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

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[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...]

Comments

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Oh yeah? Heheh, what a coincidence... I've come here, what? Umm... a few times! [She only arrived in town kind of recently] I was just about to go in.

[Which was... why she'd been standing there for ten minutes?]

[charcoalfeather]

...O-oh! [Whoops, now she's dozing off mid-conversation.] Inside the pokemon center? W-well, I was just about to go that too.

[Or, well, she was.]

I'm... pretty sure that's why I'm here.

[usedgravity]

You don't remember? That's pretty forgetful!

[Says the girl who's still just... standing there...]

...what were you gonna go in for, anyway?

[WHAT DO YOU THINK, OCHAKO]

[charcoalfeather]

Y-yeah, my mistake...

[Go there not go that. Words just kept disappearing into a jumbled-together mess in Rakka's head and boy did she need some sleep.]

I wanted to... [c'mon, Rakka. Spit it out.] I-I wanted to go in and see if they could help me, actually. I think I need help.

[usedgravity]

Ohhhh, that's probably a good idea! They're really helpful, aren't they?

[She nods sagely, like she said something pretty smart there]

...help you with what?

[charcoalfeather]

...Sleeping.

[Said with all the strength of a sad, deflating balloon.]

[usedgravity]

Oooh, you think they can? I guess if they can fix anything, maybe...

I mean, I tried some medicine but... [To be fair, it was cough medicine, just the kind that makes you drowsy...]

[charcoalfeather]

[Rakka looks... mildly puzzled at the question. Would it work? Wasn't that the point of hospitals in the first place? Though, pokemon centers seemed to be more for Pokemon anyway...]

M-maybe they can. I guess I... [Was really just running out of options, to be quite honest.

Noticeably, her shoulders slump a bit.] I'm so tired...

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[Ochako yawns loudly, swaying on her feet, but sleep still seems so far away]

I mean, on the bright side, I think I've seen more of the city in the past two days than I have the entire time I've been here!

[If stumbling around like a half-conscious zombie counts as "seeing"]

[charcoalfeather]

...Me too. [A halfhearted nod was given to that, and a chuckle that just didn't have much energy.]

I-I don't know for sure if I'll remember all of it though... [oop, she pauses to yawn. It's a big one.] Everything's kind of fuzzy.

[usedgravity]

Eheh, that's true... maybe my feet'll remember walking there. Muscle memory? [That... that's not how that works]

...I bet we could get soooo much training done at night if we're not sleeping!

[charcoalfeather]

Muscle memory? Uh... [She's sort of nodding... sort of. In a sleep-deprived state, there were many more things that sounded perfectly plausible then when Rakka had the energy and conviction to question it.

Sure, it seems legit.]

D-definitely! ...Wait, do you mean just training, or w-with battles?

[usedgravity]

[Look they are unlocking so much wisdom right now, don't question it]

Uhhhhh... I guess just training? I feel a little too sluggish to really battle...

[At least she knows that much]