Lawn Outside the Dorms [Sunday Afternoon]

[knowsnokungfu]

Chuck was not a fighter, by any stretch of the imagination, and usually spent these invasions safely holed up indoors if at all possible, leaving the heroics to the people who liked swords, or could punch someone out without even trying. It was better that way

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[swordsandsoccer]

"What is going on here?!" Dolf declared, sticking his head out of the dorms a little while into it.

[knowsnokungfu]

Chuck was a little out of breath when he ran back up the steps to the dorm doors after disposing of some meandering attacker.

"... Things got proactive." 'Things' being the little mushroomy dudes. "They seem less cute today." Maybe because they were aiming for the dorms, rather than holding to their meandering patterns of yesterday.

[swordsandsoccer]

"...Okay," Dolf said, with the kind of stunned silence you'd expect.

He shook it off a moment later. "So what are we doing?" he asked. "Are you fighting them?"

[knowsnokungfu]

"Sort of? I mean, this whole jumping on things doesn't really feel like fighting." Which was probably why Chuck was completely okay with the concept.

"But they go... somewhere, when you do. Which I guess is a good thing?"

[knowsnokungfu]

"I would completely be up for bringing you to speed," Chuck offered, backing speedily up to where Alex was. "It's actually not so hard!" Surprisingly, for something so... real-life.

[knowsnokungfu]

"Kind of is." Chuck quirked a grin, and shrugged. "I mean, less so when you get hit... But other than that."

"It's mostly a case of jumping on things," he told her. "Except things with spikes on, because ow." Or he assumed ow. The one time he'd 'died' it was because he threw a shell at a wall only to have it bounce back and knock his feet out from under him. Landing on his ass in the dorm lobby was not his proudest moment.

[lordofthecats]

Lion-o was enjoying himself. It was kind of fun stomping on Goobmas and Koopas, and he was having fun tossing turtle shells at the Paratroopas. He hadn't even needed his sword.

The Paragoombas were rather annoying, though. He'd already been sent back to the lobby twice after getting dive-bombed. "Looks like they're getting pretty vicious today," he shouted at Chuck and anyone else who was around.

[knowsnokungfu]

Chuck had only a moment before had to flatten himself to the ground when something dived at him, and hadn't yet bothered to jump up again.

"And... buzzy," he agreed, shading his eyes as he looked at the sudden variety of things speeding around above them. "Wow."

[lordofthecats]

"I'm not sure that they're stomp-able, either," said Lion-o, pouncing on a Koopa, then taking the empty shell and hurling it at the Paragoomba. "We didn't do anything to them. Why can't they just go back where they came from?"

[knowsnokungfu]

"I think it's tradition at this point," Chuck answered, scrambling up and moving away from a spiny creature marching towards him. "That you have to kill a bazillion things, run the gauntlet, kill a boss and save the world... or island, I guess, before everything flips back to normal."