http://metemmods.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] metemmods.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] metem_logs2011-08-03 06:59 pm

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Characters: All
Date/Time: Now
Location: Hôtel Jeu Ancien - Ballroom
Rating: TBD
Warnings: TBD
Summary: Everybody out of the pool!



Word came to him that the godlings had dithered around enough. It was time for them to go home and get on with it. Right! Nigel had his orders and he was nothing if not efficient.

He took the initiative to put into play Evacuation Protocol #57. Everything in his guests' rooms suddenly ceased to work. Lights went out. Televisions and computers turned off on their own. Even the water taps stopped functioning, and all of it suddenly. If they were outside of their room their key no longer opened doors, except for those of the elevator bay and then the elevators would take them only to the lobby.

He straightening the cap on his head, smoothed the lapels of his jacket then brushed imaginary lint from his sleeves. He was prepared for the ensuing confrontations.


[*lyrics: Semisonic - Closing Time]

[identity profile] tangledmaze.insanejournal.com 2011-08-06 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"We do. But it still helps to have a ball of yarn or a piece of chalk with you when you go in," she said, grinning.

[identity profile] greengawain.insanejournal.com 2011-08-06 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe Sif would lend us some of her cookie crumbs for finding our way home?" he suggested, twinkling.

[identity profile] tangledmaze.insanejournal.com 2011-08-06 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah, but what if the little birds eat them? It'd be more prudent to use shiny stones. Maybe Aphrodite can spare us some of those gems she was wearing earlier," Ariadne teased.

[identity profile] greengawain.insanejournal.com 2011-08-06 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Sadly, she doesn't appear to be wearing much at the moment," Gawain observed. "Well, I shouldn't say that makes me sad ... but it doesn't really help our cause."

[identity profile] tangledmaze.insanejournal.com 2011-08-06 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, it is Aphrodite. All things considered, it's not that surprising," Ariadne said.

"But, with luck, we won't be lost at all. We'll know right where we are, and where we're going."