Why Don't You Go Where Fashion Sits?

[these_guys]

Who: Participants of the Kalosmas New Year's Event!
Where: The Hotel Richissime, in scenic Lumiose City, Kalos!
When: Wednesday, December 31 - Thursday, January 1!
Summary: After all the shenanigans of Hoennween, it's about time everybody had a chance to relax and unwind, courtesy of some actually benign NPCs. With all the luxuries of the Hotel Richissime waiting at their disposal, that shouldn't be too difficult a prospect!
Rating: PG in general; please mark threads that go higher accordingly!
Log:

☆ GROUND FLOOR ☆

FOR ROOM DESCRIPTIONS OF THIS FLOOR, PLEASE GO HERE!


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☆ UPSTAIRS FLOOR ☆

FOR ROOM DESCRIPTIONS OF THIS FLOOR, PLEASE GO HERE!

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A FEW OTHER SETTING NOTES:

• At the moment, this log spans the entirety of the New Year's Eve plot, so starters may be posted for any time on either day of the event. If things start getting massive and it looks like an overflow log will be necessary, we'll definitely see about putting one up, and will link it to this one if need be.

• The Event Itinerary can be found here! Remember that participating in this course of events is not mandatory, but it's what will be going on in the grand scheme of things over the course of the event.

• All event participants are being housed on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel. Your bedrooms are laid out like this; if you participated in our IC Rooming Roulette, you can find your buddy on this table here!

• Most activities here will be free! ICly, your characters will use their room cards to "pay" for most things, and the charges will be applied to their room (which of course, they are not paying for personally). Gift shops, parts of the casino, and food not provided as part of the event are not chargeable to your rooms and characters will have to use their own money in those locations.

• Underage characters may use the casino; however, they may be subject to some social scrutiny and side-eyeing in the event that they attempt to get in on one of the high-roller tables.

A NOTE ABOUT USING THREADS ON THIS LOG FOR AC:

Because of how our AC period works (the grace week into January still counting toward December), all threads on this log are valid toward December's AC, regardless of timestamp! However, because the log technically spans two different months and we want to encourage tagging out on it, we have also made this decision:

On this log and this log alone, comment threads timestamped in January (OOCly) that reach AC-length may be used towards January's AC, as well. Therefore, if a thread on this log reaches AC length with 10+ comments timestamped in January, you can use it toward January's AC (assuming the same thread has not already been used to satisfy December's AC).

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☆ QUICK LINKS ☆
MAIN EVENT INFOPOST | QUESTIONS FOR MODS

Comments

[wing_attack]

[At the ballroom, Tobias looks up from his soda. It's the only thing he's gotten from the bar and he's staying far away from people who look like they've had too much to drink, but he spots Blake and waves.]

Hey.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hey, kid!

[Blake calls out boisterously and waves. He comes on over.]

Are you- holy crap, that's a coke.

[Happy disbelief creeps over Blake's face.]

You're actually abiding by the legal drinking age.

[wing_attack]

[Tobias just blinks in surprise, and then is surprised that he's surprised. He's broken all sorts of laws, why didn't he break this one?]

[... Oh yeah.]

I've had, uh. Bad experiences with drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time, and if I did get drunk I'd probably end up trying to jump off of something in order to fly.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hey, don't worry, I'm not the beat-somebody kind of drunk.

[He uses that all up when he's sober.

He listens to Tobias and nods with the concentration of somebody who's not quite in the center square of Plasteredville, but gotten a good start on wending his way downtown.] You have more sense than a lot of people I know.

Hell, this is the first time in years I've done anything on this night besides corner idiots who think the legal BAC limit doesn't apply to them.

Hey. Hey. You know that old saw about how cops'll test you by telling you to say the alphabet backwards?

[wing_attack]

[He does his best not to wrinkle his nose at the smell of alcohol, but nods.]

Yeah. I used to see cops stopping people all the time when I was near the highway. People think that they can get away with endangering others.

[As opposed to the Animorphs who only do it sometimes.]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake wouldn't notice anyway, though he smells like a rose compared to some of the guys he's dragged in.

He nods with the intentness of the boozed] Yeah. Yeah, dumb bastards. The wrecks aren't fuckin' pretty, I'll tell you that.

[He looks around at the people dancing for a while, then his mind circles back to his point.]

Anyway. That test. You don't pull it out real often, but you know how I caught one guy with that? I ask him, and he looks at me goggle-eyed, and right away what he says is,

[Blake flings his arms out for emphasis]

"I couldn't do that sober!"

[wing_attack]

[He lets out an amused snort.]

To be fair, some of those tests are really hard. I think they did a presentation about some of them at school once and a bunch of us couldn't do them.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hell, that's half the fun, fucking with drunks. Then if you're real lucky, they try to run.

[He weaves his hand back and forth in midair.]

Easy as catching a pop fly.

[wing_attack]

Maybe for you. I'm more books than baseball, but I get your point.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hah, yeah, you're one of those quiet and responsible kids. Not even gonna do the champagne at midnight?

[Stop being a bad influence, Carter.]

[wing_attack]

Someone around here has to be sober enough to lead people back to their rooms. And my... the friend I'd share it with if we were even close to drinking age isn't here, so it just seems kind of a waste to do it without her.

[You can call her your girlfriend, Tobias, everyone knows it.]

[lieutenantantichrist]

Ain't you a boy scout. Gonna help old ladies cross the street, next? [He laughs at himself.] Nah, I'm just giving you shit. You're a good kid.

Oh yeah, your girlfriend! Damn, you got a lousy deal. Actually got somebody but they're not around.

[An odd look flickers over Blake's face, and he seems to lose his train of thought.]

[wing_attack]

If they ask for it, yeah. Some of those little old ladies are pretty tough, though.

[... He sighs a little.]

Yeah. But she'll be okay. And maybe she'll show up here some day.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hah, I've seen a couple you wouldn't fuck with.

[He looks a touch tipsily thoughtful.]

That's the thing, isn't it. People vanish out from under you, but you never know if they might come back.

[He smiles faintly, distant.] Or what they'd think about how you've hung around wasting time since they left.

[wing_attack]

... Yeah. But... I've been trying to not waste time. She'd want me to be living my life anyway.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hope that's true. You figure, the kind of people who come make a big deal in your life and waltz out again, they'd want you not to sit around moping about it.

[He picks up a glass of champagne off a tray a lady is carrying around, and gives her a wink in return.

Internally, he turns on the hint of melancholy sneaking up on him and punches it in the gut.] So hey! Make the damn most of the night, right?

[wing_attack]

Pretty much.

[He just rolls his eyes a little and takes another sip of his soda.]

Exactly. I'm going to take a bunch of pictures, so that if she shows up here she can at least see tonight.

[lieutenantantichrist]

It's something nobody'd believe without proof all right.

[He nods at a pair of animals that go waltzing by.]

You ever seen a rhino in a dress before?

[wing_attack]

Not outside of Fantasia. I think that was a rhino.