Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Feet Below Fandom, Friday

[designateddadfriend]

They'd handwavily gotten the ladder truck on its wheels, but even with the ladder extended, they'd only been able to confirm that the ceiling was solid.

There'd be no getting out that way.

Which meant Travis was officially out of ideas. So people were just going to have to bear with him while he treated himself to another sad lump day over in the toppled station.

[some ocd coming]

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New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

Should anyone fall in today!

Re: New arrivals

[sharp_man]

Sometime around midday, a porch fell through a large hole, followed a minute later by a three-story house, tumbling as it went, which finally landed...about 85 degrees upright, one side on top of the porch.

After a moment of silence as things settled, the first noise from it was a strange, loud meow in protest.

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[alwaysonguard]

Dwight groaned as he emerged from the disheveled pile that was the table and chairs of the breakfast nook.

"Oww, oww, oww," he groaned partly from the rough landing but also from the tiny razor-like claws that were sunk deep into his arm as a terrified kitten clung to him.

"Hannibal!" He called out as he staggered to his feet. "You ok?"

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[sharp_man]

Hannibal grunted. "Bruised a bit, but structurally sound," he called back, picking himself up off the stairs and letting go of the railing he'd clung to. "Which is more than I can probably say for my house," he sighed.

He made his way down the slope to the front door and opened it, to get immediately assaulted by a frantic, glittery flamingo. He put up his hands and tried to stave it off, only to have it cling to his shoulders, wrap its legs and wings around his head, and sit there getting feathers on him.

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[designateddadfriend]

Even on a sad lump day, that was hard to miss.

Travis came out of the sideways fire station and stared at the mansion.

"Well . . . at least it's not on fire again."

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[sharp_man]

Hannibal had managed to calm the glittery flamingo that was still staying pressed up against him, and scooped up Beethoven in his arms to keep him from attacking it, and really, this was not his day.

"Of course not," he answered. "Why should the island repeat itself?" He looked around at the blackness. "Where are we?"

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"In a . . . very big hole," Travis said, looking around. "That's about all we've got."

Re: New arrivals

[sharp_man]

Hannibal sighed. He looked around. "I'm not sure if I need coffee or a drink to handle this. Perhaps I should check on my carafe and liquor cabinet. There's no way out, I take it?"

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[stykera]

Being stuck down here was bad. Being stuck down here when entire buildings might just coming crashing down at any moment was worse. But at least it snapped Stark out of his mood for long enough to go investigate the house that was now in the hole.

"Is anyone hurt?" He asked as he approached. That, at least, was something he could help with.

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[sharp_man]

"I'm bruised but acceptable, and I haven't checked Dwight yet," Hannibal said, dusting himself off with the hand that wasn't holding the cat.

He nodded to Stark. "Although if anybody is, I have a number of well-stocked first aid kits, assuming they survived the fall."

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[stykera]

"What happened?"

Probably a hole had eaten the house but, look, weird things were happening and maybe there was more than one way down here! And if there was more than one way down maybe there was a way out! He didn't think so but it could happen. Maybe.

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[alwaysonguard]

Ok that was a rough landing...
Dwight staggered out of the overturned house, looking around at the surroundings. The tiny kitten still clinging to him meowed in disapproval, and he had to agree... this did not look good at all.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"Dwight!" Travis called. "You alright over there?"

Re: New arrivals

[alwaysonguard]

Dwight turned and gave Travis a weak thumbs up.

"Alive, bit bruised. and slightly skewered" he said finally getting Joni to retract the claws as she hid against his chest.

"Where the heck are we anyways?" he asked staring up at the dark emptiness above them, suddenly feeling like he was back in Haven dealing with some weird sentient hole Trouble.

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[designateddadfriend]

“In a hole. No, there’s no way out, yes we’ve tried. I’ve been here with Probie since Sunday.”

Hanging in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

For whatever you might be getting up to today.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

If anyone needed Travis, he was sitting in the remains of the kitchen, slowly eating an entire stale baguette.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[lovethatjourney]

"Okay, so showers," Alexis said, leadingly.

She had makeup in her purse here. She did not have dry shampoo.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[long_memory]

Silver had spent three weeks in doldrums and survived it, surely he could manage a few days in a hole. And he wasn't even in charge of anybody this time!

Yes, he'd be sitting over here thinking this would be over by Monday. It was always over by Monday.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[lovethatjourney]

"So you're the only other person here not having some kind of crisis or be likely to go off," Alexis noted.

Therefore she was hanging out with him because she was bored.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[long_memory]

"This really doesn't seem like the place to have a crisis," he said. "Usually you want clear exits for that sort of thing."

Re: Hanging in the hole

[lovethatjourney]

"I guess a lot of people don't get stuck in holes enough to know that."

Weird thing to be judgey about, Alexis.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[stykera]

Stark hadn't really expected that getting the truck upright would help. He was still disappointed that it hadn't.

The disappointment was mostly overwhelmed by increasing anxiety now that he'd spent 2 nights down here. He was trying to be quiet about it, though. He was just pacing, and occasionally muttering to himself.

Re: Hanging in the hole

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meeeeeeeeeee--"

Beaker was sliding down the pole. A lot.

OOC

[designateddadfriend]