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There are those who have made it clear that their proposed solution to this catastrophe is to destroy the moon.
Such an action would damn us all. It has been brushed off with remarks that the debris would simply burn up in the atmosphere, yet even if this were to happen, we cannot survive without the moon.
Already we have seen the effects of its closeness on the world around us. Yet, what do you believe would happen if there were no moon at all?
The planet's orbit would become unstable itself, with no 'child' to balance it. Though it would not veer out of orbit with the sun, its overall path would be altered. Tides would fail. Our bodies, primarily water as they are, would suffer.
This world, were it to survive such an event, would find itself a wasteland. And such a thing cannot be considered "saving" it.
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Hey so...
Alright, I'll just cut through the pretense. Looks like the sky is falling, eh? You'd think there would be at least two or three people at the school that had some kind of insta-fix when it comes to this situation. But instead, I guess we're trapped in FDC. I don't have much to offer at the moment outside of being someone to freak out at I guess. If someone needs that.
Meanwhile, when it comes to me and mine... We stay cool, we stay together, we'll figure this shit out. Are you guys all okay? Obviously Bulba's already here, but between our two bedrooms, we've got plenty of space. If you wanted to come camp out in the RA dorm... I'd like that.
[Private to Blue]
You always were smarter than me when it came to logical moves. Mind laying down some of your trademark wisdom on me? I'm not saying this is weirding me out, but... | | |
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[Biomech was gone, huh. She'd said goodbye, at least, which was more than Char'd ask for. The two of them always had been kind of alike, after all, and he knew full well the way a dragon heart hated to be tied down. That they'd known each other as long as they had was pretty incredible. Funny to think that the teacher who'd seen him through to graduating would eventually become a co-worker.
But, well... she was gone, and Char was still here. And as Lonely natures are wont to do, that fact pulled him toward brooding. He'd spent more hours since graduating alone. The horizon, once again, was whispering tempting little promises of escape, but where Samus had grown restless, Char had been putting down roots. He might have vanished for a day or two at a time, but he never went far.
This time, he was especially near: down at the edge of the lake. This'd been the last spot he'd seen Samus in person, and at the time, it had been littered with large chunks of scrap metal salvaged from the bottom of the lake. Some of it had been left at the shore -- no long rusting away in the lake waters, but far too damaged to be of practical use.
Which made it a little weird that all those beached heaps of crud were now partially submerged again. Char stood next to them, the water partway up his scaly shins. Curiosity had gotten the best of him, so despite the inherent shittiness of his old phone, here was a mobile post with an attached photo of Char's submerged feet and the mangled metal sticking up out of the shallows.]
Hey, is it just me, or is the water level here higher'n it used to be? | | |
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[Boxes and bags and a slight mess can be seein in the background when the feed cuts in. A light, cheery tune can be heard in the distance before it stops when a possibly familiar face plops on the chair in front of the feed and wipes their forehead.]
Hey ya'll! Sorry I didn' take the time ta say I was on my way back, but hey, what better way than now during unpackin'?! Got a new room this time 'round tho we all know how them dorms like switchin' it up on us erry now an' then. So, for now, if you wana come on down an' say hello, feel free ta pass by BW eight!
Especially those folk who know I always want ta know if they're okay and fine. Don't make me come to yer rooms now y'hear?
[She smiled and blew a kiss at the camera.]
I'm glad to be back~
[And with a wave, she cuts the video. Still marked as online if anyone wants to chat, audio, video and what have you. Or you can pass by the room! In any case, she seemed as welcoming as always. Hello, you were all missed.] | | |
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[In the morning when Blue wakes up, Acacia lets herself out of her ball to greet her momma before the day starts. Normally, she'd go out for a bit to get some fresh air and stretch her legs before returning to the room to relax. However, today shall be a different day. A break in the cycle, if you will.
The Sandslash has been getting a little restless in her ball for some time now and finally decides that today is the day she is going to take up a human form. So, wanting to surprise her momma and little bro, she sneakily approaches the crazy headmaster to enroll as a student and acquire a transformation accessory. And, tempting as it is to make a grand and showy announcement of her presence over the network, the Sandslash decides she'd rather personally greet everybody and surprise her family and friends in the flesh. That would create a better, lasting impact, she believes. So, here you have a spiky brown haired girl roaming about the campus looking for her family and aiming to strike up a conversation with anyone interesting.
