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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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Yeah... [He shifts his weight uncomfortably.] I mean... I wouldn't want to make anyone's decision for them, but staying here is probably easier if that's the other option, right?
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[In spite of that, and in spite of his efforts, his volume barely lowers.]
Well...I did not know about that. But, yes, I suppose that would indeed be the better option!
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[Thankfully, Firepaw is slowly getting used to how loud everyone is. He does relax again, and pauses to lick his fur down.]
To your point earlier... to be honest, sometimes I forget that I used to be a cat, too. Or... I guess I just don't think about it. And I've never seen anyone's real forms, so it's hard to remember I'm speaking to Twolegs, too.
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[He really was like a Pokemon to begin with!]
But you do not interact with them?
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Before I came here, I thought cats were the only thing that could think and talk. But there were Twolegs- er, humans. I was born in one of their dens, and I lived with my housefolk for a few moons, but we weren't really friends.
[Not the way Guilmon and his trainer were, or Akechi and Ren with their cat friend. He always thought of his owners as strange dumb creatures that happened to live with him.]
In ThunderClan, though, we stayed away from Twolegs. They could have captured us, or hurt us. It was against our warrior code to spend time around them, in case someone led them back to our camp.
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[It doesn't sound like it was that way with the humans at all. What on earth were they doing, that the beings they shared the world with couldn't even tell that they were thinking creatures?]
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[Is he biased? Absolutely. But it's tough not to be when you're a perfect creature.]
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[Ingo doesn't know enough about mice, dogs, or foxes to really guess how true that is, but...more to the point, it is strange to hear about all these other worlds with "animals", and people who live separately from them.]
It is a good thing to be reminded of, I suppose.
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Sorry, did I say something wrong?
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[There are, it sounds like, other animals around. But they don't really share with them, not even in the way wild Pokemon will interact with each other. It's hardly all predation or hunting; it's plenty common for wild Pokemon to befriend others of other types.]
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Honestly, cats don't always get along with each other, much less other animals. We come together under the full moon to meet with other Clans, share stories and discuss things that affect the whole forest, but most of the time we only see the other Clans when we go into battle against them. And we're not supposed to speak to housecats, either.
[Although now that he says that, in as many words...]
...I guess it is a little lonely. But I hadn't thought about it until I came here.
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[Though people can certainly dream of more. Isn't that what he and the other trainers of Hisui have been doing? But Ingo doesn't want to make Firepaw feel bad, or like he's somehow obligated to make overtures he wouldn't otherwise.]