019. [Text/Action for Mahogany Town, and one other thing.]

[explosivecombat]

[TEXT]

Does anyone know if the hideous creatures permeating this region of late are deceased humans, deceased Pokémon, or some ungodly combination of both?

It's nothing I had ever given thought to before, nor will your answer affect my thoughts on them. I'm merely curious about what it is that I'm repeatedly destroying, and whether I have something unfortunate to look forward to if this place decides that I'm the lucky person who dies on a permanent level out here.


[ACTION]

[Well, a very brief time after that text hits the network, it seems Kimblee has escaped whatever Ghost-free location he was in before.

Kimblee hasn't taken kindly to the ghosts here; he never has, really, and the fact that they're now in the cities isn't doing anything to help with that little issue. However, he's also never taken kindly to the idea that he simply can't do something, or the knowledge that some things are simply beyond his physical and mental boundaries, and it seems that today he's finally reached something of a breaking point.

He has Dorian out with him today, as well as Ramsay; he's loaded the latter with TMs, taking full advantage of the fact that Absols can learn Damn Near Everything. Kimblee himself seems to have decided that he has absolutely no fucks left to give; people in the general vicinity of Mahogany Town this evening may notice a figure dressed in white wandering through the fog, looking vaguely like one of the undead himself. His motions are tightly controlled, the orders he's giving his Pokémon clipped and tense; he's also trying to act like every time he comes across one of the Ghost-types everywhere he doesn't promptly flail a little and overkill the hell out of the poor level 20s with Fire Blast from a level 100 Fire-type.

He seems...determined (it's just a very skittish sort of determined, okay) to find and destroy every damn ghost in this town, judging from the flames everywhere; the local ghost population likely has no idea what it did to have quite this much hell rained down on it, but there certainly is a lot of hell going on here, goddamn.

...he really doesn't like ghosts, okay. At least they can't be harmed with Explosion, else this would be much, much worse.]



[PRIVATE TEXT TO EMMY ALTAVA]

Miss Altava,

I apologize for the abruptness of the message, but I need to speak to you immediately; get in contact with me, if you can?

Comments

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[her_mouse_jesty]

They're regular Pokemon. This isn't the first time they've caused so much trouble around Halloween.

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[explosivecombat]

I don't recall them being quite this high in number last year, though I admit I was a bit preoccupied at the time.

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[her_mouse_jesty]

They were bad last year and the year before that. I really don't understand it, because I have a ghost Pokemon, and he's the sweetest thing.

[explosivecombat]

I know a few people who own them; I have one myself, and she's reasonably all right, I suppose. I've raised a few others, but...well. Let's say I don't get along with the type.

Might I ask which species you own?

[her_mouse_jesty]

Mine is a Gengar named Pluto! I caught him as a Gastly at Bellsprout Tower my first year here.

[explosivecombat]

I can't say I've ever been fond of Gengar, as a whole.

...might I ask what he was named after, however?

[NO REALLY

WHY DOES HE KNOW, LIKE, EVERYONE WITH SOMETHING NAMED THAT]

[her_mouse_jesty]

He was named after my faithful dog.

[explosivecombat]

You get along that well with it?

[Oh my god, woman, the more he finds out about you, the more hardcore you are. You get along with gengars and doesn't afraid of anything, clearly.]

[her_mouse_jesty]

That's right. He's very loyal and kind, just like dog Pluto. He even tried to help defend me from the other ghosts when the first scary Halloween happened.

[explosivecombat]

I see.

[He sort of doesn't.]

Did something particularly odd happen that first year?

[her_mouse_jesty]

The ghosts took the forms of our worst fears.

[explosivecombat]

[...leto take the wheel]

Is that something they're normally capable of?

[her_mouse_jesty]

No, thank goodness. It's only happened once, but it was so awful, I may never forget it.

[explosivecombat]

I can't say that I blame you; it certainly doesn't seem the sort of thing that most would recover easily from.

I do admit that it sounds interesting in a very...masochistic sort of way, I suppose, given that some wouldn't know what to expect in that circumstance; I personally don't know what I would have seen, really. Just the same, I think I would prefer not to find out firsthand.

[her_mouse_jesty]

I hope you never will. Please keep safe. It seems that things are very strange this year, and I'd hate if anything happened to you.

[explosivecombat]

I've noticed a higher concentration of people seeming to completely lose their minds lately, if that's what you're referring to.

[her_mouse_jesty]

Of course! I just wish there was something I could do to help. Last year was embarrassing enough, but at least we could cure it.

[explosivecombat]

Well, there was that incident last February that resolved itself eventually; perhaps this is similar?

[her_mouse_jesty]

I suppose so. I just don't like waiting for it. There are so many wh are going to be sad and embarrassed.

[explosivecombat]

Unfortunately, that seems to be quite the recurring theme around here.

[her_mouse_jesty]

I wonder why that is.

[explosivecombat]

I'm not sure, but some of the things this place likes to cause are bordering on sadistic, if you ask me.

[her_mouse_jesty]

But the really mean things only happen once a year.