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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] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ken blinks at him again. "You're kind of weird."

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, weird.

Weird... We..ird? A small pause. Registration. Ah, yes, weird.

"H... hey!" And Teddie's flailing at that comment, puffing his chest out slightly. "I'll have you know, I'm charming! Not... weird!"

[identity profile] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"But you're dressed like a store mascot. Is it a part-time job?" ... Oh, Ken. Such a kind, understanding, unassuming child...

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
A store mascot. Well, Ken had it half-right--but half-right wasn't 'right', so Teddie gives a little shake of the head. Which, really, was more like his entire body moving.

"I use it for a part-time job, but it's not really just for my part-time job," clear as always, Teddie, but he continues regardless. "I told you, it's my second skin!"

[identity profile] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ken stares a moment longer before impulsively tugging on the ears to see if Teddie's head comes off. He wants a straight answer, damnit.

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"H-hey, what are you--"

But before Teddie can finish that sentence, Ken successfully disarms the top of the bear. The head comes clean off with a simple 'pop!', which nearly causes Teddie to fall unto the floor again, though he waves his arms for balance and saves himself just in time. When all is still, from the darkness, there is a blond head inside, bundled in a scarf. A blond head whose expression is, currently, a rather shocked looking one.

"How rude!" and that surprised face morphs into an.. angry looking one, which, really, doesn't look all that threatening and actually quite ridiculous. "You've popped my head clean off!"

[identity profile] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
"... It's not a second skin! You're just a person in a bear suit!" There's a beat. "How do the ears move?"

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I told you it's a second skin! And you can't have a second skin without a first skin, and this is my first skin!" And now Teddie's reaching for the bear head, though his attempts to do so only result in one: tripping over the bottom half of his suit, and two: falling right back unto the floor.

"The ears move just like everything else about me moves. They're a part of me."

[identity profile] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah--! Sorry, I didn't mean--!" Ken won't let him fall, catching him before he loses his balance completely and handing him his head. He stares at Teddie for a good minute. "I'm Ken."

[identity profile] usedrawr.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Saved from an untimely death, Teddie rises, taking the bear head carefully. "It's okay," he says, his upper-half-of-the-bear-suit still clutched between two hands. "But, what I said was completely true, you know."

And, when the boy introduces himself, Teddie takes one hand off his head to outstretch a hand in Ken's direction. It's... human looking, surprisingly, and not filled with blue-velvety fur at all. What a shock. "Beary pleased to make your acquaintance, Ken!"

[identity profile] usedrage.livejournal.com 2010-12-20 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
With only minor hesitation, he takes the hand. "Yours, too, Teddie-san."