TDM 14

[goldmods]

【 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 mid-rank suites for all new arrivals. We ask current mid-rank guests to welcome any new arrivals that may temporarily be assigned to their room while we process reservations.

Exciting news! The Phoenix Casino has undergone a renovation. Guests are invited to come enjoy refreshed facilities, games, and lounges. We don't think you'll ever want to leave!

Additionally, the casino will be hosting an upper rank soiree at the end of the month. All guests rank 9 and above are invited to attend. Any +1s of low rank may only attend as a pet or personal attendant. Otherwise, low ranks are not welcome.

We aim to have all guests moved into their suites as soon as possible. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience! 】

PHOENIX REBORN

A CASINO ROYALE

THE FLAME OF FORTUNE

► The Phoenix Casino has been reborn in a sea of red. Cool tones have been replaced with brilliant bursts of warmth, from rugs to hanging decor. Long-standing guests, thrilled with the unexpected update, have flooded the casino with renewed vigor. Four large cards, a King of each suit, hang overhead and watch the masses below with unsettling gazes.

All clocks have been removed. Time flows strangely, blending hours and minutes, making it difficult to judge how long one has spent inside. Yet the long-standing guests do not seem to care, tirelessly gambling and hitting the slot machines, some to the point of passing out right in the middle of the casino. There are times that some of the long-standing guests look particularly ghoulish, as if their souls have been drained away. Yet at other times, they look perfectly fine, back to gambling with relish.

► With the change of style comes a change of staff. It's a temporary measure since the usual servers have taken vacation en masse. New dealers have uncanny smiles and sharp eyes; they are quick to catch guests trying to cheat at the tables. These dealers are willing to take bets beyond chips, like days off a gambler's lifespan or increments of their power. The more drained guests become, the more energetic these dealers appear.

► The ghost hands are particularly active in this bright new casino. These meddlesome phantoms purposefully mess with the games to change the outcomes, give guests particularly embarrassing tasks, or to stir up trouble at the tables. They also rig some of the games to get the sexy outcomes they want, gleefully rubbing their floating selves together when they get their way. So, if your character's suddenly found themselves caught in a stroke of awful luck, there might be a ghostly culprit!

► Guests are not forced to stay in the casino for any particular length of time. They may come and go as they please. However, they may find that what feels like five minutes checking out the casino has actually been a day away from their room. If they spend too long in the casino, their energy will drain and they may feel light-headed, as if they've been sucked of their vigor to the point of fatigue.

WILDCARDS

► Due to several staff members taking their paid time off during an unexpected casino reno, managers snatch up the opportunity to put these new wildcards to work before they're properly sorted. They don't really count as guests yet, right? It's a dire situation. There's so much work to do and so few hands! With these excuses, desperate managers snatch wildcards from wherever they may be and throw them into open service positions throughout the casino.

► All wildcards dragged to work are required to dress up for their new job. Wait staff that serve drinks around the casino floor are required to dress as sexy casino bunnies. Entertainers who dance and strip for the amusement of casino guests are required to dress up as feathered show-birds. Janitors that scrub stains out of the carpets must be topless and wear sexy maid-style bottoms, either a skirt or butler trousers. They're asked to fill every role aside from dealers, since those positions have been filled by the house.

► Though wildcards have been employed without consent, casino managers aren't totally heartless. Wildcards are only required to work 24 hours across the month for their new job and these 24 hours do not need to be consecutive. Once they've hit the threshold, they will receive their meager pay and a few resort vouchers.

► Wildcards aren't the only guests being dragged into work. Low Ace cards (aces that downgraded into their rank) have also been conscripted to work. Though they're not required to work as many hours as wildcards, the long-standing guests are particularly handsy with them given their special status.

A BATHROOM HOLD-UP

► Bathrooms have been decorated with various paintings and artwork. Nothing amiss happens when a guest enters, but when they try to leave, they may find that the door refuses to budge. All of the portraits will take the opportunity to observe the guest trying to leave, but one of two portraits will take control and demand:

Sinners dare step into MY washroom? Don't think you can leave without confessing your crimes! Those who have trampled upon virtue should be heavily punished. And I ... I will observe this punishment be dispensed. To see it is done right. Ahem.

