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

[utopiamods]

Characters: ALL
Format: ANY
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

Red 1-A

[allurprincess]

For once, Sora hadn't gone for her morning run. Rest days were days for rest, right? She deserved to sleep in. And Suzaku wasn't feeling up to training, after Euphie... well. Yuki's bed was empty to remind her of that. Hiyo and Reiko's too. She would have gone running to work out her thoughts through action and exercise, but looking outside as the thunder crashed overhead? She'd made the right choice in being lazy.

She stretched, the covers falling away as she sat up properly, and slid out of bed. Speaking of running...

"I hope Utena's okay."

[myblueskies]

Romeo couldn't sleep, he wasn't scared. Of course he wasn't he had been in pleanty of thunderstorms before and at least this time he was warm and dry and not trying to row a boat over a river or face down the Wolf Pack with Alfredo. But still it was so noisy that it had woken him up, everything was dark.

Through the ocasional lightning flash Romeo could see that Fletcher had come into their room in the night and was with his brother. Another flash of light and Romeo saw that Sora was stood up.

"Miss Sora?" He sat up in the darkness, "You're not scared are you?" Miss Sora was an adult, she wouldn't be scared of anything, especially not a storm!

[allurprincess]

"Nuh-uh," she turned back to grin at Romeo. And immediately flinched as thunder rolled overhead. "It's really loud, though... I guess we won't get back to sleep."

[myblueskies]

Romeo grinned back and covered his ears at the thunder. It really was loud, he jumped out of bed hunting round in the darkness for his shoes. He felt his way to the switch that turned on the lamps that wern't gas lamps or candles. He flicked the switch but nothing happened. He frowned and tried again. That was strange but Romeo had no idea how the things even worked so he shrugged.

"It's all dark, do you think there's any candles?" There was the fire place as well, if they could find something to burn but candles were smaller and so wouldn't wake up the other people in the room.

[allurprincess]

"Candles aren't very bright, are they? If we had a flashlight, or a-- Aah! There were matches in the kitchen!" Brilliant idea, Sora. "I'll go get them."

But you don't know how to make a fire. No matter, the girl was already crashing her way out of the room and towards the kitchenette.

Making a fire (anyone else in Red 1A if they like!)

[myblueskies]

Romeo blinked at Sora he had no idea what a flashlight or matches were but as she ran out he hopped off the bed and went towards the fire. He could at least start making a fire until Sora found the matches, Romeo guessed that they were some sort of light.

He knelt down by the fire, he knew the chimney was clear, he had climbed up it a few times since being here. He looked around for some paper to start a fire, really they needed coal or wood, he guessed they could get wood in the forest but it would be wet and he had no idea where to get coal from.

He grabbed some of the paper that one of his teachers had given him. He had no idea what was written on it, but since he had forgotten how to read they were useless to him. He started scrunching them up and putting them on the fire. He worked quietly trying not to wake anyone who was trying to sleep.

Re: Red 1-A

[formerly_known_as_prince]

The object of her concern looked up through plastered on pink curls. Something had moved in one of the dorms above. She squinted as the fat droplets and thunder drummed on her skull like tiny insane monkey drummers.

[allurprincess]

"Oh!" Sora went back to the window to check what she thought she'd seen, and, yep. Utena. She must have finished her run, and Sora had to admit she was a little relieved. She believed unconsciously that Utena could battle lightning itself if she had to, but testing that theory could be kind of painful. The other girl got a wave, and then the window opened a little so she could lean out. "Utenaa! We're making a fire! Come and get warm?"

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Utena's face lit up when she realized that she did, indeed recognize the person waving at her. "Thanks Sora!" She said before jogging to the entrance. There she would remain, shivering and looking as bedraggled as a stray cat until she was let in.

[allurprincess]

She didn't have to wait long. On Sora's hunt for matches, she'd scrambled into the common room and tugged open the door on her way to the kitchen.

"I'll be back in a minute," she called, as she disappeared down the corridor towards possible matches. "We're in 1-A!"

merge with other thread?

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Utena removed her sopping sneakers, and followed, her socks squishing on the carpet.

She walked into the common room. Not all that different from her own. Completely identical, actually.

yep! o7

[allurprincess]

That was the convenience of four dormitories with no differences other than the colour schemes of the bedrooms. Slightly more problematic when you were Sora, with no memory of the campus layout, but it only started to be a problem after she left the dorm for the day and thus for now she was safe. A few moments of rummaging and one yelp of surprise as she almost tripped over a chair later, and she was back with matches just in time to beckon Utena into her room.

just throw us in there whenever you think is good

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Utena listened, wincing at the rattle and yelp. Matches...Building a fire? Dripping on the floor, she followed Sora's gesture.