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luigra · 2 months ago
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Why the nuke ending was good and important for the story, and why it was NOT retconned: an important essay
So, I& assume that most people here have only really watched DSMP through Tommy's POV. Maybe a few other of the most popular POVs. Even more people have just... straight up never watched the actual streams and got all their info off of social media. I& get it, I& can't blame you. But because of that you all have missed out on the absolutely crucial reasoning for why the nuke ending needed to be Like That.
I& will try to sum up Jack Manifold's lore here real quick, but I& can't ever do it justice in a text post, so I& implore you all to watch at least one or two of his lore streams, preferably the one in which he exploded the hotel and his POV of the finale, those are the two best ones lore-wise, and he re-explains his motivations quite frequently.
The biggest thing with his character is that he has always been forgotten about. Treated as a side character to the "main protagonist". He was never noticed, his three deaths were completely ignored, and no matter what he would do, people would always look past him to focus on whatever the big plot was. In his own words, he tried to kill Tommy and he didn't even care.
As the result of this mistreatment, literally having everything taken away from him - his home, his friends, his lives - he tries to find the root of it all, and comes to the conclusion that Tommy is to blame for it all, because he was his friend once but is now the cause of the server fighting all the time.
All of this is to say, he is an important narrative foil to Tommy - where Tommy struggles with just wanting to move past Exile and his trauma, Jack instead clings to everything that hurt him and just wishes to be noticed. He wants his pain to be acknowledged, and in doing so he spirals further and further into self destruction. He burns down Manifoldland. He blows up the hotel.
And finally, he blows up the world.
It was his desperate cry to be seen, a natural conclusion to his mental issues that everybody just ignored. But now, they couldn't ignore him anymore. They physically COULDN'T. And THAT, is why the ending is so brilliant. Because throughout all the trials and tribulations, Jack finally gets what he always wanted. He finally gets to kill Tommy the way he wanted to kill him, and at last, nobody can ignore him, this forgotten and abandoned kid that just tries to make things right, Jack Manifold.
BUT HE ISN'T ACTUALLY HAPPY ABOUT TOMMY DYING. IN HIS LAST MINUTE, HE REALIZES THAT HE'S BEEN MISGUIDED ALL ALONG AND WITH TUBBO'S HELP HE REALIZES THAT ALL HE REALLY WANTED WAS FOR HIS FRIENDS TO ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT HIM AGAIN.
SO HE TRIES TO SAVE HIS FRIEND AND LITERALLY GOES INTO LAVA TO TRY AND REACH HIM (THE SAME LAVA THAT TOMMY THREW HIM IN AND KILLED HIM WITH)
BUT IT'S TOO LATE.
IT'S PURE FUCKING CINEMA.
IT'S THE MOST TRAGIC ENDING EVER. IT'S THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY TO HAVE ENDED THE SERIES, WITH AN UNDERDOG WHOM EVERYBODY IGNORED UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE, FINALLY GETTING HIS LAST SPOTLIGHT. FINALLY HAVING A SMIDGE OF HOPE THAT SOMEONE OUT THERE MIGHT CARE ABOUT HIM IF HE JUST TRIES AGAIN.
So what does that mean for the latest new stream? It means that Jack finally got his closure and got to talk to Tommy. And he learnt how to move on. He doesn't center his life around him anymore.
But he does wish for Tommy to be happy. Even if he himself can't, even if he's still stuck gambling and addicted and all alone with no one by his side, he finally moved on from Tommy. He finally planted Manishroom in the ruins of his burnt down house.
And the fact of the matter is, this has been streamed from Jack's POV. And now, this is his story. Let him have this. The fact that his actions left an impact is important.
Let us, the manifolders, have this. Please. The nuke ending was never about Tommy or Dream or whatever. It was always about Jack.
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watermelonfrog2 · 10 months ago
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Fuck it, long post time.
Dsmp is so AAGGHH. I love it so much, its introduced me to some of the people I care about most and it has made me feel ways no other fandom has made me feel. I love the plotholes. I love the lack of consistency. I love how everyone has a different view on how the story played out. I love how if you asked someone what happened during a certain era their answer will be different from the next. I love the art. I love the animatics. I love the characters. I love the fanfiction. I love the story. I love the aus. I love how homemade it feels. I love how it feels like people wanted to make a cool thing so they made a cool thing. I love how the fandom took small bits of the ccs personality, added it to their character and ran with it. I love how each character had totally different motivations from any other character. I love how some things didnt make sense. I love how somethings never got answered. I love the ending. I love how somethings didnt end. I love unserious it was at times. I love how serious it was at times. I love the fans. I love the theories. I love the edits. I love the gacha reaction videos (ifykyk). I love Henry. I love c!tommy. I love exile arc. I love c!niki. I love the petwar. I love the lines, improvised or not. I love "If you wanna be a hero tommy? then die like one." I love c!SBI. I love c!Bee duo. I love c!disc duo. I love exile arc. I love pogtopia. I love l'manburg. I love c!ranboo. I love c!tubbo. I love the Big Innit/Manifold Hotel. I love shroud. I love how it was able to bring a large group of people together. I love how its let me make so many friends. I love the fandom. I love how its changed me. I love dsmp. Dsmp means so much to me because its become MY fandom. Its become what I return to when Im sad or happy. Its the only fandom I really read fics for. Its the only show/thing Ive cared about to this extent. Its the only show where Ive actually cared about a character. Its how I found my love of watching twitch streamers. It got me back into playing minecraft. It got me into writing. It makes me want to improve on my art. DSMP is my comfort fandom, my main fandom, everything and anything all at once. I love watching compilations of the characters. I love all the cosplays. I love how ive gotten into so many hobbies because of it. I owe my personality to C!tommy and cc!tommy and dsmp as a whole. I owe my internet presence to dsmp. It has such a special place in my heart. I love c!tommy. I love how he cares for animals. I love how hes mean and aggrressive and rude. I love how hes hurt adn traumatised and healing. I love the relationships between the characters. I love how c!tommy cares and he doesnt. I love how the discs mean so much to him. I love how his decisions are drived by emotions. I love him having so many attachments. I love how other people will think my view of him is wrong/different to theirs. I love how dsmp allowed me to experiment with who I am (personality wise). I love how dsmp entered me to a part of the internet I would never have seen before. I love how I feel nostalgic looking at the fanart or fansongs. I love. It all. I know this was really rambl-y but ive just been thinking about it and I have so many feelings. My concluding statement is: DSMP has shpaed me into who I am and no one can take it away from me. It will always have a special place in my heart.
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yuttikkele · 1 year ago
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All Homestuck References, Similarities, and Contrasts in the Dream SMP
I have compiled a list of all the Homestuck references that I’ve found in the DSMP. These DEFINITELY weren’t intentional, as the only CC that I’ve seen talk about Homestuck with any understanding was Jack Manifold, and he only just knew about it. I believe there are probably more that I’ve overlooked, so if you find any more, please tell me!
Homestuck and the DSMP are both multimedia creations that had lots of viewer influence and became something much bigger than originally planned.
Homestuck is known for how extremely long and crazy it was. The same can be said for the DSMP since a lot of nonsensical shenanigans occur, AND there is SO much footage and perspectives and non-lore of the DSMP that I HOPE there isn’t a person who has watched ALL of it (like Tubbo’s daily 10 hour streams…).
Dave and TommyInnit similarities: brother problems, red baseball shirt, disc motif, blonde, combined with a bird in another universe, related to a crow in some way (philza and davesprite), creepy puppet (Lil Cal and Uncle Nasty), Eburnean Tommy AU is BASICALLY just Dave (white hair, blank expression, dead Tommys everywhere)
Terezi has Dave make tons of money doing “business” stuff. Tommy had a “business” brand going on at multiple points mostly because of Schlatt influence (Business Bay, Business Boys, InnitInc, Camarvan, The Big Innit Hotel).
Caliborn and TommyInnit similarities: Tommy talks exactly like Caliborn, they both cause most problems that occur, they both hate lovey-dovey stuff that is barely even lovey-dovey, they both have a complicated relationship with women that is seen as misogynistic (Caliborn is actually misogynistic while Tommy has Said Some Things), they both have a relation to That Green Thing (Doc Scratch and Dream), Annoying At FirstTM, both have an affinity for a puppet doll they both recognize as extremely creepy (Lil Cal and Uncle Nasty), Tommy has made his own “Homosuck” via writing a terrible fanfiction of himself, Tubbo, and Molly and (presumably) drawing pictures for it.
TommyInnit is basically the Davekat lovechild, and it really LOOKS like it if you imagine the demon Tommy design. BUT he is what I’d say is a fair mix of Dave, Karkat, and John. -Dave: motifs and situation -Karkat: brashness, loudness, and mannerisms -John: Protagonist-ness, humor, morals, and role in the story. Tommy also takes Caliborn’s personality, pretty much making him the chaotic neutral Caliborn.
In TommyInnit’s quote book, he mentions throwing a frog into a volcano, something that happens in Homestuck. On top of that, during this section, there is some very religious subtext akin to the frog in Homestuck.
Bro’s death is a lot like Wilbur’s (TommyInnit’s “bro’s”) death. Bro is stabbed through the chest with his own sword by Jack Noir (someone with crow motifs). Wilbur is stabbed (usually fanonly portrayed as being stabbed through the chest) by his own sword by Philza (someone with crow motifs).
Ranboo is basically a cherub. The mechanics of his character perfectly align with the mechanics of a prepubescent or malfunctioned cherub. They go to sleep, the other side wakes up and takes over the body. One side only wants good and for everyone to get along, while the other side has done despicable things. There’s also red/green and black/white motifs (though, the black/green motifs are assumed to be the “good” side for Ranboo rather than white/green). Ranboo’s cake can also be seen as his juju. The only thing is that cherubs do not have enderman traits like Ranboo does.
