Will give 32 points! Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

As we hear the voices creep up from down below, small, mildly disturbed voices, highlighting these kind of phrases:

VOICES

Electricity's off.

Phone won't work.

Can't get a thing on the radio.

My power motor won't move, won't work at all.

Radio's gone dead!

Based on the stage direction and the dialogue, what should the reader picture in this scene?

the main characters conversing about the power outage
a single person panicking about the power outage
a mob of people causing chaos by panicking about the outage
the murmurs of a group of people reacting to the outage