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APRIL 2025 EVENT LOG
The sun rises, and a gentle breeze blows. A day like any other arrives in Bottlecap Bay, and for many of the pokemon that so recently arrived it is a now familiar process. Members of the various guilds flock to the Quest Board, in search of tasks to better provide for the town. Others, maintaining businesses of their own within the small settlement, start to open their doors for another day of work.
There is something different about this day however, and it is a difference that defines the next number of them. There is never truly a dull moment here after all, and it’s time to get involved.
DONATION DRIVE
As spring fully settles into the bay, the clinic begins to advertise for additional activities on the Quest Board. A call for donors is made- but donors of what? Pokemon arriving in response to the request will find that answer to mean “anything and everything that can be given” - along with potential medical samples to help with further research into the mysterious illness, there are a great many things that can be made from shed feathers, brushed-out undercoat or trimmed horns and claws.
Or even sweat, alarming as that may seem.
Those willing will be given small interviews in which they determine what to donate, and after the process (however involved), be given a small boxed treat as compensation. And of course, they’ll record the contributions with their guild leaders too!
⟡ WHAT NOW?
Donated materials can be used for a great many things, and throughout the later half of April local businesses will be happily showing their relevant crafts off. Pokemon are invited to try their hand at sewing satchels made using Spinarak threads, spinning yarn from Stufful fur, or stuffing pillows with Ducklett down- and perhaps if they donated anything themselves, they can even make something of their own.
Literally.
NO “I” IN TEAM
With the need to re-evaluate the results of recent expeditions through the surrounding forest before making the move to branch out further, the leaders of the three guilds have come together with some training exercises to better pass the time. Rather than sit and wait between tasks determined by the quest board, the last weeks of April see various events hosted through the city with one goal in mind:
Team Building.
A. ⟡ SHOW-AND-TELL
As part of an effort to encourage understanding and community, the Guilds each host various meet-and-greets in their personal buildings- or in the case of the Lum Guild, the public Archives. It’s a chance for pokemon to show each other where they sleep and eat, to share a little of their lives with their fellows from other guilds.
There are also more awkward sharing activities- tossing a ball in a circle and giving a fact about oneself. Tying each other limb to limb and performing races. Or even gift exchanges with the donor crafts! Nothing says community like a present from the heart.
B. ⟡ STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
As an extra step from simply showing what each guild room looks like, sleepovers will be encouraged through the remaining month as well. Perhaps it’s time for a repeat of the great Oran Sleep-Pile- or maybe a sequel hosting can be held in the Canopy with the Cheri Berries.
It’s a little trickier with members of the Lum Guild, with each one having their own apartment of sorts, but just ask! Surely a few friends can pile together in their Lum buddy’s house.
C. ⟡ THE GREAT ESCAPE
Polteageist is thrilled with the success of the ‘escape rooms’ from March. As such, the existing courses and challenges have been since repurposed in order to encourage pokemon to work together, improving on the initial project. Once again working in pairs, dangerous (but not lethal!) challenges await those who wish to sign up for them. As with before, there are three different rooms to choose from, and experienced rescue Pokemon will be on call the entire time. Anyone who takes longer than the allotted time will be rescued.
⟡ Ocean room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up in a small cave beneath the water, with pockets of oxygen for those who need them. Upon waking, they must work together to escape the labyrinth of caves beneath the water and make it back to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: a maze-like cave system with misleading routes, paths with less or no sunlight, strange plants that may inflict status effects, agitated or disoriented wild Pokemon, and varying water temperatures/underwater geysers. It has an hour time limit, so good luck!
⟡ Forest room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up in the center of a dense forest, with tree cover blocking most sunlight. Upon waking, they must work together to find their directions, navigate through thick brush and forest, and make it back to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: the fog, collapsed floors into cave systems, sudden steep drops, aggressive Pokemon and plants, vines, thorns, poisons and toxins. It has a two hour time limit, so good luck!
⟡ Cave room. Two Pokemon are put to sleep and wake up far beneath the city, in one of the many tunnels belonging to the mines. Upon waking, they must work together to reorient themselves and find a way out to Bottlecap Bay. Some obstacles along the way may include: unstable sections of mines leading to collapses, a vast assortment of tunnel directions leading to disorientation, extreme temperatures, lava pits, and lessening oxygen levels. It has an hour time limit, so good luck!
OOC NOTES.
⟡ CWS: body horror, medical imagery
⟡ Though dates specified cover only the last two weeks of April, players may assume continued donation drives and crafting projects to be available through the start of May, though less frequent.
⟡ We of the Bottlecap Bay Help Team would like to extend a sincere thank-you to everyone for their patience during the transition of tasks concerning the upkeep of the game. Current events have been taking a significant toll on many, but we are hoping to finalize Exploration Quest responses within the next few days. Thank you again, and happy threading!
⟡ CWS: body horror, medical imagery
⟡ Though dates specified cover only the last two weeks of April, players may assume continued donation drives and crafting projects to be available through the start of May, though less frequent.
⟡ We of the Bottlecap Bay Help Team would like to extend a sincere thank-you to everyone for their patience during the transition of tasks concerning the upkeep of the game. Current events have been taking a significant toll on many, but we are hoping to finalize Exploration Quest responses within the next few days. Thank you again, and happy threading!
