Party type: Christmas

[indigo_league]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Silph Co. Headquarters, Saffron City
When: Dec 16th
Note: 1. For those who lack the means to travel there, Silph Co. has arranged transport.
2. As this is a Type: Null party, the only pokemon allowed inside will be Type: Nulls (and Silvally). Nothing wrong with other pokemon, but this is meant to shine a special spotlight on a special pokemon.
Log:



It looks like Silph Co. has gone all out for this Christmas party!

The large room is cheerfully decorated with all sorts of holiday-themed decorations -- strings of lights, a tree, Santa's jolly face plastered everywhere, the works!

(No mistletoe though. Nobody wants to deal with the potential fall-out of that.)

Large buffet tables line one end of the room, covered in all manner of food and drinks. There are huge trays of cookies -- both Christmas and Type: null themed! --, cakes, candy-canes and gingerbread. In short, everything you need to eat yourself into a holiday-themed sugar coma. The drinks don't disappoint either. There is soda and water, of course; but there are also plenty of more winter-themed drinks such as hot choco, a wide variety of teas, and for the adults, mulled wine, eggnog and cider.

One corner of the room has been given over to (a) Santa's reign. Why not come and have your pokemon meet ol' Jolly Nick himself? Every pokemon that does will get a small gift -- either something nice to eat or a small toy. And there is a complimentary photo too, taken by a smiling Silph Co employee. It'll make a nice memento!

The rest of the room is mostly empty; there are some tables and chairs for those needing to sit for a spell, but mostly, it's an open area so everybody can mingle and move around. And so all the collected Type: Nulls have the room to move about without knocking into furniture. Some can be a little... clumsy, after all.

Along one wall, there is an opened door with a sign above it that says 'Meet A New Friend.' Going through, there is a second, smaller room with several cheery Silph Co. employees and a couple of Type: Nulls up for adoption. If you don't already have a Type: Null, why not take this opportunity to meet a few of the good boys and girls, and perhaps you'll make a new friend!

Comments

[wrappedwarm]

At the food tables
[Mikasa had heard of winter festivals, things to celebrate surviving the worst of it and for the upcoming spring. Even if winters in Shiganshina weren't as harsh as other areas.

But this was so much. Even the Halloween festival hadn't had as many colourful decorations or shiny things for her to stare at. A whole-ass tree that she may had gotten very close to, maybe looking like she was about to climb it.

Then it was time to try the food. Or blankly stare at a gingerbread house and it's people. Gnawing on a candycane.]

Why did they make a biscuit village? [Titan world inhabitant intensifies.]

Null playpen
[But eventually she'd gone to the friend room. Mikasa didn't particularly want any new friends. It just seemed less noise, so here she was, being partially sat on by a large Null that's tail fin was wagging side to side.

There was an attempt to get up, but she couldn't lift it.]

Food Tables! + incoming cool history lore I guess

[seacub]

[Emporio doesn't have a Null (yet), but a Christmas Party is a Christmas Party, and it's a good time to come and do...something other than walk along the road. Over all, it's both what he expected and what he...couldn't have expected.

Those masked doggos are very large. Very, very-

He blinks as he overhears a question by one of the table snacks.] Oh, the gingerbread house? ...I think it's because of the story of Hansel and Gretel?

[This could, in fact, make things worse.]

I'm so sorry in advance for the lore things

[wrappedwarm]

[Mikasa was very much out of her element. Most of the things in this world were a culture shock already, what with how safe it was. Heck, even the simple things like having enough food without struggling seemed like a dream.

The weird dogs were ignored for now... All the animals were weird here. She was almost used to that now.

The boy who spoke got a glance, then she went back to squinting at the house. Bread? It didn't look like bread, it was clearly a biscuit. Then absently.]

...Who are Hansel and Gretel?

dw im canonfamiliar lmfaooooo

[seacub]

Hansel and Gretel? They're characters from a fairytale; in the story, their parents can't afford to feed them, so their mom decides to try leaving them in the woods and abandoning them there...the first few times, Hansel is able to lead himself and Gretel back by leaving a trail of stones on the way there- but when he can't get stones on the last day, he has to use bread, which the birds eat.

Since they end up lost, they wander until they find a witches house made of candy...like this. [He looks at the house, before smiling a bit nervously.] H...honestly, I don't think old gingerbread houses had gingerbread men with them...maybe it was something they added to make it look like someone lives there?

Ummm....a...anyway, the witch turns out to be evil, so they have to trick her into her own oven...after that though, they find out she had a lot of treasure hidden there, and they're able to go back to their dad and live healthily! ...Also their mom was gone..? Sometimes I wonder if the witch was supposed to be her...

I meant fairytale lore lol

[wrappedwarm]

[Wow... That's a lot. Mikasa had just been told the woods had wolves. Whoever made this story was a lot more creative. When food got tight they foraged in the safer parts of the woods.

This story just seems excessive. She didn't get it.]

...So why is there a house here?

[Was the story that important? Was she missing something?]

OH, d'oh....

[seacub]

I think it was bait. The witch wanted to lure people in to kill them, right? So the easiest way to do that, especially with kids, would be candy. ...Honestly I think even adults would go near, just to make sure what they were seeing was real...

[wrappedwarm]

[Mikasa was still pulling a face.]

