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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. 💕
( there's no pushing, as though nanami seems to have given up on the possibility already--his brows lift, but he doesn't say anything, watching as he seems to settle, getting as comfortable as he can on the opposite end of the elevator. he's not personally one that enjoys small spaces, though he's experienced plenty of them, and sure, it'll be annoying if they're stuck here for hours on end, but he's not going to get hungry, and he's not going to bend, either. the painting, of course, seems agitated with their choice; there's an immediate, scathing remark, but he pays it no mind.
hey, he'd been willing to go along with it up to a point--or at least the point where things stopped being playful and fun, and started being serious again. nanami's missing eye is something that's on his mind, something that's tugging at him, and he finds the lack of details there more aggravating than being trapped in the elevator.
his gaze goes, from the painting to nanami and back again--you should be the one filling the pretty one, here!--and he lets out a light laugh, a trill of it like a bell above a shop door. )
Me? About a month, maybe more. Suguru had his birthday, here, so now he's older than me somehow.
( the words tumble out nonchalant--it doesn't bother him, telling things to nanami, particularly because he knows that he can trust him. )
If there's a head of the house, I don't know who they are, and I haven't met them. I spoke with someone, a person named J? Who runs...something...here, but they wanted me to trade my eyes for information, and I wasn't going to do that.
( there's a soft, faint smile. ) Don't trade any more of yours, either. I'm already angry enough that you're missing one.
[A month. A month is much longer than he expected. If it's already been that long and Gojo hasn't been able to get free of this place, they really are in serious trouble. But he only has a moment to process that disquieting news before he's hit with more.
Geto is here.
Alive? Not only that, he's apparently as young as Gojo—well, older, but only just. Maybe young enough that he's still a student. Judging by the casual way Gojo speaks of him, he must be. If that's the case...
He can't ask any of the questions he wants to ask. No sense in instilling suspicion where there's currently none or introducing more questions about the future that he won't answer. He'll have to find Geto later and ascertain for himself where he stands and whether he can be counted as an ally. Nanami has never been able to bring himself to hate Geto, even after everything. Condemn his actions, yes, but that's not the same thing. He understands all too well at least some of the despair that drove him down that path. After all, he left too.]
You act like I did it on purpose.
[He closes his eye briefly, resting the back of his head against the wall. It's a reflexive show of tired irritation that gives him cover to steady his composure. When he opens it again, he's certain he won't give anything away.]
So whoever is responsible for this is hiding well, and this J person may or may not know anything. You haven't found any means of escape. There aren't any others plucked from our school days here, are there? The three of you are enough of a surprise.
( gnawing at the inside of his cheek, his teeth pinch at the skin there, which helps keep his smile tight--helps keep that pain there, lancing just slightly, just enough to temper his own outbursts. years and years later, he'll be much better at containing himself, and more than that, much better at smoothing over his emotions into a playfully poised mask; he's gotten better at it even now, after everything that happened that summer, but there are still moments where his first reaction is dive forward, jump in, lay everything out and rely on his pride and power.
three of you? three?
and what is he supposed to say? nanami would likely look at him with that tired expression, if he told him the last person that he knows from here; or is that the person that nanami means to refer to? how is he supposed to explain what happened, there? does he have to?
the painting scoffs at them, as though trying to get their attention again--his gaze jerks towards the painting, irritated, and that seems to shut it up for a moment longer. )
I don't know why or how it happened, because you aren't telling me, you know.
( just the slightest, slightest edge of disappointment, frustration, longing, there--but he's forcing a smile despite himself. )
Ah, ah~. 'Three' huh? Who's our lucky third, Na~namin? I only know of one other person, but I don't think you've ever met him before.
[While he's perceptive enough to note the faint dissonance marking that smile as not entirely carefree, there's nothing more he can say. He's made up his mind that the information would do more harm than good.]
Ieiri-san. I ran into her on the upper floor.
[He hadn't included Toji in his count because, despite recognizing him from the fight against that special grade, Nanami doesn't have a name for the face. He knows it—how could he not—but separately. Without that connection, there's no reason to assume Gojo would know that man. Either way, he certainly wouldn't include him as a peer from back then.
While he'd like to know about anyone else that's here, regardless of who it is, he'd especially appreciate some advance warning if they're from a different time. Gojo said him, so that eliminates some possibilities.]
Who is it you're thinking of then?
[Who wouldn't he know that a teenage Gojo would? From a decade ahead, the other way around should be more likely.]
( there's a faint smile, playing on his lips--but he doesn't admit to anything, doesn't let him know how he found shouko, or if he found her at all, or if that's new information to him.
is it a relief for nanami, or something more troubling? the three of them are like this, pulled from an age that's significantly lower than nanami is used to, or perhaps it's more accurate to say he already grew out of this stage, years and years ago. does it give him some measure of calm to see shouko, or does it simply make everything worse to know they're all the same age, here together, like this?
he lets out a long breath through his nose, half-agitated, half-bored. )
I was thinking of someone else. The man that killed me.
