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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


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[personal profile] wines 2025-01-07 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The sound Dorian makes is entirely undignified, a weary groan that shifts somewhere in the middle into a real groan at Halsin's touch, his lashes fluttering. ]

You -

[ Dorian musters as much composure as one can have, when a naked man literally has one by the balls. He squints up at Halsin, throwing both arms back around his neck. ]

I'll be yours for the night if you promise not to make any more jokes about my juice.

And, presuming we can leave now, I'd like to find a bed or a sofa for you to fuck me into. [ Not the autopsy tables, if you please. ]
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[personal profile] lightandjoy 2025-01-07 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The laugh that Halsin huffs into Dorian's hair is entirely unrepentant, though he does at least take his hand off his balls, using it to stroke up over his back instead. He drops another kiss, drunk and affectionate, onto Dorian's head and glances around. Some partygoers are already escaping in pairs and clusters, some hurrying out of the room, others clearly embracing their state of undress.

Decision made, Halsin turns his attention back to the man pressed against him.
]

As you wish. [ He doesn't need to duck down very far to hook an arm under Dorian's legs, hoisting him up into his arms with very little apparent effort. Mage collected, he starts for the doors, trying as best he can not to knock anyone over as he makes his way through the crowd.

As he strides across the morgue, he pitches a question down at Dorian:
]

Do you have a preference, my darling? Bed, or sofa?
wines: (pic#17528256)

[personal profile] wines 2025-01-07 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ A soft sound, to go with the swoop of Dorian's stomach as Halsin lifts him into his arms. Dorian's not a small man, being roughly six feet of carefully sculpted muscle, but Halsin's carrying him like he weighs nothing.

Dorian needs to climb him like a tree. ]


Whatever's closest and unoccupied. [ Honest, a touch breathless with his arms around Halsin's neck as he strides out of the operating theatre, already wanting to kiss him again but not willing to risk a fall. He settles for pressing his mouth to Halsin's jaw, a biting little kiss as they go. ]
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[personal profile] lightandjoy 2025-01-09 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He might not have the highest strength stat, but there's an advantage to being a bear most of the time -- Halsin knows how to throw his weight around when he needs to, like when he's carrying a six foot tall man through a crowd. He manages to duck through the door without hitting any part of Dorian on it, then heads out into the hall, murmuring a pleased sound at Dorian's kisses. ]

Well. Let's see what we can find.

[ He kicks open the first door that looks likely -- it turns out to be a study, desk and armchair but nothing that looks adequate. Back to the corridor, Halsin relying on his elvish senses to tell him which rooms are empty. He strides past the doors and paintings and statues, vases full of unseasonable flowers, windows that sometimes suggest they're on the first floor and sometimes higher.

Finally, another door. Halsin gives it a kick, and it bounces open on an empty bedroom, a big wide four-poster in forest green and gold, no scents or signs that it's been claimed by anyone else.
]

Perfect.

[ It's a little cold, but there's a fireplace; in the meantime, Halsin's happy to warm himself with Dorian, heading straight to the bed to drop him down on top of it and following shortly after to lean down and kiss him again like they've never stopped. ]
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[personal profile] wines 2025-01-09 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A bit dizzying, to be princess-carried when you've half a bottle of champagne and several jello shots in you. Dorian's just as happy to be set down on the bed and able to kiss Halsin again from a comfortable surface, but the room is freezing to him, even with the furnace of Halsin's body over his.

Dorian cups Halsin's face with both hands when he pulls back from the kiss, thumbing over his cheekbone, gaze warm as he murmurs, ]


Hold that thought.

[ He gently pushes at Halsin's chest and pulls himself off the bed, only a slight wobble to his gait as he crosses the room to the fireplace.

It may not be the best idea to play with fire while drunk, but that's never stopped Dorian before. He leans down, angling to give Halsin a very deliberate, glorious view of his ass and thighs as he flourishes his hand, sparks igniting from his fingertips and setting the kindling ablaze. ]


Now, where were we?

[ With a sly look as he saunters back toward the bed, stopping at the end and dragging one perfectly manicured nail down Halsin's chest. ]

I believe you were saying something about how you wanted me and only me, tonight. I applaud your taste.
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[personal profile] lightandjoy 2025-01-11 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The loss of Dorian from his arms earns a little murmur of disappointment, but Halsin's smiling as he leans himself up on an elbow on the bed to watch the mage walk naked to the fireplace. He absorbs the sight with pleasure, shamelessly, and enjoys the way Dorian sets himself up for a very good angle as he performs his fire spell on the kindling.