▷ Judgmental John will demand that guests trapped in his bathroom confess one of their sins, crimes, or sources of guilt. Each stuck guest will be prompted to confess and then they together must decide whose crime is worse. Judgmental John will then preside over the executioner, the guest with the lesser crime, punishing the guest with the worse crime.

▷ While Judgmental John has perverted intentions with his demand and will encourage sexy punishing, he will reluctantly accept any kind of punishment the executioner decides to dole out.

▷ If your character has met Judgmental John before he will definitely remember them. This portrait never forgets a face!

Aren't you cute? Show us some flirting, give us a treat! We'll let you go after you entertain us a bit. What do we like? Anything charming, anything sweet. Even confessions will do! It gets so lonely in here. Imagine watching everyone do nothing but piss and shit before leaving. Don't we deserve some fun?

▷ The Teasing Trio are friendly and looking for a good time. They want to see cute or lightly spicy engagement between the guests they've caught in the restroom. They know how to have fun and aren't taking this trapping thing seriously.

▷ Anything like holding hands, love confessions, emotional moments, and dewy-eyed passionate declarations will please them. It doesn't have to be real, it just has to satisfy their collective cute aggression.

▷ If your character has met the trio before... well, they won't remember. They're too taken up by gossiping with each other to remember everyone they've asked for some entertainment.

GAMES

ROLLING HIGH

DIRTY DICE: WHOLESOME OR WHORE

A crowd favorite — Dirty Dice is back and as dirty as ever. The creators put their heads together to come up with funnier and more dynamic dice options to keep things interesting for players. This time, combinations include wholesome and whoreish options to create even more unique game tasks.

► The rules for Dirty Dice: Wholesome or Whore remain the same as last year. Players will be seated at a two-top (though group Dirty Dice games are also encouraged!) with a set of twelve-sided dice. The starting player rolls both dice. The action created with the dice must then be done to the opposing player — however, the rolling player does have the option to turn down the action. The second player will then roll the dice to create an action, also with the choice to turn down the action. Players continue to take turns until there is a winner.

► The first player to complete three actions will receive bragging rights, an extra large chip payout, and the resounding applause from the audience. Depending on which combinations are used to win the game, the winner may be crowned as cutely wholesome or top whore.

DIE A
1: KISS
2: HUMP
3: CUDDLE
4: BITE
5: CARESS
6: SUCK
7: COMPLIMENT
8: FINGER
9: HOLD
10: LICK
11: WORSHIP
12: SNIFF

DIE B
1: LIPS
2: ASS
3: EAR
4: CHEST
5: NOSE
6: NECK
7: WAIST
8: KNEE
9: HAND
10: NIPPLE
11: THIGH
12: FOOT

SLOT MACHINES

► Slot machines around the Phoenix Casino have been updated! Guests may choose between red machines and black machines. Red machines are easy tasks with small chip prizes. Black machines include more challenging tasks but offer extra large chip prizes.

► Players may either use RNG for the below prompts or select any combination they like OOCly. ICly, it's all random.

► A character plays on a red machine and pulls a 1, 3, and 5. The challenge sent to the character's Watch would be, DANCE WITH A WILDCARD IN THE BATHROOM. If they complete the task, they will automatically receive a small payment as a prize.

A character plays on a black machine and pulls a 4, 1, and 10. The challenge sent to the characters Watch would be, HAVE SPOONING SEX WITH A NEW PARTNER IN PUBLIC. If they complete the task, they will automatically receive an extra large payment as a prize.

RED MACHINE

ACTION
DANCE
CONFESS A SECRET
ADMIT A KINK
SHARE A DREAM
HOLD HANDS
SHARE A MEMORY
TELL A FEAR
SWAP CLOTHES
FLIRT
VENT FEELINGS

ON/TO/WITH
A FRIEND
A STRANGER
A WILDCARD
HIGH RANK
MID RANK
LOW RANK
A DIAMONDS
A HEARTS
A SPADES
A CLUBS

WHERE
UNDER TABLE
ON CHAIR
ON POKER TABLE
IN CLOSET
IN BATHROOM
BEHIND BAR
IN LOUNGE
IN BED
AGAINST WALL
BALCONY

BLACK MACHINE

POSITION/ACT
DOGGY STYLE
COWGIRL
PILE DRIVER
SPOONING SEX
ORAL SEX
SIXTY-NINE
CLOTHED SEX
MATING PRESS
HANDJOB
INTERCRURAL

