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[the power is off

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[HEY DUDES I'M BLIND

You are welcome to run into Toph as she walks down the hall in the dark like nothing has happened]

[Kaneis was sitting on his couch reading when the power suddenly went out. That causes him to be a bit startled but he'll glance around without really moving]

[Finally calling out hesitantly]

Allen...? Did you try to eat something you weren't supposed to?

[A pause and oh, no response? He didn't hear Allen's body thud to the ground dead- so he's gonna assume he's out.]

[Welp.]

Edited 2013-04-20 22:36 (UTC)

[AND THEN SUDDENLY

with a violent shudder, the elevator comes to an abrupt halt between floors, at the same moment every light blinks off. Is it supposed to do that.

Allen's pretty sure it isn't, oh my god. He clutches the railing and stares unseeing at the panel where the buttons had been lit up a second ago.]

Wh— what happened!

[HELP...

Who else is stuck in here with him?]

[Add one redhead to the stuck count. Kratos had been returning to his room to toss in a couple library books before heading out and doing productive stuff.

Then the elevator stops.

Kratos lets out a fairly annoyed sigh. Just how crappy can his luck be? Shame Allen can't see his face because it looks something like 8| this... Wait, that's pretty normal, actually.]

By the looks of it, either the elevator malfunctioned or the power went out.

[When the power went out, it certainly had been a surprise. Surprises of this sort are nice, in Lacie's opinion. Something completely unexpected makes a day more fun! She's putting full use of this surprise and walking around blindly in the dark.

Little to no noise comes from her end. It would ruin the surprise for anyone close by if they heard someone else approaching, after all. Ruining surprises simply isn't nice! The probability of Lacie running into someone? 100%.]

Other than the murmur of surprise, there's really no noise for the first few moments of the blackout in the hallway outside Haruto and Nitoh's apartments. Then, from Nitoh's, soounds of stumbling and things falling over can be heard and then the door slamming open.

There's a bumbling banging on the walls as Nitoh finds Haruto's door. At least he hopes it's Haruto's... He bangs on it super hard. "HEY HARUTO! THE POWER'S OUT!!!"

Haruto had been in the midst of pouring coffee, so he's perfectly aware, Nitoh, thank you. Carefully, he sets down the coffee pot, and turns toward the door. "I didn't notice, thanks for telling me," he drawls, loudly.

Then, "door's unlocked."

"You should pay more attention," he chastises, coming through the door and immediately almost knocking something over. He catches whatever it is and puts it back, probably where it's supposed to go? Possibly standing right-side-up? Who knows.

"I thought you might want some company, and I thought I had a flashlight in my bag but it turns out I don't so I just brought me." He feels his way around. "Say somethin' so I can find you."

Haruto doesn't even dignify that with a response, carefully making sure the carafe isn't going to get knocked over when Nitoh inevitably works his way into the kitchen.

"Wish you'd brought the flashlight," Haruto comments; he'd thought about buying one, recently, but he'd eschewed it in favor of another pillow (so he had something to throw at Nitoh, if necessary). "I'm in the kitchen doorway," he says, moving towards it slowly. He has a fairly good sense of how the apartment is laid out, after this long. Enough that he's no tripping all over everything, anyway.

If Nitoh slowed down, he'd probably be able to make his way into the room with no trouble, but he doesn't really feel the need. He knocks over a dirty cup that he probably left on the counter himself and then finds the doorway and puts his hand over Haruto's face, feeling his lips and nose and poking him in the eye a little bit probably.

"Oh there you are," he says, poking Haruto in the cheek with his other hand, pressing his lips together like a fish with his palms. He chuckles, "Found ya."

Haruto groans as he gets the full-face Nitoh treatment, batting uselessly at his hands. "Nitoh," he complains, through the fish mouth. "Stop that," he says, hooking his hands around Nitoh's wrists and pulling. "Good job, you found me in the three-bedroom apartment, and didn't even break anything," like his own face, most prominently. Thankfully neither he nor Adam were terribly interested in things like vases, because if they were they'd never survive. He wonders if Pops still had a store after Nitoh got too excited.

