bottlecaplogs | APRIL 2025 EVENT LOG

⋆✩ SPRING FLING ✩⋆

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!

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... Seriously? [She gawks at him, sounding just slightly unnerved.] You—saw me?

I only caught the very end of it it looks like. But.

Yes?

[ he is not sure what exactly is unnerving her like that— was he not supposed to witness that? or is she surprised that yes, she crocheted something she's never seen before. ]

[It takes her another couple of long moments to come to terms with that... but the proof is right in front of her, so eventually she exhales a heavy sigh of acceptance.]

Just another fun new feature of being a Mimikyu, I'm guessing? [Suddenly gaining a decent crocheting ability would be fun, but:] I was trying to make a scarf...

I have not known one personally enough to tell you whether they all also do the 'accidentally make a Pikachu toy instead of a scarf' thing.

[ in a fit of frenzied crocheting she doesn't even seem to remember, apparently. ]

But if it helps. They seem to prefer the Pikachu disguise in general? Can't say I've seen one wearing anything else.

Don't know if I'd say it helps... [It's still bizarre and a little alarming.] But I guess it might explain a couple things...

[Like how she couldn't bear even the thought of exchanging her disguise for another, on top of how she could have crocheted a Pikachu without ever having seen one. She prods one of its soft ears delicately with the tip of her claw.]

Where do Mimikyu get their disguises anyway? In the wild or whatever, I mean. I just woke up like this, so... [She wouldn't know.]

[ a bit of a shrug? ]

They are not really found in Unova, but from what I know? They're always covered. No one's ever really seen what one looks like without the cloth. Mimikyu are verrrry defensive about it.

[ and that's just kind of a thing you get used to, with ghost types. some of them can be quite particular. when a lot of ghosts can be quite vindictive, or have specific dietary needs, it's wiser not to agitate them unnecessarily? ]

But they probably just make it themselves? They are said to be fairly lonely Pokemon.

[ so it is probably unlikely that they're being sourced from secret Leavanny or Spinarak weavers in the woods or something. ]

[Those first words prompt her to shrink in on herself a little and start fidgeting with one ear of her disguise, defensive indeed.]

Yeah, I knew that part, thanks...

[She knows it all too well, in fact—but the latter part is new, even if she had guessed as much. At Emmet's last sentence, Kaie's words skitter through her mind: You always struck me as profoundly lonely...

Aptly, even though she asked, all this talk about her seems to have discomforted her even more. A momentary shudder passes through her—and her voice abruptly emerges an octave higher than intended.]

Then—! I should be able to make a stupid scarf no problem, right?! What's the difference?

Pikachu are popular and well-liked. Mimikyu are lonely.

[ said simply, with the same relative lack of tone as always. aren't those likely the answers she's looking for? why this particular disguise?

but he cocks his head, then continues, keeping the focus from being entirely on her. ]

Zoroark are vengeful. [ said the same as the other 'facts' this far. ] It does not have to mean anything if you do not want it to.

So. Sure! Make your scarf. I can try to reroute you if it looks like you are trying to make any not-scarf items?

[She considers those words for a long moment—then deflates.]

... Yeah. That works. I'd... appreciate it, or whatever.

[Time to get more yarn, then!]

... You making anything? Or just browsing? [Or just here to watch her make a fool of herself?]

I am Emmet. I don't know that I can.

[ Make much, that is. His grin is, maybe, a little wry as he holds up a claw. ]

These are not very good for detail work. I do not have the dexterity I used to.

[ beat. ]

Also, I wasn't very good at needlework to begin with.

[She looks sympathetically at his claws. There has to be a way, she thinks, when plenty of Pokémon have claws like that... But she also was lucky enough to get through her own transformation with all ten fingers still intact.]

You've tried needlework before, though? Before here, I mean.

Ssssort of? Not much but some. I knew someone in the fashion industry. You pick up on some things.

[ One way or another, before the fact that you cannot be trusted to handle anything much more complicated than mending your coats makes itself clear anyway— ]

[Having picked out some new, blue-dyed yarn (the color of Oran berries and present nowhere on Pikachu's body), she settles down to work.]

Well, did you like doing it?

I did not mind it? There are useful applications for it. And it is one option to keep busy with.

[ again, that is, if he were actually any good at it. ]

Doesn't seem like you to give it up so easy, then.

[Even if he doesn't seem all that torn up about it, really.]

I would've thought you'd be all... The wheels've been replaced, and now we're continuing on to our original destination. Or something.

[ Her attempt to match train metaphors gets a small chuckle out of him, at least. ]

I am Emmet. I like Double Battles. I like combinations of two Pokemon. And I like winning more than anything else.

So! It is not giving up. But there are obstacles on the tracks, and those you cannot always just drive through.

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