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checking in? ([personal profile] checkingin) wrote in [community profile] checkingout2015-02-01 11:57 pm

sit yourself down, and meet the best inn keeper in town ( O P E N )

Who: Everyone!
Where: The initial arrival rooms, the main lobby, all over the place.
When: February 3rd
What: Welcome, newbies.





ARRIVAL.
you wake up when you hit the floor in a dark room, and the air is knocked out of your lungs. the carpet is threadbare, worn with use, kind of dusty. and you're not the first person to endure this crash landing. nor will you be the last.

once your vision rights itself, you can see the well-lit hallway through the doorjam straight ahead of you. not to say there’s monsters in the shadows, but something propels you towards that door and out into the bright hallway beyond.

and once outside your room, you can hear it: the steady thrum of rain outside.



MAIN LOBBY.
there's a staircase at the end of the lengthy hallway you tumble out of. grab your suitcase and follow the dull green exit signs on the ceiling until you reach the disappointingly bland stairs that lead you down to the ornate old fashion hotel lobby.

to your left is a warmly crackling fireplace, to your right is a lobby desk. straight ahead are three large sets of doors, though only one of them is open to the public. and outside the few (curtained, permanently dark) windows is the continually steady hiss of rain.

welcome to the hotel.



FRONT DESK.
though there is a bell and a plaque designating the desk to be the main desk, the customer service desk, there are currently no staff members behind it. none shall answer your calls, either.

terribly sorry for the inconvenience.



SCREENING ROOM.
on a tall pull-down screen, a silent version of nosferatu will be playing on loop. at the back of the room, between the neat rows of fold out chairs, mounted on a wobbly table is the old timey projector, and mounted on the walls are some rather old speakers that warble out "terrifying" old timey music.

along the curtained windows is another long table, with a large bowl that looked like it once would have held popcorn. but is now unfortunately empty. same for the large hot drink dispensers labeled "hot chocolate" and "coffee".



OTHER.
the ballroom and breakfast hall are currently closed, grand doors locked.

there is no main door leading to the outside, good luck trying to find one.

the door to the courtyard is locked.



ROOMS.
you've a room key with your assigned room number on it. all the new guest residences will be located on floors one & two. while there is an open elevator in the main lobby, and the buttons light up inside, the doors will not close. all in all, you'd be better off taking the stairs.

while they're the same stairs you undoubtedly came down to get to the lobby, the door to the endless hall everyone woke up in will not reappear between the main floor and the subsequent residential halls.

there are twenty rooms per floor. feel free to get to know your surroundings; or your neighbors as they trickle in around you.
pronged: (looking cool don't even try and deny it)

[personal profile] pronged 2015-02-24 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Dumb is our middle name!

[Like he's going to let go of Peter that easily. He's coming with him even if he probably won't force Pete to do anything he doesn't want to. Not strictly with force anyway. Perhaps with some guilting and needling and peer pressure.]

We won't know until we try. And I'm trying so you can either help or go stand there and be useless. Your call.
pronged: (lecture from mum)

[personal profile] pronged 2015-02-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Right. How silly of him.]

I don't-- think we're talking about the same thing.
wickedlyable: (007)

[personal profile] wickedlyable 2015-02-24 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
... you're serious.

You're dead serious. ((Johanna just stares at him, but she seems a lot less intimidating now. Maybe it's in the way her shoulders have slumped away from her more defensive posture. In a much quieter, confused voice, she asks, not for the first time-)) What is this place?
kirking: (hey spock? shut up)

[personal profile] kirking 2015-02-24 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Starfleet really frowns on total blackout benders unfortunately.

[Don't question him about the fact that he didn't join Starfleet until he was twenty two so he could've had at least three more years of blacking out and waking up in strange places. But turns out that Kirk likes his memory intact, even if he doesn't like his liver the same way.]

And as luck would have it-- I love trying the impossible. So I'll see you around, Sir Trickster.
kirking: (hey what are you guys doing)

[personal profile] kirking 2015-02-24 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Actually he meant popping the hinges off from the inside since most doors swing in and so in theory-- this should be a possibility.]

