October Catch-All

[0dchess]

Who: Kinger, Cedric, and You (especially fellow Oran Berries?)
What: Kinger coming to terms with being a Pokémon in Bottlecap Bay
Where: The Spire (plus anywhere a Wildcard takes us)
When: Early October
Warnings: At least amnesia? I can't think of any others right now.


1. Right Behind You

Yelling from the training rooms is sometimes par for the course for the sound of exertion and combat. What probably is less common is short screams of varying tones.

Anyone who investigates will find Kinger, circling a training dummy while making short yelps and screams, attempting to Astonish the dummy. He sounds like he's starting to get a little hoarse, but he is singularly focused on the dummy and doesn't notice when you approach.

2. Sea Seeking King

Despite having a body that, for the first time in decades, probably needs sleep, a few nights in to his stay he can't. His newly tiny stature gives him the luxury that few others in Oran housing have, which is to sneak out without waking his roommates. Probably.

He wanders his way outside to stand at the cliffside, feeling the cold spray of saltwater from the ocean. He laughs to himself quietly.

"It's real. I'm not in the circus anymore."

He sits near the cliffside, just enjoying the delicate feeling of salty autumn air that nothing in the digital world could possibly replicate. He lets off a faint glow, making himself visible to anyone else restless tonight.

3. Wildcard

Feel free to hit me up with any other ideas for my little mushroom man! I will also be throwing any prompts we discuss elsewhere under this.

Comments

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[offtracks]

[ Ingo's something of a mainstay in the Oran Berry training rooms! He doesn't do a great deal of his own training here - fire isn't best suited for enclosed chambers - but he's found that his advice can be helpful for those new arrivals that used to be human. There's only a few of them with a human's perspective on Pokemon, after all!

This isn't a species he recognizes. Astonish is familiar, though. ]

Hello! Are you one of the new arrivals?

[ Ingo is. Like a million times Kinger's height, boy. ]

[0dchess]

Agh!

[Kinger is startled in the middle of attempting some sort of combat roll around the training dummy. Which mostly involved him flopping on the floor and moving along like an inchworm behind it. A small puff of spectral energy is let out in Ingo's direction as Kinger shouts, but it's blocked by the dummy before it reaches him.]

Oh! Yes, I'm Kinger. I'm practicing my signature Purple Yell technique!

[Kinger sounds very proud of working on one of the most widespread and weakest Pokémon moves, but he's got the spirit?]

[offtracks]

Ah, that is excellent!

[ The execution may leave something to be desired, but. That's fair. ]

Astonish can cause other Pokemon to flinch, so you could use it to help escape unwanted battle!

[0dchess]

Oh that's what it's called. Catchier than Purple Yell.

[Kinger thinks for a second.]

Somebody told me that's... a ghost type move? I should probably learn some mushroom or royal type moves...

[offtracks]

Those are not typings! There are only sixteen of them - your species is not familiar to me, but I imagine you are at least partially a grass-type!

[ And what else? Ghost? He has the color palette for it, but Ingo still wouldn't want to say so definitively. ]

Pokemon can learn moves outside of their own typings, so you may not be a ghost-type as well...it would take some testing, I suppose!

[0dchess]

[Kinger looks up at what are very clearly mushrooms.]

Grass... Am I some sort of wheat man? Corn man!? No wonder Jax didn't stick around... How do we test it?

[offtracks]

Jax...? [ Hm, well, maybe beside the point. ] I could try using a normal-type move on you and see if it hits! Ghost-types are immune to such damage! I'm afraid it is a little difficult to test without a bit of sparring, though...

Have a wildcard

[cedricthegreat]

So Mightyena showed Cedric the Spire, of course, and said something about "low-rank" housing... but the Murkrow hasn't exactly checked out the latter yet. He's much too busy accustoming himself to this landscape very unlike his Enchancia.

...Well, the cliffs are up high, that's almost like his tower if he squints hard enough. But that's about where the similarities end.

Point is, he's instead hopping all over the place, occasionally flying to hard-to-reach places when he feels brave enough. He's just flapped down from the rooftop of Oran's main building when he lets out a sharp gasp, because Walt help him, he almost landed on somebody-

"Merlin's mushrooms! ...Oh, that is a mushroom. Uh, I knew that."

He adjusts his feet and smooths out his feathers. It's fine, right? It's not like the mushroom's another of these "Pokémon" who just witnessed him embarrassing himself...

[0dchess]

"I think I might be four mushrooms," Kinger corrected helpfully, "but it's always hard to tell with fungi."

