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bottlecaplogs2025-05-08 11:37 pm
outbounds) wrote in bottlecaplogs2025-05-08 11:37 pm
[closed] may quest round-up + other closed prompt(s)
Who: Emmet and ... I am not listing out everyone he's questing with! and others.
What: Cry for Kelp, Scattered Bug, and the get-along sweater (may or may not feature an actual sweater. or: Oran (?) does an intervention) for now
When: May, At Some Point,
Where: Various (Coast, Northern Forest, Spire at current)
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death, the general implications of the food chain, Teenagers™
cry for kelp (for conrad, ring-spirit, laios, shoka)
What: Cry for Kelp, Scattered Bug, and the get-along sweater (may or may not feature an actual sweater. or: Oran (?) does an intervention) for now
When: May, At Some Point,
Where: Various (Coast, Northern Forest, Spire at current)
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death, the general implications of the food chain, Teenagers™
cry for kelp (for conrad, ring-spirit, laios, shoka)
[ Tangela was said to have disappeared somewhere along the coast, so that's where they'll go. the coast, though, is ... a pretty long strip of land, all things considered.scattered bug (for siffrin)
... honestly, it's probably best if they just start at one end of the bay and work their way to the other until they pick up on Tangela's trail? ]
The coast is a lot of ground to cover. Could be anywhere along the cliffs or the beach. Or below it, even.
Think most of us can move pretty quickly if we need to though. [ it's ... probably just Conrad who wouldn't? ] Or if we can't, then we can just couple ourselves to someone who can.
[ if you're here for tangela rescue, please tag in under the subheader for it! no real enforced tag order, we'll treat it like a general mingle open for threadjacks i think, is probably the best way to do it when there's five of us and they are presumably going to tackle it in slightly separate ways up and down the beach because imagine corralling that many of us into a strict tagging order. couldn't be me. ]
[ the northern end of the forest is the part of it that Emmet has the least amount of personal experience with, as he wasn't on any of the previous trips to explore and map it out, but he's been paying attention to the chatter over the grumpearls. ... and maybe certain other sources that might be prone to talking about it in shared public spaces, but that's neither here nor there. regardless, in the end, he suspects he knows the kind of general thing to expect.the get-along sweater (for akechi, shoka, ingo)
dark, overgrown. mushrooms and strange plants everywhere. vines that will probably try to tangle you up and trap you and who knows what else. the kind of forest that will eat you, straight out of the stories and movies. agitated grass types all over, apparently, and those are definitely a type you'd have to be careful around for all the different ways to incapacitate or otherwise inflict status they have access to. an odd growth, a heart, that probably indicates the work of some sort of experienced, firmly entrenched grass type ... or just a powerful one.
(life energy into the ground, a twisted mass of bark and vines in one clearing ... an insistent sense of familiarity in another. hmm.)
all in all, a great (?) place to work out restless energy and put it towards something productive, disregarding the various tendencies of the other ends of the woods. that's what brings Emmet and Siffrin both out here after meeting at the questboard, at least. probably. ]
... Have you been through this part of the forest before?
[ they have some of dr. denne's medication for the spores, of course, but. just to make sure they're both on the same page? ]
[ Akechi and Shoka are fighting. or something like it, anyway. all of Oran's probably noticed by now, not just their motley group of offworlders and newbies to the guild, mostly on account of Akechi's continued and quite literal case of ruffled feathers and the fact that the space they're all sharing isn't exactly that big or that private. it's been several weeks and yet the Rookidee has not seemed to simmer down in the least. the Mimikyu doesn't always help, either, even if she honestly isn't acting that different from usual.
(mostly. a.b.a's absence ... probably weighs heavier on some of them than others, huh.)
anyway, it's well into the evening one night when two of the resident ghosts of the group receive a visitor. one bearing... a package (???) of some sort?
"Hey," says the Umbreon through a mouthful of cloth, punctuated with a yawn as they drop it. the Moonlight Pokemon's gaze is somehow no less piercing for it. "You two are some of the new arrivals, right? Or, well, not the newest batch, sure, but you all showed up in that storm a while back?" ]
I am Emmet. We did, yes?
[ the Umbreon nods, before rolling the swaddled fabric in their direction. it wiggles (wait. nope, that's definitely Struggle) as Emmet approaches it with realization dawning on him. "Right, so. Do something about them, will you?" a roll of their eyes as they jerk their head sharply to indicate the bundle, which is... now shaking indignantly? before they start to walk back off. "Before they go and get themselves hurt, or something."
congratulations, Akechi and Shoka, you have apparently discovered what baby jail looks like here. also minor congratulations to Ren for dodging it by way of not constantly riling up the other two in earshot of some of the higher ranked members of the guild. ]
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Emmet's gaze flickers between the Mimikyu and Typhlosion briefly, ears pulling back and down for a moment involuntarily before he pitches them forward and up again. ]
We are not the ones in the get-along bundle?
