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

[raw_angel_power]

The corners of Pit's smile ebbed back as he too stared up at the mercenary with curiosity. "Sweet? You mean like sugar, right?" The clarification might not be necessary, but you never know- Ike could have picked up on some slang and was trying to tell him he thought... the snow looked cool? Not cool as in brr, cool as in AWW YEAH. But why would he come over here to tell him that?

[welikeike]

"Yes. Exactly that. I don't know if you believe me, but you can test it out for yourself if you want."

Ike's expression remained just as startled as when he first arrived at Pit's door, like he hadn't quite grasped what was going on himself even though he came with the news of ice cream falling from the sky. It just wasn't believable to him. "Do you want to try?"

[raw_angel_power]

"You're telling me it's snowing sugar, and you're asking me I want to try?" This is where he started getting bouncy, all excited to catch a few licks of sugar snow crystals for himself. "I'm on it!"

Before Ike could add anything more to this conversation, Pit skidded out the door, beckoned for him to follow with a wave of his arm, and cried, "Come on! Snow has a time limit, you know!" Then he scampered down the hall like a frisky puppy.

[welikeike]

Well, excitement was one way to handle it. Ike was more perturbed than anything because it just wasn't supposed to happen. Was he the only one who thought it weird? He nodded and just went on to follow Pit down the hallway.

The two made it outside in no time. The snow falling from the sky and blanketing the campus appeared just the same as always: white. Nothing too unusual about that. But Ike knew better, and though it probably didn't need to be said, "Just try it."

[raw_angel_power]

Pit stepped into the flurry and stuck his tongue out at the sky. He waited. When the creamy sweetness touched down on his taste buds, he withdrew it and swirled around to report his finds to Ike ecstatically.

"It's like ice cream!"

[welikeike]

"Ice cream? What's that?"

Ike ain't no noble, and ice cream is too much of a luxury for some commoner to be indulging in where he's from.

[pitticus]

"Basically this!" He gestured with open palms to the white stuff descending from the sky. "Except it normally doesn't just fall out of the sky." It looked like he was rethinking his statement. "...Depending on where you're from, I guess. But you put it in bowls or cones and eat it!"

[welikeike]

"So it's snow... only sweet? Where would you get something like that if not from the sky?"

[raw_angel_power]

Pit, not being entirely sure where ice cream came from himself, paused to think deeply about it. He never had to make it before, so he was kind of clueless. "Gee, uh... I don't actually know. Probably not from trees, that's for sure! ...Ice cream shops? That's where I go to get my ice cream."

[welikeike]

"...." Pit obviously didn't know the answer to his actual question. He didn't care about where you could obtain it, but rather, what it was made of if it wasn't snow that fell from the sky. But that was fine. He had a feeling he could guess what it was.

"Ice cream shops. That sounds... absurdly specific. Do those actually exist?" Ike was skeptical. It seemed wasteful to have an entire shop dedicated to something that useless.

[raw_angel_power]

"Of course they exist! They're about as weirdly specific as tea shops and hot dog stands. And they're really popular, especially when it's summer. Here, how's this? I'll take out out sometime and show you!"

[welikeike]

He was about to protest about hot dog stands, because what even were those? But Pit's offer is more pressing, and he has an answer to give.

"No thanks," he said, shaking his head. "I'm not a real fan of sweets. Ice cream won't change that about me."

[raw_angel_power]

Pit closed distance in on him with insistence. "You won't even give it a chance? What if it were my treat? That way, you don't have anything to lose!"

[welikeike]

"It'll just be a waste of your generosity. But if you really want me to try it, I'll bite."