penancememes | TEST DRIVE MEME #11

ARRIVAL

You remember a dream.

Or maybe nightmare is more accurate.

It was full of hellfire nipping at your skin and a sensation of being pulled down no matter how much you struggle or cry for help. There's a voice that feels like it's coming from all around you at once. Contrasting with the nightmare unfolding around you, it's smooth as silk. It makes you want to listen with every bit of attention you can muster in the moment.

"Judgement has come upon you, but not to worry. It can still be undone."

The voice promises you redemption for your sins. It promises you a better life and everything you could ever want, if only you just stop struggling so much.

And so you do.

Everyone wakes up in the same room initially. The room is done up in red with a cushy bed, a window, an old TV in the corner on a desk, and a few Hieronymus Bosch paintings lining the wall. There's a bathroom to clean up in and any belongings will be sat around the room to be gathered later. There's a duffel bag provided for your convenience.

After feeling a sensation of falling or dropping onto the bed, characters wake up feeling like they've just slept for a week. Their body will feel heavy and stiff, they'll have a massive headache at first.

They'll quickly notice the list of their sins written with their blood on a bedside table on an old piece of parchment. This will mean the list is tied to them and can't be changed or tampered with. They'll also receive their device to connect with others and the network. It won't be anything terribly fancy. As a matter of fact, it looks like a very old Blackberry type phone.

Once characters are ready to leave the room, they'll head down long, winding halls. They're dimly lit and ominous feeling. They may encounter fellow sinners or demonic staff that will direct the newcomer down to the lobby to get their actual room key to settle in. They may be pushy, they may border on courteous. It really just depends on the mood of the staff at the time and how they're treated in return. Eventually, everyone comes to stairs that lead downward.

Once down to the lobby, you'll notice the front desk manned by a demon who looks bored out of its mind. To the side of him is the door to the kitchen where guests may help themselves. To the right is a small duty free shop that seems to have a surprisingly normal, expected stock of items. Look around a bit further, there will be a tiny bar tucked in through a corner door. It seems pretty well-stocked and best of all, there's a demonic bartender who seems to know how to mix any drink you can imagine (and a few you can't). Of course there's some seating, bar games, and a jukebox tucked in the corner if you'd rather stay and socialize a bit. There's also a new addition of a karaoke machine.

Please note that all the songs on the jukebox are appropriately hell-themed. Hopefully Sympathy for the Devil is universally loved.

STAND YOUR GROUND

Prompt I

Good news, everybody. Hell seems to be back to its usual slightly miserable temperature outside! It's safe to say that Hell is no longer frozen over and all residents can shed those extra layers if they so choose. As a matter of fact, it may be advisable in certain times when the hotel's air conditioning seems to fail and leaves its guests to roast a bit.

While things are still tense around the hotel with the threat of a demonic cult called The Veiled Order looming in the air, under the delusion that they're the rightful rulers, everyone is very much trying to continue on with life in Hell as usual. The staff demons are scurrying about doing their usual tasks of keeping the hotel clean while trying not to murder any guests for their messes, and Lucifer is announcing a special night at the newly reopened Club Penance that everyone should check out! You know what this means? The incubi and succubi have largely and officially moved back out of the hotel!

Don't worry though, there may be a few stubborn ones that still hang around or come to visit the hotel bar for some fun and games.

If clubbing isn't your thing, then there's guard work to be done at the gates in rotating shifts to keep an eye out for any veiled figures or shenanigans going on. It seems some of the younger demons have taken it upon themselves to dress up and act like a Veiled Order member for fun and laughs... Lucifer has absolutely given his blessing to punish them accordingly.

For those looking for some other things to do while awaiting the first bout of torture and punishment, there's a library, movie theatre, and spa. They may all have questionable elements to them, but everyone should likely make it out in one piece. Most likely.

There also seems to be an oddly empty addition within the gates of Penance. It looks like a pleasant little suburbia with a few empty shops and some abandoned homes. Feel free to go poke around something that looks like it came out of the '50s, but the staff will kindly advise against asking too many of the residents what it's all about or why it's abandoned. It's a bit of a sensitive topic at the moment.

