Saturday Evening, Third Floor Common Room

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Stupid power," Dawn grumbled, lighting the candle on the table near her, then got up to turn off the television and overhead light. The power (at least in the common room) had been intermittently annoying all day, and it was back in the annoying period.

So she was now reading by candlelight and pretending she was Abe Lincoln.


[ooc: Post is open to all; Power is out, so bring your own candle.]

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[multiplez]

Z ran into the doorframe before she actually managed to find the common room doorway. "Ow! Okay, so investing in a flashlight."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn squinted into the mostly dark. "Hey. Who is that?"

[likethegun]

One of the nice things about power outages? Darkness made it so much easier for a guy to try to sneak up on his girlfriend.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn wasn't paying attention to anyone who might be sneaking up on her. Probably would have been better not to have been reading a spooky book by candlelight, though.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy wandered in, dressed in her pjs, because, hey, it was dark. She was grumbling to herself and trying to avoid bumping into things and breaking them. "Hey, Dawn. Power out here too? No TV?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Unless you've got a magic tv, nope," Dawn said, then snickered when she heard how slowly Buffy was moving. "Don't you have super stalker night vision or something?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly wandered down, flashlight in hand. "People! Finally! I was beginning to think that everybody had been eaten!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Does that happen a lot?" Dawn was partly serious.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Berthold's been under the bed all day," Buffy said quickly. "And we haven't changed his diet that much!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally had stumbled down the stairs with a flashlight to where she'd heard commotion.

"You think we need to do a headcount? Just incase this is the stage one of an invasion of evil kidnapping bats with fish heads or something?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Sounds good," Dawn nodded, "except for where I don't know how many heads we're supposed to have."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"That is so not what I needed to hear!" Conner blurted out. "It can totally happen!"

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

"I love having night vision," Schrodinger said from a couch he hadn't been in before.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner didn't have a candle, but he did have one of those compact LED flashlights that ran on lithium batteries (red LEDs, natch). It probably looked a little creepy when the red circle of light preceded him into the common room.

"Dude, this sucks."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

It was dark, so Dawn didn't notice Conner's hair, or his startling resemblance to a certain blond vampire. "It's better now that people are bringing stuff in so we can see."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"And it couldn't even be on a schoolday," Peter replied, shaking his head.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter had pulled a small tin camping lantern out of the bottom of his pack and made his way to the Common Room.

"We need to all play hide and go seek or something."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, or charades!" Dawn bounced a little.

[lovelymissbrown.livejournal.com]

"Hello, there." Lavender smiled at Peter in the dim light.

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Shining a flashlight, Seely wandered into the common room. "What's up with the power?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"It's gone," Buffy said helpfully.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory bustled in with a votive candle in her hands and a book of matches in her pocket. "Do you know how frelling hard it is to read by candlelight?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I do!" Dawn said, waving her book at Rory.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Carrying a flashlight with him, Bridge wanders up to the third floor in search of company. The day so far had been almost eerily quiet, and he was kind of tired of that.

"Hey people!" he says, flopping down on a couch. Anyone who looked closely enough might be able to see that he's not wearing his usual uniform, just jeans and a "Sunnydale High Swim Team" t-shirt.

[multiplez]

Z scooched over to avoid being sat on. "Hey, Bridge. How's it goin'?"

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake was looking for more coffee, his eyes were big and cat-like, because seeing coffee in the dark was hard. "Anyone with coffee here?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Nooooooooooo," Rory whined once she remembered it wasn't Jess. "I couldn't make any without any power."

Charades!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Pick a movie title, a book title, a famous person, or a historical event and act it out. Start a new thread for each charade, please.

Re: Charades!

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy got up first and did the mimey thing for song title before she held up two fingers for two words. Then she held up one finger for first word and touched her ear for sounds like. She took a deep breath, pretended to stalk someone before leaping at them and falling on to the ground where she moved her hand up and down a bit. Then she leaned back and seemed to be sitting on something while her hips moved back and forth.

She got back on her feet, beaming.

[lovelymissbrown.livejournal.com]

Lavender walked in holding her wand infront of her. The tip glowed white, it gave off the same light as a strong flashlight.
"Hello."