she knows this girl, everything about her even, and for the life of her, elizabeth can't figure out why. they've certainly never met, she would remember!
she eventually smiles, removing the lid from the topmost box of her small stack and plucks one of the chocolates from within before patting the seat next to her. the boxes are in the middle of the bench, easy for both of them to reach. ]
Please, feel free to join me, then. Indulge at your leisure.
bangs my fists on the table!! girl!!!! girl(s)!!!!!
Thanks! I'm Kotone, by the way.
[She reaches to take a chocolate, though she doesn't pop it in her mouth just yet. There's something just nagging at her, and maybe this woman will think she's crazy for asking, but if she doesn't ask, she'll just wonder forever. A breath as she sits up straighter and glances sideways. Her smile doesn't waver as she tilts her head to ask,] Do you know someone named Theo?
[Like, again, it could be nothing! It's probably nothing! And yet, she can't shake this weird feeling...]
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[ she's a hair's breadth away from biting into her first chocolate when that question drops on her like a bomb. elizabeth blinks, her surprise evident across her face as her head whips in kotone's direction. ]
Ah. So that is what I sensed in you.
[ gently, she places the chocolate back into the box and turns so that she can face kotone better. a smile settles onto her face, calm and placating, much like she would wear if she were at "work", as it were, and she nods. ]
Theodore is my brother. And you are a guest of the Velvet Room.
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There's a kind of gratification to guessing right, though! Tucking the half-eaten chocolate into her cheek, she claps her hands together and grins. Again, don't mind her talking with her mouth full.]
Oh! You have a drink named after you! [Theo had asked for it, and she'd had to search all over town to try to find it, so of course she'd remember. She can't help but sound a little hopeful as she adds,] Is he here?
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[ she's surprised, to say the least. to think that her actions in the outside world had had such an impact! maybe it's all of the coins that she paid in homage to the water guardians. or maybe it was to the shrine. one of them had to be the reason for it.
elizabeth shakes her head and frowns a little. ]
I haven't seen him. There aren't-- attendants do not normally leave the Velvet Room. It is entirely possible that he took over duties after I left.
[ that's not quite the timeline, but it's not as though elizabeth knows that. she finally plucks her chocolate from the box once more and pops it into her mouth, her eyes widening to almost comical degrees. they even begin to well up, though they don't quite fall. ]
This... this is perfection.
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Oh...
[Forgive her for sounding just a little disappointed, but maybe it's understandable. She can't pretend to know what Elizabeth's relationship was like with her own "guest," but she'd definitely consider herself and Theo's relationship to be special.
Well, maybe he's here somewhere. She'll go look around later. For now, she just gives Elizabeth a smile and steals another chocolate. If she'd learned anything from her friends, it was that serious discussions should always be held over food.]
They're really good, right? But... you left the Velvet Room? Is that how you ended up here?
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the disappointment she can hear doesn't faze her, necessarily. she gets it. she'd like to see her brother, too, but she would also like to see him. as exciting as it is to meet another guest, there is one that still holds sway over her, whose memory she will never be able to shake.
another chocolate disappears (gosh, how'd it do that) and elizabeth chews thoughtfully for a moment. ]
It very well may be. The answer that I seek could be anywhere, after all. Mayhap it is here. This... prize that they promise, though perhaps too good to be true, could very well be what I am after.
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[Maybe it's a little bit too personal of a question, but Kotone's nothing if not curious. Besides, if Elizabeth really is Theo's sister, that means they share some kind of connection, right? Maybe not the same as Elizabeth would share with her own guest, and certainly not the same as her own with Theo, but... she can't help wanting to know. She's met a few other guests of the Velvet Room while she's been here, after all, but this is her first time getting to meet another attendant.
Well, here, anyway. Margaret had been really kind of scary with all of those weird doors-! Like, in a hot way, kind of like Mitsuru, but still--]
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but there's something so tenderly familiar to her that elizabeth can't help but feel safe here, sitting on this bench with her. her eyes cast out across the strip in front of them, the clamoring at the confectionery shop starting anew as another wave of releases starts, but her gaze seems far away from the commotion around them. ]
I am searching for someone. He's a guest, much like you, and in his time with us he--
[ she shakes her head, her smile becoming faint and wistful as she pulls her focus back to the present. ]
He has gone somewhere, far beyond our reach. I seek the means to free him.
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