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Entry tags:
- !dog days of summer,
- !event,
- alphonse elric (fullmetal alchemist),
- angel (borderlands),
- armin arlert (attack on titan),
- ashley fox (oc),
- bertolt hoover (attack on titan),
- captain ash (gundam age),
- cecil harvey (final fantasy 4),
- cissnei (final fantasy 7),
- diana ladris (gone),
- edward elric (fullmetal alchemist 2003),
- envy (fullmetal alchemist),
- gaige (borderlands),
- haurchefant greystone (final fantasy 14),
- heather mason (silent hill),
- ignis scientia (final fantasy 15),
- jane crocker (homestuck),
- jean kirschtein (attack on titan),
- jinx (teen titans),
- joker (kuroshitsuji),
- korra (legend of korra),
- krieg (borderlands),
- link (breath of the wild),
- lust (fullmetal alchemist),
- newt scamander (harry potter),
- noctis caelum (final fantasy 15),
- penny polendina (rwby),
- poison ivy (dc comics),
- rakka (haibane renmei),
- riku (kingdom hearts),
- ryner lute (legendary heroes),
- sasha braus (attack on titan),
- sion astal (legendary heroes),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- takashi "shiro" shirogane (voltron),
- thida (splatoon),
- tony clark (the amazing spiez),
- vanitas (kingdom hearts),
- walter sullivan (silent hill),
- wrath (fullmetal alchemist),
- yayoi kise (smile precure)
The dog days aren't quite over yet...
Who: Everyone participating in the Dog Days of Summer event!
Where: Mt Mortar, the Bell Tower, OR the Seafoam Islands
When: August 17th-31st
Summary: With the Legendary Beasts running amok, it's up to everyone to help figure out what's wrong and get everything back to normal!
Log:
Bell Tower
Volunteers helping at the Bell Tower will arrive in Ecruteak City and be welcomed into the Bell Tower-- the normally-reclusive monks are still fairly stiff, but in the interest of not driving off the very help they asked for, they will be much more accommodating than usual.
Little studies have been set up all over the archive rooms in the upper floors, allowing volunteers to group up at tables and pore over old tomes and scrolls for any information that might be related to Ho-Oh or the three Beasts-- of course, there’s also a wealth of information about legendary Pokemon from other regions… just don’t let the monks catch you getting off-topic!
Gym Leader Morty will also be present helping with the research, and is using his Indigo League funds to finance inn lodgings in town for all volunteers. As for refreshments, local restaurants have also stepped up, eager to provide free food for all volunteer researchers! Gogoat-drawn carts full of fresh, traditional cuisine will come trundling up to the Tower several times a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)-- often accompanied by the restaurant-owners themselves. The guy who runs ECRUTEAK HOUSE OF DUMPLINGS will be there a lot-- he and his Emboar are particularly bombastic about stuffing everybody full of delicious fried dumplings at every opportunity. Gotta stay well-fed if you want to study!
That said, anyone wishing to pull an all-nighter will either have to bring their own snacks or rely on the monks’ supplies-- which means plain rice, hot tea, and not much else.
----
Mt Mortar
The base of Mt. Mortar is a flurry of activity no matter what the hour-- the center of operations is a large camping area at the foot of the mountain, where a small army of tents have been set up. Rangers and volunteers alike are rushing around, and anyone just arriving will be asked to sign in and mark whatever tasks they’ll be helping with.
Strong trainers can sign up for field work, which can involve anything from patrolling the mountain to evacuate campers to helping corral the panicking wild Pokemon population (bright side: there’s even more rare ones running around than normal, and capturing them is a quick and easy way to get them out of harm’s way!). Trainers with flying types may even wind up helping to carry water over from the Lake of Rage in case of what the Rangers all fear: forest fire.
