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Tweak says, "we never go out of style"

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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Babs and Dick

batgirlbabs
2019-11-02 05:47 am UTC (link)

The more they sort of wandered around the more it was starting to become apparent that this wasn't the sort of brilliant find she'd hoped for and it was instead something else entirely. But it didn't have to be a complete waste did it? They could still have a little bit of fun here, maybe they could find - well she didn't know what exactly they could find, but maybe they could find something to take back with them.

Whatever they did though it'd be together and that felt like enough.

"Sure, they're probably just.... you know around somewhere." She agreed, trying to keep her spirits up and not let the weirdness of this place overtake her. "Maybe we'll find something interesting."

Walking further down the lobby together something interesting did catch Barbara's attention and she pulled Dick along with her as she went to inspect it. "Wow look at this," She said standing over what looked like a miniature hedge maze. "Can you imagine being in something like this?" She shook her head just picturing it, "That's like those corn-field mazes you see, I don't know how people ever want to do those."

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Babs and Dick

ohboywonder
2019-11-05 12:56 am UTC (link)

Even if this trip turned into an absolute bust, Dick was happy to be there with her. Hell, they could just run outside into the snow, build a snowman, and then find the door back to town and that'd be fine with him. They just shared the sort of connection that no matter what they were doing, there was a level of greatness to it because it was them. Whether they were just sitting back in town in their house doing nothing but hanging out in their house or exploring a creepy seemingly abandoned hotel they had no idea how to get out of, Dick was happy because he was with her. It'd always been like that. It felt good to feel that with her, even if they were from different worlds. They were still Babs and Dick, and that was perfect.

When he spotted the hedge maze she pointed out to him, his eyebrows rose. Curiously, he wondered what it would be like. Probably terrible and make him feel like the walls were closing in on him and he wasn't about that life. "Could you imagine Bruce in one of those? I'd pay to watch that." He passed a hand across her back as he looked out the window, and again, he just felt that terribly unsettled sensation course through his body.

"It looks like you could get trapped forever in that thing."

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Babs and Dick

batgirlbabs
2019-11-07 04:18 am UTC (link)

This wasn't exactly what she'd imagined for this trip, but she wasn't too worried just yet - it just might not be the spectacular victory she'd hoped for. Which was only slightly disappointing. She did love a good victory. But really, having Dick with her? That kind of felt like a victory all on its own.

"Oh my god," Barbara had to laugh at Dick's suggestion. "I don't think I could handle that." She admitted, looking over the maze again she shook her head at the thought of anyone being stuck inside something like that, she pictured the hedges growing so tall that they blocked out the sky and all there would be was twisting lanes of green without an end in sight. She shivered at the thought, like her body was trying to get it out of her head.

"It's not exactly the sort of fun filled maze one might hope for." She agreed, there was just something a little bit unsettling about this place, she didn't know what it was exactly, but something didn't feel right.

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Babs and Dick

ohboywonder
2019-11-08 06:46 pm UTC (link)

If there was anyone he'd want to be stuck in a creepy abandoned hotel in, it was Barbara Gordon. Granted, he could say that about literally any location and it'd be true. Violent alley in Gotham? Barbara. Tropical island with ocean front views? Barbara. She wasn't the same Barbara from his world, but that didn't matter. This was their world, currently (well, not the creepy hotel, but the town they were living in), and they belonged to each other in it. That was simple enough for Dick, and he liked learning about the differences and similarities in their worlds. It was fun, getting to know each other all over again. Falling in love with her all over again. What a victory that was.

Dick was not setting foot in that maze. They were highly skilled in a number of ways, but freakish corn maze navigation wasn't something he could say was on his list of abilities and he wasn't about to push that. "Er.." He thought he heard something. Was that a child's voice? "Did you hear that? Please say no so we can ignore it." He definitely didn't want to investigate that but knew there was no way they couldn't if she'd heard it too.

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