FIRE DRILL!, Outside the Dorms, Friday Night into Saturday

[endsthegame]

It started around midnight. Big, purple globs of grape jello, raining down from the sky. Jello drenched the bricks, the emo garden up on the roof, and every window that happened to be on the wrong end of the wind.

An hour later, the dorm sirens began blaring.

By then, the lawn was already coated in a thin layer of jello, and it did not look like the weather had any intention of letting up.

[[ FIRE DRILL! open to all students! ]]

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[rebelseekspizza]

So the downside of not wearing much to bed was that when a fucking fire drill happened, you had to scramble for some pants real fast.

And Dante hadn't really bothered to put on anything else. So there he stood, shirtless, with jello dripping down on him. He was... just going to take this in stride while looking really annoyed, thanks.

"Shitting hell."

[vrajna_kralis]

Hyacinthe had a similar problem. He wore pants to bed in deference to Roscoe, but he'd been too startled by the sudden blaring noise to even think about more clothing than that.

"What in blazes?"

[seeks_truth]

"This is ridiculous," Cassandra muttered.

She had fashioned a makeshift umbrella out of a shirt, which she was presently holding above her head. She refused to indulge this nonsense.

[crimson_sister]

"Why do we have to endure this?" Lucille asked. She had been less prepared, and by now it was pointless trying to avoid the jelly. Her hair would take a long time to wash after this.

[faithseesred]

Faith was not so familiar with the concept of fire drills. But she was a light sleeper, and she knew that sirens meant 'get out,' so she had followed the crowd.

The jello did not make things any clearer, for the record.

And now she was frazzled, from her spectacular bed head down to her wide eyes down to her sock-clad feet. This place really knew how to shake a girl awake.

[boneyard_girl]

"Rainin' jello is new t' me," Ada said, wandering over to her new little sister, looking up and shielding her eyes with one hand. "Candy, sure. Jello...don't think I been caught out in jello b'fore."

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot wasn't so bothered by the whole lack of sleep thing, since Peridot didn't sleep. She was a bit disgruntled about the sticky purple stuff that was seeping into her lib enhancers, though. Ugh. She was going to have to soak herself in the ocean after this just so that she wasn't sticking to things, wasn't she?

[intotheout]

Once she'd managed to get Bill to stop panicking, Tip had convinced him to make a bubble umbrella for them instead. He had to continuously remake the thing as the jello kept popping the bubbles, but they were still relatively clean when they came up to Peridot.

"Want some cover?"

[got-hijacked.livejournal.com]

Rhys was already disgruntled enough about being woke up by an alarm. That only got worse once he stepped outside and was hit in the face with some jello.

"Really starting to miss Pandora right now," he said to no one on particular. And then promptly slipped and fell on his face.

[rebelseekspizza]

Oh, hey. It was the constant whiner. Dante eyed him.

Or rather, looked down at him. "You need a hand there, buddy?"

Heh.

[dwarvenswagger]

"What sort of madness is this?" Thorin demanded. Because seriously, jello was getting everywhere and it was disgusting.

He was going to stab whoever was responsible for this. He really was.

[thewrathofkaan]

The string of profanity that poured out of Roscoe's mouth as he dragged himself out of the dorms only to have jello fall on his head was frankly impressive. And disgusting.

He was wearing a blanket as pants. He wasn't about to try zipping something up over his junk when he was this tired, thanks.

[rebelseekspizza]

"They sure fucking know how to time it," Dante muttered, eyeing him. "At least you don't have hair."

Though the jello meant Dante's was finally fixed in the mohawk he was usually too lazy to make.

[boneyard_girl]

On one hand, Ada was really, really glad she'd been sleeping alone and wearing pajamas tonight. On the other, she was really, really annoyed that her favorite pair of pajamas was getting ruined by jello.

At least her shorts were mostly-long enough to hide the scales on her legs, and it was too dark out for anyone to see anything clearly, especially with the jello sill coming down.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Man, look who managed to get out of the door all dressed," Dante called.

Yeah, he was annoyed by all the fucking jello, but why take it all so seriously?

[good_for_six]

On the plus side Rivaini clothing was just as easy to get into quickly as it was to get out of (not that it might have necessarily been a problem if that wasn't the case, but she at least liked to choose when to scandalise people), on the minus side, Rivaini clothing did not do well with purple, gelatinous foodstuffs.

"This is much sexier to read about!"

[boneyard_girl]

Well, that was almost a challenge, wasn't it?

Ada held out her hands to catch some jello, and then tossed it in Isabela's direction.

[snipsnspecks]

Nope. Ahsoka wasn't precious about mess by any means, but nope. Concentrating, she used the Force to nudge the rain away from her.

If anyone noticed she'd spin some bantha poodoo about her montrals and lekku keeping it off her clothes.

[got-hijacked.livejournal.com]

"Is this normal?" Rhys asked, voice going up at the end as he nearly slipped in the jello again.

