64 days till Halloween [Video] BACKDATED TO THE 17th

[quickattackjack]

_{[A very weary face greets the network today. He's sitting at his kitchen table, head in one hand, and his other arm outstretched and holding the Poke'Gear at a weary angle. By his elbow is a steaming cup of tea and on his shoulder is a very concerned Murkrow.]}

Can anyone...anyone out there help me get to sleep? It's been...it's been days. I've tried everything. Am I forgetting something? I know I'm a little our of practice being alive but this is ridiculous.

Thanks in advance. Oh, my head...


_{[The feed eventually times out.]}

[Video - 002 | On route 130] - Backdated to the 16th

[notachocobo]

[He'd read up on eevees. He'd done a lot of reading. He'd looked into all the different evolutions and had set his sights on trying to turn Gongaga into a Jolteon. It just seemed like a good route to go.

Cloud would have accomplished this were it not for the fact that his little eevee had grown extremely attached to him...and then learned a fairy move when it leveled up next.

Cue a slightly irritated blonde coming over the network holding a rather pleased looking Sylveon in the crook of one arm, the fairy-type's fleshy tendrils wrapped around Cloud's arm as it nuzzles against him.]

...I have a feeling this evolution is suppose to be cute but it's kind of unnerving.

[Gongaga chirps happily at him, peering up at him with absolute adoration in it's eyes.]

There's no way to change him back, is there?

[He knows the answer but a part of him is holding out hope, okay.]

1st Recipe [New Bark Town, Video/Action]

[cyan_maid]

[Video]

[There are a lot of things you don't expect when you're Jane Crocker. You don't expect the entire world to shift scenes in the blink of an eye, floating in the ruins of a golden moon one second and waking up in what looks to be a normal, sunny bedroom the next. You don't expect some woman whom you've never seen before in your entire life to come in, claim to be your mother, shove a backpack into your arms and kick you out of the house with vague directions to a - a laboratory? And you certainly don't expect to be given what you're darn tootin' sure is a Pokeball once you get there, and as soon as you go, are again booted out towards the only dirt road outta town: Route 29.

So forgive her if she spent the last night in town, pounding on the door of her "mother"'s house and demanding to be let back in and given an explanation. When her video comes on this morning, it shows a very tired, bespectacled teenage girl with prominent buck teeth looking about 110% done with everything around her.]

...Okay, it's on. I think. [She squints, as if looking for something on the Pokegear to in fact indicate it is on, before continuing.] Um...hello? I'm basically going on a hunch that this...weird thing can be used as a communicator of sorts. Almost like FaceTime on a smartphone, right? I-I really hope so, or else I'm making calls into the goshdarned aether. [She sighs, shaking her head.] Anyway. If someone out there knows exactly how someone can wake up in what should very well be a video game that isn't supposed to suck you into a virtual reality, and if there's a way for me to leave, I'd greatly appreciate it. I...was sort of in the middle of something. [A look of hesitance crosses her face, as if...she may be asking to go back, but she sure as fuck doesn't want to at the moment.] I'll be in this...New Bark Town place for a little longer, if you need to know where I am.

- Oh, and, one more thing? [The video blurs as it shifts to a very pink creature that's quietly munching on some trail mix by Jane's side.] Not that she isn't cute, but, um...is this really a Pokemon?

[Action]

[True to her word, Jane lingers in town for the day. The pink Pokemon - Audino, her Pokedex has explained - seems happy to sit nearby and play with the hood on her unusual attire. This seems to be proving endearing enough to get Jane to smile despite herself, but given how warily she looks at the natives, it seems she'd do well with some sort of human conversation that doesn't tend to repeat itself.]

[One ∞ Video] -- [New Bark Town]

[modulatingphases]

[Ever have that moment where you're just waking up, still drowsy, eyes barely opened, and you look at your surroundings, and somehow, they're totally different than you remember. Completely. Because you're relatively sure you went to sleep in a dusty little inn located in some sleepy little village with nothing going for it but a mako reactor and a creep old mansion and not a field of reasonably soft, incredibly itchy grass.

