Audio/Action for Goldenrod

[thedifferencebetween]

[Audio]

What the hell's with all the flowers?

[That's really all Handsome Jack is concerned with, at the moment.]

Seriously.

What the hell?


[Action]

[Freaking flowers.]

[They're everywhere. The sidewalks look like the aftermath of some kind of soft core snowstorm already and more just keep falling from...he doesn't even know. A pocket dimension, who the hell knows? He's been standing outside his usual cafe for hardly a handful of minutes, and already there are pastel petals in his hair and flowers clinging to his blazer and getting caught on his watches and in the hinges of his mask.]

[Not to mention floating in his overly-sweet coffee.]

[It's too much to hope for that the rain of flora is at least recreationally viable. The only kind of highs plants around here give are not fun ones. This planet sucks. If it weren't so clearly ripe for the picking, with nobody else even thinking about grabbing it, he doubts he could find anything redeeming about it at the moment. It's not even terrible, it's just stupid and annoying. Everything is stupid and annoying.]

[He sighs audibly, covering his face with his hand and adopting a dramatically irritated pose.]

[His nose is starting to itch. And he's got to bike back through this ridiculous weather. With his stupid fat puppy. That's rolling in the flowers because of course the scary bone dog named Doom Boner loves flowers.]

[What did he ever do to deserve this?]

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[captainash]

This place enjoys showering us with things that should not fall from the sky, for some reason. Just be glad it's not cats or dogs, this time.

[Is that really supposed to make anyone feel better?]

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[thedifferencebetween]

[Why does everyone feel the need to use the video function on this thing? Jack's own 'gear remains turned to keep him fully out of view, the screen showing only a fat Houndour pup with floppy ears rolling in the flowers gathered on the sidewalk.]

Arguably, those would at least be useful.

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[captainash]

[Because impressive flowerfall backgrounds should not be wasted, that's why.]

They are, but half of them turned out to be afraid of heights after their little skydiving experience. Not that I blame them. Having a cat fall on your head claws first hurts, too.

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[toothaches]

_{[Here comes a Texan!]}

I don't know! Nobody I've talked to has seen anything like this before! I couldn't find my Rhyhorn for twenty minutes after I left 'em asleep behind a restaurant. This has t'be some kinda plague!

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[thedifferencebetween]

What, like 'let my Pokemon go or suffer the seven most annoying curses ever.'?

'Cause plagues are usually...plagues. Terrible stuff. Bursting eyeballs and boiling blood and stuff.

Not the debris from a chick lit photoshoot.

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[toothaches]

Well I haven't lived through any plagues, I don't know! It's an idea. God, I feel bad for anybody who's allergic.

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[coolskeleton_95]

KING ASGORE LIKES FLOWERS QUITE A LOT! PERHAPS HE'S ALSO FOUND HIMSELF HERE!

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[thedifferencebetween]

[Papyrus is treated to a video view of a fat, flop eared Houndour puppy rolling in the flowers. jack himself stays out of frame.]

[Gotta keep cultivating that air of mystery.]

Wait, wait, wait... did you just say there's a king named Ass-Gore?

Ha! That's great.

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[coolskeleton_95]

[Paps, the lovable guy he is, doesn't get the joke. Or that there is one.]

NYEH! HE IS QUITE GREAT! HE NOT ONLY IS THE KING OF ALL MONSTERS, BUT, HE DOES HIS VERY BEST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL HAPPY! WELL, AS HAPPY AS ONE CAN BE, LIVING UNDERGROUND!

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[cardboard_boss]

You're not the only one who's swimming in them.

[Says Snake who's outside of Cherrygrove City just wading through heaps of flower petals. Was this normal weather? DD found it hard to walk through the thick heaps on his four legs whilst Ash was flying above them looking down curiously.]

This count for a storm in this place?

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[thedifferencebetween]

Does anything count for anything around here?

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[placide]

I find the sight rather enchanting myself. [ Honestly he has greater things to deal with other than the flowers now: a protagonist's love interest.

Who finds the flowers both romantic and beautiful. Because of course she does. ]

It must be due to a Pokemon of some kind. I wonder what type could possibly be the cause of all this?

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[thedifferencebetween]

Not gonna argue it's something to see, I'd just rather see it from somewhere I don't have to deal with it. Through a window, on a screen, holo-memory....I dunno, guess it's just kinda hard to enjoy an enchanting flower fall by yourself.

[Wow, that actually sounds like an adult woman. He's been starting to think those are like weapons, here. They just don't exist.]

[Slight improvement to the situation already!]

Big one that likes flowers. Do we really need any more details?

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[samsa]

This really isn't the worst thing to have suddenly appeared around here.

[Kaneki actually looks quite relieved it's just flowers and not, say, infected Pokemon like other times he could mention.]

Unless...you're allergic, I guess.

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[thedifferencebetween]

[The only view from Jack's end of the video feed is his alarmingly overweight Houndour puppy, playing in the flowers.]

Well, my system's never encountered the kinds of flowers that grow on this planet before, so...that's not fun. Not exactly looking forward to a slippery bike ride while I sneeze my ass off. That's only funny when it's happening to other people.

Which it is.

The other people sneezing and the falling, I mean. It's funny as hell!

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[usedglaciate]

It could be so much worse than flowers, given some weird occurrences in the past.

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[thedifferencebetween]

[Enjoy a video feed of a fat houndour puppy enjoying the flowers.]

Depends on what your bars for 'better' and 'worse' are, cupcake.

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[veggie_vamp]

I know, isn't it fangtastic?

[pffft, what ecological disaster, everything's PRETTY]

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[thedifferencebetween]

[At this point Jack has just sat down and propped the 'gear up to face Doom Boner, rolling and rooting around in the fallen flowers.]

Oh my god, you never give up the shtick, do you?

No. No it isn't.

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[killer_sweets]

Considering all the cities are named after flora, you won't escaping them any time soon.

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[thedifferencebetween]

Wait, really? Ha, I thought they were named after colors.

[Enjoy a view of Doom Boner wiggling in the flowers.]

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[dashdash]

You doing okay? Didn't think there'd be so many trees in the city, but I guess there's nowhere for them to blow, huh.

[Mafuyu would have normally gone the video route too, but there wouldn't have been much to see besides pastel blotches for all the flower petals that's accumulated all around her. Napping is dangerous. Stopping to tie your shoe is dangerous. With the collar of her shirt pulled over her nose and mouth, her voice comes slightly muffled, but choice is obvious between being able to breathe and being able to speak.]

Pro tip: they burn well.

[She sounds tired. It's late in the evening and the whole day was tiring and she needs to get rid of these flowers somehow. Bonfire is that somehow.]

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[thedifferencebetween]

For varying definitions of 'okay'. My coffee's ruined. They wouldn't even give me another one, made me pay for it. Jerks.

What about you, sweetheart? You sound a little stuffed up, there. Watch out for summer colds, they're a bitch.

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[thatwasours]

I'm just going to take a wild guess and assume this doesn't happen normally.

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[thedifferencebetween]

[Enjoy the video feed of a very fat Houndour puppy chomping on flowers.]

Yeah, still trying to figure out what the base level of 'normal' is around here, cupcake.

Starting to think there isn't one.