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Tweak says, "Engage!"

Richie Trashmouth Tozier (trashmouthloser) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-10-23 19:28:00

Entry tags:

barbara gordon, dick grayson, eddie kaspbrak, gamewide plot, natasha romanoff (mcu), remus lupin, richie tozier, siri tachi (sw), sirius black

Who: Anyone who wants to have a comfortable but bad time.
What: Some Spoop at the Overlook: Haunted Psychic Hotel of Doom
Where: Sidewinder, Colorado
When: Length of the Halloween Plot.

During the warm summer and spring months, The Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado does excellent business: visitors thrive on a wonderful view of the Rocky Mountains while being able to enjoy remote quiet and catered comfort.

In the winter though, the snow is too plentiful and dangerous to allow visitors to come and go freely — and so the Hotel becomes a sleepy quiet place with less than a skeleton staff. The empty halls, fully stocked kitchen and bars and choice pick of rooms should be a delight for anyone who ends up there. But the halls are less empty and quiet than what they might originally appear.

All roads lead to Room 237.

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Nat | Siri

alwaysactive
2019-10-27 05:32 am UTC (link)

What had happened with James had been a fluke, Natasha decided. A one time thing that would not be repeating itself. But one bad night in a forest was not enough to keep her from exploring the doors again. Though this time she was more heavily armed than she had been before. Silly of her to go without such things, but something about the town had made her feel like she didn't necessarily need to worry about carrying around a weapon with her at all times.

Things were perhaps not quite as idyllic as she might have liked them to be. But in any case she was ready to try again, something about all of this made her feel invincible. She'd died once before and found herself here after - why should she worry about death a second time?

At least that's what she told herself as she peered through the door way a second time that week - it looked far more benign than the woods had. Warmly lit and inviting even if it was quiet. Natasha decided it was worth a look - though just before she stepped in someone else came into the house and she turned back to see a woman there she had not met.

"Are you planning on going through today?" She asked her, "Care for a little company? I was just going to see what I might find through here." She held out a hand to show off what looked to be the interior of a hotel. "I'm Natasha."

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Nat | Siri

knight_siri
2019-10-28 01:57 am UTC (link)

"Siri. And yes, it seems I can't stay away, no matter how alien the surroundings on the other side." She said it with a quirk of her lips, almost sarcastic even if there was a strong thread of truth there. The doors were beyond foreign; they were utterly without rhyme or reason, she swore. On the other side of the door Natasha had open, it looked like a rather plain open building. Perhaps some sort of gathering place. Of course, that didn't mean it wasn't dangerous. Siri found, regretfully, that she couldn't sense what was on the other side of the door until she was through it.

"Natasha. I don't think I had seen you around. Are you new here? Admittedly, I am not always the most social." No apology in that. With a practiced eye, Siri took in both Natasha's economy of movement and her weapons. "And from one fighter to another, I think I wouldn't mind at all if we stuck together."

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Nat | Siri

alwaysactive
2019-10-28 03:49 am UTC (link)

Natasha laughed a little at that statement and nodded, "I know exactly what you mean." She had good reason not to go back in again, at least not for a while, considering her last trip through. The first had been benign enough, but something about ending up in a crazy forest filled with monsters straight out of a fairy tale didn't really encourage her or anyone else from going back in again. But she wasn't ready to write it off just yet, she thought maybe it was just a one time thing, after all they'd said the doors could take you anywhere. If they only ever went to places that were dangerous none of them would go through any more she was sure of that much at least.

But this looked fine, a normal enough sort of hotel by the looks of it, maybe a little bit dated. "No I don't think we've met yet." She agreed, "I'm newish, I showed up just in time for all of that excitement earlier this month." She told her, which had been an experience to be sure, not one that she thought she'd have ever had - but she was back to herself now, in her own body, as grown as she was when she had arrived here. "I think that would be a pretty good idea." She agreed. "My last time through was a little bit more exciting than I'd planned for it to be, I don't plan on being taken by surprise a second time." Which was a little unfair really, she was taken by surprise every now and again, but she had been unprepared last time, that at least wouldn't be repeated.

So with Siri's agreement that they could stick together for this, Natasha stepped through. "It's strange, how these doors work, have you been through often?" She asked looking around the room looking for potential threats as well as just taking in the view.

