[OPEN] 4th Wall Weekend - Campus

[mansionstaff]

Who: ME AND YOU
What: 4th wall weekend shenanigans
Where: In the general vicinity of the campus WHEREVER YOU WANT
When: April 27th-29th
Warnings: shenanigans
Event Info Post: here

Welcome to Smash Academy. If you're new here, the first thing you'll probably notice is the looming clock-tower. That's the main building where animes most the classes and strangely accommodating Headmasters are. (That said, the Headmasters are a pair of giant floating hands and one is noticeably much more Crazy than the other, rambling on about oranges and other nonsense...) Around the main building are other facilities you'd expect to see at a school, and despite it being spring break, many bodies are still on campus.

The boy's dormitory wing (BE), the girl's (BW), and the teacher's dorms (TD) are still active with their inhabitants. The common rooms that join BE and BW act as central hubs; in each common room you will find a TV, video games and other such forms of entertainment, as well as some super comfortable couches and chairs about, and a small communal kitchen which may or may not be clean or occupied. There are also communal laundry rooms shared by students and faculty alike. Note: Smash Academy is not in any way, shape, or form responsible for lost or stolen articles of clothing (especially underwear).

The library is MAMMOTH and hard to miss; currently run by an easy to miss five year old albino pikmin girl. The cafeteria/dining hall is also hard to miss, with lunch lunch served daily by your friendly neighborhood Ursaring with a laser eye. If there's nothing appealing here, there are a couple of vending machines are scattered around campus. Careful, they are wily beasts. There's also a campus cafe as far as food options go.

Also found on campus is: a greenhouse, computer labs, the highly esteemed faculty lounge, not so highly esteemed detention rooms/holding cells, mailroom, weight room and a gymnasium. And, yeah, we've got a fancy heated indoor/outdoor swimming pool for all your swimming needs. The courtyard is an open, central location in the school nestled between the dorm wings. There is of course the courtyard fountain, the occasional tree or decorative shrub, and plenty of benches for you to park your 'kesters on. It should probably go without saying, but there's also scattered on campus bathrooms with strange phone numbers scrawled into the walls and janitor closets our janitor would probably not approve of you making out in.

However, the most notable building on campus is probably the gigantic Fighting Stadium. It looks and operates exactly like the Brawl stage, only more. Instead of just Pokemon areas, it can simulate any battle arena imaginable. In addition, items and other special circumstances can be controlled through a podium off to the side. Spars and brawling classes are generally held here, but it is also open to individual training sessions any time. By default, the stadium has safety protocols on by default which negate some pain and characters falling and exploding to their death, but they can be overridden and turned off which means pain and death is a definite possibility.

Since that possibility is quite the possibility at a fighting school like this, it would only make sense for Smash Academy to have an equally advanced nurse's office/infirmary. If you find yourself sick, hurt or in need of medical attention, Rhys andor NPC nurse ladies can make you feel aaaaalllll better.

If you're looking to venture a little beyond the campus, you might pass by the parking lot/hangar; if you've got a vehicle and you drove/flew/rolled/biked/trotted/rode it to school, chances are you parked it here... and your fellow students/faculty would probably greatly appreciate it if no shenanigans befall their vehicles.

Bordering Smash Academy are some grassy fields, a forest, and a misleadingly placid lake; currently home to a Gyrados named Mr. Fish, and formerly home to the (now dead) Kraken. The forest is that of a temperate deciduous forest--lush woods dominated with varying varieties of maple, oak, pine, and birch. There's probably a few other video game derivative species in there if you're very particular about your flora.

Spring is in bloom, so the forest is alive with explosions of flowers, and subsequently birds and bees. Local wildlife varies about as much, including wild Pokemon, "normal animals", and creatures of a more fantastical nature. Again, if you're particular about your fauna, they're mostly video game derivative species. Creature temperaments vary between very tame and very wild, so take caution.

[[OOC: THE NITTY GRITTY AND RULES:
- OPEN LOG AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.
- Please start your threads with where your character is, so others can come in.
- If you are going to have makeouts / battles / anything kinda sketchy, PLEASE MARK IT SO ACCORDINGLY as you tag to warn the others.
- Mark your threads OPEN and CLOSED depending on your plans.
- If your character knows others (a 4th wall breakage) make sure that the other person is okay with it before going "Hey I played your game", etc. we're trusting you guys to communicate with each other for such things.
- ENJOY, AND HAVE FUN!

