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indigo_events ([personal profile] indigo_events) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2017-08-17 02:26 am

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.

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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.

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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?



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[personal profile] rambling_runner 2017-08-28 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
"See, the thing is; is it your birthday? Cos, we've been wondering why they're suddenly bringing you all this. My friends have been worried that you're hurt, but you look pretty healthy from where I'm standing." Technically sitting, given he's on Dish's back to talk with Lugia.

"Now, I ain't suggesting anything," he glances at the other birds real quick incase they're about to swoop on him for saying this, "but when I bring my Dad a bunch of presents out of the blue, it's because I've done something. Either I fucked up on accident or I knew I shouldn't have done a thing but I did it anyway, but then I try and give him something nice. You know, so he doesn't get too mad with me. Course, he just immediately figures out that I'm buttering him up over something and calls me out on my shit, but it'd be worse if I hadn't given him something first I think."

Basically. Had the birds already fucked up and angered the dogs? Cos it was the first explanation Ash could come to about why they're bringing Lugia all this shit, especially if Lugia hadn't seemed too happy about the dogs acting up.
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[personal profile] johto_guys 2017-08-29 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
One of Lugia's feet taps at the ground, almost as though it's thinking this over, before it turns to look at the three birds, eyes narrowed searchingly.

The three of them immediately start up a chorus of protests, which any Pokemon would be able to understand (at least the basic gist, they're all kind of shouting over each other):

"No! That isn't right--"

"--human doesn't know what he's talking about!"

"We thought you'd stay longer if we brought you all that!"

"Ho oh should have been taking care of it!"


Lugia cries out again, in a way that's almost scolding but not quite as annoyed as before, but definitely intended to get them to stop shouting. After all, that's no way for dignified Legendaries to behave in front of everyone. They do settle down, albeit looking ruffled, and Lugia turns back to Ash, a questioning sound coming from its mouth. Well? Anything more to say, human?
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[personal profile] rambling_runner 2017-08-29 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Diarmuid didn't interrupt the birds arguing, although he did catch the basic message and gave it to Ash. (Possibly) not troublemakers, but trying to keep Lugia here. And saying Ho-oh should be 'taking care of it'. Ash took it in quietly and looked up at Lugia's questioning sound.

"Look, I know it's probably nothing to do with you and honestly, you'd rather we all just left you in peace with these guys and sodded off. There's people at Bell Tower trying to get in touch with Ho-oh right now but, if there's something you can do, we really, really need your help." His expression softened and became more serious, remembering Noctis' message.

"The weather stuff? Yeah, that's annoying. But right now there is a massive wildfire on Mt. Mortar because of the dogs, and it's tearing through everything. It's so bad people have gone there to try and help. Hell, they went there because Entei and Raikou - I think that's the pair there - were stomping around, roaring at each other and causing enough back and through lightning and fireworks. Which was bad enough for the local Pokemon and people in terms of how dangerous that shit is. Now it's lit up and they're all in way more serious danger, and the pair of 'em still won't stop what they're doing!"

"Again, I know those dogs aren't ya thing. These guys here are. And I know, it's really shitty that everyone turned up here when you just, wanted to be left alone. But we only came cos we're worried as all hell."