【 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 parking garage for all new arrivals. We aim to have all guests moved into their reserved rooms as soon as possible. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience!
All are invited to There Is No Tomorrow, a Phoenix Casino soiree to celebrate our beloved guests. The festivities will begin at 1800 hours on January 20th and end at 1800 hours on January 27th. Please look forward to 168 hours of delight.
In an effort to raise happiness and encourage better guest relationships, attendance is required. The house will assist guests that are too shy to appear of their own accord. Please note that black tie attire is mandatory. As always, we hope you enjoy your stay! 】
PARKING GARAGE
ANY CAR IN A STORM
PHOENIX CASINO HALL
WELCOME TO THE NEXT 168 HOURS
Phoenix Casino is a-flutter with activity and packed to the beak with guests. As a famously ever-changing space, the staff would be remiss if they didn't deck the crown jewel of the Golden Peacock out. The casino glitters from top to bottom, shining brighter than diamonds, rubies, sapphires, opals! Party-goers are shiny and glamorous with picture perfect makeup, fluttering gowns, and sharp suits. Card tables are packed and the slot machines are a-ringing as guests play, play, play! Prizes, luxury, booze, attractive people, it's the place that everyone wants to be at.
Those people being dragged inside by some invisible force...? Silly, they were so excited to come that their bodies moved before they realized what was happening. Those are struggles of joy and definitely not the casino's infamous ghost hands dragging unwilling guests to the party at the behest of the house. Look, they're literally hurling their bodies at the card tables with unrestrained glee!
All clocks indicating day hours and night hours have been removed from the casino. Once a guest has entered, their Watch will jam, making it impossible to keep track of the time. You don't need to worry about that tonight.
▶ 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 January event.
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It's easy to think a game is harmless when they only supply half of the rules, of course.
[devilishly brilliant, actually. They're kind of impressed. But her question amuses them too, for much the same reason...]
I've been here for a day or so. [They definitely know that's probably not the "here" she was actually asking about... the game itself hasn't been going on that long, either.] But I'm sure there's some kind of penalty, yes. What it is just depends on what they've hidden in plain sight.
Where I'm from, if it were a trap to ensnare a victim, the penalty would be to push you into compliance. Probably a curse, at least temporarily.
[ She tilts her head, a finger tapping against her jaw as she listens to him, a soft hum on her lips. A day or so, but where they're from... cursed into compliance... Her lips purse as she recalls a conversation had earlier over food, and she sighs out a long exhale. ]
You might be right. An acquaintance from home warned me that many of the foods here are laced with aphrodisiac drugs... maybe something like that is at play here too?
[ She's less sure how it would work with a riding crop and a timer on this strange watch, but...
She shakes her head, and offers the stranger a smile. ]
Are you intending to play too? [ It's something of an invitation, isn't it. ]
Aphrodisiacs... truly a simple, if inelegant, solution. But—no, I don't think they're in okay here. At least, I don't smell any in the immediate vicinity.
[There might be wild enchantments around that tug at their senses... but that's not what she asked, of course!
That smile and question earn an outright mischievous smile from them in turn, hands rising in a shrug.]
No intention, no. I would think about it, if playing feels more entertaining than watching people stumble over the reality.
[ She frowns a little. Well, if there's nothing like that in here, what else could there possibly be? Magic, perhaps, is her first thought, but wouldn't she be able to sense if there was something like that in the air?
Naively, she doesn't stop to think yet about the fact that she hasn't really been able to sense anything since waking here, her connection with nature gone in a place so far from natural—
And so maybe she would just leave it at that, and trust in their words and her own feelings, but then they continue talking, say something that has her head tilt in curiosity—and maybe a little concern. ]
You'd... prefer to watch people be fooled by this game than to join in and possibly help out?
Ehehe
[devilishly brilliant, actually. They're kind of impressed. But her question amuses them too, for much the same reason...]
I've been here for a day or so. [They definitely know that's probably not the "here" she was actually asking about... the game itself hasn't been going on that long, either.] But I'm sure there's some kind of penalty, yes. What it is just depends on what they've hidden in plain sight.
Where I'm from, if it were a trap to ensnare a victim, the penalty would be to push you into compliance. Probably a curse, at least temporarily.
no subject
You might be right. An acquaintance from home warned me that many of the foods here are laced with aphrodisiac drugs... maybe something like that is at play here too?
[ She's less sure how it would work with a riding crop and a timer on this strange watch, but...
She shakes her head, and offers the stranger a smile. ]
Are you intending to play too? [ It's something of an invitation, isn't it. ]
no subject
[There might be wild enchantments around that tug at their senses... but that's not what she asked, of course!
That smile and question earn an outright mischievous smile from them in turn, hands rising in a shrug.]
No intention, no. I would think about it, if playing feels more entertaining than watching people stumble over the reality.
no subject
Naively, she doesn't stop to think yet about the fact that she hasn't really been able to sense anything since waking here, her connection with nature gone in a place so far from natural—
And so maybe she would just leave it at that, and trust in their words and her own feelings, but then they continue talking, say something that has her head tilt in curiosity—and maybe a little concern. ]
You'd... prefer to watch people be fooled by this game than to join in and possibly help out?