Network and action combo

[wrappedwarm]

Who: Mikasa Ackerman and ???

Where: Route 32, Union Cave, Route 33

When: After Snorunt event

Summary: When you small and your travel buddy just vanishes near a big dark cave

Rating: E for everyone, though might need some warnings later for grim children

Log:
The network part - video
[The recording had started before Mikasa had even centered the camera on herself. Catching the hustle and bustle of a group of pokemon, all seeming a bit antsy. In particular was one big boy that a few people might recognize. All of the others out were Mikasa's own pokemon, standing guard and near their master. The Luxio and Riolu sniffing at the remains of their campsite. The normal playfulness was missing as they got to work in the early morning light.]

Does anyone know about a sneaky pokemon near the cave on...route 32?

[Very stern. For the past few months she'd just started managing to emote again, but that progress was gone now.]

Yachi was sleeping, but now she's gone. All her things are still here.

[Just vanished into the night. Right near the big cave, Yachi wouldn't have gone in willingly but...]






Around, the nearby routes
[It felt like it'd been a long time since Mikasa had been optimistic. Yet it'd been less than a year. A mere year ago, she'd have thought Yachi was fine and left looking to the adults after sending her message. Not now though. Mikasa hadn't really seen aggressive pokemon, but she'd heard stories of wolves and boars back home.

It was enough to push her into taking her pokemon and Ume and looking for Yachi alone, in the hopes she'd find her friend. And that she'd find her friend fine and well and not a body. Ume would help. Yachi's Meganium hadn't wanted to return to his ball and Mikasa didn't have it in her to force him. Besides, he was carrying Yachi's pack. While Riolu and Luxio tried to find a scent, the latter's coat lit up when they ventured into the darker areas.

Mikasa was so determined, that she didn't even realise she'd scaled a near cliff. She'd just kept moving, one foot at a time.]

Union cave
[Eventually though, they'd ran out of options. The only place left to check was the cave that had been looming over the search. There had been no scent trail to it, but there was nothing to indicate Yachi was anywhere else. So in they went.

Not that she could go far. The dark she could handle, but the water and some of the large boulders proved too much. She couldn't swim very well and hadn't brought a pokemon that could with her and not matter how much she pushed. Those boulders weren't moving for her.

So she ducked, trying to find a gap that Yachi might have fit through. Not caring about the dirt, her clothes were already dirty, a little more was fine.]


Route 32 pokemon center
[What wasn't fine was the food situation. She'd had enough supplies to last her a few days without needing to go back to society. Not that she'd actually returned to society when she was running slow, she'd just gone to the nearest pokemon center. Hungry and covered in dirt and scratches, scowling as she stared up and worried Nurse Joy. Though Mikasa seemed mostly impassive to the Nurse's concerns, just standing there and waiting for her pokemon back.]

Comments

[Video] UN:FreddyFazbear

[glamdaddybear]

[He may not know the young girl well yet, but he spoke with her before, and he dislikes that question.]

Are you hurt?

I am too new to know about any such pokemon, but I want to make sure that you are also safe, while your friend is found.

[wrappedwarm]

I'm okay, I'm more worried about Yachi. She gets scared a lot. [Even if she had been hurt, the answer would have been the same.] The pokemon can't find her.

[They were getting nervous, crowding near the remaining human. Protecting.]

[glamdaddybear]

['She gets scared' was a common way for young people to avoid mentioning how they were feeling in a situation, which was worrying. He could not force her to admit if she was scared, or even nervous, but that didn't stop him from feeling worried for her all the same.]

Where did you say you were?

[He is going to see if he can check the map and find out how far from her he was. He didn't even know if he was close but... maybe if he was he could help her? It was clear, from the pok&aecute;mon's nervousness, that this wasn't something normal that she was over reacting to either.]

[wrappedwarm]

[She was an honest girl. The wilderness didn't even remotely bother Mikasa, it was less intimidating than the cities with their cars and machines. Whereas Yachi was almost always nervous about something. So Mikasa was scared for her. The older girl wouldn't have just walked off, not alone without saying anything.]

Route 32, we were camping by the cave.

[glamdaddybear]

Route 32...

[He manages to pull up his map without ending the call and frowns at the information it gives him. He misses being able to get to a person in need of help in a matter of minuets, rather than days. He'd need to see about getting pokémon to make traveling faster, as he'd read about.]

I thought I might be able to get there quickly, but it looks like it is further than I can go... nor do I have supplies to make myself useful in helping to look.

I will keep watch on this to see if your friend calls though, in case you are busy looking and do not see it right away. I am so sorry I can not come help you as I had hoped.

[wrappedwarm]

[One day, Mikasa would have a flying type. Then she could travel quicker, instead of using those short legs.]