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Nat | Siri

knight_siri
2019-10-31 02:47 am UTC (link)

"I've gone through quite a few times now, although I haven't been here much longer than you. And thankfully, I stayed my own age." Siri grinned, unrepentant at her good luck. "You can't begin to imagine the pain in the ass I was as a kid. It took a lot to get me to mellow out."

Still, as they stepped through, Siri felt the change in the atmosphere almost instantly. Her smile dimmed, became a more serious mien. "I've been going through door after door to try and find something close to my world," she admitted, unclipping her saber from her belt although she didn't turn it on as yet. "In our galaxy, space travel was common, expansive. I'm a Jedi, a protector of the peace, and I was so used to missions taking me from planet to planet. To be confined to just one small town on one surface..." She shook her head. "It's been....frustrating. But these doors aren't necessarily any better." She turned carefully, her senses up as she scanned. It seemed just a general sense of malaise, of violence.

"This is not a good place," she murmured, almost resigned. "Our combined luck doesn't seem to be particularly great."

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Nat | Siri

alwaysactive
2019-11-02 05:39 am UTC (link)

"Oh now that just makes you lucky," Natasha grinned, "All the more reason to go through with you." Sure being a kid again hadn't been terrible, but she certainly wouldn't have been eager to relive all of those years again.

But here they were stepping through the doors together and it was - well it was strange, because it seemed normal enough as far as she was concerned, a little older perhaps, but sometimes hotels could be like that, taking their time catching up, hell it could even be Russian they were always just a little bit dated when compared to the rest of the world. She saw the way Siri reached for something on her belt, Natasha didn't feel the same sort of things that Siri did, but she could take a hint. She reached for her own gun ready to use it if it became necessary.

"The doors are strange," She agreed as Siri talked while they looked around, taking it all in, "I don't really understand how they work yet, I heard they could be fun at times, but I'll be honest, that hasn't exactly been my experience just yet." Between the city she'd ended up in with Eddie, which had been fine if a bit benign, or the forest with James, which had been a little bit more harrowing than she'd planned for and then this? She failed to see how anyone would call these things fun.

Natasha pressed her lips together and frowned while Siri told her this wasn't a good place. "Maybe we should head back then?" She suggested, no sooner had the words left her mouth than the door that they'd come through swung shut. "That is exactly what I was hoping wouldn't happen."

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Nat | Siri

knight_siri
2019-11-10 01:40 am UTC (link)

Siri turned at the same time, looking as the door sealed itself, stifling a curse. "I was all for it," she said, dryly, gesturing at the door. "I thought, hey, we could check out a few until we found a nice beach with a minimum of deadly obstacles. Boring, perhaps, but I would have taken it." She looked back to the lobby, scanning. "The doors as of late have had....other ideas."

Stepping fully towards the lobby, she added, "I'll admit, I'm not sure why they are suddenly acting up. I've gone through a solid dozen or so and until this week, they behaved as expected. And the last time they trapped me, I couldn't tell you what made the door open again. But it did." She glanced over at Natasha. "We have to rely on that staying true."

Nothing jumped out at her in the lobby, although Siri stretched her senses to the limit. "It feels like...like death," she murmured, frowning deeply. "But I don't smell or hear anyone. Do you? Just...doors, a hallway of doors." If nothing else, perhaps one of those would open to another, less strange world.

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Nat | Siri

alwaysactive
2019-11-10 04:05 am UTC (link)

Natasha was not pleased with this turn of events, it was not at all what she'd planned for her third trip through the doors, not after what she and James had dealt with. And it looked like this was the sort of thing that was going to go just as well as that trip had gone. She wondered at the doors certain that she would have been told, warned even by James or Clint or Tony or Steve if things like this were a regular occurrence, but they hadn't said anything - she'd assumed the forest had been a once off - but that did not seem to be the case.

"I'm going to have to start thinking this sort of thing is simply how these doors operate if this keeps happening." She said with a sigh, moving with Siri as they explored the lobby of this newest location, not sure what to make of it. It seemed plain, boring almost despite the heavy feeling that hung in the air around them.

She frowned looking around the place with a sigh, "I don't see anything either." She didn't like it at all - a place didn't just feel like this for no reason. "I suppose we'll just have to... try all of the doors until we find the one that will get us back."

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