HOTS CLUB I MEAN HOST CLUB

[stay_classy_cat]

Who: "Seth" and Voile and YOU
What: HOST CLUB
Where: AE13, on the bottom floor of the student dorms.
When: future-dated a bit to Thursday, 5/16
Warnings: Sexy Nurses and Contests
Warnings redux: dude tag yourself in

Ring ring...

Hello, it's me again~

How's business, pussycat?

Going very well, thank you for asking. That snafu with the production plant under the church put a bit of a bottleneck on the market, but it's not like that's a bad thing. I've already made plenty from it, so no fur off my back. All the chaos in the city is very entertaining.

Ha ha ha, all the better since everyone's pointing fingers at the school now anyway.

I hope you're just as happy on your end.

It is, isn't it.

Yes, how are they going?

That's still a problem? Ugh. What haven't you tried yet?

What if... what about that thing I found under the school?

Yes, that substance it was leaking. I've never seen anything like it before, let alone from a trophy. You still have the samples, don't you?

Yeah.

Oh good.

That sounds promising already~

Tell you what, since you've been working so hard on this, why not give me the prototypes and let me test them out? I have a few targets in mind.

It's Thursday; Graduation/Prom is still a few weeks off but finals are swiftly approaching the students of Smash Academy. Seth has been a busy bee, if not with unscrupulous activities preparing for said finals, then he has been dutifully making Host Club beautiful. More accurately, him and Voile have worked especially hard on this one to help raise money for those suffering from the drug riots and related violence.

Much like any other Host Club session, AE13 has been transformed into something bright, cheery, and very spring-like. Spring has definitely sprung all over the tables and flowery decor here. Food seems to especially be in surplus this session, with tables lining the borders of the room in a sort of buffet style. It's not just cookies, pastries, fruits, or snacks, but there is an entire table dedicated to those with a sweet tooth. (Most are actually not drugged but if you want to have shenanigans, then by all means go for it.) There are still some items exclusive to a menu that necessitate the need for a host/server. Alternatively, you could tell your host to go get stuff at the buffet for you, that is just as practical.

There's surely something here for everyone... and if not, he'll make it happen. As in, he'll make the servers make it happen.


To get this Host Club kicked off, Seth stands, in all his grandiose attire, and clinks a glass with his fork. "If I could have everyone's attention for a moment, please?" Once he has it, he clears his throat.

"First of all, I'd like to welcome you all to this Host Club. Voile and I worked especially hard on it, so thank you for coming. You should know you're not only supporting our efforts but all generous donations and proceedings will go directly to victims afflicted by these recent strings of cruel violence."

"Did you know it was National Nurse's Week last week? I thought it would only be appropriate then to have this Host Club's theme be that of healing--Healing and appreciation for those who work hard to help others, who don't get enough appreciation for their efforts."

"Like poor Rhys! I swear he'd work himself ragged if he gave himself the chance. He needs our love and support, and, if I may direct your attention to our beautiful, charming hostess Voile," Seth waves his hand in the air and points at her, where a well-choreographed spotlight follows up onto the mini-stage erected in the room. "--really, everyone look, she is absolutely stunning in that dress, give her a big round of applause--She will tell you exactly how you can offer a healing hand."

HOST CLUB:
▷ If you want your character to BE SERVED, just sit them down at any table and start making orders.
▷ If you want your character to SERVE, as in you want to put your character in an embarrassing outfit and serve the people sitting at the tables, go right ahead. There are no OOC sign-ups. This session's Host Club's outfit theme is SEXY NURSE. Take your pick of outfit from conservative and modern to increasingly provocative. If you're a server and can't think of any willing/legit reasons why on earth they would be here in a sexy nurse outfit you can assume Seth more or less forced/tricked/convinced/blackmailed your poor unfortunate character into the act.
▷ ONCE YOU PICK server OR served, your character must to stick with it until this Host Club meeting is done, that is the only rule. No escaping, no sneaking out. Seth will CATCH YOU and make you CLEAN DISHES with a TOOTHBRUSH.

HOST CLUB CONTEST:
▶ If you remember how last year's Student/Faculty Auctions went and how the Pokemon Contests work, this may feel familiar. Your character needs to pay a measly $5 entry fee (which will be a charitable donation to help those involved in drug riot incidents) and then they can enter in any of the contest categories; Coolness, Beauty, Cuteness, Intelligence, and Strength. PERFORM your act of [insert category here] and impress everyone! Get creative, use your Smashing Skills and wow the crowd. If you damage the stage or make a mess, Connor and Flint will probably not be happy with you.
▶ As an audience member, you cast your vote by typing a +1 into your subject title (not unlike the auctions with the dollar amounts). That's it! You can vote as many times as you like, just not for multiple times for the same person in the same category (so no +2's or +3's or +9000's). You can, however, vote for the same person once in each category if they are competing in more than one. You can cast a vote for more than one person per category.
▶ Votes will be tallied up OOCly Thursday or Friday, and we will start a new thread to announce the winner.

