October Catchall! (a Mix of Open and Closed)

[autumnrainrunaway]

Who: Dolly + you!
What: None Quests Threads first. Will be adding Quest Threads later on :3
Where: Southern Forest, Bay Town, Lum Berry Low Tier Housing, The Archives, and more to be added on as the month goes on.
When: Throughout most of October
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death that comes with hunting, Wild Parties, and Nerd Violence. Will update more as it goes along.

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[autumnrainrunaway]

"Good choice, I'd place a drink on Mrs. White." Dolly chuckles along, the characters really did have oddball names. At least it wasn't something too unfortunate like Creature Cheeseman, that would've earned a lot of stares. Dolly was really glad humanity grew out of that weird child name phases...maybe.

"Speaking of drinks, I wonder if they have mulled wine or mead for the colder weather?"

[paperceptive]

White...it's a common enough surname in some countries, but Odile does wonder about the etymology of it. Most common names like that reference something in particular. Oh, well.

"I could do with some mulled wine. They do that in Vaugarde - I've been traveling there for the past while."

Humorously in the ISAT AU PSl Dolly is in, it took her two decades to notice no one saw colors

[autumnrainrunaway]

There comes the mention of Vaugarde, it has Dolly's attention big time. Though, Dolly hasn't picked up the confusion about the color themed names of the characters just yet.

"I'm definitely joining you for the mulled wine then, I think it'd pair well with the pierogis. What was Vaugarde like? It sounds like a nice place to travel in."

[paperceptive]

"They're very welcoming. Almost strangely so. Vaugardians are easily both the nicest and the most ridiculously unsuspecting people I've ever met."

It's dry, but sort of fond all the same. Though of course, there's little time to dwell much on that. "But I didn't have the most conventional experience. I showed up just shortly before the King tried to freeze the entire country in time. It put a bit of a damper on things."

[autumnrainrunaway]

"Goodness, Vaugarde sounds incredibly lovely though. I'm definitely interested in learning about Vaugardian culture, it sounds like a lot of fun to learn. "

...Freezing a whole country in time? Well that was a new concept right there! Well, at least the King didn't try to DIY a phantom island with radioactive materials. Dolly remembered that one all too well, especially after getting sucked through a rift thanks to it.

"Same, when I arrived in Estrella Del Rio some months back, I ended up landing around a time of a disaster too. I'm not sure what became of the city south of Estrella or what even happened there, all I know is that its uninhabitable now."

[paperceptive]

Odile grimaces sympathetically. "That - something like that happened in my world once. Some other country." Which one was it, again? When was that? She can't really remember - it must have been far away, long ago.

"Vaugarde was a close call, too. Nearly all of it was frozen by the time we got to the King."

Less tears and more '..that's close to home.' grimacing

[autumnrainrunaway]

Dolly grimaces along, not for the mentioned town in Doriene, but else where too recently, "I'm so sorry, it's absolutely horrifying to have happen." It's best not to talk about it, the memory is too fresh...let's focus on Vaugarde, yes?

"I'm glad that Vaugarde pulled through something unprecedented like time freezing. You had to go up against the King?"

[paperceptive]

"Yes. He's frozen in time now."

Brief, but Odile has no real desire to recount the battle. In the end, even after everything, that day had barely been about the King at all. "Right in the middle of the House of Change. They're religious establishments found primarily in Vaugarde - you can see why he went there." As far as Odile is concerned, it must have been spite. The King never seemed angry or spiteful; she thinks he must have been a fine actor.

She leans back in her chair, remarking dryly, "I hear they've been dressing him up."

[autumnrainrunaway]

Frozen in time you say? Dolly was amused by that one, that's some pretty good irony right there.

"I'm glad the House of Change is making good use of their new statue though, hope they're dressing him in clashing fabric textures." Dolly smiles, her humor best served dry as beef jerky for this occasion.

That is weirdly the worst thing Dolly could ever wish upon another person. However, Dolly was sort've surprising the deity wasn't involved though. Maybe they're a bit more chilled than the ones back on Earth?

[paperceptive]

"I'll have to check sometime." Odile hasn't been back up there since the King's defeat. She's had far more important things to worry about. "Siffrin has been...unwell, since then, so we've been focused on them. Though they seem better now..."

Physically, anyway. Odile really doubts they - either of them - are as well as they want to appear. She's just uncharacteristically hesitant to dig.

[autumnrainrunaway]

Siffrin? Well there were two Siffrins, Dusty Siffrin and Sparkly Siffrin. Dolly wasn't entirely sure which one came from Vaugarde, but it was nice to know Odile wasn't alone in a new world. Though Dolly wouldn't blame Odile for not wanting to dig, she was in a similar spot with Lupe and Fernando, especially the latter...he is a morbid mystery of sorts.

"I hadn't realized you and one of the Siffrins were from the same place." Maybe Dolly will find out which one came from Vaugarde like Odile?

[paperceptive]

"....both of them, but that's complicated."

Odile's not inclined to speak on Siffrin's situation (well, any of Siffrin's several situations) with anyone here. Anyone outside of their party, really. It feels private, like a...rather like a family matter.

[autumnrainrunaway]

"Oh, my mistake and understood, I hope both of them are doing alright though."

Family matters are family matters, they're often private for a reason and that's important. At least, that is what Dolly understood with her batch siblings.

[paperceptive]

"No, no," Odile's quick to reply, shaking her head dismissively. "It's fine. They're both doing well enough." There's no problem with asking. Odile asks things that perhaps she shouldn't, fairly often! She pries, too, but she'll admit that she's a hypocrite in that regard; the lack of follow-up means that all is forgiven.

"They'd been suffering from a bit of Craft exhaustion before," she allows, because that is the public explanation anyway. "It happens when you overuse your Craft and begin taxing your body instead - Craft is something like the 'moves' these Pokemon have. But they've had time to recover here."

[autumnrainrunaway]

Craft exhaustion wasn't entirely foreign to Dolly as she listens to Odile about what it is. It's similar to how casting a strong spell would've been with herself, though more going into a hibernating state that could last two days and pain. She wasn't going to ask how the craft exhaustion happened, being told this much was a kindness.

Here comes that word, the one with the sandy and gross aftertaste to say, time. "Time definitely does help with the healing process, it sounds similar to how spells work where I came from, use something too strong and it could end up causing a short hibernation for the body to recover."