It's okay... [Quietly. She'd not been expecting much help. Even if this place was nicer than home. She was used to home, where no one helped.] I just wanted to know if there was any bad pokemon.

[glamdaddybear]

[Freddy disliked being unable to come to her to help, it was a very unsavory feeling to not be able to help a child.]

That is understandable. Please keep yourself safe, watch your surroundings, and keep your pokemon around you, to ensure that you do not also go missing. Please.

[Children were disappearing... that left an odd, terrible taste in his mouth... it was too familiar.]

video;

[schachmeister]

Mikasa, what do you mean, Yachi is gone? Do you mean she is lost in the cave?

[Oh no, poor Yachi. She'll stress herself to death if she's alone in a cave.]

[wrappedwarm]

Don't know, she was sleeping. But when I woke up she was gone.

[Did she go pee and get lost? ]

[schachmeister]

And you can't see her anywhere? She wouldn't have gone far.

[A sense of dread is starting to build, a very familiar sense of dread, but oh, he so badly wants to hope Yachi just went to pee and took a wrong turn.]

[wrappedwarm]

I can't... [Her head dipped. It was all strange, Yachi wouldn't go far, not without Ume. Even if she'd taken her other pokemon. Ume was Yachi's big fighter.] There are a lot of trees and hills here.

[And little cliffs, so Mikasa had a lot to look through.]

[schachmeister]

She has never left you alone before, has she?

[He's... Armin recognises he's stalling a little. He's got that feeling of dread and checking the contact list would reveal instantly whether or not Yachi is still in this world. But, cowardly as it might be, he isn't sure if he wants to answer. He knows he won't be able to avoid it forever, but for a moment, he really wants to believe Yachi is there, just a little lost.]

[wrappedwarm]

Not without telling me she was going... She doesn't like leaving me.

[Entirely because Yachi was scared and not because she was worried about the small child. Totally.]

[angewiesen]

Yachi? You mean the girl you were with?

That's her Pokemon, right? The Meganium.

[wrappedwarm]

Yeah, he doesn't know where she is. The others are gone too.

[angewiesen]

So just the Meganium is left. That's not good.

Do you know her contact info on the Gear?

[wrappedwarm]

I tried but there was no signal. She gets scared easily so she wouldn't leave it.

[angewiesen]

No signal, huh? That's usually a pretty bad sign... Where are you right now?

[wrappedwarm]

Route 32... We were camping outside the cave so we could go in tomorrow.

Action, Route 33

[fayblood]

The thing about being a trainer, is that means taking the time to actually train, right? And more often that not, that means pitting one's team against whatever local wild Pokémon want to battle. Shrike is out here in the middle of the route doing just that, snug in his new Togekiss-hooded cloak, though he does pause and, well, just stare a moment when he sees someone just... scrambling up one of the impossible ledges.

Suffice it to say, looking for more wild Pokémon is forgotten in favor of the kid heading over to the base of the ledge to see if there's some special trick to it.

"How did you do that?"

sorry for the delay new fren

[wrappedwarm]

Mikasa hadn't even noticed him. She and the pokemon had some tunnel vision, he wasn't Yachi and was ignored. It wasn't until he called out that she paused, peering back down over the ledge. It was almost sheer, there wasn't any easy-looking path up.

"Do what?" She'd not thought anything of it, she'd just kept moving. Trying to find something that'd help find Yachi.

It's fine~ <3

[fayblood]

"Climb up there!"

Having failed to spot anything unusual or different about this area of the cliff compared to any others he's scene, Shrike decides to just give it a go himself. He reaches for a handhold, then tries to haul himself up and...

Nope, he's promptly sliding right back down to the start. Darn it.

[wrappedwarm]

"Oh..." She tilted her head the other way, still looking down at him. "I walked?" Offering her very helpful answer. But it was true, she'd not done anything special. Mikasa had just been walking and looking for clues.

She was still watching as he slid down the cliff.

"What are you doing?" Other than climbing badly, sir?

[fayblood]

"I thought maybe this one could be climbed..."

He definitely sounds a fair bit put out about it.

"I've climbed lots of things before, but these ones are weird. You can go down them but you can't climb up..."

He'd try again, but he's pretty sure it won't work. Also, he doesn't want to get his cloak any dirtier than necessary, it had been a gift, after all!

[wrappedwarm]

Slowly, Mikasa made her way back down. Just jumping the last bit once she was close enough to the ground. Giving the man a stare for a few seconds, then the slope.

Then just climbed straight back up, it took her a few minutes. Her feet seemingly found footholds as she went, scaling this cliff like a skiddo. She paused at the top, brushing off her shorts. A part of her wanted to just keep moving, keep looking but this was the first person she'd seen since Yachi had gone missing.

"...Maybe it's because my feet are smaller?"

They could fit in the smaller gaps?