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I. I WALKED UNDER A BUS, I GOT HIT BY A TRAIN
and it felt so good i want to do it again โซโช
II. HARD TO TELL IF YOU WERE EVER HERE
i disappear, disappear โซโช
OOC NOTES, ETC.
and it felt so good i want to do it again โซโช
On the morning of May 22nd, Saturday, the hotel bus mysteriously appears outside the hotel's front door. Even if you were loitering in the lobby or somehow managed to go outside, you wouldn't have seen it roll in. It's suddenly just... there.
It's empty, though. No driver, no passengers. No gas, even. It's also old and not airconditioned, but that should be fine since it's a way out, right? You'll take what you can get.
Only it doesn't work that way. Once there are eight creatures inside or the clock strikes eight (in the morning), the doors shut and the bus just starts to move out. To where, who knows? And, hey, where did that driver come from?
Those left behind are free to give chase, but once they reach That Tree... well, you know what happens.
The hotel staff will also deny the bus' sighting. What bus are you talking about? They'll even corral you inside, perhaps a tad bit aggressively, since your safety is their responsibility. There might be killers on the loose and more people might turn up missing!
II. HARD TO TELL IF YOU WERE EVER HERE
i disappear, disappear โซโช
By noon, Zed Martin and Alex DiStefano get calls from the front desk. The staff on duty is profusely apologetic, saying that she'd made a mistake, and begs them not to report her to the manager or she'll get fired. They're then requested to move to their new rooms: 408 and 801, respectively.
The staff on duty, however, talks like they both just checked in. She'll ignore anything being said about having been in the hotel for a while, and will eventually end up just repeating herself no matter the flow of the conversation. If they resist moving out, they'll receive the same phone call at the same time every day, for the rest of the week.
Anyone who investigates Natasha Romanoff and Dick Grayson's rooms will find them spotless. Like they've never been there.
In the afternoon, a man in sunglasses and a fedora hat arrives. He's introduced as Hoárr, a detective from Oslo, and the staff on duty requests the guests to be nice to him. Hoárr is cryptic as hell, however; he doesn't speak unless it's someone from the hotel who addresses him, and unless he's interrogating people. Which he's quick to do, inviting the following to Odin's altar out back one by one: John Marston, Alexandra Trese, Anna Morasca, Bucky Barnes and Poe Dameron.
He'll also call on the 7F guests. Why? Because Jacen Solo and Cleopatra Selene are missing, though unlike Nat and Dick's case, all signs of occupancy are there: the items they've obtained, the pets they've collected...
Sakura Kinomoto will also turn up missing, if anyone looks for her.
Then everyone will wake up and find the bus out front. Nobody even remembers falling asleep, especially if sleep's not your thing. One thing's for certain, though: it's Saturday again.
OOC NOTES, ETC.
- If you haven't figured it out by now, the number 8 is unlucky in Norse mythology! Time will also loop for eight days. You're welcome.
- NPC interactions this time around will alas have to be OOC. Come this way to talk to Hoárr!
- Feel free to start new threads in this log. Or just continue under your toplevel in the first one. Whatever is easiest for you, really.
- For now there won't be a separate OOC post. We've just made an OOC plotting section below.
- Questions?
QUESTIONS?
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When people get on the bus and it passes the Tree, do the people on the bus also loop back to the Hotel?
TALK TO HOรRR
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(And very suspicious of this dude. And definitely sporting her NYPD badge and Crime Lab credentials for a stare-down.)
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If she asks who his source is, he'll only give her an enigmatic smile.
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The smile sends a shiver down her spine and she looks him over. Something about him is unsettling.
"How did you get here? Who called you? What do you know about this place?
Oh, and it's probably not a good idea to be sitting on Odin's altar so casually, if one is so inclined to believe in Norse mythology."
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Please, tell this poor man who has never harmed a hair on anyone's head, and certainly hasn't killed thousands of people what he's done wrong!
Yeah he's just going to be very calm about it. It's not a big deal.
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And while Hoรกrr is also going to ask him about laser tag, the mysterious detective won't be too pressing. He'll just ask who was in John's team, who ended up playing, and who got hurt. He won't even take out his notepad to jot down what John tells him.
If John takes the cigar, Hoรกrr will leave him alone after that. No further questions, Your Honor.
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John's feeling pretty good about that, all things considered.
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Best not to sit on Odin's alter. He might get a bit peeved.
OOC PLOTTING
Re: OOC PLOTTING
Nita will be taking pictures to save to her Manual, along with other evidence!
Sheee probably won't board the bus herself unless trying to drag other people back out, though.
Investigations!
Seeing as Nita knew three of the people who disappeared, she'll also be concerned about this! She may talk to Hoรกrr, though as of right now I don't plan on letting her go alone.
