That's where you wanna go to get away from it all...

[headmasterhand.livejournal.com]

Who: WHOEVER
What: A FABULOUS ISLAND VACATION
Where: TIKI ISLAND
When: July 22nd-July 29th August 5th
Warnings: SHENANIGANS

Ah, the simple pleasures of sun, sand, sea and sky.

After a rather uneventful plane ride, the collective staff and students of the Academy find themselves on a quaint tropical island resort, to commence what should prove to be a very relaxing and well-deserved break before classes resume.



Everyone is swiftly brought to the resort proper, a straw-and-bamboo complex that will be home for the weeks. Though slightly archaic-looking, the hotel is surprisingly modern, with all the amenities of a luxury hotel.



Hang at the tiki bar! Enjoy delicious island food and drink. Chill at the pool or the beach. There are even tiki golf carts to get you around in style. Then, when you're tired, head back to your room and crash.

Should you choose to explore the jungles that surround the resort, you'll soon find the remnants of some kind of ancient civilization. Rumors abound at the hotel of unfathomable treasure...and of terrible curses.

But they're probably just rumors. Right?



Hello and welcome to a Very Fabulous Smash Academy Island Vacation! Please use this log as a hotel hub for meetings and general interaction! When you start a thread, remember to put a location/description/date or time in the subject line, and link when you thread-hop.

Beyond this, you are encouraged to make your own journal posts (the hotel has internet for logging onto the school network, of course) and logs (be sure to tag them with *event - island vacation). Should you decide to log some cursed temple adventures, please be warned you might be surprised by a mod-type NPC. Additionally, if you would like this mysterious NPC anywhere, just poke a mod and we'll take care of it for you. Curses and treasures can, of course, be anything you'd like them to be! Refer to the original event post for more details.

As always, let a mod know if you have any questions. Happy vacationing!

Comments

I guess this is the 22nd yey

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

Vinnie was enjoying the sun elsewhere, in a lush clearing surrounded by trees. Strange that he'd never been anywhere distinctly tropical before, but it was so easy to feel right at home here. The air was thick with the smells earth, sea, and flora, and the sun was deliciously strong. There was even a spring. Everything was lovely.

It didn't so much matter to him that the resort's many facilities were going unused - the opportunity to soak in this gorgeous biome was all he could ask for.

It felt like a private enough spot, so for the first time in weeks the Venusaur let loose and shifted back into his natural form. Pop! He settled in the grass, content and determined to have a restful, uneventful afternoon.

Ha. HA HA.

[marieba.livejournal.com]

Wrong!

While Vinnie was enjoying the sun, a Bulbasaur was running around the island, confused and upset. Of course the first person he spotted was Vinnie. For the moment, he tried to forget about the whole I-don't-want-to-talk-to-you thing. He wanted someone to talk to.

He skidded on the grass and sat on the grass next to the big Venusaur. He didn't say anything. Instead, he opted to hyperventilate.

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

The Venusaur was very happily about to drift off into the land of naps right about then. With his eyes closed and his brain in lazymode, he was about to write off the noise as just some forest critter. Maybe a large bug attracted to his scent. Whatever. He had sleeps to work on.

Then again, bugs didn't usual hyperventilate, did they. No, he was sure they didn't. And it didn't smell like a bug, it smelled like...

His bulgy red eyes blinked open, staring confoundedly at the new arrival. "What the--?"

[marieba.livejournal.com]

Marie's wide eyes shifted to Vinnie's now-open ones. Can you see how distraught he is, Vinnie? Because he is clearly distraught.

"Vinnie," Marie whined. "I'm a Bulbasaur."

Oh, dear. He was starting to cry again.

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

What is this

What is

What

Vinnie immediately leapt to his feet. As normally ecstatic as he'd be about seeing any sort of Bulbasaur around, it was an entirely different story if said Bulbasaur used to be an entirely different guy. (And it was easy to tell who, the whines of little brother voices was very familiar.)

First, the obvious: "What the fucking shit? How the hell'd this happen?!" Despite his choice of words, the Venusaur's voice was filled with worry.

[marieba.livejournal.com]

Thankfully Vinnie recognized him. That was worrying him, actually. Honestly, what if no one recognized him, and then they wouldn't believe him and they would think he was a Marie imposter or something equally ridiculous? That would be horrible. Oh god, but what if he was stuck like this and he'd have to tell Red and Red wouldn't love him anymore because he wasn't a Squirtle anymore and oh god?

Marie took a deep breath.

"I was going to go swimming or whatever! But Max was there and he pulled me into the thing and he's a Venusaur and now I'm a Bulbasaur and I hate it," he cried. "I don't know what to doooooo."

[punchvolcanoes]

Sasha had come to ask if both of them where interested in a game of beach volleyball. After all if the four of them could get together and...

She saw Marie.

And stared.

And stared.

And stared.

When she spoke, it was only three words.

"What the FU--"

The camera moved away from where everyone was standing. A flock of seagulls flew in the sky.

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

What a convenient camera change. Why didn't it ever happen with Vinnie?

But oh no Marie was really and truly freaking out. He gave Sasha a helpless look of help I have no idea how to fix this before giving Bulbasaur-Marie a brief nuzzle with the side of his nose.