( his smile tightens, hard and bemused; and then, he forces up a laugh, both hands lifting into a playful shrug. )
Well! The man that tried to kill me, anyway. He's here. Fushiguro Toji.
[He doesn't make an effort to control his reaction this time. The look in his eye turns sharp and his posture shifts forward slightly, tense and serious. It's a name that demands that level of attention.]
Do you think he's going to be a problem?
[From what he recalls of that incident, Gojo wasn't the target. He and Geto were just in the way. Which doesn't make it any less terrible or the man any less dangerous, but if it was all business to him and there's no incentive now Toji might not be inclined to try again. Unless he bears a grudge.
Time rearranging and running together like this, or however one chooses to look at it, unbalances everything. If a dead person can be brought here years before their death, why not the very moment of it—and there's a nasty implication for himself there that Nanami isn't going to address. He can't go there right now. His back stiffens against the wall though, as if rejecting the phantom touch of a malevolent hand. Stay present.]
You've seen him, has he seen you? Have you had any interactions with him?
[He's not worried how Gojo would fare in a re-match. But the potential for collateral damage... Better if it doesn't come to that.]
( it's strange, and unusual: there's a shiver of shame that runs down his spine, shame at the question, shame at the truth of it. he's never lied to nanami before, other than perhaps paltry i'm fine's when he's been anything but. yet this is something that he hasn't told anyone, something that's sat in the back of his head, pushed there against the dusty shelves; he doesn't want to acknowledge what this place did to him, what he did to himself, and moreover, what the result of his first--and last--interaction with toji here had been.
so his gaze skates. it moves up towards the ceiling, almost like he's reconsidering that exit--almost like he's thinking maybe he should offer it, if only to avoid the conversation. )
He's seen me. We've seen each other. No one died.
( that's the crux of it, right? he isn't so stupid as to think that nanami would be worried for him--it's less a reflection on nanami than it is on the greatness of limitless, the greatness of the six eyes. there's nothing that can get past them, until suddenly there is; and toji himself had been one of those things, pushing him to reconsider the loftiness of his own ego.
his eyes stay rooted upward, refusing to look back down at nanami, or the stiffness of his back against the elevator. )
He hates me just as much as he hated me then. He might be a problem, but he might have his hands full of too many of his vices to really care.
( this is a place that's made for a man like fushiguro toji, right? his gaze finally slides, landing on nanami's face with a ghost of a smile. )
Well! Nothing we can do about it but keep an eye on him, right?
[He can see the avoidance, but can't pinpoint why. It's not unreasonable, he supposes, that Gojo might simply be uncomfortable with the man's presence. An unwelcome reminder of his own mortality, and failure, and a time when, briefly, he wasn't the strongest. He'd come so close to dying and pulled back from the edge changed—more powerful than before, but what about his mental state? Nanami knows firsthand, several times over, what a brush with death can do. It can't even have been that long ago, for him. To be confronted with that, even if Toji doesn't pose the same threat, must be akin to having those invisible scars dug open.]
Right. We'll keep an eye on him for now. If this tentative equilibrium shifts, then we'll adjust our strategy.
[No use trying to predict or plan too far in advance. They can't account for every variable. But Toji had the element of surprise before, the advantage of being a player that they hadn't realized was on the board until too late. Now they know he's here. They can be alert for his scheming and hopefully have more time to react.]
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hey, he'd been willing to go along with it up to a point--or at least the point where things stopped being playful and fun, and started being serious again. nanami's missing eye is something that's on his mind, something that's tugging at him, and he finds the lack of details there more aggravating than being trapped in the elevator.
his gaze goes, from the painting to nanami and back again--you should be the one filling the pretty one, here!--and he lets out a light laugh, a trill of it like a bell above a shop door. )
Me? About a month, maybe more. Suguru had his birthday, here, so now he's older than me somehow.
( the words tumble out nonchalant--it doesn't bother him, telling things to nanami, particularly because he knows that he can trust him. )
If there's a head of the house, I don't know who they are, and I haven't met them. I spoke with someone, a person named J? Who runs...something...here, but they wanted me to trade my eyes for information, and I wasn't going to do that.
( there's a soft, faint smile. ) Don't trade any more of yours, either. I'm already angry enough that you're missing one.
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Geto is here.
Alive? Not only that, he's apparently as young as Gojo—well, older, but only just. Maybe young enough that he's still a student. Judging by the casual way Gojo speaks of him, he must be. If that's the case...