Loops.
Nita may or may not figure out time is looping, but if she does while the loop is happening she will hate it. Just as FYI!
starsโ & the muses.
๐ป jesse faden | control/remedy verse. (
yugi mutou โ yuโgiโoh! (
๐ฅ john constantine | constantine / hellblazer, crau (
>> the plans.
๐ฅ john constantine
โ John (Constantine, Cthulhutine, and Marston) hangout during the loop!
John "Why haven't I pet enough dogs?" Marston
He notices the bus, takes a couple pictures, it's weird enough where he needs the evidence.
Otherwise, he's nursing a hangover with the Constantines, checking on Sadie, and congratulating Thor on a decent game. He's also giving another offering to Odin, this time it's six bullets, a cigarette, and a dollar (as is tradition.)
He's free most of the day.
Investigations
He's going to be hunting in the morning, since he needs to feed and there's nobody he'd consider feeding on in the hotel. He keeps it fairly clandestine.
After talking to our buddy, Hoรกrr, the day's free. He'll be pinning more photos to the bulletin board. One is of the horsey friends from the stables playing in their paddock, another is his puppies and Sadie playing on the hill, and then there's a set of pictures that are just the Tree. The one with the dogs and his partner is in 60s flavored color, the other two are in black and white.
While Sadie's recovering, he'll be up to look in on her, and out walking his durgs some more. Visit him or pester him while he's visiting Sadie!
Loops
He'll catch on that he fell asleep for more than an hour, which is unusual. He'll be bringing it up to Sadie, Thor and the other Johns. He's also going to be glowering at his partner for being able to eat food. Rude woman.
Plot with me! Tell me whatcha doing! Drag Marston into things!
Your resident snarky detective
She'll likely be found in Bucky's drinking club at night or running laps around the place to keep busy
and get that tree to quit taunting her.zed martin | constantine
i dropped the ball with zed (and alina) and i'm so sorry for that. this month really just got away from me. i don't have any concrete plans just some general ideas.
- zed got injured during laser tag so maybe she's still recovering.
- she's probably still coping with the fact she died before arriving her and blames herself for getting john killed too.
- even though she's injured she's probably gone out to go sketching even if you tell her she should be in bed.
- her visions have started to come back so if anyone wants some fun tactile psychic shenanigans come at me!!
totally down for handwaving previous cr and just anything really lol.
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alina starkov | shadow and bone
also with zed totally down to handwave meetings, cr, etc;
- alina was also injured during laser tag and may or may not still be recovering.
- her main thing will be trying to make a map of this place. not just the hotel but the surrounding area, woods, etc; i know a few others were going to help her and i'm very here for more. let's make a MAP CLUB or something idk.
- living her best life with her boyfriend and not knowing how bad things get back home c:
Plotting with Sadie Adler and Beverly Marsh
Sadie
There is a recovery log for Sadie up here. Where people can see her after Laser Tag, other wounded can commiserate or discuss what happened. She got a broken leg and is in a cast and is not happy about it. It'll heal up fine once she's not human and can feed again.
But she is taking advantage of her temporary mortality to experience all the things that living, breathing people do. So eating, drinking, chocolate, sunlight, all those wonderful things that seem so small are a big deal when you haven't done them in a while. So introduce her to new foods! Or booze! Or just chat. She's up for all of it.
Sadie will not be jumping on the weird bus, but she might be walking the pups when it is there and getting a good look at it.
Come meet the pooches, discuss the strange, and did you know this place had a fancy coffee bar? It's got these cool to-go cups that don't spill!
She knows John well enough to know he'll wind this and want to be all over it, so she will too. Not that she knew any of the folks who came up missing more than passingly but they've tracked a thing or two in their time.
Feel free to run into her and/or John when you see them around snoopin'.
Beverly
It was kind of a bust for her, she is a good shot but really sort of violence averse so she didn't score any major points. Her main concern will be checking in on Richie and Ben to see how they made it through.
Bev is going to mother hen Richie probably to the point of being annoying, but she worries about losing any of her friends now, they've lost too much already.
So look to find her hovering around people after it's all wrapped up, helping where she can and having the worst jones for a smoke she's had since she got here. So if you're a smoker and recognize the need, be a saint and give her one?
Strange busses are not her thing, she will not be going on one and will be worried about people who do. Richie would have to work very hard to try and get her on that bus and she absolutely will not go without Ben.
Sorry other guests but she really is somewhat greedily concerned with the friends she lost for 27 years and only just got back. But she still cares about you too!
Since this is post-laser tag her 'shine' is back in full effect and she will be able to feel and see things again so make that all kinds of fun for her by exposing her to traumas!
