Surf's up!

[indigo_league]

Who: Everybody!
Where: Fuchsia City Beach
When: July 15th
Summary: Get yo beach fun on


As far as perfect summer days are concerned, this one is as perfect as they get. The sun is warm, the breeze brings just the right amount of needed refreshment, and the ocean waves are totally gnarly. Because that is what you say when a wave is good.



Seeing as this party has been 'organised' by a group of beach bums, their surfing buddies, and a group of very relaxed Pikachu, it's best not to expect anything too structured out of the day. That would totally harsh the vibe. No, this is very much a 'show up whenever, do whatever, be chill' sort of meet-up.

There's a little stand where visitors can rent all manner of surfboards, wakeboards, and floats. Not for rent, but definitely for fun, is a giant, blow-up Cresselia float. Anyone wanting to join the party need only climb on board to be towed across the water by the surf-stand owner's Blastoise, which is having just as much fun as you are.

Always able to Detect an opportunity, several smaller stands of local merchants can be found selling everything you could ever want in the name of hydration and refreshment. Ice-cream, sodas, fresh water! You name it, and someone is bound to have it.

And while there really are no organised events, ever so often the surfers (human and Pikachu alike) will hold impromptu surfing contests. Feel free to join them. Or feel just as free to tap someone on the arm for some surfing lessons. You might even snag a small, electric instructor.

Speaking of snagging an electric buddy -- that, unfortunately, is the one rule this party does have: No battling and catching the Pikachu!. If you happen to hit it off with one and have a defining character moment after which it decides to stay with you? That's fine. But seriously. No battle. Not even mock-battles between friends. Vibes. Harshed. Let's not.

As evening begins to creep down on the shore and a beautiful sunset bathes the beach in golden light, a bonfire is lit, and food starts appearing everywhere.... though it is all, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you swing), strictly vegetarian. Anyone craving a good, meaty burger (or an old-fashioned marshmallow) better have brought their own, because here you will find only vegetarian substitutes.

So feel free to drop by, catch some waves, share some food, and who knows, maybe you might even make some new friends. As they say --



Surfs up~!

Comments

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[fearinahandfulof]

[Seeing the girl covered in sand can't help but remind Cassandra of... herself, assiduously cleaning off the dirt and mud that always accumulated after she used Dust-Eater until no trace remained. It's not a pleasant association, so she forces her mind away from it and towards Priscilla the Deino and her new Pikachu friend playing in the sand a short distance away. Then it occurs to her that perhaps she should actually say something to the girl and not just stand there.]

What's a popsicle?

[...Perhaps not that.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

[That is actually a really normal sounding question to her. ]

Popsicles are really good. They get juice and freeze it on a stick and then you eat it and it's cold and tastes really, really good.

[fearinahandfulof]

[That's a simple concept to grasp. Cassandra likes when concepts are simple to grasp.]

How fast do they melt?

[sleepallthewayhome]

[Simple concepts are the best.]

If you keep them in a freezer till you eat them then they don't melt very fast. Only if it's hot out they'll melt faster.

[Like her ice cream, which has a melting trail leading down her sandy hand and her arm at the moment. She doesn't appear to notice.]

[fearinahandfulof]

Like that is?

[She gestures towards the ice cream.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

[Oh yup there it goes. Newt takes a moment to study it and then will lick the source of the melting ice cream trail.]

Yeah. It's not usually this melty.

I'll jump in the water after this. I probably should have done that first. Then I wouldn't get sand in it. ...Sand tastes gross.

[fearinahandfulof]

...Yes, it does.

[Which is more than Cassandra would usually say about sand and dirt and how they might taste, but she does know from experience.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

It's fun to play in though. We were trying to build a castle but it didn't really work.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra glances over at Priscilla and the Pikachu again. They had been attempting to build something earlier, but that seems to have degenerated into the amused Pikachu making simple sculptures and then letting Priscilla gleefully smash them. She turns her attention back to Newt.]

Why didn't it work?

[sleepallthewayhome]

I'm not sure. I think I didn't have enough water....and then I had too much water and then I added too much sand again.

[fearinahandfulof]

It does seem like a tricky balance...

[Though admittedly, Cassandra doesn't remember ever considering sand or dirt things to play with before. It's possible she's just forgotten; her memory isn't what it was before she'd died the first time, and a lot of warriors tend to either forget their pre-Organization lives or shut them away, which almost amounts to the same thing.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

Yeah. Maybe if I had more practise.

But we didn't have beaches...or oceans back home.

[They had a lot rocks she wasn't allowed to play with.]

[fearinahandfulof]

There was an ocean in my world, but I don't think anybody went there. There was nothing beyond it anyway.

[sleepallthewayhome]

Don't people do other stuff with the ocean....catch fish or things like that?

[Her knowledge on this subject is very limited.]

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra thinks on this.]

They might? Humans normally didn't travel very far in my world, because it was too dangerous, but the ones who lived closer might have.

[Honestly, Cassandra's knowledge on the subject is also limited.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

[Newt nods at that.]

That makes sense. Where I'm from everyone lived together because the moon wasn't safe enough yet.

Did you come from an Earth?

[fearinahandfulof]

...Earth?

[So that's probably a no.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

It's the name of a planet. A lot of people come from worlds where people only live on Earth even if it's not the same one. There's an Earth where I'm from, but I've never been there since I was born on a moon colony really far away.

[fearinahandfulof]

...Planet? That's... another word for world?

[The girl probably thinks she's exceptionally stupid by now, Cassandra thinks.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

[Nah the wording of this place is confusing. Newt seems to think it over herself.]

Yes, but a lot of people say "world" to mean the place people got taken from too. Even though some of us come from places where there's more then one planet people can live on. So it gets kinda confusing because they sometimes mean the same thing.

[fearinahandfulof]

So some worlds are made up of multiple... planets? And some worlds only have one?

[sleepallthewayhome]

Maybe? Or they might not know there are other planets out there, or they might know but they can't actually go to them yet. Where I'm from, people knew that there were other planets in space for a long time but they didn't have the right machines to get there. And then they had to make better things for people to start living on them.

[The basic history of space is taught really early on when you grow up on a moon colony.]

[fearinahandfulof]

There are... machines that can do that?

[She's only just starting to get used to the machines people use here, and she's still having trouble with a lot of those too.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

Yeah. I don't really understand how all of them work. I wasn't old enough to learn too much about them when I was there.

[She was in fact, 7.]

[fearinahandfulof]

I think I would have a hard time understanding them even at this age.