By the time he turns back, Halsin's got one hand idly stroking up and down his cock, getting harder again as he rubs his thumb over the ridge of it, tugging the foreskin down a little as he watches Dorian approach. He hums happily at the manicured nail scraping down his hairy chest, glancing down at Dorian's hand and then back up at his face.
]

Mm. I taste very good. As I hope you will find out.

[ He lets go of himself so he can shift his weight and lie back on the bed, extending a hand for Dorian. ]

Come here.
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[personal profile] wines 2025-01-12 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dorian is more than familiar with the effect he has on other men, but if he's perfectly honest - it's been a long while since anyone's wanted him this openly. Even in the South, far from the painful discretion of Tevinter, Dorian's reputation as the terrible Vint in the Inquisitor's inner circle hasn't fully dissolved. He's flirted harmlessly with Cullen, and he's drunk enough tonight to admit there is something there with Iron Bull that neither of them have acted on, yet. Otherwise, pleasure has felt like a secondary need, tamped down in the interest of putting their efforts toward defeating Corypheus.

Maybe it's the fact that this place doesn't feel quite real - which should ring alarm bells, and does in the light of day - but it's as if there's more room in Dorian for desire, here. Or copious champagne has just unlocked a door he hadn't realized he'd barred tight.

Dorian takes Halsin's warm hand, lets himself be tugged up onto the bed. He drapes himself over Halsin, threading their fingers together and slotting their hips, a shiver of pleasure rolling up his spine as their cocks brush again, his own twitching back to hardness. ]


Should we start there? With me tasting you? [ Breathed, as Dorian brings Halsin's hand to his lips, pressing a kiss to the knuckles. ]

Or did you have something else in mind? So many choices, really.
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[personal profile] lightandjoy 2025-01-12 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For Halsin, pleasure never goes hand-in-hand with shame. Sex is a natural expression of a body's needs, a wonderful way to release tension, to bond, to create life. Its complexities, good and bad, only add to its importance, and to the reverence with which he goes about the act. He feels no need to hide how he feels about Dorian, as honest as any animal or any man at prayer, and as grateful to have it reciprocated.

He laughs softly, fondly, at the other man's reaction as he climbs on top of him, warmed and flattered to earn such a reaction. His thumb brushes gently over the side of Dorian's hand, watching the kiss with heat in his green eyes. His free hand steals back down to Dorian's ass, sliding appreciatively over his skin, giving his cheek a squeeze to encourage him to keep moving.
]

Mm. Perhaps we could taste each other. I should like to lick you open before I fill you. For some, taking me is.. something of a challenge. [ A flicker of mischief. ] And I don't want to hurt you. I would rather you -- [ He slips his hand inwards, stroking a teasing line up the cleft of Dorian's backside with one big blunt finger. ] -- enjoyed yourself.
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[personal profile] wines 2025-01-12 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the sort of challenge I'm happy to meet. [ Dorian gives Halsin's hand a little squeeze, then releases it so he can reach between them and grasp his cock, giving it an exploratory stroke. It fills his hand as he pumps, a healthy flush blooming down his neck and chest as he imagines it inside him.

Dorian angles down for another kiss, open-mouthed and wanting. A soft groan escapes him as he arches his back into Halsin's touch, his cock throbbing with the tease. Exceptionally rare to find a man who's thoughtful before bending Dorian over.

The kiss lingers, then ventures south, Dorian pressing his lips to Halsin's jaw and throat and collarbone. He eases himself down the bed, looking up at Halsin beneath his lashes as he presses his mouth just beneath a nipple, releases the hand on his cock so he can splay fingers over his ribs, sliding up to lightly pinch the other. ]


Let's share our tongues' respective talents, then. [ Murmured as he lowers his gaze before grazing his teeth over Halsin's nipple, followed by the wet pad of his tongue. ]
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[personal profile] lightandjoy 2025-01-15 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As much as he's already enjoying having Dorian in his arms, Halsin is all too happy to release him in order to let his mouth and hands explore. He groans as Dorian's kisses wander down his body, tipping his head back in the pillows and closing his eyes briefly to enjoy it. The attention to his nipples makes his cock twitch, and he's not shy about the noises he makes. ]

Mm. Yes. [ He opens his eyes to look down at Dorian, a slightly drunken grin on his face, warm with pleasure. This is what he loves best, the exploration, the honest desire. He could linger forever here, even without release, and be happy.

Though for the time being, he's got something else in mind. His hand pets fondly over Dorian, touching his cheek, stroking his hair back.
]

As good as that feels, I was thinking perhaps you could turn around and position yourself above me, so we can share each other at the same time. I fear I won't be able to lie here for very long without putting my mouth on you, otherwise.