[You feel something reaching out and touching your mind... Poking it, actually, like a prodding finger. It withdraws and tries a softer, finer touch. That withdraws too, and there's a pause. Looks like Need can't get around her powerloss and covertly use peoples' senses/look into their minds just by using the pearl network. Unfortunate.

After a moment, Need allows her presence to bloom into the connection and make itself known. If you can gauge this kind of thing at all two things are immediately evident. One is that she's very old. Not tired, not fragile, but distant and distorted to the point where her mind doesn't really feel human. The other is that she's female. There's nothing stereotypically feminine there but it's very clear. She's something crushed into a tiny space a very long time ago and also: she/her.]

Someone always figures out how to make a teleson. [Telepathy via technology.] How far does this reach? Does it work between people who haven't met?

[Need is far more accustomed to speaking mind-to-mind than using anything else, so her "voice" has a particular quality to it that I'm gonna keep rendering as italics.]

Where I'm from it's possible to visit other realities, where things might be very different, and be fully embodied in them but one's actual body remains behind. The more difficult part is getting back to it. I wonder if that's happened here.

Who: Courier Six... and you! Open :3 And yes, this is a mingle-style log as well.
What: That Dragonite? He's now 39 years old, and accidentally admitted it. So a group is gonna burn down his kitchen make him a cake and other goods.
When: October 10th
Where: Perrins' house, in The Archives area.
Warnings: None, but watch for comment headers
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( another year closer to the future he knows )

Who: Umemiya and You
What: Things that happen in October
When: All month, possibly into next
Where: Skull Town, The Spire, Out in the Forest
Warnings: None yet

( We can do the things we like )

Who: Akechi, Ren, and Umemiya
What: Wayfinding in Heavy Downmoor!
When: Early October
Where: Heavy Downmoor
Warnings: Peril and environmental hazards. ...also, a grumpy bird.

( It's a blustery day! )

Who: Tenna, Archnemon, the people doing the TV Studio Quest, and YOU?!
What: Quests, general interactions
When: Throughout October
Where: Cheri Berries guild, Bottlecap Bay + surrounding areas, and wherever the wildcard takes us
Warnings: (Potential) Deltarune chapter 3 spoilers, Tenna's volatile emotions. Will add more as they come up.

( Read more... )

Who: Siffrin (ISAT), Anasui, ???? more at some point probably
What: Questin'
When: Throughout October
Where: Places
Warnings: Will update if needed...!!

( Read more... )

Who: Kris, Emporio, Chara, ???
What: Questin'
When: Throughout October
Where: Places
Warnings: Probably some battling, probably some child endangerment... will update if needed

( Read more... )

Who: Flowey & Kinger, Tenna, Cedric, Kris, Impmon, and maybe more!
What: Quests, quests, quests! He's a busy boy! 
Where: The Woods surrounding and beyond Death Blood Murder Skull Town, Umemiya's future garden
When: Throughout October
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), Flowey's trauma (mentions of/themes of depression, depersonalization, guilt, child death, murder), others TBA

Who: Kinger, Cedric, and You (especially fellow Oran Berries?)
What: Kinger coming to terms with being a Pokémon in Bottlecap Bay
Where: The Spire (plus anywhere a Wildcard takes us)
When: Early October
Warnings: At least amnesia? I can't think of any others right now.

( I can cook a mean mushroom chowder. With couscous. )

Who: Kris, Umemiya, Archnemon, Shoka, Bigby, Siffrin (SA), Kinger, Sanji, Need, Ren, Akechi, Anasui, Emporio, Ingo, Emmet... and Noelle!!
What: Move over Team Intimidate, there's a cooler Pokemon that needs saving.
When: Early October
Where: All over
Warnings: Will update as needed!!

( more like FREEZE AND FAWN am i right )

Is this thing — how does —

[ Let there be video of one sorry looking rat holding his pearl as far away from himself as possible. Somehow, he looks even more disheveled than usual, with eyebags practically to the floor.

Those who recognize him might also notice his fur is looking extra wispy today. Perhaps even a bit see-through? That’s different, isn’t it? ]

Okay. Okay. Does... does anyone know Sleep Powder? [ There’s some unbecoming desperation in his voice. He’s just asking for a friend here. ] Yawn, maybe? Or — fuck, what — Spore?

[ Anyone with a keen-eye will likely note that he’s also not at the Spire, but the Archives. Lum Berries are more than welcome to bump into (pass through?) their new rodent problem if they so wish. ]

And no, a punch to the head won’t work.

