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Magne Hikiishi ([personal profile] sistermagnetic) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-08-09 09:02 pm

Velvet, Ambrosia, and Silk

Who: Big Sis Magne & anyone 20+
What:
The official opening of the first proper entrepreneurship in Pumpkin Hollow!
When:
Late July and onward
Where:
the newly built, remodeled, and furnished VAS
Warning(s):
General warning for sexually explicit talk pertaining to the job functions of the business. Underage characters will not be able to enter via an enchantment on all entrances that stops them in their tracks. There are no exceptions. (My younger characters aren't allowed in, so neither are yours.)


Pre-opening Staff Party
Perhaps Magne talked it over with you while construction was underway, perhaps you heard about it through the grapevine, perhaps you were pinged thirdhand while looking for a position after newly arriving in town. Either way, if you were invited to come and see the newly-built, elegant multi-story brothel, a couple of nights before she had scheduled the official opening of the business proper, the Madame of this particular business will be throwing a small party to get her workers, friends, and little family together. It's a celebration of good fortune and tenacity. It's also a tour to let those that would be staying on the premises claim their rooms and start to talk over decorating with her.

The main parlor is pristine, with a bar and a few stools stationed around it, with bottles of liquor arranged behind it on sturdy shelves. Purchases from The Limoncello, and supplemental bottles from Erin Peters' collection. There are a few chairs, a few cushions arranged around a low tea table, poofy armchairs and footrests to go with them, loveseats and a couch. Around the walls are a couple of portraits already, one of the Madame herself, with an enchanted magnolia blossom attached to it softly glowing due to her presence in the building. This, she will explain, is the indicator for who is on staff at any given time, bending to the will of the person in the portrait. If they don't want it known that they're in the building, it won't show. First and foremost, it is to tell patrons who is available on staff. Hers is to let them all know when she is there. It will almost certainly be permanently lit. She will always be there for them.

There is a kitchen off the main parlor, specifically that that had come with the front of house that was originally just a normal two-storey home that Magne had built her business onto. It's not only functional, but now supporting the production of light foods for the gathering, with more supplies due to come in in the next couple of days. She had asked Max Maximum to be there a bit earlier than the rest to help her prepare for it all, knowing that he would want to be part of the hospitality for the event.

Everybody under her employ, regardless of position, would be walked through the rules and the security measures. Nobody would be in danger, so long as this was her business. Not if she could help it.

If Magne spots you on your own when you're in attendance, she will come and say hello. You may be the recipient of a big, squeezy hug and a "Hello darling!". Maybe even a kiss on the cheek. Sorry not sorry about lipstick smudges.

The Grand Opening
The wards are set. The rules are in place. A list of names is available with their own flowers beside them in place of the eventual portraits that will line the walls of the front of house. The curtains are drawn and the lights are soft and a radio plays softly from the shelves behind the bar. Everything is warm and inviting, and Magne? Magne is beaming. Her business is officially open.

"It's really happening," she says to herself, not for the first time since the construction was completed. She stands at the end of the bar, her hands clasped around one another mostly hidden by the wide sleeves of the kimono that she had had designed by committee to fit her, deep red with pink and gold embroidery of flowers and vines, the sash tied at her back. Her hair is pinned up in neat, elegant rolls and her makeup done subtly, and she looks every part the Madame that she decided she would be.

The rules are pretty standard, all things considered: consent can be recalled at any time. Refunds will only be given if all parties are in agreement that such a thing is called for. Abuse of her employees will be stopped by force if need be, and that will be done by Magne herself. This is not something that you want to happen to you. There will be nobody on the premises under twenty years of age, barring extremely specific gatherings to be announced at a later date. There is no "three strikes" in this building; testing your luck is not something that you will walk away from looking particularly pretty.

Welcome to the Velvet, Ambrosia, and Silk. Whatever your pleasure may be, it will be seen to.