Prompt II

Not everything is uneventful and back to normal. When is it ever? Unfortunately a pest has seemed to somehow invade the hotel from the now abandoned suburbs somehow. Oddly long creatures can be seen scurrying around the hotel being absolute pests. If they're not trying to hide under beds to scare guests, then they're nabbing food from the kitchens and growing even larger and longer somehow.

Or learning to say odd little phrases in cutely demonic voices. It seems they're mostly just mimicking what they hear others say, but eventually they may be able to string together short sentences.

Talk about an absolute hassle! Who wants to deal with that?

Hotel staff will offer rewards in the form of coins to be used at the club later for anyone who will be kind enough to catch these creatures and bring them to the front desk... or just burn them with fire. Basically just get rid of them and the staff will be forever in debt.

Under no circumstances will these creatures be allowed as pets due to their tendency to keep growing and consuming everything around them. Please don't try it, or there may be some dire consequences for whatever poor soul is foolish enough to attempt it. If not from the demons, then from the dumb animal slowly eating them out of house and home.

That said, these long furby-like creatures will be a menace for about a week before they're under control. They will pop up all over the hotel and, if provoked, may start nipping and biting at guests who disturb them. Finding them looming murderously over one's bed at night also isn't out of the question! Pleasant dreams.

It should be noted that other types and breeds may also be found running around for an extra creepy factor.

REACH UP HIGH

Prompt I
Warnings: cutting, blood, torture.

Whether you've been here for months or you're freshly arrived, your demonic overlord expects some participation. You can try and shirk the responsibility, of course. You can bargain your way out of it for a while. But eventually, you may find yourself trapped in a room just off the gym that's been fondly dubbed The Torture Room. It has all manner of equipment in there, along with an iron maiden even.

But don't worry about any of that right now. It probably won't be used.

You can try the door, but even with super human strength or every lock picking skill in the book, you won't be able to open it.

It soon becomes apparent what you're supposed to do soon enough when someone else is eventually shoved in with you. Both of your lists of sins will appear on a table that's been placed in the center of the room with two handy knives. You can choose to guard these or not care at all that they're on display.

"Know that honesty is a good place to start on your road to redemption. Sure, it can be terrifying at first, but that's why you've been given a partner in this journey. Pick up your knives and carve at least one sin into each other's flesh. Help in the journey to be candid with everyone you should meet here!"

The voice echoes all around you again, just like in the nightmare, and once again there's the pull to give in. This voice really does seem like it has your best interests at heart. It's the Devil himself, so you might as well get used to hearing this voice.

"If you need a bit of encouragement, we'll be giving it shortly."

It isn't a lie or idle threat either. The longer you wait to do what's been requested of you, the more shallow cuts that will appear on both of your bodies. Are you really prepared to endure this pain when giving in would be so much easier?

And more than that, are you willing to let another suffer along with you?

Eventually, the cuts will stop if you suffer them long enough, but you'll have failed this challenge and sustained more damage than if you'd just gone along with it. Satan will also be very disappointed in you.

FOLLOW ME DOWN

Prompt I
Warnings: Alcohol and drug abuse, potential non-con/dub-con.

Now that Club Penance has reopened its doors officially, it's time for a proper celebration! Information about the style changes and any additions can be found here. At the hotel, guests will be ushered to go out and enjoy themselves by very enthusiastic staff.

What do you mean, do they just want a night free of sinners? Perish the thought! They love each and every one of them so very much after all.

It's just the club needs to go back to thriving again, that's all!

As extra incentive, there will be additional coins provided for the VIP suite to everyone who will willingly go. More than that, there will also be lingerie and other appealing clothes available for those who intend to check out the main portion of the club. No need to feel under or overdressed!

