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π–˜π–†π–‘π–™π–‡π–šπ–—π–“π–™ π–’π–”π–‰π–˜. ([personal profile] saltburntmods) wrote in [community profile] draino2025-01-04 08:00 am
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π“π‡πˆπ’ πˆπ’ 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 β–£ JAN TDM





JANUARY 2025 TDM: IMMORTALITY


Welcome to SALTBURNT, a panfandom smut/thriller game based off the film Saltburn, where characters are encouraged to indulge their deepest desires. The money never runs out and the liquor never stops pouring, so you may as well indulge from the bounty. Of course, things are rarely what they seem, and the manor itself seems to have a consciousness of its own. Throw parties, trash the house, engage in youthful merriment, but remember β€” dangers come out at night, and no one, no matter how rich you are, is safe from demons lurking in the shadows.

Threads can be considered game canon, provided the players agree. Players can also start fresh upon acceptance into the game. In game characters can post to the TDM directly, using Β« NEW CHARACTER/IN GAMEΒ» in the header. There will be a spot below for new characters to link their toplevels for easy access. Alternatively, prompts on the Test Drive can be used for in game logs.







WELCOME TO SALTBURNT


It's the hangover more than the light streaming in through half drawn curtains that wakes you up, your brain rattling in your skull, your mouth dry and cottony, your stomach churning with whatever it is you drank last night. If self preservation is your strong suit, you might turn over in bed and see a few painkillers laid out for you on a silver dish, accompanied by a glass of water. If it isn’t, stay in bed and wallow β€” eventually a maid will be in to tear your curtains open, saying, "Breakfast is served," and scurrying out quietly, invisibly. Breakfast? Maybe it’s normal for you. Maybe it isn’t.

You're drawn from the room, either by the mystery, or an undefinable urge that could be supernatural in origin, or could be your hunger catching up to you. It's almost nostalgic, the walk to the dining room β€” have you been here before? Were you drawn up to this estate in a car? Haven’t you done all this already? Maybe you mosey around a library, maybe you run into your suite mate in your adjoining bathroom. Regardless, seemingly all hallways, covered in priceless artworks and ancient relics from times long past, lead to the dining room, where a comically long table houses the Balfours and their many guests, some who seem just as disgruntled and confused as you. No matter. "Breakfast will be out in a minute," they say. What's that?

EDIT SEPTEMBER 2024: For those who have attended breakfast with the Balfours before, a change in routine might come as a shock, given how rarely they stray from form. However, as of September, the menu has been redone by some guests in the manor. In place of the self-serve style breakfast, there is an elevated menu, including: a self-serve juice bar, with pitchers of various juiced fruit and vegetables, shaved ice, coconut water, green and black tea syrups, potted microherbs, sliced whole berries, and finger limes. There is also, naturally, liquor and champagne available. Guests can make their own drinks, or ask the allocated staff member to serve them one of the "specials" if they're feeling adventurous.

That said, these are world class chefs, so the gold is really in the menu:
THE EGGS

𝐓𝐇𝐄 π‰πŽππ“π˜: one runny boiled egg shelled and recoated in edible gold leaf, seated on a throne of fried bread soldiers, plated with whipped butter and italian parsley.
𝐄𝐆𝐆𝐒 ππ„ππ„πƒπˆπ‚π“: vinegar poached eggs with hollandaise foam on a bed of toasted freekah and baby spinach.
𝐄𝐆𝐆𝐒 π’π‡π€πŠπ€π’π‡πŽπ”πŠπ€: two eggs poached in a ramekin of pureed tomato, served with a crispy grilled cheese cut to dip.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 π’π˜πƒππ„π˜: french omelette with a light cheese filling, topped with crushed potato chips and chives.
πŽπ„π”π…π’ ππ‘πŽπ”πˆπ‹π‹π„π’: fluffy scrambled eggs in brown butter, served on sourdough.
π’ππ€ππˆπ’π‡ 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓: mini-quiche made with caramelized red onions and jamon pata negra ham.
𝐄𝐆𝐆 πŒπ‚π’π€ππƒπ–πˆπ‚π‡: bacon, egg, cheese and sausage breakfast muffin that tastes weirdly like it was made at a popular chain with golden arches.