Comments

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix had met Gordon in person once or twice - the most notable time being when Phoenix was recovering from the severe beatdown GLaDOS had given him. But they did communicate over the network quite recently, discussing the whole debacle with the drugged candies.

And Gordon seemed like one of the smarter people here on campus. Maybe he was an ally. Phoenix really wanted to trust him, so for now he would, especially when he spotted Gordon eying that candy buffet.

So Phoenix boldly took a seat right across from the physics professor. "So... Have you discovered anything more about the lollipops yet?" Right to the point.

[trustycrowbar]

"...Wish I could say I have. But it occurred to me that if they're going to change hands anywhere, it would be here." He explains quietly, gesturing to the decor, the girls in the clientele, and the sweets around them.

"I'm keeping an eye out, and I've already mentioned it to Conner. He agrees with me and plans to do the same."

He's a little too distracted to consider that Phoenix may not know the custodian-turned-security.

hope you guys love ~thread jack~

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Speaking of which, here comes the guy now.

Connor went to sit next to Gordon. He actually hung around to see what else was going on.

"Gordon, a word...I-"

He gestured over to Phoenix. Oh.

[thewrightidea]

"Connor?" Phoenix didn't know who this guy was, or why he had been kept out of the loop for this kind of thing. (Then again, he was pretty much used to it when he was a lawyer. he always got the short end of the stick.)

But his thought was interrupted when the other young man came to join them.

Was this guy Connor? Probably. It seemed like the kind of coincidence that would befall them.

"Are you Connor?"

[trustycrowbar]

"Hm, serendipitous timing if ever I've seen it. You're right Pheonix, this is Conner; this is the other man who petitioned for relief security alongside myself."

"Connor, this is Phoenix Wright. I think I mentioned him to you earlier."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Connor waited until they were done with the exchange. He stayed quiet. Then he talked.

"It is nice to finally meet you then, Phoenix Wright. I have heard of you. You are also investigating this as well?"

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix nodded curtly at Connor's assumption. "This has been going on for too long," he agreed, "And it needs to stop."

He extended out his hand. "It's nice to meet you too. I hope we can all work to put an end to this."

[trustycrowbar]

Gordon drains the rest of his coffee while the two shake hands.

"...Oh, was there something you wanted to talk about?" He asks Connor at length.

[mohawk_tomahawk]

He did shake that hand. It was only proper. Still weird dealing with strangers sometimes, but this was the proper and kind gesture. He won't say anything but...

...Is that your hair, Wright? IS THAT YOUR HAIR???

He couldn't help but look at it a few times.

That is.

Some hair.

He nodded at that response. He had been here for merely a couple months and he thought it went on for far too long. Well, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Connor looked at Gordon. His question.

"The technology here is still...strange to me," Connor said, feeling like he was shooting in the dark. "Is there a way to test for drugs inside food here?"

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix couldn't help but notice the very long stare directed toward his hair. It... was something he was kind of used to. But man, his hair was perfect, okay. He couldn't help but embellish it by running his hand over the top of it, feeling the soft spikes.

At least it seemed the three of them were on the same page regarding the candy here. By now Phoenix seemed used to the plethora of people who didn't know about modern technology, so it didn't phase him much when Connor mentioned it.

"Oh. Yeah, but I don't know how to do it myself. As far as I know, it's sent to a lab, which could take days or weeks to get results." He frowned at that, knowing that the only way then to test was for one of them to test the lollipops themselves.

[trustycrowbar]

"Weeks?" Gordon looks over at Phoenix. "No wonder we haven't heard anything out of officials if it can be weeks before they get a positive! There's GOT to be a way to speed that up somehow..."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

"I hope there is," Connor said as he emptied whatever pockets he had.

Lollipops, and tons of them. "I tried to scavenge what I could. Perhaps taking other food from the banquet would be ideal as well. But I think...the only way we can see if anything had happened within these walls is if we prove it. Fast."

Any suspects can come naturally, but without proof they were nothing.

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix really should have thought to send away some food for testing a while ago, back when this whole fiasco was just starting. But... it took a while to put a lot of the elements together. The lab element really wasn't something Phoenix did a lot of in his profession, though he did a bit of it at times.

But now... Well, it was apparent that the three of them wanted answers.

"The only thing I can think of right now... is to have one of us ingest the food..." He spoke hesitantly, glancing back and forth between the two. "But... I don't want to force anyone to do that."

