Dorm Log

[raw_angel_power]

Who: All of Smash.
What: Dorm log! Summertime special.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus.
When: Approximately the latter half of July to the earliest of Augusts (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.

And don't forget: things are getting pretty freaky! Shadow bugs are still rife around the school and city, causing all kinds of trouble, but most significantly capable of cloning people and even objects. For the remainder of July, the dimensional lines are a little blurred and causing alternate universe versions of characters to show up. But something ever curiouser has started to show up on campus... Bubbles?

Subspace bubbles? They look kinda like the ones dotting the sky... Dare ye enter?

If you do, you'll find that it... just ends up being a portal to another part of the school. Sometimes they may lead you into some part of town. Weird! Hopefully it doesn't lead you anywhere embarrassing, like in the middle of a stage play or in the bathroom of the opposite sex. That's mortifying.


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7/27: Shadow bugs go wild and clone a bunch of office supplies. Do shadow bugs get bored or something? Beware of that stapler you're about to pick up... It might be a shadow bug clone! They're animate office supplies all around the school. At least it's easy to tell the difference between the real things and the animate ones, because the clones are purple. Unless, of course, your supplies are all purple. Then you're in a bind...er.

Also, they cloned the Kraken fountain and now it's come to life. Hope you brought some slippers.

8/1: You know those hazy purple-black pockets of subspace that keep showing up across the sky? Today, a humongous one swallowed up the sun completely. For almost all of the daylight hours, there will be a full-on solar eclipse. Aww, were you working on that golden tan? Too bad, buddy. You're gonna have to wait until tomorrow.

8/5: A herd of Towtow show up at the school overnight and stop to rest. They'll be there, napping all day with that peaceful look adorned on their faces. How cute! But you wouldn't want to see them angry... Maybe that's why you should be careful not to wake them up.

For reference, here are the rooming arrangements.

Comments

[punchtheflute]

Sonny had already started on the second one.

"Oh! Augh! See? Well, it's OK. Probably I'm going to finish this whole bag today. I eat a lot of stuff, Max. I don't know if I could be as careful as you are."

He passed over Max's shake.

"Because if I'm outside and I'm hungry and I don't have any protein or carbs, I just eat tree leaves. Or grass and flowers. Or pinecones and acorns. Acorn season is coming up. I like acorn season. Anyway! I just sort of eat whatever's around?"

[maxchamp]

"How about you carry a bunch of protein bars around with you? Like, thirty or forty, I guess," said Max. "If you gotta eat like that all the time."

[punchtheflute]

"Protein bars?" Sonny replied. He did like eating protein bars a lot.

"How much would thirty or forty protein bars cost?" he asked. "Would I get a discount for buying so many? Some places give me a discount for buying a lot of stuff."

[maxchamp]

Sonny liked eating anything edible a lot.

"I got that protein company with my face on all the stuff, Sonny. I'll get them to you at cost. Heck, cheaper than at cost. How many per day do you think you'd put away?"

[punchtheflute]

"Oh, I could eat at least fifteen a day while just snacking." Sonny replied. "More if it's during the school year and I'm spending time in class."

[maxchamp]

"Alright," said Max, thinking about how much protein that was. "That'll help push your macros in the right direction. Just make sure you eat extra protein at meals, too. Drink a lotta milk, eat lean meat like chicken and steak. Vinnie's got problems doin' that. I don't wanna have to deal with two guys with a protein deficiency."

[punchtheflute]

"I'm still drinking three gallons of milk every day!" Sonny replied. "Not including protein shakes. Just milk. Sometimes I buy gallon bottles, sometimes Nancy just gives me enough of those little cartons to make a gallon. So long as we have enough."

Sonny didn't want to rob everyone else of the chance to drink milk at lunch time or dinner.

"Vinnie is a vegan. He still eats protein-ey stuff! Like tofu and things. I bake for him with tofu instead of eggs. I love my Brother, so, I learned to make all kinds of vegan food."

[maxchamp]

"Tofu," said Max, rolling the word around in his mouth as if the act speaking of it were itself distasteful, "is like fake protein. Too much soy and it can turn into estrogen in the body. That's the opposite of what you want."

[punchthedoritos]

"Estro... gen? What's that? It sounds like a Pokémon."

Congratulations! Your TOFU evolved into ESTROGEN!

[maxchamp]

"It's the stuff that makes women women. It's the opposite of testosterone. Ain't you had a sex-ed class?"

[punchtheflute]

"I did! But, um, mostly I learned about... you know. Um. Hehehe."

Look at how red he is. Look at that.

