victory_road | Party type: Christmas

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keith (voltron)

Party type: Christmas

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!

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[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.]

[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?

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...

[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?]

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...

[Mikasa was still pulling a face.]

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

[So many concerned adults overhearing this conversation.]

[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.

[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.

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.

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.

[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.

[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?

I don't think so? ...If you're here, that means you can eat it. Not growing up with snow isn't a reason not to- I lived in Florida, [he continues, shrugging.] ...Not only does it not snow there, but it's normally really hot.

But we'd still see gingerbread during the holiday season.

It's like that where I live, because it's the south. [Because they'd been poor. It was cheapest to live in the south where the days were long and the titans were more active.]

..We had nothing like it. [...Was that just because her family had been poor? But she'd not seen Auntie Carla making anything like it and they had money. Enough to have birds ready in the kitchen.]

Yeah?

Well...do you recognize this holiday? With so many different worlds, it makes sense that the holidays and traditions would be different right? Since the fairytale didn't exist, there wouldn't have been a reason for the gingerbread house.

...No. We have winter festivals but not like this. [It was all so much compared to home. So many decorations, food. It was a whole lot simpler back home, more a celebration of the upcoming spring than cheer like this.]

This place is different.

Then it's like I said- if the holiday didn't exist, and the story didn't...well, of course the gingerbread house didn't.

On the other hand, [he continues with a nod,] The festivals you had probably had things we don't have here right?

[If at least in smaller amounts anyway.]

No... I don't think so. [She'd lived in a cabin with her parents most her life, there was no festivals up on the mountains. The city was more lively, but she'd not been living with Eren long enough to really know how much there was.

Maybe she'd just not seen them yet.]

There's a lot more people here.

Ah, yeah...they said pretty much everyone could come after all, and there's a lot of people in the country here...

...Even though I've been here for almost two years, it still throws me off, [he admits nervously.]

[She nodded at that.]

Yeah, they let me and my friend ride the...long carts. [Trains.] But she had to go to the shops here.

Long carts?

[It...takes a minute.] ...The train?

Oh- yeah, Saffron has a lot of shopping huh...Do you think they'll go by Celadon too?

Yeah. [That thing. It didn't have any horses pulling it, she still didn't get it.] I don't know. I don't think she'd have time for that.

I guess you'll find out then...at least you had time for this party though, right?

Yeah. [She didn't smile, but she closed her eyes. Trying.] I don't know what most the shop things are, so I don't go. [Like she didn't know what the was about. But it was just one thing, not many like if she'd been browsing in the shops.]

Oh....

[Huh.] ...You could probably learn by going, maybe? ...For me at least...even though I've seen some of the stuff here in books, or on TV, most of what I've seen in the stores is honestly pretty new. ...But if you don't take a look, you won't get the chance to learn, right? ...At the start, most things might seem foreign, and strange but...

...I think it's neat to start figuring things out after a while.

Food Tables! + incoming cool history lore I guess

I'm so sorry in advance for the lore things

dw im canonfamiliar lmfaooooo

I meant fairytale lore lol

OH, d'oh....

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