dunhaven; ic community.

( text messages to zora + a lot of unsent ones to cash )

( instagram post )

I don't have photo evidence of how good of a day today was, but I did have waffles for breakfast and lunch on top of it being Friday so I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

FILTERED TO CASH, JORDAN, VIOLA, ZORA, MAL, KAI, & FRANCIS

Hello!

Spring break is in about a month and I don't know if everyone has plans or not. If not, I was thinking that I very much am tired of winter and would like to use at least one of my spring breaks as a college student doing more or less stereotypical college student things during my spring break which basically means finding a beach. Less wild and crazy beach and more just a beach where I can sit in the sun for a few hours and remember what vitamin D feels like.

That being said, I was wondering if any of you would be interested in joining me for a bit of a road trip? It doesn't have to be for the full week or anything -- maybe leaving on Sunday and then coming back Thursday? As for destination, I was thinking Savannah might be nice? I've only been a couple times when I was younger and I think it would be fun to see older and with friends. There's beach things we could do, but so much else to see and good food to eat. It's also about an eight hour drive from Dunhaven, which doesn't seem too painful if it's a roadtrip together. Also, to keep costs down, I figured an Airbnb would work great; Cash and I had good luck with one in January, so I think that means I have a skill in picking them out. I found one that would fit us all for $60/night that looks real nice.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think. I'm pretty sure I'm going with or without you all, now that I've gotten myself all hyped about it, but it would be more fun with friends. Obviously, I totally get it if you already have plans, but let me know and I can start getting stuff booked!

WHO: Zora Steele & Mal Lane
WHEN: Saturday, February 2, 2019; Evening; Backdated
WHERE: Hotel in Portland, OR
SUMMARY: Zora and Mal talk about taking the next step in their relationship.
WARNINGS: None!
PROMPT: Dance of Romance

( I think we can make it work, Z. It would give us more time for us. )

FRIENDS OF KAI + KAI

I was thinking that with Kai (hi, Kai) having been away for his birthday and then missing some of the Chinese New Year celebrations out there because of having to come back for school, that we should probably help him out with a bit of both? I was doing some research on traditions and it seems like there's a lot of food and fireworks and family, all of which I think we can probably handle, even if it's chosen family. It won't be a parade, but we can try.

Anyway, I don't know what everyone's schedules are looking like, but I was thinking we could do something Friday evening at Fitzwilliam? I'm assuming everyone will be back on or around campus by then and we're already so good at taking over the kitchen space already, so why not do it more? As long as no one tries to put anything crazy in the microwave (you know who you are) we should be golden.

If you don't think this is cool as hell, I don't know that we could be friends.

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Seriously, though. The Super Blood Wolf Moon has been the coolest part of 2019 so far.

JORDAN, ZORA, & MAL

If you guys still want to come and you're okay with February 2-5, I think I'm going to get everything booked tonight so we're good to go. Technically we could stay at the house in Portland, but it's been a long time and I'm not sure what kind of shape it's in since my grandparents take care of all that, so I was hoping you all wouldn't mind just doing a hotel instead. I have one in mind that I think you'll all like.

JORDAN

And if you wanted to stay home for Cash, you know that I would understand, right? Obviously you don't have to tell me anything since it's not any of my business, but I don't want to take you away if you should be with your family.

JORDAN & ZORA

I'm thinking about taking a couple of days this month and going out to Oregon. Tell me it's a bad idea, because While I have the time off, you know?

Taking FULL advantage of the break between January and spring terms to go home for some of the Chinese New Year celebrations. My mom cried a little when I broke the news.

The only thing I regret already is that I can't stay for the parade, because there is really nothing like it on our side of the Pacific. :((((((

FRANCIS:

You know, it's not too late to come with me.

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At the risk of sounding super bah humbug, the excuse to look the other way when it comes to diets is pretty much the best thing about the holidays. The best thing.

FRIENDS - feel free to assume!

I know that this is last minute, but it was just brought to my attention that my grandparents are going to be out of town over New Years, thus leaving the house empty, with the exception of the dogs and myself. So, in wildly stereotypical coming-of-age movie fashion, I think that means there's some legal requirements there that say that I have to throw a party? So, that's what I'm doing. I know the town has their thing, but I guess I still feel like that's the place the ~grown ups~ go to and I'm still roughly 10-15 years off from actually being a grown up, despite being able to legally drink. In case you also feel this way, consider yourself invited to ring in 2019 with me.