(Well, unless you want something from a vampire, in which case you'll be put into contact with Lord Erik Osborne. They have an agreement.)

The Off Hours
When not at work, Magne can often be found upstairs, in her own personal living space constructed with a soundproof layer between her loft-like home and her business. Her furniture from when she had first acquired the house has been moved up and the remodel has been completed to put in a small tamaya. There are small pencil portraits of the people that she loves framed there, and the little, square-ish figure of one stationed just under his portrait looking somewhat out of place there among the fine wooden shelves. She can be found in front of this every now and then, knelt in proper seiza, offering her fallen friends quiet prayers and updates on the way that things have gone.

There is a door buzzer that can get her attention if you want her downstairs, but some people are welcome to simply come up to see her when they want to. Just step around a curtained corner and pull on a braided silk cord to signal your arrival.
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-16 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
She mumbles, a little sheepishly, “I believe among the words he used was ‘miraculous.’”

Then she adds, “He’s the first person in a couple centuries who makes me feel beautiful.”
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-09-16 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Which is a shame, because you are beautiful. And amazing. And anyone who fails to see that is a fool." He reaches out, brushing fingertips over the cheek of her mask. "May I, kena?"
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-16 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Drelasa takes a moment to think, then answers, “For the sake of the trust and love I have for you, kena, and that which I wish to build with you still… yes, you may.”
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-09-16 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Siebren gives Magne a glance with a mild note of warning to it. Then he gently undoes the bit of cloth wrapped around the back of her head, an once the mask is away, he can tuck an arm gently under her flutes and lifting them out through the hole in her hood. He seems used to handling the tentacle-like appendages, leaning in to kiss one of them before he places Drelasa's mask back in her hands.

"Mijn lied."
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-17 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Despite the unusual physiology, it isn't difficult to read the shyness coming off of her. Her flutes don't emote too different from idle hands, albeit without quite the same range of manual dexterity. She tucks them close to her chest, though they still stay relatively straight... save for one, which has loosely clung to Siebren's hand after the kiss. She lets out an odd, fluttery sound, like someone somehow laughing into an oboe.
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-09-17 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"So as you see, Magne, standard blow jobs are out of the picture for us." This is a joke, and he's clearly not missing them much. His hand on the flute remains gentle, cupping the curve lightly. "Not that they were a preference of mine, even as a younger man."
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
She lets out something between a surprised snort and a giggling trill.
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-09-18 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why, yes, yes I do. In fact, between Emeran, Dutch and English, I am quite the cunning linguist."

He waggles his eyebrows playfully as he says this.
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-18 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She’s doing that thing Siebren knows to be the equivalent of a deep blush.

“I’m not opposed to the idea, but… I think first and foremost, muthsera, I would like to grow more comfortable in being less covered when we are having an intimate moment. I would… I would like to work up to a point where our closeness can unabashedly be skin against skin, so I can know his warmth more directly. Though I would like to know what you think, kena. There’s also a part of me that worries you might be, ah… put off by the bitterness of my chamber doors, so to speak.”
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-09-19 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Drelasa, I'm mostly using humor here to communicate that I'm eager to find how best to bring you pleasure. If simply holding you to my body, my skin against yours, will warm your spirit, I'm good to make that our goal. I just...want you to know how much I love you, and how I won't reject you for who and what you are."

He is easy to please in all this. He just wants her happy.
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-19 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
“In that case… that is what I want, so terribly much. I want to ride the gentle rise and fall of your chest, in a place with good air and clean blankets. No frills, no expectations, no obligations. I want… I want to be Drelasa Veloth, your kena, as comfortably and plainly as I can be. And then, maybe, we will see where we go from there. We might… explore one another, once we become settled and comfortable with one another’s forms.”
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[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2024-09-22 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"I might see about investing in one. That sounds like a wonderful experience."

There's something so delightful about having access to hot, clean water, and it feels so wonderful against her skin. It soothes her own joints, too.