Don’t worry about the future.

[mansionstaff]

Who: EV ERY ONE
What: Graduation. Prom.
When: The evening of May 31st.
Where: The Stadium.
Warnings: WHO KNOWS

It's a beautiful spring evening at Smash Academy, the barest hints of summer just beginning to touch the stadium floor, which had been rearranged into a platform overlooking neat rows of chairs meant to seat the gathered crowd of faculty and students. Towards the other end of the complex was the arrangement for the prom that was to follow. Food and drink, chairs and tables, each with a floral centerpiece, and, of course, a dance floor.



Before everyone could get their party on, however, there was the main event of the evening. From his place at the podium, Master Hand watched students and staff alike find their way into the stadium. With the recent shadow bug invasion, there seemed to be tensions in need of dispelling. If the Headmaster knew one thing, however, it was that some silly antics were not going to ruin this esteemed event. Not tonight. Not if he could help it.

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HEY DUDES! Here's how stuff is going to work. We kick off the log with GRADUATION. This part of the log will be divided into separate threads. I'll post them all at once, so feel free to hop around, mingle, post whenever, wherever.

HOWEVER, once the PROM starts, it will be up to you guys to post your own threads. Please check out last year's log if you'd like an idea of how this works. Everything after the thread titled "DISMISSAL" (I will post that in a bit, so don't post prom threads until I have that up!) will be considered prom, though don't let that stop you from continuing to post in the graduation section.

Please label all your threads appropriately! (Examples: "SHENANIGANS AT THE FOOD TABLE", "DANCE-OFF", "THE PUNCH IS SPIKED", "BOTHER X" In general, a location + what is going on in the thread is the way to go. Obviously, more than one thread can take place at the same location. 

Linking back and forth when and if you thread hop is very much appreciated. If things start to look a bit laggy, we'll bump to the next page. Most importantly, TAG YOUR DUDES, HAVE FUN, and let a mod know about any problems or concerns you might have!

Comments

[forgetbeam]

That was fancy enough when your family was in that much debt, heeeyyyy-

But that was beside the point.

"This event is clearly one of the more western-inspired ones here, so it only makes sense to dress accordingly!" Although he did only deepen his frown as his attire was pointed out. Now that he thought about it, he totally could have just stayed in his uniform and pulled some kind of it's a school function so a school uniform is fine card. SHOOT. Whatever, he was going to just stop being upset about it. Any day now.

"There was a place in town that was offering free rentals to students from the schools around the city! But this was all that was available in my size. It's... fine for this..."

Inaccurate vision

[crystal_ballin]

"Free rental, huh," said Hagakure, looking at Itchymarble's fancy riding gear.

It looked it.

SUDDENLY, A VISION.

"Woah, dude, I just had a premonition," said Hagakure, holding his head dramatically. "About your suit. It's... it's... it's... a lot of red. A lot of red with your suit." What was it? What was going on here? "It... looks bad... and you're not wearing it... because there's a giant blotch of red..." WHAT WAS THE COSMOS TRYING TO TELL HIM?

"You're gonna spill punch all over your suit, dude!" exclaimed Hagakure. "I saw it in my brain!"

[forgetbeam]

Aw hell no. Kiyotaka had had just about enough of predictions and fortune-telling for one lifetime. He'd been almost religiously following the horoscopes in the paper for a couple of weeks now just for the sake of proving that it was all a load of bogus, and he didn't need to be hearing the same nonsense from Hagakure right now.

"Do you really expect me to believe that? I won't even be going near the punch!"

[crystal_ballin]

"Thirty percent chance of being right, dude," said Hagakure. "Thirty percent."

He seemed very proud about that number.

[forgetbeam]

"I wouldn't call that a high success rate," said the guy who had never seen such a low number in his life. Fortune telling and exam scores were held to the eact same standard, right...

"Even if I did believe that, that's still a seventy percent chance of proving you wrong! The odds are almost entirely in my favour!

[crystal_ballin]

"Yes, but, if you were to pay me for several more rounds of fortune telling, we could figure out if what I saw was correct or not, dude," said Hagakure, placing his arm around Kittytaco's shoulders, and looking at him in the eye.

You know you want this.

[forgetbeam]

Yeah right, even if he had that kind of money he wouldn't just throw it around on something so pointless.

Ah. Wait a second.

"Will that coupon you gave me at the end of the year work?"

[crystal_ballin]

"Uh," Hagakure paused, forgetting he'd given out free fortune tellings like an idiot.

"Yeah, it would, dude."

[forgetbeam]

It was a shame to part with such gorgeous calligraphy, but...

"All right! In that case, tell me what I can expect from this evening!"

oh balls I rolled accurate

[crystal_ballin]

"Alright, well, let me, huh," said Hagakure, looking around the area quickly.

There were tables off to the side, so that people could sit down and refresh themselves when not dancing. "This way," he said, gesturing to be followed.

He clopped (geta are noisy) over to the table, and from the inside of his kimono pulled out a set of tarot cards. Of course he had a set of tarot cards with him.

"We don't have time for a full reading," he said. "But since I'm just looking into what will happen tonight, we can probably get by with just you picking five cards." He spread them out on the table. "Tap five, then I'll flip them over."