Will you unfortunately be within sight of Acacia? Approach her? Avoid her?] | | |
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[Jolt's video feed was nothing but static. His voice could barely be heard over it before the feed shut off completely.
When Jolt gets sick, he loses control over his electric powers. Thus when he touched his phone, it shorted out. When he tried to use his computer, it blacked out. So with nothing left to do, not even feeling like eating, he just flopped onto his bed and hoped anyone who came to see him didn't get paralyzed.] | | |
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Are any of you familiar with the legend of the Dragon's Gate? They say that there exists a huge waterfall running off a great mountain. Fish swim upstream against the harsh current, but most tire out and are swept away. But those who have the courage to persist and make it to the top of the waterfall are transformed into a beautiful, powerful dragon.
It's a good lesson, isn't it?
That's right! Even though this school has countless obstacles and hurdles and dangers looming quite literally right over our heads, if we give up, we too will be pushed back and will make no progress! We must press on through the unforgiving current, and when we make it, we will come out stronger than ever! All right! Let's do our best to reach the top!!
[What brought this up? Is someone trying to keep himself from going nuts at the idea of one last year here... probably.]
On another note... There are many Pokemon and trainers here, so if anybody has any advice on raising a Magikarp, I'm all ears!
[Ah. Ah. That's it.
ACTION TIMES: Kiyotaka can be found bonding with an ugly fish he lets swim in a kiddie pool out in the stadium some days. Most of the time he can be found studying. Livin' on the edge. Although whatever he's doing, he seems to be favouring his left arm a little.] - Tags:blue (pokemon), gordon freeman (half-life), hajime tanaka (osu tatakae ouendan), hilda (pokemon), jon talbain (darkstalkers), kerosene/charizard (pokemon), kiyotaka ishimaru (dangan ronpa), leon kuwata (dangan ronpa), sonny moe/snorlax (pokemon), vivian/turret (portal), zero (mega man)
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[It was an ordinary day for Jolt. Just an ordinary day, as far as he was concerned. Thank goodness he hadn't been affected by the craziness going around. But just to be sure, he'd better go check on his family and friends.]
Hey, everyone. Is anything weird going on for anyone? I'm fine, but I'll be there to help if anyone's having any problems themselves. We've gotta stick together, right?
[Only instead of the usual perky spiky dog on the webcam, it was a more calm looking guy with pale green hair and a shock of dark green cowlick. And his ears kinda looked like leaves.
Uh oh.
Also Riwane might have noticed a small bouquet outside her door. Where did that come from? It's a mystery to everyone.]
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[ACTION][Late, late at night Friday evening (or early Saturday morning if you prefer) something broke through the summer sky. It wasn't one of those strange purple streaks but it was coming in hot and fast. A fireball looked like it was heading on a crash course for the dorms but banked hard at the last moment and plowed through the nearby forest bordering the school. The result was loud and thunderous, and left an ominous billow of smoke somewhere deep beyond the tree line. Perhaps it was a metroidrite meteorite? Dare ye investigate?
Should you bravely venture into the poorly lit forest you might discover what looks like the smoldering remains of a crashed spaceship. Half the hull was buried deep into the ground jutting out at a 45 degree angle, heaping up dirt and rock where it impacted. A neat line of toppled over, half-mangled, half-burned trees points in the direction it came from--seemingly none other than "up".
Samus was surprised he survived that at all. He can thank his suit of armor for absorbing most of the impact but now it too is mangled beyond any good use. Stripped of his Power Suit he's nearly defenseless, not to mention sore and grumpy. All he has is a rather useless emergency pistol and his tattered skin-tight Zero Suit. Attempting to crawl out of the wreckage only so armed may have been foolish, but he had no choice.
Some distress signal that turned out to be. At least he was alive, and he planned on making that much count.] [VIDEO][SOME TIME AFTER THE CRASH... (perhaps a day or two later) Samus attempts, very begrudgingly, to get settled in this Smash Academy place until he can make repairs on his poor broken ship. Not that anyone needs to know about that and frankly he'd prefer no one did. That's a problem he plans to tackle on his own but in the meantime he has another one.
On the video there's some blonde grumpy guy I am shit designing clothes just roll with it he could be blonde Han Solo apparently using one of the library's public computers.]
My name is Samus Aran. I'm not one for formalities—you can call me Samus, or Aran, whatever you prefer. I'm new faculty and as much as I'd love to get settled in [There's some very light sarcasm there to the trained ear.] I'm running into a problem.
