【 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. 💕
[ Archer has done well masking his emotions up to this point. He isn't a particularly demonstrative man, in general, and he tends to be more guarded in situations that make him uncomfortable. But the offer coupled with her sincerity clearly disarms him and takes him by surprise.
He looks down at the fingers wrapped around his, then back up at her face, and it's obvious that he's struggling to find an answer. Because as much as some part of him wants to accept her kindness, there is also something so very daunting about the prospect of it that he wants to disappear.
So he stares at her, his mouth dry, a jumble of words cluttering the back of his throat. He takes a breath…and lets it out. ]
[Her hand holds steady to his the other, free one lifts to her chin in contemplation. Yeah. Yeah, that has to be it. After all, they've seen glimpses of each others past. The fires in which each of them were forged, and the emotional turmoil they both had to go through.]
[ The silence is…concerning. He watches as her thought process plays out in her face, and he feels a sense of trepidation without knowing why.
When she actually presents her conclusion, however, all he can do is…stare. And for a brief moment, Rin may catch a glimpse of the boy he had been. Total, guileless confusion. ]
[a puzzled expression returns to her face for some time. What could possibly be the reason if he doesn't dislike women? She's hot, he admitted she was a good Master, and it's not like they can't trust each other.
Maybe she brings up too many sore memories? Maybe he had always preferred that Saber with the golden hair and the voice as clear as a bell. Or perhaps he, too, had been harboring feelings for her sister. In the end, though... the most likely reason is Tohsaka herself. She had revealed her true self. Sour, cranky, and unapproachable to Emiya Shirou, and at home? Archer had seen the worst of her.
A disaster in the time between waking up and preparing for the day. Her room always a mess, and the mage workshop even worse. Her fridge barely stocked because she was frugal and cared little for her own well being. Any piece of her that was desirable was a mask. Any piece of her that was repulsive was the truth. Of course, in the end, this is the simplest and easiest way to put her down.]
I see. If it would be easier for you to pretend I am not here, well...
[She'd do the same to Shirou Emiya, after all. Tohsaka wouldn't be able to bear seeing him here. Unlike Archer, who had already split from being the person who could make her sister smile, Shirou Emiya could still do so. And to take that away from Sakura would be like carving the poor girl's heart out herself.
And perhaps at one point Rin might have been able to do it. But not after coming this far.]
[ …how. How is it possible that she keeps misunderstanding every honest attempt he makes to explain?
He gave his life for her. He took a blow meant for her and left behind his arm in the hopes that useless boy might somehow manage his powers well enough to protect her. And here she is saying he…he doesn’t want her??
The cool, collected facade cracks. Maybe it’s her behavior, or maybe some of it’s that sweet aroma that’s making the blood rush to his face and neck. Either way, when she says she’ll go get someone else, he can’t help the frustration - the hurt - from spilling out.
He pushes her back down on the bed without thinking, and he is obviously angry. ]
[Ah. Her body goes rigid in surprise. It's clear on her face that she doesn't actually feel threatened. There is no fear or concern here — she trusts him, and that hasn't changed. But there sure is surprise! Because she has no idea what has gotten into him.
The blow he took? His death? She chalked that up as pragmatism, or helping them all as a group, or his duty as a protector of the world. Besides, what's the problem? She propositioned him and he didn't take it. No matter what his reasons, why is there a problem?]
Ah... haha. Archer, you don't exactly make yourself all that clear when you talk.
[He might have noticed a pause before his name. Small, but there. Rin attempting to avoid calling him, "My Archer," yet again. Their contract is complete. So why all this complication? Well, probably because of his True Name. The time he remembers of them together that she doesn't. She has her own nostalgia, and he has his.]
[ He didn’t take it because he can’t look at any sort of sexual liaison between them as a simple transaction. Yes…once upon a time, when his hair wasn’t dyed white from the use of magic, he had loved. From the moment he first summoned Saber, he had loved her. Wanted her. And yet, in the end, he had failed her in an entirely miserable fashion.
And then there was Sakura. If the Fifth War revealed anything, it was how blind he was to the struggles of the girl who came to his house every day just to be with him. It’s one more thing to be laid at the altar of his conscience. Another failure.
He looks down at Rin, and even though he doesn’t feel that sense of failure, per se, what he does feel is tangled enough to be complicated. Compromising. And he’s tasted enough of defeat where the people who matter to him are concerned that he doesn’t want to start something where he knows he will inevitably fail.
But he can’t say any of that. He doesn’t know how. And even if he did, he couldn’t admit to it.
Instead, he looks down at her, flustered, frustrated, and …something he doesn’t dare name. She says he isn’t clear, and for some reason, that statement tips him over the edge.
