It All Is Coming to an End (Open/Active)

[dreadthered]

Characters: All occupants of Hotel Pennsylvania
Content: The place where we lived is gone...so now what?
Location: Hotel Pennsylvania...hope you didn't live in a top floor
Time of day: Morning, during/after the attack
Warnings: Swearing and stuff getting stomped. Likely more.

This was bad.  Renji ran down the street, dammit he knew he should have

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[freudenstachel]

Fortunately, Freudia had been certain to stake out a room on the second floor. When she'd first heard the signs of something terrible happening, she'd made sure to get out of there as soon as possible. She hadn't even considered the Professor... but as much as she cared about him, she had other things to worry about. Like self-preservation, and reading the riot act to whomever had this brilliant idea.

She wasn't about to go back in there, either. Let the fool sort out the rest. She was safe, and while she didn't exactly feel safe just outside of the building, she was a lot more content there than back inside.

[freudenstachel]

Ah, good, someone else had evacuated. She began a brisk walk across the street to join him. "It's good to see some people with sense around here," Freudia said, obviously angered at something. Whatever idiot had invoked the rage of the creature, namely.

[freudenstachel]

Oh, she'd been through worse than a little monster attack. Grow up with someone who throws bombs for fun, see if you don't get a little desensitized. "Indeed," she said, briefly thinking of the Professor, her expression faltering and becoming softer only for an instant. "I doubt whoever enraged the beast in the first place had enough sense to escape, but I hope they are safe all the same." She scowled. "I must have words with them."

[venusloveshock]

Minako had no reason to be up early that morning... She had no reason to even wake up before noon. But the tremors she felt in her bed were more than just parts of her dreams, and it took her several minutes to figure this out. As soon as the pop star realized the sounds she heard and tremors she felt weren't just a nightmare, she jumped from her bed. Holding onto her bedpost for support, Minako did not like the feeling of the entire building shaking. Something was definitely wrong.

Without even bothering to change from her cami and shorts, she slipped on a pair of tennies and started to run down the stairs before she thought of something: Was Renji awake yet? Running back up the few stairs she'd made it down, she ran to Renji's room and started pounding on the door. "Renji! Renji are you in there?"

[dreadthered]

There wasn't much building left really but he somehow managed to get to the hall where his (old) room was and saw Minako standing outside it and banging on the door. He grabbed her wrist to keep her from doing it again, "What the hell are you doing?! This place is about to fall apart!"

[venusloveshock]

Minako glanced up at Renji as he grabbed her wrist. He was right, the place was about to fall apart.. but she'd been concerned about his safety... "I was only trying to make sure you were okay!"

Puffing her cheeks and making a face, she used his grip on her to her advantage and pulled her wrist towards her. "We can yell at each other outside... Let's get out of here," she added with a sense of urgency. He was right, the place was going to collapse any moment now...

[dreadthered]

"So was I," he nearly shouted back. Somewhere down the hall the ceiling caved in and the way they were standing Minako couldn't see it (though she probably heard it)...but Renji did see it. He shouted a curse and without much thought swept Minako up and started running down the hall with her in his arms. The whole place was about to fall on top of them.

He got the two of them back outside and prayed to any higher beings out there that anyone else in the hotel was safe (he didn't know them personally but as a shinigami he worried about the safety of all humans since it was his job to protect them). Renji stared at the rubble where the great hotel had once stood, not realizing he had yet to set the girl down, "Shit."

[simplypuzzled]

The ceiling was shaking.

Layton looked up from his work on the desk to examine it curiously. It would stop shaking in a matter of minutes, wouldn't it?

But then it didn't. He pushed back his chair and was on his feet quickly, turning and bolting out of the room. This is what he was afraid of, and it was happening...there wasn't even enough time to make sure everyone was safe. Layton would have to check on that once he was outside.

The entire hallway was crumbling. He made his way out of the place rather clumsily, jumping over pieces of ceiling that were already starting to fall down and running at top speed down the stairwell. Within a few minutes he was outside. He made his way over to the other side of the street and looked about wildly, trying to see if anyone else had gotten out successfully.

[freudenstachel]

Freudia tore her attention away from the gentleman she was speaking to when she noticed Layton. "Professor!" she called before starting to walk towards him. "I'm glad you're safe." It was a sincere expression, but it didn't sound very happy at all.

[simplypuzzled]

Layton heard Freudia's voice and turned around as fast as he could. Seeing the girl safe lifted something off his back, the worry disappearing for a second. He made his way over quickly, a relieved smile breaking out on his face.

"Freudia! Thank heavens you're alright..." He caught up to her...but then realized: she was still recovering from her injuries, last he remembered. He looked at her sideways out of concern. "That is, you haven't gotten any newer injuries, correct?"

[freudenstachel]

"No, I escaped safely," she proudly told him. It hadn't been a difficult escape, but she was still glad to be unmarred by, well, anything, really. Even the scar on her back had healed quickly, though her shirt was covering that up anyway. "That is less than I can say for the person responsible for enraging the creature in the first place."

[v_tepes_cruz]

All Soma knew was that he had been in bed, and now he wasn't. At some point there had been a rather large noise outside, like the building was being torn apart - and now, this. Buried underneath the rubble of his former suite, Soma tried - and failed - to dig himself out.

And damn it all, having a fairly sizeable portion of one's ceiling on top of one's body HURT. He tried once more to shift the weight, and felt something give - unfortunately, it wasn't the rubble. Something was definitely broken in there, felt like a rib, maybe two. Last time he'd been hurt this bad... Come to think of it, he never had been. -Shit- this was bad.

Drawing the breath to scream hurt like hell, but there wasn't any helping it; if he didn't get help, he was gonna die. No doubt about it.

[knivesnotfire]

The monster had been a problem for a lot of the city now, it seemed. She and her friends were unharmed though, and that was really all that had troubled Mai. Still, her clothing, much to her displeasure, was already covered in dust from the rubble, and at that point it didn't make much of a difference if she went out and 'did some good.' It was something to do anyway.

The hotel was the closest to where she had been at the time of the attack, and so that's where she found herself, walking carefully over the destruction, keeping her eyes peeled for any signs of life. There seemed to be others around, making their way out. That was good. Maybe they didn't need the extra help. Still, it had been a fairly large building, and so she called out loudly at hearing the sudden scream. "Hey, who's down there?"

She tried to pinpoint where exactly from under the rubble it came from.

[flyfromnobility]

Unharmed or not, Balthier was still quite shocked at what had occurred. He wondered if what happened here was similar to what had happened in Nabudis--albeit on a much smaller scale. The unshakable pirate ran a hand through his hair, trying to take all of this in; he wasn't so unshakable at the moment.

The apartment had been flattened. He was certain of that. Why would one building be spared when all others had become dust? Everything inside that he'd gathered... That was gone too. Maybe he'd revisit the spot to see whether or not anything could be salvaged? Maybe there were a few stores he'd missed as well. Surely he hadn't gotten them all, and he hadn't picked things up on every trip he had taken

[v_tepes_cruz]

About the only thing Soma could come up with that fit the situation was a steady string of profanity - and that just wouldn't do at all. No matter what else he was, Soma was not a dirty mouth.

So, he settled on painful noises. Like screams, and grunts, and such-like. Not terribly creative, but then, he was being crushed to death.

"Y'know... this sort of thing is getting really old," he grumped, trying again to get a better point of leverage. "First day I woke up here, I met the damn crabs..." he continued, wincing as his ribs grated.

At about that point, the rubble shifted. A spike of pure, white hot PAIN shot through his body, and the prostrate young man gave out a scream that was pure agony as his entire field of vision bled to red.