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【 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. 💕
[ Seimei is definitely amused by the increasing frustration that they are causing Judgmental John above them simply by picking at the details. His gentle smile appears warm and friendly enough, but as the figure in the painting starts grumbling and accusing them of trying to lie their way out of being punished, the fox's satisfaction at the complaints becomes more evident. ]
Survival isn't a sin. We all want to live, so it only makes sense to prioritize our own lives. That's part of the natural order. But would you say that your reasoning was malicious?
[ That does make the painting pause to listen. Hopefully, John waits, clearly intending on using Chishiya's answer to justify his own voyeuristic love of punishment. Seimei, meanwhile, definitely set them up to give the painting even more frustration. ]
[His gaze flickers briefly toward the portrait as it accuses them of being liars. That’s pretty rich coming from a pervert stuck in a magic painting. What did he expect?
Chishiya huffs softly and turns his attention back to Seimei at his next question.]
Not usually.
[Most of the time he wouldn’t say he felt much one way or the other, which is its own sort of problem. Though there were some people he actively disliked.]
The malicious types seemed to be having a lot more fun.
There we have it. Neither of us are having as fun as the host, so wouldn't that mean the most malicious one in this room is the one keeping us here?
[ He smiles politely as the painting above them gets even more angry, yelling down at them for slander and trying to escape their punishments. That is all fine, but John also seems determined to keep them trapped until he gets the show he wants, which does lessen the amusement Seimei gets from the playful debate. ]
Well, we do want to get out of here.
[ Ignoring the painting, he addresses Chishiya instead. ]
[John blusters some loud protests which Chishiya blithely ignores. If the man in the portrait wants to hold them hostage, he's going to get insulted. That's how this is going to work.
Chishiya sighs thoughtfully and leans back against the wall of the elevator.]
I'd say our choices are play along or try to escape. Or possibly wait him out, if we're feeling patient.
[The final option would probably be the most challenging, since time probably matters less to a painting than it does to actual people. But Chishiya can't deny that pissing John off is amusing, at least.]
[ Seimei grins as Chishiya calls John's voyeurism out, earning the offended noises from the painting. Embarrassing the severe looking figure in the frame is a personal pleasure for Seimei at least, who is treating all of the trouble posed by the resort as an interesting adventure rather than a threat. They might be stuck in the magical place for now, but to the onmyouji, it's a place of opportunities rather than dangers.
He tilts his head up to John, who is looking down on them with more impatience as they avoid playing into his accusations to have their own conversation. ]
Well, I don't mind waiting--although who knows how long it will take our new friend to decay and leave us an opening--
[ John makes some angry noises at that suggestion. ]
But we probably want to eat before that happens, so perhaps we should play along for now. A little bit.
[ John looks hopeful. Even hungry with anticipation, which is only making Seimei grin even more. Yes, he is trying to torment the painting for keeping them there for his pleasure. ]
[Chishiya tilts his head slightly to the side, considering him. He makes a valid point. The painting doesn't need to worry about human concerns like food and water, so it can probably just keep them here indefinitely. Chishiya is not in a hurry to die of starvation or thirst, those would both be shitty ways to go.
Still, Seimei seems to be as willing to troll the painting as Chishiya is, so he can't help but wonder if he has some idea on how to torment John further while seemingly complying to his wishes.
He takes a long, thoughtful breath and releases it in a sigh, glancing briefly at John and then back to Seimei.]
Well, it's only a little punishment, right? That's the requirement to let us out?
[ The painting obviously wants a show and doesn't actually care about any of their supposed misdeeds. It's all part of the display, and Seimei narrows his eyes through his smile as he approaches Chishiya, lowering his voice. ]
He wants a show, but no one says we had to follow his rules for punishment. Everyone has different levels of guilt and sensitivity. Maybe our ability to endure is just that weak.
[ He smirks, pointedly glancing up toward the figure that can't see his expression when Seimei facing away. They have to put on a show, but no one is forcing it to be a good show. Who will suffer more first? Them, or John's patience? ]
[Chishiya releases a thoughtful hum, his eyes flickering briefly in the direction of the painting before landing back on Seimei's face.]
Malicious compliance?
[He says it at a low whisper that only Seimei can hear. The sort of whisper that could easily be mistaken for something sensual if that's what the audience is looking for. And it's not a bad idea, really. Judgemental John is kind of the perfect target for that kind of particular kind of payback. The corners of his mouth quirk upward slightly.]
