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[whymustifeel]

[Hello, network. You're about to get a grand total of 17 back to back image uploads.

The first several shots are exceedingly blurry, but the intrepid cameraman appears to have improved his technique over time. The focus of every single image?

A very flat, gray pancake with green splotches and what looks like a Pokeball squished in the middle. Kind of weird, but- wait, it's got eyes. And spikes. And teeth.]

I GOT A LIVING BEAR TRAP FOR CHRISTMAS

THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER

I CAN FINALLY USE BEAR TRAPS IN MY SCHEMATICS AGAIN!!!

[This is quite possibly the most excited anyone has ever been for a Stunfisk. Which is less of a dig at Stunfisk and more of a comment on how god damn ecstatic Fred is right now.]

Comments

[notyourgoddess]

Maybe there are more trap like pokemon out there.

So it's free reign on bear traps. Make sure not to lose a foot or something. I don't know how high tech this place is when it comes to artificial limbs.

[whymustifeel]

Oh, no, I won't lose a foot! I know what I'm doing. Back where I'm from my house is usually littered with bear traps, and I've never lost a single limb!

[notyourgoddess]

What are you trying to catch in your own house?

[whymustifeel]

Oh, I just have them out as deterrents just in case anyone tries to break in!

[notyourgoddess]

That would be good practise in keeping clear of them. Do people try to break into your house a lot?

[This all sounds sane and normal to her.]

[whymustifeel]

Well, only once. Someone broke in and made my dad think our house was haunted. When we caught him, it turned out he hacked into my custom security system to use some of my traps and make everything appear haunted.

[And that "someone" was an evil German parrot and criminal mastermind, but that's neither here nor there.]

But that was a fluke. And I'm sure there's been plenty of criminals who considered breaking into our house and decided against it because of all the traps!

[notyourgoddess]

Having to sneak past bear traps is a pretty good motivation to avoid a place.

So, have you kept count of how many people you've run into that are trying to make places seem haunted? Because from what you've said that seems to happen a lot.

[whymustifeel]

Well, we don't keep count, but that's because the number's probably in the hundreds at this point.

But Crystal Cove has the Spook Museum- Velma's parents run it. It's a tourist place full of information on all the stuff thats are supposed to haunt the town- and nearly all the stuff in the museum comes from us. Costumes of criminals we unmasked, wax statutes of ghosts and monsters we proved to be fake... So they probably have a pretty accurate count!

[notyourgoddess]

It sounds like there's as many as there are bandits on Pandora.

[So like way, way too many.]

The museum sounds interesting. Has anyone attempted to haunt that?

[whymustifeel]

Not that I know of! I guess no one wants to sabotage one of the biggest tourist attractions, since tourism is basically what keeps the town alive and all the "monsters" fuel it.

[notyourgoddess]

I suppose that's one way to avoid being "haunted"

Have you run into any people here trying to haunt places?

[whymustifeel]

Not yet! I'm sure they're out there, though.

Or our hometown was just an anomaly.

Actually, yeah, that's probably it. But that's ok! I can still make traps for Pokemon, so I'm not without purpose!!

[notyourgoddess]

Making traps seems like a good idea here. Who knows, you might popularize a new way of catching pokemon.

[As stated before she will fist fight some so she can't talk about weird ways to catch pokemon.]

Though if you do run into someone trying to haunt a place here you should update the network about it.