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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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julian bennet | original | new character / existing player

[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
οΉ₯ α΄€: α΄‘α΄‡ΚŸα΄„α΄α΄α΄‡ ᴛᴏ sα΄€ΚŸα΄›Κ™α΄œΚ€Ι΄α΄›
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[Ignoring the few blacked out one night stands in his life, this is a pretty new situation - waking up somewhere he doesn't recognize, without any inclination of how he got there. He's in clothes that seem dated (or fashionable to 2025 standards as the late 90s and early 00s are all the rage) such as a pullover sweater with a horizontal stripe, baggy jeans and white sneakers. His hair is slicked back from the shower, falling forward when he tilts his head, most notably as he's looking at a painting on the wall of one of the many corridors and trying to see if he can get it to come off easy.

Why? Why not. What the fuck are you looking at?

It doesn't come easy and he doesn't have a step stool to get it down with, so he foregoes the plan and instead sticks his hands in his pockets. Gawkers will get a side eye look, paired with raised brows:]


Take a picture. It'll last longer.
οΉ₯ Κ™:ɴᴇᴛᴑᴏʀᴋ

[username: jules]
when did cell phones get so flat?
ur also telling me there's no waiting til after 7 to use these things?

οΉ₯ ɴᴏᴛᴇs

[Jules is a witch, part of the universe [personal profile] wicka is from; based in late 1998 and full of mischief. He is gifted with a sigil believed to read pride, is protective of his coven & a bit of a smart ass / troublemaker. He is also a WIP so your help fleshing him out is warmly welcomed!! Reach me at [plurk.com profile] witchpunk if you have any questions!]
dead_tongue: (teehee)

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[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
omg another person from the past! that's so cute!
docmartens: (pic#17637872)

[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
what do you mean "from the past"?
dead_tongue: (what is this hoodie)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
well, I'm from 2024, but here it's only like, 2007. and if you think these phones are high tech you must be from like, the 90s or something ancient
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
no shit

we just were about to hit '99
how do you change the faceplates on these?
dead_tongue: (voila)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
omg no way! I was born in '99!

the what?
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
that's freaky. i was born in '81

the face plate. it comes off so you can customize it?
dead_tongue: (bruh)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
gosh, my parents would be not that much older than you!

oh no they don't do that, sorry.
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[iggy pls]

that's fucking lame
dead_tongue: (gosh)

[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry :(

so if you're from the 90s you probably like good music! do you like Portishead? The Cranberries? Sinead O'Connor? I like those, my mom had the albums so I heard them a lot growing up.
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, they're okay

i'm more a smashing pumpkins, pearl jam and chili peppers kinda guy
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[personal profile] dead_tongue 2025-02-12 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
oh I know those! that's very cool.

I'm trying to make you feel welcome. :) is it working?
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
you know, people usually start that kinda thing with their name

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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-12 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He would be a lot more relieved to see a familiar face β€” someone in familiar clothes, moving and acting the way he remembers β€” but it wouldn't be the first time he'd done that, only to have them look at him and treat him as anything but familiar. The fact that this guy doesn't give him a hint that he might actually be looking at a friend from home this time leaves Dom guarded, arms crossed, brows pinched with earnest doubt dressed up as skepticism.

Quick, think of something. ]


… What, did you think there was gonna be a secret door behind that?
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, maybe?

[Said dismissively, as he shoots the painting one more glance. It's the kind of thing you see at museums and on class trips; a far cry from any 'artwork' he ever saw hanging at home. Trailer parks don't get that kind of glitz. He moves on, picking up a fancy ornate bowl from a ledge, looking over with a sudden smirk. He tosses the little piece of china toward Dom quickly, an underhand throw:]

Quick, Choi. Don't drop it.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-12 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's like a button's been pressed, between catching the sudden target and hearing his name β€” his last name, that Jules specifically uses. So it's definitely him. Straightening his back, bowl in his hands, a smile creeps on Dom's lips, annoyed and relieved. ]

… ass. When did you get here?
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Bitch.

[Retorted playfully, without any particular bite - he might be a bit of a jerk to some, but he treats his coven like the family he never had; and brothers will be brothers, right? So Jules might have sticky fingers - he's gotta help provide for the fam.]

Woke up here this morning. What the fuck is this place? It's insane.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-12 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Stepping closer, he hands the bowl back to him. A little too hard, just to prove a point. ]

I don't know, it's this fucking huge mansion with magic. I've been stuck here since December. It's 2007, by the way.
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
But it is December...

[Time skips are new - he frowns, pulling out the device and looking at it; the date on it reads what Dom said, but he was discounting that as being bullshit. It's also a fucking brick? Weird to say, considering Nokias were all he knew, but still. He furrows his brow, chucking the bowl onto a lounge chair to be somebody else's problem - he'll find something nicer to be an ashtray.]

Fucking with time's not good. You don't remember being home, like last week? That's when I saw you last. Sucking face with your boyfriend.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Not anymore, it isn't.

[ He pulls out his own phone, about to talk about the devices, and then... ah. ]

Oh. Uh. Yeah, about that. They're not just fucking with time. [ A pause, frowning. Cringing a little bit. ] Teddie's here, but he's not... the Teddie we know.
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-12 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean he's not the one we know?

[A little more attentive - alert to that, shooting Dom a side eye.]

What's different?
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-13 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
He kinda looks different, for one. He's using magic to change his eyes n' shit. [ Before Jules says anything, ] He comes from a different world, which is even more in the future. And he had no clue who I was.

So… yeah. It's time and alternate realities. I wasn't sure you were really you just now.
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-13 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
So if he's a different version of himself, where're we?

[The coven. The boyfriend. The whole set up - if we're talking alternative timelines, where's the crew? Because if they don't exist there, who's to say this is really Teddie; he's not sure he likes that thought but hey, he's not going to step on Dom's toes if thinking this is real's good enough for him. So long as it doesn't fuck up their business.

He waves his hand.]


Whatever. How've you been handling shit here? You know.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-02-15 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
We aren't. [ A shrug, then he shakes his head. Not something he likes to say out loud, not something he's allowed himself to think about, which is why the dismissive wave is welcome. Then there's a furtive look around them. Not that he's felt anyone else's heartbeat, but still β€” Dom lowers his voice. ]

I haven't. I mean β€” we're trying to set up some wards before the next full moon comes, but… yeah. Last time I just ran out there.

[ And killed a bunch of animals. Possibly a woman. He can't be sure anymore. ]
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[personal profile] docmartens 2025-02-15 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Wards.

[Not a bad start - but they're going to need a back up plan, especially if Dom's been running loose already. Julian chews on his thumb nail, thoughtfully staring off to the side before he seems to stir back to reality. They'll deal with that. With or without this apparently fake Teddie that he doesn't quite trust. (Dom's heartstrings might strangle him, is Julian's worry.)]

We'll workshop it. I can manhandle you if it comes to it.

[He's been getting good with using magic to fortify his fighting. Does he stand a chance against Dom as a werewolf? Who knows. But if the usual route isn't working, he'll do what he has to to make sure Dom's safe. And his secret is too.]

Anyone else half trustworthy here? If we need 'em.

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