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[necrodentia]

The video opens on a forest after dark, the shot centered on a small wooden shrine. Laid out on the shrine in offering is a green stone and some food, hopefully something tasty enough to appease the shrine's guardian. Offscreen you can hear a voice asking, "Are you filming? Are you ready??"

Rainer's voice answers, "I'm ready, I've got it--!"

The first voice, feminine and younger sounding, replies, "Good, because here it comes!"

There is a blur of motion as something small and green appears, approaching the shrine, but just as it's about to come into focus...

...Rainer's grip on the gear slips, unbeknownst to her, and her thumb covers the camera lens. Sorry to all you folks out there hoping to catch a glimpse of Celebi in its natural habitat. This is what you get when you make the woman from a fantasy world with no technology hold the camera. At least the audio is still good, and you can hear four feminine voices OOH-ing and AHH-ing over this miraculous sight. Shame you don't get to see it.


[ OOC: threadjacking may come from any of Team 9— Rainer, Yuzu, Jinx, and Hermione! ]

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[epitaffio]

W-Was that...?! No way! I won't believe it without proper footage!

[ARE OTHER PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEEING LEGENDARY POKÉMON???]

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[fortuna_tenax]

i was on photography duty, but unfortunately the pictures didn't come out much better tbh. most of them are fairly blurry, or celebi's glowing and it just blinds everything out. it's a fast little thing

( PEOPLE ARE SEEING LEGENDARY POKEMON, SORRY DIP'N'DOT. )

[epitaffio]

[It figures. It FIGURES his luck would be like this.]

I want to see them anyway!

[fortuna_tenax]

( wow, manners?? yeah, sure, okay. still, jinx complies with an unseen roll of her eyes, and sends about five or six photographs that look to be taken in rapid succession- the clearest one of celebi itself is probably the one where it's flying back over the shrine, and even that's a little blurry... not to mention it's looking away. )

hope it suffices for now. i'll see about cleaning them up later when i get back to the city.

I'M SORRY HE'S LIKE THIS he's just frustrated for Crime Reasons

[epitaffio]

[This could be Celebi. ... It could also be a weird onion getting thrown around like a hot potato. Still, it's not like it's any worse than what he usually gets out of the Legendary Seekers...

Ah, what the hell. He'll send these to Team Rocket, why not.]

So these aren't doctored right?
Just bad?

ITS OKAY JINX WOULD UNDERSTAND TBQH shes just. rude 16 year old. unless youre her age/the femlems

[fortuna_tenax]

just bad.
we were here for the riddle
i'm assuming it's part of some ritual which will surely not go poorly. idk if it'll make repeat appearances though.

( don't go fuckin with her onion baby, sir, she'll go for the eyes. )

[epitaffio]

[Hey, he wouldn't hurt it, and he'd rather nobody else did, too! It's just, you know. He has a job to do.]

You had to do something to make it show up, right?
Maybe you can do it more than once.

[fortuna_tenax]

( yeah she'll go for your employer's eyes too she doesn't discriminate. )

it had to do with the riddle our team got. it could very well be a one-and-done type deal tbh. yuzu mentioned it below too

( no point in repeating that song and dance, yeah? )

[epitaffio]

I guess so.
I was just thinking it probably wouldn't work if it weren't for the lights, anyway.

[... He's still making a note of this, though.]

[necrodentia]

I'm so sorry the video came out like that! I can't believe my dumb thumb covered up the whole thing!!!!!

I guess you'll just have to take our word for it that it was really cool and exciting.

[epitaffio]

Well that's convenient!

[necrodentia]

I'm... sorry??
Like, I'm not sure what you want me to do.
I didn't have to record anything at all, I was trying to share the moment because I thought it would be a nice gesture.
You're no worse off now than you were before you saw this video.

[epitaffio]

[... Okay maybe she has a BIT of a point but still!!!]

Is it already gone?

[necrodentia]

Yeah. It just showed up, took the food we put out, touched the leaf stone, then peaced out.

Why do you care so much?

[epitaffio]

[UHHH]

It's a super rare Pokémon!
Most people are gonna be wondering if this footage is for real, right?

[necrodentia]

Well duh, it's real! It's not like I have any magic in this plane to cast Minor Illusion or anything.

[epitaffio]

You don't need magic to fake this type of stuff.
Actually, sometimes people use doctored images or footage to trick people into thinking magic is real.

[necrodentia]

What the heck does a doctor have to do with an image?
Is the doctor also an artist?

[epitaffio]

Uh,
No, sorry.
That's just a way of saying something's been faked.

[necrodentia]

Well that's a weird turn of phrase! Since when are doctors associated with faking things? If a doctor had a reputation of being a fake, you would go to a different doctor!!

[epitaffio]

Look, I don't know where the word comes from either, okay?
It's just a thing people say.

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[songstressedout]

It was really cute! But a little too fast. Though I guess it's not a legendary for nothing.

It looked happy with the offerings, though!

[ Listen, she loves the onion baby, even if she only saw it for a moment. ]

[epitaffio]

What did you put out for it?
I couldn't really tell.

[songstressedout]

Well, the riddle implied a leaf stone, so that was obviously there. It was just something we thought would be tasty. After that, we just put an offering out for it. They say that you're supposed to leave offerings out at this thing, after all, and we needed Celebi to arrive and touch the stone.

Considering that the riddle implied the stone needing to be touched, though, it might just be a matter of circumstance with everything going on right now. People put offerings out here all the time, but if Celebi showed up every time, it would have been caught by now, right?

[epitaffio]

Yeah, I guess it can't be that easy.

[Leaf Stones aren't that rare, so that's probably not the most important part. Could it be a specific combination of items, or is it a matter of timing?... And if so, does that mean Celebi will come for as long as those lights are visible?]

[songstressedout]

Yeah... but even if they only appeared because of what's happening, it was still a great experience! Maybe I'll even get to meet it again... and hopefully get a better picture!

[epitaffio]

Yeah!
Maybe all these Pokémon that are popping up are going to show up when we find the treasure.

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[neverfinishanyth]

It's amazing how much this strange pokemon looks like someone's thumb.

LOL end her, Leo

[necrodentia]

Hah hah.
Not every video can be a masterpiece.

[neverfinishanyth]

Certainly not this one, I'd say.

She has claws, too

[necrodentia]

At least it's finished, unlike certain paintings I might mention.

FATALITY

[neverfinishanyth]

Well, should I ever need to paint a blurry thumb, I know an expert on the matter who could help with some of the details.

[necrodentia]

Ooh! Or I could be a hand model for you!

[neverfinishanyth]

An excellent idea! And there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

[necrodentia]

Maybe I'll commission a self-hand-portrait from you. Just me giving a big thumbs up! It might be a nice gift for Fitz's birthday. What do you think?

[ Because that's exactly what Fitz wants for his birthday. A half finished painting of Rainer giving a thumbs up. ]

[neverfinishanyth]

Now that you mention it, when is his birthday, exactly?

after some discussion with Star and some frantic RNGing...

[necrodentia]

Oh, now that I think about it, you'd have to get cracking on that thumb painting... His birthday is next week!

[neverfinishanyth]

What, really?!

[necrodentia]

Yeah, really! I can't believe I almost forgot, but I guess I've been so distracted by all this Legendary Seeker stuff,I didn't realize it was getting so close!
It's this coming Tuesday, the 27th.

[neverfinishanyth]

I'd better get to work on my gifts right away!

[necrodentia]

That's right, chop chop!

I've got to get something put together for him, too...

[neverfinishanyth]

I have a feeling that he may be fond of crabs. Just a hunch.