【 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.
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No, but is ignorance an excuse? There's that adage about intent versus impact.
[ he's not offended or seeming affected by the tension. menacing, arrogant, capable — unfortunately all true, blended in with other negative qualities and a high-stress environment, a naturally tumultuous age. deny intervention or oversight, and that's how to make a powder keg. ]
[ it's not like he doesn't know it; he can feel each granule of gunpowder stacking up. ]
We all have curse energy, [ blue energy sparks and scribbles frenetically in two snapped fingers between them, briefly highlighting the sallowing features of his face up in cyan, there and gone again. Scott can only see it because of the hotel's interference. ] But only sorcerers can harness it to fight. For normal people, it's like a negative emotions' sludge that runs off and collects itself together. That's the main way— curses, ghosts. They're formed by the depressed and frustrated masses who outnumber us exponentially.
[ an unavoidable problem. maybe not a mutant, but the parallel is readily present. emphatic in his point, he looks at Scott again, measured between curiosity and accusation: ]
It's an endless marathon where you watch the ones running next to you die. What am I supposed to do?
[He look at the energy the entire time, the source that's causing all that conflict back in his world. There's a feeling of power to it despite its size, maybe because of everything he's learned so far. It's kind of strange, since all the stuff that's causing tension in his world exists as a tiny gene, just one alter to his DNA that makes him different.
And this energy is powered by something even more intangible.
Scott frowns a little, but it's clear he's paying close attention to what Getou is saying.]
Then make cursed energy and all that public information.
[He knows that mutants have been out in public for at least ten years now and things were okay, good even, because Raven saved the president on national television. She stopped Erik from killing him and the others and that one incident pretty much fueled human-mutant relations for a while. Scott's not sure how things would be if that never happened, if he suddenly got his powers and he wasn't able to go to Xavier's School after.
Like, it would be super hard if he still had to hide, right?
Although, he and the others just stopped Apocalypse from fully taking over the world and despite it being known that mutants stopped him, that hasn't stopped tensions from growing. Not to mention, Alex died during all this and-- that still hurts. It's possible that his new friends and family might face the same thing and he really doesn't want that. He just... he just has to make sure that doesn't happen. Be the best field leader he can.]
...It could make things harder in some ways, but there will at least be 'normal' people that'd support you. [....] And most importantly, believe in your teammates.
[He's just assuming that Getou has a team like him, because being alone sure would be awful--]
no subject
[ he's not offended or seeming affected by the tension. menacing, arrogant, capable — unfortunately all true, blended in with other negative qualities and a high-stress environment, a naturally tumultuous age. deny intervention or oversight, and that's how to make a powder keg. ]
[ it's not like he doesn't know it; he can feel each granule of gunpowder stacking up. ]
We all have curse energy, [ blue energy sparks and scribbles frenetically in two snapped fingers between them, briefly highlighting the sallowing features of his face up in cyan, there and gone again. Scott can only see it because of the hotel's interference. ] But only sorcerers can harness it to fight. For normal people, it's like a negative emotions' sludge that runs off and collects itself together. That's the main way— curses, ghosts. They're formed by the depressed and frustrated masses who outnumber us exponentially.
[ an unavoidable problem. maybe not a mutant, but the parallel is readily present. emphatic in his point, he looks at Scott again, measured between curiosity and accusation: ]
It's an endless marathon where you watch the ones running next to you die. What am I supposed to do?
no subject
And this energy is powered by something even more intangible.
Scott frowns a little, but it's clear he's paying close attention to what Getou is saying.]
Then make cursed energy and all that public information.
[He knows that mutants have been out in public for at least ten years now and things were okay, good even, because Raven saved the president on national television. She stopped Erik from killing him and the others and that one incident pretty much fueled human-mutant relations for a while. Scott's not sure how things would be if that never happened, if he suddenly got his powers and he wasn't able to go to Xavier's School after.
Like, it would be super hard if he still had to hide, right?
Although, he and the others just stopped Apocalypse from fully taking over the world and despite it being known that mutants stopped him, that hasn't stopped tensions from growing. Not to mention, Alex died during all this and-- that still hurts. It's possible that his new friends and family might face the same thing and he really doesn't want that. He just... he just has to make sure that doesn't happen. Be the best field leader he can.]
...It could make things harder in some ways, but there will at least be 'normal' people that'd support you. [....] And most importantly, believe in your teammates.
[He's just assuming that Getou has a team like him, because being alone sure would be awful--]