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TDM 03
【 Hello, dearest guests. We hope you have been enjoying your time in the Golden Peacock and utilizing our many amenities.
Reception would like all guests to be aware that some new arrivals have been misplaced. Due to the nature of the resort, new arrivals may have been misplaced in unexpected locations. This includes your personal suites. We are very sorry for this inconvenience.
Please do not be alarmed if you come across a misplaced new arrival. We kindly request that any guests that find a misplaced new arrival escort them to the main hub, where we have arranged a central meetup where all new arrivals can claim their complimentary robes and welcome baskets.
All guests are invited to come mingle at the main hub and meet new arrivals. As always, we hope you have a pleasant day! 】
DEALER'S CHOICE
STEVE, WHERE DID YOU PUT THE NEW ARRIVALS?
The Golden Peacock has swept away the hues of winter and welcomed vibrant pops of color for a change of pace. Gone are the snow whites and cool golds. Vases of bright florals have been staged all throughout the general hubs and hallways. Statues have been cheekily decorated with bright clothes, such as charming hats and billowing dresses with cheerful prints. This peacock has cleaned up nicely, its brilliant feathers shaking with a warm palette to please the senses.
Staff are bustling during the decor turnover. While some diligent employees are steadfastly decorating the hallways with sprawling vines and spectacular blooms, others are darting back and forth in search of something. Or rather — someone. Several someones. Front reception is in an outright panic while flying over the phones and furiously slamming their hands on keyboards.
"Steve, I know you're new, but you can't just press any button that pops up on the computer screen! The new arrivals are supposed to go into temporary suites." Deborah, the head receptionist, sighs, "Now who knows where they are. I hope they're okay... I'm sure they're quite confused, wherever they wound up. Steve, stop crying. The house won't fire you for this. Probably. How's your resume looking?"
In the end, Steve didn't get fired. But he did get reassigned to trash duty.
FLORAL RIOT
A STRIKE OF COLOR
【 🌸🌸🌸 Come experience new floral delights! Prepare to be ravished by a symphony of color and aroma. Romance, love, and pleasure all await within corridors of beauty. 🌸 🌸 🌸 】
Days before the grand unveiling, the gardeners of the Cloud Dwelling Garden distribute flyers announcing that their special floral exhibition is now ready for guests to enjoy. Long-standing guests vibrate in anticipation, eagerly stomping around the gardens until the ribbon is cut and the newest resort amenity has been revealed. The gardeners make a point to approach new guests and encourage them to join in on the fun, explaining that the house likes to create a new floral experience for guests every few years or so.
Exhibition opening is set for mid-month. On the 15th precisely, the gardeners line up in front of the white sheet hiding the project, each taking a turn to bow and say a few short words about how grand and generous the house is for giving them such rewarding jobs.
The curtains fall away to a wall of shockingly bright florals. Guests ooh and aahh at not only the array of shades but at the luxurious meld of so many different kinds of flowers. Wisteria and roses, lilies and carnations. Lilacs, peonies, daisies, daffodils, sunflowers. More and more and more and more. The staff explain that this flower maze is perhaps their most intricate piece of work yet and that there is grand surprise waiting at the heart. Additionally, as part of the festivities, several prizes have been hidden around the maze at dead-ends. Long-standing guests clap and cheer before charging inside.
The flower maze will only last as long as the most fleeting flowers do. The flower maze will remain open to the public for several weeks, after which it will close for further remodeling.
"We'll be open again with another complex arrangement," one of the gardeners explains cheerfully. "A maze isn't fun once you've learned the layout. We'll open again after creating a whole new design for guests to enjoy. Maybe even some new flowers, too. A lot of the ones on the lawn got funky after guests came all over them..."
Days before the grand unveiling, the gardeners of the Cloud Dwelling Garden distribute flyers announcing that their special floral exhibition is now ready for guests to enjoy. Long-standing guests vibrate in anticipation, eagerly stomping around the gardens until the ribbon is cut and the newest resort amenity has been revealed. The gardeners make a point to approach new guests and encourage them to join in on the fun, explaining that the house likes to create a new floral experience for guests every few years or so.
