victory_road | save our snorunts event log

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save our snorunts event log

Who: Everyone!
When: January 2-26
Where: Practically everywhere. Maybe not the volcano on Cinnabar Island.
What: Save those Snorunts!
OOC Info: here!

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The hills are alive with the sound of… sneezing?

It’s almost a week into January, and trainers may have started to get nervous about the lack of Snorunts. Whether you’re excited to see them, or just want the metaphorical bomb to drop and be over with - the wait is finally done. Snorunts have started to make their way into town.

But instead of fortunes, what they have to give right now is coughs, bleary eyes, and sad little flops sideways into the snow. They’re not alone, either: every once in a while you’ll see an equally sick Glalie or Froslass. (Be careful - a sneezing Glalie is basically a wrecking ball waiting to happen, prone to launching itself backward! And if you’ve been struck by an odd spurt of bad luck, maybe you’ll be right in the way when it does…)

In cities across Johto and Kanto, and in field camps in between, Nurse Joys are scrambling to treat the miserable Ice Pokemon. But they’re direly in need of more helping hands. Will you pitch in?

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Taking care of sick Pokemon seemed right up Ulaz's alley. Since he wasn't actually treating the Pokemon, he busied himself with other things - cleaning equipment and generally helping to keep things running so that other people could do the work, even if what was needed was to help with cooking food for others.

In the meantime, Irkut the Meowstic had decided this was the perfect opportunity to teach his daughter, still an Espurr, how to use her psychic powers. The two of them were staying low enough that Froslass couldn't see them - watching Irkut practically crawling was a bit amusing - and then the Espurr would launch something in the air with her powers to give the Froslass a distraction and something to freeze. If they missed, it got thrown again. If they hit it, off they went to the next one.

She was very excited, but also staying quiet since the Froslass were much bigger than her and she didn't want to actually attract their attention...

But Ulaz would watch this as he worked, making sure the pair were staying out of trouble.

Radley was cooking a lot and happened to see Ulaz around the location. "Hey," he smiled, going over. "How've things been?"

Ulaz was busying himself with cleaning the equipment that was needed to help with the sick Pokemon. He looked up, hearing the voice of a familiar friend.

"It has been going well. There are many that are sick at the moment unfortunately. How has it been going on your end?"

Radley nodded. "Yeah." He frowned. "Are your Pokemon okay? Mine thankfully are. It's been a pretty wild month, though. We had some weird accidents, like flour exploding everywhere and getting on a lot of the Pokemon."

"Eevee-vee," Evie said. She didn't mind getting to have a bath, at least!

"My Pokemon have been fine thankfully, even with trying to help the sick Pokemon. I'm grateful for that." He blinked in surprise at that. "Exploding flour. That is pretty strange. We haven't had an unexplained issues. Young Pokemon tend to cause their own problems, but that is explainable."

Like Irkut's daughter. She was an Espurr after all.

"Have you found out why this happened?"

"Sometimes it can happen when you try to open a bag and it just won't come," Radley says, "but with it being this time of year and all, I kinda wondered if it was Snorunt bad luck, even if it was just inadvertently caused this time with them being sick."

"Yes, I have seen it with bags that have trouble opening." At the second part, Ulaz made a thoughtful sound. "I supposed it is possible. It is the right time of year and there are many of them around right now."

"Yeah, I've had it happen with cereal bags sometimes. Never with flour before, though."

He sighs and nods. "It's been a pretty hectic month trying to take care of all the sick ones. Seems like they got hit by bad luck this year themselves."

"Hmm... flour does sound strange. It doesn't usually seem to be the one that guess everywhere. Unfortunately, when it does, it is very hard to take care of."

Ulaz nodded. "It does indeed. I feel sorry that it has made nearly all of the Snorunts and their evolutions ill. Strangely, I haven't seen it in other Pokemon."

"It sure was a mess. Luckily, Min was visiting and he helped get everybody cleaned up. It would've taken a lot longer if I'd been on my own."

He frowned and nodded. "That is pretty weird that it's only affecting them. I wonder why that is and if any of the Joys are trying to study it."

"That's good that you had assistance in getting everyone cleaned up. You do have quite a lot of Pokemon."

Ulaz nodded. "I was wondering about that as well. I was not aware that their physique so different from other Pokemon that only they would be affected."

"Yeah. Luckily, not all of them got affected, but there were still quite a few of them," Radley said.

He nodded. "I hope that's not just the first of a bunch of strains that will only affect certain Pokemon."

It would be horrifying for him if a strain affecting Eevees happened.

"I hope that it is not as well. With so many Pokemon, having individual strains could become taxing for everyone and more Pokemon will suffer for it."

Ulaz had a varied enough team that a strain impacting one would not affect many, but he still didn't wish that on any Pokemon, wild or owned.

“It sure would,” he sighed. “I hope this wasn’t some weird Team Rocket plot that went wrong. Like maybe they thought it’d temporarily make Pokemon weak enough to get caught easier.”

He was sure they wouldn’t want to really cause what did happen, at least.

"Hmm... I doubt we'd ever find out if it was. Whether it was successful or not, they'd be foolish to admit something like this because it would make others aware that they were doing it. It does seem like, as a whole, it could have been used for something like that."

He didn't think they would either. As far as he was aware, potentially killing Pokemon was not their motive. Catching them was.

“Yeah, I doubt we’d ever find out unless there’s a whistle-blower or something,” Radley said. “Seems like there aren’t any of those for Team Rocket.”

And he kind of wondered why. Were all the members really that gung-ho? Or were nicer members too afraid to speak out, even anonymously?

"At least not that we are aware of. If there is one, he is not doing a good job."

Ulaz wondered that as well. He knew fully well how people could be corrupted, but there were always people who resisted.

"Yeah, he's sure not.

"Well, let's hope things will settle down after we finally get all the sick Pokemon taken care of. I'm sure everyone will need a break after that."

"I hope that they do as well. Maybe we are all a bit out of sorts with so many sick Snorunts."

Maybe the universe was out of sorts...

"We probably are. It must be a lot worse for people who actually have some of the sick Pokemon."

"Yes, I do not envy them how much they are worrying about their Pokemon right now, either trying to care for them while sick or trying to prevent them from getting sick knowing what is out there."

"Yeah, I'd be a basket case if there was something affecting Eevees," Radley said. "Hopefully we'll be able to figure this out soon."

"Eevee," said Evie.

"I would as well since I'd know that it would be hard for you and your team."

Irkut came wandering with his daughter Espurr in tow.

Radley smiled at that. "I'd feel the same about anything affecting yours."

He smiled at the kitties. "Hey there. How are you guys doing?"

Evie greeted them happily.

"Thank you."

Ulaz glanced over and smiled as Irkut, now a big boy Meowstic gave a wave and a squeak. His daughter also squeaked too, immediately "running" to go see Evie.

"These two have been a lot of help with distracting the Pokemon that need entertainment."

They were short so they were harder to spot (thus not becoming targets themselves) and psychic powers meant they could move things around.

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