[ Ghosts are immune to Fighting-type moves, as it turns out. ]

Who: Dolly + you!
What: None Quests Threads first. Will be adding Quest Threads later on :3
Where: Southern Forest, Bay Town, Lum Berry Low Tier Housing, The Archives, and more to be added on as the month goes on.
When: Throughout most of October
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death that comes with hunting. Will update more as it goes along.

Who: Siffrin + Flowey, Henry, maybe more
What: Quests for now!
Where: Heavy Downmoor, Southern Forest
When: Early October (for now)
Warnings: Potentially Siffrin's warnings, the usual quest peril

Who: Emmet, Ingo, Siffrin, Bigby, Firoza ... and you?
What: Post-Scholastic Decisions with Siffrin (1), some questions arise! also, Bigby's no good, very bad, horrible day. and, well, the festival does have its effects on the resident ghosts...?
When: throughout September, maybe early October depending
Where: various! icefall lake, out and about around skull town, thereabouts.
Warnings: Siffrin's usual warnings, environmental hazards maybe, otherwise to be added if needed?

( everything inside me is nothing but a memory )

Who: Siffrin (ISAT) and Odile
What: normal things happening at the pokepastry shop
When: Early October
Where: Bottlecap Bay City Center
Warnings: Spoilers for In Stars And Time, Siffrin's extremely bad no good mental health

( I'll find out eventually. )

[The image that comes through the Grumpearls is...dirt. Dirt flying, tiny clawed paws pushing it back, the sound of it crumbling and tumbling rushing in your ears. The occasional scrape of claw against...metal? Steel? And that accompanying shiver as if you had run your nails down a chalkboard-]

Thal's unrelenting balls-

[And Firoza's voice! With a creative swear. Who is Thal and why are his balls so unrelenting? Might have to ask her about that later, because now...

Now, the edge of something shiny, even in the dark shadow of the forest, was just properly breaking through the dirt. Firoza pauses to gape at it, and you can just...you can feel the swell of emotions that comes through, she can't hold them back. Something bittersweet, something that twinges with pain, but something reassuring as well. Something wonderous.]

How...how in the world did you get here...?

[And then the urge to dig overwhelms her once again. Panting, sweating, exhausted, eventually Firoza pulls out an honest-to-gods kite shield with a red unicorn as part of is heraldry from the earth, and the Grumpearl fades off as she declares,]

IT'S MY FUCKING SHIELD!!

[...She's. Uh. This is. How? Why? Fuck it, it's her shield!!]

Who: Agnes and You
What: The process of getting acclimated to a new body and a new world
When: October
Warnings: Mention of Agnes' canonical death (no details), discussion of gruesome use of human remains, cult activity, fire used to destroy important things.

She never actually put any milk in it. She never even drank it. She’d just take it over and sit there, staring out the window into the street for an hour or so, then stand up and leave. I’d go over to clear away her coffee. It was always scalding hot.

The way she always used to order the coffee, it always sounded like she was enjoying it. The order, I mean. Like the phrase “one black coffee with room for milk” was a delightfully novel thing for her to say.
( “one black coffee with room for milk” )

[It's no surprise that Fireheart is feeling ashamed, after he overworked himself into a coma for a month and a half. And after nearly everyone who knows him has been telling him for months to take it easy... he is finally starting to listen. A little.]

So... there's a few things I want to talk about. But the most important one, is, well- I've got a warrior name now. When we were sending out those boats, I saw- Bluestar, my old Clan's leader.

[He only knew her for a short time, a lifetime ago, but there's still a somber tone in his voice. ThunderClan was where he thought he belonged for a long time, after all. ThunderClan has been on his mind less and less every day, but having his adult name still means a lot.]

She called me Fireheart. So... that's what I'd like everyone to call me. Firepaw was a kitten name, so... it's good to feel like an adult, properly.

[He wavers a little before continuing... he really should have rehearsed this a little.]

I'm going to cut down on my work, and... I think I'm done hanging around the Clinic for a while. So I'll be focusing on recovering this month, and then running messages for the senior Cheri members for a bit. Staying in the city, for the most part, unless someone needs me.

[He said 'month' instead of 'moon'... and doesn't seem to have noticed it.]

I think that's everything. And, if anyone needs to talk, after... Froslass... I'm happy to listen.