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October Catchall! (a Mix of Open and Closed)

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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"It must be, right...?"

Siffrin trots down the tunnel, their ear twitching as the sound gets louder. But they never actually get all the way there, because right as they're passing by, a door along the hallway opens - and Klefki comes out.

Siffrin freezes, one paw raised, apparently completely taken aback by how easy this was.

Klefki jumpscare surprise was a thing after all as Dolly popcorn bounces a bit from the sudden appearance! Yep, Dolly was starting to see why this A.B.A person was wanting to hunt this one down!

"Sweet Mac Lir! Okay...Klefki found...now what?"

Dolly glances over to Siffrin for whatever idea they had with dealing with the Klefki..Dolly is learning she did not care much for Klefki.

Siffrin meets eyes with Dolly for a second, then seems to realize that this is probably going to be on them. They bounce a single step closer to Klefki.

"Um! Hello. We... met on the wagon at Skull Town...?" Belatedly, they're suddenly afraid this isn't the same Klefki. Would be really embarrassing if it weren't! Their tail starts twitching nervously.

Fortunately for Siffrin's anxiety, the Klekfi does seem to recognize them. "Oh. It's you."

A pause. "...what did you want?"

Siffrin's tail resumes twitching, after having temporarily stopped. "Oh! ...we have a friend outside who wants to meet you?"

What a wonderful omen for how this interaction with Klefki was going to be! Dolly's eyes met with Siffrin's for a moment, concerns about how Klefki was going to react.

"Yes, our good friend over there would love to meet up with you. She seemed to have taken a shine to you it would seem."

Yep, Dolly's nervous punning is kicking in, hoping it would convince Klefki that there's nothing a miss here with good ol' A.B.A hunting the key based Pokemon down.

This definitely was a wonderful step in the right direction, most certainly is! Dolly's ribbon feelers even goes to direct Kleki's eye line (at least assuming Klefki has eyes of some kind) towards where A.B.A was.

For a few moments Klefki seems confused... and then narrows their... eyes(? extra keyholes?)

"Is your friend the tall Pokemon that's fixated on keys?"

Uh oh. They've heard of her. They've probably been deliberately avoiding her. Siffrin doesn't manage to hide whatever expression they make fast enough, and the Klefki hunches its keyring.

"Absolutely not! I don't want to know what she'd do to me!"

"I'm sure it'd be fine...? A.B.A. is nice..." Siffrin suggests weakly.

Oh right, fae have to tell the truth no matter what...shit, "She's been so motivated and determined to meet you. It'd break A.B.A's heart to hear that though."

Dolly definitely is going to do her best in convincing the already uneasy Klefki...maybe twirling the flesh bows might help? That seems to be a soothing thing right? RIGHT?

"Could you please come visit A.B.A with us? I'm sure she's much more pleasant than what she's acting at the moment."

One more try to reason before calming flesh bows are brought out.

"Maybe she should have her heart broken," Klefki comments darkly. Then they make an alarmed sound, keys jingling and then standing out in all directions. Siffrin follows Klefki's gaze behind themself - oh, A.B.A's catching up to the three of them!

Klefki instantly darts off into one of the supply rooms, dodging Siffrin's instinctual attempt to get in the way. There's a clatter of wood, some rustling sounds, and then silence.

Oh... Siffrin gives Dolly a resigned look and leads the way into the supply room.

It's big! Lots of stored wood, mostly in some kind of processed form - lumber, dowels, things like that - and lots of stone... do you want big old blocks, or finely milled gravel? There's piles of both. There's also some fabric, rolled carefully and kept in the driest corner so it doesn't go moldy. There's no metal, it must be locked up somewhere else...

There's no other doors out, at least. So Klefki must be in here somewhere. Where did they go?

RUN AWAY KLEFKI! Okay...maybe A.B.A is a bit too eager for Klefki's liking and what in the Stellar Sea was that noise it made!? Awfulness that was to Dolly's ears for sure!

Maybe Klefki did deserve the A.B.A affection after all for that one..