Exhibition opening is set for mid-month. On the 15th precisely, the gardeners line up in front of the white sheet hiding the project, each taking a turn to bow and say a few short words about how grand and generous the house is for giving them such rewarding jobs.
The curtains fall away to a wall of shockingly bright florals. Guests ooh and aahh at not only the array of shades but at the luxurious meld of so many different kinds of flowers. Wisteria and roses, lilies and carnations. Lilacs, peonies, daisies, daffodils, sunflowers. More and more and more and more. The staff explain that this flower maze is perhaps their most intricate piece of work yet and that there is grand surprise waiting at the heart. Additionally, as part of the festivities, several prizes have been hidden around the maze at dead-ends. Long-standing guests clap and cheer before charging inside.
The flower maze will only last as long as the most fleeting flowers do. The flower maze will remain open to the public for several weeks, after which it will close for further remodeling.
"We'll be open again with another complex arrangement," one of the gardeners explains cheerfully. "A maze isn't fun once you've learned the layout. We'll open again after creating a whole new design for guests to enjoy. Maybe even some new flowers, too. A lot of the ones on the lawn got funky after guests came all over them..."
SMOKY NECTAR
DRIBBLE OF SWEETNESS
The conservatory is even busier than the gardens. Unlike the easygoing staff in the garden, employees in the conservatory are busy zooming to and fro with brooms while trying to get a handle on the unexpectedly huge amount of pollen. From flowers, from trees — so much pollen. The ground is coated and the air is thick. Several long-standing guests visiting the area have fallen into sneezing fits. Even with cleaning efforts to mitigate the build-up, the pollen becomes thicker as the weeks go on. Staff eventually give up on trying to sweep it away.
This pollen is not standard. Guests that inhale this pollen will begin to feel feverish and strange. Continued exposure to this pollen will heighten a desire for sex to the point of all-encompassing need. Orgasms become much more intense. Nipples are constantly hard. Guests may also be overwhelmed with the urge to "fertilize or become fertilized" — to aggressively deliver or receive cumshots. Gardeners soon realize that normal pollen has been tainted by the cross-breeding of their new spectacular fruits, resulting in an extremely potent sex pollen that affects people and animals. This sex pollen is stronger than any of the current aphrodisiacs in the resort, baffling the gardeners. They weren't even trying to make horny fruit!
The effects of the sex pollen will ease after a few days unless exposure is continued. Guests with too much exposure to the sex pollen may find themselves passing out from violently intense successive orgasms. Any guests found unconscious post-orgasm will be delivered to the Broken Wing clinic for recovery.
The sex pollen will fade out within a few weeks, when the new breeds of fruit have all been harvested and delivered to restaurants. The gardeners collectively agree to be more careful when engineering new breeds in the future. "I do think," reports one worker in the conservatory, "the house will be impressed that we've managed to engineer an even stronger aphrodisiac. Great things happen on accident!"
This pollen is not standard. Guests that inhale this pollen will begin to feel feverish and strange. Continued exposure to this pollen will heighten a desire for sex to the point of all-encompassing need. Orgasms become much more intense. Nipples are constantly hard. Guests may also be overwhelmed with the urge to "fertilize or become fertilized" — to aggressively deliver or receive cumshots. Gardeners soon realize that normal pollen has been tainted by the cross-breeding of their new spectacular fruits, resulting in an extremely potent sex pollen that affects people and animals. This sex pollen is stronger than any of the current aphrodisiacs in the resort, baffling the gardeners. They weren't even trying to make horny fruit!
The effects of the sex pollen will ease after a few days unless exposure is continued. Guests with too much exposure to the sex pollen may find themselves passing out from violently intense successive orgasms. Any guests found unconscious post-orgasm will be delivered to the Broken Wing clinic for recovery.
The sex pollen will fade out within a few weeks, when the new breeds of fruit have all been harvested and delivered to restaurants. The gardeners collectively agree to be more careful when engineering new breeds in the future. "I do think," reports one worker in the conservatory, "the house will be impressed that we've managed to engineer an even stronger aphrodisiac. Great things happen on accident!"
