[Round 3, Rest Day] And They Said: Let There Be No Light.

[utopiamods]

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This log is: OPEN
Location: ALL OF CAMPUS
Summary: In a flash of lightning and the deafening roll of thunder, the power goes out across Utopia Academy.

It's early in the morning when it happens, about six o'clock. The clouds were gathering gradually through the night, the rain only getting heavier from the near-constant downpour during the previous week. Lightning crackles across the sky, the water around the academy is violent and the waves are high. And in a particularly loud clap of thunder, what lights were still on go out and the academy is plunged into darkness.

Comments

Re: PLACEHOLDER from when I return!

[veepofchess]

Lelouch had almost passed Kallen before he caught her hair in the corner of his eye. "Kallen," he said, no shortage of urgency in his voice. "The power's out. We're leaving before the security system can get back online. We're going to the harbor." Of course, there was an assumption that she'd be coming with in the way he'd said this.

meanwhile in 1-A

[trollofthree]

Meanwhile, Gino had rolled out of bed after Kallen had found her flashlight and - hearing her hushed conversation with someone out in the storm - switched directions mid-amble and headed into 1-A instead. Something was going down, and Gino was no strategist but this seemed like the kind of chance Lelouch would take to remove obstacles. Putting himself between the ex-emperor and Nunnally was just good sense. He didn't knock. He never had, really, and habit was hard to break even for your ruler when you were in pajamas in the early hours of the morning.

He at least kept his steps quiet as he approached her bed near the window. She had freakishly good hearing, so he didn't have to worry about surprising her.

"You awake?"

Re: meanwhile in 1-A

[forthward]

Nunnally had woken up by the thunder already, and hadn't bothered trying to go back to sleep yet. Instead she was waiting for it to subside a little. Hearing fotsteps wasn't what she expected so she turned around in her bed and found herself face to face with her knight. Though something seemed off.

"Ah... yes, the thunder woke me up. Is something wrong?"

[trollofthree]

"The power's out, if that counts. Nothing else yet." She was still short enough that there was more than enough room on the end of the bed for him to sit, expression and posture relaxed even as he watched the door instead of her face. He could take Lelouch, no problem, but Kallen's loyalties... and the traitor knight was probably with him. He leant back on the bed and glanced at the window in time for the next flash of lightning. "Noisy, huh?"

YOU BRING THIS UPON YOURSELF 8|

[idkmybffxiao]

Another flash of lightning illuminates the sky outside the dorm's window, casting a shadow of a figure across the room that hadn't been there a moment before. Thunder crashes and the window is shoved open in time with the noise, the raining and wind pouring in with that action. It's all very dramatic. It could have even been startling if it hadn't been for the entirely serious declaration that followed:

"GINO! The thing above us is attacking. We need to stop it."

The figure balancing on the window sill? Mei, soaked through and through, not unlike a very wet, very angry little kitten. That only added to the absurdity, but she didn't realize it. She was serious. Serious. She had no idea what the storm was, or the rain, thanks to the game's twisted memory loss, and so she assumed it must be an attack.

How had she found the exact window of the dorm that Gino would be in?

Well, Mei's probably a ninja, so why are you even asking.

[forthward]

Nunnally merely blinked at the newcomer, startled. "We're attacked?"

[trollofthree]

"... I guess she means the sky," Gino managed to work out, after a moment of bemused staring. "Uh, Mei, did you just run here? In the storm?"

He abandoned his post on Nunnally's bed to cross to the open window and peer out, and snagged one of the room's large fluffy towels on the way. So he could drop it over Mei's determined face. Priorities.

[imperceptible]

Coincidentally at that point, Kevin would be struggling past the window, fighting blistering winds and pouring rain. His reason for even leaving the room was completely forgotten at this point. All the blond wanted to do was get to inside so he could stop feeling like he was being stabbed with thousands of tiny knives.

[idkmybffxiao]

"We are!" Under attack, that is, she replied to Nunnally. "It took out the power and-- what? Ran here in the what?" Mei had no idea what Gino was talking about. She had run here in the water falling from the... thing... above. Whatever it was. "Is that what it i--ff."

