44th treasure [audio]

[captainash]

[For a minute, only the usual noises of a large city at night can be heard. It's only after two Meowth start arguing some distance away that someone finaly speaks.

Ash hesitated a long time, before starting this feed.]

...If I have to celebrate one more birthday in this world, I think I'm going to scream. Does anyone have any terrible birthday stories to share, or do I have to start telling my own?

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[Anon, Private Text]

[callbacks]

don't even get me started

[Anon, Private Text]

[captainash]

On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being 'my presents sucked' and 10 being 'everybody died'?

[Anon, Private Text]

[callbacks]

13
everybody died multiple times
and it wasn't even MY birthday so i got 0 presents

[video]

[solas_ion]

One year I woke up on the floor of a completely destroyed room of my teacher's castle with my best friend. ...Except we were wearin' each other's armor. Which was weird 'cause my armor didn't fit him worth a damn and I was swimmin' in his--we were kids at the time, I didn't get taller until later.

...Also part of that wing of the castle was on fire.

And one of my horses was sleeping in my bed.

[Beat.]

And I was hung over to hell and back.

[Probably didn't need to clarify the last part, Lancer.]

[video]

[captainash]

[Gee, he never would have guessed.]

...Please tell me there were witnesses who managed to tell you how the hell all that happened. Please. That's the sort of story that shouldn't be lost to time.

[Audio]

[tearsofademon]

Haaa... The time my birthday was celebrated back home was one. Let's just say I've got lousy taste in friends.

[Audio]

[captainash]

Lousy friends that give lousy presents? That prepare lousy surprises? That forget the date until an hour before midnight?

[video]

[toothaches]

_{[Somebody hasn't figured out the other Poke'gear response options yet work with him here.]}

I'm takin' it that you've been here a while...

[video]

[captainash]

A few months short of four years. I'm not the earliest arrival by far, but it's still getting a bit too long for my tastes, you know?

audio

[veggie_vamp]

Ummm, well, sort of?

See, I had this ex-boyfriend who made my birthday a holiday! ... But he named it after himself.

audio

[captainash]

What an ass. I can see how the 'ex' part of 'ex-boyfriend' came to be. Let me guess, that was his whole gift?

Audio

[anexcitableboy]

Hey, happy birthday!

I dunno if it counts as 'terrible', but I keep forgetting mine.

Audio

[captainash]

Thanks. That's annoying, but maybe not terrible. ...Unless you forget it because the day is genuinely too terrible to think about birthdays every time.

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[dashdash]

Happy birthday. I wanna hear your birthday stories.

audio

[captainash]

Thanks. Do you want to hear the 'home' stories, the 'here' stories, the fun ones, the depressing ones...?

audio;

[ruinimpendent]

[ His last birthday was rather horrible. As if his torture was a grand present for his twin. He's got the sound of a Spinda... arguing? With a Zigzagoon in the background. ]
...You were one of those seeking a Spinda, when I first arrived.
[ because lbr his spinda would totally make some eggs asap
Luckily, his voice is gentle - not lingering on the idea of birthdays. ]

audio;

[captainash]

[Ah, arguing teammates. Such sweet familiar sounds.]

Oh, yeah, that's right. How did your first few weeks of travelling go? That Pokémon that was acting up on route 29, did it cause you trouble?

audio;

[pipers_son]

One time one of the tigers got out, and we had ta use my brother Dagger as bait ta lure her back inta her cage.

On his birthday.

So, y'know, s'was memorable at least, ha.

audio;

[captainash]

...Was there no one else available? Not a single volunteer? I mean, as long as he got out of it in one piece it makes for a good story to tell later on, but that could have been one nasty birthday.

audio;

[oldestfriend]

Oh, I have plenty. Do you want morbidly funny stories, or just plain funny ones?

audio;

[captainash]

Either option would be delightful! ...Unless the morbidly funny stories involve young kids. I have limits.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

... It depends. How depressed do you want to be?

[Voice]

[captainash]

Doesn't matter. I've probably had worse before, as far as that goes, so fire away.

[text]

[ferino]

whats a birthday party like? i never seen a good one

[text]

[captainash]

There's awesome food you like (usually), presents chosen specifically for you (in theory) and people whose presence you enjoy (hopefully), and a good time is had by all.
One out of three for me today, but then again this isn't really a party.