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

[all7seas]

You. Are going to backrub me.

[OKAY WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH PRICKLY, ABRASIVE SHEENA?!?!?!?]

[corrinesbell]

That's not how you get a lady to do what you want, pirate. Definitely not the ladies I know.

[This is so immensely fun. She should tease him every day.]

[all7seas]

[Hang on, hang on -- he is scooping up some chocolates and having a taste. Since, you know, you DEPRIVED him of his.]

Thought you were a NINJA, not a lady. Beautiful ninja.

[corrinesbell]

[You're lucky she doesn't swipe the next few too.]

So you're saying I can't be both, huh? Even though it'd probably make me twice as deadly?

[all7seas]

That depends ENTIRELY on your back massages.

[Well well -- apparently the chocolate is making Captain Jack a lot more amenable to the notion of having Sheena work him over. In fact, his shirt is now off and everything, exposing one rather large tattoo. A poem.]

Let's have one.

[corrinesbell]

[Okay, him doing that with the shirt was- no. No no no nope stop thinking like that right now, Sheena.]

You think you can just- [But she's coming closer and poking him in the shoulder with one finger] - demand something like that?

[all7seas]

Well I wouldn't take it by force, now would I?

[He's not that kind of guy. Besides...backrubs don't work like that.]

[corrinesbell]

I'd laugh pretty hard if you tried. [Seems her piece of chocolate is making her more amenable to such things.] So what do I get in return, Jack?

[all7seas]

Perhaps, darling, you will be treated to a Captain Jack Special.

[corrinesbell]

Well then before I do anything else, Captain, I've gotta ask what that is.

[She already has one hand over the center of that poem though.]

[all7seas]

Now, now! I don't want you to go mad with desire, do I?

[Ask Buffy. It involves leather shorts.]

[corrinesbell]

[Who wears the shorts?]

I don't know about that. Maybe you do. You're gonna want to sit down first.

[all7seas]

[Jack does, of course.

He complies with her every command.]

The Captain Jack Special is a combination of seduction and art that would make even the coldest-hearted spinster unfold the petals of her passion.

[corrinesbell]

If we were anywhere else you'd never get away with calling me cold-hearted or a spinster. Just so you know. Now shut up.

[Sheena is very, very good at backrubs. It's to do with pressure points and agile hands and the wings actually help. Being so sensitive. In the past, she has convinced people too distracted by what she was doing to tell her things they didn't, in the strictest sense, really want to.

Not that she's trying for that now. This just seems like a good idea.]

[all7seas]

You'd spin even the chilliest spinst---



Errrr. Mmmmmmmmmmmmerrrrrrrrrrrrlovely.

[Jack, an epicure of physical pleasure, is REALLY enjoying this.]


Why Sheena......didn't know your technique were this good, darling.

[corrinesbell]

[Sheena, who has a thing for blackmail when it's a friendly rivalry and not something life-changing, is too.]

You didn't ask, either. Just kept showing up trying to steal my forks.

[all7seas]

But you have the best forks in town, love! Or...so I've heard.


A little to the left if you please.

[corrinesbell]

I'll give you left. No complaining or I'll stop.

[As if stopping was on her mind. Instead, she traces the lines of the poem for a few moments.]

What's it about? [Of course she could read it herself. This is better.]

[all7seas]

My poem? I suppose it's about acceptance. [Never one of Jack's favorite things.] And bein' happy.

I'm happy now, you know, because you are making my spine tingle like a tingly tingling thing.

[corrinesbell]

Really? [Just to get his goat, she picks up that hand and runs two fingers along the top of one wing instead. Ha.

Just don't ask her what she's so smug about. No idea.]

That's kinda the point.

[all7seas]

[....Okay. Jack can't answer. He can only make a noise that sounds vaguely like NEEEYYYHHHHHAAAAANNNNNNGGGEEEEEFAAAAAAARGEN.]

[corrinesbell]

Having a problem?

[What she has learned here is that most people are always tense around the base of their wings, so she goes for that next.]

[all7seas]

Nibbit.

[That mostly means no, no problems, we think.]

[corrinesbell]

That's what I thought.

[Geez, he's decorated isn't he? A slight shiver runs through her at the thought of him maybe somehow tattooing the wings, too. Ouch.

Then she's finished with the backrub, though her hands linger on his shoulders.]

Satisfied?

[all7seas]

"NEVER. Captain Jack Sparrow is NEVER satisfied.





Highly relaxed, though. He is that."

And he won't offer to return the favor because Jack is selfish like that.