DORM LOGS: Now with EVENTS!

[raw_angel_power]

Who: All of Smash.
What: Dorm log! January edition.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus.
When: Approximately the latter half of January to the earliest of Februaries (15th - 5th)
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. It could be the common room or the student science lab or wherever.

BUT WAIT!!!!!!

This time, we're shaking things up. On certain days, there will be an event going on that might help if you can't think of a good scenario to kick off a thread with. Here is the list!*

1/18: Hypno's Naptime. Much like the anime episode of the same name, there are mysterious sleep waves pulsing through town. No one is sure where they're coming from- it could be a rowdy Hypno that took over a broadcasting station one day, or maybe it's the local Disco Drowzee club that opened up just recently and their collective moves are enough to make you snooze. Well, these sleep waves might make you catch onto some unexpected z's, but more likely they can give you strange effects. Don't limit it to thinking you're a Pokemon, either. They can trick you into believing you're something else entirely, or just give you the urge to slip on a chicken costume and table dance in front of a crowd without finding it socially inappropriate. Just. WEIRD STUFF, MAN. Anything is possible.
1/19 - 1/25: Nancy's going on vacation. That's right, you sorry saps aren't gonna know what to do with yourselves now that no one's cooking for you. There was gonna be a substitute lunch bear/lady/alien space creature, but for whatever reason, they never showed up. So now, everyone must FEND FOR THEMSELVES. How will you fare if you don't even know how to flip a spatula?
1/25 - 1/27: Ice Cream Blizzard. Oh, you poor, starving Smashers. Not only are you bereft of nutrition, but it's cold and snowing and you can barely get out of the building without freezing solid! You might just perish, but wait- if you step outside and try to catch snowflakes with your tongue, you might just realize that it's... snowing ICE CREAM?!
1/29-1/31: Goomba Infestation. Everything is Goombas for 2 days in the boys dorms. Bowser is dicking around with "Itchymarbles" again, and it just spills out across the entire dorms. This prank has the unfortunate side effect of, well, affecting everyone on campus, and not just Scratchy McMarbles, so you might wanna be careful opening that fridge, since the wrong kinds of mushrooms might start pouring out. Jumping on them might work, but it's gonna take a lot of hopscotch to decimate an entire roomful!

This is a bit of an experiment, so... we'll see what comes of this.

*Note: These were determined by rng. Any other suggestions will be recycled for next time if the event aspect is successful.

Also, if you want easy access to the dorm living arrangements, here is the link.

Comments

BE-01 - JJJJock and maybe Henry's around too

[flamejock]

[1/19] This pokemon is mysteriously sleepy, which is strange because he's usually a ball of energy. Mom may wonder what's wrong with him, if she can stay awake herself.

[The Week of No Nancy] Jock is off killing things in the forests near school because that's what he does.

Shower Time with Gershel - Sometime during the week of no Nancy, Jock is showing Gershel how to take a shower in the men's locker room in the gym. He's so excited about this; it's like Jock gets to be a trainer for a poor, lost pokemon who has nobody to look after him. Random characters are highly encouraged to wander in and stare at what's going on.

[takeoutthetrash]

Gershel is not, by definition, a very attractive person, so it's kind of a relief that he isn't completely in the buff just yet. Instead, he's crouched down against the locker room wall, clad in a pair of heavily stained boxers, shaking like a leaf and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with Jock.

Is there really no way around this? Hadn't the book been enough? It was a really nice book, and Gershel liked a lot of the pictures and he thanked Jock for it personally, but it still wasn't enough. Jock just wouldn't drop it. He was just too danged helpful.

"S-so, uh..." He runs a hand through his hair, fingers catching on countless tangles and knots. "Would you mind, er, running all that by me again? I mean, just one more time. Don't think I really caught all that." He totally caught all of it, though. He caught it the last three times Jock explained it too him, and now he knows more about showering than he ever thought he would.

Because Gershel is stalling.

[flamejock]

Jock, meanwhile, was already totally naked, because why not be naked????? ?? ?

Anyway, Jock was happy to explain it all again, because Jock loved to explain things. "Taking a shower is super easy. The first thing you have to do is get naked, like I am." Just like that. "Then you have to go to the shower and turn the water on. Now, I'm an Arcanine, so I like it to be as hot as I can get it, but you're not an Arcanine so you will probably need to have some cold water mixed in, too. So, you turn the water on, and you jump under the shower and get all wet. See if you can get all wet in about five or six seconds, 'cause the water hurts. I could take it for way longer than that, though. Then, you jump out of the water and that's when you use shampoo and soap."

