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TDM 04
【 Thank you for choosing the Golden Peacock, 5-star resort and casino. You are currently registered as a WILDCARD in our system.
Due to a high volume of check-ins, temporary accommodations have been made on our brand new beachfront for new guests. We will endeavor to have all guests moved into their reserved rooms as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience. Affected guests may convene with the nearest lifeguard or reception for a complimentary swimsuit, at their earliest convenience.
Please remember that beach-appropriate attire is mandatory. Guests found breaking dress code may be escorted off the beach until they return in proper swimwear. We hope you enjoy your stay, and have a beachy keen experience. 】
BEACHFRONT PROPERTY
A BRAND NEW DEVELOPMENT
As the resort moves into what it claims is summer, the days grow longer. The sun is projected well into the evening, the heat of its warmth dialed up to a level some guests complain is unreasonable. Then there’s the most excessive transformation of all – half the Cloud Dwelling Gardens have been transformed into a sparkling beach of white sands and blue waves, seemingly overnight. Statues nearby have been dressed up with wide hats and stylish sarongs. Upbeat music fills the air without any discernible source.
A section of the beach has been reserved for a collection of bungalows. These cute pastel homes open straight onto the sand, and are comparable in size and amenity to a rank 7 or 8 suite. All screens within these bungalows are fixed to a channel that airs reruns of Boobwatch around the clock, a classic TV series about blue-footed boobys running in slow-motion across the beach. Staff and long-standing guests all agree — there’s no better summer programming than this!
A section of the beach has been reserved for a collection of bungalows. These cute pastel homes open straight onto the sand, and are comparable in size and amenity to a rank 7 or 8 suite. All screens within these bungalows are fixed to a channel that airs reruns of Boobwatch around the clock, a classic TV series about blue-footed boobys running in slow-motion across the beach. Staff and long-standing guests all agree — there’s no better summer programming than this!
FUN IN THE SUN
DON'T FORGET TO OIL UP
What’s a beach without fun and games? Dreadfully boring! That’s why all of the beach classics have been expertly set up by staff, including strip volleyball nets, giant boob-shaped beach balls, and plenty of floaties for use in the shallower areas of the temporary ocean. A row of parasols with paired lounge chairs underneath them are placed in some prime viewing areas for festivities. Any time you get thirsty, there’s always a cooler full of canned drinks conveniently nearby, courtesy of Cock-a-Doodle-Doo’s. Sometimes you can hear the staff whispering to each other, “What if it’s too perfect? We won’t be able to deal with the ratings dip once the beach ends!”
Seashells have been arbitrarily scattered along the shoreline, coming in both natural shapes and ones a little more... erotic. The sexiest ones of all are conch shells that let you hear the moans of another guest when held up to your ear; supposedly, if you hook up with the person on the other end of the shell, you’ll be extra lucky in the casino for the rest of the summer. All in all, it’s a carefully tailored creation that can be called nothing short of paradise.
Seashells have been arbitrarily scattered along the shoreline, coming in both natural shapes and ones a little more... erotic. The sexiest ones of all are conch shells that let you hear the moans of another guest when held up to your ear; supposedly, if you hook up with the person on the other end of the shell, you’ll be extra lucky in the casino for the rest of the summer. All in all, it’s a carefully tailored creation that can be called nothing short of paradise.
NOTES
▶ All new arrivals have been issued four food and four clothing vouchers. These vouchers are as good as money around the resort. The staff will strongly insist on characters picking out "summery" attire with it, though.
▶ Existing characters may be booted into the bungalows or locked out of their room against their will. We leave it up to player discretion if this happens and the degree to which they're removed from their normal suite.
▶ For the Daydream Parasols, wildcards may be afflicted by whichever suit their player prefers for the duration of the dream. This will have no bearing on their suit selection when applying, and suit effects should not manifest once back in the waking world. It's just a dream, after all!
▶ The dreamscape has no explicit time limit, so feel free to make them as long or as short as desired. Dreams should also be sexy first and foremost. While you can include your mom dying in the background if you'd like, you have to be horny about it too.
▶ Existing characters may be booted into the bungalows or locked out of their room against their will. We leave it up to player discretion if this happens and the degree to which they're removed from their normal suite.
▶ For the Daydream Parasols, wildcards may be afflicted by whichever suit their player prefers for the duration of the dream. This will have no bearing on their suit selection when applying, and suit effects should not manifest once back in the waking world. It's just a dream, after all!
▶ The dreamscape has no explicit time limit, so feel free to make them as long or as short as desired. Dreams should also be sexy first and foremost. While you can include your mom dying in the background if you'd like, you have to be horny about it too.
TWINKLING CURRENTS
THE PARTY NEVER STOPS
As the sun sets in a cascade of colors over the water, lamps are lit and floating lights surface from the depths. Stars twinkle in the sky, and Steve is finally released from his smoky shackles. Though the daytime amenities have gone to sleep, the night promises its own set of beachy wonders sure to please even the most distinguished of vacationers.
