november catchall

[paperceptive]

Who: Odile, quest partners, & OPEN
What: catchall for November
Where: around the Bay
When: throughout November
Warnings: none atm!

Comments

first quest aftermath.... (clinic)(backdated a bit)

[paperceptive]

[ So, Odile's first actual quest didn't go quite as well as she'd hoped!

It was fairly well-planned, or so she'd thought. Her natural type advantages ought to have made her a natural at fending off those particular Pokemon. But of course, type advantages are not everything. She thinks they're actually somewhat less important than they are with Craft.

And, well, she's still an old woman. Maybe she got a little overzealous.

Odile fumes quietly as she sits in her clinic bed, icily allowing a nurse Pokemon to bandage up her injuries. She's not angry at them, she's frustrated with herself, but the poor Audino still looks a little nervous... ]

I'll be checking myself out when you're finished.

finally kicks myself in here,

[loopsiedaisy]

Ohhh, being naughty? [After she was so worried about them (or stardust? kind of both?) needing to get checked on for Craft sickness, too!]

[It's Siffrin at the door! The Shinx one. They've got their Loop voice on, but Odile knows who they are, so. They're fully expecting that she'll be able to tell they're actually here because they're concerned... it's the principle of the thing, though!]

[They skirt around to the opposite side of the clinic bed from the Audino - noting how the poor thing is nearly twitching out of nerves - and settle to their haunches. Time to be ~helpfully distracting~ (or maybe just annoying)!]

And here I thought you were the responsible one out of us~

[paperceptive]

Oh, I'm fine.

[ She grouses, flipping a claw. She's clearly not taking any umbrage to their tone; Odile's not really the sort of person who tends to hide such things. ]

I was barely even exploded.

[loopsiedaisy]

[Exploded???]

[...]

So, in your professional opinion... how much exploding is still "barely?"

Just so stardust and I know! For the future!

[paperceptive]

One pumpkin's worth.

[loopsiedaisy]

[One pumpkin's worth of exploding?? ...no, hang on, they're pretty sure they remember something about a quest on the board. (But still, exploding pumpkins??)]

[They are just about to make a pun, something about being squashed, when they remember themself. Right. That's a thing stardust does, not them!]

I'll make sure to pass it along! Keep it to one pumpkin or less!

[They prop their front paws up on the clinic bed, covertly (not very covertly) trying to take a peek at how bad her injuries look. (And ignore the tired look the nurse Audino gives them.)]

[paperceptive]

You see that you do, young one.

[ She jabs a claw towards them. Odile's injuries are worse than she tends to end fights back home with. Between her lack of familiarity with Pokemon battles and the loss of healing Craft in the party...well. All the same, she's up and talking; she'll be fine.

(Audino definitely has a point about her staying the night, though.) ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[They are repressing the instinctual urge to start licking some of the yet-unbandaged injuries. That's weird. It'd be weird. Odile would think they're weird(er than she already does). And anyway it's one thing to lick your own injuries and entirely another when they're someone else's - they're sure Odile would hate it.]

Well, while you're here, I'll let you in on a secret! From experience!

If you're a poor bedraggled invalid and you're staying in bed, people have to bring you whatever you ask for. It's a clinic rule.

[It is so not a rule. This is a little bit them trying to convince her to stay and recover, but mostly them asking her if she wants anything.]

[paperceptive]

Is that so?

[ It's certainly proven true for Siffrin - but Odile isn't sure how this one might take that, so she doesn't say so. She has some idea what this is really about anyhow. She doesn't want to spend the night here, but Siffrin (the Shinx one in particular) hardly ever approaches asking for something... ]

Well. I suppose I wouldn't say no to some of my books...

[loopsiedaisy]

[The Audino (not very subtly) slumps in relief. They weren't looking forward to trying to argue her into staying... even if it's not totally guaranteed yet.]

[Siffrin, meanwhile, drops all four of their paws back on the ground.]

Which books do you want? "How To Garden With Volatile Gourds"?

[Surely they can manage getting to Odile's quarters and back without her...]

[paperceptive]

Ha ha.

