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Kohala Coast, Hawaii | Morning & Afternoon | Sunday | February 20

As the group from Fandom arrived, they would immediately be met by the bright, warm sunshine of the Big Island. Sparkling blue waters could be seen off in the distance surrounded by the white sands of the beautiful beaches of Hawaii.

The Fairmont Orchid loomed close by, big and bright against the perfect blue sky. The accommodations for the group were spectacular as always. Palms trees decorated the front of the gorgeous hotel, giving it that authentic Hawaiian feel. Maybe there was a lei or two in the future of some of those in the Fandom group? You never know!

The staff of the hotel was there to greet the group, making sure everyone felt welcomed and attended to during their stay. Once the rooms were discovered and the bags were stowed, it was time to start Spring Break!

Have fun everyone!

[OCD is up! Guest Quarters | Resort Activities | Spa Without Walls | Beach Activities | Mo'okini Heiau Excursion | OOC | An evening post will be coming later on! This is up early for maximum slowplay fun!]

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Welcome to the Fairmont Orchid's spacious Signature Ocean Front Rooms each of which offer a private lanai with a view of the ocean, moddable King bed or two Queen beds, and many other common amenities (http://www.fairmont.com/orchid/Accommodations/GuestRoomsIndex.htm).

[Please create your own subthread with your suite/room number (https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0Atxos_6GzzdrdDNpRUFfeVlqNTJxV2xNMTBYSmlYSGc&single=true&gid=1&output=html) in the thread subject line. If you're going to go NWS, please use your personal journal but feel free to link back to a thread here.]

Planning on staying close to the resort today? Check out all they have to offer (http://www.fairmont.com/orchid/Recreation/) for your enjoyment needs!

[Feel free to create subthreads with the different activities!]

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Wanna relax somewhere truly unique? Check out the Spa Without Walls! (http://www.fairmont.com/orchid/GuestServices/SPA)

Planning on heading out today? Check out all the different activities (http://www.fairmont.com/orchid/Recreation/MoreActivities/) away from the hotel that you can participate in!

[Feel free to create subthreads of the different activities you choose to do!]

Looking for something distinctly Hawaiian to do? Hop on board and take a trip to Mo'okini Heiau (http://www.gohawaii.com/big-island/regions-neighborhoods/north-kohala/mookini-heiau-state-monument), one of Hawaii’s oldest and most sacred historical sites.

And we're done! Ping down here for questions! This is up early so everyone can have as much time as they'd like to play!

Okay, SOMEONE HAD FUN WITH THE ROOM ASSIGNMENT SPREAD. Hee.

According to Karla, Ender had looked 'mopey' and they needed to explore the hotel. Exploring the hotel had led to finding the bar, which had led to curiosity (from one of the two parties involved) towards the names of all the cocktails on the menu, which had led to...

"I'm pretty sure I should feel attacked in my masculinity right now," Ender said, thoughtfully, as he observed the color of his drink.

"Oh hush you," Karla said, grinning at a shade of pink that was probably not to be found in nature. "Pink drinks are known for being delicious. The closer the color gets to neon, the yummier they are. Everybody knows that."

See, Ender! Hanging out with Karla was almost always a learning experience.

"Just like the number of cherries on the stick is an indicator of how good it is!" Karla's drink was almost an eleven! "Hmmm...how do you say, 'don't let me see the bottom of my glass in Hawaiian'?"

Jaina got to the room and picked her bed in the most scientific way possible: she threw her bag and whichever bed it landed closest to was hers. When that arduous process was over, she headed to the lanai to get a picture with her phone, just for proof that she was here.

"I don't actually speak every language," Ender said, sighing. (He had made absolutely sure they wouldn't serve him anything alcoholic, because he failed at being a teenager forever.) He took a conservative sip of his drink and set it back down. "But I guess the drink is tolerable enough, provided nobody sets in on the jokes."

Ahaha. Like he'd care.

"I'm just excited I got you drinking something that isn't milk," Karla retorted. "So don't worry, anyone who comes and sasses you for drinking something pink will get to hear all about themselves from me." Yeah. That'd stop 'em!

Leaning over, Karla plucked the umbrella out of Ender's drink and tried to tuck it behind his ear. "Since you wouldn't let them them enflower you," she explained, because this was a far safer and more sanitary option, truly. "Which really makes me sad because I had the perfect joke lined up for when I stole yours."

Ender shot her a patiently amused look, and let her tuck the umbrella behind his ear. Then he reached up and tweaked it expertly at the tip and pulled it out again. "Sadly, miss Di Glacia, you'll have to find someone else to deflower," he said, twirling the umbrella around between his fingers. "I'm sure there have to be a few people running around with doubles on."

It was harder to be caught up in his own thoughts and broody when he was outdoors in the sun, and Karla was being insistently cheery at him.

Firekeeper had wanted to try the fishing lesson... up until she'd learned it would involve being on a boat. No, thank you.

