12th bloom; renewal

[punchtheflowers]

[Video feed turns on, and a face that has been somewhat absent from the school this past month greets the screen. He is astoundingly disheveled, covered in a mossy beard, long, wild hair the usual facial piercings. For some reason he's also got monk's robes on? You can probably imagine he smells pretty strong right now too. Because he does. He smells overwhelmingly of flowers.

Vinnie's still a little out of breath and maybe a bit red in the face for some reason, but he's home. And looking a good deal happier than he did when he left in December.]

Al'right, I'm pretty sure I was gone at least 5 months, so... [He glanced at the calender on the computer.] Is this right? It's still Feburary here? Shit, no wonder nothing's blooming yet.

Uh, I dunno if you got all my letters then. Well. [Pause.] S'that mean there's another one of me runnin' around in Johto right now...?

[Time travel, you were really weird. But he wasn't going to think too hard on that right now. Vinnie shrugged and smiled.] I guess I'm back. Did I miss anything important? Has everyone been okay? Red? Where is everyone? I really miss the shit out've you guys.

((ooc note: thanks to Celebi, Vinnie's been 'ported back to school! His solo logs will, however, continue in 'real time.' So if he mentions something that hasn't happened to him in the logs... chronologically, it hasn't yet.))

Comments

[star_punched]

Tryin' to get my groove back...I've been in the tournaments n' stuff. Slowly gettin' there.

[Plus, they got the guy. Despite poor Ai, he felt better about that.]

He was like a mother hen...it was kinda funny, I guess.

[punchtheflowers]

Tournaments? Like, at the school? When'd that happen?

I can see it. Max definitely has a sappy side under all those miles of muscle.

[star_punched]

Max set 'em up! A lotta people signed up. I lost but it felt good. I ain't fought like that for a while.

Oh I know...I know how it is too. If he weren't around me, it was a couple guys from Orange Star who were watchin' me when all that happened...Heh.

[punchtheflowers]

I guess I missed the sign ups, huh? That sounds like it would've been pretty fun t'cut loose and fight.

Hmm. Speaking of, I don't really wanna bring it up, but I've been kinda out've the loop... did they end up catchin' the guy?

[star_punched]

...Yeah, they did.

[His mind still can't go around all what transpired...Ai and...]

They did. It was Mr. Goose's TA, Caim.

[punchtheflowers]

Ah.

Shit, what is it with this school and hiring psychopaths...

[Sigh.] Well, at least they caught the guy. That's one down.

[star_punched]

[N-No comment.]

Well, hopefully we can put this whole stupid mess behind us now.

[punchtheflowers]

Yeah, that's a relief.

Hey, if you ever need someone t'train with or spar, I'd be happy to volunteer. I need t'get back in the game, too.

[star_punched]

Hahaha, no problem, bro. I'll let ya know.