[The surprise is completely and utterly ruined by a girl who can glow. Her face and bare arms cast a white light all around her, and she sees Lacie coming, turns to face her.]

Are you lost?

[An undead girl haunts the halls. Her skin glows white and she's dressed to accentuate this: Her arms and one shoulder bare, hem quite a few inches above her ankles, with flats traded for boots practical in Exsilium's eternal rain.

She's looking for people in need of light, but sometimes she just texts them. You know, something like--]

Would Todays Events Make This A Better Or Worse Checkup Time

[Or:]

I Take Conditions Like These Arent Exactly Good For Our DVD Player

[Or to Painwheel in particular:]

Is There Anything You Need Help With

He pulls his hands back when the slapping begins. "Hey, hey, I'm here to help. Oh, wait, wait a second! I think..." he backs away for a minute. "I think I got something that might help."

There's a sudden audible shout of DRIVER ON! from the belt. "I'm gonna transform and check something... Watch out for the glare." He does his slow transsssssform! and the suit flashes golden in the darkness for a moment, probably blinding anyone present and lighting up under the door.

When the light fades, he grins under the mask. "Thought so! I can see in this thing!" he gestures to his mask, not thinking about the fact that Haruto can't see him. "I guess cos lions can see in the dark? Whatever!" He positions himself in front of Haruto, kind of amused by the obvious blindness on his face. "I can be your guide dog or whatever!"

( HAHAH OOPS.

not that oz is admitting to anything at all. he can be found in the hallways, using his tablet as a faint source of light in the absence of any other. )

"That's not helping, that's manhandling," Haruto grumbles under his breath, which is better than the week before as far as Nitoh's ego might be concerned.

"Are you--" of course he was. He winces against the light, lifting the back of one of his hands to his forehead so he doesn't completely ruin any gain of night vision, and when the sound and light show ends, he's still like that.

"Aren't you a cat?" he asks, "like, a lion?" Accuracy was important! There's a smile playing at his face, though. "You could just finish pouring my coffee. I might just hang out on the couch for a while, see if the power comes back on." Thankfully, of course, the weather here is just warm enough that hanging around in his coat will cover things.

[Dirk happens to be silently haunting the halls in the opposite direction, relying on his hand on the wall and his ears to find his way. He sees Kanaya's glow up ahead when he turns a corner and then pulls his hand from the wall as he approaches her, now able to see better.]

So your glowworm talent's pretty useful at times like this.

[His voice surprises her; she hadn't heard it for almost three months, and her glow widens with curiosity before narrowing with calm recognition.] Yeah, I guess it is. For once nobody's asking me if I can stop.

Did this throw a nut-adjustment tool into your plans at all?

[Power went out.

Welp time to use fire magic as a means to move around, apparently. And possibly get out of here and get something else done. So Sol is on his way out of the building, and you might be able to make out the flame that he's currently ignited on his fingertip as he strides along, the shadows from the flame ... well, they may not be giving him the best impression to passerby, even though honestly by this point he really doesn't give a shit.]

[He hasn't been a complete recluse for that time, but he hasn't been Mr. PartyHard either, yet he's glad to see her. He shrugs.]

I'm trying to cut back on obsessive planning anyway.

If anything, it's thrown an anvil on my aloof, antisocial bullshit. Not much to do in the dark by yourself.

Tell that to Gamzee Makara if he ever comes back from his mission. [She's only half-sarcastic. She's gotten worried.]

[His eyebrows raise slightly.] When did he leave?

He nods, and then remembers to say "OK, got it! You take like way too much sugar in your coffee, right?" He walks over to the carafe and pours the rest of the cup.

"Man, that's so boring, though. Why don't we like tell ghost stories or something? Also what's going to happen when you get hungry, huh? I guess I gotta cook when that happens."

I'm not sure when he left because his departure was while I was on a mission of my own, but he's been gone since before I got back on the twenty-fifth.

[Of... March.]

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Unit 1108

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