[He holds up a set of keys, upon which are inscribed with the letters: TD-01.]
The Headmasters insist this is my new designated room to board in, but it's already obviously occupied. I'd prefer not to kick anyone out of their room or take it by force unnecessarily, so show yourself so we can negotiate. [[OOC NOTE #1: Lady Samus definitely would have at least told Ian she was jetting off to space with Falcon for an indefinite period of time. SORRY IAN, YOU'RE THE MAN OF THE HOUSE.
OOC NOTE #2: Because of this exchange, Lady Samus, before leaving, would have made efforts to encase some bombs in ice with her pew pew arm cannon's ice beams and booby-trap the hell out of the bunkers. More heavily (and more deadly-ly!) the areas surrounding the bombs, and should this put a damper on any plans I'm super flexible and willing to roll with anything; she missed a bomb, made human error, setting off one of her traps exposes a bomb or something. She definitely would have gone through the efforts to not make it easy on anyone, that's all.]] | | |
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Greetings Smash Academy, my name is Pidge, a Pidgeot, and I have joined with the rest of you to better myself in both knowledge as well as in my fighting skills. My trainer is Green, whom you may be acquainted with already. I hope my stay here will be very fruitful.
I do, however, question the morality of one of the headmasters. Do they enforce visitors to be enrolled without their consent? While I'm grateful to have this opportunity, I can't help but feel like I was tricked into this.( To Green Team members )[Action, Later around campus][A new face is wandering around campus, attempting to get accustomed to the place. Certain related parties may notice something familiar about this guy though...] | | |
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( Char received one (1) text message to his cellular device. )[And then eventually, after dargon business went down, a series of other private network text posts were made from both of Bulba's and Vinnie's accounts. Wow. Gosh.] ( Private to Nyx and Jolt, from Bulba: )--- ( Private to Red Team, from Vinnie: )--- ( Private to Voile and Max from Both of Them.. )--- ( ALSO THERE IS A NOTE FOR SKULL KID, FROM VINNIE: )--- ( ALSO THERE IS A NOTE FOR ZELDA AND KUMATORA FROM BULBA: )--- [HELLO You can jump straight into action threads if you want to handwave setting things up. We can assume they planned to meet [SOMEWHERE!] at [SOMETIME!]. If you would also like to just text reply or handwave things, that is also super cool :>] - Tags:!action post, bulba/venusaur (pokemon), jolt/jolteon (pokemon), kerosene/charizard (pokemon), kumatora (mother), marie/wartortle (pokemon), max (advance wars), nyx/gengar (pokemon), sasha/charizard (pokemon), skull kid (zelda), sonny moe/snorlax (pokemon), vinnie/venusaur (pokemon), voile/gardevoir (pokemon), zelda (zelda; ocarina of time)
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TD- 01 is so roomy! I feel kinda like royalty in here. This dorm must hold so much history... I wonder what kind of nonsense my fellow faculty have gotten up to in here over the years... ?
I also understand that my neighbor is a fire- type. No need to worry, pal. I'll keep the rain under control...
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[FUN COOL VIDEO TIMES:
If you're like Char, you've probably noticed some flyers around school advertising the upcoming poolparty. If you're like Char, you're probably super allergic to water and apparently not afraid to get grumpy about that. Odds are, you're not like Char. Here he is, thoroughly deadpan:]
So. Pool party this weekend, apparently. Can't fuckin' wait.
Seems like an awful lot of the shindigs around here involve water, huh? Ain't as bad as a school trip to a hot spring, but I'm still lookin' forward to the day we take a field trip to an active volcano or two.
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[LATER, FUN COOL ACTION TIMES:
So Char's visiting the RA dorms today. He's here hoping to find Green and maybe ask him a thing or two, but if he runs into another RA while he's there (hi Bulba hi), then he's certainly not gonna complain.]