More inexperienced trainers will lower-leveled Pokemon will be encouraged to stick around base where it’s a little safer-- but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of work to be done! Several meal tents are set up around the base, where you can serve (or be served) quick meals from hot pans, soup kitchen style. Nothing fancy or extravagant, but nothing that won’t taste great after a long hectic day of running around the mountain. And hey, it’s free.
A first-aid tent is also set up where trainers and their Pokemon can have injuries patched up-- the Nurse Joys staffing it can always use assistance to keep up with everything.
Sleeping quarters are provided via cot-filled tents set up around the base-- those ones are first-come, first-serve, so grab one fast! Helping the Rangers out is an all-day-all-night affair, so everyone just sleeps and eats when they get the chance to. Reminders to do both on a regular basis are posted all around-- nobody wants sleep-deprived trainers doing dangerous work, even if, between the constant roars of Raikou and Entei and the constant activity within the camp, sleeping could get pretty difficult.
Fortunately, one of the first things you’ll be handed upon arriving is a pair of heavy-duty earplugs.
----
Seafoam Islands
On the shores of the Seafoam Islands, everything is… well, chaos.
The beaches are COVERED in tents of all shapes, sizes, and… raggedness. It seems many folks have shown up in lieu of Greg’s frantic video post, and they’ve more or less taken over. You can barely see the sand! Things are quite a bit less organized than they are over at Mt. Mortar, which unfortunately means that for food and first-aid, you might need to wind up heading over to the teeny tiny little dock town with the inn (booked solid, sorry!) and the shop (Blaine’s beach is less occupied, but he can be seen from time to time passive-aggressively picking up peoples’ trash around the outskirts of the tent army and scowling).
Because out on the beach, there’s no first-aid to speak of and if you go to the ‘food tent’, you’ll just be handed something like this.
Fortunately, unlike their hilariously futile efforts to find Celebi and aside from their clear lack of event-managing knowledge, it seems the Seekers actually are onto something. Every six hours or so, Articuno, Zapdos, or Moltres CAN be seen soaring high overhead and disappearing around the back of the mountain, often with stolen food or shiny things glinting in their talons.
The Seekers themselves are more concerned with getting all their equipment functioning than they are about accommodating all the tourists who just showed up to sit on the beach and stare at the horizon in hopes of seeing one of the Birds-- but if you can actually find them in the chaos, they’ll eagerly put you to work.
In this case, 'work' means 'heading straight into the caves to try and #FindLugia'. Well? WILL YOU?
(Remember to SIGN UP over here!)
Where: Mt Mortar, the Bell Tower, OR the Seafoam Islands
When: August 17th-31st
Summary: With the Legendary Beasts running amok, it's up to everyone to help figure out what's wrong and get everything back to normal!
Log:
Bell Tower
Volunteers helping at the Bell Tower will arrive in Ecruteak City and be welcomed into the Bell Tower-- the normally-reclusive monks are still fairly stiff, but in the interest of not driving off the very help they asked for, they will be much more accommodating than usual.
Little studies have been set up all over the archive rooms in the upper floors, allowing volunteers to group up at tables and pore over old tomes and scrolls for any information that might be related to Ho-Oh or the three Beasts-- of course, there’s also a wealth of information about legendary Pokemon from other regions… just don’t let the monks catch you getting off-topic!
Gym Leader Morty will also be present helping with the research, and is using his Indigo League funds to finance inn lodgings in town for all volunteers. As for refreshments, local restaurants have also stepped up, eager to provide free food for all volunteer researchers! Gogoat-drawn carts full of fresh, traditional cuisine will come trundling up to the Tower several times a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)-- often accompanied by the restaurant-owners themselves. The guy who runs ECRUTEAK HOUSE OF DUMPLINGS will be there a lot-- he and his Emboar are particularly bombastic about stuffing everybody full of delicious fried dumplings at every opportunity. Gotta stay well-fed if you want to study!
That said, anyone wishing to pull an all-nighter will either have to bring their own snacks or rely on the monks’ supplies-- which means plain rice, hot tea, and not much else.
