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

[star_punched]

This was probably the most awkward thing. Surely he would've told him sooner or later, but finding it out like this wasn't what he wanted to do. He wasn't ready to show the whole world yet.

He was scared, to be honest. Mac was scared.

"T-that's cuz it...it is."

Oh god.

[forgetbeam]

"Why would you just carry something like this around?"

He closed it back, perplexed, because there was absolutely no practical use for something like that.

[star_punched]

Mac should've gone back to his dorm. After talking with Falcon, Mac did everything but give himself the opportunity to sit and stew over all of this. So he stayed out. He went to class, he went to the town, he went to the weightroom, he went everywhere.

Because of this entire folly, he had talked about this to more than he expected. He talked to Max earlier too. Now, because Mac didn't plan ahead and think it over well, he was going to have to talk about it to Ishimaru. No choice in that matter, at all.

But what was off putting was that Mac hadn't known Ishimaru too long, which put him in an even worse spot. Both Max and Falcon were people he knew since he came to this school himself and they knew the kid left and right probably.

Ishimaru was an entirely different beast to deal with, what would he even say? Without obviously backpedaling, which was usually Mac's initial reaction to these discussions in the first place; this was serious though, and sensitive.

"I talked to someone about it earlier and forgot to leave it in my dorm. Hahaha, guess I was lucky I didn't drop it earlier and lose it."

He wasn't really laughing.

[forgetbeam]

"There's absolutely no reason for a student to even have something like that! Here, take it and put it someplace safer than your pocket."

[star_punched]

Hold on one minute there, Ishimaru.

There was totally a reason for him to have it. Why wouldn't there be? Would he just bought a huge ring, that was super expensive, and have just carried it for the hell of it? No, he wouldn't have. At least, that was what Mac assumed he meant. Either that, or he knew and just disapproved right off the bat.

In any case, Mac took the ring box and put it back in his pocket for now until he would have to make a run to put it back in his dorm. He had something to say first; he got really serious all of the sudden.

"I-it is if I wanted to maybe..."

Come on, did he really have to say it? Ishimaru was practically killing him.

[forgetbeam]

The sudden change in Mac's demeanour was completely lost on Kiyotaka while he busied himself cleaning up blood and tainted carrot bits.

"It's only useful for something like proposing, right? It's completely pointless to carry that around!"

[star_punched]

Did Mac have to say it? He felt like he was being cornered, when he probably wasn't. Was he? He didn't really know anymore as his sensory nerves weren't really focused on the demeanor Kiyotaka was emanating, which again, was odd for Mac.

Something just told him he should just say it, that it was inevitable. He had to for Kiyotaka's understanding and his own.

"Maybe I was tryin' to propose to someone."

[forgetbeam]

He stopped. And turned. And pointed half a carrot at him. "Are you trying to be funny? I'm a man, Mac."

WOW THAT SURE WAS AN EXTREME LEAP TO CONCLUSIONS.