[LOG]: 'Cause I need a break, I need a vacation

[callbacks]

Who: The Homestuck posse and anyone who might be on the Olivine beach!
Where: The beach in the southwest corner of Olivine City
When: All day August 2nd
Summary: We kept talking about a beach episode, and now there is a beach episode. Just slap up a toplevel, hang out, and mingle!
Rating: T for Terrible Language
Log:

It's a pretty impromptu thing. Now that they've retrieved Jane from the horror of having to walk all the way through the early routes, their party's up to six entire people, which is the most any of them have been likely to have hung out with in...ever, basically. Jane doesn't even know anyone but Dirk, she's that far back on the timeline. So what's the obvious plan of action?

BEACH. FUCKIN'. EPISODE.

There are big, colorful towels and big, colorful umbrellas. There is a picnic basket, even though the boardwalk is pretty much, you know, right there (they can sample Olivine's fine dining for dinner; for lunch, there's Hawlunchables). There are bottles of Lemonade and Fresh Water, AJ for Dave, and Soda Pop for Dirk, the godless heathen. There are plastic buckets and tiny shovels because fuck you, that's why. There's even a beach ball. No one knows who brought it.

And of course, everyone better have brought their bathing suits, because there's ocean.

Comments

[cyan_maid]

Sometimes people don't have a lot of that in stock.

[She shrugs. Water, sun, excitement, it can get to people.]

Not really, no. My Dad took me to the Pacific shoreline once or twice when I was little, and where I came from has a fair amount of water, but no ocean. [For a moment, a tired look crosses her face.] Not that an ocean there would've been all that interesting anyway.

[wing_attack]

Oh... I kept getting moved between the East and West Coasts, so I saw the ocean a fair amount. I prefer a forest to an ocean, really... though I go to the Lake of Rage here pretty often when I need to think.

[He watches her carefully. Huh...]

What do you mean by 'not interesting'?

[cyan_maid]

Lake of Rage, huh...

[It doesn't sound like a place that one could do much thinking, but hey, who is she to judge.

A shrug.] Everything was dead and empty. Even an ocean would have just been a sad, sorry, salty puddle of nothingness. At least here there's life in it.

[wing_attack]

O... oh. I'm sorry...

[He's kind of curious as to why, but... maybe he shouldn't ask.]

Oh! I never introduced myself. I'm Tobias.

[cyan_maid]

It's fine. It's nobody's fault...and hopefully not my own, either.

[He can ask, she'll talk about it a little.]

Oh! Ah, right. Nice to meet you, Tobias. My name is Jane.

[wing_attack]

It's nice to meet you, too. I've been here a while and I still haven't met everyone... have you been here a while?

[cyan_maid]

Not really. I don't even think it's been a month yet.

[wing_attack]

I've been here for... two years? There's people who have been here a lot longer, though.

[cyan_maid]

I've heard as much! [But she seems impressed nonetheless. Two years!] Is it really so hard to speak to everyone that's come here, even in two years? I suppose you can't meet everyone in person, given how we're encouraged to travel...

[wing_attack]

Well I... uh. I'm not the most social person. I've gotten a little better, but...

[Erek paws at Tobias' belly, and he scritches the little Pokemon behind an ear.]

It helps that a lot of us were either used to weird at home or have gotten used to it here. It makes talking easier.

[cyan_maid]

Oh. I see. Ah...then, that should be fine - you've got to do what you're most comfortable with, after all.

[She pauses, thinking a bit about what he'd said. Used to weird at home...how many seemingly baloney stories would she have to try and believe if she spoke to everyone?]

[wing_attack]

It's all right. There's a lot of nice people here... people who understand a lot. It's easy enough to make friends...

[Even if some of them disappear. ... It's not like he has to forget them. And hopefully they'll be back...]

[cyan_maid]

...I'm...glad to hear that.

[Honestly, she knows she's got at least one good friend here, and then some by association, but it's reassuring to hear that there are LOTS of people, and nice ones to boot.]

I mean - it's nice to know there's a lot more to this place than the Pokemon.

[wing_attack]

... There definitely is. For a lot of people, it's the chance for a new life. Not like you have to forget your old one, but it's... good to make something new.

[He glances down at the Eevee.]

I bet the guy I named you after would think you were adorable. Even if I'm not sure that you're actually a dog.

[cyan_maid]

Yeah. That's...what it's felt like for me, honestly. Either that, or it's a very convincing dream, but I'm not exactly hoping it is.

[She chuckles at that. What the heck even WERE Eevees, anyway?]

[wing_attack]

I dunno, do dreams go on this long?

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[cyan_maid]

They certainly seem like they go on forever, when you're dreaming them. But again, I don't want it to be any sort of dream.

[wing_attack]

Yeah, agreed. Though when I was back home, I didn't remember this, even as a dream. It was super weird...

[cyan_maid]

[Jane's eyebrows shoot up.] Really? You didn't remember anything? But...why?

[wing_attack]

I don't know. It's... really dumb. I mean, I guess it would have been distracting, with everything going on, but... I don't know why that happens.

But I was also here at the same time I was there. My friend found me passed out and put me in his bathtub for a week.

[cyan_maid]

Wh...

[Eyeing you for a moment here bub]

So are you...sure you didn't pass out and dream of home?

[wing_attack]

I'm pretty sure even my worst nightmares wouldn't be that detailed with that many missions and that kind of ending.

[cyan_maid]

[Missions........right, okay.]

I...see. I suppose quite a lot happened, if you were asleep here for that long.

[wing_attack]

Yeah. Trying to think of all the details just gives me a headache, though... so I've been trying to let that go.

[Even if it bugs him to try.]

[cyan_maid]

That's probably a good idea. Especially since I've heard this place can be quite lively when it wants to be, so it'd be difficult to find the time to sort it all out, right?