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TDM 05
【 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 in our KING SUITES for all new arrivals. We will endeavor to have all guests moved into their reserved rooms as soon as possible. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience.
As a token of our gratitude for your understanding, front reception has arranged for a GRAND FEAST to welcome our newest guests. The attendance of all guests is required. The house will enforce compliance.
Please note that rank-appropriate attire is mandatory. Guests found breaking social code may be disciplined. We hope you enjoy your stay! 】
ARRIVAL
DIVINE AWAKENING
All King suites have been set to the Heavenly setting for the comfort of these new Wildcards. To call this place a room feels like a misnomer; all of the senses scream that this is a real temple at the top of a crisp oceanside mountain. The only clue that this place isn't what it seems is the door in the distance. It stands dark against light, a stark rectangle distinctly out of place.
New arrivals aren't waking up alone. Reception would never expect their guests to wake up in a cold bed. All new guests will be waking up next to another Wildcard or a current guest snatched up from the hallways. Guests waking up in these heavenly King suites will wake dressed in sheer white tunics and togas that leave very little to the imagination.
GILDED CAGE
AN ENDLESS FEAST
Rugs and cushions have been laid out for low rank guests. All high rank guests have thrones and benches covered in crushed velvet and delicate linens. Wildcards have a seat of honor amongst it all, each fresh new divine lead to the grand dais for their own semi-private tent with daybed and eager servants.
Low ranks are carefully watched by security and wait staff. Some low rank guests may even be dragged in by resort staff to assist serving high rank guests and Wildcards. All high rank guests and Wildcards are revered and catered to during the feast. Low rank guests are expected to feed them, rub their feet, and comply with any whimsical demands. Any low rank guest that defies a higher ranked guest is at risk of being shackled, forced to scrub chamber pots, and other humiliating punishments.
PHOENIX CASINO
ALEA IACTA EST
The game tables are abuzz. Special games have kicked off in honor of the new godlings that are waiting to check in. Even here, those of different ranks are distinct from one another. The lowest ranks wear small slips of clothing. Some are even collared to show they belong to a particular royal or Wildcard. Royals and Wildcards dress luxuriously in thick robes and golden jewelry.
Game managers clap and encourage guests of all ranks to join in on the fun. While there are numerous card games, slot machines, and raffles happening around the casino, staff are promoting three events in particular.
BEAK
ENTERTAIN YOUR BETTERS
Beneath the open arena is a smaller closed arena and the warrior’s bunk. Warriors will find cold showers, rustic wooden benches, and training weapons available for their use. Deep in the earth is a grimy prison where servants who refuse to battle are thrown to wait for their turn. There are also cages where the hungry “animals” wait to go out and entertain the masses.
A long track rings around the perimeter of the arena. Gone is the standard green fuzz and white lines, replaced with stone and dust to elicit the real feeling of running beneath the hot Grecian sun. Foot and chariot races take place throughout the day.
TALON
SHOW OF STRENGTH
Servants that appear too fragile to handle mud wrestling have been conscripted into the oil bearer role. Their job is to slather the warriors in oil from head to toe, and otherwise prepare them for their matches in either the arena or in the pit. This includes styling their hair, tending to their wounds, and wiping the sweat off of their bodies if so desired.
The locker rooms that connect Beak and Talon have been fully stocked with first aid kits and luxury bathing supplies. Warriors that have won their matches get first pick, leaving the dirty towels and shampoo that smells like ass for the losers to sift through. Those sneaky ghost hands are having a field day, snapping rat tails at unsuspecting bathers and locking naked warriors together in the supply closet. Guests lacking vigilance may find their bottoms unexpectedly pinched.
INDULGENCE
DESIRES FROM THE VOID
Things begin to move around the resort. The forgotten and the old exhale a dusty breath. Like the hunger that the Wildcards woke up with upon arrival, as its heart begins to beat quicker, there is a tension in the air of those things hungering to feed. To join in, and indulge. To get what they want.
And they’re coming out.
OOC NOTES
▶ BLANKET CW: Alcohol; aphrodisiacs; battle; blood; bondage; compulsion; costumes; discipline; dominance; drowning; dubcon; fears; fighting; food; hierarchy; humiliation; indulgence; kidnapping; noncon; paranormal; power imbalance; roleplay; servitude; stalking; submission; supernatural; terror; violence; weapons
▶ All characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. Suits will not manifest until characters are accepted into the game.
▶ All TDMs are game canon. This TDM acts as the game's August event. Changes to the above locations will ICly be present from August 15th - September 1st.
▶ 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 would be interested in a game invitation, you can note that in your comment header.
▶ If you aren't satisfied with these prompts, 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 regardless!
▶ Wildcard tokens from the GILDED CAGE prompt may be redeemed even if the newbie(s) in question do not join the game, but only for the small item reward; the token does not carry over to Game 52.
