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[OPEN] home is where your heart aches
Who: Team RWPY+B (that's Ruby, Weiss, Penny, and Yang, feat. Blake)
What: ALL THE THINGS
Where: ~~Teen Angst Haus~~ Team Remnant's new home in Goldenrod City, also around town
When: Any time in July (unless starters say otherwise)
OOC Note: There could be spoilers for the finale of RWBY volume 3 just about anywhere but ESPECIALLY in threads with Yang so here's her opt-out post as usual. She's really easy to avoid in this log because...

TEAM REMNANT CATCH-ALL!! That means ANYONE can come or go from the house if they're in the Goldenrod City area through the month of July. Generally no matter the day, or the event, but please coordinate with individual players of residents of this big house, and use the log below as you please. Bring us everything, new CR or old!!

Please, no thread-jacking unless you clear it with all parties involved and especially not if threads are marked closed, and PM me if I need to add some serious warnings to this post. Good luck and have fun!

(You can click here to load top levels only, so it's easier to find the person you may want to tag, but you can also write your own starter if you want!)

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(Mostly) Anytime before the 18th

[Yang's not the only one to take advantage of their sweet new yard to train her Pokémon. Not exactly normal training, but training her small swarm of Doublade in a decidedly non-traditional battle method, at least as far as Johto's concerned.]

[She can also be found taking advantage of the new space to let roughly all her Steel-types out at once, giving them all a good rub-down and polish while her Vaporeon and Dragonair make use of the pool.]

Sleep Mode Disabled - July 15-17
Mnnrrrrgh-

[So, on the list of People Who Don't Handle Sleeplessness Well: people who didn't HAVE to sleep at all until arriving in Johto.]

Why.

[She's tried intense training with her Pokémon, and cleaned every common area of the house as much as possible. Plan C? Attempt to read in the library.]

[Given that she's flat on her back on a loveseat, feet dangling off the end and a novel resting open on her face, it doesn't seem to be working.]

Installing Updates, July 18-25
[ Sleeping for an entire day after three full days of no sleep? Not too unusual.]

[An entire week? Might be cause for worry. Especially when the sleeper in question is not only asleep but completely unresponsive.]

[Just be careful if you choose to investigate. Penny's room currently also contains her Vulpix and Galvantula, both increasingly in watchdog mode as the week progresses.]

Wildcard - Anytime before the 18th
[Got your own idea? Come at me.]

[ ever since the moon, Penny was usually one of the first ones awake, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and absolutely infuriating for someone who has had terrible luck with sleep lately. but Yang was already heading past her room to a pantry for something when she thought it odd that she could hear Pokémon inside murmuring about.

so Yang knocked. ] Penny? You still in there? It's almost breakfast time.

[No answer, at least not from Penny. After a second, though, there's the sound of a tiny vulpine paw scratching at the door, and a thin mewl of distress.]

Piiiiiiiiii!

[ that's odd. Yang is already twisting the handle and entering as she announces herself. ] Penny?

What— [ yes there is a worried Pokémon to deal with, but more importantly, she's looking for signs of Penny up and about and finds quite the opposite. ] Oh, c'mon, don't tell me you're still sleeping off that stupid whatever effect.

[ she mumbled to herself as she went over to the bed. ] And I thought I was exhausted...

[The Galvantula resting on the covers over Penny's midsection chitters defensively as Yang approaches, but doesn't move to attack. Yang's a friend, more or less. Spiders that attack friends don't get treats.]

[Penny's Vulpix hops up on the bed too. But Penny herself? Still nothing, unless deep, steady breathing counts.]

[ Yang holds up her hand, and Jolty makes an appearance. She has started to hang out back in her old nesting spot more and more now that Yang's had help taming it. The braid she is currently sporting stops just shy of wrapping everything up, so she's as snug as a bug in... a lot of hair.

Point is, she's communicating with the others trying to get an idea of what the problem is. Yang just moves carefully over to the bed, careful not to startle the small fox. Instead, she wants to give Penny's arm a gentle shake. ] Hey, come on... Rise and shine, and all that.

[Ohai Jolty, Amber still recognizes her own offspring. Have a tiny affecionate spark of electricity and some chittering to the effect of "SHIT'S BAD".]

[Flynn, meanwhile, curls up tightly next to Penny's head and gives her cheek a small lick before letting out a quiet, drawn-out whine.]

[And Penny herself still seems pretty checked-out, sorry Yang.]

[ the combination of body language (human and otherwise) sets off alarms in Yang's mind. she first checks for Penny's pulse (thankfully she HAS one now, and it's still there) and there is indeed breathing.

but it's not a Friday and no one's such a deep sleeper that they can sleep through a gentle pinch to the arm so... it's time for Yang to express that panic. this is not happening. this can't be happening.

she backs up and turns to shout into the hallway. ]

HEY! HEY, ANYONE! COME TO PENNY'S ROOM! NOW!

[Ruby was running the instant she heard the panic in Yang's voice, but when she heard Penny, Ruby's own panic spikes, and she nearly trips over her own feet as she stumbles into the room.]

I'm here!! What--...

[Oh. Oh no. She looks from Yang, to Penny's pokemon crowded around her, to Penny, then back to Yang. With each glance Ruby seems to grow paler and paler.]

What... what happened?

[ Yang shifts aside to avoid being bowled over, but rests her hand on Ruby's hand because... well of all the people that could have responded, this was probably worst case scenario. one she hadn't considered. ]

Listen, Ruby. She's — she's not gone, but she's not waking up, no matter what I do.

[So that's a thing now. Amber tenses for a second over Penny's body because HOLY COW are you moving fast, Ruby, before relaxing again. Relatively.]

[Flynn let's out another keening sound of distress, because WHAT HAPPEN. To the little Vulpix's credit, though, he's not moving.]

[Gone. Tears sting at Ruby's eyes just at that word, because all she can think of is the tournament, seeing Penny broken and too-still on the arena floor, eyes wide and dim...

She's not in full panic mode just yet, but Flynn's distressed sounds sure aren't helping her as she anxiously runs a hand through her hair.]

B-But she has to wake up! Maybe... she could just be sick, right? Let's go get a doctor...!

[ there's a lack of sympathy there if only because Yang's experiences with doctors, on a human level, have been poor in this world. ] What, the same ones that had my arm just waiting for me when I woke up here? I don't think they'll be any help.

[Okay, a young woman even more distressed than Flynn is. One he knows, too. He gives Penny's unrespoe face one last lick before hesitantly hopping over her and off the bed, planting himself firmly at Ruby's feet with a quiet, worried sound.]

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July 18th

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