Flyers posted in the lobby and in the hallways promise of a bar ran by the most enchanting mermaids you could ever want to fuck, as well as a fireworks show in every color, including ones you’ve never heard of. With the seagulls gone to bed, peace settles across the sands, tinted blue, yellow, and pink from the myriad of lights. For those seeking a more subdued, romantic air — this is the beach for you.
Flyers posted in the lobby and in the hallways promise of a bar ran by the most enchanting mermaids you could ever want to fuck, as well as a fireworks show in every color, including ones you’ve never heard of. With the seagulls gone to bed, peace settles across the sands, tinted blue, yellow, and pink from the myriad of lights. For those seeking a more subdued, romantic air — this is the beach for you.
SANDY SCAVENGING
A GAME OF BEACHES
It wouldn't be the Golden Peacock without a game for guests to play! All guests that wander into the beach area may find themselves receiving one of two Watch messages. Some very special guests may even receive both challenges — or continuously receive a new challenge when the last 24 hours is up. The resort just wants you to have the most fun possible!
NOTES
▶ All effects from the swim-up bar last around 2-3 hours, but may be extended by having another drink.
INTO THE DEPTHS
IT'S HIGH TIDE WE GET OUT OF HERE
Though the beach experience is perfect on the surface, things are less elegant behind the scenes. Wave-making machines pulse and rattle down below, shaking the ceiling of the basement suites. Water leaks from pipes, streaking across walls and pooling on the uneven floors. The maintenance levels are abuzz with staff setting out buckets and pans, shooing lost guests away with a heightened level of urgency. Someone got a little too enthusiastic with mopping, they claim. Nothing to worry about at all!
Even the ocean itself isn’t without its issues. Despite appearing as a boundless expanse from the shore, the walls of the Golden Peacock are a very real factor. To avoid any undue damage to the screens that comprise the sky, the sea stops abruptly before it reaches them, cascading into a waterfall all the way down to the depths of the resort. Gentle currents become swirling vortexes and choppy waves, sure to pull down any guests that aren’t careful about where they swim. A few gull-guards patrol the line of buoys that mark the end of the safe swimming area, but the primary line of defense the resort relies on is the utter disinterest most of its guests have.
Even the ocean itself isn’t without its issues. Despite appearing as a boundless expanse from the shore, the walls of the Golden Peacock are a very real factor. To avoid any undue damage to the screens that comprise the sky, the sea stops abruptly before it reaches them, cascading into a waterfall all the way down to the depths of the resort. Gentle currents become swirling vortexes and choppy waves, sure to pull down any guests that aren’t careful about where they swim. A few gull-guards patrol the line of buoys that mark the end of the safe swimming area, but the primary line of defense the resort relies on is the utter disinterest most of its guests have.
NOTES
▶ Any amount of standing water is a valid target for a character’s resurfacing, even something as minor as a glass of water. For situations where a character would not actively fit into the source of their arrival, they will be violently flung out of it, knocking over or spilling it in the process if that’s possible.
▶ As always, players are free to control the level to which their individual characters are affected, and being flooded out of their space is not mandatory.
▶ As always, players are free to control the level to which their individual characters are affected, and being flooded out of their space is not mandatory.
OOC NOTES
▶ BLANKET CW: alcohol; altered states; aphrodisiacs; breeding urge; delusions; forced clotheswearing; hallucinations; harassment and bullying; jealousy; thalassophobia; transformation; unreality
▶ All 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 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 June event. The beach will ICly be present from June 15th - June 30th.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. 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 prioritized and receive attention!
▶ If you aren't satisfied with these prompts, please feel free to check out our LOCATIONS to explore more of the resort! There are recent additions to the locations page as well, for those who have yet to see them!
▶ 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 regardless!
▶ 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.
▶ Don't forget your sunscreen! We'd hate for any chicken wings to come out burnt.
▶ All 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 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 June event. The beach will ICly be present from June 15th - June 30th.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. 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 prioritized and receive attention!
▶ If you aren't satisfied with these prompts, please feel free to check out our LOCATIONS to explore more of the resort! There are recent additions to the locations page as well, for those who have yet to see them!
▶ 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 regardless!
▶ 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.
▶ Don't forget your sunscreen! We'd hate for any chicken wings to come out burnt.
( daydream parasols - c )
It's not the actual Guyun, of course; the coastline is all wrong, the shore is still dotted with beach chairs and umbrellas, and the colors range frin too pastel and soft to too neon and vivid. The impression of it is there, though, in the form of Guyun's stone pillars. They stick up out of the sand and the water, listing to the side like they have yet to fully settle. They sizes don't quite match, ranging from barely ten feet to barely half the height of their genuine counterparts The shape is correct, however, and the apparent violence with which they were driven into the earth is unmistakable—especially to Zhongli.
"It seems so."
