autumnrainrunaway: (Pure Wonderment)
autumnrainrunaway ([personal profile] autumnrainrunaway) wrote in [community profile] bottlecaplogs2025-10-05 07:24 pm

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.
improvking: (who's there?)

A Visit: closed to Dolly

[personal profile] improvking 2025-10-06 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Not too long after Dolly has officially moved into her guild-assigned residence... someone knocks on her door! ...At least it's probably a person? the knocking sounds kind of like wood-on-wood...

Out on Dolly's front porch, her upstairs neighbor, a slightly undersized Mimikyu with a bright red scarf wrapped around his disguise's neck, waits for a response. (He'd knocked with his tail-stick - which sports a sparkly black-beaded bracelet.)
improvking: (puttering)

[personal profile] improvking 2025-10-06 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Something deep within the Ring-Spirit tells him a pun has just been committed, but he tries to ignore this instinct. It would only lead to maniacal laughter and a potentially off-putting first impression. Instead he waves his tail-stick in greeting before shuffling in.

"Hey there. I live upstairs... I was friends with the guy who just moved out from here, so, seemed like a good idea to see who was taking over the place! Are you a local pokemon but a new recruit, or one of the newly-arrived?"

It does not occur to him to offer or ask for a name.
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

Anasui will be coming in after me!

[personal profile] seacub 2025-10-08 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
The tragedy of being about a foot tall, is it's very easy for him to get bumped into. Doesn't matter that Anasui is nearby, it's a fact of life, and really not a huge issue.

Most of the time.

"Ack-!"

He tries not to drop his tablet, and breathes a sigh of relief when it doesn't go crashing out from his arms.

"I-it's okay, just try to watch where you're going..."

That might be a problem.
dripdrive: (Espathra_Down)

Hello, I'm anasui

[personal profile] dripdrive 2025-10-09 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Anasui turns around, away from the shelf he was looking at as he hears the small commotion. He raises an eyebrow, immediately recognising the small Sylveon.

"Ah. It's you. You didn't get lost in the fog. What are you doing here?"
followthescript: (129)

[personal profile] followthescript 2025-10-09 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
The very helpful ghosts, yes... Siffrin (the other one...? how are they supposed to introduce themselves now) is still getting used to the idea of ghosts being a real thing they have to sometimes talk to around here. Somehow, talking animals was easier. Maybe they just don't like ghosts very much.

Luckily, there are fewer ghosts around this part of the woods, and more woods. The trees are so tall they have to bend back to see the tops. They're trying to squint up at the branches when their partner makes a pun unprompted. Immediately, their eyebrows shoot up. Ohh??? Could it be...??

"I'm not sure... I hope we don't get stumped."
improvking: (huh. it's already all on fire)

[personal profile] improvking 2025-10-10 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah, Froslass... I heard about her, but nothing very clear. I didn't go over until near the end, to help tend some of the torches before everyone sent them out to sea... What was going on in the Outpost? Some people mentioned a party, but others were talking about fighting... and I'm not sure anymore whether local pokemon would necessarily see a clear distinction between the two."

He sounds lightly puzzled by it all, which he is. Almost like 'the experience of being mind controlled' is in fact kinda hard to explain, especially if the one trying to explain hasn't clocked it as having been mind control just yet.

He isn't sure whether the offer of food is merely a social nicety or if Dolly is actively trying to change the subject... but, food is interesting enough in its own right.

"If you're offering, sure."
improvking: (well shit)

[personal profile] improvking 2025-10-10 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Damn. Sounds like a wild ride! And well worth missing out on. Glad I stuck to tending the torches."

He accepts a bit of jerky, tugging it beneath his costume to gnaw on. (Does he have teeth under there? Even he's not sure!)

"The forest ghosts seemed to think it was all in good fun... Which I guess tells you what you need to know about the local ghosts and their sense of humor. I really do think they generally mean well, but they can get a bit rough when they're messing around. So... yknow. Keep an eye out for that."

(He's still embarrassed that his Spiritomb friend put one of his Bottlecap Bay friends in the hospital simply because of what he suspects was a minor trespassing issue. ...And Shoka likely wasn't the only town pokemon hospitalized over that either, it's just that she's one of a few whose well-being he actually cares about...)
loopsiedaisy: (🌑 Got a lot of friends inside my brain)

[personal profile] loopsiedaisy 2025-10-11 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
A.B.A. is following along behind them, at some distance, getting distracted by trying to find keys herself. Every once in a while Siffrin glances behind themself to check they haven't lost track of her, but for now it seems fine.

But! They can actually be helpful with this quest! (In fact, they may have inadvertently been the source of this quest when they let A.B.A know about the Klefki in the first place... oops.)

"I saw Klefki when we were handing out tools together, building Skull Town. So I'm door confident than usual that we'll find them near where they're stored."

Or at least someone who would know where Klefki is?

The real challenge: they don't actually know where the tools are stored when they're not being used. So they're just plain old guessing when they say, "That should be somewhere near the Oran Berries, right...?"
no_ufo_ending: (happy)

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2025-10-13 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Henry leans up from inspecting a small, unoccupied flowerbed. It takes no time for him to recognize the tiny pink creature tottering toward him and he lifts a paw in greeting.

"Dolly..." He's glad to see nothing bad has happened to her. If something had happened to her in Death Skull Murder Town under Frosslass's watch he'd go find the old witch himself and, well, he'd rather not think about it. That's over. The Ordeal at home is over. At least for now.

Henry's tail slides back and forth across the ground behind him once the gap between them closes. "How have you been..."
loopsiedaisy: (🌓 And I am right in my own way)

[personal profile] loopsiedaisy 2025-10-13 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry about it Dolly, A.B.A's relationship with keys can only be explained by the homunculus herself. Siffrin still doesn't entirely understand it.

The Shinx flicks their tail thoughtfully. "It'd have to be a big shed... the latch of tools we had barely fit on that wagon." It was a big wagon, too. They're still impressed that the expedition got it through the woods. And there's no way they took all of Bottlecap Bay's tools, in case something was needed back in town...

Anyway, they don't remember seeing all that much above the surface near the Spire.

"But the Oran Berries must have a place to put all the stuff they're mining?" Some kind of storeroom. Probably. Maybe. They've never really explored the Spire, when they've visited they've beelined (heh heh, Ribombee might enjoy that one) straight to people's rooms...

Indoor shed??
seacub: ('boy i sure hope nothin bad happens')

[personal profile] seacub 2025-10-13 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's them! Big gold and purple blob, with brown and green blob! Emporio quickly recognizes her, and looks between the Sylveon and Anasui. "She almost got lost?" he repeats, looking back to Dolly. "It's good to see that didn't happen then. I'm surprised to hear you need glasses though, I didn't think any Pokemon really did..."

Which. Might cause a problem when it comes to getting them back. "...do Pokemon even have proper optomitrists...I know we have the clinic but..."

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