Badboyhalo is basically Kankri. Badboyhalo looks strikingly similar to the Sufferer. Neither swear. They both are tied to religion (BBH—the egg, Kankri—himself). But, I don’t think Kankri has an obsession with his best friend, and BBH’s typing “quirk” is more like Aradia’s.
Dream looks similar to Doc Scratch. Both are antagonists. Doc Scratch is basically a “mask” for Caliborn. Doc Scratch pretends to be nice and accommodating to Damara like Dream was to Tommy even though they were both clearly holding them prisoner. Doc Scratch and cc!Dream both uh, shouldn’t be around children.
Jack Manifold resembles Sollux because of the red and blue motifs, short hairstyle, and Jack’s old IGN being Thunder1408 (thunder sorta like lightning sorta like Sollux’s telekinesis/lightning attributes). Jack Manifold was also sent to hell which led to a complicated death count, sorta like Sollux being half dead.
Dirk writing Homestuck and Wilbur writing the DSMP.
I like to say that Minecraft was the IRL Sburb-that-wasn’t-Sburb because it first became public in 2009 not long after 4/13 and was released again in November 2011 not unlike some other sandbox game centered around crafting.
In Minecraft, a person creates a world to begin, but in Sburb, they create the world to end.
Both stories have a “lives” system, an afterlife system, a revival system, and “ghosts”. The characters can interact with each other in the afterlife in both.
Both stories have a “paradox space” system. The DSMP universe acknowledges that there are other “worlds,” “servers,” and “universes” that don’t include the DSMP. There is also time travel as seen with Karl that also shows us there was a history to the DSMP world. Homestuck, obviously, has its paradox space of different universes and all their instances.
Both stories have a “canon.” Homestuck’s canon is The Alpha Timeline, and anything that doesn’t fit in that mold gets destroyed. The DSMP also has a canon, but it’s seen more as a fourth wall breaking joke. If something that’s not supposed to happen happens, they will just retcon it. We don’t know if the DSMP has a multiverse where things happen differently, and if it does, we don’t know if it gets to stay or if it gets destroyed. Even with these differences, both stories use the word canon in silly situations.
It is worth noting that there are “alternate universes” of the DSMP where the characters do not seem to have a recollection of the DSMP or things prior and are more of a separate entity than the DSMP timeline. For reference, a DSMP character’s timeline usually spans the whole of the CC’s career. But, these alternate universes are not called “the DSMP,” and don’t really count.
Karl doesn’t seem to affect the canon with his time travel. He is a spectator that can interact with the story when he time travels, and nothing he does will change the future or past. There isn’t anything like this in Homestuck, but there is the compliment, with John who can time travel and fully reroute the story.
Both stories have a “scratch” where the world is reset, and the characters reappear with no memory of the world before.
Techno’s false name was “Dave.”
Both have a character whose hair generally covers their eyes in most designs, has dyslexic symptoms, is obsessed with bees, and their aspect is doom (Tubbo and Mituna).
Both fandoms have babied the character described above before they finally snapped out of it.
The Ultimate Weapon Sburb symbol juju reminds me of 4/4 SBI.
Both fandoms strive on AUs, headcanons, and versatility of character design.
Both fandoms have an instinctive reaction when they hear “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
The fandoms of both are famously known for being extremely annoying.
Both Andrew Hussie and Wilbur Soot have used AO3 to make, basically, a fanfiction of their own work. Both of these “fanfictions” are dubiously canon.
Wilbur was born in 1996, the same year John and Jane were born, which makes Wilbur just slightly younger than the two.
Tommy makes an appearance on the QSMP using other people's accounts, and when he makes these appearances, he basically appears as c!Tommy (he references DSMP events in the context that he was there). In QSMP fanon (which is basically canon unless proven otherwise), Tommy is the god of chaos. The Tommy from the DSMP appears in the QSMP as a god. So, Tommy died, became a god, and he went to another universe. Quite possibly, he died, went godtier, then found a way to escape to another universe before the DSMP restarted or "scratched." Which probably means the QSMP is the new universe that was created when winning the game.
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argcicle · 1 year ago
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🔻~ eggpire!jack manifold hcs ~🔻
required listening: holler house by spence hood /j
jack is actually not as susceptible as he should be, because of the spite that’s keeping him alive. his constant suspicion of betrayal is enough to keep the egg out of his head, and he’d only been transfixed by it before because he was more focused on getting primes
instead of attacking tommy after the nuke testing, jack went to the egg and decided to try and poison him with the vines. skeppy had led bad to the egg the next morning, where jack was still passed out drunk
under the influence of the egg, the snow makes jack feel like he’s burning. he only gets rid of that feeling when he’s touching the egg, even though that leaves real burns all along his arms
he doesn’t notice most of the changes to himself. jack sees that the blue stripes of his hoodie are now red, but it takes him weeks for tubbo to mention his eyes (the red one is now white and the blue one is now red). by the time vines begin to grow around his head, he’s fully encouraging it
niki has tried to stop the egg’s effects on jack by destroying the vines on his head, but they’re connected to him. it doesn’t really hurt for them to be removed or cut, but the egg sends pain signals into his mind
the egg constantly tells him that Tommy told other members of the eggpire horrible things about him, which makes him a lot more aggressive. jack is also very cheerfully cruel to tubbo whenever he rebuffs invitations to see the egg
the eggpire recognizes that jack was never really held in high regards by most of the server, so jack tends to be the one who intimidates people. it actually works well because jack acts so unusual to how people expect him to be
before, jack was mainly kept alive by his spite and need for revenge, which slowly becomes fainter and fainter in his mind as he envelopes himself in all matters of the egg. as a result, the egg and his devotion is what keeps him alive, but his body is considered dead. after jack begins regularly coughing up blood, tubbo decides to start helping niki
the manifork manages to stay blue, but is one of the first things to get affected by the vines. the points of it are cracked and chipping, and in a few spots the only thing keeping it together are the blood vines wrapped around it
the big jack manifold hotel turns white overnight after vines cover the wooden columns; it also becomes the main meeting place of the eggpire, although jack abandons it soon after he’s infected
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peninkwrites · 1 year ago
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Lines Drawn in Sand & Concrete - Ch 12 of ?
Eryn is a double agent. He thinks he might've fucked up.
[CW: c!dream and referenced violence]
crossposted to ao3
Ch 1
Ch 11
Ch 13
Mafia AU
~ Eryn ~
TW0 DAYS UNTIL THE GRAND OPENING OF LAS NEVADAS…
Eryn is good at his job.  He sees everything, and people rarely see him.  Even with the big scar going up his arm, people don’t remember him often.  He and Tommy as kids would try to stop being invisible, until they realized they had a better shot at getting food if they stayed that way.  Tommy still wanted to be loud.  Eryn doesn’t know how he survives like that, but he has.  They’ve learned to survive in different ways now.  Eryn left on a ship for a year and he changed.  Tommy stayed in the city and he stayed the same.  What Tommy does is so small.  He gets by, barely, but Eryn didn’t want that for a future.  He had to move on.  Tommy never wanted to move on.  That’s why Eryn is now running with the Badlands, and Tommy is still picking pockets on Riverside.
The Badlands is nothing like being a part of a ship crew, which had been what he was looking for when he returned, but it’s something.  There are people looking out for him now, people who can actually help him.  He’s not even doing anything particularly dangerous, and it’s enough work he can afford a studio.  Largely because his landlord is part of the Badlands as well, but he’s still paying some rent.
Eryn gave Tommy some shit for not joining up with the Badlands, and Tommy gave him plenty of shit for selling out to the mob.  Which, honestly was preferable to Tommy insistently warning him he’d get himself killed.  Eryn went to see him anyway.  He kept going to the Secret City on his off nights and even then, even when he was seen, he was still listening and watching.
He had never really been jealous of Tubbo.  Tubbo already had mob affiliations to dampen his relationship with Tommy, so it felt more like they were on even ground.  He doesn’t know who the fuck this Wilbur guy thinks he is, but his presence Eryn finds a bit more grating.
Still, Tommy had asked him to come to the Secret City, and Eryn would oblige.  Even for a social call, Eryn never stops listening.  His ears perk up when just underneath Tommy’s loud greeting, he snatches a bit of conversation.
“–you and the old Crow- Father have a falling out?”
“Maybe keep your voice down, Jack–”
“And what the fuck have you been up to?!  Still workin’ with the devil?” Tommy jeers lightly, and Eryn’s focus snaps back to him.
“Yeah,” Eryn laughs dryly.  “You still working for no one and nothing?”
“With pride, Eryn.  With pride.”   Tommy has his arm around him, dragging him back to the booth.  “Someone I want you to meet,” he says as an aside, before more loudly, “Wil! This is my old pal, Eryn!” Tommy’s genuine enthusiasm introducing him warms Eryn a bit.  They’ve changed in a lot of ways, but as long as Tommy is still happy to have him there, Eryn will make his peace with it.
“Alright?”
“Alright.  Good to… meet you properly,” Eryn deigns to be civil.  He has found himself irritated often enough with how delighted Tommy seemed to be with the guy, but he would be the bigger person or whatever.  “I’ve seen you play a bit.  You’re not half bad with that guitar.”
“Thanks.”  Wilbur gives him a curious look that Eryn can’t quite read.
“Eryn, come on, join us, join us,” Tommy slips back into the booth, Eryn letting himself get dragged along with him.
“I was… I was actually here to see Niki, so, I might move to the bar,” Jack Manifold, who Eryn knows has been an object of Tommy’s torments for a long while now, originally Tommy and Eryn’s torments back when Eryn was still crashing in the hotel, and he clearly intended to flee those torments now.  Tommy and Wilbur don’t let him, and Eryn is content to sit back and watch.
The banter continues, Wilbur joining in on teasing Jack, and Eryn notes the two clearly share a history.
“I simply don’t understand how you’ve gotten so many people to put up with you!  Like, Eryn, Wil, Ranboo, and Tubbo too for like a million years!”  Jack ruins the mood with shocking speed, biting back against Tommy’s teasing perhaps too hard.
