Kohala Coast, Hawaii | Morning & Afternoon | Tuesday | February 22nd

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Everyone should feel sorry for the poor bastards left behind in Fandom where snow collected atop the ice that coated the ground overnight. But in Hawaii, everything was sunny, warm, and beautiful. It was paradise, and everyone there should take advantage!

[Guest Quarters | Resort Activities | Spa Without Walls | Beach Activities | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | OOC]

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Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//I see Ariel often enough,// Jono mused. //She stops by th'shop, now and then. Makita's always been a bit independent. But they're both not bad people.//

He wiped out the X that he'd drawn in the table-salt, and started idly trailing his fingers through the mess, some more.

//I need to track down Ben again, I think. We haven't mocked so-called horror films together in a while.//

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"You should! Watching movies would make an excellent alternative to him getting sunburned all over" Karla offered, like the good sister she was.

She was tempted to mention Ben's scars to Jono. She thought the two of them might understand one another. But it wasn't her place to say it.

"You should," she said again. "I think you two have more in common than you'd guess."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

Jono nodded a little, thoughtfully.

//He was... there. I mean, after Didi... went.// How else was there to say what had happened, really? //I really should look him up again. I'm... bloody terrible at keeping in touch with people. I need t'work on that.//

Though how he'd contact people after grad, he had no idea.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

There were these magical inventions called 'letters,' Jono.

"If you'd like, I can nag at you until you do!" Karla suggested brightly. She was such a good little helper! "I'm very good at nagging."

Very, Jono. Very.

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

But writing took time and effort! Time, Karla! And effort!

... He'd have to start gathering mailing addresses.

//I don't doubt it,// he replied, fairly lightly, himself. //I might have to take you up on that, actually. If you don't, I'll probably start looking for excuses not to.//

Much like he'd spent the first few days of the trip, sulking in his room and making up reasons to not go outside and appreciate that he was in freaking Hawaii.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

Yeah. It'd probably be for the best if Karla never found out about that. Or she'd drag him to Glacia in the middle of winter and let him appreciate that.

"Consider yourself nagged," Karla said, smirking. "And now, at any moment, I will pop up and pester you about Ben. This'll be fun for me on several levels!"

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//I suppose I shall have to hold my breath in wait?//

Har, Jono. Har, har.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

Karla showed her appreciation by tossing a napkin at his head. "You're hilarious," she said dryly.

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//I have my moments,// Jono replied, taking the brutal napkin assault in stride. //Just wait until I'm drunk enough to start telling bad knock-knock jokes.//

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"Can't be worse than the drunk poetry Ben and I were spouting the other night," Karla said before finishing another beer. She was collecting an impressive number of empty bottles beside her. "Well, Ben's poetry anyway. Mine was awesome."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

Jono needed to take this opportunity to try and imagine Ben, drunkenly reciting bad poetry.

... It was a glorious mental image.

//You know, I'm actually almost sorry I missed that?//

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"Think of it not as an opportunity lost, but of a reason to make sure it happens again sometime in the future!" Karla said, giggling. "I would happily work towards that end with you. Drunk Ben is hilarious."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//This is me making th'mental note,// Jono mused, //drag you both off to Caritas at some point. I'll find a reason to yet, luv.//

He would. He was resourceful that way.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"We can measure his face again!" Karla said! "Maybe in a different scale than plastic monkeys. I now know how long his face is in plastic monkeys. This is important."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//Th'dangling ones that come in th'barrel?//

It was very important to clarify these things.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"Nope, the colorful ones that come in our drinks," Karla said, tapping the aqua dolphin adorning her not-beer beverage. "They have a whole menagerie!"

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

Jonothon leaned over the table to inspect the dolphin, and then glanced up at Karla, dubiously.

//So, how tall was Ben's head in monkeys?//

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"Hold on," Karla said, a little chagrined. "I have to count the colors and we haven't gotten there yet. Purple, green, blue, porcupine..."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//... Porcupine?//

Jonothon was now trying to puzzle out just what colour 'porcupine' was.

Apparently, that second-hand-beer was kicking in.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"There was a little plastic porcupine in the jumble of plastic animals I got and it was just too cute not to include in the chain," Karla 'explained.' "I tried to convince Ben to keep it."

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//And he wouldn't? Shame on him,// Jono said, nearly managing a chuckle. //I suppose now, you'll become a collector. Porcupine everything.//

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"No, little plastic animal everything. I want to leave Hawaii with a whole set! Maybe I'll use them to decorate the frog tank in my room. I bet they'll appreciate the extra color."

They were psychedelic frogs, after all.

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

//That'd be... interesting. You collect enough of those, and you'll never be able to find yer frogs again, Sunshine.//

And then he'd laugh at her, because he was helpful that way.

Re: Luana Lounge

[glacial_queen]

"It's not like they do much anyway," Karla pointed out. "I just add some flies or some jello to their tank once or twice a week and they're good."

No, her trouble would begin if Fandom whimsy brought them all to life.

Re: Luana Lounge

[furnaceface]

...

//Jello?//

For the frogs?

//What kind of frog do you keep, anyhow?//