master of the house, quick to catch your eye (OPEN)

[checkingin]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The initial arrival rooms, the main lobby, all over the place.
When: April 5rd
What: Welcome, newbies + happy Easter eggs.

ARRIVAL.

you wake up when you hit the floor in a dark room, and the air is knocked out of your lungs. the carpet is threadbare, worn with use, kind of dusty. and you're not the first person to endure this crash landing. nor will you be the last.

once your vision rights itself, you can see the well-lit hallway through the doorjam straight ahead of you. not to say there’s monsters in the shadows, but something propels you towards that door and out into the bright hallway beyond.

and once outside your room, you can hear it: the steady thrum of rain outside.

MAIN LOBBY.

there's a staircase at the end of the lengthy hallway you tumble out of. grab your suitcase and follow the dull green exit signs on the ceiling until you reach the disappointingly bland stairs that lead you down to the ornate old fashion hotel lobby.

to your left is an empty, ashy fireplace, to your right is a lobby desk. straight ahead are three large sets of doors, all three of them thrown wide open and welcoming. and outside the few (curtained, permanently dark) windows is the continually steady hiss of rain. once you leave the hallway you wake up in, you won't be able to return.

welcome to the hotel.

FRONT DESK.

though there is a bell and a plaque designating the desk to be the main desk, the customer service desk, there are currently no staff members behind it. none shall answer your calls, either. there is, however, a pad of paper and a pen neatly aligned with the desk edge. you know. for notes.

terribly sorry for the inconvenience.

SCREENING ROOM.

on a long pull-down screen, a silent version of the cabinet of dr. caligari will be playing on loop. at the back of the room, between the neat rows of fold out chairs, mounted on a wobbly table is the old-timey projector, and mounted on the walls are some rather old speakers that warble out "terrifying" old music.

along the curtained windows is another long table, with a large bowl of caramel corn and a large hot drink dispenser full of hot water, with a few cups and some old looking packages of hot chocolate mix.

BALLROOM.

the third set of grand doors have been thrown wide to reveal a brightly lit, festively decorated ball room. all across the polished wood floor, all over the tables and chairs around the edge of the room, under the curtains, in the corners, hiding in the shadows, and behind the doors, characters will find:

easter eggs.

plastic easter eggs filled with jellybeans and chocolates, real eggs dip dyed and rolled in glitter; foil wrapped chocolate eggs, sugar eggs with little diaramas in the middle. there will be novelty plastic easter bunny rings sprinkles about, and general little plastic childrens toys. there will be plastic and paper easter basket grass sprinkled all over, and upbeat ambiance music intended to excite.

by the front door will be basket for people to use in their quest to collect the hundreds of eggs scattered all over the room. a sign on the floor invites them to "take one" in curvy handwritted script.

but there's no sign to warn that — some of these eggs?

are going to explode in your face.

( event details. )

OTHER.

the ballroom is currently open, and the grand doors locked.

there is no main door leading to the outside, good luck trying to find one.

the doors to the courtyard and breakfast hall are unlocked, food is currently being served. a lot of it is candy.

ROOMS.

you've a room key with your assigned room number on it. all the new guest residences will be located on floors four. while there is an open elevator in the main lobby, and the buttons light up inside, the doors will not close. all in all, you'll be better off taking the stairs.

while they're the same stairs you undoubtedly came down to get to the lobby, the door to the endless hall everyone woke up in will not reappear between the main floor and the subsequent residential halls.

there are twenty rooms per floor. feel free to get to know your surroundings; or your neighbors as they trickle in around you.

EGGSISTING GUESTS.

happy easter, kids.

Comments

[64th]

[ she doesn't really believe in magic either, which leaves her with the options of 'the hotel is haunted' or 'the hotel is an arena' and sometimes 'the hotel is a haunted arena.' ]

That's true. Someone somewhere is pulling the strings, they just don't see reason to show their face. [ maybe because everyone would try to kill them. ]

[magicsprice]

[If not kill them, certainly make their lives miserable until they saw sense in sending them all back to where they should rightfully be.]

Indeed. Perhaps they're doing an experiment and their presence would interfere with the results they desire. [It's a shot in the dark given this is first day and thus he doesn't really know much except what he's seen and been told so far, but it's as reasonable a guess as anything right now really.]

[64th]

Hmm. [ she'll have to give this theory more thought. ] I hadn't considered that. What kind of results do you think they want? Waiting for people to go feral?

[magicsprice]

That's one option, yes. [He would have to give the experiment theory more thought as well. Especially given it was currently the only one to really make sense to him, even if he didn't like the thought of being an experimental subject.]

They might be curious just how long a person can be confined before they snap. Then again, it's possible they might want to perform more than one experiment. I'd need more information to refine the theory any further than that.

[64th]

[ that gets a chuckle out of her. ] Probably not as long as we'd like to be confined before we snap. People are edgy around here. [ herself included. ]

The first month I was here, the heat stopped work with no explanation. It was freezing. About the time everyone started to really lose it, the heat came back on. Last month - there were ghosts. Or hallucinations. [ she frowns. Cashmere still hasn't found a reasonable explanation for any of it. ] So... maybe you're right.