February catch-all!

[offtracks]

Who: Ingo & OPEN
What: Helping with avalanche rescue efforts, probably some other stuff
When: Throughout February
Where: Icefall Lake, elsewhere
Warnings: Some speculations on Pokemon death, though I don't plan to actually like, find any victims in-thread

Comments

rime falls

[offtracks]

[ Ingo may not much like traveling away from the Bay lately, but he's a Hisuian Typhlosion and an experienced guild member. Of course he was called for something like this - and, of course, he answered.

A Warden would have done this same thing, back in Hisui. But Ingo's never actually overseen any such effort himself. There hasn't been such a large disaster in all that time; the Pearl Clan is experienced in avoiding such conditions, and the merchant caravans do not travel so far north in winter. Seeing the breadth of the devastation chills him in a way that has nothing to do with the cold. How many might be buried underneath there? How many are they likely to find?

Suffice it to say, he's leaving matters of method and strategy to the local Pokemon. He...could make such decisions. He’s been responsible for lives before. It’s a responsibility he doesn't mind abdicating to those better suited. There’s still plenty to do! He still knows how to organize, and understands this kind of terrain well enough. He won't hesitate to flag down any guild members who arrive on the scene and don't seem to know what to do with themselves. ]

I could use another digger here!

[loopsiedaisy]

[The sight is overwhelming. They know it's bad to just be standing there, but even so Siffrin is initially paralyzed when they show up, with no idea where they should even start -]

[(Clearly there's a reason why you weren't sent out in the first group, Siffrin, you useless - come on, do something -)]

[It's possible that with another moment or two they'd have snapped out of it and found a place to help anyway - but it's a relief to hear a voice calling them over and giving directions. Siffrin fords over the snow and starts digging furiously opposite Ingo.]

ice rift

[offtracks]

[ One moment, Ingo is trudging along through the snow, sniffing around for traces of buried Pokemon and occasionally digging suddenly into the icy crust. It's the same as he's been doing for the past several days, nearly all day, with few breaks. So maybe it isn't so unexpected, to see him stumble; he's been pressing himself hard.

More unusual is his startled shout, or the fact that he's suddenly trembling. He looks about with wide, wild eyes. ]

What - where - ?!

[ Is he wet. Why is he suddenly soaking wet. ]