LOOK. UP IN THE SKY.

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Who: All of Smash.
What: Dorm log!
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus.
When: March 13th - April 13th. The whole month.
Warnings: YOU KNOW YOURSELVES

We all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good venue for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment, but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR. It's easy!

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Just add a thread with the room number (and date/time, if it matters) and the characters that reside there (just for reference!). You do not have to use one character's thread as a dual-purpose for both characters if you do not want to. Doesn't have to be a dorm room, either, if you have something else in mind.

This month sees the added addition of the fallen Egg Carrier--the debris still litter the lakeside.

Thank you to Angela for the original text! Here are the school's living arrangements, for reference.

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BONUS EVENT TIME!!

March 16th
Are you Irish? No? TOO BAD, you are now. Many of the bars and clubs downtown are having green-flavored festivities. Sure, they're stated to be for those of legal age, but that's never stopped people before, right?

March 23rd - 25th
THE GREAT EXCITEBIKE MIGRATION. Better stay out of the streets or you might get run oveBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbbbbbBBBbBbBBBBBb

April 1st
OH NO IT'S APRIL FOOL'S. Crazy Hand is out and about, slapping unsuspecting students and faculty with fish stickers. What? If you are unfortunate enough to fall victim to his pranking ways, you might find yourself saddled with a minor curse (hair color change, uncontrollable sneezing, anything you want, really) for as long as the sticker is on your person. The catch--try as you might, you can't remove it. Someone else will have to take it off for you, which might be a tall order if the sticker makes you say everything backwards.

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[givemeyouranswerdo]

March 16: The yellow princess became the green princess. Where did she get a green dress? Either way she was getting into the spirit of things for sure.

March 23-25: Where did all these bikers come from? ...Daisy wanted to try too! And so with a bike from her Karting days, she went riding too. Was this some kind of party or festival? Who cares?

April 1: Oh look, Peach was back--Oh wait, no, Daisy had a fish sticker on, and it turned her hair blonde and any clothes she wore pink.

Other: She liked spending time outdoors, practicing soccer, football, anything her whims said.

[thishereismonapizza]

Goggles and all, Mona decides to join in on the great biker madness and mingle with her fellow bikers. Sure, the Mona Cycle might not be classified as a motorbike per say, but all in all, the vehicle was considered a bike to a certain degree. All that mattered in this situation was two wheels, biker duds, and speed. Right? Right.

It caught her by complete surprise when the form of another biker up ahead caught her eye amongst the bodies of the similar looking blokes around her. Mona's eyebrow slightly raised from underneath her eye wear. Huh. Was she seeing things? No, there was definitely a different biker up there a second ago. Where did she come from? Where did she go? Where did you come from Cotton Eyed Joe

A smirk perked up in the corner of her mouth as she revved up the engine for a burst of speed, the wind flying in her face as she sought to catch up to this mysterious biker.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy almost forgot how much she loved biking, or really, karting of any kind. The feel of the wind in her face, the rush of excitement, the sound of the revving engines... And not a blue shell in sight.

But what's this? Another girl on a bike? Er, a vespa? Trying to catch up to her? Daisy didn't like to leave a challenge unanswered. She grinned and revved her bike, swerving around a corner to see how well this new challenger could handle things.

[thishereismonapizza]

Baited and hooked! Her heart pounded hard against her ribs in her chest with the rush. The challenge has been accepted. Time to show Final destination City the true biker queen!

"Thinks she can leave me in the dust...ha! C'mon baby, today we ride!" Hunkering down further and a firm slap to the chrome of her ride, Mona zipped and swerved her vespa through the crowds of bikers in chase. Corners were a tricky business when it came to vespas, the machines didn't have the flexibility to hug the turns snugly. What a vespa did make up for in the lack of tight corners it made up in lightweight build. Making up for loss speed wasn't going to be an problem here.

With the corner approached, Mona angled her cycle wide to make the turn. A bit too wide for her liking, but her eyes were nevertheless back on her sighted target. Smooth sailing from here on out, and hopefully in no time the two bikes could be racing neck and neck down the roads.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy hadn't had a race like this in a while! It was exciting, exhilarating! As Mona's vespa started to gain on her, Daisy glanced behind and called out, "You're good, I'll give you that! But I didn't come this far for second place!"

She revved again, ducking through the crowd of excitebikes, as if to dare Mona to try the same.

[thishereismonapizza]

"Good?!" sputtered Mona. She wasn't merely a simple 'good' according to her standards, she was a great driver and equally a grand racer who could outrun the police in a given chase. If that fact alone didn't show Mona's prestige title for the roads, nothing similar could compete. In the years she'd been driving her vespa, few cops had ever caught her for a ticket. Okay, occasionally one or two, maybe three did, though the huge percentage of escapes outweighed the pull overs.

