GHOST TRICK PART ONE: Festival Log!

[indigo_league]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Either Ecruteak City or Lavender Town; please mark your toplevel comments accordingly!
When: August 13th-15th
Summary: Celebrate O-bon at a festival near you! For details, see the infopost.
Rating: Will vary from thread to thread. Warn for common triggers if something comes up.
Log:

The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening (August 15th) of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

The closer you get to midnight on the last night of the festival, the more ghosts pop up.

Again, please say which city your character's in and note what dates/times they're there in the header of or within your top--level comment to avoid confusion. Play nice and have fun!

Comments

[shiro2hero]

[And the Aron squeaks, doing his best to hop higher. Be proud of him more, new friend!!]

Really? How was it? The raising part. Since... I guess I'm stuck with the little guy.

[By now though, he doesn't sound too upset about that idea.]

[armoredsoul]

Well, I assume you already know to be careful about anything metal you want to keep safe from his appetite. Lancelot was a pretty calm little guy, though when they evolve they get a lot bigger very quickly. If he keeps that habit of charging around you might have to start worrying about property damage...

[Alphonse shrugs a little with a helpless sort of half-grin. When you have super-powered animals with the intelligence of children running around...]

[shiro2hero]

... That's. Going to be sort of an issue, honestly.

[He resignedly holds up his metal arm, palm out, and waggles his fingers - in lieu of saying the words "hi part of me is made of metal this is a problem" like a normal person.]

If he wants to charge so much, I might see if we can't use that in a fight -- he seems to like doing that, too.

[armoredsoul]

[Al blinks, then laughs a little nervously and rubs his neck.]

Ah, yeah...hopefully if you can make him understand that's part of you he won't try to snack on it. And battling is a pretty good way to help with discipline and focus their excess energy--especially if they're eager for it. I had a lot of trouble with my Cyndaquil before I started training her consistently.

[shiro2hero]

So far he seems fine with just licking it. But... I'll keep that in mind. I don't really want it to go further than that.

Do we have them run laps or...?

[armoredsoul]

Ah, no...I mean, you could, it's good exercise, but training with Pokemon means battling them, either against wild Pokemon or other trainers.

[Alphonse glances down to Beryl, who by this point has started grooming the little Aron.]

It can get pretty intense, and very competitive if you start earning badges, but they do enjoy it.

[shiro2hero]

Ah, right. I heard about that -- we haven't had much time for that yet.

[Mostly because right after he got here, this festival thing happened.]

[The Aron shuffles his little feet in protest for all of two seconds before settling down to allow this grooming.]

Badges. They're how you get to do things like fly on these guys, right?

[AH HE DID READ THE MANUAL.]

[armoredsoul]

Once they know the right move and you have the right badge, yeah. The badge for Fly is the first one back in Violet, but the Gym that hands out the HM for the move is way over in Cianwood. And you'll want to get a flying-type large enough to carry you, unless you want to figure out how to have a little Pidgey carry you over a whole route!

[Considering the Golurk Fiasco, Alphonse is certain that it's possible, but he doesn't want to figure out HOW.]

[shiro2hero]

That... seems a little backward. Why wouldn't they be in the same place?

[armoredsoul]

[MASSIVE SHRUG]

To give us a headache? I really don't know, honestly, and I'm not sure it's worth asking. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense in this world, but you kind of...learn to go with the flow, eventually.

[shiro2hero]

[Well, it can't be any weirder than accidentally becoming a team of galactic superheroes...]

I guess I've got a lot of adjusting to do.