Fire Drill, Outside the Dorms, Oh Dear Lord How Is This O'Clock Wednesday Night

[endsthegame]

Fandom lay peaceful in the night, recovering from its latest brush with invasion. It had reached such an hour that even the teal deer slept soundly in the woods, and the crickets had given up on chirping to go play Texas Hold-'Em in the caves in the cliffs just off the Preserve.

The rain started almost tentatively: a few drops of dew that wrestled loose from the grass and gently made their way upwards. But soon they multiplied, soon they went faster. Soon the dark skies were full of water raining upwards, coagulating into clouds far up above.

And then...

...and then the fire drill alarms went off in the dorms.

Sorry, kids.

[[ this will be your fire drill post for the evening! have at, oh students. ]]

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[therewaslife]

The fire alarm going off weren't anything new to Bod. He'd been here for previous fire drills and knew it meant stumbling out of bed and out of the dorms sleepily.

He was still rubbing his eyes when he got outside and was immediately assaulted by water hitting his legs and shorts. And moving around did nothing because there was just no avoiding the water.

So, Bod just stood there and let the water soak his legs and shorts and the bottom of his t-shirt. The water had woken him up though. Now, he'd just stand there and look unimpressed.

[endsthegame]

Ender had only just been asleep when the alarms started ringing. Because of it, he was fairly bleary-eyed, dressed in his grey Property-of-the-International-Fleet t-shirt and a pair of shorts, and becoming more drenched by the second.

He needed to find something to stand on, clearly.

[swordsandsoccer.livejournal.com]

...heeeey.

Dolf, unused to the trappings of fire drills, had gone into a panic about five seconds into waking up from the alarm.

As a result, he was now standing here in his underwear and a t-shirt. A giant wet splotch was already forming at the bottom of his t-shirt.

Whyyy?

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Being woken up by a blaring alarm sucked. Realizing what it was and stumbling blindly behind other students out into the night really didn't make the situation better.

Percy was grumbling and bitching to himself when he felt the first drops of water hit his legs. Blearily, he looked down, spotted rain coming from the ground and immediately used his powers to make himself dry. The rain could keep coming as hard as it wanted but Percy was going to stand there sleepy but dry.

That didn't make this situation suck any less, though.

[vanillajello]

"... Oh what the everloving fuck is this?"

Always so eloquent, was our Kate. But then she had just noticed the exact way it was raining, and she wasn't best pleased. She'd had the presence of mind to grab a hoodie before her swift exit from her room, but it didn't do much to shield her from the rain when everything else she was wearing was just a tanktop and some shorts.

So she was just going to be sulking, over here.

[vanillajello]

"This is complete and utter bullshit," Kate announced sulkily as she stalked her way over to Bod. "Stupid fucking weather."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan hadn't gone to sleep but maybe an hour ago. After all, it was his night at the bar, he'd had plenty to drink and was heading swiftly into a good hangover when the alarm blared and had him scrambling out of bed with a yelp. He'd managed to grab a hoodie and his cigarettes before heading outside, cursing Americans and fire alarms and anything else that popped into his mind for good measure.

It'd taken him a few seconds to realize that it was raining from the grass. By that time, he was already soaking wet and just over this entire thing. "This fucking island, man. Why don't you just drop a fucking anvil on me while you're at it, huh?"

Nathan pulled his up his hoodie and tried to light a cigarette without the water putting it out. It was harder than it sounded but he managed.

[therewaslife]

"I agree," he said, glancing down at the ground and getting a face full of rain for his trouble. He sputtered and wiped his face before shaking his head. "This doesn't make sense, even for this island. I'm soaking wet."

And still tired.

[vanillajello]

"Me too," Kate grumbled, crossing her arms and glaring at nothing in particular. It was hard to glare at an island when it was all around you. "And we didn't even get to go on a fun ride first."

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Even after her many months in Fandom, Makita still slept fully-dressed. Some habits weren't just hard to break, it was that she didn't want to break them at all.

The split second the alarm had sounded she was out of bed, reaching under the pillows for her sickle even as she grabbed for her coat and hat. Invasion? Proximity alarm?

...someone had yet to be educated on fire drills. Which is why she was now standing outside, having followed the crowd, looking very confused and annoyed.

