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

[windofgod]

Are those your friends, Yoh-san? You're right though, it's more fun if your friends are there to enjoy it too!

[But fiance? Wow. Yoh doesn't look much younger or older than she is.]

Fi-fiance? I didn't realize you were-- is it an arranged marriage? [He doesn't sound like he doesn't like her, so...] A rare case of where you like the person you're arranged to marry?

[mikanphones]

Yeah! Some of them at least. Manta is my best friend even if he's not a shaman like Horohoro and the others, but honestly it doesn't matter because he's a really good person and a great friend. He has sticked with me through many things even when I chased him away from my side because of how dangerous things could be for him, he still came to help me. That's not something just anyone would do for someone, you know?

Ah, but Horohoro and the others are great friends as well, though now we are all competing because each one has their own dreams. And Amidamaru isn't just a friend, he's my companion spirit so he's really special as well.

[Yeah, he's talking a lot and about things normally he wouldn't talk about but at the moment it doesn't register to him that he has been keeping most of this information as a secret. When she asks about Anna, though, he blushes quite visibly.]

Well, yeah, it's arranged by my family... But I could have said no if I didn't like her, I think Tamao was another candidate, knowing them I wouldn't put it past them. But Anna is... Special. There is something in her that makes my heart skip a beat every time I see her, even the first time I saw her. Though sometimes I don't know if it's because of love or because of fear, she can be quite scary and powerful. Ah, but she's really cute too.

Ahahaha, this is a bit embarrassing to say but I really love her. I've to admit that if it wasn't because I promised her and I want to help her and everyone else as the Shaman King, I would think it twice. Competing to be the Shaman King, I mean, given how dangerous it is and how I would have to leave her alone if I won... Not that that's a problem now since I dropped out of the competition.

[He gives another laugh this time it's clearly forced and nervous, that's really a situation he doesn't enjoy. Though he doesn't regret it at all.]

[windofgod]

Ahh, it sounds like they're really good friends of yours! Part of me wants to say it's too bad they're not here, but I know it's better that they aren't, you know?

[She knows how it feels though; she misses Miyako like crazy (maybe even Chiaki but JUST A LITTLE BIT and nothing more than that) but would never wish them to be here.

But to hear so much praise for a person, to hear someone say that they can truly love someone like he is now-- that's pretty heavy to take in. Someone who can say it without hesitating is admirable.]

You sound like you really love her, that you'd do anything for her. I... I admire that. I'm glad you have someone you care about so deeply, Yoh-san.

[And a little jealous. But it's not jealousy in the fact that she wants a boyfriend; more jealous over the fact that he can love and she... really doesn't know how.]

[mikanphones]

That depends on how you look at it. If time really stops back home then it wouldn't be that bad if there were here. The experiments aren't good but it's not as if our world is perfect either. Anyway Amidamaru is with me at least, though I think this place doesn't like spirits because I can't see and talk to him like I would normally do. Sometimes I worry it may be because he's forcing himself to be with me, but looking at the filial spirits maybe it's just that that's the way spirits work in this place.

[Yeah, Yoh doesn't want bad things to happen to his friends, but he doesn't think Luceti is so terrible. Not compared with the things they will have to face back home or the things some of them have faced already.

He smiles softly when Maron comments on how it sounds as if he would do anything for Anna.]

Yes, I would. I probably would have second thoughts but... I would do anything for her, to save her and protect her. I already did, after all, I gave up the first friend I felt I had ever had to save her from herself. I didn't want to do it, to save her at the cost of losing him, but there was no other way and he taught me that it was better that day. That I should always fight for the future and not for the past, he had been around the world for centuries and I know he had a lot of regrets because of it. Clinging to him wouldn't have brought any good things. Still I hope to be able to summon him back one day, once I'm strong enough.

Still, Anna isn't really the only one for whom I would do anything. Like when I fought to try to save Manta, though that was all my fault that he ended in trouble like that. But then I gave up competing to become the Shaman King so my friend Ren would be brought back to life, even though I promised Anna I would become the Shaman King. So I guess that me doing anything for her isn't that special, I would do anything for any of my friends to begin with.