PETAL-STAINED LIPS
A BLOOMING DISEASE
👩🦰 "Hack hack, hack hack... what do you mean, 'please cover my mouth when I cough'? I'm a rank nine. Nine! You can't tell me what to do. Now, clean up this mess. I've been coughing up flower petals all day." 👩🦰
Wet, smudged petals scatter across the floors of the Peacock. The source is initially unclear, since the perfectly groomed flowers in their decorative vases are in perfect condition. Soon the number of guests coughing into their fists begins to rise and more soggy plants plague the hallways.
After the garden and conservatory unveil their Spring additions the clinic will begin to over-run with guests complaining of various symptoms. There aren't enough beds and there certainly aren't enough doctors and nurses to meet rising demand. Guests continue to visit the clinic complaining of some sort of flower cold while spitting up petals and leaves. Advanced cases involve a deeper spread of vines through the patient's body.
Though this illness manifests in many different ways, the head doctor in charge is quick to clock that it's the Blooming Disease working its way through the resort's population. Not an especially dangerous disease. More troublesome than anything and a mess to clean up. Luckily, there are extensive notes in their files about this particular disease and how to treat it.
The height of the disease will hit toward the end of the month. Thanks to the hard work of the doctors and nurses in the clinic, cases will begin to decrease as the days pile on, with the majority of the affected guests treated and sent on their way by the beginning of May. Activity in the clinic will begin to decline as patients fuck it out and cure the disease, with only a handful of scattered cases heading past the first week of May.
Wet, smudged petals scatter across the floors of the Peacock. The source is initially unclear, since the perfectly groomed flowers in their decorative vases are in perfect condition. Soon the number of guests coughing into their fists begins to rise and more soggy plants plague the hallways.
After the garden and conservatory unveil their Spring additions the clinic will begin to over-run with guests complaining of various symptoms. There aren't enough beds and there certainly aren't enough doctors and nurses to meet rising demand. Guests continue to visit the clinic complaining of some sort of flower cold while spitting up petals and leaves. Advanced cases involve a deeper spread of vines through the patient's body.
Though this illness manifests in many different ways, the head doctor in charge is quick to clock that it's the Blooming Disease working its way through the resort's population. Not an especially dangerous disease. More troublesome than anything and a mess to clean up. Luckily, there are extensive notes in their files about this particular disease and how to treat it.
The height of the disease will hit toward the end of the month. Thanks to the hard work of the doctors and nurses in the clinic, cases will begin to decrease as the days pile on, with the majority of the affected guests treated and sent on their way by the beginning of May. Activity in the clinic will begin to decline as patients fuck it out and cure the disease, with only a handful of scattered cases heading past the first week of May.
PROMPT NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Arrival, The Bathroom Button: Multiple versions of arrival are possible. Characters may be flushed down the toilet or tub to wake up in several different locations across the resort.
▶ Gardens, The Flower Maze: While players are welcome to imagine whatever they like in these chests, we do ask there be some limits. Characters should not find their special awesome sword or other personal items that were taken away by the resort upon arrival, for example. Items that would generally be available within resort stores or without regains are fine.
▶ Conservatory, General: While this location is currently being influenced by sex pollen, players that do not enjoy this kink may have their character immune to its effects. This will not affect engaging in the hanahaki prompt.
▶ Conservatory, The Orchard: Players are encouraged to get creative with effects from these fruits. While we've offered a couple suggestions, any of the affiliated suit's effects are available to tap into. For example, consumption of Orangeberry, aka the Diamonds fruit, can cause any Diamond-adjacent physical effects.
▶ Broken Wing Clinic: Players are allowed to get as delicate or grotesque with the presentation of the Blooming Disease as they’d like; you can even use this as an opportunity to engage in some vine-y bondage play. From the medical perspective, feel free to envision access to any sort of equipment you’d like, so long as it makes sense within a (sexy) clinical setting.
