Fando Radio, Sunday, April 10th

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You know, I never thought I'd get into this whole rah rah let's fight the bad guys thing you people do around here. And I still haven't. Go Team Turtle Or Whatever.

No school notes today, probably because you were either huddled inside or slaughtering thousands upon thousands of innocent fanged mushrooms, so let's go straight to the...

Dorms

The morning started with fish things and squid things appearing in the pool. Bruce didn't look before he leaped, so he ended up having to fight some fish off with a key. Ender was just dipping his feet in when another fish leaped out at him. His towel-fu was too weak, so he ended up disappearing to the lobby.

Speaking of which, Blackagar was there after the gentle creatures you people are viciously attacking touched him a couple times on his way to the library. He ended up becoming the welcoming party when people got popped back to the dorms. A very quiet party.

Ender popped in and told Blackie about the things in the pool. Bruce walked up there from the pool and told Blackagar how it was all over town. And Jaina popped in after getting hit by a turtle shell to confirm that! Convenient!

Peter popped in, so Blackagar made sure he knew he wasn't the only one. Jaina got sent back again after a showdown with a cloud guy, and Blackagar had a welcome back sign ready for her. Cally appeared and Blackagar got to tell her all about the pool and what gets people sent back to the lobby. Blackagar had to give Dani the rundown, too, after she ended up in the lobby. But she made her way back out toward her home... just to end up in the lobby again. Rinoa made a brief stop in before getting riled up to head back out after Blackagar gave her some info. And Squall had anger issues about not being able to just poke things with a sword to kill them once Blackie gave him that tidbit. Boo hoo, you have to get creative to destroy adorable little things that were doing you no harm. Except for maybe trying to infest the town.

In other dorm news, Percy and Luke skipped the violence outside and stuck to video game violence in their room, sparing the lives of many innocent mushrooms who just want to take the place over. Good men. Your potential turtle overlord probably thanks you. Nathan decided to stay inside and make the pizza delivery person do the hard work and bring him food when his coyote girlfriend stopped in, all messy.

Town

Jaina started her bad day in town by squishing a mushroom and trying to do the same to a turtle. And she got careless and that's how she shelled herself to the lobby.

Leo made his way to Fixxer-Uppers by chucking his own personal hammers at stuff on his way. Outside the store, there was a floating brick block, which Jaina eventually smashed to get a mushroom that helped her grow.

Ben and Tahiri were on a date at Chilly Boulder, where they discussed the finer points of killing the creatures and then tortured a turtle in its shell for FUN. For shame, kids. For shame.

Raccoon Blackadder and Fire Baldric were all over town to get people together for a treasure hunt and maybe eat some turnips. Point one was finding coin boxes and yellow boxes that only gave one coin. Tsk There was also a chance to jump into green warp pipes like that was a smart thing to do. I didn't. George Lass found out why when she jumped into one, slid down a coin slide, then hit a wall. Not worth it. Jack Sparrow and his raccoon tail got lucky and just declared himself rich after he went down one of the pipes. No wall trauma for him.

Blackadder also had directions to a coin heaven in the clouds. The directions were easy: climb up a vine. But Blackadder couldn't convince Baldric to climb up, so he flew with his raccoon tail. And there was a ship in the harbor where I picked up a few coins and the power to spit fireballs at people. Sparrow showed up after me and... wait, I missed some coins? Crap. Sparrow got a bunch and that's where he found his raccoon tail. Those were my coins, pirate! I want them back!

Up in the sky, Warren got beat up by a winged turtle, came back from the dorms, and ended up facing off against one of those cloud guys who were actually doing their jobs THEN. Iron Man came in for a team-up, but after Warren had trouble jumping on the cloud guy's head and Iron Man's weapons weren't working, they decided to run away and fight some ground creatures.

Squall was in the Preserve when he found out that sticking things with a sword didn't do the job this weekend, so he came back from the dorms with some magic spells. Cheater.

Jaina's round two was at the park when she got a mushroom that made her grow, which helped her kill things. But then she got into a fight with the cloud guy and the cloud guy won, sending her back to the dorms. Cally was out in the park collecting coins when the cloud guy took her down, too. And Rinoa was in the park trying to talk to the invaders when cloud guy nailed her with a spiky guy, too.

Okay, I take it back. Cloud guy did some work. I think he's the MVP so far.

After her trip to the dorms, Rinoa hit the town with weaponry, going nuts on the creatures. Kennedy stopped to chat in the middle of hopping on things and they whined and whined about not being able to stab things and cute things being evil. That's life. Deal with it. Also in life, Rinoa fought a mushroom-driven boot. Once she took out the mushroom, she fell into the boot and was out of control.

And then, in the park, I was amazing. I held the Inaugural Lucas Lee Kart Race! Okay, most of us were on skateboards, but Kart has a better ring to it. For the record, I won. Rikku was a decent skater, cheated well, and talked some good smack, but I was better at all three. Reno was weak. He was so bad that after taunting him with my fireballs and turtle shells, I just raced fast enough to keep him behind me and have a conversation about how badass and evil I am. Hank was pathetic. His hovercraft was slow, he took himself down with a banana peel even though I don't think physics works that way, and had to be fished out of a pond by the cloud guy on a break from zapping people.

Key point? I beat them all. But they also challenged each other a bit, so let's get to that, I guess.

Rikku started out with dodging monsters and taunting Reno for being a beginner. Then he showed her how to jump on creatures with the skateboard. Hank decided to talk some smack with Rikku about science before she talked smack about his ride. And then probably told him how she banged his mom, that's how badly she pwned him. Hank also challenged Reno to a race and offered a whole quarter as a prize. I think that means Hank owes me a quarter. Pay up, kid, or it's detention!

In less awesome but still hilarious news, Eric hit a leaf-holding brick block by accident and ended up with the raccoon look at the Devil's Nest. Bruce did the same - hey, that's clever, very original - and got a drink at the bar to show off his own raccoon look. Rinoa and her boot came through the door completely out of control. Fortunately for her and unfortunately for people who enjoy bars getting smashed up, Bruce knew how to stop it. And over in the VIP Section, Jessica teased Eric about his raccoon look because, let's be honest, he needed to be teased about it.

Jaina made her way into Caritas after hopping on a turtle shell and bringing it into the bar only to find, oh no, no Tino! I just wanted to rhyme that, to be honest. Anyway, the lounge had a yellow question box and the bar had a me explaining about powerups and stuff since my world actually has stuff like this and I'm kind of an expert.

Off on a rooftop somewhere, Bruce was standing around, casting crazy raccoon silhouettes across the background of the moon or something when a masked chick in a cape stopped and started laughing at him. Then a masked guy in the same outfit as the chick only without pants and with a dog did the same.

And finally, Jaina had to dodge a turtle shell to get into her apartment. Anakin brought Juliet over to crash after a day of monster stomping, took care of the shell, and promised to bring the kid to see Jaina's X-Wing today once it's done sleeping.

I thought that guy was supposed to be a badass. Vin Diesel sounds tougher than him.

Well, whatever. Let's hear it for the turtles!