november catchall

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Who: Ingo & OPEN
What: catchall for November
Where: around the Bay
When: throughout November
Warnings: discussion of food-related anxiety / past food insecurity

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quests! (woolly gathering and parvati's quest)

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[ Emmet has been ahead of Ingo in the rankings for a little while now! This cannot stand! Or, at least, Ingo can't stand losing without at least making a serious effort!

So, he'll be spending a fair amount of time on simple quests around the city this month. The Typhlosion has taken to wearing a black hat, shaped like his old one but far newer, but he's still foregoing his scarf. At least for a Hisuian fire-type, it's not that cold just yet. He ambles along, half-searching for loose fur from the shedding populace, and half-looking for someone to brush properly. ]

I am available to tend to your fur, if you would like! I am working on collecting it for the winter.

[ He'll also be out searching for materials for Parvati's pump. It's an exciting project! He may have moved out of the lower chambers already, but Ingo remembers the damp and cold of the beginner Oran quarters well. He's happy to help with anything that can improve their lot!

As it stands now, he's leaving the easier pickings to other questers, instead digging about in the dirt for stones containing iron ore. ]

I have heard that Corviknight feathers can be found around here as well!

winter is coming (oran berries) (cw: probable discussion of past food insecurity)

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[ Ingo has always kept some extra supplies - first in the shared entry-level quarters, and now in the more private chamber he shares with Emmet. Before, it was only a small amount, but the pile has been steadily growing as the weather chills. This month, he seems to be going into overdrive about it; he can often be found carrying large bundles of dried fruit or plants (or meat, though he keeps these packages wrapped out of politeness) through the halls. Some of these go to his own store; quite a few also go into the kitchens. It's...maybe a little too much.

Still, he continues busying himself with it, never offering any sort of explanation. Though if anybody seems particularly interested, he does offer: ]

I can teach you how to make this yourself, if you would like!

snowed in (oran berry hq)

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Of course, the weather Ingo was trying so hard to prepare for does eventually come. This is when he can be found wandering the tunnels, checking in on everyone else!

Do you have enough food set by?

[ He's got enough that he can probably share!

Otherwise, he spends a fair amount of time in the lower levels, where the stones are cold and often damp. It's unpleasant. It's especially unpleasant for him as a fire-type, but that's also why he's uniquely suited to help in this way. So he'll go down and lay in chambers where others might be trying to relax, lighting the flames around his neck to start radiating heat.

He doesn't always announce himself, while he's doing this. Being snowed in is starting to get to him a bit; often, he just curls up and dozes off regardless of the actual time. What else is there to do? ]

clinic (post-Shoka quest)

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[ Having taken a nasty Bite while fighting some Arctibax with Shoka, Ingo has ended up in the clinic for the first time for a few months now! The Forest seemed to have it out for him, but he's had better luck since they forged through it. He supposes it was about time something like this happened.

Still, it isn't so bad! Only a Bite, and not even from a Dark-type! He's laying stretched out along a bed, one foreleg bandaged up, but he's quite awake and in good spirits! He still appreciates any visitors, though! ]

Ah, hello! I am quite alright, do not worry!

post-festival (backdated to Skull Town, for Emmet)

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[ By the time Emmet returned to their shared lodgings, whenever he did so on the night of the festival, Ingo was curled up tightly and fast asleep. Or pretending to be asleep. It comes out the same either way.

Afterwards, he's just gone on as if none of it ever happened. Maybe he's a little quiet, but that's not unreasonable. A lot of things have happened, haven't they? He's just very, very eager to get out of Skull Town and make the trip back to the Bay for the rest of the winter. The business with Froslass bothers him, now that his head is more clear...he hasn't said much about that, either, but he's packed to go very early on the day of their planned departure. He'll wait with his bags for the rest of the caravan to gather, turned away from town to peer into the shadows of the forest. Strange, to find himself so eager now to go in there... ]