In the dance portion of the club, patrons will find a live band playing all sorts of familiar songs from across the multiverse (and they may take requests!) Drugs are also being offered freely as much as alcohol. Everything from fruity cocktails to hard liquor are available from servers all around. There will be absolutely zero aphrodisiacs allowed in this portion of the club, and anyone caught trying to have sex will be promptly escorted out and told to go next door.

While there's plenty to do at the dance portion of the building, with the live band playing all sorts of familiar songs from across the multiverse, there's a special theme night going on next door for some participants!

This theme is Promiscuous and Chaste.

That's right. It's a rather simple theme and guests are allowed to take it at face value. Maybe it's just a chance to dress up in some innocent little angel costume or to rock that dominatrix look finally. But this is hell and since when are the demons who run this club ever so transparent?

As the night goes on, some guests will be inexplicably hit with the urge to have sex that just won't stop until they're absolutely exhausted. Urges will be threesomes/moresomes, toys, tentacles, ravishing the unsuspected, and all around questionable choices. Was someone under the impression that they would never ride a machine in public? How cute. The club has a way of undoing all of those inhibitions after all.

The one more tries to resist, the stronger the urges become. The demons of the club will encourage guests to just give in and be a bit shameless for this special night. Male identifying characters may find their need for recovery in between orgasms is diminished, so there's no excuse for anyone to resist the urge towards promiscuity.

On the other end of the spectrum, however, is chaste. This doesn't necessarily come with the urge to remain pure, but guests may find themselves stripped and put in a chastity device of some sort during the night, or just unable to reach their peak no matter how much they fight for it. The succubi will be all too eager to encourage others to not give guests stricken with this uncomfortable predicament the release they plead for, but to take their own instead.

As a matter of fact, the more guests try to fight against it, the more some may start to experience an actual physical pain in response.

Of course if they find someone who does finally give them permission, they may find that whatever is keeping them from getting what they need is released and they can finally have what they want. It's just a matter of finding someone so merciful.

It should be noted that there are those in the club who will find themselves unaffected one way or another and may just enjoy the night to their heart's content however they please. There are live shows to watch from dancing to kink to full-on sex that one may never have dreamed of ever seeing in their wildest dreams. They also accept guest participation, if that's something they'd be into.

There are also screens set up in certain areas of the club to watch your fellow sinners act out goofy porn if they decided to check out the Fantasy Deck of the VIP room. Don't be shy, now.

If guests prefer more quiet options, then there's plenty of seating and drinks on offer. How guests enjoy the night will be very much up to them!

MISC.
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[ In contrast to Elsa's bright white ensemble is the towering figure of Kylo Ren, in full black - from his deep raven hair, dark cape and boots. Storming around the halls like a caged animal, also trying to get some kind of answer.

An explanation to this. A way out of this place, but not before finding who considers them self in charge of all of it to begin with. His face twists into a scowl at Elsa's question. It's nothing personal, he is just ... eternally angry and none of this is helping him not be angry. Just hours after his freedom from his old Master and now -- this? ]

If I knew the way out I would hardly be still standing here.

[ Physically, the two couldn't have looked different. Whereas she glows, he seems more like an inversion of light. ]

You don't seem to be standing at all.

[ From what she's seen, Kylo has been on a constant move, an animal clawing at walls to escape. ]

Then, you haven't been outside of the hotel either?

[ That's step one. ]

[ Strangely enough, instead of setting his scowl further the comment has his the corners of his lips tilting in perhaps the closest thing to smirk one might see on Kylo's face. But it's gone in a blink and a flash and he's back. ]

Not yet. Since nobody in here has anything useful to say about any of all this... maybe someone out there knows better.

[ Hell, they say. Every place has a way out if you look hard enough. ]

I have a sister who would say two minds work better together than one can work alone.

[ Anna and Elsa are very different. While Anna would have delivered the line in a way that created hype and enthusiasm, Elsa's delivery is softer though it sounds a bit more like fact than hope.

Anna would also want to know why Elsa is willing to do that now instead of when they were together, but people change. ]

I want to find a way out, too. A way home.

TEST DRIVE MEME #11

i. two disney princesses meet in hell

what better place to meet?

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