What time is it? DORM LOG TIME.

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

Who: sumabura_gakuen
What: Dorm hijinks and etc. Whatever you want.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond. Do what you need! ✩
When: April 30 - May 15
Warnings: I wrote 'hijinks'. That should explain everything.

Ripped off the last one: 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.

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! Anything and everything is possible. Harrass your least favorite teacher by throwing oranges at their window! Play your favorite survival horror game at night while subjecting your squeamish friends to your dark tastes! Get into a squabble with your next door neighbors about unappreciated late-hour rackets! Confess your love to the girl of your dreams after class is over! It can all be yours if you make a thread. So have at it! Show this log no mercy.

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[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

A hell of a lot younger'n thirty-six, that's for sure. I wasn't even legal when we met.

[Okay, let's get back to the main point before Char winds up with a Faberge egg shoved up his nose.]

So what the hell were you doin' in outer space? I mean... I woulda been four years old while you were up there. Jesus.

[Orrrr not.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[She'll take it as a disjointed sortof compliment and leave it at: Char is babies.]

I was hunting down a murderer. [How cryptic and mysterious will this story be.]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Cryptic indeed. Looks like he may have just won a ticket to Vaguecon '11. Here, have a stare that is very clearly asking "And...?"]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[Her expression turns to that of scruentization for a few moments before she determines that Char has done his fair share of Samus secret earning. This does not mean it is any easier in shedding the proverbial armor, and it probably shows as she settles into monotone narration mode.]

A space dragon. Bigger and meaner than you. He took refuge on Tallon IV, a planet that, at the time, was being corrupted in certain areas by a dangerous substance called Phazon. The only inhabitants of the planet left for that reason, leaving behind nothing but their ruins and the indigenous beasts, like those war wasps.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Space has dragons. Obviously there is some embellishment going on here because it is clearly not possible for there to be a dragon bigger and meaner than Char, even if space dragons are really a thing. Well, if Bounty Hunter Biomech is really a thing, and space bees were also really a thing...]

This was some kinda bounty thing, right? Did you get him? How'd you even get there in the first place? There some kind of space taxi people can take?

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

...It's mostly personal.

[Space taxi hahahaa that is so adorable.]

Space taxi is expensive.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Well it's not like you own a space car okay. Space taxi is a perfectly logical conclusion.]

Ahhh. Ex-boyfriend.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[DANGER DANGER CHAR ROBINSON, YOU HAVE ENTERED EXTREMELY TOUCHY SUBJECT TERRITORY. Her eyes narrow and her stare takes on a confrontational, dangerous one, like she may possibly deck him right through the door if another asinine comment like that comes out of his mouth.]

No.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Whoa. Okay. Obviously it was a very bad breakup. Char might give Samus a lot of shit, but they've both got boundaries and Char actually gives enough of a shit about Biomech to respect them. This mystery dragon is obviously in Do Not Discuss Ever territory.

He is still going to jot down a mental note that Biomech might possibly have a bit of a thing for dragons???]

So you took a space taxi to Tallon IV and ate the nastiest bugs ever. You been to any other planets?

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

Countless.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Seriously?

[So she's a bounty hunter with some kind of beef with a space dragon who has been to tons of space planets (in space) and eaten space bees (also in space), possibly using her mysterious freaky lumberjack strength.]

...No offense, Biomech, but what the hell are you doin' teachin' at a high school?

[He is pretty sure that if he was an intergalactic super-hot buff bounty hunter, he would be off doing something actually glamorous and well-paying.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[She emits a grumble from the back of her throat and draws her attention back to her papers. This is a question that has been on her mind very frequently since Ionia, Jeff, and Snake (and Kyle if he had left by this thread's time) have left.]

Initially, it was because I crash landed here. I had no plans to stay once everything was repaired.

I had no one to worry about but myself, and it was easier that way...

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

It is easier, ain't it?

[But something obviously changed her mind after her... space... taxi...(??) got fixed up. Twerpy kid is gone, plant-brat is gone, Char isn't too sure he's seen her hanging out too much with anyone else except...]

...Are you only here for Coach?

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[She furrows her brow and this is probably the closest expression to vulnerability that her face can muster, especially around Char. Even then, it is very brief. She opts for a half-nod. Indeed, coach is the biggest reason. If there other reasons, she has had an extremely difficult time in seeing them lately pending an in-progress log.]

What made you come back?

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Green hunted me down and made me come back.

[...This feels a bit like his talks with Bulba for some reason. The same faint flutter of honest-answer-please-be-of-use anxiety. Which is weird, as this isn't a scenario where anybody's leaning on him. Trying to help your lost little brother is worlds apart from talking to somebody who's probably already seen ten times as much as you have, after all.]

If you're askin' what's keepin' me from runnin' again... I guess I realized I wasn't any happier for it. I think felt less free when I broke the leash than I ever did when I was here.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[Not quite a grumble but she settles back into her comfortable expressionless gaze, no further comment. It seems she might have opposite sentiments, but mulls on his reasons none-the-less.]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, Char's kind of picking up on that. Cue a moment of not-so-comfy silence.]

...I guess I've had people workin' on tamin' me a lot longer'n you have, though. I know you got a Charizard heart in there, so... don't go thinkin' your freedom's something you gotta be ashamed of. If you're feelin' boxed in, then take off and don't ever look back. You don't owe none of us nothin'. Ain't like the world's gonna stop without you.

[Which isn't quite the same thing as saying "nobody will miss you".]

...But if the people you trust are still alive, you should take advantage of that opportunity while it lasts.

[That one's not much more than an embarrassed mumble - it's doubtful Samus ever remembers saying it to him, but it's still not that easy to show even vague, roundabout signs that the one teacher he makes stupid jokes at even had any impact in his life.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

...

[Those are certainly words which she will mull over even further, and the mumble she barely catches, but her mind is able to easily fill in what she can't confirm with her ears. There is a very mild look of surprise, perhaps intrigue on her face. She might even be touched somewhere deep down but even she will of course deny this. Just how did this conversation get so heavy? She is not sure, but she is sure her and Char are having a moment which means it is destined to not last very long. After a few more moments of silence Samus emits another grumbly sound, but it is far more akin to a chuckle.]

Consider me officially distracted, Kerosene.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[Char just leans back with the usual light, easy grin, not bothering to give the use of his name much acknowledgement. Down by the floor, however, that tail flame's doing some very Charmander-esque happy waving.]

...Y'know, I still got a shot at graduatin' this year.

[Somehow. Cue a brief glance to the stack of F's. Clearly it is a good thing Biomech is not a compulsory class.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

You're going to have to work your ass off like anyone else.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

You're forgettin' about my natural genius.

[Hahahaha do you get it that's the joke]

The thing you really should be thinkin' about ain't whether I make it or not, though. It's what comes after that.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[Ha ha that was so funny she forgot to laugh. Samus, however, will not think about that very long and instead make him think about it.]

What's going to come after that?

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Maybe next year I'll be teachin'. Then you and me can be co-workers.

[Just... savour that idea for a moment, Samus. Cherish it.]

Maybe I'll take a page from your book and clear the heck outta here. I got teammates back in Viridian that I ain't seen in years.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[IT TASTES LIKE NNNNNOOOOO]

I'm thrilled.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[LOOK FORWARD TO THE STAFF CHRISTMAS PARTY NEXT YEAR.]

What do you think, Biomech? Maybe there is somethin' here that I'm fit to teach. Petty crimes 101 or some shit like that.