In saying that, calling her and the Mona Cycle 'good' was like an insult and it burned the fuel to Mona's fire to beat the snot out of the woman at this race.

"Is trying to play chicken the best you've got? Really, that maneuver is soooo lame." she taunted over the roar of bikes clashing. Crowd of Excitebikes not withstanding, Mona took the dare with a full heart and plowed in after Daisy. Like some stupid Excitebikes were going to break her stride, nothing was going to slow her down.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"Oh, I've got better!" Daisy taunted back. "Just gotta make sure you can keep up, girl! C'mon, put your money where your mouth is!" she challenged boastfully.

[thishereismonapizza]

"I don't need to put my money anywhere. I KNOW I can keep up. Question is; can you handle it?" she stuck her tongue out and slipped past another couple of Excitebikes placing herself directly in Daisy's wake. Feisty and seemed to have a competitive streak to boot. A worthwhile challenge indeed. Mona reveled in the though of her new rival potentially eating her dust. No, correct that, WOULD eat her dust. Mona was determined to keep her queenly crown as a biker babe.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"I can handle anything you can throw at me!" Daisy boasted. "Nobody beats Princess Daisy, and I'm not about to start losing now!"

[thishereismonapizza]

"P-princess?!" she jaw dropped and the world seemed to go in slow motion. Mona's concentration faltered and caused the red head to veer off course. Holy crap, was she in a challenge against a princess? An honest to goodness real life princess riding a motorbike like a pro. She always dreamed of going off on some amazing adventure in temple ruins and saving a princess. Never...well, butting heads with a princess on an amazing ride through a foreign town.

Enough to blow the wind out of someone's sails, but clearly not Mona's. Beating a biker princess would be the highlight to her week, a story to tell for years to come. She'd beat this princess biker fair and square (with maybe a few little dirty tricks thrown in) just to get the bragging rights.

Time to get back on track and her head in the game instead of spacing out on the here and now. Shaking her head to clear her thoughts Mona pushed her cycle through the bikes to mingle with the crowds and go unnoticed. Stay incognito and catch Daisy off guard.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy looked back long enough to try and scan the crowd. She lost sight of her new rival... She had to be ready to try something, and Daisy was gonna be ready for it. There were no item boxes to worry about, thankfully, so she didn't have to worry about an incoming shell. But who knew what she was capable of?

She kept on racing, focusing on the road ahead. She was NOT going to be caught off guard here, not with her pride on the line!

[thishereismonapizza]

Like a snake, Mona's vespa slithered through the crowds of bikers like a silent killer, weaving a path this way and that on a course near Daisy's location. When Mona felt she was in the right position, she made herself visible again by rushing out of the chaos and popping a wheelie by Daisy's left hand side.

Plastered on Mona's face was the biggest grin ever, followed by a friendly salute while the Mona Cycle maintained it's wheelie. As if daring Daisy to go ahead and make the next move.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Two can play that game, Mona. Seeing a curve in the road coming up, she decided to show Mona a little trick she picked up from racing... Instead of coasting around the curve, Daisy leaned into a power slide, tires skidding against the road. But behind her bike, sparks began to fly. And when they changed color, the princess came out of the slide, taking off like a shot to boost away from Mona.

Let's see you do THAT.

March 16th

[star_punched]

Today was a weird day for Mac. Usually by now he was outside, doing some kind of training. In fact, did he maybe miss an outing he promised a certain princess today? It wouldn't be intentional, it was probably a soccer or lunch outing. Something like that. But Mac was fussing on the phone all day. If Daisy was curious about what the hell Mac was up to, she would surely find him here.

It would be weird because Mac was really, really, angry on the phone. Probably didn't even notice if Daisy was even right behind him.

"He did what???"

Re: March 16th

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"Mac?" Daisy asked, knocking at his door, clad in her green dress. He was really late to meet her, and she came looking for him. It wasn't like him to be late like that, and seeing him clearly upset on the phone got her all kinds of worried about him.

Re: March 16th

[star_punched]

"Listen, if he's gotten 'imself that drunk, why is he even allowed in there??"

Mac was still yelling on the phone, not angry at the person ON the phone. Just angry in general. But finally, he did turn to look at the green glad woman at the door. He flinched a little, only because he wasn't used to seeing her in green. Not that that was bad! Daisy looked good in everything, she just always wore bright yellows and oranges, to match her bright personality. Just today was the slight softer green. Today was St. Patty's Day, so it was something he knew he had to expect.

Let's face it, he had enough of St. Patty's right now. It was all he was hearing blasting on his phone from work.

He held up a finger saying for Daisy to hold on just a moment, as he could've swore he looked like a deer in headlights. The raging fire, fire for Mac at least, left him.

