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

[abjurer]

[He's pretty sure there's some kind of rule about not drinking alcohol and going into hot tubs, but he's too comfortable to care right now and the drinks are really nice, albeit a bit neon at times.

He glances over when someone approaches, setting the drink aside and giving a lazy kind of smile as he nods.]

Yeah, that's me. You're... Jim, right? The guy who wanted to talk politics.

[universal_charm]

<sub>[Kirk was all for drinking while in a hot spring. It was the manly thing to do right? And it was just like a hot tub, just... natural. And smelled a bit worse.

Well, no, that wasn't exactly true.]</sub>

Got it in one! And it wasn't politics, it was the differences between worlds - which I guess would include politics wouldn't it?

[abjurer]

Since politics seems to be a major difference between my world and everyone else's so far, it probably will.

But magic comes up a lot too so there's that.

[universal_charm]

Oh that's right, I forgot you had mentioned magic.

My world is all out of magic, unless you count science, in which case we're rolling in it.

[abjurer]

Hey, we have science too. We just also have some pretty awesome spellcasting going on. [He grins though, a little teasing.]

[universal_charm]

Oh, yes, do rub it in.

_{[He splashed some water at him, smirking.]}

Maybe some alien race out there has 'magic', and we just haven't met them yet.

[abjurer]

Gotta have some perks.

[Max grins at the splashing, sending a wave his way in return.]

Maybe. Or maybe it just looks like magic. Or maybe you'll meet some kind of primitive aliens and they'll think you're magic.

[universal_charm]

It wouldn't surprise me. It sucks that one of my first planets I come to this is this place. I mean, not that the people are bad, but being made into an experiment? No one wants to spend their good years like that!

[abjurer]

At least you can try to get the worst of it over with so hopefully the future will be kinder.

The idea is kinda disturbing but I've met some good people here.

[universal_charm]

Well, I mean, if we're all prisoners, I can't imagine everyone here is bad, you know? And it's good I've met some people I like. It would suck being stuck here and hating everyone you know?

_{[He sighed.]}

But it's like getting stuck with crewmates is just becoming stressful than comforting, or whatever word you want to use for it.

[abjurer]

Would certainly make the days pretty boring.

Problems with your own people? Sounds like a pain. I'm... finding it almost liberating being the only person here from home.

[universal_charm]

Really? It's not making you lonely or anything? Not part of some endangered species or anything?

[abjurer]

Kinda... homesick at times, but I'm a big boy. I can deal. Not been hugely sociable recently anyway. Circumstances have conspired to make me a hermit.

[universal_charm]

Oh really? And what circumstances might those be? Stepped on a pretty damsel's toes?

[abjurer]

Eh, more like my roommate hates the universe and everyone in it. Not the best atmosphere to bring anyone back to.

[universal_charm]

Ouch. Who's your roommate?

[abjurer]

He's called Brendan. He's not here. He has... issues.

[universal_charm]

All right, I'm guessing we shouldn't really go there with that answer.

So okay, back to business! Politics! And magic. Or science. Whichever comes first.

So, does America exist at all in your world?

[abjurer]

Preferably. It's not the most comfortable situation.

[He gives a somewhat wry smile shaking his head. What an understatement.]

America exists, yeah. It's very... isolationist. I've never been. Getting a visa is a pain.

[universal_charm]

_{[He raised a brow.]}

Really? In my world America is... nosy to say the least. No one can afford to be isolationist if they plan to perform on the global stage and most modern countries have taken that to heart. Even England, even if it is tinier.

[abjurer]

Really? That's... I mean, it tried to be for a while in the 50s and 60s. Penninsular War kinda killed that I guess.

It keeps itself to itself, has a few border arguments with Canada, throws threats at the Soviets. Has a few interests in Europe but... mostly keeps to itself.

[universal_charm]

Okay, wow, your world has got to be a total 180 of what mine is then. Don't get me wrong, I love my country, but even I can agree we might have our fingers in to many pies.

So, what about India? Do you guys still own that? And Hong Kong? God, what about Australia?

[abjurer]

Seems that way, yes. The differences are pretty startling. I take it your America is
rather more prominent then?

We don't own any of them. They're member states. It's like asking whether New York owns California. But yeah, they're all part of the Commonwealth.

[universal_charm]

Yeah, a major world power and home to Star Fleet Academy.

Oh, that's... that's cool. It's so weird though. England gave them back in my universe... Christ, wasn't Hong Kong in 1999 or something? India was before that, well over 100 years ago.

[abjurer]

Star Fleet? Either you have space travel, I'm guessing, or someone's been watching too much science fiction.

Gave them back... they'd have been swallowed by the Soviets or America back in the 50s. It's one of the reasons the Commonwealth worked in the first place.

Hong Kong was... '97. The lease should have been up but the government forced a vote and it was for Commonwealth membership. China's not up to starting a war over one island.