LOVE HOTEL/METACON OOC INFO & SIGN UPS

[mansionstaff]

Enjoying the weather, Smash Academy? It's the middle of the summer and it's hot hot hot out. If you're wise, you'll take sanctuary in the pool or the (slowly shrinking) lake, or maybe bother your friends and peers, but keep an eye on the weather--things are going to get wet and wild in the coming weeks.

BREAK IT DOWN FOR ME, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
Smash Academy is in the midst of summer and it's dreadfully dry and hot. Seth has been propagating more of his lollipop drugs, and he's about to hit a key customer: Kyogre. For those of you not Poke-savvy, this is a creature capable of creating torrential rains, which are bound to be a little too torrential while under the influence of those dastardly pops.

SO THIS PLACE IS GOING TO FLOOD?
That's right, and that'll be enough of a problem to contend with, but once the waters recede the damage to the school will be very evident. Smash Academy will be in dire disrepair and not in any suitable living condition. The lake will be swollen, desks will be embedded in the walls, cars will end up on rooftops, none of the electric systems will work and water damage will of course be everywhere. Fret not, for repairs will be done (GLaDOS has already offered to take care of that out of the goodness and kindness of her heart. Isn't that great?) but it can't happen until all of Smash's residents move out. Just temporarily. Just for a week.

WHERE ARE WE GOING AND WHEN ARE WE GOING?
A hotel in FDC will suffice! The city will escape the rains and flood waters just fine. Coincidentally, that week, the week of July 22nd - July 28th, just happens to be the week of Metacon, the biggest, nerdiest most meta convention in FDC. Almost all the hotels have been booked for months! Don't worry though, the Headmasters wouldn't leave you guys hanging--they'll manage to get their Hands ha ha on one big enough to house all of Smash Academy's residents.

But uh... it's a special hotel...

LOVE HOTEL

Yes, we're going to a Love Hotel.

• Pick a room or let the friendly folks at the front desk pick one for you. There's plenty to choose from.
  
• You'll be paired up with someone to conserve space. You might even be paired up with two or three other people! You can pre-plan amongst yourselves or sign up for randomly generated roomies.
  
• Each room comes with comes with the option of having aphrodisiacs in the airvents.
  
• As further incentive for shenanigans, each room will have a randomly-colored lollipop left on all the pillows, and there will be a small bowl full of them (FOR FREE) at the front desk. Some are drugged and some are not. You can thank the mysterious lollipop fairy for that.
  
• It should go without saying but the very nature of this hotel has the potential to go into NSFW territory. That said, you are not required to have your dudes boink in this. You are not required to stay in a room filled with shlongs and dongs. They can be in a very normal looking room and have cute and adorable pillow fights, troll room service (the school is paying for everything, after all) and so forth. You are not required to participate if any of this makes you feel uncomfortable, and there are opt-out options below.
  
• Initial proposal post, for reference.
  
• Check-in is July 22nd and check-out is July 28th. There will be double-decker buses providing transportation to and from the school.

METACON

Does this look familiar?

• SO MAYBE you're looking to do a bit more that week than stay in the funny rooms of a Love Hotel, or shlongs and dongs is not your idea of a fun time. Welcome to Metacon. Just one block away from the Love Hotel in the Final Destination City Convention Center is the biggest, nerdiest, most meta convention ever. Here, your character might not register any blips on any geek radars, or they might be treated as divine celebrities.
  
• This log will work very akin to the Bunny Mall log and the 4th Wall event: use of external accounts and external players will be VERY ENCOURAGED.
  
• There will be plenty to do:
  
  • COSPLAY and COSTUME CONTESTS: Like, wow! That is a great Captain Falcon costume! But mine's better. Or... wait, is that Captain Gordon instead?
    
  • TRIVIA and PRIZES: What's the Konami Code? How many Pikmin can you fit in an onion? What's the highest level you can get in World of Warlords? Mineshaft? Harvest Goon? Answer them correctly (or argue against those know-it-all nerds) and you may win some fabulous prizes.
    
  • PANELS: Here's were those NPC and external accounts will be very welcome. Now hosted by Sakurai.
    
  • DEALER'S ROOM: Not limited to just video games! Take home that life-size face-hugger prop, or pick up an authentic Nazgul sword. Everything sure is expensive, though...
    