[forgetbeam]

Okay, tarot cards were totally not a standard accessory to Hagakure's outfit. Or maybe they were just because of who was wearing it. Either way, Kiyotaka brushed it off and stared at the cards for a long moment before tapping a few in rapid succession in no discernible pattern, but moving from right to left.

world's worst tarot reading -- GO

[crystal_ballin]

And so Hagakure flipped them over one by one, in the order in which they were tapped.

"The Knight of Swords, a young adult who is direct and authoritative, but who can sometimes be overbearing," here Hagakure looked blandly up at Ishimaru. "And... The Knight of Wands, a young adult who is charming and confident, but who can also be a little foolish or make bad choices." He looked up at Ishimaru again. That could be several people he knew.

He flipped over the next card. "The Lovers, woah," said Hagakure, looking up at Ishimaru, and back at the card, then back to Ishimaru, and back to the card again, "Being in a relationship," he said simply. There's a pair of naked people on the card, it's pretty clear what sort of relationship it is.

He flipped over the next card. "The Tower. Sudden change." He moved his hand over to the final card and flipped it over, "the Two of Swords, dude," he said, as if that meant something to anyone other than himself. "Emotional blockage, stalemate, dude," and then it hit him. It all came rushing in, and grabbed a hold of Ishimaru's shoulders and stared deep into his giant, disturbingly red eyes.

"The red's not punch, dude, it's Hina's dress! You get disappointed by Hina's dress! Or not the dress, but the not the dress! The not the dress!" he said again, as if that would make it any clearer. "You and 'Hina are going to go have sex after the dance tonight, but at the last minute, chicken out! You'll go to one of your rooms and talk about having sex, and then not have sex!"

Was anybody listening to this conversation? "Dude, I'm so sorry for you."

[forgetbeam]

ishimaru punched him RIGHT IN THE MOUTH

crying on the inside

[forgetbeam]

It was a pity Kiyotaka wasn't drinking anything, because it would have made for the world's most incredible spittake the first time the word 'sex' was uttered.

"W-what--"

As it was, his face was turning a lovely enough shade of red to fulfill that part of the prophecy. Flushing first in embarrassment, then in anger, her grit his teeth and clenched his fists. Why was this such a popular topic for discussion lately? He got antsy when other peoples' sex lives were brought up, let alone his own utter lack of one.

"That does it!! Your stupid joke has gone way over the line! Bringing Asahina into this... What is the matter with you!? Do you think that's funny?!"

Re: crying on the inside

[crystal_ballin]

"Dude, I'm not making fun of you!" said Hagakure in all seriousness. "It's what I saw! It's not a joke, dude. It's a prediction. You're the Knight of Swords, 'Hina's the Knight of Wands, The Lovers, the Tower, the Two of Swords, it's all as clear as five cards can make it. It's not a joke, I didn't pick those cards, and that's what those cards mean, Taka. It's not like it's fun to tell you you aren't having sex tonight; it's sort of depressing."

[forgetbeam]

"I don't care what you claim to have seen in your stupid phony children's card game!" Whoa, fighting words. He jabbed a finger at Hagakure's face. "This ends right now! Don't you dare try to pull this on her, either!"

[crystal_ballin]

"Dude, it's not phony, and it's not a children's card game, and you need to calm down, dude. Listen, I want to be wrong for this one. I really, really want to be wrong for this one. I hope I'm wrong. You've got a 70% chance of me being wrong. Just. Just think about that. I'm not going to go around telling 'Hina what I told you," because that would be free fortunetelling, and he'd given away too much of that of late, "and I'm not going to tell anybody else what I told you, dude. If you can't trust your psychic, who can you trust, right?"

That sounds reasonable.

[forgetbeam]

"I can trust myself to be a responsible student. I already know exactly how the evening will go in that regard, and you are only halfway correct!"

Because ha ha, like he would ever go as far as to have A Talk with Aoi. Not for another half decade, at least. So totally out of the question.

[crystal_ballin]

"Sheesh, dude, you really need to figure out how to turn it down a notch sometimes, alright? I'm not going to tell Asahina anything, psychic's honor, dude, just, you know, let me know tomorrow morning if one of the two was right, so I can keep track of my prediction rate."

So, tomorrow morning, after you failed to have sex with your girlfriend, go ahead and tell Hagakure all about it.

[forgetbeam]

"...A-anyway." Someone was eager to just change the subject already. "Isn't it time you consider a more legitimate career?"

[crystal_ballin]

"This is a legitimate career, dude," said Hagakure, in a bit of a huff. "Lots of people do it."

[forgetbeam]

"Lots of people are also thieves."

SHOTS. FIRED.

I'm not your dude, bro

[crystal_ballin]

What did you just say.

"Most people just call them politicians, dude."

You think he doesn't remember, because you were both drunk? You're wrong.

[forgetbeam]

Oh snap.

"That isn't even how politics work!"

[crystal_ballin]

"Talk to all of the politicians in jail, dude," rejoindered Hagakure. "They'd probably say the same thing as you did, but it doesn't stop it from being true."