[Arrival GP] it’s summer, right?

[st_artliving]

June, Xavin decided, was a puzzling month. It still seemed like spring in some ways, but was very summer already in others. Among the ways that it was summer: less demand for hot drinks. And yes, she could do iced, but that tended to mean hauling ice to her coffee-cart territory and that got old fast.

Since it was arrival day, therefore, she was trying something new. She’d taken over part of the cafe (with a decentish view of the lobby) and set it up with blenders, fruits, and other things. Surely smoothies would be acceptable, and the cafe space meant not having to haul ice.

As a further acknowledgement of probable sun and warmth, Xavin ensured there were obvious stacks of towels near the more usual baskets of things for new arrivals. If there were any newcomers and she’d forgotten something, well... it would probably be all right eventually.

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Aphrodite's Arrival

[st_ellargoddess]

A very startled, very beautiful, but also very scantily clad blonde suddenly appeared in a flourish of golden sparkles. She stood in the lobby and when she realized where she was, her mouth formed a perfect 'O' and she sucked in a deep breath. Her head turned upward and her tone was defiant. "Oh, you are so going to pay for this, Hera. This isn't even fair."

When no response was given - not even some thunder - Aphrodite huffed. "Great." Her eyes turned back to the lobby and she turned around in a complete circle. At least there was a lot of pink.

Aphrodite & Toby

[st_warhammer]

Toby was minding his own business on his way through the lobby. Okay that was a lie, he was minding his own business but it was more a beeline through the lobby to get the yummy bakery goodies that Mrs -uh Mary baked.

He stopped dead in his tracks when a beautiful (though not as beautiful as Darcy because no one was as beautiful as Darcy) woman appeared in sparkles. "WOAH! That is totally cool. Do you travel like that all the time? My friend Thor can travel like that except he doesn't have gold sparkles when he teleports. He should definitely get some though."

Re: Aphrodite & Toby

[st_ellargoddess]

She turned to look at the boy who was not as handsome as she'd have hoped, but the way he looked at her made up for everything. She grinned widely. "Of course. Any other form of travel's for suckers. I mean, don't get me wrong, every girl loves a gold chariot, but I love instant gratification." The goddess winked at the boy who probably didn't get her double entendre. "Are you one of the people stuck here as well?"

Re: Aphrodite & Toby

[st_warhammer]

"Yep." He stood a little taller, which meant he was probably 5'3" instead of 5'2". "I'm Toby Domzalski and you're gonna like it here. I mean there is adventure and free food and fun people and free food. Oh and NO DENTIST." Which he thought was the best thing ever, except his braces weren't coming off any time soon, not that they would be in Arcadia either.

Re: Aphrodite & Toby

[st_ellargoddess]

"Free food and adventure." Sounded like something Iolaus would be drawn to by way of advertising. She scrunched her nose. "What about massages, spas, and hot springs. They have any of those here?"

Jason's Arrival

[st_okedformadden]

It was hot. Like, really hot. It sort of felt like Jacksonville, except no cops were chasing him and there were a lot less rats. When he saw the building, he suddenly smiled. His first thought was air conditioning! His second thought was why didn't men grow beards all around their face like cool dude lions.

When he got inside, he looked around. It was so... fancy. He walked in a bit further and saw the towels. Donkey Doug had always taught him clean towels were important so he started stuffing them under his Jacksonville jersey.

Re: Jason's Arrival

[st_accato]

Buffy noticed the new arrival - she assumed anyway since she hadn't seen him before and he seemed to be stock piling towels.

"Hi." She approached with a smile, and motioned toward his hand that had a towel in it. "Uh just so you know, the staff here like to give towels away. I mean a lot. I mean you're probably going to get tired of saying no thanks to the bazillion offers of towels from them."

Re: Jason's Arrival

[st_okedformadden]

He turned, looking pregnant from towels and paused as if to say 'nothing to see here.' When he realized he wasn't about to be yelled at or arrested, he relaxed a little.