Zhongli's tone is steady and level, but Childe may hear the thread of tension in his voice. Thinking about Osial can put him in a bad mood even in the most of ideal of situations. And right now? Zhongli can feel the stirrings of the suit activation under his skin, creeping through his veins and along his nerves like a physical thing.
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So is the fact that he's not totally dressed here, instead still left only with skimpy swim briefs, but in the way of dreams, he just kind of goes with it. He has more important things to worry about.
Like that note of tension in Zhongli's voice; Childe knows him well enough to catch it. Part of him — that dark part, the part that Spades hooks into — wants to push on that wound. Part of him still wants to fight the former Geo Archon! He's always wanted that, a showdown for the fact that he was deceived.
It wasn't like he'd really wanted to resurrect Osial. Innocent people could have — may have — been hurt. He doesn't like doing things like that, involving people who can't fend for themselves, putting children in danger. He'd set aside his distaste for those tactics because duty called. Anyway, Liyue Harbor still stands. Childe has a reputation there he'll probably never be free of. All's well that…ends.
He steps in front of Zhongli, no longer walking beside him on the beach. He wants to reach for him, starts to. He wants that touch, Zhongli's familiar hands. He wants everything, like always. He balls his hands into fists instead, but he isn't exactly the pinnacle of self-control. He'll give in to that impulse soon enough.
"You know, you can just say what you think. You don't have to keep it to yourself all the time," he says. He has the same easy manner he always does, eyes that pull the light in and don't reflect it back properly, that lazy grin on his face. There's something a little feral about it, though, a little challenging. He's dimly aware of it, that this isn't normal, that it's the Spades thing, but that doesn't change anything yet.
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"Perhaps. But what about yourself?"
The touchy, aggressive edge to his demeanor has dulled for the moment, tempered by curiosity. Still, there's a restlessness to his movements when he crosses his arms. He might be setting aside any thoughts of their surroundings for now, but they're still lurking there just under the surface.
"I don't think I keep my thoughts to myself any more than you do."
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His eyebrows go up, surprised for a moment. Then he laughs, cocky like he'd be for someone he was putting on a show for. He was like this when they first met, but a lot happened. He'd cooled some long before the mess at the end of his time in Liyue, allowed himself someone more genuine. He likes Zhongli, after all, and he doesn't like lying.
"What makes you think I do that? I don't have anything to hide," he says, which is so blatantly untrue that it's laughable. He's a Harbinger; they all have things to hide. Childe hides less than the others, sure, and he doesn't like to lie. That doesn't make him an open book.
Zhongli isn't wrong, though. Both of them do talk: Zhongli about history and culture, Childe about whatever he feels like saying at any given time, usually superficial. He likes to fill the silence.
Like now.
"This isn't a very happy dream, huh?"
He's a little fidgety himself, one hand tapping fingers against his bare thigh.
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Well, complicated isn't really the right descriptor, but they are less straightforward than he would like. He enjoys Childe's presence, finds his personality and ability to make conversation pleasant and engaging. But there's a lingering, persistent inequity between them—an inequity further colored by the fact that while its presence doesn't bother Zhongli, he's absolutely certain it bothers Childe.
Trapped in this dream, with his suit crawling underneath his skin, is not an ideal time to try to address it. But it seems as though they have no choice. So, yes, it's quite easy for Childe to hold his attention right now.
But who's to say addressing it with words is their only option? They just agreed, in their own way, that neither of them is easily inclined to say what they mean or share their inner thoughts.
"I suppose it isn't."
He takes a step closer to Childe, still holding his gaze, shrinking the already narrow distance between them.
"Would you prefer to forego words entirely, in that case?"
He's well aware that there are multiple sorts of physical communication to choose from; Zhongli finds that, with both aggression and arousal stirring inside him, he doesn't particularly mind anyway.
lmk if this presumed too much and i'll edit!
He's lying to himself, though, thinking it's just that knowing how much power Zhongli has attracts him. He was pulled in before he ever had any idea that he could never in a thousand years take him a fight. He still wants to try, of course.
Even here, they aren't on even ground. Childe doesn't have his Vision — not even in this dream — and even with it, the power difference is vast. His need here isn't to hurt or kill, though. It's…tangled up in the suit activation, his thrumming need.
"If that's what you want," Childe says, shrugging one shoulder.
He moves immediately after that, no longer denying himself. It could be violence; there's the threat of it, always inside him, Abyss or otherwise. He reaches for Zhongli, but his urge to fight doesn't win (for now). The way he crashes their mouths together could still be called violence. This is all demand, more teeth than tongue.
no, it's perfect!
Then again, between the suit activation and the obvious outcome of a fight between them, perhaps this should be expected. Childe might like a challenge, but it can't be much of a challenge when he knows he's going to lose.
But even if Zhongli's not disappointed, aggression still crackles and churns inside him. He pulls his arms around Childe's waist and yanks him close; nips at his lips; and digs his nails into Childe's back. If they're trapped in this (probably) consequence free dream, he's going to take advantage of it.