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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!]
exeggutorhead: (oshi--)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2010-12-20 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh hell, and now that they'd finally gotten back to civilization, the power goes out. Fortunately Envy was more experienced with such things than either of his companions, since this happened sometimes during the winter at Central headquarters. Didn't make it any less frustrating though.

"The power went out," he replied to Miguel's question as he groped around in the dark for someone or something to get his bearings. He managed to find somebody's back, and grabbed onto it before feeling around for their arm. Judging by the clothes, probably Tulio. Of course, he wound up trying to get the same arm ...Miguel? had, and quickly moved to the other.

"I vote we stay here anyway." No more outside in the dark in a snowstorm.
greatbigrock: (plan1)

[personal profile] greatbigrock 2010-12-20 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
He'd ask what the hell kind of power Envy's talking about, but he's busy thinking frantically about this. Yeah, cause there's no way in hell they'd leave now, that's for sure. Not now when he's experienced what that, uuh, snow is. Snow and cold isn't good for you. Especially when you're from the medieval warm period.

And as he slowly got used to the darkness, he found it wasn't so bad. It's not like he hadn't been out at night before - night without magical fires, mind you, where darkness is a thing to count on. Tulio'd learnt to like darkness, really, because of the cover--

........ wait. Heeeeeey this might just be useful.

Hang on guys while he'll shrug both of your hands off his arms and instead sling said arms around your shoulders to do a huddle-thing and whisper with a conspiratory I-HAVE-A-PLAN air about him.

"Guys, guys - we can use this. It's dark, right? It's natural cover. We just ... steal as much as we want, and as long as we keep a low profile, no one will know."

Speaking faster now, he's grinning at them both in the darkness, even if he's naturally standing a bit closer to Miguel.

"Even if they catch us doing it, they won't know it's us! It's perfect!"

[identity profile] thattrail.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Getting used to the darkness now, Miguel can almost distinguish their faces... at least he can see their shapes. Tulio's tall onr and Envy's palmtree-shaped one.

And then Tulio's arm comes up his shoulder. It always feels good when he does that, cause it always means Tulio has a plan. It would be even better if Envy wasn't with them in this conspiratory circle-thing, but oh well, what do.

"Yess Tulio that is perfect!" An agreeing grin spread on Miguel's face, yes, finally! Back in their true element: a moderately warm place with lots of people to steal from, as opposed to biting cold and this horrible horrible snow thing. Maybe they don't have any money to take in on an inn (yet) but that doesn't stop them from loitering around here and steal everyone's money! Yes!

"It'd be best if we split up for this one.. Or do you have something else bigger in mind?"
exeggutorhead: (smirk)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2010-12-20 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Envy leaned closer to listen to whatever plan Tulio would come up with, grinning some himself. Finally, some actual excitement and something to do after all that traveling. And not only was it something to do, it was something easy. And maybe if they got enough out of this, they could actually afford rooms here for themselves!

"The power might be gone all night, we'll have plenty of time for both."
greatbigrock: (smile)

[personal profile] greatbigrock 2010-12-20 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I think we should split and meet here later."

He's totally excited. Are you excited? He's excited. He's got a plan, that's why he's excited - and it might not show overly, but as soon as he's got a purpose again, that surlyness about him seems to disappear, at least for a while.

"We split whatever we get. And we meet before we go up and check the rooms. There's gotta be stuff in the rooms."

Oh and-

"Just remember to lay low."

-you can't not get that reprimand.

FUCKYEAH TULIO VEGA REFERECE

[identity profile] thattrail.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
And off they where. They didn't have to mention a specific time when they would reunite.. they would see and notice, and they would be proffessional and they would be subtle.
So then they headed off, each of them in a different direction. For Miguel, that meant strolling closer to the receptionist counter, where upset and frightened people where trying to get some answers. Perfect targets.

[ooc: that's all for this one? let's go thread hopping 8D]