EVENT: Snowed In

[the_npcdo]

[Early Monday afternoon, the snow starts. At first, a charming novelty glimpsed through the classroom windows, but within minutes it becomes a veritable blizzard. Any classes being held outside are urged to bring themselves inside. Within half an hour, the power's cut out and the snow is piled high enough to make entry/exit from the buildings difficult. Within an hour, it's impossible. Snow is piled halfway up the first floor windows, and most of the doors have frozen shut. The second story windows seem to be working just fine, though, as are any rooftop access doors.]

[The blizzard finally calms down, but students and faculty are trapped inside--or outside, if they managed to be on the wrong side of the doors during the storm. The power's out and the cold is starting to seep in through the insulation. Worse, there seems to be some kind of unseen presence in the buildings, an eerie cackle echoing through the empty halls or an unsettling sense that you're not alone.]

[Someone's going to have to restart the generator before we end up with a school full of studentcicles. It wouldn't hurt to clear some pathways out of the buildings, either.]

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Fire Alarm! Fire Alarm!

[thirdtenkaistar]

[Thomas was in his dorm writing a letter when suddenly-]

BRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-BAAAABREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! BZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZ

Auuuugh!

[The young man leap up so quickly that he tripped over the legs of his chair as he bolted out of the room, yanking his coat - he thinks it was his coat at least, he was too busy panicking to check - and threw it on as he ran downstairs with other students. As he starts to head outside, he could feel it being rather cold]

oh... dear.

[losingherhead]

[Celty nearly forgot to put the helmet on her stump as she raced out into the hall. She doesn't remember why, but she feels an odd association of fire with angry mobs. Both sound painful and terrifying.

Distracted by her thoughts, she finds herself accidentally stumbling into Thomas. And then feels her helmet start to slip as she fumbles to keep a steady grip.]

[thirdtenkaistar]

[Thomas starts as he's ran into, his arms jutting out, widmilling to keep his balance and ended up grabbing whatever it is nearby in a failed attempt to feel from falling over completely]

Who....whoa!

[losingherhead]

[Shoot! A hand reaches out to make sure he's alright, while another struggles to keep that helmet from leaving her stump. She can feel the smoke struggling to hold tightly on the helmet with this freakish weather. But what about the other student? Thoughts of how easily humans can break bones start to dart across her mind. Bumping into them should be safe... right?]

[thirdtenkaistar]

[Somehow he manages to catches onto the rail at the same time Celty grabbed at him, keeping himself balanced - awkwardly balanced, but balanced long enough to position himself in a way where he wasn't going to fall]

Ah - thanks! S-s-sorry for running into you...

[losingherhead]

[Oh, thank goodness. He seems relatively safe now, so she releases him. With that done, there's the helmet. Helmet secure? Helmet secure. Good, that's good.

With a flick of her wrist, her PDA comes out of wherever she puts it in her sleeve and she's hastily typing out a few words.]

Its my fault, I wasn't paying attention.

[cant_breathe_no_heir]

[Okay, okay. Equius had just punched through quite a bit of snow. He was tired, and cold, and was this close to getting back inside the school, where he would obviously be safe from the snow storm he unfortunately found himself in.

And then he spotted the doors opening, and students poured out. They were coming in his direction.

Naturally, he had no idea what was going on.]

...What.

[thirdtenkaistar]

Fire Alarm.

[Thomas started to explain as the running stopped, and many of the students - including a poor sap only in a bath towel started milling around as they took in the situation]

Either fire, or smoke tripped it. I hope ssomeone wasn't smoking inside and it's an actually f-f-fire.