Tommy tenses, turning quieter now, Eryn isn’t used to Tommy ever being serious about things.  “You’re a real dick, Jack, d’you know that?”
Jack’s guilt is obvious. “Look, man, I didn’t… I mean–”
“You’ve done it, Jack, you’ve lost me.  Not in love with you anymore!” Tommy pulls Eryn out of the booth, loud and mocking, but clearly masking real resentment.
Eryn allows Tommy to drag him out of the speakeasy, even as he wished he could listen in just a bit more on whatever this mysterious Wilbur might let slip about his past, but it’s clear Tommy has other things on his mind.
“You alright?” Eryn asks carefully as they return to darkened streets.
“Me?  I’m great!  You know me, strongest man alive,” Tommy tries for a grin, and it would probably seem genuine to someone who hadn’t known Tommy since he was six.
Eryn gives him a look, doubtful.  “Come on, mate, let’s just… come back to my flat with me.  I bet I’ve got food somewhere.”
“You don’t know if you have food?  Oh, look at you, Eryn, you’re fucking sixteen and you’ve got your own flat and so much food, you don’t even know what you’ve got!  Is the pantry stocked with caviar or have you run out?  Shall you have the butler fetch you some more?” Tommy says, tone mockingly posh.
“Shut up,” Eryn poorly buries a laugh, pushing Tommy lightly.  “Better bet is stale pizza or like, a can of tomato soup or something.”
Tommy is still grinning, this time more genuinely.  “I could go for some stale pizza.  I wanna see what shithole you’ve managed to get yourself!  Can you believe all this past year I’ve never been over to yours?”
“Well, you didn't really feel like coming considering how I got the money for it.”
Once more Tommy falters at this.  He shrugs.  “I mean, you’re a Badlander, but it’s not like you’re off killing people, now, is it?  From what you’ve told me, you’re just like a little mole creepin’ around corners sniffin’ out the hot gos’ to share with the boss, eh?”
Eryn rolls his eyes.  “Yeah, something like that.”
“It’s different, though,” Tommy says more firmly, as if to solidify some notion in his mind.
Eryn hesitates, before deigning to push just a little.  “Different to… to Tubbo, maybe?”
Tommy scowls.  “Yeah, maybe,” he says bitterly, clearly intending to shut the conversation down then and there.
“Look, man, if something’s going on, you can tell me–”
“Nothing is going on!” Tommy says, whiny.  “Fucking hell, Eryn, give a man a break, will you?  What about you?  Hm?  Got any troubles at work you want to share?” He says pointedly. 
“You know I can’t tell you that but, for the record, no.”
Tommy hesitates, clearly warring between something.  “Look, I’m serious, man, are you okay?” Tommy says, something fierce in his voice that Eryn isn’t used to.
“Am I… Yeah, Tom.  I’m fine,” Eryn says, surprised.
Tommy scans his face, reading for sincerity.  “You’re not… you’re not getting into more trouble than you can handle?  The Badlands, they’re protecting you and all that shit, right?”
“Yeah.”
Tommy debates over believing him, eyebrows furrowed.  “You know there’s a guy out here hurting people he thinks are wronguns, don’t you?”
“Yeah.  Yeah, actually, the Badlands are looking for him.”
“So, you’re not… you’re not fucking around at night?  Staying out a bunch doin’ crime things after dark?”
“No, Tommy,” Eryn says, amused.  “Most of my work involves listening to people, and I can’t really do that if there’s no people to listen to.”
“Okay, okay good,” Tommy nods, still clearly ill at ease, but he doesn’t push it.  He continues sarcastically, “this better be some good fucking stale pizza.”
“Is there such thing?”
“Shut the fuck up and show me where we’re going.”
~
Eryn does not work exclusively for the Badlands, although they are his primary employer.  Eryn is not one to close himself off to business opportunities elsewhere.  One of those he doesn’t exactly find agreeable, but the pay is good.  Some dickhead cop named Dream.
Eryn meets him in an alleyway in the middle of nowhere on the East side.  The cop approaches in street clothes and with a slight limp.  Eryn has no reason to comment on it, not really, but he’s curious.
“You’re limping.”
Dream poorly buries a flicker of annoyance.  “Occupational hazard, what of it?”
“Nothing,” Eryn shrugs.  He’s glad Dream chose an alleyway without a dead end.  The guy pays well and never seems inclined to do him any harm, but something about him is just off enough Eryn would prefer there’s a way for him to book it if needed.
“Do you have anything else on Las Nevadas?” Dream doesn’t waste time on greetings.
“On Las Nevadas?” Eryn scoffs.  “Nah, nah other than that bit about Captain Warden, I don’t have anything.”
“He’s not the Captain anymore,” Dream snaps.
“Right, Sam Warden, whatever,” Eryn raises his hands passively, accustomed to Dream’s bitching.
“So what do you have for me, then?”
“Not a lot, if I’m honest,” Eryn shrugs.  “No news on what’s going on with Schlatt’s old crew.  And like, not to say nothing’s going on at Las Nevadas, the place seems shady as fuck, but other than… well, them maybe having the old boss hostage somewhere, and that’s… up for debate, really.”
Dream laughs at this.  “Right, sure.  So, you’re useless.”
“You’re the one who wanted to meet, man, I dunno what to tell you,” Eryn rolls his eyes.
“What about the Badlands?  Are they moving in on Las Nevadas?”
“Hey, I don’t fuck with the Badlands.  You know that’s off limits,” Eryn says warningly.
“Hm,” Dream considers this carefully, leaning against the wall of the alley to take some weight off his leg.  He’s always so calculating, something Eryn can’t help but respect about him.  “But they are still thinking Las Nevadas is responsible for the kidnapping?”
“Yeah.  Right now, that’s their… main lead,” Eryn says carefully.
“I’m not trying to get anything out of you, just, from what the police department has found, that’s not a bad idea,” Dream shrugs.
“What is it you’ve found, exactly?”
“Look, you can’t talk about Badlands, I can’t talk about police evidence, I’m already sharing too much by confirming their suspicions.”
Eryn takes this in carefully.  Bad and Ant had intended to stay out of Las Nevadas business for now, but Eryn has a feeling they’ll reconsider at the slightest provocation.  He doesn’t know if Dream’s offhanded comment is enough to go on, though.  Dubious respect or not, he trusts the guy about as far as he can spit.
“Right, fine.  Look, I told you I didn’t have anything.  I think I should be the one to call our next meeting when it’s actually worthwhile,” Eryn says pointedly.
Dream scowls.  “Don’t keep me waiting too long, alright?”
“Hey, I don’t control the flow of information, man, sometimes I hear things, sometimes I don’t,” Eryn says aloofly.
Dream takes one step forward.  Eryn takes one step back.  “Then listen closely, alright?” He hisses.  “The work I do is actually important, unlike whatever squabbling in the dirt your other employers get up to.  Maybe it’s a lot for me to expect a street rat to grow a conscience, but I still expect better.”
Eryn knows better than to pick a fight with a short-fused pig, so he just nods.  “You got it, Captain.  I’ll listen harder.”
Dream nods curtly.  “Next time you got something, call the office and say you’re… I dunno, calling about having me come in to speak at a troubled youth event or some bullshit like that.”
“And that’ll get them to transfer me to your office?” Eryn says skeptically.
“Yeah, if I let them,” Dream says irritably.  “Again, don’t take forever.” Dream turns to leave the way he had come.
“Oy!  I don’t do this as charity work!” Eryn calls indignantly after him.
“Why the fuck would I pay you for wasting my time?!” Dream snaps over his shoulder.
“You wanted to–” Eryn stops his complaints, knowing it’s useless.  He has a far better employer to meet with anyway.
Eryn is still debating the merits of sharing Dream’s all but useless input when he arrives at the Slaughterhouse.  Bad wanted to meet with everyone to discuss the very thing Eryn might now know something about.  In the middle of the warehouse amidst broken down machinery and concerningly fresh blood circling the drain, Bad, Ant, Punz, and an intimidating lady named Hannah have gathered.  Captain Puffy is, unusually, absent from the proceedings.  The Badlands having recently attacked her son is likely a contributing factor.
Bad isn’t worse, exactly; this many months in he no longer finds new lows, but he certainly isn’t better.  Eryn feels like he’s interrupted something, entering slowly, uneasy at how serious the circle gathered is, but Ant nods him in.
“Er, hey, Boss,” Eryn bounces back on his heels nervously.
“Eryn,” Bad gives him a nod.
Punz continues.  “...so I’ll be at Las Nevadas.  I don’t know where he’ll have me, but I’ll at least be there opening night, if something goes down.”
“We have reason to think Quackity isn’t involved,” Bad offers weakly.
“He was happy to help Schlatt manage hostages.  I’d know ‘cause I was muscle at some of the… heavier exchanges,” Punz winces.  “Not something I’d say I’m proud of nowadays, but Quackity clearly was part of it of his own free will.”
Hannah frowns.  “O-kay, if it’s something you’re not proud of now, who’s to say he’s still like that?”
“His issues with Schlatt don’t mean he’s omitted from guilt,” Ant adds, albeit reluctantly.  “And… our reasons for thinking it isn’t him are… they’re not airtight,” Ant gives Bad an apologetic glance.  “Even if the guy in the mask isn’t literally Quackity, who’s to say he doesn’t have a hired gun running around for him?” Another glance at Punz.
Puffy’s absence is felt.  Eryn feels the pauses where she should be offering input, but they merely move on.  Eryn wonders how that went down, what Puffy might’ve done when she found out her old friends had knocked her son unconscious and held a gun to his back.
Ant continues uneasily.  “We can’t pretend it wouldn’t make sense for him to threaten his biggest rival right when he takes over.”
“But he didn’t take over, you said some kid did, right?” Hannah interjects.
“You guys really believe that?  That he handed off all that power to a teenager?” Punz cuts in.
