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

security office and wherever you want

[princessninja]

Sheik works part time for campus security. Did you know that? Now you do! She's mostly out and about on nighttime patrols, but if you're lucky, you might catch mysterious ninja boy filing some paperwork in the office. It probably looks just as hilarious as it sounds.

[fightingfeffers]

Unsurprisingly, one of the fulltime security officers goes into the office at some point, to see this mysterious ninja boy filling out paperwork. Which is a bit confusing, since he wasn't aware there were any security officers other than Zero. Maybe he's a secretary, or something?

Fefnir figures he might as well find out. "Hey. Are you a secretary, or something?"

[princessninja]

Sheik looks up from the desk, apparently surprised by this turn of events. She supposes that yes, she probably looks a bit like a secretary, but that isn't exactly her job description.

Her job description is mostly "mysterious ninja boy who shows up sometimes".

"I work part time for security. Usually at night."

[fightingfeffers]

"Makes sense. It's a pretty big place, I guess, and it's definitely in need of some more protection." He shrugs, pulling his guns off his back. Fefnir isn't planning on using them, he just. Can't lean nonchalantly against the wall with them there. And besides, he likes checking them over from time to time, and the security office seems as good a place as any to inspect his gear.

"I don't think there's a single place that's this unguarded back in Neo Arcadia. I even found a huge stockpile of weapons in one of the teacher's rooms. I've got no idea what you and Zero have been doing here up until now, but you REALLY need to be more attentive."

[princessninja]

Sheik looks more at Fefnir's gear when she talks, simply because she hasn't exactly seen anything like it, before. She prefers her needles and chain whip, of course, but that doesn't mean she finds whatever he's got uninteresting. He's certainly packing, that's for sure.

"I don't conduct searches of offices or personal living quarters," she replies. "What teacher?"

[fightingfeffers]

On Fefnir's end of examining the other person, he probably would be a bit more put off by Sheik's odd appearance, except he's kinda used to dealing with ninja-y guys. More robotic ninja-y guys, but still.

"No idea. I just checked all the dorms and found a bunch of weapons in one of them." Clearly, it's Fefnir's attention to detail that got him this job.

[princessninja]

"You don't remember the room number?"

Sheik sounds a little bit skeptical, or exasperated, or perhaps both.

"If you gave me the room number, I might be able to tell you which faculty member."

[fightingfeffers]

"Oh, I remember the room number, it was TD-03. I kept track of that, I just didn't check who was living in each dorm before I searched them. Planned to find out later, after I finished checking the rest of the school, but I'm sure you can handle that part now, right?"

Fefnir doesn't enjoy doing paperwork, or anything that isn't hands on. Since Sheik seems to be working on that already though, he probably won't have a problem with that. That's what he's thinking, anyway.

[princessninja]

"Ah."

Sheik isn't entirely sure how she feels about his flippant delegation, like she's here to do the stuff he doesn't want to, or something.

"I can tell you who lives there, but I have prior engagements, unfortunately. You might have to do your own follow-up."

throws more red robots at you

[awakeningwill]

Zero was... aware of Sheik, even if they'd never spoken or met properly. From time to time he'd catch glimpses of the ninja - it seemed like they both patrolled on a regular basis, so maybe it was for that reason the reploid felt content to let him do his thing. Whatever his motivations, the ninja didn't seem like a threat. And Zero was pretty comfortable with the unspoken understanding of their mutual activities.

Then, a certain Neo Arcadian general was dropped in his lap, and Zero's life turned into that much more of a headache.

When he next saw the ninja (for once, not a shadow out the corner of his eye - instead, a well-lit office), Zero felt compelled to ask, "...Fefnir hasn't been giving you any problems, has he?"

welcomes with open arms

[princessninja]

Yeah, Sheik was a little lukewarm toward Fefnir, not that she tended to do much security work in the daytimes (she was busy being Zelda in the daytimes). She'd always been more than content being left alone to her patrols, so the sudden delegation of his tasks onto her had left something of a bad taste in her mouth.

"Problems? No."

She was, at least, accustomed to a certain degree of bullshit, and Fefnir hadn't careened past 'mild annoyance', yet. "Though I believe he's been conducting security checks in the teachers' dorms."

[awakeningwill]

A grimace crossed Zero's face. From the start he knew it wasn't going to be a smooth transition from the top general in a fascist utopia to a security guard, but he should've seen something like this coming. He had a feeling that trying to talk to Fefnir about it wasn't going to do much, either. The guardian respected Zero as fighter, but he sure as hell didn't consider him a leader.

"He's used to a certain level of authority, back home," Zero explained, with obvious disapproval in his voice. "Absolute authority. I doubt he'll take orders from either one of us."

[princessninja]

"I guessed." It made sense, of course. Sheik wasn't exactly expecting him to listen to her, as she was just a student, but she can certainly recognize where this might be a problem.

A problem starting with impromptu security checks of teacher's dorms.

"You know him from home?"

[awakeningwill]

Zero nodded. "We've fought a few times."

Which was code for 'his oppressive regime tried to stamp me and my friends out on several occasions, but eventually we joined forces against a greater threat so I'm willing to work with him for a common cause.' The reploid wasn't one to hold a grudge, exactly, but they had never been friends either.

"He can be a little... fixated about it."

[princessninja]

"Ah."

Well, that was sort of interesting, and probably a little bit problematic for her.

"I imagine he's only fixated because you beat him."

That's how these things go, she's pretty sure.

[awakeningwill]

Zero wasn't one to kiss curbstomp and tell. (But yeah, he did.)

"Well... they were pressing circumstances," was the only confirmation Sheik would get on the subject. Without a good reason to fight, Zero had no interest in engaging him again. Until the moment it really mattered, the question of which one of them was stronger was not something this reploid concerned himself with at all.

"We've never exactly been on the same side before."

[princessninja]

It was conformation enough for her, at least, and she nodded silently. Knowing Zero, Sheik didn't really expect things to be a problem on his end, and this was just affirmation of that. The potential issue, then, was with Fefnir.

"Is he going to be a problem?"

security team assemble

[babylonmechanic]

"So. Two robots, and a ninja. This place has some pretty messed up hiring policies," Wave announced, letting herself into the office while Sheik was working, finding herself a chair, propping her Extreme Gear against a wall, and sitting herself down to lean back.

[princessninja]

Sheik didn't even blink, rather, she went right to regarding Wave with an unamused expression. Messed up, says the purple bird.

"I usually patrol at night. You won't have to deal with me, if this is too 'messed up' for you."

[babylonmechanic]

"You do whatever you want," Wave replied, arms crossed behind her head. "You just don't see ninjas doing paperwork every day, do you?"

[princessninja]

Sheik gave Wave another look. You just don't see ninjas doing paperwork every day, says the purple bird.

"I'm helping Zero with a few housekeeping things.

[babylonmechanic]

Hey, in her world, she was the normal one. To her, you were still weird.

"What kind of things?" she asked. "If we're going to be working together, I should know, shouldn't I?"

[princessninja]

"Paperwork," she replied, holding some up as if presenting evidence. "Truancy reports. Fefnir's recent confiscations."

[babylonmechanic]

One word there at least caught her interest. "Confiscations?" she asked. "The red guy with antlers has been confiscating stuff?"

[princessninja]

"He has." The tone of Sheik's voice indicated exactly what she thought of that. "But he didn't bother to find out who lived in the rooms he inspected."