[spell_chucker]

The siren alone was annoying enough, but the way the lawn squished under Khadgar's boots was just not right. He was grateful that he'd been sleeping with a tunic and pants on, and that he'd managed to be awake enough to grab his cloak before running out the door. Of course, he felt terribly overdressed as he looked around, but at least he wasn't turning purple?

[faithseesred]

Faith had her arms crossed over her chest as she stalked over to Khadgar. She was cold and annoyed, in just a tank top and shorts that were really closer to underwear than actual shorts. The jello that kept landing in globs in her hair wasn't helping her mood.

"Do you know what's going on here?" she demanded.

[crimson_sister]

A fire drill? Was this truly necessary? Lucille looked up at the school, her long hair and nightgown covered in jello. Needless to say, she was not in a good mood.

[dwarvenswagger]

At least everyone else was in the same boat. The same, grumpy boat.

"Does this island exist to vex us?" Thorin hissed through clenched teeth.

[notouchykuzco.livejournal.com]

"For the record, this wasn't me!" Kuzco said loudly.

He was still pretty close to the door so he could beat Rhys to the room and lock him out. Again.

[thewrathofkaan]

"Now you're making it sound like it was you," Roscoe told Kuzco, eyeing him suspiciously. "Did you try to make Easy Mac with the lid on or something?"

[intotheout]

So when the fire alarm went off, Bill panicked. Which was why a giant vaguely person shaped cloud of bubbles was walking down the stairs and out the door, explaining that most fire drills weren't because of actual fires please calm down I can't see.

At least he hadn't rushed off to try to put out any fires with his bubbles.

[teenagewarhead.livejournal.com]

Negasonic had grabbed a coat to cover the shorts and tank top she had been sleeping in but neglected to put on shoes.

Standing in Jello? Not fun. But she wasn't going to complain. Nope. Just going to stand there in an angry silence.

[thewrathofkaan]

"Sorry life is bullshit," Roscoe said lazily, sauntering over with his bedsheet cinched around his waist. "You can nap on me if you want."

Best big sibling ever, right?

[wildandbrave]

. . . well, Cosette had been up reading anyway, and still had her book in hand, so when she got outside and saw what it was raining, she sighed and tucked the book as carefully as she could under her arm.

At least it was hers, and not from the library. If she'd damaged one of her own charges she'd never have forgiven herself.f

[not_every_mage]

Anders had grabbed Lachlan on his way out the door, and wished with all his heart that he hadn't. The jello rain would have annoyed him enough, but it was intolerable when you were trying to keep hold of a cat who seemed determined to thoroughly investigate every ball of the stuff.

In the end, he stuffed the cat inside his jacket. They'd both need a bath after they were allowed back in, but it could be worse.

[rebelseekspizza]

"He's gonna claw the shit out of you for this, y'know," Dante commented. His mohawk was standing firmly on end after several attempts to wipe the jello from his hair. It was a pain in the ass.

[hidingthorns.livejournal.com]

Margaery was not happy. She'd had a perfectly lovely evening, had drifted off to sleep, and then been rudely awoken by this.

She was standing in the downpour with her arms crossed across her chest, scowling. Her nightdress was thin, and now clinging to her with clumps of jelly.

[giveherahand]

"This doesn't normally happen," Mara said, "but when it does, it's completely obnoxious."

[cracksmostly]

You'd think Merrill would be used to inclement weather, going from place to place and living out of aravels the way the Dalish did. It wasn't like Thedas didn't have inclement weather.

Thedas didn't have jello rain, though. Jello rain that dripped off the tips of her ears and was oddly sticky and --

"Oh, that's sweet, but it doesn't taste like anything real."

In the end she managed to find a tree to stand under, and miiiiight have used a spell to coax it to grow a little more effective leaf cover.

[dwarvenswagger]

"How are you not covered in this accursed slime?" It was jello, Thorin. It's like you're not even trying to catch up with the times. Geeze.

[vrajna_kralis]

Things Hyacinthe had absolutely no experience with: fire alarms, fire drills, jello, jello raining from the sky, the combination of all of these things.

He was currently standing in the 'rain', wearing only thin pants that were soon clinging to the curve of his legs, expression ranging from baffled to aggravated and back.

[spell_chucker]

"Do you know what the alarm is for?" Khadgar asked. He'd seen Hyacinthe in some of his classes and, well, anyone had to know more about this place than Khadgar did. "This doesn't bode well for the weekend."

[giveherahand]

Ugh. This was the worst. Mara stood as close to a tree as she could--at least until it dumped jello down the back of her t-shirt.

"Awful," Mara groused.

[vrajna_kralis]

Hello pretty redhead he'd noticed in class but hadn't had a chance to talk to yet. Because as terrible as this situation was, it could only be improved by flirting with someone very pretty.

"Would that I had something to lend," Hyacinthe said apologetically, standing in front of her clad only in very thin cotton pants. "Alas, I can but offer several new invectives to explain how thoroughly miserable this situation is."

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

Frank was standing outside with his rather nice pajamas and a nightcap. Which he promptly drank.

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