Dorm Log

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Who: All of Smash.
What: Dorm log! April-May edition.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus.
When: Approximately the latter half of April to the earlier half of May (25th - 15th)
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.

And keep in mind! There are shadow bugs afoot! They be crawlin' in your crannies!

Since it was well-received last time, we will continue the events. 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. In addition to the prevalence of shadow bugs, the list and dates are below.

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April 28th; Apple Pie Golems: Apple Kid's 17th-dimensional ball of yarn (this is an invention from 4 years ago) gets tangled up and, regrettably, opens a portal to the Elemental Plane of Apple Cobbler. Apple pie golems come streaming in from the rift before it can be closed properly, and they are hungry for a slice of your character. It's fight or... die?! Or maybe fight and pie, depending on whether you win or not.

May 2nd; No-Pants Day: Someone must have funked up a spell in Magic Class, because now everyone's pants have become... sentient! And they're escaping! They're scrambling around without their owners, from shorts to trousers to even skirts! Skirts probably don't know how to run, so they float. Big difference. Even if you manage to nab them back, they'll just try and slip right off again. They're pretty violent. Even the pants in your drawers and closets aren't safe from this magical misdemeanor. Skivvies are strangely unaffected.

May 9th; Meteos Mayhem: Meteos blocks start to gradually descend upon the school grounds. It doesn't seem like a huge deal at first, but after a while, it gets to be a nuisance. Get it off my car! Why are there so many of them? When will they end?! If you're keen, you'll realize that if you line up blocks of like colors in a vertical or horizontal row of three or more, they'll... blast off into space? Weird, but kind of cool. And hey, it cleaned them up. Better not let them stack up too high! It's Trash Day for the whole school!

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

Comments

[voltecpower]

Pulse blinked upon hearing Lucca's question, and quickly looked down, checking himself, in case there was some visible effect or damage he was unaware of. There had been times when he was so intensely focused on a situation or adversary that he had completely blocked out all unnecessary stimuli, only to find out after the danger had passed that he had suffered some kind of injury during that time frame, surprising and frightening himself somewhat. It had become a habit for him to check for wounds or damaged data once he had calmed down after a fight. However, this particular situation had rattled him so, that for a moment he had forgotten himself. Fortunately, there was no damage resulting from this encounter to speak of.

"I, uh, I think so."

After hearing "bug" and "shadow energy" he already had a ton of questions begging for answers, but there was one standing at the forefront of his mind.

"You said... th-that they're everywhere, Miss Lucca?"

[tempus_fixit]

"Yeah, they were in the machine shop and the auto shop too. Why'd they corner you in the computer lab?"

Wait...

"In the machine shop and the auto shop... They were swarming the machinery! They're attracted to machines, and that's why they were after you, right?"

[voltecpower]

Pulse knew little about the facilities outside the main campus, though he understood they existed, as they were connected to the main grid along with everything else at the school (at least, everything stationed on the ground... he remained curious about what went on in whatever systems that Eggman fellow had on his airship). It seemed reasonable that something feeding on electricity would eventually create an infestation in places where there were large power supplies or generators necessary for running machines and equipment for working on vehicles, and he nodded in understanding when Lucca mentioned that they were attracted to the machinery.

"Yeah, but... But it's not because of the machines... Because I'm not a machine. It's because... well, they're also gathering around the outlets and the power strips, and..."

He swallowed hard.

"...and I have a significantly higher voltage level in my body than humans do."

[tempus_fixit]

"They're trying to feed off of your voltage?"

Another wave hits the widow and she flinches.

"We're gonna have to figure out a way to keep you safe, then."

[voltecpower]

"...Keep m-me safe?"

If he were the only one affected in this situation, he would have accepted it, allowing himself to run away and disappear until the threat was over and dealt with. Besides, it was what he used to always do; but then, that was back before he realized how threats in cyberspace could affect people in the real world, before he decided that the real world was worth protecting just as much as cyberspace. And if these things were all over the school like Lucca said, they had to be causing problems for everyone else there as well. After all, they just lost the entire computer lab.

"I-I would think... the integrity of the school's network... and power grid... should take priority over my safety, ma'am. Even though I'm not going to be much help in getting rid of them, myself..."

He glanced at the window for a moment, watching the blobs. It seemed as though there were a lot more in there than before. Were they multiplying? Were they growing larger from feeding off the electricity? Or did it just look like there were more of them because they were actually all just on this side of the room, trying to get at him?

He looked back toward Lucca.

"What was it you did that made them back away from you? It looked like... It looked like you were throwing flames at them, with your hands."

[tempus_fixit]

"That was fire magic!" She chirps in response. "It was actually kind of a weak spell; I didn't wanna burn down the room or anything. In fact I try not to use magic inside anymore, but it scared me n', well..."

Awgawd, life ate me for a while. >_<

[tempus_fixit]

"So they're attracted to electric fields? That's... that's WEIRD!" She declares. "Why would things that look like they're made out of shadow magic be attracted to electricity?"

Another wave strikes the glass, this time with an unsettling amount of force.

"...We can talk more about this when we get somewhere safe." She adds quickly.

Tell me about it

[voltecpower]

"Yes, we should." He agreed without argument.