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

[crystal_ballin]

Hagakure looked sort of mildly surprised. "Wow, really? You do? The traditional Japanese calendar has 24... uh... sekki... uh... small seasons. Each season has six small seasons inside of it. They're on all the calendars. Seasons like, uh, 'Awakening of Insects' and 'Cold Dew.'"

The More You Know.

[nottheproblem]

"That sounds very in-depth," Ziio admitted with a nod. "I think we are not so great in number of celebrations, but we honour rains and snows, the green world, and blue waters. As well as the stories of our ancestors and how we came to be." But most cultures did that, even if they weren't very loud about it.

"Where is it that you're from?" she finally asked, for it certainly wasn't any place she was familiar with. The least she could do was read up on it when she had free time. And she had plenty of free time, oddly enough.

[crystal_ballin]

"Oh, like the Kojiki," said Hagakure. "That's an ancient text that explains how Japan was formed out of the sea and the birth of the gods. You have that stuff too? Neat."

Neat.

"Oh yeah, I'm from Japan, it's a bunch of islands in the middle of the ocean. I'm from the Tohoku region of the main island of Honshu. It's really nice. We get a lot of snow in the winter."

[nottheproblem]

She nodded slowly in response to his former inquiry, which she assumed was mostly rhetorical in nature. Beyond that, she found herself caught once again. He lived in lands across the water and the only waters Ziio had ever found herself vaguely familiar with were those where the outsiders had come from.

"The same waters as the British Isle and the king who resided there?" she asked quietly, knowing there were hundreds of years between the days she'd known and Hagakure's.

[crystal_ballin]

"What?" Hagakure said, looking at Ziio sort of funny. "England? No, no, that's the opposite side of the world, dude. That's over in Europe somewhere. Japan's in Asia, next to China. You know, where all the oolong tea comes from? That's China. Where are you from, again?"

[nottheproblem]

"Across the water," she answered rather succinctly. Except there was more to it than that, and the way she'd answered it didn't really make it an answer at all.

So she decided upon something better. "A village called Kanatahséton. West of the British Isle and across the water from there." She didn't know what they called that in the modern time and she didn't much care because it wasn't as if she was going back.

[crystal_ballin]

It's called 'Murrica, and there's a Freedom Eagle shedding a lone tear for it even as we speak.

"Oh, so, like you live on an island, too? That's cool, du...sensei. Do you get typhoons, too?"