THE SWEETS

❖ momofuku's "cereal milk" ❖
❖ fette biscottate with a sour cherry jam and peanut floss ❖
❖ a warm cinnamon bun served with a shot of espresso coffee for dipping ❖
❖ a macadamia-marzipan croissant with a wattleseed and burnt-honey filling ❖
❖ poffertjes with a liquid nutella injection ❖


If you want to leave, you’ll have to tell Giles, the housekeeper, who will arrange a car for you that mysteriously, or perhaps suspiciously, never arrives. Unfortunately, confronting Giles about it is near impossible, as he’s as good at being invisible as the rest of the house staff. Of course, there’s no reason why you can’t just walk out. The front gates are easy enough to jump over, even if the walk towards them gives you a strange sense of foreboding, or just outright discomfort, as if the ground itself doesn’t want you to leave. Those more sensitive or fragile might find they can’t make the jump, no matter how physically able, or desperately wanting. Still, a strong person could continue on, over the fence and into the lush English countryside. The feeling doesn’t dissipate, though β€” this sense of wrongness, almost sickness, like a weight on your back. Walk into the evergreen, carry on, but the strongest will make it perhaps a mile or so before the weight of dread and paranoia brings you to your knees, and then to your face, flat in the middle of a dirt road. What were you thinking? Is this really better?

Wake up with a hangover, in a bed, the curtains drawn, the maid saying, "Breakfast is served," before scurrying out. The painkillers are there, just like you remember. In fact, it’s all exactly how you remember, as if you never left an imprint the first time, or any mess you made was cleared away while your back was turned. Walk to the dining room, find everyone there eating away at their breakfast.

"We dress for dinner," says Portia, with a kind, if discerning smile. "Black tie."




8-BALL

CONTENT WARNINGS: drugs, nsfw.

In all 700 (and change!) years of Saltburnt's existence, never has the new year been rung in with anything less than a bang. Similarly, the manor is a bustle of activity in the post-Christmas week, setting up predominately in and around the Operating Theatre. Formally, all guests are welcomed to celebrate on the 31st of December leading into the new year by a fancy, handwritten invitation, delivered individually by Giles. BLACK TIE, the invite says. LET'S MAKE IT A GOOD YEAR, DAWG.

Upon arrival, it's plain to see the Operating Theatre has gotten a glow up since last visited. The amphitheater stairs serve as a dramatic entrance to walk through, the main floor usually designed for holding cadavers for dissection instead replaced with a dance floor. Everything is black, white, and as silver as surgery tools, the room seemingly a great deal larger than when it was last observed β€”Β though, maybe that's your eyes playing tricks on you. Don't worry about it!

Celebrate instead, ringing in the new year with loud, Eurodance music and American rock, bodies dancing together for one last hurrah of 2006. In true Saltburnt fashion, there's a snack spread on the organized operating tables β€”Β Vietnamese spring rolls, glass noodles, Prosecco jello shots to go with the tall flutes of champagne passed around on silver plates. Additionally, there are some silver platters circling the venue full of tall mounds of white, powdery cocaine, already spliced into lines for convenience. The name of the game is indulgence, as ever, getting one's worst habits out of the way to make room for better, healthier choices in the new year.

For the last hour of the year, a mock time ball in the shape of an magic 8-ball is set up in the center of the room, slowly inching up as time ticks down. At 11:59, the ball reaches its zenith, much more rapidly moving the other way as the countdown starts. Once the countdown drops to the 10s, everyone in the room is pairing up in couples (or trios?) to kiss at the strike of midnight, loudly chanting the last five numbers in chanting succession, 3, 2, 1, and happy new year!

Several things happen at once, following your kiss, or the strike of midnight if you're more of a lone wolf. Firstly, everyone's clothes disappear, left completely naked in the theatre. Any fabric they might think to dress themselves in will miraculously disappear once they put it on, and any attempts to escape the room are likewise barred, doors unopenable for the time being. At the same time, the 8-ball which reached the bottom of its stand rolls over, presenting its windowed side to all who look upon it β€”Β and all who look upon it will see one of 20 different instructions.

For a fun game, roll a d20 and see what you get!



































Naturally, the doors only permit you to leave after achieving whatever challenge the 8-ball gave you, where you can run nakedly back to your room and find some clothes, saying goodnight to a wonderful year. Any and all party poopers uninterested in taking part will be let go an hour or so post midnight β€”Β approximately when it stops being funny.






NEW YEAR, NEW ME


CONTENT WARNINGS: homophobia, misogyny, implied grooming, cultural insensitivity.