"What? Are you kidding me? Towels are the best. You can do so much with them. Like togas and bibs and even capes."

Re: Jason's Arrival

[st_accato]

Buffy hadn't thought of that, they were just towels. Sure she could use it as a toga, but it wasn't something that she'd do. Outside of the spa or shower, anyway.

"Okay, I'll give you that they're versatile, which will actually come in handy when you get tired of wearing the same kind of clothes." Her eyes lit with amusement, "do you normally wear a towel cape?"

Re: Jason's Arrival

[st_okedformadden]

"I will now!" As if to prove it, he wrapped a bright pink one around his neck. He put his hands on his hips and grinned. With the towels stuff in his stomach, he looked like a pregnant superhero. "How dope do I look?"

Janet's Arrival

[st_raightuphottie]

Janet is not sure where she is.

This is unusual for Janet, whose knowledge of the universe and everything in it is requisite for her role as Informational Assistant of the Good Place. Though this is wholey unexpected, Janet is, as always, completely unruffled by the strangeness of this entirely foreign situation.

With a pleasant ding, Janet promptly transports herself to the inn's front desk. She regards the man standing there with a slight quirk of the brow, but feels some strange connection with him.

"Hello," she says to him. He slides a numbered envelope across the table to her. Janet promptly picks it up and turns it around in her hands. This is unusual! When she opens it, she finds that there's a key inside. It is quite easy to deduce what is meant by this.

"Thank you," she says with typical Janet pleasantness. "I have no questions for you."

She promptly vanishes again with her usual ding, then reappears in front of her room with the same chime. She is taking in the sight of her very garishly-decorated door when someone approaches.

Re: Janet's Arrival

[st_illfive]

Five was used to being an oddity, he'd been one (for multiple reasons) his whole life. Being normal would have been the oddity for him, though this bizarre pocket outside of time and history seemed to be forcing some degree of normality on him: no assassinations, no world-ending apocalypses, no insane family (even if he actually missed them a little), and he'd managed to dress in something other than his old Academy uniform... mostly, anyway. Yes jeans, yes sneakers, but also button-down shirts specifically so he could still wear a tie.

Ties were useful weapons.

Anyway, his powers made him an oddity even when nothing else did... right up until he saw a woman appear in front of a door with a gentle ding. A woman without a briefcase, whose power therefore had to be internal to her. He blinked down the hall and surveyed her up close, not thinking to speak until he realized that watching someone watching a door was another oddity. "Hey. Haven't seen you around before."

Re: Janet's Arrival

[st_raightuphottie]

"Hi, Number Five. I'm Janet!" Janet's perpetual cheeriness cuts through the hall. "You haven't seen me before because I just arrived."

Re: Janet's Arrival

[st_illfive]

Five had kind of expected as much, but it was good to have confirmation. Actually kind of disturbing was that she knew him, and he was as sure as he could be that he didn’t know her at all, from any phase of his life. “Good to meet you, Janet.” He was not cheerful. “Where did you come from.”

Re: Janet's Arrival

[st_raightuphottie]

Janet does not find Five's lack of friendliness offputting. "Originally or just now?"

Leo's Arrival

[st_reakdwithgrease]

Dying had sucked. Being resurrected was pretty sweet though. When he and Festus went looking for Calypso, he had been thrilled to find her. Leo had been expecting a much harder time. Of courses, he shouldn't have thought that because clearly the gods had read his mind.

Rescuing Calypso was easy and so was getting her off her island, but then they just kept getting lost. It was tiring, really. The Sea of Monsters was exactly how much fun as it sounded.

Then suddenly Festus, the large bronze dragon carrying Leo and Calypso, was hit by something. Leo hadn't seen it, but he definitely felt it. "Festus?"

Leo felt himself slip. Calypso reached for him, but at the same time Festus dipped the other way. Leo reached desperately for some place to get a hold, but the grease on his hands made things slippery. He made eye contact with Calypso, who looked utterly upset, and then Leo plunged.

