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Toby Yates

(To flow properly with RP, Toby's actions are here.)

Reynard Abney - 6

"Reynard Abney, at your service," he said, and had half-ducked into what he'd hoped was a charming bow when the lights went out and the blue-eyed girl latched onto his arm in fright. He couldn't power here, not now - sure, it was dark, but with a lady attached to his arm there was absolutely no way he could risk it. Even if, with what sounded like something coming in, he'd dearly like to be Parthenon now. He may only have a stick for a 'weapon', but a short little stick was still better than nothing.

Ah well, you made do when you had to.

And what sort of Guardian of the Galaxy would he be if he left a lady to danger?

"Of course I won't," he said, tugging Yolanda toward the exit with him, elbowing people out of his way as he went - and taking more than a few elbows and shoves himself. "Ow, damnit, people, panic's just going to get someone killed. knock it off!"

Owen Courcel - 1

When the lights went out, Owen did not let out a terrified yelp that was more of a squeak. He certainly didn't grab for Bailey and Daniel to try and hide in them from the dark and the monsters in the dark. ... Or at least that was what he would insist upon later. Right now he was scared, and they were there. The only light in the room was that exit sign, and it was so far away...

A shove to his back told him Daniel was trying to get him moving, trying to get him and Bailey safe, but he overbalanced from it and tripped, falling into one person only to get shoved back against another, knocking the wind out of him and drawing cries of pain and fright from him with heach elbow an one or two stomping, uncaring feet.

And in the confusion, it was all he could do to reach out with his fingers, to try to find Bailey and Daniel and not be separated because separated would be bad, so terribly bad and he knew that it would, especially if there really were things out there in the dark.


Cara Stauss - 9

"If this is becoming typical then it's probably better not to go to anything like this next year," Cara pointed out, trying hard to ignore her thudding heart and the sounds of people and things moving once the lights were out and the glass shattered. "Though doubt this is like the damn bat, at least."

Which... was probably a good thing, because they really didn't need a repeat of the Squeakers incident. Definitely not with this many people around. "C'mon, let's get to the exit," she said, squinting through the dark and moving with Ally toward the exit sign. She heard her friend hiss at a few clumsy idiots as they struck her, but managed to avoid the bumps and potential-bruises herself.

When she glanced over her shoulder, at the back of the crowd, she thought she saw - well, she wasn't sure what. But it was something. Probably. And in a situation like this? Better to assume the monster was real than that it wasn't, with very real monsters around at any given time of the year anyway. "Ally, move, there's somethin' chasing us!"

[gaia wanted me to double post]

Aloysius Sharp

As the night went on he nervously buttoned up his layers a bit more as an uncomfortable feeling started eating at him. When the lights went out he instantly pressed himself against the wall to listen for any other noises besides the shattering of glass and scraping of metal. He looked up and slowly tried making his way towards the exit. It went smoothly for the most part except, he constantly kept bumping into the concessions and got candy and soda all over his coat.

As he reached the door he pulled his hair out from underneath to avoid getting anything sticky in it if he didn't get the time to change later. This was definitely not how he had planned for the night to go.

Seung Kim


The whole point of the school uniform was to distract his husband, as he knew the other had some sort of thing for him in a school uniform. He'd been rather surprised when Terry had decided to do something similar, though his was a cosplay where as his was an actual school uniform.
It was nice though to have a similar costume for the event, they looked good together.

Glancing about at all the people, a few dressed in rather expensive outfits,
Seung was glad that their own outfits were rather cost efficient as well as well made - he'd made Terry's outfit. There was no way that he was going to let the other purchase a costume when he could make it, and use proper fabrics for it, why spend the money for someone else to do what he himself could easily do himself?

"Want a drink Terry, Eunkyung?" Asking them both as he prepared to go and refill the now empty cup he was holding, noting that his hyung's cup was still filled with liquid.