[trustycrowbar]

"We shouldn't have to resort to that." Although the idea of animal testing is particularly dubious in a place where the animals can complain about it--or worse yet, ask for more--so he won't go into that.

"If I can analyze the protein that causes the hallucinations, come up with a spectroscopic signature or even a unique chemical reaction to look for, then it would be no problem whatsoever to check these things. Problem is, far as I know no one's even isolated the compound."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Connor stared at the pops as they talked. He understood nothing of what Gordon said. But...Phoenix.

He made sure they both heard them.

"So what do you propose we do? Time is not on our side. This is a worsening situation."

He went through the pops with his hands. Suddenly, he felt desperate for some answers.

"Gordon. If we knew which to examine, could you try to test it? If anything, if we know one of them here was drugged...We just need to know they were here. Then perhaps we could figure out who the supplier was based on who seems suspicious."

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix wasn't a science-y person so he could only get the gist of what Gordon said. But even so, what he understood was that it was some sort of "test," something that could take a while.

"Well... Dr. Freeman, wouldn't that take a while? I mean, these sorts of tests can take hours at the very, very least... More like weeks."

Obviously he'd prefer to just test the foods out than have one of them ingest it, but he wasn't sure what to do.

[trustycrowbar]

"I know spectroscopy. Hell, it was practically all I was DOING over at Black Mesa. If I can get a good spectral signature that I can identify separately from the sucrose compounds, I can shorten the testing time."

He slaps the table gently. "I should have thought of this WEEKS ago! All I need in a confirmed drug specimen, and I'll work on it for as long as it takes!"

But as for more immediate problems...

"But for the moment, we'll have to resort to cruder testing mechanisms I suppose... the question is, who among us will be the guinea pig?"

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Connor looked at them both.

He didn't even need you to ask. He WOULD do something like this and he already decided he would.

"I will. I will injest it."

[thewrightidea]

"No!"

Phoenix immediately piped up when Connor spoke. He didn't even know the guy, but...

"I'm the one who thought of the idea. Let me do it." He would feel too bad making someone else do what he suggested. It was too hard to do.

"I... have experienced these drugs before. Last summer. I accidentally had a blue lollipop and had no idea it was drugged."

[trustycrowbar]

Gordon runs a hand over his face and waves down the conversation. "Alright, alright, kids, you both can share. Problem is, whoever goes first will have to be under observation for an hour after each test. I'll handle that part."

That, and after the biochemical mess his suit's morphine-happy med systems have put him through, he doesn't want to risk taking anything that would even remotely resemble an opiate.

"Phoenix, you said you had a blue one before? How did it affect you?"

[mohawk_tomahawk]

After Gordon spoke, Connor said something else though. "Which is more of a reason why I should. I have not undergone the drugs. No one should have to more than once, if it can be avoided. I am willing to take the risk."

He was gonna fight this, he's like to have less people get affected by it afterall.

"I do not want to see others fall to the drug. The more able hands if one has a reaction the better."

No matter what response, he decided to bring it up if it arose. For now, he listened in on blue pops.

[thewrightidea]

Well, Phoenix wasn't one to use recreational drugs, so it was difficult to really compare the experience of the blue pop to anything.

"No no, Dr. Freeman, only one of us should do it. Let's not expose more people than we have to."

But he sighed, thinking of that experience with the blue lollipop those many months ago. It was something he wanted to forget, frankly, because it made him feel fairly sick after he came down from that trip.

"Well... To be honest, I don't remember a lot of it. But what I do remember... Just..." He rubbed his temples, trying to bring forth the memory and trying not to be embarrassed by it. "I remember that my everyday surroundings seemed so... surreal. Otherwordly. Scary. I remember running away from everything a lot."

[trustycrowbar]

"Two testers mean we split the risk." He counters. Although he's beginning to think that more words would be useless in this situation. He realizes the battle of wills that's beginning to take place here, and figures it would be better to just let them duke it out. In the metaphorical sense, that is.

"...All right, if you two insist."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

...

"Phoenix. I insist you do not take it."

He really meant it. "Besides, you may have sprouted the idea but it was a notion I planted. I am ready for the consequences."

No one, he repeatedly tried to get across, should go through it.

"You know some of the effects and you had lived through it. If I went under, you could use that knowledge and try to subdue me should you need."




Connor's a pretty stubborn mule.

[thewrightidea]

Well... Phoenix had to admit that Connor made a good point. He really didn't want to go through that horrid trip again at all, even though he knew some of the drugs were different. Some were similar to steroids, some were aphrodisiacs, tranquilizers, and the like. But he didn't want any of them, unless it would help others.

"I... I don't want you to have to go through with this, but..." He was tense, gripping the fabric of his pants. "But if you insist, then... I suppose I can't stop you." He loosened his grip, exhaling the rest of his breath. A hard thing for him to say.