Here, Dear Reader, he reached over to a basket on the wooden bench in the changing room next to him. "The one in this bottle is shampoo. You use it wherever you have fur," he explained. "You don't have much fur, so you'll only use it on the top of your head, I guess. I have a lot more fur, so I use it on my chest and arms and stomach and junk," he said enthusiastically. "Armpits, too." He then grabbed the other bottle. "This is soap! You put some on a washcloth," and he held up a washcloth, "and use that to rub down all of the parts of you that aren't covered in fur, which for you I guess will be most of you? Probably most of you. Be careful about getting the soap or the shampoo in your eyes, because it hurts, so maybe you should close your eyes when you wash your face. Then, once you're all covered in soap and shampoo, you jump back under the water and you rub yourself down to get all of the soap off and when the water underneath you stops being bubbly, you're done!"

He reached into the basket and held up another bottle. "This is conditioner! But we'll learn about that next time. It's pretty much extra shampoo sort of. That's Advanced Showers, though. You need to learn Basic Shower first."

Jock smiled excitedly. "Are you ready? I'm ready!"

[takeoutthetrash]

The naked part may have been why he was trying not to look directly at Jock. That or he was simply too intimidated by the downright unholy amount of chest hair he was sporting. But then again, who wasn't?

Gershel turned his gaze further away, focusing intently on the floor tile patterns and trying to convince himself they were the most interesting thing in the world. He shook his head, glass teeth grinding against each other with a hellish squealing sound. "I don't feel ready." He was never going to be ready.

[flamejock]

Jock wasn't intimidated. But maybe he had accidentally used Intimidation on Gershel. He would reassure him.

"It's okay," he said in as nice a voice as he could because the 'must comfort worried people' dog genes were kicking in like crazy. Even though Gershel was gross and smelled awful and as a dog he could smell it way stronger than the average person, Jock wanted to comfort him and make him feel better. "It's okay that you're not as brave as me, 'cause I'm an Arcanine and you're not. I'm supposed to be brave all the time. But I think water can be scary sometimes, too! You just have to be willing to stand up to your fears and get wet! You can do it!"

Jock gave Gershel a hug. Oh gosh, you were oily and grimy to hug. And also Jock wasn't wearing any shorts. There was also that.

[takeoutthetrash]

Oh man. Oh man, why were they hugging now? Was there some sort of unspoken hugging contract here? What was going on?

For a few solid, awkwardly silent seconds, Gershel just sat there, wide-eyed but significantly less shaky. After that, he finally took the hint and gave Jock a couple half-hearted pats on the back. He cleared his throat and gave him a gentle push, because that might have lasted for a little longer than it should've.

"I, uh, appreciate your faith, Jock. Really." He furrowed his brow, hugging his knees closer to his chest. "I just don't feel up to it, y'know. M-maybe we should just call it quits for now. Try again some other time."

[flamejock]

Jock had problems with the idea of 'personal boundaries.'

"But tomorrow you won't be ready, and the day after that you won't be ready. You'll never feel that you're ready for this; you're made out of garbage," he said as he pulled back. "No offense, you just are made out of garbage, so this is scary for you. I've got fire on the inside, so it's scary for me, too. But you have to get over it. Sometimes you have to jump in when you're afraid. It'll be okay, I'm here to make sure you do it right and if you get hurt I can get you out of it. I've got some super potions," he said, rifling through the shower things, then finding one and holding it up. "See? If you get hurt, I can fix you up. But you won't get hurt, because I don't get hurt by water, not really, in this human body. You just have to believe in yourself and you can do it!"

Man, it must be strange to be lectured about being brave by a naked man.

"Anyway, I need a shower because of that hug. My fur's all greasy." It was. It was sort of greasy and didn't look right. "So let's take showers! It'll be fun!"

[takeoutthetrash]

Was it strange? He didn't have a big pool of knowledge to draw from here. The only reason he wasn't looking at Jock in the first place was because he'd gathered that looking at naked people was rude.

Still, what he was laying down was making a whole lot of sense to Gershel. He was pretty certain by this point that humans weren't water-soluble, and he was made of garbage. He'd had every right to be afraid of water before, but now, now there was nothing stopping him.