Open to all new interactions
drinking buddies
Sadie will be wandering out to practice her knife throwing and people are welcome to come by there.
Bev is going to be looking for smokes, bad habits flare up under stress.
๐ป jesse faden | control/remedy verse | ota
๐ป HARD TO TELL IF YOU WERE HERE (MAY 22ND)
in geometric order, an insulated border. โผ
๐ป UNDER THE BUS (MAY 22ND)
rolling down the freeway, master to the speed of light โผ
Hard To Tell
I've heard a detective from Oslo is here.
< 8000 years later >
Hey.
I'm sure he wants a few words with me. Given I'm on the same floor as a few of these people... or, was.
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I want a few words with him. These disappearances are... disturbing, but so many things here have been disturbing.
[ The fact that they can't leave is pretty high up there, as is the appearance of people from totally different times and places. Honestly, Malcolm's a little jealous that some people have gotten to leave. Maybe they saw a way to escape and took it? ]
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[ Her eyes go back to the missing board. A frown takes her expression then. ]
What if they're still here? We just can't see them where we're at.
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[ Will they actually get an honest answer though? That's something Malcolm's worried about, and why he would like to personally meet with the investigator. He needs to get a read on him.
An eyebrow raises slowly at Jesse's theory. ]
They're... being held somewhere in the hotel? They went invisible?
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[ It's not the weirdest idea she could come up with. Still, it might seem out there for someone who isn't used to seeing what she is. ]
Or they shifted to another plane. Like, going inside a mirror.
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I think you're a lot more well versed in happenings like this than I am. How would something like that happen?
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Usually something needs to change the object itself to allow it to do that. Mirrors, example, being altered by some sort of circumstance around them. Though, it just reflects everything around it... so a mirror in your home won't be the same as a mirror here. I think?
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What kind of alteration? Some kind of magic?
๐ฅ john constantine | constantine / hellblazer, crau | ota
๐ฅ WALKED UNDER A BUS (MAY 22ND)
standing there alone, the ship is waiting, all systems are go. โ
๐ฅ KNOCK, KNOCK (MAY 22ND) LOCKED TO ZED
if your name was lucy, i'd put lucy in her lucifer โ
WALKED UNDER A BUS
Wanted to have a little chat with you about something. [He pulls a cigarette out of his pack. Might as well make this more pleasant if he can help it.]
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[ He glances up at his counterpart and eyes the cigarette pack. There's a pause, then, he pulls out the ligher in the pocket of his pants. He flicks the light on and offers it to himself. ]
Or, at least, something thats entertaining outside of bloody laser tag.
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[John accepts the light, gratefully. And then takes a deep drag, he needed it.]
Wish I could tell you that I've gained insight as to a way out, but it's still something to go off of. [He sighs.] I've played with the gods before, not my favorite pastime, but it's a little easier to make contact here. Did you visit the alter?
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Oh, I did. Got a bit of a pain in the eye for it too. Turns out Odin isn't much of a fan of me. Not too surprising, fairly sure I got the knickers of the prick in control of Mathias all in a twist too. [ He turns to look at his counterpart. ] I'm guessin' he was a bit nicer to you.
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Might as well get to the nasty business. [He takes another drag, and then speaks again.] So we're not the first batch of guests trapped here. The hotel itself is a death trap, Odin isn't a part of it. [Which makes him think even more of Ragnarรถk.] So they've had groups before us, all have died. No bodies on the grounds either. And no ghosts. While it's nice to have a little break from the nagging, the fact that the spirits can't follow me here doesn't bode well. Suppose it makes sense. You can't sacrifice a spirit. They're not useful. And sacrifice is a big theme here.
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[ Of course, Mathias may not even have been controlled by a god for all he knows. He apparently wasn't worth keeping around long. Not that he could blame a god if that was true. Hell, he does even think he was worth the trouble.
John sighs and places the cigarette back in his mouth as he listens. It might not seem that he is, but oh, he is. His eyes wander back to the strange bus as he takes in the account. ]
Death implies all that matter and energy goes somewhere. No ghosts means somethin' is eatin' souls, and well, I doubt mine is going to taste bloody good. Sacrifice might be a bit obvious -- so what would they be sacrifcin' for if Odin isn't apart of it?
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she hears john before she sees him which causes her to rush in that direction (or as fast as she can with her injuries). ]
John!
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good thing he was rather intimate about the road map that was zed martin's body.
a long sigh comes out of him as he rolls his head to look at zed. oh, there she is. bloody hell, this woman. follows him into danger, a deserted haunted town, and a norse hotel, but he can't seem to keep track of her. at least she can keep that disappearing act up pretty well. ]
Now, I'm no doctor, luv. But, ah, I don't think you should be up and about with those injuries.