“I might know… something,” Eryn speaks up and at first he thinks he’s so quiet no one hears him.  He’s been listening to their debate, but his focus has been more so on Bad, who has remained quiet and desolate for too long.  Eryn doesn’t know how he’s going to explain himself, but he doesn’t give a shit about this Quackity person, and if there’s even a chance it will help the Badlands, well.  Eryn feels like he at least owes them the effort of trying.
Quiet falls, most of the company just surprised by Eryn speaking up at all, the kid more known for his listening.  Bad looks up.  “Yeah, Eryn?  What’s that?” Despite his grief and grievances, Bad always sounds so kind when he talks to him.
“Um, this is like, word of mouth, I don’t have a… a sure source, but… apparently, someone at the police station thinks… that Las Nevadas might have something to do with… all this.” Eryn says carefully.  He doesn’t know how to explain the police knowing about Skeppy being missing, and he knows they’ll soon be asking for specifics he doesn’t know how to give.
“All this?” Hannah asks doubtfully.
“Er, the… the Skeppy thing.  Maybe the serial killer thing too, I dunno.  The... masked man.”
Punz frowns, “why would the police know about Skeppy being missing in the first place?”
Ant grimaces.  “Sapnap.  I told him when I saw him.”
Eryn feels a flicker of relief at an explanation being given.  He trusts the Badlands, maybe more than he should, but even if they wouldn’t kill him for also working for the enemy, they certainly wouldn’t let him stay in the Badlands anymore.  They hadn’t even asked him what his source was, they barely questioned it.  Eryn doesn’t know what to do with the fact that they trust him.
“Right,” Punz sighs irritably.  “So, I’m guessing you do want me to be at Las Nevadas, then?”
Bad is clearly lost in thought, factoring in what Eryn had said.  “Even if you’re hired for security, Quackity knows you’re with us, he won’t let you near anything important.”
“Hannah, could you get into the opening somehow?” Ant asks.
“Maybe,” Hannah shrugs, “that doesn’t mean I’d be able to get anything useful.  I’m not that kind of mole.  If you need me to assassinate anyone or make some coffee, I’m your gal.”
Ant immediately turns to their best set of ears.  “Eryn-?”
“Ant, they’re not going to let a teenage boy into a casino,” Bad says tiredly.
“Right,” Ant huffs.
“And I would say we could ask Foolish, but, well,” Bad at least looks slightly embarrassed for the harm caused.
“What about Ponk?” Ant offers.
“Ponk doesn’t work for us anymore–”
“That was before their pig boyfriend screwed them over,” Ant points out.  “They might not be set on staying out of organized crime anymore, especially considering Sam is working for Quackity now.  I know for a fact they’ll already be there with Eret and Foolish.”
“Still, I don’t know if they’d be willing to take risks for us,” Bad says.
“Not take risks, just tell us if they hear or see anything.  All we’d be asking of them is a phonecall.”
Bad seems to come around to the idea.  “Hannah, I’d still like you to be there if possible.  You too, Punz.  If it comes down to a fight, Ponk won’t be of much help, so I’d like to have some guns already in the building if we need to be there.”
“Got it,” Hannah nods.  “Dunno about the guns part, though.  Like, you really think Quackity won’t have metal detectors?”
“If I need to, I can get you weapons while inside,” Punz offers.  “Not a ton, though.”
“Better than nothing.  If worst comes to worst, Ant and I will arrive guns blazing anyway,” Bad shrugs, before turning back to Eryn.  “Thank you for that, Eryn.  We’ll… we’ll see if it goes anywhere,” Bad gives him what should have been an appraising smile, but Bad looks so tired nowadays, so sad and broken down, Eryn just feels worried.  He can only hope he didn’t just fuck this up for everyone.
“I mean, if we’re sharing updates, I… I do have something from Puffy,” Hannah says slowly.
“From Puffy? Puffy is still talking to you?” Ant sounds surprised.
“Yeah, it helps I wasn’t the one to knock her kid unconscious,” Hannah says pointedly.  “Her flock, they shot the guy in the mask.”
The quiet falls heavier, Bad leaning against the rusted track of a conveyor belt, dark eyes staring in fixated dread at the bloodied drain at his feet.  “They… they shot him.”
“Clipped him, just barely in the leg, but yes,” Hannah nods.
“So… some of Puffy’s flock stumbled into our local serial killer.  Lucky her,” Ant says dryly, calculating.  “And they almost got him.”
At that word, at almost, Bad shuts his eyes, taking a deep, trembling breath.
Eryn feels a sharp dread deep in his stomach.  They clipped him in the leg.  Eryn thinks of Dream’s limp.  It could be a coincidence.  Why the fuck would a cop be a serial killer?  They get away with killing just fine on the job.
“Bad, our patrols are on the lookout for him 24/7, we’re gonna find him again,” Ant tries to reassure him.
“Except once this sick monster realizes that half the patrols aren’t Puffy’s flock and are instead Badlands, you do realize what he’ll do, don’t you?” Bad says icily.
“I mean, if he hasn’t killed him so far… like, do we really think this guy hasn’t noticed the Badlands is still in operation?” Hannah says skeptically.  “I know we know the guy isn’t all talk, he’s killed before, but he clearly realizes Skeppy is the only leverage he has, and he’ll hold onto that indefinitely.  I doubt there’s a situation where he’d kill him, not if he hasn’t so far.  Hurt, however…”
“Thank you, for that, Hannah,” Bad says stiffly, but he seems to genuinely mean it, at least the reassurance about Skeppy staying alive.  Hannah has been absent from the Badlands for a time, maybe doing some covert work Eryn is not privy to, but since her return she’s taken the new, desperate Badlands in stride.
Eryn is only half paying attention now, weighing the pros and cons of confessing to helping a cop in front of some of the biggest players in organized crime in the city.  What are the odds?  You tell them, they never trust you again, and some random asshole cop dies, not helping anyone.  Two people in a whole city can have leg injuries.  Maybe the truth of it, the one that Eryn is currently keeping buried, is he’s afraid of what it will mean if the man he’s been undeniably assisting is the same one killing people with wild abandon, and far more importantly, the man who had kidnapped Skeppy.
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I’m jack manifold kin, and I already have some guilt-based memories towards how I tried to kill Tommy and the way I blamed Niki, but I really wish that was where it ended. In my canon, I killed Tommy at Big Innit Hotel the night after the nuke test. It was an accident, and I was so sloshed that Niki had to tell me I did it the next morning, but I still hold a lot of that guilt.
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flavorcountry · 7 months ago
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So last week I lost my mind and wrote the above post. I regret nothing.
One aspect of it that I hadn't fully worked out was the Special Two-Day LARP that takes place at the Star Trek hotel maybe once or twice a month, tops, and is meant to be (in theory anyway) the kind of multiplayer experience that the Star Wars hotel was shooting for but failed to actually deliver. I freely admit to still not having figured out the entire thing — I am, despite all evidence to the contrary, not a professional RPG or LARP designer — but I have figured out …………. some scattered bits of it. So I'm going to give you my current best guess as to what I think will go on inside this thing that I'm making up myself from scratch and will never actually happen: the essence of the creative experience.
Lower Decks! Lower Decks!
When you book your ticket for the Special Two-Day LARP, you'll get an email directing you to a form you need to fill out with your division preference (ranked choice) and clothing sizes. This is because when you arrive at the hotel — excuse me, when you board the ship — you'll be directed to your quarters, where there's a Starfleet uniform in your size and hopefully your chosen color waiting for you. And you get to take it home afterward.
You are part of the crew, but you're lower decks. You're an ensign at best. And your job for the next two days, along with everyone else who's staying onboard, will be to help keep the ship running (maintenance! scans! crawling through Jefferies tubes! your uniform division color will determine the sorts of tasks you get) and occasionally contributing to the active mission the ship is on — the story, as it were. You'll get an app on your phone that can either be a padd or a tricorder; in padd mode, it pings you with messages from your superior officers that contain tasks to complete, and also has a map of the ship. I've decided that the crew quarters/shipboard guest accommodations will also have small sets interspersed between rooms: science lab, sensor cluster, etc, where tasks can be done and small scenes staged if need be.
So yes: you'll be getting tasks to complete while you're aboard — you're part of the crew after all!!!!! — but we're not going to pack the schedule; you'll have plenty of downtime. You and all your fellow guests have been split into shifts — Alpha, Beta, Gamma (there is no Delta Shift) — each with its own complement of red, gold, and blueshirts. As a player, you might be assigned into temporary work crews comprising other shiftmates from different divisions who get especially complex stuff done as a group and then disband. "Report to Stellar Cartography and run scans on systems in the following sectors in the following wavelengths" (guess we gotta build Stellar Cartography; that's going to be a two-story set), "Get to Jefferies tube 47A and recalibrate the EPS grid manifolds," "Go to the bridge and monitor Science Station 2 for anomalous signals; log any fluxes you see," "Activate your tricorders and search the ship for inverted tetryon signatures, then report to Lt Snorflin at Tactical." You might only contribute part of a task, so the rest is left to other shiftmates or other shifts. This shit is going to be complex. We're talking escape room-tier minimum. You're going to need help. You might even have to go down to main engineering and sign out a toolkit!! (Something that's occurring to me that I enjoy is that the hotel staff will need to reset the puzzles after they've been solved, so the next work crew can do them when they're assigned, but since the hotel staff are also in uniform, nothing will look unusual to the casual observer. Ha!)
Yes there will be a big overall story that you'll be a part of simply by existing on the ship. But you'll only see glimpses of it: lower decks, remember? There are trained hotel staff character actors playing the command-level staff — the bridge crew — who run scenes, but will you see every single one of them? Likely not!! But you might be in the room somewhere for one or two important moments — and so will everybody else. You might see something happen on the bridge while you're scanning debris. Someone else might see an interesting little scene down in main engineering. There will be nudges, probably in the padd app or verbally from staff, that uhh you know, maybe go down to Ten-Forward and see what the rest of your shipmates have seen? The bartender in the big hat might say "Well, those folks over there look like they just got off duty, they might have something interesting to talk about." Trade some gossip with your crewmates? Piece together the story that way? Is that a thing that could work? You can tell I've never done this before but I'm having fun cooking here!