Except for his own crippling self doubt, of course. Sorry, Jock, but pessimism trumps friendship any day. Gershel hugged himself even tighter and furrowed his brow. "I-I'm not gonna doubt you. Sure it'll be a real good time. But, some of the stuff you're tellin' me..." He looked up, struggling to maintain eye contact with Jock. "I mean, how d'you think I'm supposed to believe in myself? Don't think there's really a whole lot to believe here."

[flamejock]

"You need a trainer," said Jock simply. "My trainer believes in me no matter what I do. Blue teaches me and shows me how to be better and knows that I love her so much, and she believes that I'll be the best Jock that I can be for her." He looked deeply into Gershel's probably filth-encased eyeballs, and clasped his hands on Gershel's shoulders, and squeezed, "I can't be your trainer, 'cause I'm a pokemon. But, I can believe in you. If you can't believe in you, I'll believe in you for you, and all you have to do is believe in me."

Can you feel the brilliant optimism and 120% conviction radiating out of his orange-colored eyes, Gershel? Can you feel it? It's so bright and incessant. The burning flames of his passion cannot be quenched.

[totheno1]

Well, maybe not quenched, but distractions were soon be had in the form of someone else wanting to use the showers. Nanjo's had finished his own training halfway while the two have been talking, and arrives with just a small towel and his soap. His glasses are gone, making him look nothing like he usually does. He stops long enough to look at both of them for a second.

...Good gods this man had way too much hair. And who was that odd fellow standing next to him?

"Ahh, it seems this place is occupied. If you'll excuse me..." He nonchalantly makes his way into them anyway, in a farther corner to where they were. Physically he's basically Ishimaru tbh built due to his training, but still having a smaller frame. If he's heard them talking or not, well...he's not talking about that for now.

[takeoutthetrash]

Whether or not he heard them talking was inconsequential at this point, because merely showing up was enough to rob Gershel of what little confidence Jock had inspired. He couldn't do this now, not with somebody else in here. He took a generous step back, eyes going wide, and by now he seemed to be almost physically deflating.

Appearently, it'd never occurred to him that the showers were, in fact, a public space.

The awkwardness of it wasn't helped by Gershel nervously blurting "This isn't what it looks like!". Granted, he wasn't entirely sure what it did look like, but now Nanjo could rest assured that this was not that. Whatever it was.

[flamejock]

Jock hadn't seen the other guy, but he did hear him.

"Hi, we're taking showers!" he told mysteryman. "I think it looks like we're taking showers. I'm teaching him how! He's never had a shower before!"

"Let's go!" he said, turning back to Gershel. "It's time to take your shower! I'll show you how!" Jock is grabbing your hand now, Gershel. Jock is pulling your hand now, Gershel. Jock is trying to pull you into the showers now, Gershel.

[no1man]

"He's never had a shower before..." he repeated slowly to make sure he understood correctly. Looking over he realized that he reminded him of the Pokemon he had seen before that looked like a pile of garbage.

Well...that made sense. In a terrible logical way.

"In that case, perhaps it would be best for him to remember what I told him the first time we met." Itdly. he pushed up his glasses before speaking again. "You have many hurdles ahead of you. Best to give it your all, or not to bother at all."

It was encouraging words. Really. In his own way.

[takeoutthetrash]

If the sudden intrusion hadn't been enough to quash what little confidence Gershel had built up, then Nanjo's words of "encouragement" definitely were.

Suddenly the showers started to feel a lot colder and a lot less welcoming, and the realization began to sink in that he was in way over his head here. He started to strain and struggle against Jock's grip, his free hand flailing around, desperate for something to grab hold of.

"Wait!" He cried, panic entering his voice. "Wait wait wait wait wait! I-I'm starting to have second thoughts a-about this!" Wait, maybe that would be third thoughts? Or fourth?

Whatever. Now was clearly not the time for those sort of advanced linguistics.

[flamejock]

Naked man. There's lots of naked man to grab onto.

Jock turns around to look at you in your dirty, dirty face. "I told you to be brave!" he said sternly. "But now you're trying to run away again."

"How about this. How about first you just watch me take a shower. Just watch me do it. You don't have to take a shower at the same time as me. You just have to watch. And you can stand, like, five feet away, so you don't get splashed. How's that? Is that better? Because I need a shower because now I'm greasy, and I'm already naked. So, for now, all you have to do is just watch me, okay? Okay. Let's go."

Jock's back to pulling your arm again.