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.

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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

[wise_maiden]

Jack ...

[For a few moments, she's quiet, as if speechless. How could it not have been her fault? It had been so much easier to blame this on her weakness. The words tumble out again.]

Even after being in her shoes... it's easier to say in hindsight what she should have done differently. I don't know what I truly would have done had it really been me in her place. I ... can't even imagine being in that sort of position ... I try not to, really.

[all7seas]

Left him. You mean she should have left him.

[wise_maiden]

It might have been better for them both had they never... then he wouldn't have felt driven to outdo himself by pleasing her, when all she wanted was for him to just be himself. [It was so strange, speaking of them like that.]

... But I don't believe he ever really let her know himself. He was just... letting her know who he thought she wanted him to be. I mean ... well, you would know better than I.

[all7seas]

[Now that was just confusing. It was getting difficult to talk about themselves in the past tense third person. Lines were blurring and crossing.

Jack released her with a final gentle squeeze against her arms.]

I should know better, shouldn't I.

[wise_maiden]

We both should know better. Besides... it's not anything that can be changed.

[all7seas]

You know, darling -- you've been brilliant about it all. [Lots of women would pretty much just slap him every time they saw him after an experiment like that.]

[wise_maiden]

[That gets her to tilt her head at him again.] ... In what way do you mean that?

[all7seas]

You haven't hit me once!

[wise_maiden]

I only hit people when they deserve it. In this instance ... if it hadn't been for the experiment, it would never have happened. What good would come of hitting you for that? Although... [And a slight tease climbs into her tone.] I wonder if someone hitting him would do any good.

[all7seas]

I'm of the opinion that no, it actually wouldn't.

[wise_maiden]

... I see then. [A pause, an absent nibbling of the remaining chocolate in her hand.] We've spent a lot of time talking about them, haven't we? It's so ... strange.

[all7seas]

It felt right to me, somehow. [He rubs the back of his neck, wondering at his own glib attitude toward an often-taboo topic.] The talking, I mean.

[wise_maiden]

It did feel good to talk, since... we hadn't, at all. But where do we stand now?

[all7seas]

Where do you wish to stand, lovely?

[wise_maiden]

The right answer is to say somewhere beyond all of this, isn't it? I was hoping we could... come to terms with a better life for them, but now it doesn't seem like they have that either.

[all7seas]

Do you trust me at all, darling?

[wise_maiden]

I don't give my trust easily, you know. But if I didn't trust you in some way, we wouldn't be speaking like this at all.

[all7seas]

Well then.......good. We should have our good terms, you and I, in this place.

[He thinks back to the jungle draft, which for Jack is a far more significant moment they had shared than Luceti Valley. They'd saved each other's lives, then.]

You've my trust as well, and I don't. Trust, that is. Almost at all. Ever.

[wise_maiden]

We do tend to look out for one another, and we have been for a while. Those experiences... are what the trust is built on, and an experiment can't take that away, regardless of it's ... impact.

[all7seas]

[And what that impact had truly been on Raine, Jack could only guess.]

And I shall continue to do that for you, darling. For what that is worth.

[wise_maiden]

I don't think a price can be attached to that. [A pause, and she does allow herself a small smile.] ... So we're all right.