ON/TO/WITH
NEW PARTNER
OLD PARTNER
HIGH RANK
MID RANK
LOW RANK
WILDCARD
SUBMISSIVE
DOMINANT
LIGHT HAIRED
DARK HAIRED

WHERE
UNDER TABLE
IN BATHROOM
IN CLOSET
BALCONY
IN BED
IN LOUNGE
AGAINST WALL
ON TABLE
BEHIND BAR
PUBLICLY

SEX TOY ROULETTE

Come one, come all, step right up and try your luck at Sex Toy Roulette! Several roulette wheels are waiting for those brave enough to give them a spin. Sex Toy Roulette is a game of chance that comes with risks and rewards. Are you daring enough to give it a go?

► Sex Toy Roulette is very easy to play. A player steps up to the wheel, grabs the handle, and gives it their best spin. Whatever the needle lands on when the wheel stops is what the player wins! Lucky ducks might land on one of the fabulous instant prizes which can be claimed immediately. Sexy slutty yet less lucky ducks land on one of the sex toy options.

► If the needle lands on one of the sex toy options the roulette manager will give the player the corresponding sex toy. The toy will sync with the player's Watch and begin counting down from 4 hours. The instructions for further steps are transmitted to their Watch: Use this toy in a sex act with another guest within 4 hours.

► Players that complete the game and use the sex toy within 4 hours will receive no penalty. They also get to keep the sex toy. Yay!

► Players that do not complete the game and do not use the sex toy within 4 hours will be penalized. Not only will a substantial amount of chips be drained from their account, they may experience a sudden and intense suit flare. Wildcards may randomly experience symptoms of ANY SUIT.

1: ICE CUBES
2: INSTA-PRIZE
3: ANAL DOUCHE
4: FURRY HANDCUFFS
5: FISHNET STOCKINGS
6: ROPE
7: INSTA-PRIZE
8: REALISTIC PENIS DILDO
9: LATEX GLOVES
10: PENIS PUMP
11: BANANA
12: BLINDFOLD

13: INSTA-PRIZE
14: PING PONG PADDLE
15: FLESHLIGHT
16: NIPPLE CLAMPS
17: HUGE BLOWUP DOLL
18: COLLAR WITH COCK RING
19: INSTA-PRIZE
20: MAID OUTFIT
21: HIGH HEELS
22: ZUCCHINI
23: LEASH & COLLAR
24: BUTTER KNIFE

25: LACE PANTIES
26: INSTA-PRIZE
27: LINGERIE SET
28: ANAL BEADS
29: MASSAGE OIL
30: WOODEN SPOON
31: CANDY G-STRING
32: CANDLE & MATCHES
33: MASSIVE DRAGON DILDO
34: NECK TIE
35: INSTA-PRIZE
36: VIBRATOR

► Guests that land on INSTA-PRIZE may select from the following prizes:

An extra-large chip payout and money box experience. Stand inside a narrow box and enjoy being showered with the bills of different cultures across the multiverse! Dollars, yen, euros, yuan... you name it.

The royal experience. Travel around the party in the coveted Pure Gold Peacock Palanquin. Enjoy 24 hours of topless servants and constant hand-and-foot service. All of your commands will be obeyed.

Select from an assortment of luxury watches, necklaces, earrings, and other expensive articles of clothing. Cashmere, pure silk, Mongolian wool — high quality items for keeps. May also select from appliances that would not be normally found in low rank suites.

A brand new car or motorcycle!!! Yes, the car will have to live in the garage, but it's all yours. Winners who choose a motorcycle may ride it around the hallways of the resort.

► The specific details of the sex toy a character is given is left to OOC discretion. For example, if you choose to land on "vibrator", you may have your character given any kind of vibrator. Have fun!

LOUNGES

ROLLING LOW

THE PEACOCK LOUNGE

► Guests looking to get away from the flashing lights of the main casino can slip away to solace in the Peacock Lounge. The drinks are flowing, the food is good, and the music is calm. The Peacock Lounge offers guests a place to relax and unwind during their gambling escapades.

