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Heather Mason ([personal profile] foolishwren) wrote in [community profile] route_10652010-12-19 06:47 pm

Cue sax of the yackety variety.

Who: Anyone in the Goldenrod Hotel
Where: The Goldenrod City Hotel
When: Starting at 5:00 PM on December 19th and ending at 4:00 AM on December 20th.
Summary: POWER OUTAGE IN THE GOLDENROD CITY HOTEL. See here for details!
Rating: Probably PG to PG-13.
Log:
A pair of deep, enormous red eyes sat in front of the receptionist and stared, intensely.

The receptionist pursed her lips and frowned, staring back through a pair of horn-rimmed glasses.

Claudy's enormously fluffy feet were reflected neatly on the glossy countertop, as were the wickedly-sharp talons that stuck out of them.

Those were the main things keeping the unfortunate receptionist on duty from shooing the owl Pokemon, although the beak wasn't much of an incentive, either.

"Um... young lady," she said hesitantly, trying to lean around the large bird, her chair creaking. "The lobby is intended to be a space for EVERYBODY..."

"And it still IS a space for everybody," Heather said, unloading a shoulderful of soft, folded blankets onto one of the lobby's sofas and dusting her hands off. Several other blankets had already been partially tied up over the back of the couch and stretched out to attach at the corners to rows of chairs that were painstakingly arranged in aesthetically-pleasing, tunnel-wall-like patterns. There were also the beginnings of several pillow-built barricades, and even some large cardboard boxes standing by on reserve, should the pillows run out before construction was complete. "It's just a COOLER space for everybody."

The receptionist's frown grew and she sighed, rubbing her temples and trying to ignore the Noctowl's unblinking stare. She was fairly certain that it had been placed there SOLELY to distract her from stopping the construction of 'New Lobby'-- and it was doing a fairly good job.

Why did the difficult visitors ALWAYS come downstairs while SHE was on desk duty?

Meanwhile, the wind howled outside, piling snow against the glass doors to the outside and plastering against the windows-- not that there was much to see out there, besides flying snow. It blotted out even the rest of the city's lights, which normally lit up the plaza outside like daylight even after dusk.

"Miss, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to take all that down," she said for the fifth time in the past half-hour, and as usual, she was completely ignored as the scruffy blond girl tied a few more blankets up (with some difficulty due to her bandaged hands).

Biting her lip, she started to stand up.

Maybe if she just went over and started... taking all the blankets down herself--







And then suddenly, there was a low mooooooan of electricity deciding spontaneously that life wasn't worth it anymore and turning itself off.

The lights went out.

Silence reigned in the lobby.




.... for about five seconds.


"Oh my goodness..."

"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED--"

"/OLD WOMAN OWL SCREAM"




[Feel free to make your own threads! They can be down in the lobby, they can be up in the rooms, they can be anywhere! Is your character in the bathroom plucking their eyebrows when the lights go out? WE WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT, SO GO FOR IT. Are they falling down the stairs? POST THAT SHIT.]

[Threadhopping/jacking is totally encouraged, so TAG AROUND TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT, MY DUDES. If your own thread isn't getting replies right away, go ahead and jump in somewhere else! Look out for other characters in the same areas as yours-- lobby, hallways, staircases, etc! Have fun!]

[identity profile] yattagarasu.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Heather!" croaked the ABOMINABLE SNOW-PERSON, reaching out to snag her with slushy arms and-- oh wait, this one had gloves. Gloves that were soaked through, but definitely belonged on the hands of a human being.

This human being revealed herself by sitting up and commencing the masterful... shaking and dislodging snow - possibly hitting Heather and innocent bystanders in the process with globs of slush and ice - until...

Kay, rosy-cheeked and soaked, beamed up at her friend.

[identity profile] yattagarasu.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course I did!" Kay responded instantly-- and somewhat indignantly, at that. It would take a lot more than stinging snow and wind to the face and exposed body parts to keep her down! Especially when she had a bunch of boys (and Badd) to look out for! "It'd be a pretty boring triumphant return if I walked into town dead, wouldn't it?"

The indignation faded almost immediately, though, as she pushed a clump of wet bangs away from her eyes. "Did you miss us?"

[identity profile] yattagarasu.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
HUGS. Also something you didn't get much with the guys (unless it was Johan), and Kay gladly sprang (literally) at the opportunity to hug her friend. Cold and wet as she was, Heather was nice and warm and... well, not fluffy, but two out of three wasn't bad.

"Don't worry! It's our goal to prevent death by boredom, or um-- anything else." Because death in any way, shape, or form was bad, and death by boredom was just plain depressing. "So, fill me in! What'd I miss?"