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Narciso Anasui ([personal profile] dripdrive) wrote in [community profile] bottlecaplogs2025-05-06 12:28 pm

Paved Roads Quest Catch-all! | OTA

Who: Emporio, You and maybe even some asshole ostrich (Anasui)
What: Paved Roads quest
When: Throughout May
Where: The city streets further towards the forest.
Warnings: Anasui being Anasui.

For a while, Heliolisk has been in charge of expanding the city streets further towards the forest, making transport of goods and services easier and overall expanding Bottlecap Bay. The project had been slow going but progressing well until about two months ago, when Heliolisk noticed that some of the streets have somehow diminished in length. The reason why remains unknown. Perhaps it was a quirk of the forest that the guilds didn't understand - 'Maybe the forest doesn't want to be expanded into?' - but that didn't explain why some of the roads closer to town were also disassembled, making patches in the road. Many other Pokemon also pointed out there are a number of cobblestone towers alongside the path wherever these patches are, obviously sourced from the road itself!

The mystery of why the roads are shortening is largely left to speculation in favour of actually solving the problem. Hence why the quest has appeared on the quest board again, this time from Polteageist: they need reliable Pokemon to help clear the roads of debris, flatten the dirt where it needs to be flattened and place the cobblestone back.

There are many roads to be fixed and you'll likely find Pokemon already there, regardless if you're doing a patch job or going all the way to the forest's edge to re-expand the paths. One of those Pokemon is a large Espathra, who only casts a half-glance at you before going back to what he was doing. He seems to be placing cobblestone in a very particular way...

...and according to the Cubone rounding up as many as possible for the job, that's entirely typical. He can't be sure if it's something he specifically did in their own world, mind you, but he's pretty sure he would have if possible. Emporio notably seems more concerned with just gathering stones to be available for Anasui to place. Perhaps it's a strength thing. Perhaps not? He's absolutely doing his part, but occasionally he'll watch someone else putting their stones down and then glance in Anasui's direction before wincing. As if he knows something.

And maybe he does, because after a good bit of work with their own team, Emporio will jump.

"...Anasui's gone!"

...It's probably fine, right? Best to just focus on your own work.

Although... if you are placing cobblestone down, you may notice Anasui behind you, pulling up the stones you JUST placed and swapping their places. What is up with that???

[[OOC - To account for how many are involved in Anasui and Emporio's team for Paved Roads, and the fact that the Mods saw fit to refer to him in the quest response over all, this is a thread-jack friendly open log! Specify if you want Anasui or Emporio most of all, but otherwise, there's no holds barred here. That said, if you do not want threadjacks, please note this in your tag in. That way it doesn't get too unwieldy for you.]]
truthdecided: (perplexed)

Team Hotblooded Idiots (Akechi, Akari, and Ren) - Threadjacking welcome

[personal profile] truthdecided 2025-05-06 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The situation with the roads is... odd, to say the least. It feels like deliberate sabotage or absurdly inconvenient mischief.

But Akechi's eager to compensate for his failure last month by taking as many quests as possible, Ren's just as eager, and Akari... is Akari.

She's Little Miss Hero, eager to apply herself wherever possible.

Well, at least he can trust her to put in some good work. So, to start, Akechi flutters into the air, eyeing scattered roots and plants. "I believe we'll be more productive if each of us handles a separate task. So, I'll handle removing weeds and roots, one of you can flatten the earth, and the other can place the cobblestones... Unless you have any objections?"

[ooc: Threadjacks welcome, especially since Anasui came up in the prompt.]
Edited 2025-05-08 13:02 (UTC)
telewarped: (So many episodes)

@ Emporio to start (but threadjacking welcome!)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-05-06 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Shoka has just flattened out a section of the ground with a vicious strike from her Wood Hammer attack when Emporio calls out. Tail-stick still in hand, she glances up at him, then around at their crack construction team.

Sure enough, there's no sign of Anasui.

"... So?"
bladeofnymeia: (general calm)

Open to Threadjacking, let's do it

[personal profile] bladeofnymeia 2025-05-07 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[For Firoza's part, she's focusing on pounding the earth flat. You wouldn't associate a little Nidoran with that, but she seems to have a method for it...circling, patting, circling again, and going over to the edge of the line where the stones are to see if her leveling job is actually staying level. Obviously they're not going to be cutting directly through, say, large hills or anything, but she's making a concerted effort.

And sometimes she'll find a really nice rock and carefully bring it to the pile Emporio seems to be making.]


This one looks good.

[She's helping!]
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
To say the cubone looks nervous is an understatement. He's not even looking at Shoka when he speaks- instead trying to seek out Anasui's presence from wherever he might have gone.

"So, you've seen how he's been working with us. There's a reason all of us started focusing on preparing the land and stones instead of placing them..! What if he's gone to where the other teams are working?"
seacub: (:])

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[After a certain number of times where Anasui undoes your work, a 'mon falls into the pattern of preparing land and stones pretty quick.]

Oh! Yeah, that one's nice and flat...

This is going a lot faster than I expected it to, if I'm honest. I kinda worried I didn't have the skill set for it...

