Forward Dated: [Action/Route 36/Spinda Tuesday/7/12]

[usedgravity]

[Ochako's only seen a panda once before, and it was in a zoo by itself. The idea she might see one in the wild was pretty unbelievable. The idea that she might see more than one? Pretty amazing. The idea that there might be dozens of miniature spinning pandas overrunning the route to the point that she is literally tripping over them is kind of mind-melting.]

Awawawa, th, they're so cute! I mean, there's so many of them!

[It's hard to tell if Ochako is panicking because of their numbers or... just overwhelmed by their cuteness. Or... getting... nauseous... because of all... the spinning...

In any case, the poor girl is stuck in the middle of a whole mosh pit of them, waving her hands as her swablue, hoppip and noibat all fly around in her in a panicked fluster, not sure what to do. The spindas aren't really attacking Ochako and they're too short to reach them, but it's pretty worrying how many have surrounded them...

You can come help, or leave her to her furry doom... or maybe you're the one who needs help from spinning mass?]

Comments

[usedgravity]

Y, yeah, it almost makes me dizzy just watching them... [She's already swaying a bit, and the trio of pokemon flying circles around her head probably don't help either]

I wonder where they all came from?

[cardboard_boss]

No idea. They seemed to jump out of the grass at the same time. It's like some damn hoard.

[Yep, a hoard. Snake can't understand why there were so many of the strange teddy-bear like creatures.]

They breed like rabbits or something?

[usedgravity]

Maybe it's migration season for them?

[Do bears... migrate?]

I mean, even if they're bears, they're small animals so... could be!

[cardboard_boss]

Yeah, could be.

[He had no idea.]

They look like bears with weird eyes. They keep spinning around.

[usedgravity]

I guess they're just really dizzy... all the time?

[How does a species that makes itself dizzy even survive]

Or maybe it helps cancel out the spinny-ness?

[...but they look pretty dizzy, drunkenly stumbling about]

[cardboard_boss]

It doesn't make any sense to me. Why would a Pokémon choose to live like that? It's open to attack from other Pokémon by letting it's guard down by being dizzy.

[Sounded a bit stupid to him.]

[usedgravity]

Hmmm, maybe it's to confuse the other pokemon? I mean, I'm getting dizzy just looking at them... [Especially with the spots, it almost looks like they jump from one bear to the next with all of them spinning around together]

[cardboard_boss]

It's confusing me let alone other Pokémon.

[Damn. Why did they have to keep spinning around and bumping into each other all the time? It made no sense. A stupid Pokémon.]

Stop looking at them. It might help.

[usedgravity]

Yeah, but... there's nowhere else to look! They're pretty much everywhere!

[Have some additional motion sickness as she turns the pokegear around to show, yup, spindas in all directions]

[cardboard_boss]

Look up at the sky. They can't fly so can't be up there.

[Right? Snake looked up at the fluffy clouds amidst the blue sky and sighed. Yep, no Spindas there.]

[usedgravity]

Oh, that's true!

[She looks up - that does help alleviate the nausea... though it's a little disconcerting to be looking up while tons of tiny creatures are bumping into her knees below.]

Hmmm, I can't just walk around like this though.

[cardboard_boss]

Tried jumping over them?

[Hey, it might work? Snake doesn't really see pussy-footing around with them helping at all. There are just so many.]

Any of your Pokémon know Fly?

[usedgravity]

I don't want to land on one...

[She's probably cry if she stepped on one]

No... and I don't have the badge for it anyway.

[cardboard_boss]

Good point. I don't have any badges either.

[He's no way near high enough to tackle the Violet Gym.]

[usedgravity]

I guess just another reason they're really handy...

It's too bad I don't have one of those bigger pokemon that could just kinda push right through them... y'know, like a snow plow! [...she giggles suddenly as she imagined a snow plow shoving piles of spindas to either side]

[cardboard_boss]

A snow plow? [Snake smirked at that. Yeah. That could work.]

A demolition Pokémon. Wonder if anything like that exists within this world.

[usedgravity]

Well, I don't wanna really demolish them, but, y'know, anything that can just... [She puts her arms up in a kind of wedge formation in front of her and pushes them forwards, making motor noises] bbbbrrrrrmmmjjjj! You know?