Dolly's February and March Catchall~

[autumnrainrunaway]

Who: Dolly, you, and Whatever Arceus throws at them~

What: An in general catchall with a side of quests :'3c

When: Throughout all of February and March

Where: The Archives, Skull Town (the dread beast), Bottlecap Bay's Harbor, The Forest, Heavy Downmoor, and more to be added later on.

Warnings: Search and Rescue efforts after an Avalanche, potential peril, Memory loss, auditory hallucinations, Pokemon Violence, and others to potentially be added over time.

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[autumnrainrunaway]

Oh, oh sweet Stellar Sea...Dolly had to think of something to suggest on short notice and the tinnitus is being well...awful.

Think...think..thinkthinkthinkthinkthinkthink....AN IDEA HAS COME INTO MIND! Dolly looks over to Siffrin and Cedric as she has something of an idea to go on that is risky, but might work..

"Let's turn the sound against them! It's risky, but it should work!"

However, it didn't stop there, oh no, Dolly was going to make sure that Siffrin comes out alright. Lifting up a paw, the pink star-shaped sparkles erupt to form...a magical girl wand with a star on top, passing it over to Siffrin. Dolly used Baton Pass on Siffrin!

Is the extra speed going to help? Who knows! Dolly is trusting Siffrin not to do something foolhardy...Yep, this should end well...

[cedricthegreat]

It worked - it worked! Oh, he likes having a wind spell!

"My pleasure!" he replies to Siffrin, a little too enthusiastically thanks to the adrenaline rush. But it's short-lived as the giant ring's already back up, much to his dismay.

"Turn sound against them?" His words echo off the cave walls, which clues him into the strategy. "Righto!"

Cedric flies back up to Chimecho's eye level and delivers a louder Astonish. It seemed super effective last time, maybe the cave will help double those results!

aaand that's Siffrin out of this thread! get rocked loser

[loopsiedaisy]

Sound? They can do that. Siffrin follows Cedric's lead in generating noise, sparking up their noise-generating electricity again. Sound booms across the cave, clashing with Mega Chimecho's ringing.

Though it's no less energetic, the giant bell Pokemon seems disoriented. Its sound attacks are still somewhat effective, but partially drowned out by the mess of echoes the team is making and Dolly's Light Screen. Its physical attacks are entirely off-center, and it slams into and bounces off walls rather than making contact with any of the smaller Pokemon. Siffrin in particular uses the extra speed from Dolly's Baton Pass and their own Double Team move to harass the Mega Chimecho into chasing after them, creating openings for more attacks from Cedric (and more self-inflicted recoil).

At some point, though - whether it's the impacts from Chimecho, the reverberating sounds piling on each other, or perhaps both - the ceiling starts to shake much more violently. In a matter of moments, the battle stops - not because any of them are done fighting, but because the priority becomes not getting caved in. Even Mega Chimecho is trying to duck and cover, rocks gong-ing off its body.

Siffrin darts back toward their teammates, eyes going wide and ears folding back in alarm. They dodge several falling stones - bad memories! Very bad!! But it's the crumbling ceiling above Cedric that sends their heartrate spiking even higher. "Hey - !"

There's not enough time for a proper warning; Siffrin only has a split second to decide to Volt Switch with Cedric instead. They're promptly buried.

RIP Siffrinx, I can hear the 'GANDALF' coming out of Dolly now...

[autumnrainrunaway]

It felt like it was all in slow motion when it happened when it had been mere seconds when the rocks buried Siffrin.

Dolly froze a bit...this wasn't supposed to happen..Siffrin..are they..?

She snaps out of the the initial shock before screaming out:

"STARSHINE!!" Then reality hits Dolly like a brick wall..

FOCUS! Dolly cannot teleport to get them out of there and attempting to dig right now is out of the question given Mega Chimecho...she has no other choice. Dolly goes to make a run for Cedric to help him at once. He was the closest and Dolly had a healing move that can help right away. The Light Screen did its job for Dolly in block the falling rocks up above as she hauled her spice scented buns right over to her team mate.

"Cedric! Cedric, you alright?!"

Siffrinx ;w;

[cedricthegreat]

Cedric was so caught up in cawing and flapping incessantly that the rocks shifting under the noise don't fully register to him. Not until he sees Siffrin out of the corner of his eye right before there's a jolt of electricity shooting through him, like he drank lightning from a bottle. By the time he sees clearly again, there is Siffrin standing where he once was... under a pile of rock.

"Siffrin!" He tries to fly forward but stumbles over instead; the voltage was not kind to his wings. All he can do is stare and quiver as Dolly moves forward and...

Wait, are those her ribbons? What is she doing? But before he can think about it, something washes over him, a sort of... did they just heal him? Well, not perfectly, he's still quite frazzled, but at least he can move now, so he stands up to meet with his Sylveon saviour.

"I am... thanks to you. Wh-what about Siffrin?"

Siffrin is no longer allowed to be near any rocks, it's a rule now.

[autumnrainrunaway]

On one paw, Dolly was relieved that she did managed to heal up Cedric, however...Siffrin...

.....The pragmatic side of being a Fae Queen had to be brought out and dusted a bit.

"I hate that I even have to say this, but we need to incapacitate the mystery Pokemon first before we can help Siffrin. If we attempt to dig them out now...they would be left opened to attack and whatever state they may be in..."

Dolly had to stop herself, she had to. There was a job that had to be done, clean cut and out in the open. There's a glance to the rock pile that covered Siffrin throughly before looking over to Cedric.

"I can try a Disarming Voice to lower its defenses, can you make a clean shot at it with an attack to knock this Pokemon out?"