The base of Mt. Mortar is a flurry of activity no matter what the hour-- the center of operations is a large camping area at the foot of the mountain, where a small army of tents have been set up. Rangers and volunteers alike are rushing around, and anyone just arriving will be asked to sign in and mark whatever tasks they’ll be helping with.
Strong trainers can sign up for field work, which can involve anything from patrolling the mountain to evacuate campers to helping corral the panicking wild Pokemon population (bright side: there’s even more rare ones running around than normal, and capturing them is a quick and easy way to get them out of harm’s way!). Trainers with flying types may even wind up helping to carry water over from the Lake of Rage in case of what the Rangers all fear: forest fire.
More inexperienced trainers will lower-leveled Pokemon will be encouraged to stick around base where it’s a little safer-- but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of work to be done! Several meal tents are set up around the base, where you can serve (or be served) quick meals from hot pans, soup kitchen style. Nothing fancy or extravagant, but nothing that won’t taste great after a long hectic day of running around the mountain. And hey, it’s free.
A first-aid tent is also set up where trainers and their Pokemon can have injuries patched up-- the Nurse Joys staffing it can always use assistance to keep up with everything.
Sleeping quarters are provided via cot-filled tents set up around the base-- those ones are first-come, first-serve, so grab one fast! Helping the Rangers out is an all-day-all-night affair, so everyone just sleeps and eats when they get the chance to. Reminders to do both on a regular basis are posted all around-- nobody wants sleep-deprived trainers doing dangerous work, even if, between the constant roars of Raikou and Entei and the constant activity within the camp, sleeping could get pretty difficult.
Fortunately, one of the first things you’ll be handed upon arriving is a pair of heavy-duty earplugs.
On the shores of the Seafoam Islands, everything is… well, chaos.
The beaches are COVERED in tents of all shapes, sizes, and… raggedness. It seems many folks have shown up in lieu of Greg’s frantic video post, and they’ve more or less taken over. You can barely see the sand! Things are quite a bit less organized than they are over at Mt. Mortar, which unfortunately means that for food and first-aid, you might need to wind up heading over to the teeny tiny little dock town with the inn (booked solid, sorry!) and the shop (Blaine’s beach is less occupied, but he can be seen from time to time passive-aggressively picking up peoples’ trash around the outskirts of the tent army and scowling).
Because out on the beach, there’s no first-aid to speak of and if you go to the ‘food tent’, you’ll just be handed something like this.
Fortunately, unlike their hilariously futile efforts to find Celebi and aside from their clear lack of event-managing knowledge, it seems the Seekers actually are onto something. Every six hours or so, Articuno, Zapdos, or Moltres CAN be seen soaring high overhead and disappearing around the back of the mountain, often with stolen food or shiny things glinting in their talons.
The Seekers themselves are more concerned with getting all their equipment functioning than they are about accommodating all the tourists who just showed up to sit on the beach and stare at the horizon in hopes of seeing one of the Birds-- but if you can actually find them in the chaos, they’ll eagerly put you to work.
In this case, 'work' means 'heading straight into the caves to try and #FindLugia'. Well? WILL YOU?
SUMMON SCROLL OBTAINED
The Tower’s dimmed windows suddenly blaze bright as the monks re-light all the candles, and a good portion of the town (yes, INCLUDING Dumpling Dan, his Emboar, and a cart of fresh, last-minute celebration food) come rushing up to see Edward and Cissnei’s late-night discovery. And at least one asshole took it upon themselves to rampage through the inn rattling everybody’s doors and yelling at them to COME QUICK, so all the poor people who were trying to get some shuteye after a long day of researching are apparently out of luck.
At the bottom floor of the tower, the Head Monk (Honk?) carefully unfurls the delicate scroll across a table to reveal an unmistakable brush illustration of Ho-Oh itself, wings spread wide and layered in faded watercolors, triumphantly rising over seven small, gracefully-rendered enrobed figures.