That is the exact moment Zack is having right now.

Once the intinal panic of waking up in a place so utterly different than the one you fell asleep in, he proceeds to struggle for no less than twenty minutes trying to figure out what the in the world this white and red ball thing he's been given is and why it keeps shaking every time he tries to open it. Thankfully, it takes a lot less time to figure out the device he's been given, scanning in the bracelet located upon his wrist and realizing it wasn't all that different from the PHS he'd used before.

Which is why everyone is now going to get the pleasure of being greeted by an overly bright, enuthusiastic smile. He's seated on the ground, near the main road, the female vulpix curled up in his lap, head resting upon one of his thighs.]

Did anyone else go to sleep somewhere else last night? Because I gotta say, this is the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me. [And that's saying something.] This place is pretty great though. They even give out free pets. [There's a small rustling coming from his lap as the vulpix moves, looking pointedly up at him, completely unimpressed.

She is not a 'pet', thank you very much.] Okay! Okay, I'm sorry. You're not a pet. You're a... Pokémon? I think that's what they said I was supposed to call you. They even give out free Pokémon. That better?

[Satisified, she settles down again.] Anyway, this place is great and all, but I'm needed somewhere else. So if anyone could tell me how to get back to Nibelheim, I'd really appreciate it.

[There's a moment's hesitation, as if he wants to say something else, before he decides against it, one leather clad hand falling to gently brush through the vulpix's fur before ending the transmission.]

[Video/Action in Goldenrod - Backdated to Worry Seed Weekend!]

[usedgravity]

[Video - 7/15 Friday Night, Midnight or later]


[Ochako's usually an early to bed, early to rise kind of gal, but for some reason, she's not only awake - she's also broadcasting in the middle of the night! She should really go to bed - in fact, she looks like she wants to, yawning and blinking even as she talks to the pokegear]

Sorry to bother everyone so late but... is anyone else having trouble getting to sleep? Usually, I'm just out like a light - like, immediately! I just can't settle down tonight though so...

What kind of teams do people have? I was looking at the three I've caught- [She glances back at where her three are drifting lazily behind her] -and I kind of realized: they're all weak to rock- and ice-types! So I was thinking... does anyone know where to get some good fighting-type pokemon?

[Even tired, she manages a bright smile as she flexes an arm for the camera]

[Action, Goldenrod City - 7/16, Saturday all day, from the wee hours of the morning to late at night]


[That shambling... the low groaning... the shuffling gait... is it a zombie invasion!?

No, it's just Ochako, stumbling here and there - in and out of the pokecenter, down the streets, dazedly riding up and down the department store escalators, or maybe practicing sparring in some quieter area with wooden yet skilled movements, her pokemon swooping and practicing moves along with her. She can be found all over Goldenrod really, and even if you aren't looking for her, well - she's not looking for you either, and might stumble right into you!]

[Video/Action just South of Goldenrod - 7/17, Sunday Late Morning]


[The midmorning sun streams in, bathing her in a golden glow - her movements slow as she works through the forms, Ochako moves with a fluid grace that yet seems as solid as a mountain in her deliberateness. You can almost see the steam coming off her breath as she exhales, eyes seeming distant as she stares off. It's clear she's been at this for quite a while, judging by how the grass around her has been carefully and thoroughly flattened by her steps as she goes through the martial arts forms she learned, and by the three tired pokemon tuckered out on the ground behind her.]

This all has actually been very... fruitful. [There's a steady, determined tone to her voice that is almost nothing like her normal cheerful tone] It's amazing how much time we spend asleep each day; you don't really realize how many other things you could get done instead, right? I feel like I've really leveled up...

[It looks like her pokemon have too - in fact, Jumpy, who was a hoppip earlier this weekend, is now a skiploom! Which is exciting, but just how hard did they work? Ochako looks like she's gone beyond tiredness into some other realm of enlightenment entirely...]