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colorsflyinghigh ([personal profile] colorsflyinghigh) wrote in [community profile] bottlecaplogs2026-04-11 04:11 pm

Ren's April Shenanigans [Catch-All]

Who: Ren, his quest buddies... and you?!
What: Quests and logs
When: April
Where: All around Bottlecap Bay
Warnings: Bugs (other things will be tagged as they come up!)

1. Infestigation(closed to Catrina)
Out of all the things Ren expected to do here, purposely getting himself infested with tiny little bugs was definitely not one of them. Still, he can't deny his own curiousity now, and while he doesn't know her that well, Catrina, seemed so enthusiastic about the whole ordeal that he couldn't not include her.

... A little too enthusiastic maybe. Oh well, who is he to judge? Still, they should find someone who actually knows Infestation first...

"Do you think Vivillon will want to help us out? I think she knows the move we're looking for," he asks Catrina as they walk away from Kinger, quest details in hand.

2. Falling Rocks(closed to Simon)
It's a wonderful early spring day, and Ren's Sprigatito nature compells him to enjoy it to the fullest... not that he wouldn't otherwise, ordinarily, but there's something else about feeling the wind tousle his fur, and smelling the pollen in the air. He doesn't have a mission today, so he ends up going for a walk.

It's all very nice, and his feet carry him to the beach, the gentle sunlight doing wonders for his chronic pain. He happily basks in it- until suddenly a shadow covers him, taking with it the warmth of the sun. When it doesn't go away, he lets out a confused noise.

"Mm?"

... and looks up just in time to watch a rock plummet towards him, too fast for him to dodge. He barely gets out a startled yelp, before-

BONK!

3. Light Quests(open to the people joining him on a light quest)
Are your character and Ren doing a light quest? Take this as your sign to play it out! (if you want!)

4. Wildcard(Open)
Wanna tag with Ren, but got something else in mind than the above? Drop a tag, or plot it out with me in Ren's OOC Inbox/discord ([profile] cha0136)!
gimmeeyeballs: (DANG THAT'S COOL!)

Infestagation >:3c

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-11 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a quest made for Catrina (or at least the candle thought it was.) Hang out with giant bugs and maybe get to pet them, it was the perfect quest for a Catrina to partake in. In short, to Catrina, it's basically going to the cat cafe and getting points for it. Clearly the best imaginable quest ever.

Oh how wrong Catrina is...

"Sure, where might Vivillon be? I'm itching to see some giant bugs to pet."
gimmeeyeballs: I may have made a bad decision (Oopsies)

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-13 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
All Bug Types are giant friend shaped bugs that need petting, especially Spinarak. Spinarak gets to have pets for being the best baby ever...Catrina NO!

"Shit for real? Sure, let's ask and see if Vivillon is game for a petting." Well that's new, asking to pet a bug at a cafe for pet petting? Well that's just the weird, wild world of Pokemon at its finest. "Lead the way then, I might pick up some snacks then."

By snacks, she means pinecones...delicious pinecones.
gimmeeyeballs: (OMG MY FAVORITE THING!)

A Spinarak styled Cat Cafe is definitely in order then >:3c

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-14 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well yeah, they're the good shit." Catrina honestly answered as these were top tier on her food radar.

Ah yes, the delicious and earthy taste of pinecone. Truly captures that premature tree flavor and aroma in every single cronch cronch....okay that was short lived. Catrina figures it might just be a candle thing then if the grassy kitty didn't like the delectable taste of pinecone.

Oh well that just means all the more pinecones for Catrina to have to herself! Dragon hoarding the pinecones time!

"Sweet! Thanks for the pinecones!" Catrina goes to pop another one into her mouth, crunch crunch. Mmmm...delicious...

What were they doing again? OH HELL YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! PETTING GIANT BUGS! Catrina's kingdom for a spider shaped cookie and come coffee to go along with the experience.
gimmeeyeballs: (OMG MY FAVORITE THING!)