[ Seimei grins, facing away from the painting so he can't be seen. It's not really that he minds a little kinky sex or even being watched, but he dislikes being made to do anything by selfish people, paintings or otherwise. It's all fun and games for them, but they never consider the feelings of those they use. This payback is just evening the odds, and having Chishiya help torment the painting is exactly what he needs to show up the doorkeeper.
He leans in, speaking low. ]
He wants to punish us. Do you think you can pretend for a little while? Until we really get his attention.
[ And then refuse to follow through, because Seimei thinks John could use the punishment more than either of them. ]
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[ Seimei is definitely amused by the increasing frustration that they are causing Judgmental John above them simply by picking at the details. His gentle smile appears warm and friendly enough, but as the figure in the painting starts grumbling and accusing them of trying to lie their way out of being punished, the fox's satisfaction at the complaints becomes more evident. ]
Survival isn't a sin. We all want to live, so it only makes sense to prioritize our own lives. That's part of the natural order. But would you say that your reasoning was malicious?
[ That does make the painting pause to listen. Hopefully, John waits, clearly intending on using Chishiya's answer to justify his own voyeuristic love of punishment. Seimei, meanwhile, definitely set them up to give the painting even more frustration. ]
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Chishiya huffs softly and turns his attention back to Seimei at his next question.]
Not usually.
[Most of the time he wouldn’t say he felt much one way or the other, which is its own sort of problem. Though there were some people he actively disliked.]
The malicious types seemed to be having a lot more fun.
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[ He smiles politely as the painting above them gets even more angry, yelling down at them for slander and trying to escape their punishments. That is all fine, but John also seems determined to keep them trapped until he gets the show he wants, which does lessen the amusement Seimei gets from the playful debate. ]
Well, we do want to get out of here.
[ Ignoring the painting, he addresses Chishiya instead. ]
What do you think? Should we play along?
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Probably. I'd say he's maliciously perverted.
[John blusters some loud protests which Chishiya blithely ignores. If the man in the portrait wants to hold them hostage, he's going to get insulted. That's how this is going to work.
Chishiya sighs thoughtfully and leans back against the wall of the elevator.]
I'd say our choices are play along or try to escape. Or possibly wait him out, if we're feeling patient.
[The final option would probably be the most challenging, since time probably matters less to a painting than it does to actual people. But Chishiya can't deny that pissing John off is amusing, at least.]
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He tilts his head up to John, who is looking down on them with more impatience as they avoid playing into his accusations to have their own conversation. ]
Well, I don't mind waiting--although who knows how long it will take our new friend to decay and leave us an opening--
[ John makes some angry noises at that suggestion. ]
But we probably want to eat before that happens, so perhaps we should play along for now. A little bit.
[ John looks hopeful. Even hungry with anticipation, which is only making Seimei grin even more. Yes, he is trying to torment the painting for keeping them there for his pleasure. ]
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Still, Seimei seems to be as willing to troll the painting as Chishiya is, so he can't help but wonder if he has some idea on how to torment John further while seemingly complying to his wishes.
He takes a long, thoughtful breath and releases it in a sigh, glancing briefly at John and then back to Seimei.]
Hm. What do you have in mind?
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[ The painting obviously wants a show and doesn't actually care about any of their supposed misdeeds. It's all part of the display, and Seimei narrows his eyes through his smile as he approaches Chishiya, lowering his voice. ]
He wants a show, but no one says we had to follow his rules for punishment. Everyone has different levels of guilt and sensitivity. Maybe our ability to endure is just that weak.
[ He smirks, pointedly glancing up toward the figure that can't see his expression when Seimei facing away. They have to put on a show, but no one is forcing it to be a good show. Who will suffer more first? Them, or John's patience? ]
Shall we play along?
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Malicious compliance?
[He says it at a low whisper that only Seimei can hear. The sort of whisper that could easily be mistaken for something sensual if that's what the audience is looking for. And it's not a bad idea, really. Judgemental John is kind of the perfect target for that kind of particular kind of payback. The corners of his mouth quirk upward slightly.]
Okay. I like it.
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He leans in, speaking low. ]
He wants to punish us. Do you think you can pretend for a little while? Until we really get his attention.
[ And then refuse to follow through, because Seimei thinks John could use the punishment more than either of them. ]