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You're walking through the streets of a fair, the atmosphere filled with voices, shouts, and the distinct scents of mouth-watering cotton candy and fried food. Your eyes scan the market booths, taking in their colorful banners and wares. The air is warm and sticky with humidity. You wish there was somewhere to sit and rest in the shade, but the fair is crowded and the sun beats down.
Above the dim of the crowd rises a tinny, light noise, the sound of windchimes even though there isn't much of a breeze. You follow the noise to a small booth you hadn't noticed before. It's mostly covered in deep perple cloth and from its awning hang those distinctive chimes. There's no sign indicating what it's for, but it looks shady at least. Under the awning you feel instantly cooler and breathe a sigh of relief.
"I haven't had a customer in a while," someone speaks. Their voice is like crumpled paper, crinkling and well-worn. You turn, startled, to see a woman standing behind the booth's table. She can only be described as ancient. Her skin is like bark, dark and creased, but her squinting eyes are bright. She takes in your surprised and expression. "I tell fortunes, darling. Would you like yours read?"
Why not, you decide. You take a couple of dollars from your pocket and offer them to the woman, but she pushes them back at you. She shuffles an intricately decorated deck of cards between her thin fingers and instructs you to pick one. The card you draw isn't a card at all, but a piece of folded indigo stationary.
Greetings, esteemed traveler! You are cordially invited to the world-renowned Hotel Astreum for a special stay just for humans like you. At least I hope you're human, the whole premise of this event would be wasted if not. If you choose to accept this invitation - and I dearly hope you will - be sure to pack your finest clothing, leave your shoes at home, and tell your friends and family you are only going out for a short walk in the woods.
And fill out the form, idiot.
Yes, of course. Please do.
Name*:
Pronouns:
Appearance:
Personality is exactly five words:
Packing list**:
Favorite color (make it as unique and specific as possible):
Choose a number from 1 to 22:
What are you searching for?:
*Hotel Astreum cannot guarentee your name will not be stolen during your stay with us
**Cameras and iron are strictly prohibited
Sincerely, Mx. Polaris, and Lune who wrote this for them because their own handwriting is terrible
You look around after reading this puzzling invitation and find that the fortuneteller and her tent have completely vanished. You stand in the middle of the street as crowds pass you by. You would think it was all a dream if not for the paper clutched in your hands. What is this all about? Who even are Lune and Mx. Polaris? You suppose there's only one way to find out.
We await your arrival, dear traveler.
submitted by Mx. Polaris, age immortal, Hotel Astreum
(August 18, 2022 - 7:13 pm)
(August 18, 2022 - 7:13 pm)
This looks really cool can I be, like, going by an alias during this, and trying to keep my true name secret from the others attending?
(August 19, 2022 - 8:42 am)
Sure, sounds interesting!
(August 19, 2022 - 11:05 am)
(August 19, 2022 - 9:43 am)
Name*: Ivy Shadow (or just Ivy) (a fake name)
Pronouns: she/her
Appearance: long brown hair with a leaf in it (definetly just glued in), hazel green eyes, light skin, long sharp fingernails like claws (not claws though (?))
Personality is exactly five words: kind, quiet, sarcastic, slightly creepy
Packing list**: several Wings of Fire t-shirts and some shorts
Favorite color (make it as unique and specific as possible): dark pine green
Choose a number from 1 to 22: 12
What are you searching for?: Ski Lodges and a sequel to Wings of Fire Legends: Dragonslayer.
also i'm definetly human, 100% not slightly changed by all my reading about dragons...
(August 19, 2022 - 12:31 pm)
Welcome, Ivy! Your key for entry is black titanium with vines of ivy woven around it.
(August 19, 2022 - 7:42 pm)
Name*: Periwinkle
Pronouns: she/her
Appearance: short, whispy periwinkle hair, blue-purple eyes, airy white overalls over a lavender shirt, and black low-tops
Personality is exactly five words: kind, helpful, sensitive, empathetic, awkward
Packing list**: clothes, box of chocolates, toiletries, and a book
Favorite color (make it as unique and specific as possible): a light, washed out periwinkle with bits of white blended in, like a sky just after the sunset but just before the actual night
Choose a number from 1 to 22: 8
What are you searching for?: loving and accepting people, who I have found many of but believe there should be more. Also, my missing chapstick tube. Have you seen it?
(August 19, 2022 - 2:12 pm)
Welcome, Periwinkle! Your key for entry is silver adorned with a periwinkle ribbon.
(August 19, 2022 - 7:43 pm)
Very mysterious (humans like me? No shoes? Name-stealing?) I'm in.
Name: Artemis
Pronouns: I'm female (she/her)
Appearance: tallish, slight, short dark hair, dark eyes, small crescent-shaped birthmark on my cheek. I wear wire-rimmed glasses, eternal jeans, button-ups in darker tones, and a gray elven cloak for rain, cold, and dramatic exits. And for this ski lodge, no shoes, I suppose.
Personality in exactly five words: thoughtful, quiet, bookish, dryly humorous.
Packing list: essentials, large quantities of books, random pencils and paper, magical earbuds that play the music of one's choice, a small (silver) switchblade.
Favorite color: purple. A sort of very deep, dark bluish-purple.
Choose a number from 1 to 22: 11
What are you searching for?: serenity. The perfect novel. Intriguing ski lodges.
(August 19, 2022 - 2:37 pm)
Welcome, Artemis! Your key for entry is silver with an ornate head inlaid with a moonstone.
(August 19, 2022 - 7:47 pm)
Name*:Reuby Moonnight.
Pronouns:She/her. Female.
Appearance:Long, wavy black hair, one eye gold the other black, pale skin and a scar across her nose.
Personality is exactly five words:Cold, distent, snarky, sarcastic and loner.
Packing list**:Sketch book, markers, Nintendo Switch and clothing.
Favorite color (make it as unique and specific as possible):A dark, Midnight black. One that corupts your soul and fills your mind we all things scary.
Choose a number from 1 to 22:13.
What are you searching for?:My boba I dropped.
(August 19, 2022 - 3:20 pm)
Welcome Reuby! Your key for entry is onyx flecked with red, with sharp teeth.
(August 19, 2022 - 7:49 pm)
Olha....I like that key....makes me sound dangerous.nefufu
(August 22, 2022 - 5:20 pm)
Name: Curiosity*
Pronouns: She/they
Appearance: Dark hair, usually in a low ponytail, dark brown (almost black) eyes, fairly androgynous clothing, usually with lots of dark greens and neutral yellow/browns
Personality is exactly five words: Nerdy but extroverted and loyal
Packing list: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle, Two Truths and a Lie by April Henry, clothes (minus any shoes except for a thin-soled pair of sandals), a pocket knife, a key necklace that I found once
Favorite color (make it as unique and specific as possible): It changes constantly, but a currently light orange, not loud, but soft and sunset-y, like an ember that's almost gone out.
Choose a number from 1 to 22: 13
What are you searching for?: To test my bravery, not because I have dreams of being a hero, but because I have read way to many books and now I have something to prove to myself
*I can give you my usual cricket name if you like. This isn't meant to be an SI thing (I think that's what it's called?), my character would just give out a fake name so the others in game couldn't "steal" it, whatever that entails.
(August 19, 2022 - 3:56 pm)
Welcome Curiosity! Please choose another number, as Reuby already chose 13. Your key for entry is bronze and elegantly coiled, so much so that you wonder how it could possibly unlock anything.
(August 19, 2022 - 7:53 pm)
Ok, thank you! I choose 19, a number that I, personally, dislike.
(August 20, 2022 - 6:34 pm)