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-18 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Holy shit, dude, there's a Bug Cafe not too far from here! WE GOTTA GO THERE!" Catrina could barely contain herself at this point upon learning this from Spinarak, which is still like getting to talk to a magical talking cat to this weirdo.

This candle is literally vibrating from the sheer excitement upon learning about the fabled cafe of bugs and definitely is set to running towards it. Speaking of...There goes that damn candle now, scurrying off to the Bug Cafe the best a legless candle creature can do.

....This is going well, yep, nothing to worry about....
gimmeeyeballs: I may have made a bad decision (Oopsies)

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-19 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No time for rational, it was time for BUGS and getting to pet them! Determination fuels this weird little candle creature as she hears the sound of...music? At least what passes for music, Catrina wasn't here to roast music tastes today.

"Come on! ITS IN HERE!!!"

Catrina wasn't going to wait much longer as she goes to dart inside of the entryway to the Bug Cafe and she is shook by what's before her. All sorts of Bug Type Pokemon are inside, enjoying cafe food and drink items catered to the bug type Pokemon themselves.

"Holy shit, this is a Crawlie's dream come true here.."
gimmeeyeballs: (DANG THAT'S COOL!)

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-19 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If this place was like the Crawlie gatherings back home, then the food and drinks are likely just bug themed. That makes sense...RIGHT? Nectar might be something like a cocktail or something, an odd thing to offer at a Bug Cafe, but hey, whatever floats the owner's boat.

"I'll go for the Nectar, that sounds like fun. I'll find us the best spot to pet bugs at."

Catrina...don't you do it...don't you...oh hell, she's determined to pet her fellow patrons at the Cafe as she wanders off and away from Ren. This candle is now left to her own devices now as the band continues playing. Somehow, this is giving a certain 80s cartoon about ants a good run for its money with the music here.

Yep, this is definitely a Crawlie gathering combined with a Jumping Gem Cafe, Catrina has already deemed it as such. It's best to get some pastries too...compensate them for the trouble.
gimmeeyeballs: (IT WASN'T ME!)

It's all cool and this is perfect XD

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-04-27 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Catrina couldn't hear the heads up her drink was here nor was she in any rush. Oh no, this was Catrina's 'precious' moment to get to pet some highly annoyed bug types as her stubby wax arm goes to stroking one of them. Ariandos isn't too thrilled with the petting as Catrina savors the spider petting....Catrina...WHY!?

The whole cafe is just looking on at the scene, one very rancid Litwick is violating that poor and defenseless Ariandos's space while there's a Sprigatito making some interesting faces from the ever mysterious vile liquid...maybe it was a mug of M. Valdemar? Who really knows...

The band, however, is amongst those in the cafe that was most displeased with this disruption! How dare these two take attention away from the band and their music! They are very obviously the Pokemon world's version of the 'Piano Man' as the patrons of the cafe go to cover their ears upon noticing the music had been stopped.

Turns out Kricketune was a far bigger prima donna than Catrina is as he prepares to play a song of misery and woe with a side of ITCHING as a very harsh tune plays out.

"SHHHHIIIIIIT!!" Catrina is wishing she had Sound Defect still as she starts itching all over the place, giving Ariandos time to escape the candle from hell. Upside though to this agonizing tune....there's a pastry of some kind out in the open for thieving..
gimmeeyeballs: (IT WASN'T ME!)

[personal profile] gimmeeyeballs 2026-05-11 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
If Catrina had common decency, she would've left in a calm fashion. Alas, this was Catrina Calavera that we're talking about here. Oh no, this rotten candle goes to run off with a plate of pastries from a nearby table before scurrying off...

How she's scurrying with no legs? Don't worry about it.

All she cares about is getting as far away as possible from the cafe before an angry mob forms. Let it sink in for a moment...this was a common occurrence for Catrina to have angry mobs go after her...

"LET'S SHIT SCRAMBLE OUTTA HERE, POTATO KITTY!!"