That was just how Saurs comforted, you'll have to get used to the quadruped life now. But he had started smelling so sweet that it was pretty calming.

hi i'm tagging 3000 years later please don't hate me

[marieba.livejournal.com]

Sasha's yelling only seemed to make things worse. Marie let out a little shriek as the Charizard swore loudly enough to frighten a few birdies. "Don't look at meeee," he whined at Sasha, covering his face with his hands.

Admittedly Vinnie's nuzzling and the familiar sweet scent was somewhat comforting. He rest his head on the Venusaur's big bumpy one and let out a loud sigh. His negative feelings he had previously felt towards Vinnie seemed to suddenly disintegrate.

I WILL NEVER STOP FORGIVING YOU <3

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

Aw, lookit that. And all it took was a dip in a transformative cursed pool.

"Dude, it'll be okay," he murmured in low, Venusaur grumbles. "It'll wear off. It's gotta. I mean, other people've been turned into stuff before. Even Max's been a Bulbasaur."

this be before a marie-ba

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

Neph hadn't been on a boat in quite awhile, and after getting off it, was just looking for a nice green spot to relax in. So when she saw a giant flowertoad laying in the grass she wandered into, she stared. What was it...there was a giant flower growing out of its back...HOW CAN THIS BE. Not thinking it through all the way, she snuck up, and gently touch the flower.

why hello there

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

Generally there are a few rules to handling Pokemon. Don't mess with a Charizard's tail. Don't touch a Nidoking's spines. Don't pull a Ninetales's tail. Any experienced trainer could tell you this sort of thing.

As it turns out, Venusaurs were pretty sensitive about their flowers. Especially ones whose plant symbiotes had already suffered lasing injury before.

With hardly any warning, the creature was awake and on all fours, growling defensively. He was kind of big actually. And not that pleased looking.

The best start to a relationship, clearly

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

Whoops. She tried to be gentle, but apparently it didn't work! And he was very big. Holy Yune, he was probably a full foot above her! She jumped back, waving her hands a bit.

"I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't know it was real touchy! I thought it was just like a normal plant!" Neph, it's actually growing out of its back, how did you think this?

best friends forever

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

The wide-mouthed toad dinosaur thing glared at her with its red, bulgy eyes, as though trying to weigh the pros and cons of forgiving her. After a moment, he gave a big, grumpy huff and sat himself back down on the grass.

This was vacation, and vacation meant taking a break from fighting. It was probably an honest mistake even though seriously how did you think it was a normal plant?

He wasn't going back to sleeping though. You went and woke him all up.

totally man

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

Neph frowned and, very carefully, pulled out some Pokemon treats she had from being with Tillie. Kneeling in front of him, she placed her hand on the grass, full of yummy poke-treat goodness, "Um...this is ta say I'm sorry, big fella. You're a Pokemon, right?" Though this was guesswork on her part, she thought she had seen a picture of it in the book Marie had given her (not that she had read that much, given the decided lack of ability at that point.).

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

The Venusaur eyed the food on the grass, not looking particularly hungry. After all, he'd been a photosynthesizing machine all day, filled with tasty sunlight. But then again, he knew a peace offering when he saw it.

They did smell nice. So, he made himself comfortable and nibbled on a piece. Then another piece. And then another, until they were all gone.

AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[manlieststarter.livejournal.com]

What. Is that smell.

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

Oh god what is that smell

Vinnie knew what that smell was

Vinnie dreaded what that smell was

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[manlieststarter.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, in your little clearing in the forest or wherever it is that you were at, a man walks through the foliage.

A large man. A large man wearing no shirt. A large man wearing no shirt, covered in tattoos. A large man wearing no shirt, covered in tattoos and with vivid green hair.

"Oh, hey," said Max. "Thought I'd find you here. I think I can smell you better now."

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile Vinnie looked like he just wanted to perish, instantaneously, on the spot. Max smelled like a garden growing in a weightroom. Sweatflowers. That's what the aroma was.

"...Fuck."

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[manlieststarter.livejournal.com]

Max looks confused. "You ain't happy I'm a venusaur? Thought you'd be happy to have another one around."

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

"You," he pointed at Max, visibly annoyed, "are not a Venusaur. You're a guy who's been turned into a Venusaur. And now M's a Bulbasaur, and he's freaking the hell out, and this needs to be fucking fixed."

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[manlieststarter.livejournal.com]

"You ain't been goin' to this place long enough, have you? This sorta thing happens all the time. Give it a week, it'll wear off. If Marie's still a bulbasaur and I'm a venusaur in two weeks, then you should worried," said Max, now looking sort of grumpy.

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

"The last time I turned into something, I ended up turning dead, too." Hello cursed pool of the drowned ghost. Yes, every time he began to think the school wasn't too bad, something weird ended up happening again. This didn't exactly tickle Vinnie, even if he spontaneously knew 2 more Saurs than he did before.

"Just cuz everything turns normal in a week doesn't mean this isn't fucking annoying!"

Re: AFTER NOUVEAU MARIE

[manlieststarter.livejournal.com]

"You don't go to war with the army you want, you go to war with the army you've got," said Max. "It happened to me and Marie. We're just gonna have to deal with it. I don't plan on endin' up dead. Marie don't, neither. Short of the Marie of jumpin' in every puddle of water lookin' for the one that turns you into a squirtle and get turned into eighty other things, I don't know how Marie's gonna go back but to just wait it out. He went off to go find you, did he do it? He sorta ran off before I could do anything about it. He's quicker'n me."