[002] video

[oldestfriend]

A - Morning

[The screen opens up to a calm peaceful scene focused on the window of a hotel room and the.... giant Golurk plush that is seated contemplatively by it. Seriously, this thing is- huge. Enormous. Not as big as the real deal, but larger than most children. And maybe some people in general. It's even wearing a t-shirt depicting a Jigglypuff and a Wigglytuff flexing, with the words WORKIN' MY PUFF INTO TUFF written in bright pink letters.]

[A shiny Absol is napping under one of its arms, with a plush hand resting on its head.]

[Of note: a sketchpad with words in sharpie written on it that has been propped against the Golurk plush.]

I AM BILLY-BOB THE GOLURK.
YASH AND I HAVE COME TO SIGHT-SEE KANTO.
ALSO
HOW WELL WOULD A LONE ABSOL FAIR AGAINST ALL THE GYMS?
WE ARE VERY COMPETITIVE.

[The camera stays focused on the pair for a few moments, just so people can take in the scene and the words written on the sketchpad, before clicking off.]

[Please let Billy-Bob know your answers.]


B - Afternoon

[Later, after she's had a bit of fun, Dee turns on the 'Gear to make her own post to the network. That strangely familiar face pops up again, all smiles as usual, and the background hints she's in some sort of cafe. Has she gotten a pumpkaboo spice latte? Absolutely. They seem all the rage, and she's curious, so sue her.]

[But pumpkaboo spice lattes aren't what she wants to talk about.]

Halloween! Samhain. Dia de los muertos. Zhong Yuan Jie, sometimes. Totensonntag. All Souls Day. Chuseok. I could keep going but then that would just be me showing off.

The point is, this is around the year when a lot of holidays surrounding the dead start to pop up. Probably something about the atmosphere- all that bright green foliage fading away bit by bit, the air getting cold, the night coming sooner... I guess it makes people think about the inevitable.

While Halloween seems like it's just as popular here like in a few other places, do you guys have any plans to celebrate something different? Pay respects to the dead you knew? Although, considering how this place is, that could get a little awkward...

And if you're not in the mood for that- how have you all been doing? I've been prepping for the cold weather the past month. I mean, t-shirts and jeans aren't exactly winter wear, ha ha!

Comments

B [Video]

[cyan_maid]

[Normally, Jane likes to talk to people on the Network. It's interesting to see all the different faces, hear their questions, provide answers, and even see the folks she's gotten familiar with in her short time here. Today, however, when she sees this woman, she can't...put her finger on something, and it troubles her.]

I, ah...hello...I didn't plan on doing anything but celebrate Halloween, but...

[She pauses. It was only right that she answer the question first, before posing any of her own.]

Gosh, uh, I don't want to sound rude or strange, but...have we met somewhere before?

A [Video] SORRY TO SPAM YOU WITH MY MUSES ;A;

[better2do]

[The video catches Asriel laughing, nose crinkled, a Floette with a yellow flower perched behind his ear. It's not a mean laugh in the slightest - it's more happy than anything.]

Howdy, B-Billy Bob...[He breaks into a couple chuckles. Oh boy, it is probably everything about that Golurk that's making him laugh.] My name's Asriel. I dunno, um, about gyms? And what's a Kanto?

B

[thatwasours]

Bon's already come and gone--

[and it was a goddamn nightmare, honestly]

--so I'm not planning to do much. But it sounds like things have a tendency to happen on holidays around here.

B [Video]

[crouching_sin]

[Oh come on, he has no need to celebrate dead souls considering he remembers them, but...]

I enjoy this time of the year. In many places around the world, people go back to their more superstitious roots a bit. And besides... the thinning of the veil between worlds makes it easier to summon things.

B [Video]

[thedifferencebetween]

[Oh, well there's a face Jack's pleased to see pop up on his feed. He was just thinking about her, the other day. Considering giving her a call. And look at this, he doesn't even have to!]

Hey there, beautiful! Oh yeah, Halloween used to have all kinds of symbolic meaning and crap. Back home it's pretty much just an excuse to slap orange and black on everything and charge extra for 'seasonal'. And dress up and get drunk and have anonymous sex. But HHB plays all the Truxican Buzzsaw Massacre movies in a row, that's always fun.

I hear they do it up pretty big, on this planet.

A [video]

[paladinlost]

[Now that is a lovely personal challenge! ...Cecil hopes their trainer is fine with it, though.]

Levels, preparations and the items at your disposal can influence the results, as I'm sure you know, but Dark-types are not particularly disadvantaged against any of Kanto's Gyms. If the Absol in question is strong enough and can endure the length of the matches, defeating them all single-handedly should be possible. The biggest potential problem would be Viridian.

B [video]

[kissmyaspis]

A festival dedicating to honoring the dead has come and gone already. When that happened, the ghost-type Pokemon attracted by the celebrations decided to impersonate the dead.

So doing it again? Not a good idea.

[yeah she's uh.... still really sore over all that...]

A; video;

[modulatingphases]

Nice to meet you, Billy-Bob. And hey, I say go for it. You'll never know how far you can get until you try.

[Zack, the world's best cheer leader. Even for over sized pushes.]

B; video

[fuelthefire]

[Krieg's stared death in the face thousands of times. Usually other people's deaths, typically a result of his guns or his grenades or his axe. He's probably had hundreds of near-death experiences himself, always revived at the very last minute and at great personal expense by the New-U machines littering Pandora. Death, to him, is not a frightening state to be avoided, but a warm embrace to be pursued. It's why he brings a buzzaxe to a gunfight, and why he willingly shields his allies with his own body when the going gets really tough.

He has no idea that this is why the woman on the network looks familiar. It's a strange sensation to see a complete stranger and to find their countenance both familiar and comforting, but to have no idea why. Naturally he's intrigued, because comforting isn't a sensation he experiences very often.

Her question naturally brings both Angel and Roland to mind. He and the other Vault Hunters had killed their killer, and he can't think of a more fitting way to pay respect to someone than that.]

Respects paid, blood for blood, pain screams and open wounds drowned in a symphony of slaughter.

[His voice is a low growl, and more subdued than it usually is when he recounts the glorious moment of Sticking It To The Man, because his thoughts are with the ones who were killed, rather than their killer.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[She doesn't directly respond to Billy-Bob's question-- but the fact that she's STILL laughing when she eventually responds to Dee's own video several hours later is probably an indication that she has viewed and enjoyed the plush's public debut.]}

Halloween!

Honestly, we already got shit with the ghosts out of the way.

So that means this Halloween is either going to be some light-hearted frivolity, or something worse. But at the risk of invoking irony's wrath, I really don't think this place can throw anything at us that'll shock me at this point.