▶ 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 to relax and enjoy the end of your summer! ♥
▶ All characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. Suits will not manifest until characters are accepted into the game.
▶ All TDMs are game canon. This TDM acts as the game's August event. Changes to the above locations will ICly be present from August 15th - September 1st.
▶ 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 would be interested in a game invitation, you can note that in your comment header.
▶ If you aren't satisfied with these prompts, 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 regardless!
▶ Wildcard tokens from the GILDED CAGE prompt may be redeemed even if the newbie(s) in question do not join the game, but only for the small item reward; the token does not carry over to Game 52.
▶ 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 to relax and enjoy the end of your summer! ♥
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No, this has been extremely illuminating. [ Eventually, Keita puts away the pocketwatch, wondering as he does whether the Mori and Daughter of the future has any connection to clockwork at all. Would whoever took over the shop in the future have any interest in the craft, or would the gears and bearings of the past give way to—what—wires and suchlike in the future? ] It's just Mori's, for me. Although I...
[ This is going to be the strangest thing Keita has ever said aloud. It makes him feel a bit like he's floating outside his body. ]
I have a suspicion I know who the "daughter" might be.
[ Who else but Six, really. She already knows so much about watches and clockwork, just from her observations while sitting in the workshop while Keita works—and he had thought in passing, not long ago, on one of their trips to the vivarium, that it might not be terrible to have her in the house all the time, particularly when Thaniel was married and gone with a child of his own to raise. ]
I hope it's not too disappointing to find that I'll be of no use at all when it comes to the watches this place gives us, [ Keita adds after a moment, looking up at January with a smile. Goodness, but he is tall, isn't he? ] But if you have any interest at all in the more old-fashioned sort, I'd gladly make something for you, even if it won't be able to do much more than tell the time.
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Oh, that's kind of you to offer. [He doesn't know whether or not he ought to say yes, really. He does want to say yes. Even if it only tells time. "Even" seems like a poor way to describe something like what Mori's shown him.] Your work is beautiful. I...feel like I shouldn't say yes, but I will. But only if it wouldn't be a bother.
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But a calling it is, evidently. The kind of calling that might result in a shop that persists for hundreds if not thousands of years, making clockwork pieces well into the future too. Even without his clairvoyance, the shock on January's face at the offer would be more than enough to tell Keita that a piece of clockwork from Mori and Daughter is probably worth quite a bit, even in January's time. ]
Not at all. I enjoy having things to work on, it gives me something to do other than the octopus.
[ Katsu 2.0, very much still a work in progress. Doesn't even have a name yet, and Keita can't just go about calling him Katsu 2.0 forever, can he? ]
Is there anything in particular you'd like?
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[January is aware that that probably just sounds like bog standard English politeness, but he really does mean it. He sounds very sincere about it.
After a moment, he follows that up with curiosity:]
You're...making an octopus?
[Unless he's taking care of an octopus, but January feels like he'd have said things differently if that was the case.]
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Ah, yes. I'm still deciding on a name for it. [ Despite himself, a slight smile crosses Keita's face. The octopus is a challenge, one he enjoys very much. ] It's based on the design of one I had at home, called Katsu. He's made of clockwork and has a random engine inside him, so he can move in an imitation of life.
[ And quite a convincing one at that, judging by how often Thaniel tried to personify it. ]
I can show you when I'm done, if you like. It'll probably be some weeks, though, it takes much longer to find materials here than it did in London.
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[January doesn't quite blurt out the praise, but it still has the sense of being something said almost on instinct. It's a charming thought, January thinks, the idea of making a life-like octopus out of clockwork. He's smiling too, looking charmed.]
I'd love to see it when you're finished, of course.
What made you think of constructing something like that in the first place?
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I wanted a challenge, I suppose. And it kept me occupied as a young man, before I left home for Tokyo.
[ When he had still been living in Hagi Castle, tormented by the ghosts of his brothers and father and by his cousin's raging temper. Clockwork had been an escape, then; it was within that castle's walls that Keita started forming the idea for Katsu, although the machinery wouldn't come to fruition for many, many years.
After a second, Keita blinks and then turns just slightly as if indicating the doors. ]
Would you like—tea, or something? I've just realized I'm keeping you standing in the middle of a training room.
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[January smiles a little at the very kind offer, even as - perhaps specifically because - he's rebuffing it.]
But thank you very much. I'll take you up on that some other time?
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[ It was always the most likely outcome, he knows, even if he can't quite remember the other one anymore. It's also not surprising. Keita can't find it himself to be disappointed.
There's a very British I'll take you up on that some other time that means January will send him a message, eventually, and another that means he'll never hear from January again, and only time will tell which one January means. For now, Keita bows at the waist, the very image of Japanese politeness. ]
Enjoy your training, then.
[ And as unobtrusively as possible, Keita steps back out of the room, partially closing the door behind him so it's less likely anyone else will disturb January for a while. ]