So she- and Blind Seer- decided instead to do a bit of exploring.

Karla was feeling quite witty this morning. Of course, she had thought the wordplay with getting lei'd was also the height of hilarity--though in her defense, it had been a new joke to her.

"It's the reflowering to watch out for, honestly," Karla replied, licking a line of pink foam from her upper lip. "I'm not sure what exactly that would entail--beyond an excess of blossoms, of course."

"Major surgery, if we're following the wordplay to its sordid conclusion," Ender said, and took another sip of his drink. He didn't think the wordplay was the height of hilarity, as it was just one of hundreds of such plays that all roughly translated to the same thing. But Karla's enthusiasm about it was a little endearing, and he wasn't about to ruin that. "But it's very nice out, and I don't think that's appropriate cocktail conversation."

Not-quite-straightface!

Well the Wiggin sense of humor leaned more towards jokes that one needed a grasp of ancient Sumerian political practices and a knowledge of Aramaic to understand, so Karla didn't feel too badly that Ender wasn't dissolving into giggles with her.

"Are you crazy? Other than the occasional sigh about how wonderful it is to be somewhere as gorgeous as this, we are not discussing the weather! This is hardly some kind of stuffy social occasion where we have to talk about the weather to have something to say at all."

Perhaps he needed another drink to remember that. A bright blue one this time! After all, double-fisting was classy!

...Dirty?

"I wasn't actually saying we should start in on the weather," Ender said, dutifully taking a sip of his blue drink next. His stomach was in Karla's hands right now, he accepted that. "Should I segue towards the ever-useful 'what have you been up to', instead? I heard you took off again last week."

Because where they had been last week would be cheery cocktail conversation. (Well, okay, Ben's crush on Dink might be...)

Scully had portal-lag, or jet-lag, or some kind of disorientation. Yesterday's adventure in South Dakota (http://notmyownage.livejournal.com/6666.html) had worn her out, anyway, so she was happy to have a copy of Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" (http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Chung%27s_From_Outer_Space) to re-read, a cool drink, and a spot on the beach.

She might be falling asleep and getting burned if she's not careful, though.

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...Would she do that?

Karla gave him a suspicious look, as if he might start chatting about barometric pressure just to be a brat, but was content to see him drinking his new blue drink and let it go.

"I need to come up with an automatic message thingy," she mused. "I wonder if I can convince Ben to set something up on Mini-Morton..."

The saddest part? Karla could absolutely see Ben putting aside whatever tropical island activity to tinker with her droid. Never mind. It would keep until they went home. She was not about to run off on some crazy mission in the middle of her vacation.

"Squall's sister got kidnapped," she explained. "Had to run off and try to get her back before something end-of-the-worldy happened." As it so often did. "We rescued her, but then things got complicated."

Again, as they so often did.

"And where did you two wander off to while I was gone?" she asked, peering over at Ender with a smile. "I came knocking several times after I got back to no answer."

"You're going to fill me in on whether it was a bad kind of complicated," Ender told her, mildly. But she could do so later. He gave the umbrella between his fingers another thoughtful twirl. "Tahiri, Ben and I went home," he said, "to talk to the Jeesh. And Peter."

He was not particularly eager to share the details of his conversation with Peter. Definitely not with Ben. Maybe a little with Karla; he wasn't sure yet.

To her credit, Karla decided to take a sip of her drink (the pink one, since friends didn't let friends double-fist alone) rather than make a face at the mention of Peter. She was clearly growing as a person here.

"I'll trade you," she offered. "Details for details." Because she hadn't been planning on telling Ender everything, really. "The bad kind of complicated came up when Rinoa's brainwashed ex-boyfriend took her hostage and gave her to this powerful evil sorceress that decided to wear Rinoa for a necklace while harvesting her powers. Why'd you need to talk to them?"

"Because I asked Graff to let me last time we were there, and it took him a year to arrange it," Ender said, sipping his own drink. "He's trying to get them to go off-planet. They're my people. I needed to be there. What did you do about the evil sorceress?"

They could back-and-forth like this! Easy!

Well, here was someone who'd keep Scully from falling asleep, at least for a little while.

"Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful!" Karla said, stopping in front of Scully's chair and gaping at her. "Are you okay? Did someone attack you? What the Hell happened?"

Scully blinked at Karla a moment, putting on her shades, then realized that the whapping from the demonic dodge balls had to have taken its toll, including a split lip and bruises on her arms and legs. Ack.

"There was a security system--" She paused. "Um. Made up of kinetic weaponry. Which... was not turned off fast enough, when I went on a visit to Claudia's world."

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Kohala Coast, Hawaii | Morning & Afternoon | Sunday | February 20

Guest Quarters

Resort Activities

The Spa Without Walls

Beach Activities

Mo'okini Heiau Excursion

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Kahakai Bar Oceanfront

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Room 643

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Fishponds & Shelter Caves

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The beach

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