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

[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?

[seacub]

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.

[wrappedwarm]

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.]

[seacub]

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.

[wrappedwarm]

...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.

[seacub]

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.]

[wrappedwarm]

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.

[seacub]

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.]

[wrappedwarm]

[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.

[seacub]

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?

[wrappedwarm]

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.

[seacub]

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

[wrappedwarm]

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.]

[seacub]

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.

[wrappedwarm]

[Even back home, she was a country bumpkin. Now she was from the 500s(ish) and still a country bumpkin. Her childhood home didn't even have indoor plumbing. This place had so many weird things.]

TV... That's the picture box? [Oh, she'd seen them. She knew a thing, see?]

[seacub]

Yeah! [Hey, he won't judge!] There's a lot of neat stuff that shows up on them, even if I don't always have time to watch...normally I'm on the road in a tent after all.

[wrappedwarm]

[Solemn(?) nodding.]

...I prefer that. It's too loud in the towns here. It's nicer in the forests.

[seacub]

Yeah...

...I didn't get to see anything like this at home- just...a lot of concrete, so it's nice to experience it as much as I can!

...even if I keep attracting ghosts...

[wrappedwarm]

[There were opposites! Because even in Shinganshina, she'd been overwhelmed by all the stone buildings. It was all very different to the little wood cabin she'd grown up in.]

The dead things? [Yep, that's what ghosts are.]

[seacub]

[Emporio never left One concrete building though- and really, what's a literal prison to an unknown prison in the form of walls and titans? Well, there's a lot of differences, but anyway]

Sort of. Not all ghost pokemon are actually dead. ...Though some definitely are.

[wrappedwarm]

[Just, her face. The little scrunched up nose.]

I got told that one are kids that died in the forest.

[seacub]

Oh! Phantump!

[Said with alarming casualness.] I sometimes wonder if that origin is why Trevenant are the way they are...

Phantump evolve into Trevenant, [Emporio explains, before going on.] They're supposedly fearsome...but more importantly, they're protectors of the woods, taking care of the pokemon and plants in their area!

[................Realizing he might have been rambling a bit, he coughs.]

Erm. Anyway...the one I was talking about was Yamask actually; they carry burial masks representing the faces of their past lives. The one I have was...a chef I guess? ...We won third place at a cooking contest together, but I don't remember most of the contest...

[............oh he was possessed...]