▶ Gardens, The Flower Maze: While players are welcome to imagine whatever they like in these chests, we do ask there be some limits. Characters should not find their special awesome sword or other personal items that were taken away by the resort upon arrival, for example. Items that would generally be available within resort stores or without regains are fine.
▶ Conservatory, General: While this location is currently being influenced by sex pollen, players that do not enjoy this kink may have their character immune to its effects. This will not affect engaging in the hanahaki prompt.
▶ Conservatory, The Orchard: Players are encouraged to get creative with effects from these fruits. While we've offered a couple suggestions, any of the affiliated suit's effects are available to tap into. For example, consumption of Orangeberry, aka the Diamonds fruit, can cause any Diamond-adjacent physical effects.
▶ Broken Wing Clinic: Players are allowed to get as delicate or grotesque with the presentation of the Blooming Disease as they’d like; you can even use this as an opportunity to engage in some vine-y bondage play. From the medical perspective, feel free to envision access to any sort of equipment you’d like, so long as it makes sense within a (sexy) clinical setting.
OOC NOTES
BLANKET CW: Altered States; Aphrodisiacs; Body Horror (potential); Dubcon; Illnesses; Medical Play; NSFW Language; Paranormal; Somnophilia; Sex Pollen; Sex Toys
▶ All new characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. 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 April event.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. Current characters posting to the TDM should note they are currently in-game in the subject line.
▶ The top level directory is for new characters only.
▶ 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.
▶ 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.
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does porn need a purpose? you just watch it because you're horny. or because you're curious about lactation. are you in the world's most perfect relationship where you just have sex at the drop of a hat and never have to take care of your own needs?
the worth of everyone's time is evaluated on whether or not they're pegging me or experimenting with my juicy bosom. like i said.
we all have breasts. stop being such a prude and just try it sometime.
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And my relationship is none of your business.
If I had one.
[STOP???]
So you think you're the center of the world. That explains a lot. But I'm not going to try that, because I don't see how it's any different from paying more attention than usual to the nipples. Making a kink out of it related to the act of breastfeeding is excessive.
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yeah, if you had one.
[ even him???? don't mind him as he falls into a soulless black pit of jealousy. ]
it's not excessive. you're being excessive. sometimes, it just takes a person to unlock a kink in you.
i'll level with you. when i was in the military, there was a guy who used to give me a lot of shit for no reason. [ there were reasons, and they were valid. ] he made me do push-ups for being insubordinate, and when i still wouldn't listen, he made me get on the ground and kiss his boot. i did, mostly because he had his foot on my back, but — something happened when i did. something in my head. i went somewhere else. it was like my brain had rearranged itself and every bad thought just left me. everything was just quiet.
i don't know how to explain it to most people. i can't be wooed. i hate it. i have to be conquered. defeated. and that's what he unlocked in me.
but i liked breastfeeding and pegging way before that.
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[He will literally go and read it, he's a good boy.
However — the rest of what Embry says stops him cold. (we will simply cease talking about pegging/breastfeeding)]
What you described... is that domination and submission? BDSM?
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if you want to read the breastfeeding one, i'll leave it outside your door.
[ he'll quickly rediscover depression with of mice of men.
oh. so the baby does know words. ]
yeah. i guess that's the gist of it.
a lot of people think it's just all whips and handcuffs. that's just there if you want it to be.
it's really about relinquishing control. at least it is for me.
i like the fight and i like the defeat. i can't just say yes, i have to be coerced into doing so and it's not always pretty.
there's rules that go with the whole thing, though. bdsm. i don't follow them. so if you're looking for advice to stay on the straight and narrow, i'm not the one to ask.
ask your relationship.
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[He drops a location pin — because while he might normally be more reticent about sharing such personal information, he's rarely there most days. Still, he locks this conversation for his own privacy, given where it goes next.]
I wasn't asking because I didn't know. I'm well aware of what BDSM entails. The same reason you describe is what drew me to it first, about relinquishing control. And what you said about your mind. Your thoughts.
But I don't understand. Why don't you follow them? The rules.