The entire rest of the scroll is taken up by… are those dance steps??
A gasp works its way through the crowd, and the Honk strokes his beard thoughtfully for what feels like an eternity, before finally speaking.
”This scroll depicts an ancient dancing ritual similar to the one known to summon Lugia… of which the only performers are our very own Kimono Dancers.”
The crowd’s earlier gasp is followed by a murmur and a rustle as many of the locals (and really, anyone who’s spent any amount of time in Ecruteak) turn to the Dancers in question, who are all present in an ethereal, tastefully-candlelit crowd of floral patterned fabric. They whisper amongst themselves for a moment, before turning back to the rest, looking apologetic.
”We would love very much to take on the challenge of learning this new dance, but… our youngest sister is injured and cannot dance!”
The smallest of the girls sheepishly reveals a cast on her foot, decorated with many signatures, as well as, notably, differently-colored pawprints from all the sisters’ Eeveelutions.
”We simply cannot dance without her…”
The Head Monk sighs, knowing that trying to convince them is futile, and looks back across the crowd wearily.
”This means… that we must, once again… request volunteers.”
[Holy riverdance, Zubatman! Looks like this prolonged research party is now a DANCE LESSON party! The Kimono Dancers, despite refusing to dance themselves, are more than happy to help instruct any volunteers regardless of experience level in learning the dance steps outlined on the scroll. Will a couple short days of learning be enough for the Ho-Oh Summoning to be successfully performed?? We’ll find out on the 25th!]
[NOTE: This will not be NPC’d or judged, so feel free to thread out your characters perfecting (or the opposite of perfecting) their dance moves to your heart’s content and at whatever pace you choose!]
Waltz in the (not) forest night
In a spacious, slightly out of the way area, he repeated the steps. First slowly, just to understand the movements. Then at the correct pace. He wasn't quite getting it right, simply because his form was still more in 'waltz mode' than 'traditional Johto mode'. At least he had a few days. Beside him, Assumption was happily learning the dance too, in step with Walter. Who said all the volunteers had to be human anyway?
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...Ryner doesn't dance.
In another life, maybe he might have learned, even perhaps enjoyed it, but that's hardly relevant. As it stands, growing up as (a failure of) a child assassin, he never had the time or reason to learn, first of all. And after that was over, even if the reason had presented itself (which it hadn't), you think he had the motivation? What motivation he has these days is the product of getting close to a decade of people blackmailing him into friendship and Pokemon electrocuting him into not downward spiraling. Learning to dance is so low on his priority list it doesn't even register.
So Ryner doesn't dance. But he knows someone who does, who practically breathes for it. And so he steps outside for a moment, where his Noctowl is waiting.]
Gail, go get Elfy for me, okay? And tell him to bring his sign with him.
[With a hoot of acknowledgement, the Noctowl swoops off into the night.]
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Not going to try it yourself?
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[...why does he get the feeling you're going to try to rope him into it anyway.]
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Oh? But I'm sure you'd do just fine if you tried...
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I'm sure I wouldn't.
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*clearly Sion alone should more than suffice!*
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Besides, I don't dance.
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Okay, so. This is what Jane was rudely woken up for. She's sleepy as all get out, but honestly, finally having a solid lead on what to do is better than not knowing at all. She'll join in on the practicing, watching the demonstrating Kimono Girls with an attentive gaze, and usually practicing with whoever else volunteered to learn...as well as find some private places for herself and her team to try it out as well.
It's likely you'll find her going through the steps with Dinah, who picks up on them quickly, as well as anyone else on her roster. It's kind of cute, seeing this girl guide a Delphox by the elbows to fix his posture, but it's funny to see a Spinda twirl in and slam into other practicing teammates, too. Want to join?]
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Not only with the dance itself, but helping anyone who isn't quite as graceful or naturally inclined to the art. She likes to think she's a good teacher, and besides, it gives her a chance to show off.
She'll be easily found outside the Tower, practicing the dance.