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bottlecaplogs2025-06-09 01:29 pm
firealone) wrote in bottlecaplogs2025-06-09 01:29 pm
June Catch-all
Who: Firepaw + Guilmon and Dark Heart (in separate threads)
What: Quests! Birthday things are being saved for later.
Where: Around the city (Guilmon) and INTO THE WOODS (Dark Heart)
When: Early-ish June
Warnings: Will be added as needed!
i. Heads or Tails (Guilmon)
This feels fairly familiar. He did this once with Akechi and A.B.A - interviewing Pokemon, searching for clues, and finding a Phantump who was probably sick with whatever A.B.A had. Or... at least, that's the best that Firepaw can guess. There's a part of him that worries that he and Guilmon will have a much harder time with the interview portion, but he feels pretty confident that they can find clues. They are, after all, both creatures used to using their nose.
"I think Stunky mentioned a Pumpkaboo that we could speak to... but I don't actually know what those look like."
Nor does he know what a pumpkin is.
ii. Mad Moonlighter! (Dark Heart)
Firepaw's fur was puffed up when they entered the forest, and after a few minutes it's finally starting to go down. He's gone into the forest several times now, and every time he's experienced fresh horrors, but he's allowed to be afraid as long as he keeps going.
"Keep an eye out for hallucinations." He jumps over a fallen log, and then hops back onto it to make sure Dark Heart can actually follow him without help. "Siffrin mentioned visions when they were here last, showing their death. It's... probably a good thing, but still."
Better than just experiencing the death of his Clanmates, without any real idea of how to help.
What: Quests! Birthday things are being saved for later.
Where: Around the city (Guilmon) and INTO THE WOODS (Dark Heart)
When: Early-ish June
Warnings: Will be added as needed!
i. Heads or Tails (Guilmon)
This feels fairly familiar. He did this once with Akechi and A.B.A - interviewing Pokemon, searching for clues, and finding a Phantump who was probably sick with whatever A.B.A had. Or... at least, that's the best that Firepaw can guess. There's a part of him that worries that he and Guilmon will have a much harder time with the interview portion, but he feels pretty confident that they can find clues. They are, after all, both creatures used to using their nose.
"I think Stunky mentioned a Pumpkaboo that we could speak to... but I don't actually know what those look like."
Nor does he know what a pumpkin is.
ii. Mad Moonlighter! (Dark Heart)
Firepaw's fur was puffed up when they entered the forest, and after a few minutes it's finally starting to go down. He's gone into the forest several times now, and every time he's experienced fresh horrors, but he's allowed to be afraid as long as he keeps going.
"Keep an eye out for hallucinations." He jumps over a fallen log, and then hops back onto it to make sure Dark Heart can actually follow him without help. "Siffrin mentioned visions when they were here last, showing their death. It's... probably a good thing, but still."
Better than just experiencing the death of his Clanmates, without any real idea of how to help.
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"'Good thing', huh?" He doesn't sound like be buys it. Dark Heart doesn't see the vision as a portent, just a true hallucination. In a single bound he jumps down to the forest floor proper. "Doesn't seem very reassuring to me."
Another day of being bitter at what he's been reduced to. He used to be the hallucination! The ghoulish vision drawing his enemies off the trail! Now he's saddled with problems!
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Either way, hmmm... "If it's a pumpkin, they're orange and round! And vegetables. Maybe a grass type?"
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Truthfully, he's just trying to make the most of it. Siffrin mentioned something about... areas where it felt like there was no right answer, every action led to death. So he supposes they'll have to keep an eye out for that too.
"There's a path this way that should be easier to follow... and something reeks over there, so we're probably headed in the right direction."
At least, every predator species seems to smell worse the stronger they are, in Firepaw's experience.
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Firepaw puts his nose to the ground, and tries to pick out grassy, vegetal smells. It's tough to do in the city, with so many overlapping scents moving this way and that, but he does manage to catch... something. Grassy, but not overly so, and very faint the way that Ghost Pokemon are.
"Oh- boo! Like a ghost." He walks off in the direction of the scent, with his nose in the air. He... might crash into someone, while he's focusing.
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"Easy street is best, right?"
He starts down the path, sticking close to Firepaw. Very quickly he catches the scent, visibly recoiling.
"Oh, you're not fooling."
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His whiskers are twitching with amusement at his own joke. Although that stops pretty quickly, when he watches himself tumble over a ledge and into a pile of bones - and then blinks, and he's standing at the edge of that ledge. This must be what the visions look like... he shakes his head, as if clearing water from his ears.
"Watch out, the ground is uneven here..." He hesitates, "...That actually wasn't as bad as the visions I got in the Southern Forest."
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Not as many things as Pokemon or Digimon, but still.
They find Pumpkaboo quickly enough - she's speaking to one of the Pokemon running a market stall, and startles a little bit when Firepaw pokes her side to get her attention.
"Excuse me - Stunky said that you might know where Zweilous ended up?"
"Oh! He said someone might ask about them... uh... yeah, I think I saw them near here, actually..." Pumpkaboo thinks for a bit. "They said something about 'recovering what was lost', but... something was off about it. That's all I know, I think."
Firepaw glances at Guilmon, as though looking for instruction - the last time he did this, Akechi at least seemed much more sure of when to believe Pokemon and when to press for more.
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He makes a face.
"If you're talking about the bones," He lifts a paw, swatting away a small femur. "That's not a vision."
He doesn't know much but he knows about this. Trust.
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Sniff, sniff... He doesn't smell bread nearby, though.
"Or maybe the fog's making him act funny? Guilmon isn't sure..."
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"Do you think the bear was eating those Pokemon?"
On principle, there's nothing wrong with that. Everything has to eat. But he can't help feeling antsy, as he picks his way past a carcass that's taller than his head.
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"Hard to say... but it could be. The fog has been making all sorts of Pokemon act strange."
He hesitates, before turning back to the Pumpkaboo.
"Sorry- thank you for the information. Er... do you have something that smells like them?"
"Oh, I do, actually!"
Pumpkaboo produces a bandana from... somewhere? They seem to just be making it float, and at Firepaw's request they hold it out for Guilmon.
"Guilmon, do you think you could track Zweilous's scent? I can try to keep an eye out for things like... blood."
Just in case.
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[ He's instantly hit with mixed feelings. The first is annoyance because this guy is probably gonna make a huge stink about what pile of dead grass he decides to lay in. The second is relief. Something familiar. SomeONE familiar.]
Why yes, thanks for asking.
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It's pointed, teasing. Dark Heart chuckles a little to himself before he stumbles forward on the bones. Just because he's aware of what's illusion and what's not doesn't make him coordinated.
"... See? Real."
It was intentional-- totally. He was proving a point!
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"Ah! This way!" He points his claw and hunches over, ready to run.
Just not without Firepaw. That would be rude.