Dolly looks at the resigned Siffrin and understood in her shocked state, they both were going to have to go after that rather salty Klefki. Sorry Klefki, a job is a job! Hopefully Klefki will understand her hunting them down, right?

It'll be considered even payment for the ear disturbance from earlier that's for sure as Dolly followed Siffrin into the supply room...is this now an eye spy game?

"Should we look along the small spaces? Klefki could fit into there pretty well if they're hiding."

That would make sense, right? Siffrin nods.

"There were a lot of wood sounds, so maybe they're near something like that?" And since they made noises at all, probably near something that looks disturbed...

Unfortunately, most of the room looks disturbed. It's pretty well-organized in terms of similar things being stored together, but Pokemon paws aren't all good at keeping things neatly stacked. A lot are in messy piles.

Siffrin heads off along one side of the room, squinting into little gaps in the wooden piles with their ears perked. They try sniffing the air once, but Klefki... mostly just smells of metal... and with the entire room smelling of materials, including metal, they can't pin the Pokemon down to any part of the room.

"That makes sense, they were pretty hasty with the fleeing..." Dolly looks over the pretty well disturbed room. Clearly, Klefki was in the anti-A.B.A brigade of sorts and wasn't going to give in without a fight or at least be as much of a nuisance as possible. Oh well, time for Klefki to stop whining and get abducted by the very quirky Silvally.

Following Siffrin's lead, Dolly goes sniffing along the wood piles, trying to pick out a metallic scent that Klefki likely had. Dolly was definitely thanking her lucky stars and the Stellar Sea that she was in a form where sniffing like this was socially normal.

Ears were being kept peeled for that infernal clattering sound that wretched little gremlin made beforehand....Dolly isn't going to forget that one for a very long time.

Unknowingly and on its own, the ribbon feelers on Dolly's body dangled low and twirled a bit, acting like a lure in a way...maybe just maybe it'll coax the booger out.

Either the two search quietly for long enough that Klefki decides to check that they've left, or Dolly's ribbon feeler lure works. Whatever it is, the Pokemon peeks their head out from a wood pile.

Nearly right in front of Siffrin's face.

Siffrin makes a wordless but audible exclamation (kind of like a "!!") and pounces. Klefki just barely dodges their paws and goes skidding out, diving into a mound of fired clay bricks next - but this pile has gaps that are plenty easy enough for Dolly to reach into with her ribbons. And now they know where Klefki is.

OH! There's that little key of ~~agony~~ happiness! Dolly goes to carefully stalk over there with her ribbon feelers at the ready. There is a trained and patient focused look on Dolly's face as she gently extends the ribbon feeler towards the Klefki.

Completely calming, definitely soothing and so totally not a thing of nightmares the ribbon feeler coming towards the Klefki for the grabbing.

Come on Klefki, don't you want to be held by the ~~flesh bows~~ pretty ribbon of calmness? Its so welcoming and pretty to look at too!

Siffrin circles the brick pile - they don't trust that Klefki won't jump out of another gap.

As it turns out, though, that's not necessary; while Klefki seems to be planning to do exactly that, they don't realize how far in Dolly's ribbons can reach. They're not even looking in her direction, so they're completely taken off guard when she grabs them.

"Hey!! Let go of me!"

Klefki squirms, but... there's really not a lot of squirming that a keyring can do. They're kind of just rotating in Dolly's grip.

Maybe when the Grumpig brothers fly, but Dolly isn't letting that Klefki go right away. No, this is the passive anger of a fae in action, just smiling away with that firm but gentle hold. What the worst that'll happen to Kleki? Get told how much A.B.A adores the little critter? They'll be fine.

"Oh, don't worry, I'll let you go once we see A.B.A shortly."

Dolly's attention returns to Siffrin, her mood brightens a bit for them as she holds up the dreadful Klefki.

"I think we're good to return to A.B.A with Klefki now."

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October Catchall! (a Mix of Open and Closed)

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My brain decided to read that as 'Then out jumped a SKELETON!' for no reason ;_;

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