That seems complicated... Why does she need bait to kill them?

[So many concerned adults overhearing this conversation.]

[seacub]

[It's fine. Ignore the concerned adults.]

Well...if you saw a normal house in the woods with someone creepy there, you'd probably avoid it right? ...but a house of candy, even if it's suspicious, probably makes people confused enough to lower their guard.

[wrappedwarm]

[That was how she normally operated.]

I think I'd avoid a house built of food more. [That seemed like a big sign you were going delirious.] Both seem bad.

[seacub]

Hahahaaa...I would too I guess...but I know a lot of people who would get too curious to not approach at least, so I think I can get the idea...

It's a story either way though, so it isn't real.

[wrappedwarm]

Oh... It's a trap for idiots. [Bluntly. But Mikasa had never been the curious sort, nope. She'd happily stayed in the garden and not wandered out into the woods as a child.

But...]

I still don't get what it has to do with winter.

[seacub]

[He can't help it. He holds his middle and snorts, and then laughs.] Pfffhfhfh... ...I guess so, yeah..!

...Oh- I think it's the icing though! [He points at the house.] See how it holds everything together? The icing also looks like snow...undyed icing is going to be white, or close to it. It's not going to be any color that you'd naturally see on rooftops, or the ground, any other time of year.

So if you're going to recreate a gingerbread house... ...it has to be in winter.

[wrappedwarm]

[She didn't laugh. Maybe she never did, she did squint though.]

That's dumb... [The colouring made sense but... it's still a really dumb tradition.] There's no snow where I live. Does that mean I wouldn't be able to eat it?

Playpen

[tempredmental]

[Keith had been watching a particularly faded looking Null for a while now, convinced he'd seen it do something weird with its already odd coloring when he noticed Mikasa just beyond it, stuck underneath one. He straightened up and headed over, holding out a hand to her.]

Need some help?

[wrappedwarm]

[Normally, Mikasa was fine with heavy things. She might have been small but she could lift and throw boys around when she only came to their armpits. But this Null... They were big. And with their front half leaning on top, Mikasa she couldn't shift them, not with those sharp claws clutching the ground. It just seemed to want to nuzzle and push back when she shoved.

She just huffed, pausing her shoves to look at the hand. But she didn't take it.]

It's on my legs. [And the Null was still trying to curl on top of her.

She's already trapped.]

[tempredmental]

Right. [Keith didn't even flinch. He hadn't exactly been the type to take other people's hands right off without reason, either. So, he shifted his attention to the Null.] Okay, buddy... let's let her get up.

[Oh, hey... Null had a new target. At least Keith was bigger and could hold his own against enthusiastic Pokémon cuddles. He had a very large cosmic wolf back home that did the same thing.]

[wrappedwarm]

[She was used to being the 'heavy one' (among three kids, including Armin) and having to help herself up. Or just not falling over to begin with, that tended to solve the problem.

The Null gave a grunt at the attention, shifting their helm so those red eyes could peer out. Then lifting an exoskeleton-covered foreleg, toes curling, they grab? They grab and pull?

Okay no, they're hopping up onto their singular hindleg and just tossing their weight into it. All 120+Kg of them, just flopping. Mikasa's survival instincts kicked in and she shuffled back, not getting caught under that.]

...Are you okay?

[tempredmental]

Oof! [Oh, that was definitely heavy. Heavier than Keith, honestly, and he stumbled back.] Woah woah woah... [Aaaaand he was down.] Okay, you're heavier than my wolf back home.

[He tried pushing again, and his own weird color-glitching Null tried to help.]

[wrappedwarm]

[The big, even with them missing a leg. But that lack of hind leg made the Null unbalanced and they fell, scrabbling at the floor and wiggling before hopping up again. Clambering up close. PETS! GIVE.]

It's very friendly. [She wasn't too bothered, other than the part where she'd been pinned by it. Not like how some people had shrieked and backed up when the pokemon had charged.]

Why are these pokemon weird? [They were all the same type but so different.]

[tempredmental]

I don't know. It's like each one is almost its own species. [But, he could sit up now, and that was definitely an improvement. It seemed that, as long as there was petting, pinning didn't happen, so he would indulge the creature for the time being.]

They're kind of weird like that.

[wrappedwarm]

[Null logic, if they couldn't move, they couldn't pet. But now that they were getting their pets, they calmed. Still wiggling to get a good spot, but not shoving as much.]

I've seen two types of Vuplix. [The fire and ice ones.] I wonder if there are more...

[tempredmental]

More Vulpix? [Keith shrugged a little.] My friend Allura has an ice one.

I've also seen a few types of Rattata, and there seems to be a couple of types of Farfetch'd... Meowth, too.

[wrappedwarm]

Yeah, her's is the one I saw. [At the house she'd stayed at occasionally when she was with Armin. Then she'd gone traveling.]

I have a fire one. [And now she had a Null.]

[tempredmental]

You do? [Keith had an affinity for fire types.] Oh... I think I saw it last time you were at the island...

[wrappedwarm]

She hatched from an egg. [The vulpix was very baby. Because unlike the others Mikasa had from eggs, the vulpix hid and cried. Unlike a certain Riolu who hatched trying to fight.]

I carry her because she gets scared if she's on the ground. [She was still scared, but not being underfoot helped a little bit.]