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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] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Why yes, that fort did look particularly cozy. So it is there that Teddie heads to, his arms a-waving. The light was helping him, but the lenses of his bear-suit still left him slightly blind.

So, please excuse him when a little bear body goes 'thump' right against one of the walls of the pillow fort.

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
"O-oops."

And, if Heather squints hard enough, she might see the shadowy figure of a bear. A rather familiar bear, actually--and for a moment Teddie stares right back. Before his lensy-eyes widen.

"Um. Sorry--" he stares some more. It's that girl who said she'd take his lunch money.

... But he didn't have any with him.

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
That certain mascot is really creepy. I mean, back to the situation at hand. The tone of Heather's voice goes completely unnoticed to our little bear, whom gives a cheerful little wave to the once-shocked looking Heather.

"Teddie! I'm Teddie!" he says almost immediately, because who really wants to be called BEAR GUY. He waddles closer to Heather, by just a couple of steps, still squinting into the dark. "And you're Lunch-Money girl!"

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Teddie, once again, remains blissfully ignorant to the displeased reactions of one Heather Mason ie Lunch Money Girl. Luckily, however, he does not decide to move closer--saving her the trouble of walking away, and probably saving himself... well, more misunderstandings.

"I just got here from Violet a couple of days ago," Teddie explains, completely missing the point.

Outer-space might not be too far off.

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep!" The creepy bear smiles as he says this, because apparently being oblivious was one of his stronger traits, "Sorry, I didn't bring any lunch money."

And this is when Teddie gets EVEN CLOSER to the fort, looking curiously at its walls. Having never been near any kind of fine architecture like it, he, naturally, had absolutely no clue what it was.

"Hey, um, what is this, anyway?"

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
.... No weird costumes. Teddie pauses for a moment, hands outstretched to the walls of the fort... The dreams in his mind, of being in a fort with a lady.... ruined. Tarnished. Broken, even.

"W--weird costume!!" Cue the indignant cries. Protest! Protest! "I-it looks really warm in there!"

Another inch closer. Another sad cry. "That's... bearist!"

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, it is!" Bear inching closer. Closer. Now he's as close as he can get to the wall, trying to peek in between the pillow bricks. "How do you get in here, anyway?"

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Secret, huh...? What do I do to know the secret?" Of course, leave it to Teddie to... well, not realize the lameness of that excuse.

Heather may notice the eye of the bear suit through the cracks of the pillowy-wall. And she may notice that, throughout their entire conversation...

It does. not. blink.

"Cause it's really cold out here, and it looks really warm in there."

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Unblinking glass eye. Unblinking. Before Teddie steps backwards, and suddenly his entire bear-face becomes visible from the crack. And he's rubbing his chin thoughtfully...

"Um..."

Obviously, he had no answer for that question. So it's after a bit more thoughtful silence that he lets his hand drop. And, well, he looks quite... crestfallen. Heather. Heather, look at this sad face. The face that would make many cry... The poor, poor bear.

"I dunno any passwords..." A sniff.

And then a sneeze.

i'm sorry this is slow ;;

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-26 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"N-no way. It'll take more than a little chill to get me sick, I'll have you know."

Another sneeze. Truthfully, he was in denial--if Rise found out he was sick, she'd kill him. Or worse... make him take medicine.

"... I'm a healthy bear!"

♥♥♥ ;a;

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
"... C-creepy?!" Now that surprises Teddie. He's quickly approaching the little crack in the fort's walls again, peeking in. Indignant. He's INDIGNANT. Well, no, he's not. Actually, he sounds hurt.

After a small while of peeking in he retracts from peeking in, looking a bit crestfallen. If Heather didn't think creepy mascot characters could get their feelings hurt... well, they can. And this one sounds hurt.

Another silence. And then a quiet: "You think I'm creepy?"