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

[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.

[maxchamp]

"Because 'a little bit useful' ain't good enough. It's gotta be maximum useful or I can't gain nothin'. You don't put regular gasoline in a fancy car, do you? No, you get the high-octane, fancy stuff, 'cause it won't run right on the cheap stuff. Empty carbs convert to fat too easy, and don't build up muscle. Takes protein to build up your own protein."

Max has a lot of protein.

[punchtheflute]

Sonny had no idea whether you put fancy gas in fancy cars. He didn't know how to drive. Remember? Still, he made a note to remember that little bit of information in case he ever could afford a fancy car and was tempted to make it fat by giving it poor quality gasoline.

"I see. Hmm. I could make you a meatloaf? That's lots of good protein. Probably."

Wait, since when was this 'No, I have to make Max something he'll like!' as opposed to 'I don't want my wingaling not to work because I ate too much tofu'?

[maxchamp]

"Meatloaf's alright, but the less you do to the meat, the better it is. So, just a steak or even just a hamburger's better'n a meatloaf; there's fillers in meatloaf like crackers. You wanna make me happy, you just grill up steaks."

Just be happy that the conversation has moved away from discussions about your dick's ability to use bulk up, Sunshine. Just be happy.

[punchtheflute]

So long as his dingdong wasn't a topic of conversation, he was just fine.

"Aw. I like mixing stuff and putting in different ingredients. But OK. I'll go and make you some steaks." he said, apparently done with workout for today. "I'll make some for me too. I'm staaaaarving!"

[maxchamp]

Max looked at Sonny and looked at the bar, and looked back at Sonny.

"I thought you wanted to get huge."

[punchtheflute]

"Right now, I want to get huge. Steaks into my belly." Sonny replied, mid-step.

"...or would you rather that I stay here and do some more weights for a while? I mean, I can just eat more apples as a snack. But I need a real meal kind of soon."

[maxchamp]

"You did it twice. You need at least five sets in. So you've got three more to do," explained the wall of man. "Then we can eat steaks. But you've got three more rounds, so get at it."

[punchtheflute]

"Okie-dokie." Sonny replied, turning around and walking to his bag of apples for a quick top up. He picked up two apples and they were gone pretty quickly, cores and all. He still had his cheeks full of apple pulp when he grabbed on to the bar and started doing more pull ups.

Maybe the extra weight of the apple in his face would make them count for more? How much weight was too little weight to add?

[maxchamp]

The apples don't count. You put it in your body, and it becomes you; it doesn't count as extra added weight. If it isn't hanging from the belt, it doesn't matter.

Max, meanwhile, went back to his freakishly horrific shoulder presses with two bars in the squat rack next to Sunshine.

[punchtheflute]

Sonny was able to do eight pull ups in the next set, then dropped down again. He took a drink of water in between.

"Hey, Max. Have you seen much of Vinnie since he came back?"

[maxchamp]

"Uh, yeah," said Max, after putting the bars back on the rack.

"Told me he was quittin' the army."

Max doesn't seem upset about this at all.