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April Catch-All

Who: Siffrin and Laios, Guilmon, Courier Six, Firoza. (And maybe more later!)
What: Navigating the Canopy and quests.
Where: Canopy, cliffs, and the forest.
When: Throughout April.
Warnings: Siffrin's usual warnings may come up, but nothing else specific yet.

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[It is late at night. Siffrin is trying to navigate a particularly narrow vine bridge. They're a little bit lost: they know more or less where they're headed, to get back to the platform where there's a bed assigned to them... but they've gotten turned around in the maze of bridges. Every time they think they've gotten closer it turns out they're at a dead end platform.]

[It's also been drizzling, on and off. The walkways and vines are all wet, and they're having to be really careful about where they put their paws. Because of this, they don't notice Laios until they nearly walk right into him.]

[Looking up directly into the chest of a dog twice their size makes them react, instinctively; Siffrin folds their ears down, hisses, and jumps back. And, of course, promptly slips - their left two paws land on nothing but empty air, they smack into the "handrail" vine and slip underneath, and suddenly they're holding on to the walkway by nothing more than one wedged back paw.]

[UM.]

[This feels like it shouldn't be a quest. Or, well, clearly it is one, but it feels like it maybe shouldn't be on the board? Siffrin's gotten the feeling that the little bay city of Pokemon is balanced precariously among its surroundings, and needs people gathering supplies or fighting back the forest. In comparison, just going to get some views of the ocean for a Numel... it's kind of making them feel guilty, like they're not working hard enough.]

[But they were told at the clinic to take it easier, to start, so something simple and relaxing it is! (Little do they know.)]

[Getting several views from the beach itself was easy enough, as was one from the top of the cliffs - Siffrin and Guilmon just had to make their way up to the Oran Berry base. But now Siffrin is peering over the edge of the cliff.]

[The Numel enthusiastically requested a better view from partway down, of the surf crashing against the cliffside. The trouble is: there's no actual path.]

I think we can make it down this way...? It'll be easier than climbing up from the beach.

[When Siffrin was signing up to be paired on basically any quest and with pretty much anyone who was around, they were not expecting their partner to be a giant dragon. This means they spent the first couple of minutes heading to the forest mostly silent, just eyeing Courier Six with astonished fascination. While trying to hide that that's what they were doing. (Mostly successfully, unless Perrin is very perceptive!)]

[It's only belatedly they realize that even if they don't get caught staring, they're being rude. They should probably introduce themself.]

Oh, um. My name's Siffrin. You can use they/them pronouns for me... or he/him. [It's weird, they definitely remember using both sets of pronouns, and the second pair doesn't feel wrong exactly... but it feels very rusty. Have they not used he/him for a while? Why not?]

[Siffrin abruptly realizes that in their rush to fix the lack of introduction, they autopiloted to doing it like they would have back in Vaugarde. Whoops! Sharing pronouns doesn't seem to be a thing Pokemon do here. You're just supposed to guess, they think? It's weird, but they've been trying to go along with that and fit in...]

[Their gaze slides away from Courier Six, the tip of their tail twitching in an unconscious expression of feeling awkward.]

[Siffrin, miraculously, did catch the warning about bringing a facial covering to collect those spores! Their solution was borrowing a bandanna from someone in town, which is all well and good, but...]

[They head to the edge of the forest early, carrying the bandanna in their teeth, and planning to use the extra time to figure out how to tie it onto their face. Unfortunately, Shinx limbs really aren't meant to maneuver like that around the back of their head. And they don't have thumbs! They hate not having thumbs! If they still had thumbs this would be easy! But the ends of the bandanna keep slipping out of their paws, or getting caught on their claws when they try to shove them into a knot, and -]

[When Firoza shows up, they give her a resigned look. They feel embarrassed to ask for help with this aloud, but they visibly need it.]

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For Laios

For Guilmon (A Shell-fish Request)

For Courier Six (Mush To Be Done)

For Firoza (Less is Spore)