[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...]

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video; 7/15

[armoredsoul]

[Al doesn't seem quite so tired, but he's also much more used to not being able to get to sleep. SO while he is tired, his smile is still very chipper when he replies.]

You like flying types, huh? I don't know where a lot of fighting types are, but I do know you can find Riolu out at the Safari Zone. When they evolve they become fighting and steel type, so their defenses are pretty good. I'm pretty sure Torchic's evolutions also become fighting type, but I don't know exactly where to find them.

[Alphonse does still have all his notes from the last time he was in Johto, but they're much more geared towards breeding than battling. He's going to have to start up a new set of notes, soon...]

action - 7/16

[veggie_vamp]

[Unable to sleep, she's off to the department store, trying to shop until she drops. Again. Accompanying her is a Zorua, Misdreavus, and Snubbul. She's about to go down the escalator, when she sees...]

... Huh? Wait, is that...?

Video 7/15

[4leafhair]

[It's impossible to tell if Yotsuba's been effected by the sleeplessness when she answers, but the time may indicate that she has. Or that she's just full of energy as usual.]

Hello Ochako! Yotsuba can't sleep either! Too excited!

[She turns the camera with a melodramatic TADA!, revealing a pokemon common to route 29, a hoot-hoot.]

Mr. Hoot is coming with Yotsuba now!

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Eheh, well, they were just the cutest and friendliest ones I ran into and before I knew it... [Yeah, she hadn't exactly planned on all fliers]

The Safari Zone? Hmm, isn't that over in Kanto though?

[She's still getting familiar with the geography but she'd heard of it once]

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[It is indeed. There's Ochako, glaring determinedly ahead... as she tries to climb up the same escalator Draculaura was about to ride down. To her credit, she's almost halfway up it but... clearly hasn't realized why it's taking her so long.]

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[It's definitely past bed time for a kid like Yotsuba... she wonders if there's something going around...?]

Excited? About what?

[Or she's just suffering from a lack of parental supervision]

Oh, wow! That's a really cute owl!

[4leafhair]

[6 of one, half a dozen of the other.]

He's the cutest owl ever!

[Even though his eyes scare her slightly. Not as much as some things but.]

He can turn like this!

[She tilts sideways.]

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[Ochako thinks the glasses look just makes him cuter]

Can he? You should teach him to do it when you want to show! [Teaching cool tricks to an owl, why not?] Can he also turn this way?

[She twists her head from side to side to show what she means]

[4leafhair]

Hmm... I dunno!

[She's not sure what her owl can do, to be honest. He's a new catch. She demonstrates for him, shaking her head around, and he just turns the other direction, which she shows on the pokegear.]

I don't think he gets it...

[Or maybe he's just not so easy to work with.]

[veggie_vamp]

[Zorua thinks this is hilarious, judging from his laughing barks, but she ignores him.]

Ummm. Do you need some help, Ochako?

[usedgravity]

Hmm, well, I guess you two just met... you're just getting started!

How's it going with your other pokemon?

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Huhhhh...?

[She blinks tiredly, glancing up finally at her]

Wha? No, I'm jus' fine, I got this...

[No, now she's losing progress, slowly going down the escalator as she tries to walk up it]

[4leafhair]

[Yotsuba beams even brighter.]

Yotsuba caught two others, too!

[She spent 4 1/2 days on Route 29, just catching pokemon. She tosses two pokeballs, revealing... a calm-looking hoppip that just sighs gently and moves with the breeze, and a rattata that immediately makes a dive for her backpack until he's scooped up.]

This is Ratty! And that's Strawberry.

[armoredsoul]

Heh, it happens like that, sometimes! Last time I was here, I wound up with a whole bunch of cats all at once and I had no idea what to do with them all.

[Or to be more accurate, Edward wasn't about to allow him to keep something like twenty Espurr.]

No, it's over near Cianwood! So it's a bit of a trip, but it's really worth it. There's a lot of rare Pokemon there, actually, and it's a fun trip even if you're not looking to catch some new team members!

[veggie_vamp]

But you're going the wrong way! ... Or, going the right way in the wrong direction? Something like that. But at least you're getting your exercise...?

Action; 7/16,

[charcoalfeather]

[It might as well be a zombie invasion, let's be honest, with as many people out at this hour as there are. Rakka doesn't particularly like being out at this time, but being cooped up in her hotel room all night would do her worse then the worry seed effects were doing already.

Rakka yawned openly as she stumbled forward, Kuu, her Togetic, in tow. The Pokemon center was in her sight. Maybe... asking for help, or something, would possibly...

Oh. There's someone in the way. That brings her to a very confused stop.]

... Um... [who is this. What is she doing. These are all important questions that Rakka is trying to convey in tired noises.]

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Last time? So, like, you've ended up here twice? Or more?

[She'd heard people sometimes just... go home, but she hadn't heard about returnees before!]

Oh, there's one there? Wow, I might have to go visit! Though I guess that's still pretty far... [As someone without fly OR surf, getting there might be a doozy] I'll definitely plan on it in the future though!

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The wrong...?

[She stops, blinking, and looking around... and subsequently going down now that she's stopped walking up the escalator. Her cheeks get even rosier than usual]

O, oh, wow.... this is embarrassing!

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Oh, so cute! [Seeing her scoop up the rattata like it's a puppy or something actually makes it kind of adorable]

I've got one like Strawberry too!

[She motions, and her own hoppip, Jumpy, drifts into view, tiredly bumping into her head]

They're cute, right?

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[Uraraka was basically sleep walking with her level of consciousness this late at night, but at least she was aware enough to wait for the sliding doors to open before she walked into them. Unfortunately... she didn't realize she was still standing just out of range for the automatic door to register she was there. So she's just... standing there, staring at the pokecenter doors.]

....huh?

[Tiredly, she tilts her head at an uncomfortable-looking angle to peer over at the persona ddressing her.]

[armoredsoul]

Just once before that I can remember. I was here for a pretty long time, too. [Al shrugs with a little grin.] From what I understand, it's not hugely uncommon for people to leave and come back.

[He nods with sympathy--it's a heck of a road trip, to say the least!] You should! It's a long trip, but a good one. And the gym leader out there hands out the Fly HM if you win--it's a fighting-type gym, so you shouldn't have any trouble there!

[veggie_vamp]

Awww, it's okay!

[She begins to hop on the escalator, trying to reach her for hugs!]

[4leafhair]

Mmhmm! And they make good pillows!

[Yotsuba nods emphatically as Strawberry drifts around her head. Shouldn't she be using a pillow now, though? It's so late! Her nods are interrupted by a big yawn.]

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Huh... I mean, it'd kind of be neat if we could go back and forth on purpose. That must feel pretty weird though, huh?

Ah, you only get Fly after you've gone all the way out there? Guess there's no shortcuts, huh? [She seems pretty pumped though]

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[Ending up back at the bottom, Ochako just stands there sheepishly, rubbin the back of her head in embarrassment - an easy hug target]

I was, uh, jus' tryin to reach the roof to visit the vending machines but... well, I was kinda wondering why it was so far!