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

[risingwinds]

Oh. Well, I was just thinking... we're really close, right?

[What a silly question. He probably realizes that, but he doesn't wanna be too sudden!]

[starfishlovesyou]

Of course we are! If we weren't really close right now then Fuuko would not know what else to say to describe us.

[And she means that both literally and in regards to their relationship. There's no way they could be closer than they are right now, surely.]

[risingwinds]

Oh. Good. I was hoping you'd say that.

[He reaches into his pockets, trying to find something. Anything to work as a ring annnd...

Nope. He's got nothing. Darn it!

Well, he'll just have to pay her back later.]

And since we're so close, I was wondering if you'd marry me. Er. If you want!

[Gosh, the poor kid doesn't even fully understand the appropriate way to propose. Candy-induced marital bliss leads to fail, evidently.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[What. She stares right at Ven for moment, trying to work out what it was he just said.]

Eeh? Where did that- E-Eeh!?

[...]

Th-This is moving much too quickly for Fuuko to handle!! Fuuko loves you very, very much, b-but- Do most relationships move this quickly or is Fuuko really just out of the loop!?

[Well this is sudden, so sudden that she doesn't even think about it being incredibly strange that Ven is proposing to her after eating that last chocolate.]

[risingwinds]

I dunno. It just sounded nice...

[Given the dopey grin on his face and how casual he's responding, there might be something in the water. Or chocolate, in this case.]

[starfishlovesyou]

It does sound nice, what person doesn't think of nice things when marriage comes up?! Even so!! Should Fuuko really be thinking of getting married at a time like this!?

[Aaah Ven looks so happy... Quick, what's the best way of telling someone you don't want to marry them right now without hurting their feelings!?

... Uuh.]

This is it, Fuuko is doomed! Fuuko does not want to become one of those people that crushes dreams but there's really now way out of something as horrible as this!

[That was meant to be to herself. And not out loud for anyone to hear.]