Repel boarders
The thing is that at some point during the ship's mission, shit is going to go entertainingly sideways and your ship WILL be boarded. But it's okay! You were trained for this! Literally: it was on your schedule of activities. Early on day 1, your padd app told you to report to Cargo Bay 2, where one of the security officers gave you the rundown on how to handle this exact scenario: "In the event the ship gets boarded, you'll go to your arranged muster point, where you'll be issued a phaser like this and one of these armored vests, etc," and you proceeded to practice shooting each other, taking hits, falling dramatically unconscious, getting revived (see below). Essentially, you and your fellow players are playing PHASER TAG against a team of actors, also in vests (and maybe Jem'Hadar masks or whatever the setting demands). Your phasers make noises, your vests vibrate when you get hit, and there'll be tech onboard that tracks the hits you take, essentially tallying hit points:* if you get hit too many times, your vest vibrates for a long time, your phaser stops working, and you have to sit down (bonus points for enacting as dramatic a stunning as possible, maybe). Lucky for you, other players who maybe don't feel like engaging in battle can be handed blue doctor coats and hyposprays that will "reactivate" you and your equipment, and you can keep going! In general, I want to say players in red will get a type II hand phaser, players in blue will default to medical personnel but can certainly be issued phasers if they're in the mood, and players in gold will be given phaser rifles, which take more hit points away from the enemy actors.
Battle will take place mostly in the ship corridors and sets, obviously, and I've just now realized there needs to be a Sickbay set. It's a good thing I have infinite money in fantasyland! I've also realized something about how to keep the battles going in an interesting way, because I don't think I can have an infinite number of enemies. But! Downed enemy actors can be dragged away by a teammate out of sight, and then reenter the battle somewhere else through an employees-only maintenance door or something — "Didn't we just clear out Science Lab 2?" "They just keep beaming in more guys!"
This is the part where I want to say "the outcome of the overall battle will affect the storyline" but really, it shouldn't. There's only two possible outcomes! The ship gets taken over (bummer), or the crew successfully manages to fight off the intruders (rad) — of course we're going to take the second option!!! I think how well the battle goes may have some effects: how about a ceremony at the end of the stay where players can get medals for various kinds of heroics? There's probably other stuff we could do, too, I just haven't thought of it yet. I'm only one man!!
Anyway, that's what I've got for the Big Fancy LARP. Details will have to be left to the actual writers and actors who'll be hired once this all gets built (in my mind, in fantasyland), but one thing I like is that to my eye, the Big Fancy LARP is infinitely remixable with the appropriate amount of prep time. For three months it's some kind of Neutral Zone drama with the Romulans, then next season the ship is transporting a dangerous prisoner who's wanted by Orion security, then in the fall it's Those Damn Cardassians Again. Come back in winter for Borg Fest! All we need is the world's biggest budget for actors, costumes, and tech support. That's doable, right??
A brief word on RP safety and game-breaking
Something that occurred to me while I was watching another Jenny Nicholson video** is that the Star Trek setting also has the potential to incorporate an intrinsic (though by no means unbreakable) protection against weirdos being weird, which to my mind seems to come in two flavors:
👀 Players developing parasocial relationships with actors and following them around trying to monopolize their time/attention 🤏 Players getting Inappropriate with actors
First of all, of course my Star Trek hotel has an entire little handbook on LARP safety that all incoming guests have to sign, plus a brief in-person training (that can totally be done in-world) once they get there. But! Also! The fact that all players are also low-ranking Starfleet personnel onboard a Federation starship means that within the confines of the setting, they have to follow orders. If you keep following the ship's XO around and she needs to get rid of you for story purposes or just so she can have a break, she can just tell you "Dismissed" to your face and you have to leave. Starfleet officers do this all the time!! Try to smack her ass and you will meet the ship's Security Staff For Real, and you will not like it. I don't have any more to say on that, I just think it's a neat little confluence of player/actor/setting requirements.
I think I'm done for real this time
That's pretty much it for the Star Trek hotel idea; I probably said this last time, but this is truly a shocking amount of thought to devote to something that has a zero percent chance of ever existing. Did I at least manage to bring it to life in your mind? Someone let Jenny Nicholson know what her work has wrought, and in the meantime, thank you for holding onto this idea for me; I'll see you at the Klingon grill in all our dreams.
* Years ago I played laser tag at a place like this down in Fresno that was next-fucking-level; unfortunately they closed, but the gameplay/tech was capable of all this, and it was truly excellent. So I know it's possible!!
** The Evermore one, specifically; I consider watching close to eight hours of this person making good point after good point to be essentially a masterclass bootcamp in mass-marketed LARP design
I got a cold and watched that Jenny Nicholson video about the Star Wars hotel (it's very good) and fully lost my mind: even after experiencing a comprehensive four-hour deconstruction of why it didn't work for Star Wars, I still think a version of this would absolutely work for Star Trek. Take my hand and walk with me on my journey into madness, where I have infinite money, talent, and team to make it all happen!!
Overall vibe
If you want to make a hotel/resort experience that takes place inside a fake spaceship, I still think Star Trek is the way to go: so much of Star Trek takes place on ships, and we've seen the rooms are pretty nice!! Like the Star Wars one, my Star Trek hotel is also a simulated starship, but with better rooms and more fun stuff to do.
Are you ready for this shit
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Can you tell I drew this myself
You'll arrive at Farpoint Station,* where the concierge checks you in and your luggage gets whisked away by station staff. Gift shop's also here. When you're checked in and ready to head to your room, you're brought to one of several transporter rooms. If you never went to the Star Trek Experience at the Vegas Hilton when it was active, I am truly sorry for you, because they had a ride whose boarding process included getting beamed away: you and your pals were herded into a zone where you were clearly meant to board a run-of-the-mill 20th-century simulator ride, and then there were jets of mist and a sound and suddenly you were in a transporter room on board the goddamn USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. It was fucking magical and I never, ever want it explained to me. Anyway, that's what happens to you at my Star Trek hotel: you step onto a transporter pad and get beamed from Farpoint to a Galaxy-class Federation starship. Exit the transporter room and walk down the ship's corridor to take the turbolifts to Cargo Bay 1, where a "temporary muster point" has been set up (this is where the guest services desks will be), or just follow the lit-up companel signs to your cabin. Yes, it will look like guest quarters aboard the Enterprise-D, more or less — maybe a little smaller — but it'll have the carpet, the plant, the glass coffee table, and most importantly a window that looks out into space.
Or!!! If you booked the resort, keep heading down the hallway and take another turbolift to a different section of the ship where the holodeck entrances are. The holodecks, naturally, are running a Risa program, so you walk through the doors and under the arch and suddenly you're outdoors looking at a beautiful landscape with a pool and whatnot, plus the resort accommodations where the more conventional fancy rooms are, and also the restaurants and entertainment venues, all themed. There's a Quark's. There's a Klingon bar and grill. A Bolian salon/spa. Talaxian arcade?? Nausicaan axe-throwing pit?!?! Come on!!!!!!!!!
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Key learnings
Two things stuck out to me that the Star Wars hotel fucked up that I think the Star Trek version can do better:
🤷‍♀️ LARP too complicated: Give 'em credit where it's due, the Star Wars hotel fucking swung for the fences trying to make a multi-hero story guests could integrate with, but it just didn't work. Technical failures! Possible conceptual flaws! Too much stuff packed into the schedule!
The fix: Just make it mostly a hotel most of the time. One or two weekends a month, there's a two-day fully-immersive LARP adventure that people explicitly book separately, and it's more expensive (more on that later). But at all times, hotel staff will be in uniform with division colors that make sense: concierge and guest relations in red, support and janitorial in gold, teal for any medical personnel. I think that means the people working in food services have to wear that plaid/vest combo the Ten-Forward staff have on, but there are certainly worse outfits.
🌴 No resort: The food at the Star Wars hotel was good, but there was no pool and no other luxury resort type stuff to do. It didn't sound relaxing.
The fix: Putting an actual resort in the Star Trek hotel under the guise of a permanently-running Risan holodeck program. The sheer elegance of it!! When the weather is bad, hotel staff in gold uniforms can make apologetic comments about how the sim's malfunctioning.
Roleplay though
People are going to want to stay onboard the ship. That's good! The thing about the ship cabins is you can build them in maybe two semicircular layers (the rooms will need to be curved because these are quarters onboard the saucer section, naturally) and just bury them underground. They don't need real windows — you're putting screens in that'll show a space view, especially when the ship goes to warp and you can see those rainbow trails. Inside the semicircle there's a lot of space where you can put the other, bigger sets: the bridge, main engineering, Ten-Forward, etc. None of those have real windows either, and also I don't think it matters where you put them physically: just stick a pretend turbolift in front of all the entrances and make guests take those whenever they need to go there! One thing we're also doing is putting little hidden speakers everywhere that put out a small amount of shipboard white noise; it may not even be noticeable on a conscious level, but it'll be there and it'll be soothing. This speaker network is also a great way to make an actual announcement if there's a real park emergency.
During most of the month, I think the bridge and main engineering are mostly just photo ops — maybe you have to book a timeslot? Just so you're guaranteed some time with just you and your buddies? But I also think there should be opportunities for what I'm going to call mini-LARPing: you and your pals can book an hour-long session and the staff trains and then runs you through a short scenario. If you've ever played Artemis or the actual Star Trek VR bridge crew game they put out a while ago, you know where I'm going with this: for however long, you and your friends are now the crew of a genuine-ass Federation starship trying to survive a battle! It's fuckin' Kobayashi Maru time, motherfuckers!! Everyone gets their own station! Lights flicker! Mist shoots out of stuff! The whole bridge shakes! There might be a warp core problem — better call down to main engineering! Whoever's down there gets escape room-style minigames and puzzles to work out and help their shipmates. At some point — and this will happen in every run of every scenario — there'll be a very mist-forward "coolant leak" near the warp core that forces whoever's in the room to duck and roll beneath a descending garage-style blast door before heading up to the bridge to activate their station up there; bonus points if the player can work in a "We lost a lot of good people down there, Captain." Maybe there's an actor in makeup who menaces the crew on the main viewer from time to time (pick beforehand from a list of villains! want to fight Klingons? Romulans? a rogue Borg tactical sphere? etc). Can you see it? I can see it, and it fucking rules.