[therewaslife]

Bod smiled briefly at that memory before putting a hand down to try and block some of the rain pelting them from the ground.

"At least it's not cold?" he suggested, trying to find a silver lining. "This might be even worse if this was snow or freezing rain."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

When the alarm woke Ariel up, she was startled for a moment and then she realized that something exciting was happening, and so she found herself pretty excited herself. Rushing outside with everyone else, down the stairs and out into the...

..rain? Watching the water come up instead of down made her immediately giggle. Pity it wasn't raining up harder; that would make it like the spouts of water on the seafloor, and those were always fun to get caught up in. She was trying not to be so amused, especially since she'd have to probably get a new nightgown, but like she'd ever really complain about new clothes...

[notmyownage]

"Gyahhhh. Ahhh!" Claudia's brain wasn't awake enough to make more than vague unhappy noises when she noticed the rain attacking her from below. She tried hopping from foot to foot instinctively for a bit, then finally had to resign herself to the fact that she was destined to get her slippers absolutely drenched.

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

Fire drills weren't a completely alien concept. Chuck had suffered through them before.

The rain... kind of was. He'd been asleep, and not thought to layer up, so he was left standing in his t-shirt and boxers with a creeping cold wet sensation moving up his body. Not nice.

[vanillajello]

"Or chocolate syrup," Kate replied, relenting a bit. "That happened during one fire drill." She shook her head. "I fucking despise fire drills."

[therewaslife]

"I understand their necessity but they seem to always occur on the worst possible of night," he said, rubbing his eyes and yawning. "I don't know how I'm going to be able to get back to sleep after getting his thoroughly drenched."

And it just wasn't stopping either so respite didn't seem to be happening.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jake was scowling as he made it outside in nothing but boxers, his ears rather unhappy at the noise and he moved further away from the dorms. The lawn was wet and slippery under his feet, but it wasn't like he was going to get picky now.

It took him a moment to actually realise exactly what was wrong with the rain and why his legs were wetter than his head. "Well, that's new."

At least he was probably warmer than most people.

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri was out of bed and headed downstairs without stopping to question the alarm, though she did reach out carefully in the Force to make sure it was just an alarm and nothing more serious than that as she hurried down the stairs.

And no, it wasn't more serious than that, but the rain was . . .

"Oh, khapet."

Annoying.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Someone at least hadn't been woken from her beauty sleep, even if it might look like she had, wearing only a t-shirt a couple of sizes too big. Effy wasn't really sleeping much, so the water that appeared to be ignoring the laws of gravity was really the least of her worries right now.

She found herself a place on the grass to sit by the nearest vertical surface and leaned back closing her eyes. Just because she wasn't sleeping, didn't mean she couldn't pretend.

[vanillajello]

"You can come back to my room," Kate offered with a little shrug, glancing over at him after surveying the crowd around them. "If you'd like."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander wasn't entirely sure what that sound was, but he'd figured it out easily enough.

The upside down rain, on the other hand, was a little more difficult to solve, though he was almost in a way glad for it. He hadn't thought to grab some sort of coat or overshirt, so in a regular rain, he'd be concerned about the undershirt he wore being soaked through. But for now he could only comment at his wet bare feet, "Egads. How peculiar."

[therewaslife]

"Are you inviting me over for the night?" Bod asked, quietly amused. "Even when I'm all wet and you have a roommate that's slightly flaily?"

[vanillajello]

"My roommate is currently being slightly flaily out of town," Kate replied, choosing not to comment on how that mildly worried her. There were so many other things to worry about, Bobby could take care of himself. "And I own towels."

[therewaslife]

"I might have to sleep in those towels if this keeps up," he said, looking down at himself and once again getting a face full of rain. He needed to stop that. "I could come back to your room if you don't mind a soaking wet Englishman as company."

[vanillajello]

Kate looked mildly amused at his inability to not look down at the rain. It'd probably last until she failed like that too. "Is there a rule that says soaking wet Englishmen can't swing by their own room for dry clothes?" she wondered. "Or, if they're really too tired to make the climb, that they can't sleep naked while their soaked clothes dry in the bathroom?"