Really? There has to be at least a nail around here somewhere.
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[personal profile] kirking 2015-02-24 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. At least now they've definitely solved the mystery of whether or not she could be his mother. Because his mom didn't believe in magic even a little bit. It's all science, Jimmy, that's what she always said. There is always, always a scientific explanation for everything. Just because we don't know it, doesn't make it magical.]

That's because magic doesn't exist. Sorry to burst your bubble.
hacker: (by reproducing early and dying young)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-02-24 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
None that I could pry loose.

[ And yes, she tried. ]
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[personal profile] sheriffing 2015-02-24 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I'm from a town full of fairytale characters, that's not debatable.

[Not to mention the magic that Emma should have, the kind that comes from true love and the hope that everyone will find their happily ever after. He can argue it, she'll just give him a roll of her eyes to match the sigh that comes from his certainty.

Seriously, they're stuck here and he wants to knock down that possibility the moment it's introduced?]


Different worlds, different rules. Get used to it.
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[personal profile] sheriffing 2015-02-24 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[The lobby? Yeah, thanks. Because this savior wasn't hoping to drag her feet or anything when it came to Regina. She's completely prepared for this conversation.

Good job, Neal.]


...I'll get right on that.

[She purses her lips together, eyebrows raising briefly before she concedes and takes a step in that direction. No time like the present, right?]

My room's 208. I should be just down the hall, if you need me.

[If he doesn't, too, but if she keeps talking this'll never end, so she nods and starts off toward the lobby. It can't go worse than the conversation she had at her brother's party. That's... something.]
villainously: ʟᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀ (312h8)

[personal profile] villainously 2015-02-24 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
( if it makes her feel better, he's not sure what they can really plan with so little information to go on. sleeping would be the wisest course of action, it's just that the pirate really doesn't sleep that well in the best of situations, evil hand stacked with spontaneous kidnapping really isn't going to bode well. he'll sleep around the time he can't move anymore, and that's not right now. if she can manage some sleep, she should...

but of course the sheriff decides to interrogate him more. unsurprisingly.

in a lot of ways, he feels like he's already told her too much. he hadn't wanted to tell her about this at all, it's just too late now and he could be a danger and she deserves to know. still, telling her his collateral? well, that could cause her danger back in Storybrooke. there's a reason Rumpelstiltskin didn't want it out... and he really doesn't want to see Emma at risk because of what he told her.

his reluctance is marked in his face. someone is going to pay for this secret getting out, and well, the only thing that really reassures him is that the Crocodile wouldn't go after his own son's true love, not without damn good reason. people cared about Emma; well, not too many people would care about Captain Hook suffering a little. if this blows back, it'll blow back on him. Gold isn't stupid enough to go after Emma without an escape route, and he's trapped as the rest of Storybrooke. )


You realize the sort of thing the Crocodile would do to keep this a secret, Swan. ( as in he's telling her something very potentially dangerous, and as strong as Emma is? he doesn't want her tangling with the Dark One, he's already seen one woman he loves not make it out of that fight. ) He's lying to his wife, the dagger she has is false.

( really, Hook isn't sure why anyone believed that Rumpelstiltskin would give away his power in the first place. they really don't know the monster very well, the pirate is sadly not that lucky. it shows his game to get his hand back was less a request and more blackmail, everything he didn't want her to know. he can't quite look her in the eye, because he's already gotten the lecture about her not being able to trust him. he'd just earned it back, finally had a chance at her heart, and he started it on a lie. he can only guess she won't react well, and can he really blame her? he's always taking one step forward, three steps back.

he wasn't making the right choices, even before an evil hand had been reattached to his stump. )
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[personal profile] unforgives 2015-02-24 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's true enough. I guess we'll have to see then.

[she smiles at that before nodding] I definitely appreciate it. My name is Emily.
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[personal profile] gloriouscurse 2015-02-24 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll let you know if I find anything.

[She expects Emma to do the same, though she hesitates as she turns away from her. What if she's not here later, what if they're separated? She tries not to think about it, and just forges on, determined now to figure out how she got here in the first place.]
driven: (º ↣ if he is...)

