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"Aw, man..." Kai blinked a couple times as his werecat eyes adjusted to the dim darkness. Some of the guys were stumbling around, and Kai could have sworn he heard Rory yelp. "Calm down, everyone. It's all right, the power just....went out."

Kai saw a very guilty-looking Lin softly set down the Hexbox controller and walk away from it whistling innocently. Kai put a finger to his lips (not that anyone aside from maybe Shad could see it...)

"Shhhh. I need to hear to know if...." The sound of a hum coming from the Mad Science lab resonated through the mansion. Kai breathed a little easier. "Whew. That's the backup generator for the lab. If that hadn't started up, we would all have to start running right now. Ah, heh heh....so, good thing that didn't get shorted out! Right?"

Well, this wasn't good. No electricity in the rest of the mansion meant no Hexbox, no TV, no music and no way to heat up or refrigerate any of the food. This put the creepover's 'clawesome party' needle pointing strictly in the 'lamesauce' side of the gauge.

So who thought it was a good idea to let the accident prone gremlin near something electronic? He supposed he could just be thankful this didn't blow up in his face like the last thing lin touched.
He sighed, set the controller down and remained where he was. No sense stumbling around blind.

"Don't suppose you have any torches or candles?"

Long dark nights weren't anything new to the selkie, living in coastal and often remote regions across the world, he'd become fairly used to periodic storms knocking out the power.

Slowly he got to his feet, using his phone to provide dim illumination.

"It's probably just a blown fuse...or several." He'd have glared at the gremlin could he see him.

Ronan rolled his eyes at Glen's question, not that anyone could see.
He spoke flatly, as if the solution was blindingly obvious to anyone who wasn't a blithering idiot.

"How about, instead of potentially blowing us all sky high... we locate the fuse box and fix the issue the old fashioned way?"

Navigating around the furniture using his icoffin as a makeshift and dim torch, he found his way to Kai's side.

"Of course, we could just sit in the dark and panic. That's option B." Folding his arms across his chest, he waited to see if someone was going to take charge or if they'd all continue to run around like headless werechickens.

Ronan nodded, thankful that Kai actually seemed to be taking charge. Wait.. wasn't this guy terrible at decision making? Oh well, he wasn't about to complain if it meant they got to stop standing around and freaking out.

"Good idea. What do you need a hand with?"

His eyes were slowly adjusting to the gloom but sadly, he wasn't a monster designed for the dark. Tripping over furniture (or vertically challenged gremlins), didn't strike him as much fun. At least outside there was less to break a toe on.

It was a warm, almost-fall night outside, perfect for sitting around a bonfire and fanging out. Kai dragged some brush over to the pit and got the fire going as all the guys filtered outside. The Merha Mansion had a nice backyard that bled into the woods behind it. Kai had spent many nights back here, fanging out with Nero or sitting with his ghoul Demona in front of a roaring bonfire. There was a bag of martianmallows next to one of the big logs rolled in front of the bonfire that was used as a seat. Kai held them up.

"Anyone wanna toast martianmallows?"

"What? No man, don't go!" Kai frowned. Hurt feelings weren't part of the creepover plan. "Don't let that get you down, all right? It's just because they don't know you very well, and-"

"Hmm." Kai cut himself off and got thoughtful. It WAS true; there were a lot of bros here who, although they went to school together, didn't really know each other all that well. Even he'd been pretty ignorant earlier talking to Rory Bludworth. Kai looked down at Lin and grinned.

"Here, come with me." Kai led Lin over to the biggest log laying in front of the fire and had him take a seat. "Hey guys, can I have your attention for a moment?"

Eyes of all colors turned and looked at Kai, who gave them all a confident smile. "Where I come from, it's tradition when you have a bonfire to sit down and tell some stories to each other. Stories about your past, present or the history of your family. It's a tradition of lore. And I can't think of anyone better to start things off than the manster who got us all to step away from the distractions of modern technology so we could gather out here, under the stars."

Kai 'presented' Lin to the crowd.

"Lin McGearloch is going to tell us a story about his family."

Small thumping was heard around the bonfire and the boos froze in place instantly.
That wasn't something....large was it?
.....
No...it was just a rabbit, a very big rabbit....
The thumping continued as Kai started to look around, curious as to what the sound was.
And what followed the sound was....sniffing?
"Do I smell...martianmallows?" a familiar voice asked.

Dashner wasn't a fan of bondfires, particularly because they always left him smelling like fresh cooked fried chicken from the normie fast food restaurant KFC. He only knew of such a restaurant because it was the first place that he went to in Uhh-Merica.

Dashner hadn't seen his bro Felix Faun in a... Quite frankly, long time. He sort of jumped up to give Felix a bro fist. "Felix! Bro! So glad you could make it."

He remained standing, opening a fresh container of Falconnie's not famous muffins (though, he thought they should have been). He held the container out to the other boo's.

"Want any? They're booberry and chocolate chip."