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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.
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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!]}

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Kay had been looking forward to getting to the hotel and unceremoniously crashing on something warm and fluffy. Warm and fluffy trumped cold and biting anytime, especially when she of the California temperatures had to endure something straight out of Johan's school environment. None of her Pokémon were willing to brave the cold, either, save for Prise the Espeon-- but she'd eventually recalled him. He needed to be nice and warm when she inevitably cuddled with him, after all.

But they'd made it. The whole group, covered in snow, had made the arduous trek from Violet to Goldenrod, and the Yatagarasu's successor stepped into the lobby.

... Just as the lights went out, the shrieking startled her into shrieking and jumping herself, and she tripped over a stray piece of luggage and hit the floor with a speed firefighters would have been proud of.

Well, at least she'd gotten the "unceremoniously crashing" part of her plan down.

--what was that sound? That crashing sound, with the scream added in for effect! With a small whimper, Machi looked to Nightmare. "...Can you take me to that?" he asked his bat, and it replied with a squeak.

So, Machi carefully made his way over, holding onto the leg of his Golbat for guidance. In the dark or not, that sounded bad. As his bat stopped and pulled away slightly, Machi kneeled down. "Are you... okay?" he asked. Honestly, he wasn't good at this sort of thing.

"Ugh..." Kay told the carpet-- oh wait, the speaker was at a higher level than that. With minor effort, she lifted her head. The voice was... familiar, but she couldn't place it quite yet, and her eyes had yet to adjust to the sudden darkness. Well, at least she could answer the question.

"Oh yeah-- I'm used to falling a lot! I bet I could win an award for it by now..."

"...That is bad. Yes," he said, looking down to Kay, before doing something unbelievable...

...Taking off his glasses. With those on, he could see less than he could normally in this darkness. "There is nobody, who should fall a lot. No. Do you require help? Nightmare... can see, in this dark," Machi explained while sitting down (do you know how much of a pain it is to continue kneeling for that long?), though he did have a tiny bit of fear in his voice.

"I'm okay, I promise!" Not that Machi could probably see it, but Kay was all smiles. She finally managed to maneuver herself into a seated position as well and heaved a sigh of relief. Much better. "I've got a few creatures of the night myself, and now that I'm inside, one of them should feel like stretching his wings again."

The lobby briefly lit up, thanks to the jolt of white light that indicated a Pokémon being released-- and sure enough, Byrne the Murkrow made his presence known with a harsh caw as he settled on his trainer's shoulder.

"But thanks," Kay continued cheerfully. "Who's Nightmare?"

---and haha, Kay, guess who you just crashed next to.

When the sudden mass of body slams down onto the floor beside him, Miles - who was already panicking over the fact that he kept seeing Yanni Yogi and his father everywhere - makes the sound of a frightened puppy or something and scrambles away from Kay again. And he'll be staring in her direction, shaking like a leaf.

Pip, on the other hand, who was inside of Miles' jacket, would scramble out and walk over to Kay, licking her (cold) face with that tiny tongue of his because -- hey, he just wants to make sure you're not dead!

Definitely not dead. Just cold. And maybe a little sore. And currently getting her face cleaned by a Growlithe puppy.

That in itself made everything else worth it, earning a shaky laugh from the downed girl as she pushed herself up a little more and rubbed Pip's head reassuringly. "I'm okay, I'm okay... whoa, Miles?"

... Who was staring at her like she'd risen from the dead-- once she could actually make out his expression. That took a few more minutes of staring.

Pip gives Kay a yip! -- Good to see you aren't hurt! -- before he spins around and scampers back over to Miles, who is more or less frozen on the spot. Until Kay says his name, and he seems to snap out of it just a little. He was sure he recognized that vice, especially considering that she was the reason he was down here anyway...

".....Miss Kay?"

"The one and only, no impersonators allowed!" Well, the cold and the blackout definitely hadn't dampened Kay's spirits-- they hadn't even so much as prodded them, if the cheeriness of her tone was any indication. Finally getting to see Miles (even if the one she'd known was taller and much older than her) helped contribute to her happiness, though she wasn't sure why he looked so scared.

"Why are you all the way over there, anyway?"

"I--I--...."

Well, at least he wasn't seeing things anymore, visions of Yanni Yogi strangling his father fading away now that the initial shock of sudden darkness wasn't plaguing him as much. But he's still trembling like a leaf as he shakes his head, still unable to pick himself up off the floor.

But not wanting to worry Kay, he just mutters, "I don't like the dark..."

Well, he had to hope she'll take the excuse.

Yes... and no. The normally nosy and inquisitive Kay Faraday suspected there was more to it than that, but even she knew when it was time to be nosy and when it was time to keep one's nose out of... further nosing. This was one of the latter times, she felt, so she didn't question it.

She did move over to his side, though, plopping down and hauling him into her lap without so much as a warning. She hadn't had too much experience with watching over younger kids, but she remembered how she hadn't liked to be alone when she'd been scared. Even this future prosecutor could have felt the same way.

"It's not so bad," she told him lightly. "Not when you've got company, right?"

Suddenly being hauled on to Kay's lap causes him to flail, surprised and slightly flustered-- but he calms down soon enough, and he's grateful for her tact. Peering up at her, he shakes his head.

"...No, it's not."

"Thought so!" There was no trace of smugness to it, just Kay's usual glee, and she grinned back at him. "Freezing and dark parts aside, it's really good to see you! It was a long, hard road, but we made it in just in time! Just like the Jammin' Ninja did in the third season when Princess Misola got abducted to that snowy country..."