I'm going to get food and drink and, I don't know, fireworks? Are fireworks a thing people do for New Years? I'll get fireworks, so long as everyone promises not to burn themselves. But mostly the food and drink. Bring people, bring no one, just bring yourselves. ❤️

MAL, BEAU & REMI, separately

What does it mean if I have dreams about being an invincible alien? Like am I more or less than, or equally crazy to the rest of the people in Dunhaven dreaming about strange things?

It's time for another anonymous post, again for academic research reasons. This one is not a confessional, exactly. For this one, you will post anonymously and then other anonymous users will ask you general questions that you will then have to answer honestly. You won't be forced to answer anything that makes you uncomfortable, obviously, but if you "sign up" for the questions, please try to be open to answering them.

Thanks in advance for participating!

( instagram post! )

I wanted light summer reading. I swear. That was my intention.

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[Zora]

Java Chip is coming out with a new caramel turtle blended iced coffee and I thought you would want to be the first to hear about it because it tastes every bit as good as it sounds.

I'm also might have brought a kitten home from the shelter under temporary circumstances.

[Waverly]

There is a kitten in the house. She is very small and cute and likes to swat at ankles.

1) Since we’re on the wrong side of the planet, NASA is live-streaming the lunar eclipse right now! You can see it here*. It’s the longest one this century, so that’s fun! I’m glad they’re streaming it so the rest of us can enjoy it too.

2) What are your favorite nature/animal reserve/conservancy Instagrams? I need more positive things on my feed. I’ve been obsessed with the Amboseli Trust’s insta lately. They have twin elephants! Twins! They’re very rare.

3) The weather is hella nice right now, and it’s supposed to storm a bunch next week, so I was thinking about driving up to Assateague Island this weekend. Does anyone wanna go? Picnic on the beach? It’s a bit of a drive, but it’ll be nice.

[ooc: *fake link because the stream is way over by now but pretend he linked it earlier!!]

WHO: Malachi Lane & Zora Steele
WHEN: Saturday, June 9, 2018; Afternoon
WHERE: Lane Residence
SUMMARY: After putting it off for way too long, Mal and Zora need to talk about their anonymous conversation on Charlie’s post.
WARNINGS: Mentions of domestic/parental abuse.

( I think we both just tried too hard to protect the other that we both ended up failing each other at the end. )

Hello, Dunhaven!

I'm pretty sure everyone knows me because I am legitimately the loudest resident in this town but, for the sake of modesty, allow me to introduce myself to anyone who doesn't. I am Charlie Parker, a senior at Athena Academy. For one of my capstone projects, I am hosting a social experiment that requires your help. It's kind of like Post-Secret which, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a project that collects anonymous secrets on postcards. It's wonderful and I highly recommend it. I would like to conduct something similar here, though it would be isolated to the network versus mailing me your secrets. It's really easy to participate. All you have to do is leave me an anonymous secret here. All comments are anonymous in that even I won't be able to tell who posted them. Though anonymous, they will be public. Comments can be anything, even something as simple as song lyrics that speak to you but that you wouldn't share with other people normally.

Please help me, Dunhaven! You're my only hope of getting a passing grade on this capstone!

[OOC: Comment with your character journals as normal, not as anon. For IC purposes, we will still assume it's all anonymous to the characters. Thought this would be a good opportunity for people to find out that others are having weird dreams, too, among other things!!]

NOAH RITTER

Hi. I'm [...] very sorry to bother you. I realize you're probably actually celebrating the holiday today and not working and here I am sending you a message that's work-related, so feel free to ignore this until you're actually on the clock. A classmate of mine was talking about having taken one of your self-defense classes several months ago and that's who I got your name from. Do you only teach at the YMCA? I mean [...] do you teach private lessons, maybe? In self-defense, obviously. It's just, I don't know that I really want to go to a group thing right now? But I want to learn how to take care of myself and I don't know of any other classes being offered. Which, I mean, if you aren't able to offer something outside of those classes, I'd even be super grateful for maybe a referral to someone who could? Just [...] not in DC. I mean [...] I'd prefer somewhere less [...] prolific.

I realize probably none of that made sense.

Have a happy...Sunday?!

BEAU

How was prom night? You haven't sent me any pictures yet. You should do that.

REMINGTON

Was Lyra serious about looking for a bigger house?

MALACHI

[...] Hey.

WHO: Zora Steele, Remington Steele, Lyra Rhinehart, and NPCs Harrison & Margaret Steele.
WHEN: March 25th, evening.
WHERE: Mostly the Steele Residence.
SUMMARY: The Steele girls fight back and Lyra makes a satisfying arrest.
WARNINGS: Domestic assault, explicit violence, politically charged arguments, etc.

( It’s about time you start earning some goddamn respect around here, to be ho-- )