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[EVEN LATER, FUN COOL TEXTING JOLT TIMES:]
you up to anything right now? | | |
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Char, something's happening. | | |
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[It was that time of year again. There was a small gift in the form of a satchel of tea leaves for the people that Vinnie considered family. Red got a strong, black tea; Marie, a sweet berry tea blend; Sasha's had spicy peppercherry as a base. Though not technically a member of his team, Voile still received a subtle, white tea. However: this year, for whatever reason, Green and Blue's team also got a surprise present. Green tea was reserved for Green (ha ha); Bulba was paired with sweet-smelling jasmine leaves; Char had smoky, cinder horse mix; Jolt's was a refreshing oolong; even Nyx got something, a ginger tea. Blue, on the other hand, was given a chrysanthemum tea, and both Jock and Blake got classic belle tart seed. Each packet was signed with a scribble of a flower. Max, on the other hand, got a mug.] = = = I'm heading home for a bit t'check up on family. There's some shit I need t'take care of in Vermilion, too. I've got my phone if you need me - it's some sort've satellite thing, so it oughta work even if I'm not in the usual reception range. M, Sis, you've been through this already. Be careful an' look out for V and everyone else. You'll be fine without me. Red... ... Be there for them. I'll talk t'you when I get back. = = = [Ishimaru, Vivian, and Rick also received private emails. It wasn't as though Vinnie knew them very well, but he felt as though it was still worth saying something to them. A certain empathy spoke to him, as it were, even if he didn't have all the facts.] I don't know you, and I don't know what happened, but if you did what you had to, then don't blame yourself for what was self-defense.
It'll be okay.✿ | | |
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Look, we all know this FDC riots business is bullshit. No one needs me tossin' my two cents in, but unfortunately, I feel the need to. All the fuckin' Pokemon trainers on this campus better keep a close eye on their Pokemon, humanized or not. Take it from someone who knows, you don't want to be sitting there, lamenting the fact that you were too late to stop something from happening.
It's not a good feeling.
I know my own can take care of themselves, but it's not stopping me. Bulba, Char, Jolt, Nyx. If you wanna go to the city at any time, I'm coming with you. I don't give a shit, we're going together. Not a single one of you looks especially human, so that's that. - Tags:!public post, blue (pokemon), bulba/venusaur (pokemon), chili (pokemon), chiyo/vaporeon (pokemon), gold (pokemon), green oak (pokemon), jock/arcanine (pokemon), jolt/jolteon (pokemon), kerosene/charizard (pokemon), lyra (pokemon), nyx/gengar (pokemon)
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I'm only doing this because you said I had t'do it, 'cause I'd already done it, and... fuckin' time travel. Okay, here:
CELEBI
WHEN YOU SEE THIS MESSAGE
THERE'S A BLIZZARD ON JANUARY 18TH
I'M STUCK IN THE GREENHOUSE, CAN YOU GET ME OUT
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Al'right, this better be fuckin' sorted now. | | |
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[Video; the camera is met by a pair red-gold eyes framed by a mass of black hair. A small smile flickers across the boy's face - pleasant, if a bit shy - and his voice is even.]
Forgive the intrusion. This is a message primarily for my Mistress, as I've been told that howling is discouraged indoors, especially after sundown. I'm unsure how to contact her directly through this forum, but... if wearing a new face warrants introduction, then please refer to me as Blake. I am a subordinate of Mistress Blue, and of her clan. I hope to learn about many others at this school, if that's possible.
As I am now enrolled, this means... I am to remain in my own shared den and can no longer trespass on female territory, I believe? Mistress, if such is the case, what would you have me do if I need warn you of anything? I fully intend to maintain a nightly regime, if you'll allow. Oh, and please do not worry for my schooling - I'm very able to attend the mornings, and I hope to uphold a good standing for you. | | |
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Alright, who among us is pissed off that our summer included a flood, a freakshow hotel, and a hostile takeover by a megalomaniacal robot bitch, only to bring us right back to the beginning of classes? I don't know about you, but that's not my idea of a good vacation. That's why I'm throwing a party. Get drunk, be merry, all out of the kindness of my massive heart. Location and date to be determined. Dragmire, what's the status of that old party shack?I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket, and the need to get desperately intoxicated. Bad decisions will be made. Everyone's invited, unless you're a fucking buzzkill, or under 19. Sorry babies, better luck next year. ( private to students under 19 )- Tags:!public post, adam jensen (deus ex), aquenda/tauren (warcraft), blue (pokemon), bulba/venusaur (pokemon), chili (pokemon), ganondorf (zelda), garry (ib), green oak (pokemon), harvey/mantine (pokemon), jolt/jolteon (pokemon), kanji tatsumi (persona), kerosene/charizard (pokemon), knuckles (sonic), little mac (punch out), mary (ib), shadow (sonic the hedgehog)
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