[personal profile] driven 2015-02-24 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ maybe - depending on what scott tells her, on what she learns - she'll come to thank him later. she wouldn't have known about scott if she hadn't run into him, and while she and derek tend to act more as unwilling allies than friends, it was nice of him to say as much.

but chances are she probably won't. chances are, this will just propel things forward and go unnoticed and nearly unappreciated. ]


I'm in 119. [ she'd seen it on her keys earlier, has it memorized now. but she nods, turns to leave, but manages to stop for half a second and turn back to him. ]

Derek- [ it does say nearly after all. ] Thanks, by the way.

Uh-
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[personal profile] engender 2015-02-25 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ which is par for the course for them. but, maybe things out of her control will catapult something forward. even if it's gradual

his throat goes dry but he manages a smile - something allison may not remember seeing for months, but something derek has done more lately. ]
You're welcome.
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[personal profile] warring 2015-02-25 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Then what is it you refer to? [ because it seemed pretty clear to her. ]
driven: (º ↣ r u serious)

[personal profile] driven 2015-02-25 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she doesn't remember seeing that - ever actually - and it throws her for a bit of a loop when she does.

but she does need to go see scott, and she does need to find some answers, so when he says you're welcome allison just sort of nods, turning to head for the stairs. ]


I'll see you later.
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[personal profile] trepidations 2015-02-27 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Er. I guess it is.

[ But it's easy to win Peter's compliance, certainly. He doesn't want to be useless, not to James of all people. ]

Okay, I'll help already, I will! Slow down won't you?
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[personal profile] trepidations 2015-02-27 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Er. Yeah, I am. I don't know what that place is.

[ He shrugs a little bit, thankful that she is certainly not as terrifying as she just was. ] It's... a hotel? I mean, I don't know where it is anymore than you do. I was one place, then woke up here.

[ Now he almost feels like he should hug her, or touch her arm or something, what with how small her voice seems. But he keeps his distance for now. ]
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[personal profile] trepidations 2015-02-27 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa. That's... I've never been there, only seen pictures in books and stuff.

[ You know, the Colosseum, the leaning tower -- clearly, he has a lot to learn. ]

I'm from England.
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[personal profile] technologist 2015-02-27 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ He takes an honest moment to consider it, but no luck. ] No. Sorry.

[ And this is kind of a long shot considering his answer, but: ] Have you heard of America?
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[personal profile] technologist 2015-02-27 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ That probably shouldn't be surprising, given the accent, but it's still reassuring after some of the other nonsense answers he's gotten. ] Scotland, originally. But I was in the United States before I turned up here.

[ And after a thoughtful pause, expression curious as he waits to see how James responds: ] It was 2014.
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[personal profile] technologist 2015-02-27 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ The mechanic commentary earns a slight smile; sounds a lot like Mack, actually, which is both endearing and depressing in that friends-who-aren't-here-and-might-be-dead way.

The two centuries line catches him off guard, though. The surprise is obvious on his face, mixed with curiosity.
]

Seriously? But do you think it's— I mean, is it the same Earth, is the question. [ Actually, starting at the beginning: ] Are you from Earth?
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[personal profile] ivolunteer 2015-02-27 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet. I was — ( having something of a panic attack in that room she'd woken up in. ) — looking for...you.

( yeah no that rings hollow she was freaking out. )
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[personal profile] pajarita 2015-02-27 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[she could tell, that it caught him off-guard, but at least he's not asking questions in a bothersome way. so she's more inclined to let out the sardonic little smile that flickers on her face.] Space, actually.

[she looks at him again.] But I am human.
64th: I am gonna completely ignore everything you just said. (with all due respect)

[personal profile] 64th 2015-02-28 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's probably better off not knowing about it.

there's a flicker of recognition at the word America. it's been a long time since she was subjected to a history class, but it's not like she could forget. ]
As in North America? Yeah. I know of it. Is that - [ she cuts herself off. it would be impossible. ] You're from North America?

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