► While guests won't be pestered to play games or set bets inside the Peacock Lounge, they aren't completely free of the resort's antics. Everyone who comes into the Peacock Lounge will be set up on a casual date for the duration of their visit. Dates are completely randomized, with servers pairing guests at tables and matchmaking based upon their personal whims.

Guests will be paired with someone new every time they enter the lounge. It's a great way to meet people!

► Staff are well aware that not all guests are smooth enough to slide right into a date. All tables come with a set of DATE NIGHT QUESTIONS for guests to use. Waiters watch eagerly, leaning over and nudging the cards when it looks like a table might be in a lull or have fallen into awkward silence.

► All meals come in pair sets to encourage the date-like atmosphere. Given that the Peacock Lounge is the only place inside the casino offering food, it's either suck it up and be romantic with who you've been paired up with or go hungry.

DOWNSTAIRS DESIRE LOUNGE

► Pink neon signs point down several dark stairwells. Guests looking to fulfill a kink or fetish they may be reluctant to admit normally should go ahead and follow the arrows, because deep in the casino they'll find the Desire Lounge. This lounge is scarcely lit and cloaked in shadow, a place where the scent of sex is thick in the air. Discreet staff lead the way through padded pleasure rooms.

► All guests must wear a nondescript mask and promise to remain anonymous before entering the lounge. Here, anonymity and desire are king. Guests are here to seek out partners based solely upon sexual interests.

Sexual interests may not necessarily be BDSM or hard kinks. Upon arrival, guests will enter a desire into their Watches so the system can match them with an appropriate partner. A lonely guest looking to be treated lovingly can enter their desire into the database, where they'll be matched with another guest whose desire is to dote upon a partner. Dominants will be matched with submissives. Sadists will be matched with masochists. Guests with matching fetish play will be paired together.

All rooms are dimly lit to help keep encounters anonymous and discreet. Guests are required to keep their masks on and are advised to avoid asking questions about their partner. There might even be blindfolds involved, for either one party or both, depending upon the desire being fulfilled.

Staff, however, won't be inside the pleasure room with the couple during the act. They won't know what rules are bent and broken.

A ROYAL NIGHT

HIGH RANK SOIREE

FOR THE UPPER CRUST

► All royal and high rank guests will receive an invite for a royal evening in the casino at the end of the month. Rank 9 and higher, all aces included, are encouraged to dress up and come for a night of drinking, dancing, and indulging with their peers. The royal ranks are the real stars of this star-studded evening but 10s and 9s are tolerated as the bottom of the top.

► Guests rank 8 and below may only attend if they are accompanying a high rank as either their leashed pet or obedient servant. Wildcards are lumped in with the low ranks for this event since they are not yet assigned a real rank.

Bringing a wildcard as a pet or servant earns social points with the long-standing guests, since they're new and unknown. Bringing several pets and/or servants also earns social points. Not bringing any servants or pets is laughable, and high ranks that show up without any companions will be gossiped about and snickered at.

► If they choose to bring a pet or servant, high ranks are encouraged to dress them up to show off their status and wealth. Even if you're dressed well, you can't be that well off if your pet is dressed slovenly or your servant is in a simple white shirt and pants. It's also a show of ownership, claiming them as your personal property by dressing them in your style.

► It's encouraged for high ranks to trade pets and servants for the evening. What's some sharing amongst peers? It's an excellent way for high ranks to get a taste of something new, be it taming someone else's pet for a while or being waited upon by someone else's servant. Sharing isn't mandatory, but those unwilling to trade will be expected to put on a public display with their +1 for everyone else to enjoy.

SERVE AND SATISFY

► Low ranks that attend the party as a +1 are expected to behave properly and entertain the high ranks. Pets must be leashed the entire time and servants must stay at their master's side, unless temporarily swapped to another high rank. They can attend with PC or NPC high ranks.

► Coming as a +1 isn't the only way for a low rank to get into the party. The casino is still short-staffed, after all! Low ranks may also be employed as waiters to tend to the high ranks. Though their job first and foremost is to serve food and drink, should they catch a high rank's eye, they must do anything that high rank wants of them. This includes sexual favors, be it offering themselves up or servicing the high rank in question.

