Nothing like a day at the movies

[eat_me_beat_me]

Who: Nora and ANYONE
What: Start of the movie theatre lock-in loss.
When: Saturday 3/16
Where: The movie theatre
Rating: Oh let's say R for language

Cramped seats, popcorn dripping with butter, sticky floors and drinks that never seem to last through the whole flick. There really is nothing like going to the movies.

Word had spread through the week since Nora had issued her blanket invitation to the castle and the day had finally come for a movie marathon at the theatre. The popcorn was hot and the projector was ready. All that remained was for everyone to show up and pick a movie

((OOC: Before the movies, during the movies, Midnight. Feel free to put up your own sections. Threadjacking encouraged!!))

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[both_neither]

Gren is not sure getting locked in calls for this kind of reaction. Yeah, the castle isn't the best place to be stuck for a long period of time, but property damage doesn't seem the best way to handle it.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa...calm down..." he says a little alarmed but not at all hiding the smirk on his face. It's not that this is funny, because it's not. It's because he's had a few drinks and gives less fucks than usual about things. "If you throw all the chairs we'll have nowhere to sit."

[panicswitched]

"It was one chair. One. Chair." She's remarkably calm about this, though she looks annoyed at it all. "And I was just checking to see if throwing it would bust the doors open." Unfortunately it hadn't really worked, though she was tempted to use a talon to see if that would.

[both_neither]

"The castle doesn't generally play fair with this kind of thing. If a regular could keep half of the people here locked in then a fraction of what it pulls would never work..."

He'd been subjected to this abuse once or twice, though he personally lacked much ability to do anything about it, outside of the gun he nearly always carried now. But the gun was for other people. The castle didn't care about bullets.

"What did you do before that? With all the red?"

[panicswitched]

"It's worth trying," she snapped, glaring at the door as though that's all its fault. Lifting a leg, she placed her foot squarely against the door and gave it a push. It didn't budge and she let her foot fall back to the ground with an annoyed huff of air.

"I was trying to teleport out. Apparently that's forbidden, too. Gee thanks, jerk castle."

Why couldn't it have taken away her abilities before this?

[both_neither]

"Don't hurt yourself on it's account. It's not like it will just let us die in here."

Which was the best he could offer under the circumstances. There was no telling what else it might do while they were here, but killing it's food sources off seemed the less than desirable option.

[panicswitched]

"It's really hard to hurt myself, trust me."

This time the door got an elbow jab, one that likely should have hurt. She didn't even flinch. Nothing so much as twitched.

"Damnit."

[both_neither]

He flinches a little on her behalf. It's hard to see even if it doesn't actually harm her.

"Okay, I can see that. But still. It's not worth get worked up over."

[panicswitched]

She gives him a stare. "Wow, you guys are really okay with being cooped up like animals, aren't you?"

[both_neither]

He stares back with a hard, blank expression.

"Not really, no. I don't even live in the castle anymore, on a regular basis, because of things like this. But once it's happening to you, it's best to just...let it go."

He's had more than enough experience with being locked up, after all, and he doesn't appreciate the insinuation that he didn't care about that sort of thing. But fighting it had made him crazy, and in the end adapting was always the best way to survive. In any case, prison was still much easier to get away from than a magic, soul-stealing castle.

[panicswitched]

She gave him an incredulous look and turned to walk away to find someone a little less complacent. "Right. You have fun with that. I have something else to figure out." To her it seemed like he was just used to things like this and that didn't sit well with her. Captivity didn't sit well with her and her temper had been sparked.