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the service is shittier than the four years i slept in the barracks while i was in the military.
you need someone to beat the peace and quiet into you, too?
[ why doesn't he? ash does everything by the rules, takes the time to have the important conversations, hashes out the safe words, makes sure he proceeds with caution and consent. a self-aware monster. when a man knows how much damage he can inflict, he doesn't just go around swinging hammers. and yet he'd swung right at embry's fucking face when he'd dropped to one knee with a ring in his hand. twice. ash's kingly rules never seem to apply when he's forcing embry to shred his heart because only one of them can accept how american politics work.
he wouldn't normally be so honest, but he's embarrassed himself in front of sasuke once, and his list of available conversationalists is presently sitting at zero. ]
if i can't safe out, then i don't have any way to control the situation. if i give up my agency, i'm not complicit in my own humiliation.
relinquishing control for me means all of it. you can't break me completely if i still have the power to stop you.
[ #healthy ]
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[Beat the peace and quiet into you. Perhaps, in a crass definition of the act, it makes sense. But it too badly disparages what Cy truly does for him.]
Then it isn't a mutual act, what you're doing with that person. You've turned it into harm they're inflicting against you and given them no choice but to become that violence. I can't imagine someone who is good would be content with that situation. Aren't you only considering it from your own point of view?
You're making them hurt you. It's selfish.
[He considers the earliest examples of pain between himself and Cy — how he had been ready to take more than Cy was willing to give. That their stops and starts, their cultivated practice and careful rules, were as much a protection for himself as for Cy's mental well-being.]
Do you think that it's wrong? To be humiliated?
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i give ash everything he needs. and he gives me what i want.
you're more like him than you know. everything's gotta be cut in clean lines. everything's gotta be by the rules. but i met him in the middle of a war, before he knew there were rules, before he knew there was a name for this. he was suffocating, and i wanted to be hurt.
someone should consider things from my point of view. sometimes i'm the only one protecting him from himself. you can't be a goddamn romantic all the time.
[ it's such a crass, ungenerous way to talk about ash. their deployment had been some of their best years, away from prying american eyes, stealing kisses in camps and villages, fucking in tiny hotels across europe, falling in love in a way embry knows he'll never find again. to reduce it to selfish harm makes him want to slap himself. he hadn't meant to talk about ash at all. ]
i don't think it's wrong. i just don't always like to think about how getting dragged across the floor and flogged because i can't shut up when he tells me to is what gets me off best.
listen. it sounds like the way you're doing it is the right way.
obviously you're in a relationship, and when i go home i've already handed ash off to marry someone else.
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Ash.
[It's the first time Embry has shared the name of the man he is clearly so affected by.]
I understand the circumstances were initially different. I didn't know there were rules, either, before I arrived in this place. I wanted to be beaten, but I didn't know how to identify that want let alone seek it out. And the man who I wanted that from would have never given it to me the way I needed it. I was resigned to that. I knew he would eventually be with a woman, and they would have a family. It's what he desired most. He didn't even know you could be with a man that way.
It's okay. There's nothing wrong with liking how it feels to be punished.
Are you protecting him by hurting yourself? Why did you hand him off to someone else?
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doesn't sound that much different than where i'm from.
it's a little better now, for some people. not for everyone, though.
there was no way for ash and i to be together. not publicly, in the way he wanted.
everything we did was behind closed doors. we lived like that, give or take a few fuck-ups where i didn't speak to him for a while, for almost fifteen years. i wanted so bad for that to be enough for him, but he wanted more. and he deserved more.
i handed him off to someone else because she's better for him. she can do everything i do without the melodrama. without all the hiding. she's perfect, and i love her, too. sometimes i want to be her, and sometimes i want to be ash. the only consistent thing is i never want to be me.
it's complicated, caterpillar.
isn't there someone you'd hurt yourself to protect?
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So may times he had wished he could be anyone but himself. Only since he's been here, with Cy, has that mindset begun to thaw, shift.]
I used to. There are some things I would still do. The man I told you about — I would die for him without question. I would do anything if he asked me to. But he would never want that.
Do you feel that you deserve to be punished?