DON'T FORGET! ALL THE COOL DUDES ON PAGE 2! AND PAGE 3!]]

Comments

LIBRARY - 27th

[shironomusume]

Clarith was lucky enough to be able to read, and yet the sheer amount of books in the library was intimidating her. She aimlessly wandered past the shelves, trying to keep the potted sapling she was holding steady with one arm while retrieving books with the other. After some time of this, she sat down at a table, flipping through a book containing information about the city.

While some people would not have noticed the librarian's aid, once Clarith caught a glimpse of her, she could not help but stare, becoming very, very conscious of her own white hair.

[vianca]

Funny, the feature that had struck Vianca most about the other girl was her similar red eyes. The Pikmin didn't even mind that the girl was staring all the much, since she was staring right back in most instances. The only other person that she knew that had this particular combination of hair and eyes was one of her brothers, so it was very interesting to see someone new. Half of her wondered if she might have been a sister, but she could already tell this wasn't true.

So she was someone else entirely. Interesting.

At some point Vianca approached the table that the girl was sitting at. Perhaps she wanted to get a better look at this strange mirror image, and was coming around that conveniently placed pile of forgotten books on the table... Or maybe she was actually just grabbing the books. Either way. There she was.

[shironomusume]

Although Clarith had gained some confidence in the past months, the idea of possibly meeting someone else with her blood had made her nervous. She made a few attempts to speak up, although her voice died in their throat several times. Eventually, she managed to say something to the girl, her voice barely louder than a whisper. "I like your hair flower."

[vianca]

Vianca had been silently sorting through the books on the table, putting them in an order that would make them easier for her to shelve later. The quiet voice wasn't hard to miss, and Vianca glanced at her in completely unemotive surprise. The unexpected compliment was appreciated, though she didn't show it.

"Thank you," she very softly replied. Her eyes slid to the pages in front of the other girl, lingering on one of the photos of FDC that was featured amongst some of the text. "You're new." A statement, but phrased slightly like a question.

[shironomusume]

"Yes. I was walking through a doorway, but then I was suddenly stumbling out of a hole in the wall." Clarith had heard that there was an announcement denying that such an incident had taken place, and she didn't understand how anyone could attempt to cover up something that big. "...Does that happen to a lot of people here?" She watched her actions and reactions, noting that she too was a quiet person.

[vianca]

Ah. Vianca had noticed that there had seemed to be a bit of commotion beginning to occur on the computer network. She had been noticing a slight influx of new visitors to the library as well. If people were indeed coming out of a portal, and Vianca saw no reason to immediately put it down as a falsity, that would explain things. Vianca's only real reaction was the slightest crease of a frown.

"People seem to come from all over. Coming through a wall seems plausible."

[shironomusume]

"I see... Then, if I may ask, what about you? Where did you come from?" Clarith wanted to know more about this girl. If this really was a different world, then she had no reason to believe that she was related to her in any way. However, she had only known one other person who looked like her, and she couldn't pass up the chance to talk to her.

[vianca]

"A garden in the suburbs of the city," Vianca said very matter-of-factly. That was very informative, Vianca.

[shironomusume]

The fact that a garden was specified made Clarith think that there was even more to the girl than what met the eye. While she had learned not too long ago that animals and spirits could turn into humans, she still paused before giving a reply. "That sounds lovely. I was born in a village in a forest, but I was living near the sea when I arrived her." She turned her attention to her book, flipping to the first pages and searching for a chapter on the types of people who lived in the city. "...My name is Clarith."

[vianca]

Vianca listened intently as the girl spoke, trying to picture the locales in her mind. It was interesting to hear about the different places that other people lived. That was a benefit of this whole thing, she supposed. It meant there were many more people that Vianca would have otherwise never known that should could potentially learn about.

She quietly took note of her name. Clarith.

"Vianca," the pikmin returned quietly.

[shironomusume]

Clarith nodded in acknowledgement, a tiny smile on her lips; she was gradually becoming more comfortable, although her voice had only raised a bit higher. She kept flipping through different pages of the book, skimming over words and photos in order to get a better idea of where she was. After lingering on a photo of what appeared to be a cat that wore clothes and walked like a human, she continued talking. "This really is an interesting city. Most of the people I knew back home were humans."