He can't ask any of the questions he wants to ask. No sense in instilling suspicion where there's currently none or introducing more questions about the future that he won't answer. He'll have to find Geto later and ascertain for himself where he stands and whether he can be counted as an ally. Nanami has never been able to bring himself to hate Geto, even after everything. Condemn his actions, yes, but that's not the same thing. He understands all too well at least some of the despair that drove him down that path. After all, he left too.]
You act like I did it on purpose.
[He closes his eye briefly, resting the back of his head against the wall. It's a reflexive show of tired irritation that gives him cover to steady his composure. When he opens it again, he's certain he won't give anything away.]
So whoever is responsible for this is hiding well, and this J person may or may not know anything. You haven't found any means of escape. There aren't any others plucked from our school days here, are there? The three of you are enough of a surprise.
[He does not allow himself to imagine Haibara.]
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three of you? three?
and what is he supposed to say? nanami would likely look at him with that tired expression, if he told him the last person that he knows from here; or is that the person that nanami means to refer to? how is he supposed to explain what happened, there? does he have to?
the painting scoffs at them, as though trying to get their attention again--his gaze jerks towards the painting, irritated, and that seems to shut it up for a moment longer. )
I don't know why or how it happened, because you aren't telling me, you know.
( just the slightest, slightest edge of disappointment, frustration, longing, there--but he's forcing a smile despite himself. )
Ah, ah~. 'Three' huh? Who's our lucky third, Na~namin? I only know of one other person, but I don't think you've ever met him before.
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Ieiri-san. I ran into her on the upper floor.
[He hadn't included Toji in his count because, despite recognizing him from the fight against that special grade, Nanami doesn't have a name for the face. He knows it—how could he not—but separately. Without that connection, there's no reason to assume Gojo would know that man. Either way, he certainly wouldn't include him as a peer from back then.
While he'd like to know about anyone else that's here, regardless of who it is, he'd especially appreciate some advance warning if they're from a different time. Gojo said him, so that eliminates some possibilities.]
Who is it you're thinking of then?
[Who wouldn't he know that a teenage Gojo would? From a decade ahead, the other way around should be more likely.]
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( there's a faint smile, playing on his lips--but he doesn't admit to anything, doesn't let him know how he found shouko, or if he found her at all, or if that's new information to him.
is it a relief for nanami, or something more troubling? the three of them are like this, pulled from an age that's significantly lower than nanami is used to, or perhaps it's more accurate to say he already grew out of this stage, years and years ago. does it give him some measure of calm to see shouko, or does it simply make everything worse to know they're all the same age, here together, like this?
he lets out a long breath through his nose, half-agitated, half-bored. )
I was thinking of someone else. The man that killed me.
( his smile tightens, hard and bemused; and then, he forces up a laugh, both hands lifting into a playful shrug. )
Well! The man that tried to kill me, anyway. He's here. Fushiguro Toji.
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Do you think he's going to be a problem?
[From what he recalls of that incident, Gojo wasn't the target. He and Geto were just in the way. Which doesn't make it any less terrible or the man any less dangerous, but if it was all business to him and there's no incentive now Toji might not be inclined to try again. Unless he bears a grudge.
Time rearranging and running together like this, or however one chooses to look at it, unbalances everything. If a dead person can be brought here years before their death, why not the very moment of it—and there's a nasty implication for himself there that Nanami isn't going to address. He can't go there right now. His back stiffens against the wall though, as if rejecting the phantom touch of a malevolent hand. Stay present.]
You've seen him, has he seen you? Have you had any interactions with him?
[He's not worried how Gojo would fare in a re-match. But the potential for collateral damage... Better if it doesn't come to that.]
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so his gaze skates. it moves up towards the ceiling, almost like he's reconsidering that exit--almost like he's thinking maybe he should offer it, if only to avoid the conversation. )
He's seen me. We've seen each other. No one died.
( that's the crux of it, right? he isn't so stupid as to think that nanami would be worried for him--it's less a reflection on nanami than it is on the greatness of limitless, the greatness of the six eyes. there's nothing that can get past them, until suddenly there is; and toji himself had been one of those things, pushing him to reconsider the loftiness of his own ego.
his eyes stay rooted upward, refusing to look back down at nanami, or the stiffness of his back against the elevator. )
He hates me just as much as he hated me then. He might be a problem, but he might have his hands full of too many of his vices to really care.
( this is a place that's made for a man like fushiguro toji, right? his gaze finally slides, landing on nanami's face with a ghost of a smile. )
Well! Nothing we can do about it but keep an eye on him, right?
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Right. We'll keep an eye on him for now. If this tentative equilibrium shifts, then we'll adjust our strategy.
[No use trying to predict or plan too far in advance. They can't account for every variable. But Toji had the element of surprise before, the advantage of being a player that they hadn't realized was on the board until too late. Now they know he's here. They can be alert for his scheming and hopefully have more time to react.]
You'll have to point him out for me.