Already moving to step away, to find where the drinks were, he stopped for a moment and turned his dark eyes upward as the lights flickered a few times before failing entirely and going out. "Terry?" Lowering his head to give his partner a questioning, and somewhat worried, look. It wasn't until the glass started that he fully grasped that something had really gone wrong, that there wasn't just bad weather outside. Rain and wind wasn't going to shatter glass like that.

"Head to the exit." The 'head there now' was implied, he doubted he needed to say it. As he reached out towards his family, wanting to keep them close to himself, he let his drink cup fall to the ground. Moving towards the exit he was hit into, people not really thinking of much other than reaching the exit, he felt something against his leg and he felt his uniform pant leg snag on a table...at least he thought it was a table.

"Need to get outside - now."

Rhona was about to respond to Xi-Wangs comment about the inevitable sickness being Future Rhona's problem and that Present Rhona was going to enjoy herself but Destiny City was... after all... Destiny city... and it had other plans for them. She groaned out loud after the initial scream of shock died from her lips. Of just ******** great. And she couldn't power up here either... too many people. Besides... this might have just been a power outage... that broke windows. Oh for the love for god Rhona just wanted one day, one ******** day where things went normally.

The sound of her name being called caused her breath to catch in her throat... she hadn't expected Lavender to have noticed her, much less to call out to her. with how rightfully angry she had been when they left off... she half expected to slip away from the night unnoticed. Such was not her lot in life. But... she also couldn't just leave Xi-Wang and his beau. She took a hold of Xi-Wang's elbow for just a moment and pointed -- however well that worked int he pitch black -- towards the exit sign.

"There, we need to go there. And I need to make a pit stop along the way. Stay close guys. There's probably not going to be an easy way out if the city is... well... true to itself."

Rhona kept Xi-Wang and his boyfriend in half-sight while she pushed her way through the sea of people, cursing out her damned <********> heels the whole way. She should have come as a Power Ranger or Dean Winchester or something else sensible. It would have made the trek towards Lavender's voice that much easier...

"I'm here Lav," she called into the darkness, finally kicking off her shoes and tucking them over her arms. She should have been better at nevigating in them, but she chalked it up to magical heels versus normal heels and let it be.

"I'm here Lav, just make your way to the exit and we'll meet up there."

The group that Mahogany had been gloating to shrank away from the sound and scattered when the lights blew out. Not that Mahogany expected anything else. They were all of the same ilk, after all. Faithless beauties who held no honor when pressed. He scattered as well.

"Esta! Mom? Dad??"

He had wandered too far away, they were out of ear shot. And this damned mask didn't make it easy to navigate the darkness. After a few short moments he tore it off and tossed it away in a great clatter. Later on his mother would complain that the mask was a hand-painted Venetian one-of-a-kind something or other but he'd just say that it was knocked off in the panic. It wasn't too unlikely, given that he couldn't stop bumping in to people on the way to the exit sign. Yeah, the mask would have been jostled off in this bullshit. Besides, she would buy him another one as a memento. Which he didn't want. Especially of Destiny City kept it's pattern of doing terrible things to people in large groups. Why did anyone even gather anymore?

Kathryn McAdams - not dressed up (getting tired of weird sh*t)

To think the evening could have been normal. It should have been normal. Was that evening a guaranteed thing now in Destiny City? As the evening wore on Kathryn had managed to buy a few raffle tickets and enjoy the free candy but the promise of intrigue in the maze had yet to appear. What was with that?

Just at the time when she thought maybe the evening would be better spent at home reading a book Kathryn was suddenly thrust into darkness as every light in the reception hall went out as one entity. Oh that would have been fine if she was anywhere near the only thing providing light; an Exit Sign, but no, she had to be all the way across the hall. "Oh for the love of..."

The exclamation died as suddenly she was thrust forward and barely had time to catch herself from falling but in the effort she did get smacked a few times by others elbows. Not only that ... but she swore she felt something brush by her, something that was not human or animal. Was she losing her mind?

'I need to get to the exit. C'mon, pick yourself up and go.'

The journey to the exit sign was arduous and by the time Kathryn made it she had acquired more than her fair share of bruises and a very sore right foot, courtesy of those around her.