New year is a time for new beginnings, and it's no surprise that many resolutions involve the bettering of one's self. Exercise and eating healthy are all usual suspects, but what if you could take a little something that did it all for you, effort-free? New Years Resolutions the easy way β€”Β try ReSculpt, an organic supplement using exotic kinds of sea kelp, as provided by Portia's personal life coach SHAMAN LEAF, for making a better you. Fat melts away and wrinkles smooth out, complexions clear and muscles strengthen, all with the help of this miraculous product! Simply apply the topical ointment on yourself, and watch a new and improved you emerge β€” even those of you who wouldn't choose it willingly can take part, as it's stocked in every bathroom, in the shape of an ordinary lotion bottle.

Of course, it doesn't only effect your looks. The road to a better you requires a full makeover, changing you from the inside out. Be the son your father always wanted, or the wife your husband deserves β€” become a better partner, a better housewife, a better soldier, a better friend. Whatever any of that means to you, whether changing your style or the people you're attracted to, this magical lotion seems to clear it up and straighten you out, turn you into a true, decent member of polite upperclass society. Even Portia in the days following New Years appears younger, nearly like a girl in her teens thanks to the power of ReSculpt. On your journey to self-improvement, you might feel inclined to sign up for Shaman Leaf's 12-step guide to proper English behaviors, including lessons in etiquette, fine dining, lovemaking with respectful hands-on accompaniment, and a suggested sizable donation on towards Shaman Leaf's travel fund. All of it concludes in a graduation for the enlistees in the form of a debutante ball.

Not to worry if you didn't take the course β€” all are welcome to witness the caterpillar become the butterfly in this re-introduction to society in one of Saltburnt's many exemplary ballrooms. As opposed to the more carefree party that welcomed in the year, the debutante ball is steeped in the premeditated societal structures of an aristocratic family, everything proper and regal by design, complete with huge, expensive dresses and expertly tailored, starch-collared suits. Luckily, ReSculpt will see to everyone conforming to the expectations of society, without complaint. Unluckily, the side effects seem to kick in at the debutante ball.

Step one: paranoia. Is this who you really are? What happened to the person you were a few days ago? Where did everything that made you who you are go? Dread creeps in, a discordant note, a cold breeze. Step two: touch repulsion. The dances at the ball are all respectful, leaving plenty of room for Jesus, flirty little wrist touches and soft, careful hands β€” and you're disgusted by wanting more, confused by it. Consumed by it? Scared of it. The sick touch of skin on skin is as offensive as it is arousing, like gripping ice cubes in your hand and flinching at the numbing, burning pain. Step three: hallucinations. You turn in a dance and the hand that slips into yours is more bone than flesh. The ballroom itself seems to grow more decayed than decadent, ghosts and horrifying faces spliced between the crowd, all looking at you, angry and disturbed. Is that face looking back at you your own? Can your friends tell you from a doppelgΓ€nger? Who even are you anymore?

And finally, step four: rehab. As it turns out, Shaman Leaf is not actually a good guy. That is, he's not a guy at all but a pΓΊca, here to unleash a humble amount of chaos and then quickly skedaddle while the iron's still hot, escaping with mischievous shapeshifting behaviors through the closest door, galloping to the forest. Though his exit from the premises doesn't clear up the effects of ReSculpt, it's nothing a little week spent very fashionably in rehab can't clear up. Going cold turkey is the only way to remove it from your system β€” and you do want to remove it from your system. A depleting supply will force you into withdrawals regardless, in the form of continued paranoia and hallucinations, acting hot and cold with touch, alternating between your true self and ReSculpt self, fevers, nosebleeds, puking, and blacking out. A good detox for the new year.



DIRECTORY


viver: (201)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-07 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's just you and me tonight.

[ An answer that means nothing. Take his hand, Iggy. ]
dead_tongue: (purdy)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-07 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[He takes Zephir's hand with the one not holding the Ladybird.]

I don't mind if you hurt me.
viver: n (193)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if I believe you.

[ An arm embraces Iggy around the shoulder, walking with him closely. As they approach one of the rooms in the back, Zephir bends down to charm him with a bad omen. ]

I'll make it beautiful this time.

[ Then they head inside. The ladybird leaves them alone. ]
dead_tongue: (purdy)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-07 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Iggy looks terribly sad at that. He hates to be thought of as a liar. It hurts him in some deep way he can't express properly.

