[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

[quadrangle]

[The telltale twitch of his shoulders is answer enough, as is the way he hunches them soon after, but why not say it out loud? Ugh.]

Yes, I had such a fucking abundance of free time and desire to become intimately fucking acquainted with a culling fork that I routinely hurled myself into large bodies of water for no fucking reason.

[Wow, three fucks in one sentence. Someone's feeling defensive. He lifts the book a little higher.]

It was Meenah, right? She's pretty cool.

[Even if her alternate self is a huge bitch. Whatever. Please latch on to this new subject now.]

[brocrux]

[ There's that word "cull." ] I'll take that as a "no."

[ Is Karkat the only one in their party that doesn't know how to swim then? John, Jane, Dave ...Jade would have to be as good as or better than Jake was at it. Yeah, just him. ]

Probably. I didn't get her name and only saw her the once. Twice, maybe, while dragging Roxy out of a bubble. You talked to her?

[ The braids were kind of boss. He was a little too busy to pay more attention to her though. And he is not latching on to this subject completely. He's going to attempt to multitask this swimming topic. ]

I can teach you to swim, if you want to give it a try at some point. It's not hard.

[quadrangle]

[Oh my god Dirk why did you have to verbally acknowledge it you total ass. Also not let it go, which is even worse. Karkat takes back everything nice he may or may not have thought about you.]

No and also fuck you. Why would I need to know how to swim? Don't we have Pokémon for that anyway? It's not like we go to the beach everyday, and I'm fine where I am.

[On his towel, with his book, completely alone. Yes. This is the epitome of "fine." And "denial," maybe. Who can say for sure?]

And yeah I talked to Meenah. A couple of times. The rest of our dancestors were complete assholes, there was no real point in interacting with any of them. Except her, I mean. Sometimes.

[brocrux]

[ And Dirk just keeps talking about it ]

You might find yourself inexplicably in a body of water without a Pokémon or a flotation device. I would consider it a plausible situation in a place that shuffles what body everyone's using on a whim. But suit yourself. Recreational swimming isn't all that enjoyable of an activity.

[ He makes a little face, roll a shoulder sluggishly to purposely show how little he gives a shit about the final decision on Karkat v. Water. Karkat's missing out on an essential life skill but whatever. ]

Is "dancestors" a combination of ancestors and descendants? It sounds like you liked her.