EVENT LOG: FEATHERLY HAVEN RESORT & SPA

[lucetimods]

Who: All the lovebirds!
What: A bit of pampering and hijinks. Original event post here.
When: Feb 17th
Where: The Featherly Haven Resort & Spa (aka the hot springs)
Rating: If you feel your thread is heading for something steamier, please either fade to black or take it to an appointments post.

Also -- don't forget to add in your own character tags!

On the 17th, all characters will find an embossed invitation tucked inside the front cover of their journals, asking them to gather up by the hot springs for a marvelous party at the Featherly Haven Resort & Spa. Upon arriving, they’ll find that the area has been temporarily transformed into a luxurious vacation retreat. Although the weather is just as chilly as it should be in mid-February, the hot springs are compellingly warm and once the sun sets, the area is lit by grand torches. The usual hot springs buildings are somewhat incredibly replaced with what looks like a swanky resort -- though the building itself will disappear soon after the Shift’s end. There is a sizeable lobby, complete with plump couches and a droid-staffed bar. Each and every one of the hotel’s rooms is a honeymoon suite, stocked with champagne and fondue and yet more platters of fresh fruit. Courteous (albeit stoic) droids tend massage chairs and manicure stations on the resort's first floor, shaded by billowing, cream-coloured curtains. Others will be passing around festively coloured drinks, platters of fresh fruit, and -- of course -- huge complimentary towels to wrap up in once your soaking is complete: the whitest and fluffiest and most spa-like towels you ever did see.

Available both in the rooms, outside by the hotsprings, and in heaps inside the lobby, are little foil-wrapped and bite-sized chocolates. As with other items in previous years, each of these chocolates comes with a dizzying side-effect upon consumption:

White Chocolate will overwhelm its consumer with the desire to talk and -- more specifically -- the desire to share. Upon eating this treat, characters will want to chat the ear off of anyone near them, perhaps spilling some personal details in the process. But being chatty is a two way street, and so they will also press upon their conversation partners for details of their own lives. It’s a lethal combination: a nosy over-sharer.

Milk Chocolate will flush its consumer with the desire to be warm and affectionate with those around them. Hugs and kisses on the cheek will abound. Upon eating this treat, characters will want to throw their arm around those near them -- clasping close friends and associates alike. Personal space is no longer an issue.

Dark Chocolate will inspire quite another flavour of affection in its consumer. Upon eating this treat, a character’s libido takes over the driving seat. Many people around them become terribly terribly attractive and, as lust courses through the character’s system, they’ll hope to convince someone back to their suite for a little hanky panky.

Chocolate Coated Marzipan -- smooth and silky on the tongue -- evokes a spontaneous sense of...marital bliss. Those who chow down on this treat will find themselves tracking down someone they know they simply don’t want to live without. Whether this is someone they were previously attracted to in the week or a total stranger, your character will find themselves proposing marriage. And, (in)conveniently for them, all marriages may take place in the resort’s own Vegas-style wedding chapel! All ceremonies will be performed by a droid-officiant who looks disturbingly like Elvis Presley. Witnesses are optional but encouraged.

Comments

[heartisabattleground]

[Riku, you're not going to soak in the nice spring? Well, sorry, Sora's going to run on right by you in a bathing suit. Leaping into the air and over top one of the large springs, Sora calls out happily]

CANNON BAAAAAAALLL!

[And splosh! In the water and sending a bunch of it at anyone nearby.]

[stilldontgotit]

[...And cue one stare from Riku as he watches Sora catapult himself into the water...

And SPLASH!

Now he's a wet mop. Fabulous.

So, what's the mature thing to do?]

...Oh, you are so asking for it!

[Apparently, chasing after said best friend into the water. Yup. Beware the Riku!]

[heartisabattleground]

[Sora comes popping his head out of the water smirking towards Riku as he raises his fist into the air, waving it around wildly.]

Come get me if you can!

[Cue swimming away! Thank God he's lived on an island his whole life and he can swim.]

[stilldontgotit]

Challenge accepted.

[Yeah, well, Riku can also swim, bro. And he's swimming right after Sora with a smug grin plastered on his face.]

[heartisabattleground]

[Sora is going full force now as he's swimming away from Riku. But, he'll turn around in the water and leap at Riku to try and tackle him.]

[stilldontgotit]

[Oh? Oh?

So, what if Riku dives down riiight as Sora nears him in an attempt to slip behind Sora and dunk him.]

[heartisabattleground]

[Well, that attempt will work...

UNLESS HE REALITY SHIFTS!

But, he doesn't. Because, you need some kind of warning for it or something.

Sora will get dunked and flail about now under the water.]

[stilldontgotit]

[And cue Riku bursting into a fit of laughter as he slides back and fully awaits a retaliation of some kind.

Too easy, man.]

[heartisabattleground]

[Retaliation imminent. Sora leaps up from the water, soon diving towards Riku to pull him under.

Gonna get you man.]

[stilldontgotit]

[Sora, since when are you a whale?

Though Riku tries swerving to the side, he's not invincible by any means. Go ahead, Sora! Give him a taste of his own medicine!]

[heartisabattleground]

[Since always.

But, grabbing onto Riku he pulls him right under. WRESTLING IN THE WATER MAN!]

[stilldontgotit]

[Oh, it is on.

In fact, he'll jab with his elbows in an attempt to free himself from Sora's sinister clutches!]

[heartisabattleground]

[Oh his sides! Totally not fair Riku! He'll find himself clutching at one as he floats to the top.

Round 1 goes to Riku.]

[stilldontgotit]

You're slipping, Sora.

[Which is to say he's totally expecting more any second now.]

[heartisabattleground]

Hey, I'm not done yet!

[And Sora dives down under the water.

And then there was silence.

Everything is still...that's until Sora grabs at Riku's ankles and goes to pull him under the water.]