【 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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▶ 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. This month we also have an ongoing ATP / EMP where players can connect. Please feel free to utilize this for all of your peafowl needs!
▶ 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!
▶ We ask you to kindly add content warnings to your threads as appropriate.
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( now that is interesting. also: deeply disturbing and highly invasive, especially for a man who values his privacy as much as wriothesley does. though it would be no less acceptable even for someone open about their feelings and past. )
Is that so?
( any trace of good humor has since vanished, leaving behind only disapproval and unhappiness in the downward curve of his mouth and hard glint in his eyes. )
Is that another one of this resort's tricks to try and 'encourage' us to form closer connections with each other?
[ He grimaces slightly, lifting his shoulders in a shrug. ]
Honestly? I'm not entirely certain. Sometimes whatever game they're trying to play can backfire in ways they don't expect. Or perhaps its more accurate to say it plays out in unanticipated ways. The lower levels got flooded at one point, and something last month happened with our suits that had them all mixed up from what they were meant to be. I honestly don't know if reliving some of our childhood memories was what they intended, although I sort of doubted. Kids aren't all that interested in sex, after all.
Although it did bring us closer, in its own way, I suppose. Nothing brings people closer, I guess, than getting to witness each other's terrible traumatic childhoods. [ His voice is utterly dry, because Wriothesley wasn't the only one who kept his past secretive and deeply buried. Even his prince didn't know most of it. ]
( his own voice is dry, though not so much as sylvain's. wit and humor have never been coping or defense mechanisms he's sought to use often - or at all. )
Well, I am glad to hear the experience did not irreparably damage the relationship between you two. ( his voice softens with the next line. ) Though I am sorry to hear your own your childhood was difficult as well.
( children should be loved and cherished, and provided with safe homes and families to grow and prosper in. )
( it's an easy change of subject, smooth and easy to follow. neuvillette sees nothing wrong answering this particular question. he is not the sort to pry, in any case. though he doesn't answer right away, letting the silence lull between them for a few breaths as he considers what would be most appropriate to say. )
Yes, I have. ( a small nod. ) We have worked together in a professional capacity for many years now, and I had been made aware of his actions in the Fortress of Meropide prior to that due to a mutual friend of ours.
( which sounds a little illicit when phrased like that. )
[ This place has a way of making everything illicit anyway.
But Sylvain’s lips quirk faintly as he nods in understanding. ]
Well, I suppose it’s very reassuring to know he wasn’t your warden. [ Not that it likely would have affected Sylvain’s opinion about him even if he had been.
But he has a feeling Wriothesley will want to know of this new arrival - if he doesn’t already. And Sylvain… is still stuck here naked. ]
…I don’t suppose you see anything down there that might be my pants…?
( can't believe sylvain is out here insinuating that neuvillette might be so crass as to ever consider breaking the law? inconceivable.
but the innocent question about clothing does prompt neuvillette out of his chair, eyes widening in surprise and cheeks coloring in apology. despite his own disheveled appearance - shirt partially unbuttoned, strands of hair sticking out every which way - his movements as he crouches towards the ground remain graceful nonetheless. )
My apologies for the oversight. Please, allow me.
( to fish out the various clothes scattered on the floor. blame waking up in an unfamiliar room with an unfamiliar person at his side, a first in all the hundreds of years he's been alive.
some sixty seconds later, he pops back up with a shirt dangling off the fingers of one hand and a pair of pants dangling off the other. as for underwear......sylvain will either have to find those himself or simply go without. )
[ Sylvain blinks at the clothes Neuvilette comes up with, confusion flickering over his face at the sight of them. There's no way that short's gonna fit and yet he's pretty sure he could fit two of him in those pants.
Who's room did they end up in??? ]
Uhh. Nope! Please tell me those aren't our only options?
[ Maybe he'll just wear the sheet back... Impromptu toga party? Not like that hasn't happened here before... ]
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Is that so?
( any trace of good humor has since vanished, leaving behind only disapproval and unhappiness in the downward curve of his mouth and hard glint in his eyes. )
Is that another one of this resort's tricks to try and 'encourage' us to form closer connections with each other?
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Honestly? I'm not entirely certain. Sometimes whatever game they're trying to play can backfire in ways they don't expect. Or perhaps its more accurate to say it plays out in unanticipated ways. The lower levels got flooded at one point, and something last month happened with our suits that had them all mixed up from what they were meant to be. I honestly don't know if reliving some of our childhood memories was what they intended, although I sort of doubted. Kids aren't all that interested in sex, after all.
Although it did bring us closer, in its own way, I suppose. Nothing brings people closer, I guess, than getting to witness each other's terrible traumatic childhoods. [ His voice is utterly dry, because Wriothesley wasn't the only one who kept his past secretive and deeply buried. Even his prince didn't know most of it. ]
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( his own voice is dry, though not so much as sylvain's. wit and humor have never been coping or defense mechanisms he's sought to use often - or at all. )
Well, I am glad to hear the experience did not irreparably damage the relationship between you two. ( his voice softens with the next line. ) Though I am sorry to hear your own your childhood was difficult as well.
( children should be loved and cherished, and provided with safe homes and families to grow and prosper in. )
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We all have our difficulties, I suppose. But you must have known Wriothesley a long time ago, then?
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Yes, I have. ( a small nod. ) We have worked together in a professional capacity for many years now, and I had been made aware of his actions in the Fortress of Meropide prior to that due to a mutual friend of ours.
( which sounds a little illicit when phrased like that. )
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But Sylvain’s lips quirk faintly as he nods in understanding. ]
Well, I suppose it’s very reassuring to know he wasn’t your warden. [ Not that it likely would have affected Sylvain’s opinion about him even if he had been.
But he has a feeling Wriothesley will want to know of this new arrival - if he doesn’t already. And Sylvain… is still stuck here naked. ]
…I don’t suppose you see anything down there that might be my pants…?
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but the innocent question about clothing does prompt neuvillette out of his chair, eyes widening in surprise and cheeks coloring in apology. despite his own disheveled appearance - shirt partially unbuttoned, strands of hair sticking out every which way - his movements as he crouches towards the ground remain graceful nonetheless. )
My apologies for the oversight. Please, allow me.
( to fish out the various clothes scattered on the floor. blame waking up in an unfamiliar room with an unfamiliar person at his side, a first in all the hundreds of years he's been alive.
some sixty seconds later, he pops back up with a shirt dangling off the fingers of one hand and a pair of pants dangling off the other. as for underwear......sylvain will either have to find those himself or simply go without. )
Do either of these belong to you?
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Who's room did they end up in??? ]
Uhh. Nope! Please tell me those aren't our only options?
[ Maybe he'll just wear the sheet back... Impromptu toga party? Not like that hasn't happened here before... ]