Catrina that's not Ren's name...CATRINA HIS NAME IS NOT POTATO KITTY WHAT THE HELL!?
i_can_read: (Stunned)

Yaaaaaaaay

[personal profile] i_can_read 2026-04-14 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The beach is a tricky place for Simon. Obviously, the Blood Ocean didn't have a beach. It didn't look like this ocean does. It didn't smell like this ocean probably does, either. (He can't actually smell anything any more. This is still weird for him.)

It's still a huge body of liquid. But it's one that glimmers and shines under the sun, with birds--real birds!--of different sounds and sizes and shapes winging their way across the sky, and Simon is distracted by it all: good, bad, and simply still so new and miraculous that he may never get over it all.

Which is a problem, because distraction leads to forgetting. The comforting security of the sub's confined controls that he holds in his memory is lost; he realises he's not 'inside' anything. He's exposed, and in the air. He's in the sky, a few metres up, like the clouds and the birds--

And just like that--like stepping in a puddle and slipping and falling on his ass--he slips on his own brain and falls out of the sky like a rock.

Literally.

Scrambling, desperate to protect himself before he actually hits the earth, he pulls his shields up and covers himself with solid rock. Just in time to hit something solid with all 90 lbs of him and bounce off, rolling to a gentle stop in the sand nearby.

"Fuck!" Temper, muffled, can be heard from inside the meteor's shell.

If... anyone is conscious enough to hear it.
Edited (sent too early because my dog put his head on my keyboard) 2026-04-14 20:11 (UTC)
i_can_read: (Dizzy)

[personal profile] i_can_read 2026-04-20 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Simon is comparatively much better off. He doesn't have a skull or a brain in any conventional sense, and the rock shielding has so far taken pretty much every impact for him without passing any force or pain onto him.

In some ways, this is a huge upgrade from living as a human being, in a body made of meat.

He stays inside the stone shell, though--mostly for safety while he figures out what he hit and how much danger he might be in from that. It's a good thing, too--he hears a voice and knows immediately that he must have landed on someone, and that could go really fucking badly.

....or. Uh. Or the deeply concussed-sounding whatever-he-hit could ask him if he's okay, which. Actually, no. That makes no sense, maybe he hit more than one creature?

He waits, listening.

But no other answer is forthcoming, so eventually he's forced to break the silence himself.

"Are you... talking to me?"
i_can_read: (Pain)

[personal profile] i_can_read 2026-05-02 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Simon is silent.

He stays silent for a few good seconds, which is plenty of time for whoever-it-is he just landed on to... do whatever they want. Ideally, that's not attack him, but if nothing else, he's well-protected from anything like that inside his shields.

Or so he hopes. He has to fucking hope. He doesn't have anything else--nothing except brute force, and he doesn't have much of that any more. Not as a Minior.

But as the seconds tick by, and no attack follows, he speaks up again. A little reluctantly.

"I can't see through rock. And I don't trust you." Sorry, but Simon isn't at all sorry actually. "So I don't know."

At least he's honest?
seacub: (:])

Time to Steel Ourselvesss

[personal profile] seacub 2026-04-15 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[So, mining. Emporio is, admittedly rather curious about how much there is to mine in these tunnels. It wasn't so long ago...or maybe it was? Has it really been a year?

But it wasn't so long ago that these two, and others, in separate groups, were pulling clay from the sunken areas of this place. Where they go now of course, is fairly dry.

The better to not ruin whatever they're pulling.
]

...So...I guess we're going to be digging at these by hand...

[Emporio looks along the wall they were shown to, nodding as he psychs himself up.]

Okay...That shouldn't be too hard!
Edited (I NEED MORE SLEEP) 2026-04-15 23:49 (UTC)
seacub: ('boy i sure hope nothin bad happens')

[personal profile] seacub 2026-04-21 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Right! ...I'm pretty sure my ground moves don't have enough force to cause anything dangerous at least...so it should be alright.

[Honestly, one would have expected them to have noted a birthday at some point.