Kinger looked over the bird in front of him. So many weird birds here, first the perfectly spherical bird, now this bird has a built-in hat! Nature is beautiful.

[cedricthegreat]

"Gah!" Unbeknownst to himself, he did the move Astonish. Sorry, four-mushrooms-that-are-apparently-alive!

And of course, his feathers have puffed up again. Just his luck. At least at home he can just comb his hair or something... or better yet, just do a cleanup spell... oh, if only he had his beloved tower to escape to...

Ehem.

"Right. You, too, can talk. And we can understand each other, for some reason. My... apologies?"

[0dchess]

"You can do Purple Yell too!" Kinger says excitedly. "Me too, look!"

Kinger yelps out his own Astonish, a puff of spectral energy coming out as he does so.

"I'm Kinger, nice to meet you!"

[cedricthegreat]

"Purple what?"

And then the mushroom makes him flinch, more feathers flying off his skin. Molting season, am I right?

After a couple of pants as he gets over the shock, he lets out a sigh to calm himself. "Nice... to meet you... too. Call me Cedric."

[0dchess]

"Oops, sorry. Don't know my own strength yet." Kinger looks over the bird. "Are you new around here too? You seem to have flying down already!"

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[truthdecided]

Akechi isn't exactly a warm or comforting person. However, the sound of screams was impossible to miss, especially as someone who frequents the training area. Thus, after a while, he flutters over, dropping a glass of water.

"If you're so set on screaming, you may want to stay hydrated."

[0dchess]

Kinger yelps as a glass of water falls from the sky, and looks up to see it came from his friend, the perfectly spherical bird!

"Thank you, Akechi!" Kinger brings the glass to his nonexistent mouth and takes a drink. "I'm practicing my secret Purple Yell technique!"

[truthdecided]

"Ah, yes... Astonish." He nods along. A decent coverage move, particularly for a grass type. "That should be useful against ghosts and psychic types and give you a skill to use against enemies that resist your natural grass typing."

But what else can he do? Well, that can wait for now. As it stands, Kinger should enjoy the drink.

[0dchess]

"Grass? Don't be silly, I'm a fungus." Kinger looks up at the mushrooms growing on his head. "Right?"

It could be weird wheat stalks, or... corn? There's a lot of kinds of grass. And mushrooms.

[truthdecided]

Akechi chuckles. "True, biologically speaking, fungi aren't plants, yet when it comes to elemental typing, it seems they are classified as such." With a shrug of his shoulders, he takes a moment to look over Kinger. "There are... I believe eighteen total types. Some correspond to typical elements, such as fire, water, electric, and grass, but then you have more abstract concepts, such as 'ghost' and 'fairy.'"

[0dchess]

"Ohhh!" A lot of people lump mushrooms in with vegetables, so that makes perfect sense. "I should learn some Grass attacks then. I tried it before and I just did the Stuck In The Ground move."

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[fromsprouts]

"Mind company?"

The voice behind him sounds fairly young (teenaged, perhaps), though it comes from a Pokemon well taller than Kinger. Umemiya's a Lucario, one with a green scrap of cloth holding back his aura-sensing tendrils like a sort of headband. Umemiya's restless enough to be sort of walking the Spire and its surroundings tonight instead of sleeping.

[0dchess]

"You can't sleep either, huh?"

Kinger looks up. He's used to interacting with Caine's big monsters from time to time, but everyone being colossal to him is still new. Still, no need to turn down a friendly face.

"Are you a local, or did you come from somewhere else too?"

[fromsprouts]

"I came from a world called Earth, specifically a country called Japan."

And he is doing a very good job of pretending to never-ever be homesick at all, thank you very much.

"From the question, I'm guessing you've been pulled here on the more recent end."

[0dchess]

"Yeah. I just got here last month. I'm originally from Earth too, the United States, but that was a long time ago."

Kinger looks back out at the sea, lost in what few memories he could conjure up.

"Before here, I was stuck in a digital world for a long time. So it's nice to feel real sea air again."

[fromsprouts]

"A...a digital world? I mean, guess that makes about as much sense as whatever is happening here, sure."

Umemiya is from a pretty mundane canon, so every once in a while the weird shit hits him right in the face.

[0dchess]

Kinger chuckles. "A lot of people here have actual magic back home. It's kind of refreshing for someone to know how weird my life was."

Kinger looks up at Umemiya. "My name's Kinger. I had a normal name on Earth, but the digital world made us all forget it."