"Hey, listen. I gotta go," Mac said as he heard a barrage of yells on the other line. "No no no, you can call me later. Sure he's gonna get bored and leave. Yeah yeah, I know, bud. You hadta vent, no no no. No, it's cool. Catch you later."

Click. Mac then let out a huge sigh, breathing in deeply even. Then he got a really sheepish expression.

"...Sorry."

Re: March 16th

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"No problem," she answered. Daisy, by contrast, was dead serious. Worried, afraid for him... That was more heated than she'd heard from him in a long time. "Is everything okay? Who were you talking to?" she asked, hoping he could at least confide this much in her.

[star_punched]

Oh no, no. Mac didn't want to see that worried expression on anyone's, much less on Daisy's, face. He fumbled with his phone a bit before sticking it in his pants pocket. He also found no reason to hide it, there really wasn't. Mac was too mentally exhausted to even care about that.

"Oh, it's...from the WVBA. Uh, so," Mac said with a shrug.

"I've been gettin' calls from everyone at the place sayin' our old friend Ryan got so drunk today that he caused a rukus at the place. Everyone's been callin' me about it all upset. Even Macho."

From his expression, Daisy might tell that not all of those phone conversations were pleasant in more ways than one. Especially if he was on the phone with Macho.

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy's expression changed. She was no longer worried. Now she was confused. And upset. Confupset.

"...That asshole who cheated during your last match?" Daisy asked. "If he's making a fool of himself, how is that YOUR problem?" she asked. "Can the WVBA not handle its own PR disasters?"

She followed that up by pulling him in for a big hug, head on his shoulder. "Well, don't worry about it. You and me are going to have a good day today, and nuts to them."

[star_punched]

Mac often wondered that. After all, they don't put so much a permanent end on the cheating. As they should, really. Made for good television, they said. It was actually one of the few things that gave Mac a bad taste in his mouth.

Ratings had to happen for good TV, he knew that. But at the cost of the integrity of the sport? Mac wasn't sure he was on board that 100%. He got to box though, so he decided not to really complain about it. A lot of people he did like worked there too.

Today was ridiculous though.

"Everyone hadta vent I guess. He kinda made today a livin' nightmare for a couple of the boys. You shoulda heard Disco, coulda swore he started cryin' on the phone."

Just then Daisy pulled Mac into a hug, and he stopped talking. Mac pulled her closer and hugged back, feeling better already. But then his heart dropped when he saw the time on his alarm.

"Aw...shoot, I was supposed to catch up with ya hours ago."

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"I totally believe that," she replied. She could picture Disco Kid just wailing over the phone to Mac about Aran Ryan being a jerk at him...

"Ssssh," she told him, just tightening her hug on him. "Don't worry about it! You were on... important WVBA business," Daisy said, trying hard not to laugh.

[star_punched]

He caught that, and he would playfully shove at Daisy shoulder. You kidder, Daisy; he actually was able to notice that teasing as completely innocent and just laughed a little about it for her. Mac already felt a little better, thanks Daisy.

"Oh you, jeez," said Mac.

"Still though, I didn't even look at the time," Mac then followed with a little sigh. "I think I need to relieve all that stress before I go nuts, if ya ain't got things to do right now. I mean, I'm still up for doin' stuff."

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy's mind absolutely started to wander at that comment. It's something she wanted to talk to Mac about for a while now, whether their relationship should progress to a state where more... stress relieving activities could be common. Ziio had given her the push she needed. What hadn't presented itself before was the right opportunity.

And now it had.

"...Well..." she began, working up the courage to say it, "maybe I can help you there."

[star_punched]

He looked at Daisy point blank as she said that, somewhat in shock. Well that came out of nowhere.

Or did it?

Daisy's tone softened and Mac swallowed. His brain didn't pave way completely yet but it did set off a number of alarms. It caused him to pause, putting it lightly.

His heart was beating kind of fast.

Then his brain clicked.

Wait, I think...

Oh, Mac was sure he was having a major heart attack. What to do? What could he do?? What to say, and what to say that wouldn't turn her off?? Then he remembered. Ziio.

There's no right time, you just gotta do it.

He knew what he wanted, and he wanted to show how much Daisy meant to him. Maybe it was her tone that set all of this off, or maybe he finally just wised up and figured it out. He looked at Daisy, a little softly, at least in comparison to before. All that training about admitting his true inner feelings with Ziio will not be for nothing.

"Y'know, we could do whatever you wanna do. I ain't picky."

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Okay, his expression seemed to say he at least got the hint. Step one complete. Now on to step two...

She walked up to the door to Mac's room, and closed it quietly. Then she locked it, turning to face him again. "Well... Maybe we could... you know... 'relax' together..."