Kay, now was not the time to be reminiscing about musical ninja TV stars.

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There's a generalized howl of despair from within the lobby as the doors open to admit the intrepid travelers-- aaaauugh the heat's slowly seeping out of the building alreadyyyyy don't let more of it ouuuut!

But of course, it's not like the hotel is CLOSED-- so the snow-covered adventurers are admitted entrance into the dark cave of chaos and pillows.

Speaking of pillows, it's a good thing there's so many of them around when Kay comes crashing down to hit the floor. In fact, almost just as this happens, someone is reaching down to pick one of those pillows up, only to find her progress suddenly impeded by the ABOMINABLE SNOW-PERSON lying on the floor.

"Wh-- HEY! What's the big ide-- .... are you okay?"

THAT voice should sound familiar!

... Unfortunately, Heather can't see it's Kay under all that snow!

"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.

W-WHOA--! Heather's first impulse is to jolt backwards as the BLIZZARD BEAST'S arms come grasping for her-- and then she jolts backwards for REAL, unable to help letting out a small shriek as she's pelted with rapidly-melting snow.

"A-ACKPllth-- wh-- ... KAY!"

Her expression of startled disgust is exchanged instantly for a great big beam.

"You survived the trip!"

"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?"

"Well, I dunno... walking into town as a zombie would certainly get a lot of attention."

But then again, maybe not.

Either way, Heather BEAMS and holds her arms out for a hug. WHO CARES 'BOUT SNOW AND SLUSH. Heather HAD missed the trio. Between them being gone, and Otacon and Liquid going out into the snow as well... it had been pretty damn lonely around here.

"You bet I did! This city is boring as HELL without you guys around. I thought I was gonna die. For real."

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?"

There were plenty of fluffy blankets around, so they could make up for Heather's general lack of fluffiness. She definitely had 'nice and warm' down pat, though! ... Well, at least until Kay hugged her.

"Nggeegh!"

THAT SLUSH WAS WAY COLDER AND WETTER THAN SHE EXPECTED but it was okay! ... She'd regret it when the heat continued to fail to come on, though.

"You missed, like, everything."

FOR REAL.

If her hands weren't bandaged, she'd be ticking them off on her fingers.

"First, Joker raided the department store. I'm sure you heard about that. Then there was that weird, uh-- ... whatever the hell it was that happened where we were all apparently asleep for like three days and a bunch of us got warped around..."

As she speaks, she's heading back over to the fort-- which is an IMPRESSIVE CONSTRUCTION, LEMME TELL YOU.

Kay wasn't the only one who had been looking forward to the warmth.

In hindsight, traveling during a blizzard was not really a good idea. It was cold, it was wet, it was windy, and quite frankly Kaito was surprised the group managed to come out of it without frostbite. As much as he was annoyed by the fact that Hakuba, of all people, had to come with them, he had to admit Irene the Vulpix had been a lifesaver.

So when the magician and the rest of his traveling group had finally, finally arrived at the Goldenrod Inn, his thoughts were similar to Kay's: he wanted to curl up into the sheets of his bed and never come out again.

It was quite natural of him to feel irritated and frustrated when the lights flickered out as soon as he walked into the door, and he let out a curse as soon as the five-second window of silence ended and was filled with the shrieks of other inn citizens. Kay's shrieking in particular took him off-guard, and he reached out to grab her in the dark... only to somehow manage to get himself caught up in her fall (most likely because his eyes hadn't adjusted yet and he couldn't see what he was doing) and pulled down onto the ground with her.

... so much for hoping he would have time to rest when he reached the big city.

TIMBEEEEEEEEER.

Hitting the floor was one thing.

Hitting the floor with your magician and fellow thief using you as a landing cushion was... also one thing, but it had the additional bonus of hurting more. Not that Kay could manage much more than a garbled series of noises (one of which might have been "OW"), but she was sure that the meaning came across quite clearly. At the very least, they'd made it inside, but since when had stepping into a hotel lobby become such a monumental adventure?

What an adventure.

"OW!"

Kaito's cry of pain was much more audible than Kay's, though his fall probably hurt less considering he had a Yatagarasu between him and the floor. As soon as he could move again, he quickly rolled away, one eye squinted shut as he rubbed his forehead where he had collided with the floor.

"... welcome to Goldenrod," the magician eventually grumbled as he searched for Kay in the dark so he could help her up, "You okay?"

"I think I can add 'being a floor pillow' to my list of life experiences," came the thief's own half-hearted grumble, even as she fumbled about and caught hold of Kaito's just as frigid hand. "But everything's so numb I can't really feel the floor, anyway."

This seemed to amuse her, and Kay finally shifted somewhat upright. "But we made it, Kaito!"

"Do you feel enlightened now that you know what a floor pillow feels like?" Kaito asked teasingly as he pulled her to her feet. He was still shivering (and was still wet) from their adventure in the snow, but even if the lights had gone off and the room was getting cooler, it was much warmer in here than it was outside.

"Thankfully," he said to her second statement, sounding a bit relieved as he did so, "I'm surprised I still have all of my limbs. That's the last time I travel in a blizzard. Ever."

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I WILL BE SLOW

WELL THESE TWO HAVE HAD TO MEET FOR AGES

YEEEES

VERY YES

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THAT SHOULD BE FINE <3

Kay is apparently collecting little AA boys today

A lot of people on Route are collecting little boys. :|a

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IT'S OKAY I'LL BE SLOW TOO

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AS WILL I

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