quirkynote: (pmd 2)
A.B.A ([personal profile] quirkynote) wrote in [community profile] bottlecaplogs2025-02-11 08:00 pm
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Impromptu Oran Sleepover

Who: Oran newbies
What: Having fun with communal dens
When: Sometime after Mightyena gathered them up
Where: The Spire, low tier dens
Warnings: Will add if anything comes up, but not anticipating anything

[As everyone knows by now, the Oran Berries depend heavily on communal living, sharing a bed is simply to be expected. For some, this experience was temporary. Mightyena was kind enough to lend the mysterious misplaced Pokémon a place to rest, but now some of them have moved on.

For others, this is now a part of life, and it's time to get used to it. The Oran Berries value treating everyone like friends and family, after all, so you're expected to do the same! Why not have some fun with it?

Whether you've noticed your fellow newcomers are all gathering in one den, or you suddenly find yourself dragged into the the party against your will, everyone is invited! Everyone's going through the same thing, belong to the same guild, you gotta stick together.....right?]


[[ooc: Feel free to use this as a mingle log! We have nine Oran Berries (I think???) and although the dens are said to hold up to eight, I think some members are small enough that we should be able to include everyone!]]
outbounds: he'd count subway cars to go to sleep too (long days at the subway)

[personal profile] outbounds 2025-04-14 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Probably are. In the past, at some point, maybe still now. It's a big world. We live alongside Pokémon. Pokémon are friends and partners, but they are capable of a lot. Always good to have a healthy amount of respect for them. So the stories stick around.

[ Though they probably get embellished sometimes. ]

What is true: they are capable of illusions. And so far, I am bad at them. If you are judging them by using me as an example, I am not a very good one.

[ That said, on the way-too-much-fur front ... she's finding some success. The section she's braided, well, seems like it almost wants to come apart, the various parts she's sectioned out each seeming to have a mind of their own as they sway faintly, independent of each other and any lack of wind. Because she's started with a relatively small amount, though, the wispy ends she's trying to get to gel together do manage to more or less keep the entire thing together for now. ]

... Not a bad start.
telewarped: (Sometimes I wonder)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-04-15 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, don't sound too impressed.

[At least it's staying together! ... For the most part.

Counting this as a success, she starts valiantly in on the rest of it.]


So what happened when you did try to use your illusion powers?
outbounds: (faint attack)

[personal profile] outbounds 2025-04-15 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. What I do. What I say. Always the same.

[ His tone of voice is always like this, Shoka; it's as good as you're gonna get. His expression does quirk a bit in response to her, though, matching her tone in the curve of a lopsided vulpine smirk.

Though it evens back out a bit with the next question as he thinks back to what he was trying to accomplish in the moment, what it felt like. ]


Tried to make myself look like me. From before here, I mean. But more than just not working, felt like I ran into a block. Danger, high voltage, do not enter. It hurt. Yep.

[ A bit of understatement, but it's fine. ]

Not fun when you're supposed to be in the middle of an attempted spar.
telewarped: (The shroud encroaches ever closer)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-04-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Geez... That's rough.

[A thoughtful pause, as she starts weaving another braid.]

Right in the middle of a fight, though? What kind of strat is that?
outbounds: (psych up)

[personal profile] outbounds 2025-04-20 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Not a strategy really. There was a misunderstanding.

[ A reaction that ... in the moment was surprising, confusing maybe, but now with the benefit of hindsight and more awareness of the situation is instead telling. ]

Was trying to clear it up, but. Didn't quite work out how I wanted.
Edited 2025-04-20 01:00 (UTC)
telewarped: (Countless dreams)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-04-20 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
No kidding. What, did they not believe you used to be human, or...?
outbounds: (sleep talk)

[personal profile] outbounds 2025-04-21 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Think they thought I was ... taunting them? Mocking them?

[ Ingo didn't say when he asked, what it was that he wasn't supposed to be doing, so the best Emmet's got are educated guesses.

There's only so much he can say here without Shoka realizing it's Ingo he's talking about, though, and Emmet isn't a good liar. Might have already said too much, even, but he figures Ingo wouldn't want him airing that out, so. ... So, he just kind of shrugs. ]


So something like that, maybe.