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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?
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[Al grins and ducks just a bit out of the gesture, shifting the stack of books in his arms and shrugging a little.]
Things've been okay. It's been really nice having Brother around again, and Alfons is adjusting fairly well. I miss all of you, but...I think we really do need the distance, right now. [He frowns a little, glancing down to the floor.] There's a lot that I had been avoiding thinking about, to be honest.
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[She drops the hand, leaning on the shelf a little and nodding. Nothing he says is really a surprise. Ed had definitely made it clear that there was some stuff Al just didn't want to talk about.]
Yeah... that's the impression I've gotten. I agree, space is probably a good idea. For everybody.
... But you know you can't just let stuff lie forever, right?
[SHE DOESN'T SOUND STERN. Just... serious.]
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I know, I know. I just...I don't know how to even begin to start talking about any of it. He...Envy hurt us both a lot, Heather. In ways that...we really shouldn't have survived. [By all technicalities, neither of them had.] Knowing he's changed and was just as hurt back then doesn't make dealing with it now any easier.
oops this tag got a little long
[She grimaces a little herself, as she says it.]
[Because, yeah. She knows now that in their world, Envy actually succeeded at what in this place, they'd moved past the danger of.]
[And she sure doesn't like that at ALL, but there's nothing any of them can do about it here. They're all already a part of each others' lives and it's too late for total avoidance to be a legitimate option.]
Believe me, I'm not asking either of you to forgive and forget. I would never.
But I'm not just talking about being in touch with Envy.
[She gives him a significant look, brow raised.]
[Because guess who got a desperate late-night call from the elder Elric begging her to explain what on earth was up between Alphonse and Envy?]
I know getting family members back is... rough. I should tell you about my dad sometime, believe me, I learned that firsthand.
But freezing up out of worry or... whatever's getting to you the most is... not gonna help anybody. You know?
Take your break, just... keep both sides of the family in the loop, okay?
[IF HE'LL ACCEPT A SHOULDER-PAT, SHE'LL GIVE HIM ONE. She's not mad, even a little. But worried? Yeah, a little. :(]
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[Al winces and his lips pull tight into a grimace, but he doesn't shrug off her gesture.]
I...I know I should. I will. It's just--
[Al lets out a long, suffering-filled groan. Whyyyyyyyyyy, talking about issues is hard!!]
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[Truthfully, it's a little sobering how... not-surprised she was to hear it. Sometimes she feels like it should horrify her.]
[But WELL...]
... Hey.
I got time.
You wanna hear what happened with my dad?
[Because MAYBE IT'LL HELP AL FEEL BETTER to hear about someone who fucked up WAY HARDER than he has so far.]
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...yeah, sure.
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[TEENAGERS, am I right?]
This was, no joke, eight years ago. I was seventeen and just got here. Still all full of issues. Made some classic 'bad influence' friends who made moonshine for fun, you know, as you do, and one night we got crazy wasted.
Next morning, we were lying in the woods, hungover as heck, I think someone was naked, et cetera.
I don't remember who decided to film us all laying around and cursing, but the video went up aaaaaand guess who'd just arrived in Johto and was like, the very first person to respond to live footage of me laying face down in the dirt and saying the word 'fuck' repeatedly?
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[HOLY SHIT, HEATHER. Al just barely manages to hold back a snort, torn between amusement at the comedy of the situation and sympathy for heather's unfortunate plight.]
You're kidding! How'd he react to that?
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May God strike me down if it's not the truth.
There he was, right there on my screen, and he was-- [For a second, she almost catches herself describing it as the 'universal disappointed dad look', BUT THEN SHE KIND OF REMEMBERS THAT ALPHONSE NEVER REALLY KNEW HIS DAD. S-SO...] ... well, let me put it this way. My dad was the least rebellious person I ever met. He was always real straight-laced, the kind of guy who would rather stay at home with a book than even think about going to a bar.
So as you can imagine... he was not happy.
But here's the kicker.
[She looks at Al to see if he's ready for the kicker.]
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[Alphonse shakes his head, partly in amused dismay and partly in sheer disbelief. He knows that the apple can easily roll far from the tree, but what Heather is describing is something of an impressive order from what he knows of her!]
[Then again, maybe her dad is just very good at hiding all his youthful rebellion.]
What?
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He had absolutely no idea who I was.
So I got to hear the most disappointed, disgusted-sounding lecture from a man who literally thought I was some random inconsiderate asshole teenager.
And let me tell you, I don't think I've ever felt lower.
[That's not quite true, she's felt lower PLENTY of times, and Al knows her well enough to know that that's probably hyperbole. But well, it sucked, man.]
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[Al can only imagine how that would feel, but even just his imagination is bad enough. Hyperbole or no, that had to SUCK.]
What did you even say to that?
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Just kind of stammered an apology, I think.
Anyway, we interacted a few times after that... even traveled together at one point. Whole time, I was too ashamed to tell him who I was.
Not just because of the whole hungover-video thing, I mean, I had some other shit that I wasn't really dealing with... but well, I didn't say a thing. Said my name was Heather Morris, knew he wouldn't recognize that one.
... Until, well.
[GUESS WHAT AL IT GETS WORSE.]
One day I kind of attacked a police officer on live television and guess whose real name wound up on a Wanted ad for the entire world to see.
I HAVE NO ICONS FOR THIS
Oh my god, Heather! Could you have tanked that any worse? And why did you attack a police--no, no, I don't want to know, I'm not asking.
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[She's chuckling too, because as awful as it is to look back on, it is objectively funny and she won't deny it.]
But yeah, uh... he contacted me, kinda demanded the truth... I 'fessed up...
... Aaaand that was the last time we talked.
He disappeared immediately after that.
Sooooo...
I fucked that one up big-time, is what I'm saying.
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Heather...I'm sorry.
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[But she offers him a smile anyway, giving the hand on her shoulder a pat.]
It's okay. It's been years, and he showed up again later-- from the right year, that time. I was lucky, I got a chance to fix what I flubbed.
... But I felt really awful in the interim, and I don't want you to wind up feeling like I did, you know?