The front door of the hotel creaks open, and a rust colored little robot rolls his way in, hauling a cooler behind him, and humming a cheery showtune. Slowly, he rolls to a stop as he realizes that this is not his house. In fact, it doesn't look much like any place he's seen before ( Read more... )

For those who have had a little too much candy and decide to walk off it off, or are just sick of the orange and black and in need of of a scenery change, if you happen to wander outside there's something ... Peculiar ( Read more... )

The lobby of the hotel has been decorated for halloween, black and orange streamers hanging from the walls and balloons bouncing around both the ceiling and floor. Bowls of snacks, chips and pretzels and various kinds of candy are set around the room and construction paper, faces drawn in black crayon on carefully cut out orange paper, are taped ( Read more... )

She doesn't know where she is.

That's no different than anyone else in the hotel, but she's not used to it, and it scares her. A second ago, she was sure she was back at the apartment, getting ready for another fast-food dinner delivered by Matt, but she's instinctively sure that he's not here. In fact, she knows that he's back there, and that's ( Read more... )

If anyone's in the lobby, they might notice a five year old boy, looking around with wide blue eyes.  This definitely doesn't look anything like his house.  Or the Daily Planet.  So he heads into the center of the room, still looking around carefully.  "Mom?" he says shakily, his breath coming a little quicker now.  "Mommy?"

Typist: So -- this would ( Read more... )

All right. So one nerdtacular reporter has set up a table in the lobby. He's sitting behind it, making sure everything is in decent order. A sign hanging off of the front of the table says in large block letters 'WEEKLY KEY: HOTEL NEWSLETTER: INFORMATION AND SIGN UP TABLE ( Read more... )

In a corner of the lobby, a little girl sits on the floor with a large teddybear dressed like a ballerina, a plastic tea set and a small pitcher of juice. She chatters to the bear as she pours the juice for their tea party, though occasionally she stops for a few moments, looking a bit sad. The bear doesn't talk back like Mimzy did, not really. ( Read more... )

Violet can be found out by the pool, plugged into her music player. She's far too pale to even think of tanning, so she's just enjoying the sun and her music, huge sunglasses almost taking over her face ( Read more... )

Chancellor Palpatine sat in his office, staring out at the vast city which he was now in supreme control of and glowered ( Read more... )

She isn't cold anymore ( Read more... )