"...other things that weren't estrogen. But I know what testosterone is. So, Estrogen for girls, testosterone for boys. I wonder if testosterone is why Nodoran-M is purple and Estrogen is why Nidoran-F is blue?"

[maxchamp]

"Probably," said Max. "And stop blushin' ain't nothin' wrong with learnin' about sex. I don't really know how it works with pokemon but if you're gonna date ladies as a human guy, then you need to know how it works."

Oh Max, such a comfort. Such a help. Such a gentle soul.

[punchtheflute]

Telling someone not to blush was just going to make them blush MORE, Max. That's how it works. You can't just turn it off OK.

"I know! I want to know how it works as a Human. I don't really know how it works with Pokémon either. I mean, I've never done anything like that as a guy or a Snorlax."

Despite spending so much time at the Goldenrod Daycare. That magical place where eggs just magically appeared out of the ether and you got in trouble for thinking they'd probably make big omelets.

"So, wait, what you're saying is, tofu makes you have more estrogen? Really? Are you sure about that? Because that doesn't sound right, Max. I don't think anything that you eat can really change you like that."

[maxchamp]

"I assume that guy pokemons have sex with girl pokemons," said Max. "And if you're a mammal, which you are, it probably works about the same way as it works if you're a human."

Wailmer x Skitty.

"And soy can screw you up if you eat way too much of it," said Max. "Like, it won't give you lady parts, but it'll sap your strength. I read a thing on the internet about a guy who drank too much soy milk and had breasts grow in."

[punchtheflute]

"I don't know. No-one knows. It's a mystery, Max."

Look even the Day Care Guy who's like nine hundred years old is surprised every single time an egg shows up. Every single time.

"Maybe he just ate too much... everything." Sonny mused. "I mean, I've got kind of a fuller chest than I might like to have. But that's because I carry more weight than most people. Because I'm a Snorlax. I also have kind of a belly."

This is no secret, Sonny Moe. It really isn't.

I'm... sorry

[maxchamp]

"No, it wasn't that. It was drinkin' too much soy milk. You can get an erection, right?"

Max why are you asking that question.

You're never sorry.

[punchtheflute]

"..."

Wow. Max. Wow.

"I... um... I... Uhhhh. Is that... something... that I should... Um. You don't maybe need... to.... um. Is it really important for me to tell you that!?"

He pretty much looks like he's about to grab his bag of apples and run.

Not really, no.

[maxchamp]

Sunshine, you seem to not comprehend that the weightroom is a homosocial bonding space for men where subjects that would seemingly raise flags are simply commonplace and provide the basis of general conversation.

"You don't gotta answer me. It's a rheto-whatical question. What I'm sayin," mansplained Max, "is that the guy who had the problem from drinkin' like a gallon of soy milk a day got erectile dysfunction as part of it. He wasn't just fat, like you're chubby. He had other problems, too. I figure your plumbing works -- his didn't. And that's why you don't eat too much soy or drink too much soy milk."

[punchtheflute]

"...it works just fine!"

Max why would you do this. Now he's worrying about Vinnie's 'plumbing'.

Yeah.

That was a concern he never quite anticipated.

"I need to look up other kinds of stuff I can substitute for tofu in recipes where I use tofu to substitute for other things."

[maxchamp]

"Are you substitutin' tofu in for you or for Vinnie?" Max asked wryly. Max, having dealt with Vinnie in the past, was aware of the Venusaur's distressing veganism.

[punchtheflute]

"Well, cooking with tofu can be hard. So, usually, I make a few attempts for me to eat then once I decide that whatever I've made isn't terrible? I'll make some for him. Like, you can substitute soft tofu for eggs in some baking that needs eggs! So, I might want to make a cake with soft tofu for Vinnie to eat. And usually, I'll make one, eat it myself, see if it's OK, then if I need to change something, I change it and make another cake. Then I eat that one. And if it's good? I make one for Vinnie."

It's like science.

[maxchamp]

"Yeah," said Max. "That's, uh, too much tofu for you. You should probably not eat more than one tofu cake at a time."

GDIT, Vinnie, your terrible baby diet was going to ruin Max's best powerlifter prospect.

[punchtheflute]

"Maybe I should share my experiments? I could bring you some. You're a pretty good eater. You might like half a tofu cake sometimes."

[maxchamp]

"Too many empty carbs," said Max. "I couldn't eat it durin' a cut phase, only durin' a gain phase."

Max, your life sounds awful.

[punchtheflute]

"Max. Why are your meals so complicated? Isn't it all just, like... energy goes in, energy comes out? So, eat a cake, it has calories, you burn calories to lift weights, so any food going in is at least a little bit useful?"

No Sonny. That's for normal people.