  • and MORE!
• The Metacon log will be posted MID-WEEK, that is July 25th, to give a little breathing room between logs. ICly it will take place July 26th-28th.

I'M REALLY NOT INTERESTED IN EITHER OF THESE EVENTS/I'M GOING TO BE ON HIATUS!
That's no problem. Opt-outs can be anything you want. You can say your dude got lucky with a normal hotel in FDC, they're bumming at a friend's place, or they took a trip back to their home world for a bit--whatever excuse you want to make. The only liable condition in this is that your character can't be at the school until repairs are done. They can be ANYWHERE ELSE, just not the school, until July 28th.

Comments

[icequeen_aran]

SAMUS
No concrete plans as of right now, which might depend entirely on the status of the firehouse--if her home is going to flood as well or if she would have any other reason for going to the Love Hotel. I have admittedly been toying with the idea of her finding some connection to ye olde buddy cop love hotel adventures, like maybe the owner of that hotel owns this one too and there's unfinished business or SOMETHING...

I know I'm going to keep her off the pops but having her try to have some kind of serious bounty hunter investigation while loaded with aphro would probably result in a lot of hilarity.

RICK
TENTATIVELY TOSSED AROUND THE IDEA OF angry management rail room with Wheatley, but I'm pretty open for anything. Obviously he needs to be in the space room.

SETH aka WARREN
I am still very undecided and he in all likelihood would probably just preemptively leave cackling madly the moment it starts raining because he knows it's going to get bad. On the other hand, he might decide to stick it out with everyone else to look less suspicious. Maybe he's in CAHOOTS WITH THE LOVE HOTEL OWNER, knowing something like this was going to happen and just wants to line his pockets even more I DON'T KNOW. Too many ideas. Might just sit him out mysteriously and handwave all over the place unless someone wants him in particular or random sign ups are short a guy or something.

[deathboss]

If you have cop stuff, are you in need of a detective who can keep a straight face in all of this love hotel stuff.

(EXCEPT NOT REALLY)

[icequeen_aran]

MAAAAAYYYYBE.

[rivalkidneypunch]

SAMUS. SAMUS IT COULD BE LIKE BUDDYCOPS 2: REVENGE OF THE BUDDYCOPS. THINK ABOUT IT. I WOULD BASICALLY JUST DIE if it could happen. Please can it happen.

(But uh my super uncool begging aside, if you'd prefer to have her stay home and thread arguing about floods/socks on the furniture/hot tubs with Falcon that is also absolutely cool. I am not here to pressure, only to sparkle like a twee idiot.)

[icequeen_aran]

LET'S DO IT. I'm thinking the guy who owned the Love Hotel in Port Town didn't exactly have the best of business after their adventure there and invested in a new one, this one. But YOU KNOW HOW GREED GOES and maybe there's some seedy, corrupted under-business pulling in extra profit thanks to the hotel or the entire building is powered by exploited Pikachu running endlessly in big wheels I don't know I am very open to ideas.

Or if we get Phoenix involved we can turn this into the first baby step of drug investigations.

[rivalkidneypunch]

I'm outrageously excited by this, you don't even know. *D* So much potential, so much amazing.

I am so all over any possible ideas. Shady secret backroom businesses or Pika abuse (no Samus you can't take that one home with you get it out of here)or YES drug investigations are also full of possibilities. If Carbon is up for that option then I am all over it too. 8)c

[gunplay]

SETH. I want Seth threads.

I want to backtag our last thread anyway once I get back in the game. But Ocelot and Seth have so much potential that I'd like to do more.

[stay_classy_cat]

I WILL WAIT FOREVER FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL TAGS. Also oh god yes, I'd really love it if Ocelot were one of the few people who did know he was a cat.

[icequeen_aran]

OKAY THIS IDEA IS TOO GOOD TO FORGET.

So I think we've agreed the Firehouse will flood, and I will find reason for Samus to sneak off to the Love Hotel for a day to do some Buddy Cop adventures, but then she will come back to bear witness to...

The most epic of monster fights to put an end to the flooding.

You know... right around the kaiju panel at Metacon.

[survivalism]

Erm.






... do I even need to say anything

[icequeen_aran]

You're going to grieve her with so much unresolved sexual frustration, BB.