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[crazylikeavulp]

Who: Anybody
When: Day 32, evening
Where: The second floor
What: HOLY SHIT WE HAVE A POOL!?!?!?

[No reason to go downstairs in the flooded area. Just a bunch of gross monster-infested water, right? But then again, if an area were sectioned off to make sure the killer eels couldn't go in, it might make for a good time, in a gross, watery sort of way!]

[It is for Lucky, anyway. She's zipping back and forth like a maniac.]

Comments

[herpunishment]

[ I am personally okay with sitting on the lower steps and recovering from eel killing. and watching Lucky enjoy herself ]

Glad ta see gettin' this was a swimmin' strategy fer makin' ya happy.

[crazylikeavulp]

[THE POOL IS MY BOYFRIEND NOW ok no let's stop for a breather]

I'm lappin' it up.

[herpunishment]

[ I GAVE YOU THIS SECONDARY BOYFRIEND I CAN TAKE IT AWAY ]

Was a splash decision, but it was a good one!

[crazylikeavulp]

[TOO LATE YOU'RE THE SECONDARY BOYFRIEND NOW]

High marks, Marco Polo! Too hard to assemble proper pun! Come swim!

[herpunishment]

'kay, but I don't know if I know how ta.

[ unbuttoning his shirt and folding it up on the stairs anyway, and climbing down ]

[crazylikeavulp]

I'll teach you! You can even borrow my non-drowning materia.

[herpunishment]

That's handy! Jus' slot it in the bracer, right?

[crazylikeavulp]

Bingo!

[waiting for you to do that so she can pull you under :3c]

[herpunishment]

[ slots it in and then- YOINKED

sputters!! it is a good thing you gave him that materia ]

[crazylikeavulp]

Lesson one! Sink or swim!

[herpunishment]

[ flails a little before surfacing ]

Swim, definitely swim!

[crazylikeavulp]

Then lesson two of Not Drowning 101 is to float! How do you float? Well, if you start sinking, just do the opposite of whatever it is you're doing. Dead man's float don't count, either, so make it a good one!

[herpunishment]

[ i. i don't understand these instructions but I will just try and keep my head above the surface of the water as much as possible and hope that counts \o/ ]

Is— this really counts as floatin'?

[crazylikeavulp]

Lean back! Relax! Let the air in your lungs make up for the skin and bones of which you are comprised!

[floats on her back, chillaxin']

[herpunishment]

[ well I guess I'm not going to drown with the materia in. l-leans back and breathes ]

Jus' a little airy, doin' it fer the first time.

[crazylikeavulp]

Okay, step two! Arms and legs! Do it just like this!

[TIME FOR SOME BACK-CRAWL LAPS]

[herpunishment]

[ goes back to treading water from floating so he can see what she's doing, still bobbing and trying to keep his head up so he's not swallowing swampy water when he tries to talk. ]

Shouldn't we start with a doggie paddle first, or somethin'?

[crazylikeavulp]

Doggie paddle! Channel the doggie. Feel the doggie. Be the doggie.

[doggie paddles around in a happy little circle]

[herpunishment]

[ okay I can doggie paddle \o/ grins at her doing that]

You're really swimmin' circles around me there. Mutt sure if I'll ever be able ta keep up.

[crazylikeavulp]

[keeps on paddlin']

Maybe with dogged determination!

[herpunishment]

I'll have ta keep it up, houndin' after ya aquatically.

[crazylikeavulp]

[dives under]

[herpunishment]

[ ... well I guess I can't drown...

NOPE STAYING UP HERE SRY ]

[crazylikeavulp]

[comes up with a mouth full of gross swampy plantlife, which she promptly spits out]

Thought it was a fish.

[herpunishment]

—good thin' it wasn't, if the fence broke already I'd have ta ask fer a refund!