[Granted, he's mostly just sorting rocks for Anasui to grab and place, but hey.]
telewarped: (I've come to realize)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-05-07 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Shoka has apparently been preoccupied, because she hasn't really seen exactly how Anasui's been working or noticed any reason for concern. She was under the impression that he was just really passionate about road design (and right now, she much prefers the process of tearing out and pulverizing obstacles to the more delicate art of placing stones anyway).

"Sounds like he's their problem, then," she replies blandly.
seacub: (who put baby in the trash)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-07 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
"If he's their problem, it's going to become our problem I'm pretty sure though... ...he's probably undoing all their work as we speak..."

He is correct, oh well.

Emporio groans, but understandably, there's not a whole lot they can do right now. "...I'm a little leery of trying to place any stones myself until he's back too, for the same reason..."

There's just something disheartening about that...
telewarped: (Or have you had a change of mind?)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-05-08 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Right; they're all technically a team, even if Anasui decided to go off on his own. Ugh.

"Well, what do you wanna do about it? Put a leash on the guy?"
seacub: (who put baby in the trash)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-09 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"No...that probably won't work..."

The cubone sighs. "I think we should probably at least figure out where he went I guess..? Maybe we can convince him back by telling him the ground is ready for stones here..."
telewarped: (We complete the story)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-05-09 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
With a roll of her eyes, Shoka grumbles, "Fine."

She's probably been Wood Hammer-ing for too long, anyway; the recoil aches, making the edges of her shadowy form subtly jitter as she returns her tail-stick to its usual position.

"What's his deal anyway? You two knew each other before all this, right?"

Has he done anything like this before? is the unsaid.
bladeofnymeia: (tea time)

[personal profile] bladeofnymeia 2025-05-10 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't hurt to try, even if you're unsure. [Hmm hmm, how about this other stone? Round on one side but quite flat on the other, you just pound it down into the dirt a bit and it should be fine.]

Why did you think it wouldn't go quickly?
seacub: (AND NOW A PIPE TOO??)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-10 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Excuse him, while he places his head briefly in his hands.]

.....That, for one...

[mister anasui please]

Uh- I guess also just the matter of being able to prepare the road for the stones though. It's easy to feel like what we're doing is 'small' when other pokemon can just...take a step and flatten something for a few meters I guess.

[At least Anasui seemed to like that last rock though.]
seacub: (AND NOW A PIPE TOO??)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-10 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
A quiet 'thank you' goes without saying- and anyway Shoka might actually be interested in the tea here. "Well...it's hard to say about the roads, because he didn't really have that chance? I mean...how often does anyone see cobblestone, right?"

And also you know, prison, but.

"...But he compulsively dismantles things. Like my piano, once. Weather stared at him until he put it back together so that we could get some sleep."
arceusstansme: (004 : Explaining)

[personal profile] arceusstansme 2025-05-10 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll take flattening the earth." she said, holding up a nub. "I think I have Rollout understood and this would be good practice for it."
colorsflyinghigh: (Default)

[personal profile] colorsflyinghigh 2025-05-11 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Guess that leaves the cobblestones to me," Ren says with a nod. "Sounds good."

They're probably a bit heavy for his little kitty body... not helped by the ache in his joints. Well- no pain, no gain, right?

"Right-- let's get started, then."
outbounds: (burning jealousy)

i am *always* open to threadjacks, let's go

[personal profile] outbounds 2025-05-11 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Emmet is probably only just coming back from another trip off to the Spire's supply rooms and workshops to grab more cobblestone for everyone's efforts when Emporio makes that particular announcement. Which means that he does take a glance around to where the various different teams are working, and ... yeah, they sure are missing one cream colored ostrich. ]

... So he is. Is that a problem?
bladeofnymeia: (surprised pikachu face)

[personal profile] bladeofnymeia 2025-05-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[C-Confusion,

Firoza just. Lets Anasui go off with the rock, not arguing, just looking quizzical. She isn't doing the rock-placing, after all.]


...He must very much like rocks.
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

Less that and more 'how things come together and come apart.'

[And with a cough, Emporio lowers his voice as much as possible-]

...I'm pretty sure he's why the roads shrank actually, he was pretty stressed when he first got here...

[For good reason, but still.]

...I'm surprised I didn't find the bed in our apartment in flat-pack slats...
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

Heeheeehoohoo

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Emporio takes a deep breath.

Grimaces.
]

Y...you know how Heliolisk said the roads somehow got shorter..?
bladeofnymeia: (pouty highlander)

[personal profile] bladeofnymeia 2025-05-13 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Blinks.

Registers what Emporio has said, turns it around a couple of times in her mind.]


...But the road, though? But the road, though.
seacub: ('boy i sure hope nothin bad happens')

[personal profile] seacub 2025-05-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The road though...] He was stacking paving stones in piles when I found him the one day...

[He Shrank Those Roads]

It's better than what he was doing in the Canopy at least?

[uh oh]
truthdecided: (smirk)

[personal profile] truthdecided 2025-05-13 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Agreed." With a plan in motion, Akechi dives at the nearest weeds and roots, plucking them up in his talons with all the strength he can muster before tossing them aside. "I'll keep everything organized in a pile, to minimize the workload."
telewarped: (My senses slowly fade)

[personal profile] telewarped 2025-05-14 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"... Huh."

A whole piano? Emporio had one of those? Who's Weather?

"And whose bright idea was it to invite the compulsive dismantler on this quest?"

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