LOOK. UP IN THE SKY.

[mansionstaff]

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.

Comments

[inspirethewires]

god damn it you and your 18th-century melodramas

Those three reasons don't even come close to covering how crazy this place is. The aforementioned sad robot honestly sees this more as a culmination of the crazy, craziness resulting in this rather than vice versa. His inevitable succumbing to the madness that is Smash: truly, his Final Destination.

Anyway the room is full of static electricity because he keeps shuffling around all mopey-like and you really should stop him before your hair actually does gain sentience, and also before one of you electrocutes the other on accident.

[crystal_ballin]

"Dude," said Hagakure as he watched Robojime shuffle across the floor for what must have been the gillionth time that day, "do you have to shuffle aimlessly like that all day long? Can't you go do something, dude?"

Anything. Do literally anything that isn't shuffling.

[inspirethewires]

"Nope. Programmed for shuffling. It's my robotic duty, now. You can't stop me from doing the only thing I'm made for. I can't handle anything else."

Good news, even the throes of overwhelming depression is nothing compared to the unsquashable need to sass the hell out of you.

[crystal_ballin]

"Then get programmed for something else, dude," said Hagakure. "You're a robot now, you can get that done."

He's, uh, right.

[inspirethewires]

Well, he stopped shuffling.

"...Do you remember your concern over the possibility of someone taking control of you?"

[crystal_ballin]

"So learn to program yourself, dude," said Hagakure. "Or let me do it for you. I'm trustworthy."

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................... . . . . . . .

[inspirethewires]

Ugh. Back to shuffling, over to his bed to remake it for the forty-seventh time. He hadn't been using it, but the corners still weren't quite right.

"Sorry. One day I'll learn not to bother you with sarcasm. It just complicates things."

[crystal_ballin]

"Dude you made that bed like two-hundred times today already," said Hagakure. "You don't even sleep in it. It's fine."

[inspirethewires]

"What if I'm programmed for bed making? Pick between pacing and bed making, it's all I'm good for." Hajime what did you just say about sarcasm.

[crystal_ballin]

"You can also talk back, dude," said Hagakure. "Learn how to program yourself. Either that or let me study you for my wiki."

Do the second one.

[inspirethewires]

"Your wiki is for cryptids and supernatural phenomena. I am neither."

[crystal_ballin]

"Dude, you were a human who was turned into a robot. That's totally supernatural," he replied. "You're like some sort of supernatural miracle baby."

He's typing something on his computer. It may be the phrase 'supernatural miracle baby' in Japanese.

[inspirethewires]

He sat on the bed. Good, that could rumple the sheets again and give him something to do later. "It wasn't by a mystical event, though. It was by scientific design. Just because we don't understand the mechanics doesn't make it paranormal."

[crystal_ballin]

"We don't understand it, therefore it's paranormal, dude," said Hagakure. "That's the rules."

This article about your continual desire to wrinkle and then unwrinkle sheets is coming along nicely, Robojime.

[inspirethewires]

"Really now. Do the rules then say calculus, string theory, and people who speak different languages all count as paranormal?"

You Won't Believe What This Roomba Is Really Made Of!

[crystal_ballin]

"Sometimes, dude," said Hagakure. "When you can't explain the origin of the calculus or strings or the different languages with NATURAL means. Then you're left only with the SUPERnatural."

Starring the Winchester brothers.

[inspirethewires]

"When you can't explain their origin, you attend classes on the subject so that you are then able to." A digital sigh. "I know that all this stuff is your thing, but have you even tried looking at it from a different angle than the occult?"

[crystal_ballin]

"Nope," said Hagakure. "No need to."

None whatsoever. No need. At all. Ever.

[inspirethewires]

Yasuhiro Hagakure, SHSL Headache. Actually, "Why are you still in school? You're plenty old enough to drop out."

[crystal_ballin]

"I'm not going back there, dude," came his answer. "If I leave this school, maybe I have to go back. I'm never going back."

This is actually a very good reason to never leave this school.

[inspirethewires]

Ah. That's good to hear about the place his boyfriend left him for.

"...Erm. Hagakure, you... you don't have to say, but... What happened? I know the, er, broad strokes of it, so I know you probably don't want to talk about it, but..."

Shades of that school had haunted a lot of people he'd met. He'd kept from prodding the obvious sore spot until now, but curiosity couldn't help but build up over time.

[crystal_ballin]

Hagakure kept looking at his computer screen. Whatever. Someone had played videos of it on the school TV network. Everyone who'd come back from that school had left. He was the only one. The only one who knew, who would ever really know. But. Maybe he could say something. Just describe it without describing it all.

"Listen, dude, I got locked in a high school with a bunch of other really talented high school students after the world ended. And I got locked inside the high school with the person who was responsible for the destruction of all of society. She brainwashed me and everybody I was locked up in the school with, so we wouldn't remember each other, and then told us that the only way we could leave was if one of us murdered another student and got away with the murder. Then that guy could leave. And then everybody else would die, dude. If you didn't get away with the murder, she'd kill you. There were 15 of us locked in there with her. Six of us were left by the time she committed suicide and the murder games ended. I got framed for murder one time, and almost got killed because of it, knocked unconscious and shoved inside a robot costume."

He's stared at his computer screen the entire time he's said this, in a pretty monotone voice. He is not looking up at you. He is not looking at the computer, either. He's just looking.

[inspirethewires]

Constant, excitable energy boiled off of Hagakure at all times, palpable regardless of any spiritual detection. Hearing him in an even, restrained monotone set off alarm bells.

Kiyotaka hadn't needed to give all the details for the horror of it all to come across. Hajime complained about this school plenty, but it couldn't compare to outright murder.

"You... you made it out, though." That didn't lessen the horror any. It only meant he'd seen all the horror, up through the end. "After all that, there isn't anyone or anything out there you want to see again?"