[ Dryly. Come on, they can do a little better than that. ]

Any of the books about local legends will do. I'm looking into some things.

[loopsiedaisy]

"Escape The Clinic or Die Trying"? "All Of This World's Secrets: A Handy Reference"?

[But they give her a wave of their tail and trot out the door, in a wordless, 'be right back!']

[It does take them longer than it would've taken Odile, at least in good health - they won't comment on whether it's because they didn't quite remember the way to her quarters, or because they had to convince someone in the Lum Berries to allow them in without her, or because they realized they'd have to scrounge up a bag to carry more than one book back. But when they do show up, they're lugging a bag in their teeth.]

[They seem to have grabbed the first few books they could find that were very clearly about local legends, and - if she had any books left open - they'll have grabbed one or two of those, regardless of the subject. And carefully jammed pencils or pens in as makeshift bookmarks.]

[paperceptive]

[ By the time they return, Odile has settled back a little more comfortably in the bed. She's still not exactly pleased to spend the night here, but she seems to have resigned herself to it. Siffrin has enough troubles without worrying about her. ]

Thank you, Siffrin.

[telewarped]

Odile?

[Shoka is here to visit someone else (multiple someones, rather, lined up asleep in a separate ward), but she just can't leave well enough alone once she spots a different familiar Pokémon on her way in. She skitters thoughtlessly over to Odile's bedside, apparently uncaring to whether she's allowed or belongs there.

Donned in her new, catlike disguise rag, she looks completely different from how she did in their first meeting, but Odile may (or may not) recognize her voice.]

What the hell happened to you?

[paperceptive]

A haunted pumpkin.

[ Odile rolls her eyes. She's annoyed to have been gotten that bad by enemies with a type weakness to her! She does recognize Shoka's voice - she'd clocked it as a cloth disguise last time, so maybe she just changes them out regularly? ]

Apparently some of them explode.

[telewarped]

[That first sentence is already amazing, and then Odile generously gives her another. Shoka can't help herself; her concern turns to shock, then to amusement.]

Oh! Yeah, that's my bad. I warned you about the berries that explode old people, but I totally forgot about the pumpkins that explode old people! Oops!

[paperceptive]

Ha!

[ Frustrated with herself as she is, the jibe does make her bark out a laugh. ]

Better work on your briefing skills.

[telewarped]

Well, excuse me for not including literally everything in one lesson! Maybe you should've been doing more independent research. But hey, you didn't die, so there's that!

[And she's seen Odile die many, many times, hasn't she?

With an almost imperceptible shudder, she moves on.]

Looks like you took being exploded like a champ, actually. I'm almost impressed.

[paperceptive]

[ Hm...? What was that about? ]

We'd been seeing more and more combat back home, as we approached the King. Though I will say, those Berries also work wonders.

[ She's actually not convinced she should be feeling as decent as she does! But Odile's not gonna complain about that. ]

[telewarped]

I know, right?

[Berry that heals old people! Peace and love on Pokéarth.

She glances toward the (still nervous-looking) Audino.]

So... what were you saying before? Something about "checking yourself out"?

[paperceptive]

I can rest just as well in my own quarters.

[ Better, really, with her books and a little bit of privacy. ]

[telewarped]

Uh-huh. And how long's it been since you were literally blown up?

[A day? A few hours?]

[paperceptive]

Immaterial. I've been treated.

[ She might know that she's being sort of unreasonable, but. She's still doing it. ]

I'm not going to die in the night.

[telewarped]

Okay, Splodile.

[Shoka is no medical professional (and also has a history of trying to escape her own treatments), but she doesn't have to be to get the sense that Odile probably shouldn't be walking around unattended right now.]

Look, I know being stuck in the clinic sucks, but you look like hell. And you better not die, so... Maybe we should see where the nurse is going with this.

[paperceptive]

[ "Don't tell Siffrin that nickname" is the phrase that comes to mind, but Odile knows better than to say it. ]

What are they going to do without Healing Craft?

[ Anything internal...you'd need to go to a House for that. A shrine, in Ka Bue. ]