Dorm Log!

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Who: It's OPEN. (Anyone)
What: Dorm hijinks and etc. Whatever you want.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond.
When: January 20-31
Warnings: Not even gonna.

Remembuh me? The roomie log turned out to be a success, and a lot of really awesome interactions took place. Because of this, I've decided it was about time to post round two. The name has been changed a little because I think it reflects the premise slightly better.

Basically, here's what this is: we all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good portal 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 and the like. Some examples can be seen in the link I provided if you fight through the buttload of comments in case I'm sort of unclear.

So how do we start? It's up to you, really. Don't have any plans with anyone else but want your character bugged? Start a thread. It helps to staple dates and times, but you can keep that completely ambiguous if you really don't care/it doesn't matter. So disembark and wreak havoc amongst yourselves! Set up karaoke and sing loudly to further improve relations with dorm neighbors! Jack cylindrical fluorescent light bulbs from the supply closet and fight like Jedi Masters! Build couch forts with other people's laundry! (...ew?) Hold a "study session" with that special someone of yours! Harass teachers and students alike with your inane questions! What bountiful possibilities await you.

Comments

[thewunderkind]

"Yeah but it's just racing and money." She sighed. "Look, when we cloned COs it was for their powers and the ability to control things and fool our enemies. Not to...win a race against him. That's dumb." Pause. "Maybe whoever is doing it is dumb."

She tried to recall her own talk with Falcon so long ago. When they actually talked and he didn't hate her. Needless to say, her feelings about him were all over the place. "Look, coming from my own experience, whoever is cloning him doesn't want his glory. Otherwise they'd be using them as assassins and not putting them out in public to race, you know? Why not just clone EVERYONE and control the entire racetrack?" She looked at Pit to see if he was in the same mindset that she was.

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

He was still chewing on her explanation, giving it as much consideration as he could while trying to keep up with every point she made. Some of it didn't make much sense to him, and his eyes fixed on an uninteresting spot on the floor. "All I know is that Blood Falcon is out to replace Captain. Whoever cloned him wants a racer that's just as good, someone who can beat him at the races and then make sure the competition is gone. Maybe the race is very important to him? But you know what, I think I can agree with you: he's probably dumb. Just having an exact copy of someone doesn't mean he'll be just as good. Clone Captain all you want: he'll never be the same."

[thewunderkind]

"What I'm trying to say is they probably don't want him for the races, Pit. Otherwise they would have cloned everyone."

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

"Why?"

[thewunderkind]

"Let's take what Black Hole did with cloning," she explained with a sigh. "We didn't just clone one CO. We cloned a lot of them. Andy, Olaf, Hanchi, Fat Colin Drake...and each one was a lot of strain on our energies. But we didn't just clone one, and they died just a few days later. While the idea of cloning just one guy is stupid in itself, the guy...or gal who knows, is way too intelligent to have cloning technology to be that stupid. Not to mention these clones seem to have a much longer life span."

For a mind like Lash's it just didn't add up.

"Logically, if you had that type of technology, you would not just clone one guy. Think about it! Sure Falcon wins the races, but did you ever look at who else races with him? There's a super hero guy called Super Arrow. A guy who is from the future, a ten year old nerd prodigy, some guy with spandex and bull horns, Goroh, a magician circus clown guy, they even have an undead skull guy who was from the first races or something. Do you see what I mean? Not to rain on Falcon's parade, but there are a lot of interesting guys in those races. Why not clone them too?"

"It just...makes no sense. Unless..."

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

"Unless what?" Pit was on the edge of his seat. He was almost ashamed for knowing next to nothing about the F-Zero races beyond what riding in the cars were like, despite his interest in Falcon. When he slipped back in his room, maybe there was something on the internet he could dig up about it, because he was raring to see what it was like. It must be intense. All the racers Lash listed? He didn't know a single one, sans Goroh, who had taught here but didn't stand out much in his mind beyond general first impressions.

[thewunderkind]

"Personal vendetta," she explained. "Someone must really hate him." Pause. "I wonder if it's Goroh? They never race together until the Death Race, you know."

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

Ping. "He did say a lot of people were out to get him... It makes a ton of sense! ...What's Death Race?"

[thewunderkind]

"Exactly what it says," she grinned, turning over a panel on the wall so her computer could come out. "Want to see a video?"

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh. His interest was unavoidably snagged, and it showed in the way he looked at her. "Duh! Show me show me!" He couldn't even keep still about it.

[thewunderkind]

And lo, there was a video. A video of inflated egos, over acting and terrible post-interviews. But there was so much hype!

Oh and an ad at the end of the that first terrible F-zero movie. Now on DVD.

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

Enough hype for Pit to get excited, then. Which doesn't take much, actually.

"Wow... That? Was intense." His hands were still balled into fists and sparkles were still stuck in his eyes, it seemed. "So it must be the final showdown!"

[thewunderkind]

"Kinda. It's not the grand prix, but one of the last races of the season or something." Lash shrugged. "Sometimes I wonder if it's just rigged."

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Pit calmed down a little after the built up buzz had drained from his system. "So you think Goroh might be jealous... Well, I'm sure a lot of people would be jealous, not just Goroh. So that leaves a lot of people who could have made Blood Falcon. And I don't have enough clues to find out who. Jeez..."

It almost seemed like a hopeless venture at this point, and Pit was nearly ready to give up on searching out that clone of his because of how exhausting pulling the components of this mystery apart seemed from his position. Besides... Falcon HAD wanted the fight to be between him and his clone, no one else. But he was only helping him FIND him, not fight him. Maybe it really wasn't in his place to help out. Lash certainly seemed more well-equipped than anyone, both in experience and technological know-how, but would she really be all that excited to run off helping Falcon with his problem?