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Absolutely not!!
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Or like, who was your worst crush or actual date mate and should we throw bricks at their house?
[And obvious pull back, but obviously trying not to bring attention to what Akari noticed.]
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I...but what if someone hasn't had a romantic partner? That is not a universal experience.
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[Firoza Istus may have caught feelings before, but she wouldn't have understood what was going on at all. Partly because there's always other, more understandable things happening.]
It has never happened to me before.
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[She said, as if stating the obvious. Girls supporting girls and all that.]
Maybe you just haven't met the right man, woman or gender-neutral person.
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[People have said a lot of things about a lot of companions she's know, past and present, but who can really trust conjecture on that, right? There's always plausible deniability, and Firoza isn't the kind of person to look too deeply into those sorts of things. Unless she is told in explicitly blunt terms, no one is flirting with her, no one has a crush on her. It's just not happening.
It makes losing people who may or may not be heavily flirting with her throughout their friendship a lot easier to swallow.]no subject
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[Akari you could've lead with that.]
Gods. Probably Teledji Adeledji - hells, or Ilberd. At least men like Hermes and Zenos I could understand. Feel something not unkind for, even. But those two? No.
[One's a wretched capitalist that framed her for murder and the other fucked over her lil buddy Alphinaud for coin and then had a bunch of people slaughtered to the point of despair to kill himself and become a primal in some half-baked plot to overthrow a tyrannical government, forcing other nations to pick up the job where he left off (with remarkably less summoning of dangerous deities). Nope, not a fan of either of them.
Also - Firoza, you're not holding the ball, no one's asked this of you. You're just sharing this unprompted?]
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Both of them sound like they got awful names and are awful by default. Tell me more.
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Where do I even start...? The both of them did things that got me wrapped up in two different wars - and they were both bastards. [A pause.] I don't even want to apologize for swearing. Because they were.
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[Akari is now pointedly ignoring the rest of the group.]
And two? Damn.
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[She's kind of forgotten the game, too, which is fine - the other Pokemon seem to be interested in sharing opinions on how to best enjoy a bowl of soup if you have no hands to grasp the bowl.]
Teledji's schemes made us flee for our lives, finding safety only in Ishgard. They'd been at war with dragons for one thousand years, and...we usually end up falling into trouble, my friends and I. So we found a way to resolve the conflict.
[She sounds tired when she says it, though - shit was not easy. It's a long story.]
And then once things were finally, properly on the mend, Ilberd - he was also part of Teledji's scheming - he comes back to lead an ambush on Baelsar's Wall, knowing full well the people he's whipped into a frenzy are going to be slaughtered, all to use their last gasps of fury and fervor to turn himself into a Primal borne of their rage. And all that, to push the Eorzean Alliance to follow after, into Ala Mhigo, to liberate them from the Garlean Empire.
[A pause.]
We had to go to the Far East and liberate Doma to get Ala Mhigo's freedom back on track. But, we managed it.
[Again - reliving these events, and she sounds so tired. But through it all, there's a sad little smile. Like there was something in all of this turmoil, in every event, that was still found to be good.]
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[Sometimes, you need a 15 year old girl stating the obvious.]
And like, refresh my memory. What's a Primal? Also, one thousand years seems like a long time to have a war. One would think at least one side would have ran out of people.
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[Ah, she's dropping a lot of terms others aren't going to be familiar with.]
A Primal is the prayers and emotions of a people given the form of a deity. Specifically, the kind of Primals I'm used to are dangerous - once summoned, they exude influence on their followers to focus only on them, to give them tribute, to bring more into the fold. Eventually they drain the land of its very life, if left unchecked. So, following that example, Ilberd decided to make a rage beast out of his followers' anguish. And his own self.
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[Wrong type of dragon, Akari.]
Quick question: If they drain the land of life, and this Ilberd guy wanted to use the Primal to free his homeland, wouldn't it had just drained the homeland kinda defeating the purpose?
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[It's very much a game of politics, and even though on her best days Firoza can't quite parse it, she generally thinks the best of the people she's come to work with in saving the realm, be they by her side or doing the big important "leading nations" stuff. Also, she's just learned a lot by proxy - how those in power try to meet as many needs as possible and maintain order, and how you're never going to be able to please everyone. It's complicated.
But she can also understand being frustrated with that and taking matters into one's own hands...maybe she understands Ilberd more than she realizes. Doesn't change the fact that he's a bastard.]
In the end, he led a lot of people who were sincere about their cause to their demise - and one of our own sacrificed himself to keep the threat of his Primal at bay until we could do something about it. That led to its own problems...but that's an entirely different story.
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[She asks after a few moments.]
[cw: endwalker spoilers]
But it's called Etheirys.
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...It is my home. And though no one soul can see it all in one lifetime, I want to try. There is unique beauty hidden in every corner, peoples with all different ways of thinking, and adventure waiting to be found, always. I would have no other star to call mine own.
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[She nodded.]
I feel like Irida would like you because of that. She talks about the Space of Hisui and it being so vast and everyone is so lucky there is so much of it to explore.
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cw: PLA spoilers
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cw: PLA spoilers
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