I must at this point mention that in my world, you can buy an add-on where a camera crew joins you, and they cut up the footage afterward to make you and your pals your very own mini-episode. Yes the editing and post-production are expensive and time-consuming; I'm creating jobs here!!!! Maybe …… okay, hear me out: there's an array of hidden fixed cameras and microphones built discreetly into the set, and also players are issued a combadge with an individual RFID tracker that pings the cams and mics, so they only save footage when a player comes close. After the players are done, a machine algorithm uses the data gathered to assemble a rough timeline of each player's material and create a draft movie that a human editor can pick up and fine-tune. Yeah?? When you check out, you get handed a USB drive that looks like an isolinear chip with your mini movie on it, and maybe another one with all the raw footage just in case you're feeling ambitious!!!!
For one or two other weekends during every month, there's a heavily advertised, much more involved, and way spendier LARP for people who really want to get into it. It takes place over two days. There are lots more actors portraying characters necessary for the plot/gameplay. Don't bother packing for the daytime: all players are issued a uniform they get to keep afterward. Do I have any details on the scenario or RP? I do not. But I fully believe it's possible to construct something you could run over the course of a weekend that would keep a hundred paying guests occupied, amused, and delighted, provided you have a truly ridiculous amount of money and people, which I do because this is utter fantasyland.
Also it probably won't cost six grand. Probably??
Let's gooooooooooooo
The rest of the time — and I cannot stress this enough — the Star Trek hotel is just a very heavily and specifically themed all-inclusive resort that has nice, fancy rooms and luxury amenities plus bookable ship cabins and opportunities for photo shoots or quick one-shot roleplay adventures for the real heads. You don't ever have to enter those latter parts if you don't want to! You can just hang out at the resort and have fun with all the themed entertainment, which I must stress is going to be both in-universe plausible and great, with something for everybody. Yes, there'll be a daycare, and yes, Flotter will be there in some capacity to entertain the kids. The food hall is my favorite part by far; I could pitch you Trek restaurant concepts all day. Romulan gourmet soup stand. Gummi candy store staffed by Ferengi where all the offerings are shaped like alien bugs. A vending machine where you can get a jumja stick or a three-pack of those nutrient pucks Picard and his new friends kept getting in "Allegiance." There will be an entire plant-based food vendor with a wide variety of delicious options for all meals, and it will be run by Vulcans.
A word on the gift shop
Question for you: have you ever watched a Star Trek show and seen a Starfleet officer pull on a jacket or shoulder a duffel bag that had the words "STAR TREK" on it? If so, then friend, I want to know where you get your hallucinogens because I want to experience this exactly once. All of the gift shops on my hotel grounds sell responsibly sourced, highly thought-out, well-made items that would be in-world plausible and have no obvious branding. Of course you can get a hand-carved horga'hn, but let's go bigger. Why not a light-up Tox Uthat for your nightstand? Ressikan flute for you, queen? How about a whole-ass knife store that's nothing but various kinds of Klingon cutlery? There will absolutely be an entire tailor's shop whose whole job is to put you in the Starfleet uniform of your choice; there may or may not be a Cardassian managing the place who's got a 50/50 cheerful/menacing vibe going on. There'll be not one but two stores that sell little models of ships: the regular ones and the gold ones. Don't tell me you can't picture it!!!!!
I think that's about it
Thank you for coming along with me on this bespoke journey into 100% insanity; now can somebody put me in touch with the Star Trek licensing people and also give me a billion dollars to build all this? Okay, thanks a lot!!
For timeline purposes and because it's fun, I'm positing a version of Farpoint that got built after the events of the TNG premiere where the Denebians got their act together and just built a normal surface base without suborning an interstellar lifeform.
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chill-mcyt-art-reblogs · 2 months ago
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Duo/Group Tags (A-M)
Allium Duo (Ranboo, Tommyinnit)
Angel Duo (Tommyinnit, Philza)
Animal Duo (Xisumavoid, Keralis)
Apple Duo (jSchlatt, Slimecicle)
Autotune Trio (Quackity, Wilbur, Slimecicle)
Baked Beans Duo (Grian, Joel Smallishbeans)
Bamboozlers (LDShadowLady, Jimmy Solidarity, Goodtimeswithscar)
BBQduo (Badboyhalo, Quackity)
Beanie Duo (Tommyinnit, Aimsey)
Bedrock Bros (Technoblade, Tommyinnit)
Bed Trio (Bdubs, Grian, Goodtimeswithscar)
Bee Duo (Tubbo, Ranboo)
Bench Trio (Tommyinnit, Tubbo, Ranboo)
Big Eye Crew (Keralis, Bdubs, Tangotek)
Birch fellas (Cubfan135, Welsknight)
Bitter Duo (Tommyinnit, Jack Manifold)
Boatem Crew (Grian, Mumbo Jumbo, Goodtimeswithscar, Pearlescentmoon, Impulse sv)
Bug Duo (Rendog, Docm77)
Cabinet Duo (Tubbo, Quackity)
Calamity duo (Quackity, Tommyinnit)
Capitalist Duo (Grian, Keralis)
Chaos trio (Dreamwastaken, Wilbur Soot, Technoblade)
Classics Duo (Joe Hills, Zombiecleo)
Clingy Duo (Tommyinnit, Tubbo)
Clock Duo (Impulse sv, Bdubs)
Cobweb Duo (Geminitay, Pearlescentmoon)
Cod Duo (Grian, Jimmy Solidarity)
Comfy Duo (Tubbo, Sapnap)
Convex (Cubfan135, Goodtimeswithscar)
Cookie Duo (Slimecicle, Ranboo)
Crastle Duo (Bdubs, Zombiecleo)
Crimeboys (Wilbur Soot, Tommyinnit)
Dap Duo (Quackity, Slimecicle)
Death Duo (Philza, Missafonia)
Deity Duo (Foolish, DreamXD)
Derp Duo (Impulse sv, Tangotek)
Desert Duo (Grian, Goodtimeswithscar)
Desert Flowers (Grian, Jimmy Solidarity, Goodtimeswithscar, Scott Smajor)
Disc Duo (Dreamwastaken, Tommyinnit)
Divorce Duo (Ethoslab, Bdubs)
Doomsday trio (Dreamwastaken, Technoblade, Philza)
Drawing Badly Duo (Grian. Martyn Inthelittlewood)
Dream Team (Sapnap, Dreamwastaken, Georgenotfound, / Badboyhalo)
Eef (Ethoslab, Vintagebeef)
Emeraldduo (Philza, Technoblade)
Eternal Duo (Eret, Foolish)
Feral Boys (Dreamwastaken, Georgenotfound, Sapnap, Quackity, Karl Jacobs)
Firefly Duo (Tubbo, Dream)
FireFox (Sapnap, Seapeekay)
Fireworks Duo (Tubbo, Technoblade)
Flower Husbands (Scott Smajor, Jimmy Solidarity)
Fork Duo (Tommyinnit, Drista)
Fun Duo (Tommyinnit, Eryn)
Gingerbread Duo (Grian, Geminitay)
Glow duo (Ranboo, Aimsey)
Golden Boys Duo (Tommyinnit, Purpled)
Golden Duo (Tommyinnit, Georgenotfound)
Gong Duo (Technoblade, Grian)
Grime Duo (Tommyinnit, Slimecicle)
Happy duo (Badboyhalo, Skeppy)
Hotel Duo (Sam Nook, Tommyinnit)
Jaffa Cake Duo (Tubbo, Georgenotfound)
Lamp Duo (Baghera Jones, BadBoyHalo)
L'mantrio (Wilbur Soot, Tommyinnit, Tubbo)
Log Fellas (Rendog, Xisumavoid)
Loud Duo (Dreamwastaken, Quackity)
Lovers Duo (Mexican Dream, Mamacita)
Mad Duo (Wilbur Soot, Dreamwastaken)
Manipulated Minors(Purpled, Tommyinnit, Tubbo, Ranboo)
Mayoral Duo (Goodtimeswithscar, Bdubs)
Memory Duo (Karl Jacobs, Ranboo)
Meow duo (Wilbur Soot, Georgenotfound)
Mercenary Duo (Purpled, Punz)
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thegrandnewdelhi · 10 months ago
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Why Banquet Halls are Best to Host Corporate Events
Banquet halls are the best when it comes to hosting your corporate events, whether such halls are part of grand hotels or standalone structures. When banquet halls for corporate events are situated within posh, resplendent and huge brand hotels, it adds massive value to the hotels and their high-end customers’ base. They add to the attractiveness of such hotels in terms of value-addition, customer service, desire and satisfaction.
For more than two years, the hospitality industry around the world had suffered due to the effects of the Covid pandemic, and India was no exception and had to experience adverse effects on its hotels and hospitality sectors during the pandemic, and the hosting of corporate events literally stopped. The business of banquet halls also suffered enormous losses.
But now that the pandemic threat has subsided, the staging of corporate events has shot up manifold, and with it, the demand for banquet halls to host corporate events has also shot through the roof.
Why Banquet Halls for Corporate Events Are Always a Special Draw
Especially for high-end, brand hotels, banquet halls for hosting corporate events are indeed a very special draw, as it clearly adds value for business customers looking for that extra space to implement their corporate ideas.
When high-end customers book hotel space, they also have business on their minds and that is when banquet halls for hosting corporate events become a special draw. When hotels have banquet halls, they can not just host corporate events, but also host corporate parties and other social events in them.
This is what makes having banquet halls for corporate events so crucial for hotels. Having or not having such banquet halls can make all the difference as far as customer preferences are concerned.