...Hey wait a minute Emporio-

Manifesting a 'bone' from the ground with an almost casual wave, Emporio gestures toward a particularly promising 'vein' in the rocks.
] ...That one looks like it has something mixed in it...Maybe it'll be good ore?
seacub: (:])

[personal profile] seacub 2026-04-30 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a lot of Pokemon here who just seem to be adverse to birthdays. At some point, perhaps they should just have one big group one.

Bone at the ready, Emporio just nods...and, not even realizing that Ren didn't spot it that easily, gestures to the veining in question.
] It's really subtle, but you can see the different color striations moving along the sides right here...so, I think as long as we strike here it'll work..!

[Time to start whacking a rock with a bone- it won't be bonemerang or bonerush or anything, but it should do the trick!]
seacub: ('boy i sure hope nothin bad happens')

[personal profile] seacub 2026-05-05 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Right!!

[It's a bit like going to town with a pickaxe...or in Ren's case, a lot of smaller pickaxes. But the chunks of clear metal ore are coming out, and with a pause to inspect it, Emporio nods.]

I sure hope so, [He agrees.] I can tell it's not the same as the rest of the rock, but I don't know how good it'll be...

[But there does seem to be more where that came from, so he gives a few good thwacks to loosen the load.] I think if you dig around this bit, it'll come free.
seacub: (:])

[personal profile] seacub 2026-05-18 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like it, yeah!

[Cubone helmet set down, he'll start setting as much there as possible in the 'bag'. He gives it a careful eye, and then an experimental lift-] Hmmm...

[And ultimately nods.] Yeah. I think we can try for another vein! This isn't too heavy yet, and there's definitely room.
seacub: (:])

[personal profile] seacub 2026-05-26 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright!

[Off they go then. A little deeper into the cave, eyes peeled. Emporio hasn't spotted anything yet...but when he looks to where Ren is pointing his head, he squints.]

It might be..? ...Lets go look!
positivestars: (straightforward)

wildcard!

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-04-15 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's easy enough to get caught up with quests, and sparring, and following up bits of information that sound interesting- but Maya's doing her best to keep an eye on her friends here, too. It's with that in mind she goes to look for Ren, and she waves when she spots him, tail wagging a little.

"Ren-kun! Are you busy?"
positivestars: (consider)

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-04-21 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, nothing urgent!" She does her best to tune her own energy down a little, noting his, taking her approach a little more slowly. "It felt like it had been a little while since we've really spoken, so… I just wanted to spend some time with you, and see how you're doing."
positivestars: (straightforward)

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-04-28 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Her ears prick up a little at the mention of rest- ah, is that what it is? "Well- rest is important! We've got to meet the day with our best." How good is she at doing that herself? …Don't worry about it.

She hesitates for a moment, before settling herself down, a little to his left while being sure to give him space.

"They're definitely something," she agrees, looking thoughtful. After a moment, she reaches out, wriggling her fingers. "Kotoludi!" There isn't any of power that would usually exorcise a case of Possession behind it, admittedly, but maybe it'll amuse Ren.
positivestars: (pleased)

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-05-02 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
She grins, proud of herself for succeeding.

"Ah, some of the more ghost-like demons liked to try and possess us, at times," she explains, stretching out with one hand. "I guess they wanted to… ride along, maybe?" …well, that's not without impact, but nothing they hadn't been able to heal up.
positivestars: (straightforward)

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-05-12 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Brainwash?" She frowns, concerned. The ways people can view that can be… well, worrying. "Did that work much like being Charmed?" The names of those skills don't sound familiar, but- well, clearly, some things changed over time. She can't help but wonder why. "Those sound pretty powerful! Salvation particularly… was that an ultimate skill?"
positivestars: (consider)

[personal profile] positivestars 2026-05-27 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods. "That's definitely how it worked! It's awkward, but… It could be worse." If it's the result of a status effect, it feels less personal, at least.

…she's tempted to reach out and scratch behind his ears, but she keeps her hands to herself for now, just looking.

"So you could back each other up with it? That's reassuring, right? So in a pinch… three of you could have it?" She hums, resettling herself to get comfortable. "Mona… what was his Persona, again?"