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Could it be that the two of you aren't being entirely forthcoming with each other?
[It's just a guess based on inferences. A sort of testing the waters...]
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[He means it! Like, 99%! And no one's seen fit to put them in a bundle, so clearly there's nothing all thatserious going on anyway!]
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[The entire time she's known them, actually... Which would technically mean that they've been fairly consistent. Still, she recognizes tension when she sees it.]
Maybe they just couldn't find a bundle big enough to fit you both.
[She hates that Emmet just called it the get-along bundle, by the way!]
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I am Emmet. I think, considering the time travel, we are doing about as well as can be expected.
[ And like. It's 95% true, probably? To anyone who might have known him before, it'd— possibly— be damning by faint praise. ("Our combination is the best! Perfect!") But that's the thing, here: they don't know him. No one here does. Not even Ingo. Who's going to call him on it? ]
But that is not the reason we're here right now. [ Beat. ] Are you okay?
[ Are you lashing out at them now because this is uncomfy, or what. ]
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[Is this about as much as can be expected? If Emmet says it, it must be true. Certainly Ingo wouldn't know. In any case - he glances at his brother, then back at Shoka when he asks after her.]
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[It's just a guess. Akechi obviously doesn't have the full picture, nor has he seen them in human form. With their appearances so strikingly different, it's impossible to imagine what potential ties they could have shared.
He could also be wrong, too. Two people sharing a "world" doesn't necessarily mean they share a history. For all Akechi knows, it's the culture shock between time periods that's doing it.
Still, he snorts, his attention returning to Shoka.]
I must admit, I'm rather intrigued at how you came to this conclusion.
[The tension between them must have come up during a mission...]
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[So she says in response to Emmet's question, tersely. She's so good right now that she doesn't care about any part of this, in fact. She didn't care even from the beginning; it's everyone else that's making a big deal out of nothing.]
Just saying this is all really rich, when I seriously doubt you two have talked things out yourselves. "About as well as can be expected" doesn't mean things are going just swell, right?
[Akechi's observations earn a sharp, cruel bark of laughter. Under normal circumstances, she wouldn't dredge up their personal business like this in front of someone else—but they did it to her first, and inwardly she isn't very fine at all. Definitely deflecting.]
Oh—not just recognizes. Did you not know that they're brothers, or...?
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[Ingo's genuinely surprised! He thinks both of them met Akechi before they found each other here, but even so it's hardly been a secret!
(And if this is a total topic change from the other things Shoka was saying - well, that's totally fine with him!)]
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(What did you want them to do with this, Umbreon,)
(Wait, did Akechi really not know? They haven't really been distant from each other or anything, have they? They ... isn't it obvious?
Maybe not?)
But Emmet's gaze flickers again between the other three as Ingo responds, so he just follows up: ]
I do not think we have made it much of a secret. We have not been trying not to talk about it?
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[But it does explain a few things, certainly. He nods along, since he's still restrained by the sweater and can't as easily tap below his beak.]
Still, as I recall, Ingo-san lost many of his memories. I can't imagine that's been a simple matter to address.
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[Privately, he’s not sure Emmet is really so alright with it as all that, but he certainly doesn't intend to say anything about it here!]
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I do not know what you expect. You are correct. It is not simple! It is what it is. If there is precedent for something like this I would verrrrry much like to know of it. I don't think anyone can be expected to lose their brother for several years and then have everything afterwards be just swell. Buuuuut maybe that is just me?
[ There's stuff to work through. They know that! They're trying to figure it out, aren't they? So for Shoka to try to make it a personal failing of theirs, somehow, that things aren't 'just swell?' Really now. ]
Regardless! We will be disembarking from this line now. [ His smile, maybe, is a touch sharp. ] This is not a subject up for discussion in front of you! Verrrry sorry that Umbreon dropped you off in front of us that way, but we are not the ones responsible for your situation here!
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Well, maybe I wanna disembark from that line. But that's not making you put on the brakes, is it?
[Glaring back at Emmet, she snorts derisively.]
Whatever. Sounds like we're done here, so...
[So she squirms and twists in the bundle, then slips bonelessly out of it, taking the escape route she's been subtly making for herself this entire time and fleeing into her own shadow.]
I'm out.
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[Ingo will step back a little, faintly guilty after being called out like that. Even though they definitely weren't the ones who initiated any of this to begin with!]
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... I will go talk to her. Later. Maybe. Not now. For now— space is best, probably.
[ Mimikyu don't like to be examined or exposed, they hide away. Maybe there's reasons behind the Pokemon they all turned into, maybe there aren't. But Shoka's upset. That part is obvious no matter what she says. So she can go, for now.
Emmet's smile, as ever, is ever-present as his gaze slides over to Akechi. ]
You should too. Properly. Do not take this the wrong way, but. Sometimes you act like you were the only one on that mission.