November+December Catch-All

[loopsiedaisy]

Who: Siffrin (Shinx) + Shoka, Laios, Cedric, Chara, Anasui, Parvati
What: The fallout of the Network Incident, and also quests. Sometimes both at once!
Where: Spire, Canopy, wherever various search quests take them
When: One thread backdated to October, otherwise throughout November (including during the snowstorm) and December
Warnings: Potentially Siffrin's warnings (definitely spoilers & alluded-to suicidal ideation in Shoka's thread), the usual quest peril

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[edgewater]

[ parvati glances around once she's walked in behind them, taking it in. huh. guess the pokemon who weren't people before didn't need much, but it still felt a little weird to see such a simple house now. kind of like home, in a weird way. ]

Hopefully I got all the snow, sorry if I missed any. You building stuff in here? [ of course she'd notice, someone like her obviously would. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Quilava glances up, her ears quivering.] Yes, that's - oh! You're the one who was working on the pump in the Spire, weren't you?

[The... oh, that's right. Siffrin very vaguely remembers seeing something on the questboard about that...]

[edgewater]

H-huh? Oh. Yeah. That's me. [ she rubs the back of her head bashfully. ] Wasn't just me though. Whole team effort. Couldn't've done it alone.

[ she hadn't thought it'd be such a big deal? to the folks who weren't in the guild, anyway. she glances awkwardly to siffrin. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Quilava waves a paw at this, her expression still excited. Maybe it was a team effort, but Parvati was the one who got it started!] You'll have to explain to me how it works! How's it getting powered? I asked Venusaur - [a friend from the guild, probably?] - but he had no idea!

[Siffrin... winks at Parvati and settles back. Thanks for nothing to them!!]

[edgewater]

[ siffrin! don't leave her here! siffrin! siffrin!!!! ]

Oh, yeah. I'd be happy to explain how it all works, lemme come over.

[ she casts a wary glance at siffrin, mouthing "thanks", before walking over to the quilava and beginning to go into the intricacies. as it turns out, she also named the pump system "sophie". ]

not me stopping myself from going down a wikipedia spiral for this

[loopsiedaisy]

[Siffrin just winks, very helpfully!!!]

[Still, Quilava is attentive and enthusiastic! She seems to be the source of all the little ticking automatons and models scattered around the inside of this building, but none of them are quite as practical or useful as "Sophie" - all other things aside, her materials have been nearly entirely limited to wood and Pokemon products. She's been able to get some carefully hoarded metal springs, but beyond that everything she winds up or puts under tension has to happen with Pokemon hair or leather. And being a Fire type, she's never known what to do with water... but she is happy to talk about what she has tried, if Parvati seems interested! Her recent project is a crossbow for launching Cacnea spikes and Corsola twigs, and -]

[(Dewott pulls over the heated teapot and starts pouring some of those hot drinks... he seems resigned to this taking as long as it's going to take.)]

[Eventually, Quilava moves on to asking:] So what's your next project?

[The thought of Parvati maybe not having a next project yet doesn't seem to even occur to her...]

[Meanwhile, in the background, Siffrin has found a device that they're sitting in front of. Judging by how they're very carefully rotating something with one claw, it's either manual or it's something that's wound down. But it's hard to tell what they're finding so interesting without actually walking up behind them and looking over their shoulder.]

[edgewater]

[ parvati's happy to nod along to the conversation, offering responses whenever it's needed. she just thinks it's pretty interesting - she went with corviknight bones after reading that her hammer was made out of it, so it clearly had metallic qualities. as such, great for durability. she nods to dewott once when her drink is poured, blowing on it a few times before taking a sip herself.

she raises her head in surprise when quilava asks that. ] I dunno. That one was pretty hands-on and busy, haha. I ain't really thought about it. [ she seems at least a little bashful about that, but in fairness, she's been doing other stuff. forcing herself to be social, that kind of thing. managing a big project is very draining to one's social battery.

she glances over her shoulder at siffrin, curious as to why they have ditched her here. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Siffrin has found: a little model of the Pokemon planet they're on! Presumably. It's not at all clear how accurate the map on the surface of the globe is.]

[That's not what they're paying attention to, anyway - instead it's the rest of the model. The moon, suspended in orbit around it, and the spot marked on the model as the sun, that the planet's swinging around. The distances between them aren't even close to scale, but aside from their orbits, both the planet and moon spin at a tilt.]

[Siffrin's rotating the largest gear at the base, making the whole contraption move. Not that it's possible to tell without having them face you, but their working eye is slightly unfocused and distant.]

[It'll take someone actually coming up behind them for them to start and pay attention again - whether that's Parvati or Dewott with their drink. Either way, they yank their paws back to the floor and turn toward the table. Brightly:] All done?

[They never actually drank anything...]