Plunged all the way down into the pool of the Madonna Inn. It would have killed a normal person, but Leo was a demigod. It just really, really, really hurt. An emergency drone in Leo's pocket activated and the teenage boy was pulled to the surface as he suddenly had a life preserver around his neck.

Leo and Clarice

[st_rongernow]

Clarice winced slightly when the young kid landed in the water with a splash. That was gonna leave a mark. When he popped back up with a life preserver she went back to drinking her mimosa. Clearly he wasn't going to drown. "You okay, kid?"

Re: Leo and Clarice

[st_reakdwithgrease]

He groaned in response. At least one of his latest inventions worked? After a moment, Leo told himself to move. He had ambrosia in his toolbelt, so he used that as motivation.

He did his best back stroke - Percy would have probably given him a 5 out of 10 for it - and eventually found himself on the edge of the pool. He deflated the life jacket that seemed to disappear back under his shirt as he reached into his belt for a tiny piece of food that sort of looked like Turkish Delight.

He ate it in one piece and his eyes fluttered closed for a moment - that's the stuff. When he opened his eyes, he felt a lot better. He wasn't a hundred percent better, but at least he didn't feel broken all over.

"So, uh.. where am I?" He started to look around.

Re: Leo and Clarice

[st_rongernow]

"Welcome to the Madonna Inn." Clarice said with a raise of her glass in salute. "I'm probably not your typical welcome wagon greeter here." Kudos to the kid for not looking at her odd but then she supposed what's a green eyed Asian mutant compared to landing in a pool in some pocket dimension?

"It's a hotel in a kind of pocket dimension. We're all stuck here so congratulations on joining the team."

Re: Leo and Clarice

[st_reakdwithgrease]

"I'm at a hotel in a pocket dimension?" He rubbed his shoulders. "Wait. This isn't like, Ogygia, is it?" He groaned. "We just left there. I so did not want to find my way back to some unleaveable place."

He looked up in the sky. "Whoever's responsible, can you just... not?" Not that Leo was expecting an answer as he looked back to the woman. "I'm Leo, by the way. Nice hair."

Jason and Janet

[st_okedformadden]

Jason wasn't sure he liked his room. The big bed was nice and the shower was a waterfall, which was cool, but the tv in the room was so small and there was a creepy boy lamp he was certain was staring at him. Jason's first order of business was to turn the lamp to face the wall. His second business was to take all the complimentary towels he stole and get to work.

It was hard building a fort from just towels - he didn't even have a decent couch to help with cushions! When he was done, the fort ended up just being two towels strung between the bed and the small table in his room. Anyone who walked in would clearly see Jason and Jason had to crouch to keep from touching the 'ceiling'.

"This would be more fun with people." Jason pouted. Then he got a brilliant idea. His eyes widened. "Hey, Janet?"

Re: Jason and Janet

[st_raightuphottie]

With a pleasant ding, Janet pops into existence right there in Jason's room. If she is at all surprised at discovering that her companion has also been transported to this very strange place, it does not register on her smiling face.

"Hi, Jason. How can I help you?"

Re: Jason and Janet

[st_okedformadden]

His eyes widened happily. Something in the far back of his mind said something like that shouldn't have worked, but he told that weird voice to shut up because the voice wasn't his real dad.

"Want to join me in my fort?" He grinned. "It's super cool. There's like, two towels." He also had a pile of towels strewn on the floor. He had 'stolen' about a dozen.

Re: Jason and Janet

[st_raightuphottie]

"Certainly." Janet promptly settles down on the floor and crawls underneath Jason's small, impromptu fort.

Re: Jason and Janet

[st_okedformadden]

He grinned. Forts were better with more people for sure.

After a minute of just enjoying being in a fort with a super cool chick, he broke the silence. "Janet? Are we back in the Good Place or the Bad Place? Or is this some sort of new place? Like, uh. The Other Place?"