► The expectation is to behave, but the high ranks so love training and disciplining an unruly low rank. Any +1 or waiter that does not submit to the dominance of a high rank will be punished to their satisfaction, either by their own hand or another. All +1s and waiters will be warned about this before being allowed to enter. Can't say you didn't know!

► Pets, servants, and waiters may be traded for high ranks to enjoy. They may also be ordered to fuck each other publicly for the high ranks to watch. Low ranks with better status, such as ranks 8 and 7, have a bit more leeway and sway with the high ranks. Bottom barrel low ranks may be freely used and ordered about, even by higher ranked pets/servants/waiters.

OOC NOTES

INVITES | RESERVES | APPLICATIONS

▶ BLANKET CW: alcohol; anonymous; BDSM; confessions; costumes; dubcon; entrapment; gambling, hierarchy; pet play; power dynamics; public sex; punishment; sex toys; supernatural

▶ 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 March event.

▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 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 strongly suggest leaving a note in your top level of any limits or boundaries for other players to reference.

NAVIGATION • LOG • NETWORK • OOC • MEME

Comments

[dematerializing]

Mm. [Douman nods, sipping his drink.]

One could live a thousand years and never truly be an expert on anything. Other people are by far the most difficult thing to master.

[ceaselesslabor]

Agreed. [And he passes the cards over.]

Well, that was simple. Perhaps the others will be?

[dematerializing]

Perhaps...

[Douman shuffles the deck. He has no real affinity for luck, but he's hoping for something good. Let's see...]

Ah...

What smell always brings back some type of memory?

[ceaselesslabor]

[His mind automatically goes to the smell of the pits, the worst of the worst, but he smiles.]

Uh, books, actually. Have you ever just smelled a book? It - it's distinct. And it reminds me of reading as a kid.

[dematerializing]

I have. Many times. I may not look all that wise, but I've been around a long time.

[Douman's smile is calm, genuine, as he swirls the ice cubes around in his glass with his finger.]

I've smelled thousands of books, but they all smell the same somehow. Even down to the very first one.

[ceaselesslabor]

[He watches his face, his fingers around the rim of his glass.]

How long?

[dematerializing]

Hm...

[The question has been, since arriving here, how much to tell, and how much to keep secret. His name comes with a reputation, but he's elected to use it anyway. His mask is gone, so he hasn't bothered concealing his face. Everyone here supposedly comes from different worlds with different rules. Humans aren't as afraid of things like Douman - or so he assumes they must not be, that they can't afford to be.

[He's away from home on an interdimensional vacation from which he's not sure how to escape, so really, what does it matter? If he's going to be coy, he'll do it for the sake of being coy.]

Guess.

[ceaselesslabor]

[That's not a great answer, and it elicits a sort of dread in his chest at it. Creatures who have been alive a very long time tend to play these sorts of games. There's no real fear, though. Only a curiosity that he can't quench.]

I - I couldn't possibly...

[dematerializing]

Oh, come on. [Is Arthur getting nervous? Maybe he should have been a little more discreet after all.

[Oh well.

[He waves his hand.] You won't offend me guessing too high. Indulge an old man's whims for a moment.

[ceaselesslabor]

You have to - give me some indication. You could be twenty. You could be - immortal. [He thinks of John, infinitely old, but doesn't say.]

[dematerializing]

Bingo! 100%, young man! Full points!

[ceaselesslabor]

[He laughs softly in disbelief, pinching the bridge of his nose.]

Of course you are. Well, we're all a little immortal here.

[dematerializing]

Oh?

[Oh?]

What makes you say that?

[ceaselesslabor]

I haven't been here long, but I've heard. You don't age much. No real illness. And if you are in a life threatening situation, you get thrown down in the infirmary. They won't let you die.

[He sighs.]

[dematerializing]

I see...

[He wonders to what horrifying lengths they must go to make good on that guarantee. It isn't exactly a comfort, imagining what it might take. Douman still tends to lean toward the youkai explanation - ones that apparently pull people back from the brink of death.]

Well, that's comforting. What a nice place we've found ourselves in.