Room 041 [Video] BACKDATED to Flower Gift Friday

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_{[The video is short but the person behind the camera is frantic. Henry Townshend is not one to make use of volume but here it is. His voice breaks as he shouts and rushes around with his camera, digging through deep drifts of daisies and marigolds and cherry blossums in search of the Sharpedos that chill in the backyard pool.]}

They're back! They're back. No one believed me but it's happening again! Don't listen to any urges, use the buddy system!

_{[Of course he yells this while seemingly completely alone. Henry swishes his arm through what used to be pool water.]}

Mammon! Where are you?! Lust, help!

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[a_sin_for_him]

...oh dear god.

[Upon opening the shades and seeing the falling flurry of flowers, Lust had simply closed her shades once more and decided not to go outside. It's one of those days.]

[At least until Henry's panicked call for assistance. She eyes the 'gear before simply looking out the window. The pool is covered in flowers. Are these going to stop at any point?]

I'll bring some Pokemon to help.

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[no_ufo_ending]

Hurry!

_{[If not for the Sharpedo's sake, his!]}

[a_sin_for_him]

[Lust joins Henry in the yard with Guttle and Vodka the Vaporeon along with her. It doesn't take long for her hair to fill with flowers, by the time she reaches the pool, it looks as though they've been messily woven into her thick waves.]

Henry, calm down. The sharks are fine, it's only flowers. We'll clear them and cover the pool.

[The odd weather is more annoying than anything else, really. But Henry is Henry, things can take him in unusual ways. She's grown used to it.]

Let's just be thankful it's not another storm of sharks.

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_{[Henry twists around, one arm still deep in the petal-filled water, his face strained with obvious distress. He doesn't emote often.]}

These flowers will clog up their gills. Where are their Poke'balls? Maybe we can recall them.

[a_sin_for_him]

[Lust doesn't argue. She doesn't think there's any immediate danger, the pool is deep and the sharks are smart. But he's concerned, so she simply gestures for her Pokemon to aide him with clearing away flowers.]

I've honestly no idea. Greed and I...we promised them we wouldn't keep them in their balls. Oh, I know it doesn't bother them, but we have some odd quirks, when it comes to our animal friends.

[She taps her lip, pondering a solution.]

We could put them in tubs, bring them inside.

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Where are the tubs?

_{[Henry finally stands and shakes his arm to fling off the water and petals that are stuck all over him. Everything out here smells like a grandma.]}

I'll get them if you start looking!

[a_sin_for_him]

They're in the shed. You'll have to empty holiday decorations out of them, just leave them on the floor.

[That can all be cleaned up later. Lust pulls off her over shirt and kicks off her slippers, leaving her leggings and undershirt. Her lip curls in distaste as she eyes the water a moment. However fetching the pool may look, as a gently shifting sea of flowers, wet flowers aren't a particularly enjoyable tactile sensation.]

I'll get the sharks out. Guttle! Come here....

[The Spheal makes an excellent floaty. She rolls him into the mass of flowers and hops in after him, one arm looped over his spherical body.]

[The sound of disgust that escapes her as she sinks into the sodden mess is likely heard for blocks around.]

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<sub>[Henry nods smartly and rushes to the shed. When he opens the door and lifts up the largest tub containing the tree and its heavy stand (Pokemon-toppling resistant. Mostly.), Lust's...noise...makes him jump and drop it on his foot.]

[Henry also makes a noise.]</sub>

[a_sin_for_him]

[God, this is disgusting! Lust takes a deep breath and pops under the surface, stirring flowers as she goes. They're everywhere. The water's murky with them. She can't stay under very long...]

Oh dear lord, we're investing in a mesh cover. HENRY? WHAT HAPPENED?

[She heard his expression of distress or pain or who even knew what, perhaps Chanteuse is hiding in the shed and popped out at him. She does things like that.]

[Lust clings to Guttle and treads water, using Henry as an excuse to postpone going back under a moment. The sharks know she's here, they'll come to her.]

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_{[Henry makes a short show of hopping around on one foot and bumping into several things in the shed, creating more noise. Finally when all the rattling dies down, he tosses back a less-than-convincing answer.]}

I'm okay!

[a_sin_for_him]

[That doesn't sound terribly true, but Lust's in no mood to argue it. She'll make him an ice cream sundae after this, or something.]

Oh god, hurry up!

[Oh dear lord, she hopes that thing she can feel brushing against her legs is one of the sharks. She can barely see a thing in the water. She awkwardly stretches an arm down, just trying to feel for the Pokemon who make the pool their home.]

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I'm hurrying!

_{[Henry's voice grows an edge as he dumps all of the things out of the tubs and limps his way back over to the pool.]}

Have you found them or not?