He's even sadder to see his little insect friend depart. But he doesn't fuss, just enters the room Zephir's ushering him into.

He looks around as best he can in the dim light. The thud of the party is still audible, like a huge diseased heart.

Iggy turns to face Zephir, stepping closer to tiptoe up for a kiss.]
viver: k (057)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-07 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sadness works just fine β€” such a fragile thing would barely need another push to cry, solving Zephir's little issue immediately. Trouble is simplicity delivers boredom, and the tears he's looking for can't just come from heartbreak. Anything that breaks needs to do so in his grasp.

Zephir crowds him against a table; the weaker the light, the more imposing he seems to become, meeting Iggy for a kiss without delay. Lips locked, he grabs the other man's hand one more time, guiding it to his cock. Zephir is already getting hard, a bead of precome touching Iggy's fingers before another drips after it. ]


This is what you do to me, love.

[ Whispered against his lips, eyes shut, caressing his hair. ]

Just the thought of you in the chapel. The kindness you showed me.

[ Opening that body and closing it back up; fucking him against the altar. The more he thinks about it, the quicker his cock grows to full mast. ]

Let me feel your mouth.
dead_tongue: (ready)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-07 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
You don't love me.

[Whispered back even as he rubs his thumb over the head, smearing precum. His hand slips lower, encircling Zephir's cock and stroking firmly.

Iggy glows when Zephir praises his kindness. That's what he wants - to be kind, and to be thought of as such. It's such an integral part of his self image. So when Zephir makes a request, he's genuinely happy to oblige.

Iggy sinks to his knees and opens his mouth, looking up questioningly before he licks up the underside of Zephir's dick. He does this a few times before taking him into his mouth properly, moaning softly.]
viver: k (065)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Caressing Iggy's hair as he sinks down, Zephir wonders if this is what Sully saw when he met this heartbroken love letter. No, he isn't loved, not in the way he romanticizes the word. Iggy serves a different purpose.

Zephir's eyes flutter shut, lips parted, head angling back slightly. Iggy is expected to take his time licking, mouthing, sucking, and Zephir will do him the kindness of not rushing any of it. ]
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[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-08 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, even though Iggy now knows that Zephir is capable of doing so much damage, it's better this time. Iggy relaxes, tongue and lips lavishing Zephir's cock and balls with attention. His hands either rest on Zephir's thighs, or move to fondle whatever isn't currently in his mouth.

He begins taking him deeper, eyes flicking up to look at Zephir's face when he feels his dick brush his soft palate.]
viver: (256)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-09 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Such a lovely sight when he looks down to see how flushed Iggy is, whether his jaw hurts from parting so wide and for so long, or if he's started to control his breathing yet. Gentle fingers in his hair the whole while, hips unexpectedly slow and patient, perhaps, towards the same man he unceremoniously cut open months ago. ]

You've thought about this, haven't you. Was he here when you imagined it? Could you handle the both of us?
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[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-09 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Iggy makes a sort of 'uhhnnhunhh' noise, the best he can manage in the affirmative while he's sucking dick. His jaw does, in fact, hurt a little, but he's not about to let that stop him. No, he just resumes the back and forth motion of his head, tongue still pressing against hot flesh, fingers stroking Zephir's balls and the soft flesh at the inside of his thighs.

Could he take two men at once? Of course. But two beings, two concepts?

Well. He'd try.]
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[personal profile] viver 2025-01-12 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The depraved noise is driven out of Iggy by Zephir's question, and it drives a snake-like wave of pleasure down his middle. The love letter keeps its hands busy, doesn't let up for a moment, and he imagines it's because he's desperate not to disappoint. The same thing that might drive someone like this monstrous creature away once it stops being fun. ]

That's right. You could.

[ He'd be in pieces once Life and Death were done, but they'd put him back together. Zephir grabs Iggy's hair, sliding in deeper and deeper. ]

Touch yourself.
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[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-12 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Iggy drops a hand to his crotch, fumbling at his dick. It's difficult to get a proper rhythm going when he's far more focused on breathing through his nose as his throat gets fucked. His attempts wind up being erratic and hurried, more like he's flogging his cock than masturbating.