Even otherwise, whether in a hotel situation or not, owners of banquet halls should keep some specific factors in mind so that they can keep their clients happy and satisfied.
Factors Banquet Hall Owners Should Keep in Mind to Host Corporate Events
Hosting corporate events is not at all an easy affair both for corporate clients as well as independent owners of banquet halls.
Whether you hosting a corporate event in a hotel scenario or are the owner of independent banquet hall/s, you need to keep in mind the following factors so that corporate events can be hosted smoothly and without any technical or other glitches:
Invariably, banquet halls for corporate events should ensure the following:
Ventilation: Banquet halls are where there are large gatherings of VVIP guests and other dignitaries. Hence, it becomes crucial to have proper ventilation in such large halls. If the ventilation is not adequate, it can lead to complaints and complications from suffocation of guests and invitees to the corporate events, and may lead to avoidable health concerns and, at the least, massive embarrassment.
Space constraints: Owners of banquet halls should ascertain the exact number of guests, invitees and, where applicable, media persons expected to attend any particular corporate event. That will give them a clear idea whether the space they can make available will be adequate to host that corporate event. This applies both to standalone owners of banquet halls or in any hotel setting.
Lighting: Just as ventilation is important in banquet halls for hosting corporate events, proper lighting infrastructure is also a must. Some corporate customers might invite the media to stage special company events in such banquet halls, and proper lighting is needed if you don’t want such high-end, corporate customers to complain about poor lighting arrangements.
Audio arrangements: Banquet halls are meant to be large spaces where big corporate events are hosted regularly. At such events, there are typically several speakers and if the audio systems are not well-maintained and functional, it may turn out to be a huge embarrassment for both the hotel or independent banquet hall owner. So, it becomes crucial to ensure that advanced audio equipment and arrangements are installed and they are in up and running condition.
Fire-Fighting arrangements: This is an absolute must if corporate events are to be hosted successfully. Since banquet halls are places where there are large gatherings of VVIP guests, dignitaries and even media persons, it becomes crucial to ensure that there are no fire-related issues that get triggered in the most unexpected fashion. Hence, it becomes important for owners of banquet halls to ensure that they put in place fire-fighting arrangements for corporate events, so that the safety and security of guests, attendees and invitees are not compromised.
Thus, proper maintenance of banquet halls is an absolute necessity and is a must as it is a big factor determining customer satisfaction, which in turn will determine the sustained success of your business.
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bigjohnproductsinc · 2 years ago
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Manifold Benefits of Installing a Big Toilet Seat
The Big John 800 lb capacity toilet seat is composed of high-quality plastic that is stain and chemical resistant. From side to side, the seat measures 19 inches wide. The inside dimensions are 11-1/2 inches front to back and 8-3/4 inches side to side. With the accompanying high impact ABS hinges, this heavy-duty toilet seat is simple to install.
To keep the seat from shifting, two huge stabilising synthetic rubber bumpers grasp the porcelain. People with disabilities who have trouble shifting on and off a normal toilet will appreciate the extra stability and safety provided by this heavy-duty seat. The Big John normal Toilet Seat is designed to work with both normal round and elongated toilets.
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Why It is Favoured?
There are a few reasons why big toilet bowls and seats are favoured. For starters, there is more room in front of you and a broader target area. This is more practical for men. Second, the greater target area improves sanitary conditions in the toilet area. Add to that the fact that an elongated seat is more pleasant to sit on, particularly if you are tall or of larger stature, and you'll understand why they're more popular.
Big toilet seats are popular for another reason aside from greater seating comfort. They are typically linked with higher-end products. They appear to be trendier and more modern, with a more refined appearance. This is just another reason why longer toilet seats are preferred.
As a society, we are all uncomfortable witnessing disabled people struggle up stairs or squeeze into chairs that are too tiny. For example, our public transit is usually very accommodating to the elderly and the disabled. However, elderly or disabled people frequently struggle in places where the general public cannot see them: the lavatory.
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Far too frequently, however, public and private facilities fail to consider the requirements of handicapped or anatomically unusual persons, causing discomfort and tension and discouraging them from ever attempting to leave the protection of their homes. Fortunately, there are specialised expanded or raised toilet seats available to fit everyone's demands.
People nowadays choose nicer and more modern items, so it is rare to see a conventional round toilet with a round seat in a freshly built home. Big Toilet Seat is found in office buildings, hotels, and restaurants for a reason: they look better.
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silverfox419 · 2 months ago
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i've found the exact moment this happened. guys.
under the cut so you can still guess beforehand
ok so to go through the process of finding it. i was looking at the blocks: spruce, stone bricks, red carpet and concrete. i was pretty sure those were the building materials for something specific, so i looked through the wiki for locations.
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i wasn't sure if there was red carpet here, but the big innit hotel seemed really promising. so that's where i started focusing. i looked through a few tommy vods/videos, trying to get a timeline of when it was destroyed, because it's very much broken on the world download.
the hotel was fine when tommy was revived and released from the prison, so i went to the jack manifold vod where he was drinking on his birthday. he noticed an explosion crater, and his chat said it was drista. i went to the tommy vod with drista where the explosion happened, but it didn't seem like anyone picked anything up there. it seemed like a dead end.
that was until i remembered that there are signs around the hotel saying hannah was the one who destroyed it. so i went looking for a clip of that, but couldn't find anything. then i went to hannah's wiki page and boom.
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of course. how could i have forgotten the detective stream? or at least, that they were- like me- trying to find the culprit of the griefing. i immediately went to the vod. and after a little bit of skimming:
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i found it. the exact time of jack manifold's death. he didn't bother to go back for his items, and so there they stayed, in an unloaded chunk.
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i found where someone died????
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ao3feed-crimeboys · 2 years ago
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Big Innit Hotel? Nah.....Big Innit Daycare
by 0Black_Pepper0
He doesn't know what happened, he doesn't know who did this, nor does he know how to fix this.
And you know what? He's going to make it his mission, to find the answers and solve this....
But before that, Tommy is going to make that hotel of his to a motherfu— daycare. How wonderful!
Ft. Chat but they're not relevant and they pop out randomly to talk to you.
Words: 306, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Alexis | Quackity, Wilbur Soot, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Eret (Video Blogging RPF), Niki | Nihachu, Jack Manifold, Toby Smith | Tubbo, Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Fundy (Video Blogging RPF)
Relationships: Technoblade & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit, Eret & Jack Manifold & Niki | Nihachu & Ranboo, Ranboo & Toby Smith | Tubbo
Additional Tags: How Do I Tag, Help, I Tried, Minecraft Roleplay - Freeform, Wilbur Soot and Technoblade and TommyInnit are Siblings, Piglin Hybrid Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit-centric (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit Needs a Break (Video Blogging RPF), Multiple Pronouns for Eret (Video Blogging RPF), Twins Wilbur Soot & Technoblade, Enderman Hybrid Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF)
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traveltechnologycompany · 2 years ago
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Amadeus Flight API Integration
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What is Amadeus API?
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Global GDS Professionals have developed Amadeus Flight API. This Amadeus Flight API is one of the most well-liked & preferable flight API in the world. Global GDS offer the best Flight API XML Integration solution for flight booking.
Global GDS allows integrating Amadeus Flight API in online travel portal/booking system of travel agents. This allows travel agencies to integrate Amadeus flight booking API for custom flight booking engine and complete flight booking services.
Global GDS provides best Flight XML API Integration for travel agents who provide quick access to interactive flight booking solution for efficient flight booking management and distribution using Amadeus Flight API connectivity.
How Amadeus Flight API works in Travel Industry?
Amadeus Flight API gets flight data from Amadeus which is one of top 10 Software Company linked with thousands of airlines to integrate in online portal of travel agent or Travel Management Company according to their requirements.
Amadeus Flight API XML Integration with Global GDS
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rhaenyraisadyke · 3 years ago
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It's been a year! Transcript: 8/3/21 Here is also a google doc of the transcript if that is easier to read!
*Starts out with happy birthday on a guitar playing*
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthdayyyy to meee, Happy Birthday to me
*Drinks a swig of alcohol*
Ah. Yeah it’s my birthday today, which um seems odd, it doesn't feel like i've been here that long… but I have. Cheers everyone uh. I realise I haven't really done much in a while.
I woke up this morning, rolled out of bed, put out this cake I made three months ago and uh, that's kind of been it, but yeah… I don’t think I’ve left this room in 80 days. About 80 days… How long is 80 days? I- I- that's a lot of months… that's been a long time… Also my vision just went black, I’ve been drinking a lot, um this is that possibly catching up with me um please return vision, I’d really like for it to be back, well I can hear things so at least i'm not deaf ya know? The lord has kept my hearing but I am blind, no um yep there we go.
I decided to get dressed up as well. I figured that would be nice, ya know? I’m pretty sure I was part of them back when I joined, so.. .I don't know if it felt like it made sense to dress up again. Um, fucking hell, I have not cleaned. *sighs* I’ll be honest, in the time I was gone, not very… not very much has happened, uh, it turns out you need customers to support a hotel, and I don’t know about you guys but I haven't seen one on this place for a pretty long while. So uh, basically what I’m saying is… the big jack manifold hasn't been going too hot, god, you don’t provide these guys with food for eighty days and they all go bones and evil.
LEAVE out you bard, you-
The point is, very little has been done here for quite awhile, and um I haven't been outside or seen anyone, and I- I didn't’ finish the pub. Um, you may be asking me, “but jack wasn't that the only thing you were working towards? I know but with the failure of the hotel, I kind of realised that again pubs also rely on customers and the very limited people on this server, as we can all see it really ah um, well it didn’t seem very fruitful. So um, we're kinda just here, living here rent free ever since we claimed this place… I actually don’t know who pays the rent.. Maybe Tommy still does um. I Don't know- anyway since I’ve been here for a year and I haven't really looked around in three months, I thought we would go and look around at everything that we once saw, you know?