She struggled with the towel he had dropped over her for a moment and pulled it off of her head. "Giiinoo, I'm seriouuus." Like oh my gaw. Nonetheless, she hops off the windowsill and into the room proper. That left Gino with a clear view of who else was wandering past in the storm!

[forthward]

Nunnally blinked again, and she had the courtesy of hiding her giggle behind a hand, before noticing the person walking past. "Oh... there's someone out there--"

[trollofthree]

"There is?" Gino looked back outside before he fully closed the window, and spotted Kevin.

He brightened. It was a horrible sight. If he'd had a tail, it would have started wagging. The kid looked like a drowned cat, and that meant one thing when the windows to the dorms were this large.

"Rescue!" He called, the only warning Kevin got before he was tugged closer to the window by his nearest arm and then bodily pulled into the room to be deposited on Mei's discarded towel to drip in peace. "There some kind of party going on outside?" The window shut behind him with a snap of the lock.

[imperceptible]

... rescue?

"WHA-!" Was all Kevin got out before he was both yanked and lifted through a window. (A window!?) Landing ass first onto the towel to cough and splutter his indignation, the soaked youth then scowled up at his assaulter. While on one hand he was now finally out of the rain, on the other he was stuck with-

"GINO!" Was all Kevin managed as he hissed like the cat Gino had pictured him as. Quickly slicking back wet bangs and replacing his sunglasses (he'd put them on through sheer force of habit,) the youth's eyes flickered off to the side and noticed two others.

More importantly, two other girls. His frown deepened. "What the heck are you doing?"

[idkmybffxiao]

"Forming a counterattack against the--"

What had Gino called it?

"The sky."

Yes. The child over there wringing water out of her braids just said that. She really did.

[forthward]

"But... it's just raining..." Nunnally wasn't exactly sure what was going on, but she suspected it had to do with memory. "It's not dangerous. Just wet," she smiled a the other girl.

[trollofthree]

Right in one, Nunnally. Gino grinned over at her from where he was retrieving another towel with which he could accost Kevin, and gave her a shrug.

"As long as you're not out in it, right?" This was punctuated with the towel dropping over Kevin's carefully slicked back hair and drying it off, with the added bonus of the rest of the towel muffling any objections the kid might raise. "Anyway, I don't think any of the other guys in this room will care if you two stay here."

He nudged Mei so she'd head towards Nunnally's bed. She was an acceptable second line of defense. Kevin not so much, but he'd do in a pinch. Once he was dry.

[imperceptible]

If Kevin could hear Gino's thoughts, he would have tossed a royal "fuck you too" back at the blond, so it was quite fortunate that he did not possess mind reading powers.

... yet. Or never.

As it was, with his objections successfully muffled under the painful assault on his head (what was it with Gino and his head!?) all Kevin could do was flail uselessly under the rough treatment and try to swat at Gino.

"Gino get the- mmph- hell away from- OW- me!"

[queenscheckmate]

"You'd really think that'd work?" she said reluctantly, following after him. Old habits died hard... real hard.

"They're not going to let us leave."

[veepofchess]

"They don't have the capability to stop us. We have to do this now before the backup power comes back." He continued on his planned path now that Kallen was behind him. He was headed for Nunnally's room next.

[queenscheckmate]

"You honestly think they wouldn't have prepared for something like this? They're not going to let us leave, not that easily. I already tried." So much for washing her face. She might as well have taken a shower outside.

[veepofchess]

"You tried?" He was annoyed that she hadn't told him, but he wondered at the method. "How?"

[queenscheckmate]

Times aren't like before. She doesn't exactly have to report to you, Lelouch.

"The train tracks. Meryl and I kept walking until we were metaphorically hit by a train and then were sent back to where we started."

[veepofchess]

"Metaphorically?" he asked, as he continued toward Nunnally's room.

[queenscheckmate]

"The wind as if it was passing in front of us... or through us."

[veepofchess]

He nodded. "We're trying the harbor. Yes, it's dangerous, but this is the best chance we've had."

[queenscheckmate]

"It's not going to work."