He's not gagging, but his eyes are tearing up of their own accord and he begins to feel suffocated when his nose wants to run. He doesn't try to get away, though, just aims to provide a hot, wet sleeve for Zephir to use.]
viver: n (276)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-15 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ So lovely, so obedient. He'd lament this one belonging to Zephir's beloved Death if he didn't get so much pleasure out of breaking Sullivan's toys. He's been thrusting into that mouth for long enough, leaving it empty when he keeps Iggy's head in place and slips out, bringing him back up to bend over wherever it feels right. That's where he starts to fuck him proper. ]

I'll make it beautiful, love. I promised.

[ Running a hand down his spine, affectionate. ]

Do you know that he collects bones?
dead_tongue: (nude)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-15 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Dazed, Iggy is lifted, turned, entered. The initial discomfort fades by the second thrust.]

No. I didn't know that.

[He closes his eyes. He recognises that he should probably be frightened, but he isn't. He feels wanted now, with Life itself touching his skin.]

Do you want one?
viver: k (199)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-15 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[ He leans closer, kisses Iggy's shoulder. Keeps thrusting. ]

You should give it to him. Make it your offering; not someone else's.
dead_tongue: (drama)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-15 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods, arching back. One of his hands finally encircles his cock properly, tugging with far more purpose than before.

He wants Zephir's hands on him. In him, he realises with a swooning horror.]


Ah. Yes. I. What bone?
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[personal profile] viver 2025-01-18 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Zephir's answer is at the tip of his finger, leaning back to slide it down Iggy's spine gently, slowing down his thrusts. Iggy said one. Zephir didn't. ]

Do you trust me?
dead_tongue: (drama)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[No.]

Yes. Ah. Yes.
viver: k (284)

cw: gore

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-18 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'll ask you to endure one more time.

[ This time, the agony Zephir loves to inflict on him so much cuts the skin along the spine, unfastening flesh in a smooth, thin line. The insides of a body are exposed to Life as if they were his treasure, revealed to him after a long time spent in a safe. Zephir bites his tongue hard enough to split the flesh.

He promised something beautiful. That's what he'll make of these bones, leaning over to let the white blood pour from his tongue onto Iggy's spine. ]
dead_tongue: (harsher)

cw: gore

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-18 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Endure. Iggy can do that. He knows he can, and with that knowledge comes a perverse sort of pride. Little Iggy Melville can endure, and he can do that all on his own with no help from anyone. It's private, his own secret sweet sting.

He doesn't scream, but he makes some sort of noise, a tortured exhalation. Iggy screws his eyes shut and is shocked when a moment later he comes as Zephir's blood splashes over exposed ridges of bone.]
viver: (019)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-19 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ One hand is in Iggy's hair, the other splayed on his stomach, white ichor running down the vertebrae in a constant, lazy stream. Zephir curls his tongue back into his mouth when he's done; bones covered in Life's blood, little tendrils of nature's colors sprout in them, thin and shy, through the crevices, blending in with the joints, the muscles. Like they're a part of this body as much as everything else sealed within the skin Zephir heals with his hand, restoring Iggy to his former self. Almost.

Bringing Iggy up to hug him, nuzzle and kiss his heck, Zephir thrusts and thrusts, pace and intensity growing to chase the climax as his work keeps growing in Iggy's spine. One more snap, then two β€” he comes until he's empty and Iggy is full, keeping them locked and close throughout. ]


Do you know how remarkable you are?

[ He doesn't let go yet, voice lowered to a sweet murmur. ]
dead_tongue: (ghostly)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-19 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Iggy is moved like an oversized doll. Normally he works hard to fuck back whether or not he's come, but not this time. He feels lazy and strange and beautiful, content to receive whatever it is that Zephir deigns to give him.

His head lolls and he brushes his lips over Zephir's cheek.]


No.
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[personal profile] viver 2025-01-19 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He tilts his head into the brush of those lips. Iggy can have what his body seeks. Zephir considers him deserving of it tonight. ]

You carry the proof in you.

[ A soft squeeze. Zephir finally slips free, come pouring between Iggy's cheeks. ]
dead_tongue: (purdy)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-01-20 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Iggy sighs. There's a sense of loss when Zephir pulls away, but his words soothe it. He takes a shaky step and turns, seeking one more proper kiss, one more embrace.]

I can keep it a while, yes?
viver: (310)

[personal profile] viver 2025-01-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's yours.

[ Pulling Iggy into a new embrace, Zephir soothes his question with a kiss. ]

My gift to you.

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