He kisses her — a raw, passionate thing that speaks to the furor of emotions he’s been trying so very hard to hide. To explain without the mess of it roaring out of him like a torrent of flames. Except he can’t hide it, and he doesn’t know any other way to try and make her understand. ]
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He looks down at the fingers wrapped around his, then back up at her face, and it's obvious that he's struggling to find an answer. Because as much as some part of him wants to accept her kindness, there is also something so very daunting about the prospect of it that he wants to disappear.
So he stares at her, his mouth dry, a jumble of words cluttering the back of his throat. He takes a breath…and lets it out. ]
You are…kind, Rin.
[ He folds his other hand over hers. ]
But I cannot accept.
1/? i'll let u know
And why the hell not? It's just a simple transac—
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okay i'm done but i'm sorry about her
I see. I just don't fit your "preferences," is that it? I had a feeling you were the type, considering...
[You know. Considering the battle with Lancer, and all—]
It's fine. You can just say you grew to dislike women. I understand.
1/2 smh Rin
When she actually presents her conclusion, however, all he can do is…stare. And for a brief moment, Rin may catch a glimpse of the boy he had been. Total, guileless confusion. ]
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No. No, it is not that.
[ He can’t wrap his head around what his ‘preferences’ even are, it’s been so long. But that’s beside the point.
He takes a breath and releases it. ]
It...would not be so simple. For me.
[ If he has to be more explicit than that, he might actually die. ]
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Maybe she brings up too many sore memories? Maybe he had always preferred that Saber with the golden hair and the voice as clear as a bell. Or perhaps he, too, had been harboring feelings for her sister. In the end, though... the most likely reason is Tohsaka herself. She had revealed her true self. Sour, cranky, and unapproachable to Emiya Shirou, and at home? Archer had seen the worst of her.
A disaster in the time between waking up and preparing for the day. Her room always a mess, and the mage workshop even worse. Her fridge barely stocked because she was frugal and cared little for her own well being. Any piece of her that was desirable was a mask. Any piece of her that was repulsive was the truth. Of course, in the end, this is the simplest and easiest way to put her down.]
I see. If it would be easier for you to pretend I am not here, well...
[She'd do the same to Shirou Emiya, after all. Tohsaka wouldn't be able to bear seeing him here. Unlike Archer, who had already split from being the person who could make her sister smile, Shirou Emiya could still do so. And to take that away from Sakura would be like carving the poor girl's heart out herself.
And perhaps at one point Rin might have been able to do it. But not after coming this far.]
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I'll just find someone else! Feel free to use this place however you like. I'll just ask for one of the others when I find someone more willing.
[Rin starts trying to climb off the bed, but that also means trying to slip by him because she yanked Archer so close earlier.]
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He gave his life for her. He took a blow meant for her and left behind his arm in the hopes that useless boy might somehow manage his powers well enough to protect her. And here she is saying he…he doesn’t want her??
The cool, collected facade cracks. Maybe it’s her behavior, or maybe some of it’s that sweet aroma that’s making the blood rush to his face and neck. Either way, when she says she’ll go get someone else, he can’t help the frustration - the hurt - from spilling out.
He pushes her back down on the bed without thinking, and he is obviously angry. ]
No. You are misinterpreting everything I say.
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The blow he took? His death? She chalked that up as pragmatism, or helping them all as a group, or his duty as a protector of the world. Besides, what's the problem? She propositioned him and he didn't take it. No matter what his reasons, why is there a problem?]
Ah... haha. Archer, you don't exactly make yourself all that clear when you talk.
[He might have noticed a pause before his name. Small, but there. Rin attempting to avoid calling him, "My Archer," yet again. Their contract is complete. So why all this complication? Well, probably because of his True Name. The time he remembers of them together that she doesn't. She has her own nostalgia, and he has his.]
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And then there was Sakura. If the Fifth War revealed anything, it was how blind he was to the struggles of the girl who came to his house every day just to be with him. It’s one more thing to be laid at the altar of his conscience. Another failure.
He looks down at Rin, and even though he doesn’t feel that sense of failure, per se, what he does feel is tangled enough to be complicated. Compromising. And he’s tasted enough of defeat where the people who matter to him are concerned that he doesn’t want to start something where he knows he will inevitably fail.
But he can’t say any of that. He doesn’t know how. And even if he did, he couldn’t admit to it.
Instead, he looks down at her, flustered, frustrated, and …something he doesn’t dare name. She says he isn’t clear, and for some reason, that statement tips him over the edge.
He kisses her — a raw, passionate thing that speaks to the furor of emotions he’s been trying so very hard to hide. To explain without the mess of it roaring out of him like a torrent of flames. Except he can’t hide it, and he doesn’t know any other way to try and make her understand. ]
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