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.]

Comments

[infinitejustice]

[Oh, good grief. Sure, it's creepy, but that's overreacting.]

OK, that time I heard it. I'm willing to bet it's someone playing a prank. We should probably check it out.

[hair_guitar]

[This is clearly the exactly correct level of reacting.]

What? [That may have come out sounding a little squeaky.] Ch-check it out? But what if it's a....?

[She doesn't even want to finish that sentence. There are no words for the ghoulish terrors Ellen can only imagine awaits them down that hall]

[infinitejustice]

We won't know until we find out. And I'd like to get to the bottom of this whole thing so we know how to deal with it.

[He's not the type of person to just leave things to other people and hope that somebody else sees to it. he wants to take action.]

[hair_guitar]

[Neither is Ellen! ... Usually. Most of the time. Under normal circumstances, she'd probably be at the front lines of trying to solve this thing but. This is different. She just wants to be out of here, but... what if he goes off and something happens?]

O-okay... [Gulp.] I'll go with you.

[Internal screaming intensifies.]