I must admit the investment of the alcohol from the pub has been the only thing keeping-.. I shouldn't say that, let's not speak about that part. Yeah it turns out that this place, look I haven't been outside in eighty days and I think maybe since I’ve been here for a year I can go back and have a look around at everything. And um as I said I dressed up for the occasion, so um you know… lets see what's changed hmmm?
Anyway let's walk around shall we? Well this didn’t change, we still got mcpuffys here. Hehe, no one noticed my balls sign hehe, no one noticed, I forgot about this, no one noticed I replaced whatever the original one was with balls in hope they wouldn't notice and they didn't. Ahh that's good, I like that. Anyway, there's the duck and Ponk’s tower that seem pretty much the same.
This looks different, this was a hole.. Who are you? Alright? You know we are the only two people on the server right now? (talking to shroud) This basically means we gotta become friends. So.. tell me about yourself.. Sir? Madam? Shroud, alright. Oh Ohhh I stole some of these! Did I ever give them back? Whoops, oh well. Ahh, it's been quiet without him ya know tommy. I’ll be honest, theres been very little to do, with him gone, um, the fuck did ninjas house go? Why does it look like a very small mcdonalds?
Right, this tower, this seems pretty much the same. Does the sewer still exist? Hm oh wait does it not? What ohh no what happened to the sewers? Aw, there was a whole sewer system out there one time and oh wow. Why is there no longer a sewer there? Wait oH OH it is down here!
One of the first things I remember is me tommy and tubbo and quackity, before he even joined and was still in juvy we, hehe, we did a little heist on everyone and we stole the poo machines and stole everything and then we had a little room, and it was here and we stole the phantom membranes. It was a good time, it was a good time, I liked that and then ah there had only been one war. It's crazy to think there's been more, I thought we’d figure it out the first time, you know? It was fun. And we were called the beatles. Either way yeah.
Why the fuck is half of this place beatroots? Why are half of these beetroots and the other half potatoes? Why is it all farm?? Why? Why is it beats? Wait where did gay target go? Why is there just a beacon here? At least there's huts pizza. Employee of the first two days, of dunderbeatlin… the fuck is dunderbeatlin? What's this? Why are there new things? I know it's been eighty days but why?
This is the L’manburg museum, bearing in mind I'm dressed like this I should go see it.
Oh! It's like different things. This is like the community house, okay that's cool and that's the egg.. This is a replica it won't hurt you… oh it doesn't it won't actually hurt you. I guess they remade that shit. What even happened with that thing? I remember it tried to possess me once and then I bathed in the holy water and I was good again. Oh wow it's like a map of the whole server and there's egg gunk. And then and then and then here.. Where am I? Oh… is that lmanburg? Where is lmanburg? Oh wait oh yeah yeah wait I forgot…. Oh…. yeah….. Um….heh yeah….
OH its the lmanburg walls! I remember tearing them down and rebuilding them a lot and the hotdog van! Does it have the declaration in it? No it doesn't… It is blue. Ohhh…… I joined the day after this (the final control room) God, it's been a whole year since then… What's this? Wait… I feel like there's missing lines here. I don’t know if sorry, you know? Oh, look here, oh it just says i'm sorry. (erets apology book) I’m not all that sure that sorry quite cuts that. What's this? Oh this looks unfinished. Oh here's a map of old lmanburg! OH that's ze house! Before… I burnt it down and decided I wasn't gonna have manifold land anymore.. I miss that, I miss lmanburg.
It was a lot easier to dream when we were friends. Everyone feels so distant now but maybe that's because I haven't seen them, maybe that didn't help I mean no one came to say hi to me. Oh, oh, my main takeaway was that, wait it's not glass anymore, it's like a cavern, it was glass the last time I was there, it's changed since I was here to remember what happened… Why does it look like this? Hmm I don't know. Ah this was my cove, and it was untouched until I burnt it down fuck you.
Oh and theres my secret base that I never finished, FUCK YOU - fuck I hate him, anyway… oh there's the big obsidian bridge, oh isn't this where tommy was exiled? Over this way? I think… That means it was somewhere along here that… wait no it was right here… right? We turned on these stairs, stepped down, and pretty sure it was right here… he dug this.. I don’t think I want to visit this place. I want to go back, this isn't really where I want to be.
Anyway um, I wonder if Snowchester has changed. Lets go visit, okay um, that's weird that's freshly planted. Let's head over to Snowchester its that way. Since when was Tubbos' house back? Didn’t Tommy burnt it down? I swear this got burnt down.. I remember the ruins of it, there was a nether tree farm then in it… anyway…. Let's go check out fundys place. I haven't seen him in FOREVER. The last time I saw him was the last war… the day… the last war… WHY ARE THERE BIG MUSEUM THINGS EVERYWHERE??
Where's fundys house? I built it. I remember building it as a prank and then he liked it and lived in it.. Where's my tower? It was here next to the fox, his little fox hole… my towers were gone, it was definitely here, it was a million percent here and it was right next to it. It was somewhere there was a button it had a button. There was a big sign made out of obsidian…
I don’t know if you can tell, but I’ve been pretty purposeless for the past eight days… what the fuck? That's a HOLE. That's a big ass hole! That wasn't always there?! When did a hole show up?? There's a HOLE in my hotel!! I'm trying not to lose my cool and you know when I go the day that I joined, and the first person that greeted me was tommyinnit and still, I wish, I just wish someone logged in and said “hey jack happy one year” and I try to build them a pub and one of these *drinks a swig of alcohol* I mean at least..
Every time….. Everything here and how come it's all the things I care about that get blown up? Lmanburg… Manifold Land- Well I did manifold land but I was pissed off - Everything I care about on this server gets blown up, or destroyed or taken advantage of or.. Betrays me, that happens a lot. I’m not sure if I wanna be here anymore.
I’m not sure if I want to have anything to do with this… maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. What does this place bring? What does this place bring? Ever since I have been part of the “Dream SMP” Things are given to me that are eventually taken or destroyed, friends leave, DEATH, not everyone has died on the server and come back to life admittedly, I have now but the point is, I AM VERY DEFINITE I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS SERVER ANYMORE… Alright? Almost everyone that has promised me something has turned their back. Almost everyone. The last thing anyone said to me was “Ah when las nevadas comes about, we will have a deal jack.. I’ll make it big” Yeahh.. .he really brought a lot of business. How's Las Nevadas doing?? Because when I HEARD it would be done and bring me customers, surely not another person would give me false hope.
Tubbos was the only one I can trust, Tubbo and Niki. I know Niki has become an anarchist or whatever but at least she's happy, and Tubbo was always kind.
I think Las Nevadas is somewhere over here. Let's go look at how “done it is” and how ready for business they are… Looking PRETTY finished for me. Big sign, big building, nice roads. Looking pretty… done. Pretty ready for a business deal. Isn't that a shocker… Isn't it weird yet again that someone promised me something and it fell through again?
So FUCK IT I don’t wana see Snowchester, I dont want to see anything, My WHOLE TIME on this server has been doing things for other people and fighting peoples wars, right? Keeping up hotels and pubs for people to stay, trying to kill people at worst that wasnt me and fighting for them. I haven't done anything for myself. ANYTHING AT ALL. And I said the hotel was for me and look where it got me- in a room for 80 days and a giant bottle of cider I have yet to finish- so fuck it! I’m not dealing with anyone else anymore. The “DREAM SMP” I’m gonna go out and start my own thing. I’m gonna call it the “Dream SSP” survival single player because I’m not dealing with anyone else anymore. Alright?
The day Tommy died, I said I was done with manifold land because the only thing it ever stood for was trying to get rid of him, and although it was also about getting back at him, it was about other people, but this time, I have something new in mind, something completely different…
NEW Manifold land will not cater to anyone else, not fight for anyone else, to I don’t know be anything for anyone else really. New Manifold land will stick very strictly to the name and persist of purely Jack Manifold, and I might steal Godzilla back from Tubbo (his arctic fox). Because as much as I said Niki was kind and Tubbo was kind, where they been the past 80 days? No one came to the hotel. No one came looking for me to which point, I say I’m gonna find myself my own little place. I’m just gonna live. I’m gonna do what I want, the only thing is, I need to find an area of my own, we need to travel. So let's get moving hmm?
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OKAY!! i can FINALLY tell you all i have been working on reopening the Big Innit Hotel ™ with Sam Nook and also have been MOVING HOUSE!!! anyways if you would like a room at the Big Innit Hotel ™ please ask ME!! or Jack Manifold
Hi tommy
ayup king!! sorry for bein' so inactive ive been BUSY!! doing many many awesome things
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deyageka · 4 years ago
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Part 8
Of the Hotel Arc Childinnit AU
Lmao this one took forever
Other parts: ( part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5 // part 6 // part 7 )
While Dream was having his existential crisis, the gang finally start heading off to rescue Tommy…
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Phil, Tubbo, and Karl stay behind. Tubbo and Karl monitor Ranboo just in case he reverts to his enderwalk state, and also because the gang doesn’t want to risk their lives when they confront Dream (since Tubbo has 1 canon life left, and Karl is less experienced in combat). Phil stays behind to work on the reverse de-aging potion. Meanwhile, Ranboo apologizes to Puffy for hurting her and Puffy takes it in stride.
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✨✨✨\(^▽^)/ ✨✨✨
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Ah my precious capitalist family never meant to be in canon 💔
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Ghostbur is fine, don’t worry 😉
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Meanwhile Sapnap and George have their concerns…
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⭐️✨Reunion Time✨ ⭐️
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♥️♥️♥️♥️
Little Tommy’s nickname for Ranboo is Booba which is a reference to this cursed British TV show for toddlers
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TBC
Sidenote: Sorry for those who thought Tommy’s little Dream mask was of anything significant. Maybe in another reiteration of this AU where Dream stayed, that mask would’ve eventually lead to protege!innit as Dream raises Tommy under his wing.
Next part we’ll wrap up some lose ends and finally have Tommy revert back to his original age. Two parts left! 😉
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