Post by muscovitemankey on Dec 7, 2014 14:46:21 GMT -6
I AM THE LEGENDARY HIRO TANAKA! (Ft. Ari Camapri)
16:01 RefMankey Lacunosa Town was a gorgeous spot in Unova. Culture brimmed from architecture that's lied for possibly thousands of years! The people here pay heed to the plaques and decor about the city. Hiro Tanaka's and Ari Campari's apartments were no exception. Formed of brick, the spot was between a set of marble and stone buildings from a generation past this one.
16:03 RefMankey Their room, however, was a complete mess. Perhaps this is for the tools of the artists' trades. Regardless, it should've been clear the room was a mess - especially with the current lighting. Even a few pieces of memorbrillia were scattered about.
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16:07 ZekeRef Ari was playfully rolling a ball of yarn across the living room floor for his skitty to chase. The cloth easily became tangled in the kitten pokemon;'s paws.The brunet petted the pink ball of fluff and stood up, stretching. He looked at the mess that had accumulated over time due to his boyfriend being a musician and Ari being...well generally messy,
16:10 Rayblade Taking the time to actually look around the apartment, he could easily see that both he, and his mate had not been getting around to cleaning that apartment. The whole apartment was a big mess, one that Hiro couldn't stand to be in for too long. "Hey Ari, do you think it's time we cleaned up the apartment...?" Hiro asked kindly.
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16:15 ZekeRef Ari tilted his directions of his line of sight to look directly at his skitty's cute face. "I dunno Hiro..." Ari picked up the kitten pokemon and then picked up the mangled ball of yarn, tossing it at Hiro while sticking his tongue out. He then fled towards the small kitchen, shouting,"I'll try to clean the dishes...yuck!"
16:17 Rayblade Hiro responded as the ball of yarn had hit his face. "Oh come now, it can't be all that bad. We'll be done in a matter of seconds." hiro said with a small smile as he began to pick up various objects on the floor.
16:20 RefMankey Ari began to shuffle through their belongings. More than just littered sheet music, trash of all kinds found itself disposed. This made the wastebin a cocktail of bizarre, yet organic, smells. All in all, it was a sharp scent.
16:21 ZekeRef Ari let Chase down on the counter as the green eyed young adult became making some warm, soupy dishwater, noting they were almost out of the liquid. Ari walked over the fridge and scribble on the shopping list they kept,'dish soap'. He then walked back over to the sink only to find skitty splashing around in the sink. Ari sighed and picked him up and placed
16:21 ZekeRef it on the floor, not really caring if the kitten tracked water on the floor. Ari began cleaning the dishes with a sponge.
16:25 RefMankey Once a mess, the apartment was already beginning to appear a more organized lot. Leaving the note regarding dish soap on the fridge, Ari went on to manage his Skitty; one that was somewhat ruffled, but briefly so. Cleaning dishes was the next task. And the scrubbing was fast, but...helter-skelter.
16:27 RefMankey *ring*
16:27 RefMankey Oh! Something dropped from the pile of sheet music!
16:28 ZekeRef Ari decided the dishes were done except for a pan he didn't wash but Hiro wouldn't ntoice would he? He spent the next few minutes cleaning down the counters and table.
16:29 Rayblade As Hiro continued to pick up many objects from the floor, and put them in proper areas, Hiro had asked Ari whether he needed his assistance or not. "Ari do you need any help?" He asked before he noticed something fall from the sheet music. "Hmm? What the..." He said as he went to check.
16:32 ZekeRef Ari shook his head slightly at the sound of Hiro asking him if he needed help. It was just a small task to clean their tiny kitchen even if Ari only half-assed things."Nah, I got it already." He stuck his tongue out between his lips slightly, looking around the semi-clean kitchen before spraying some air freshener they kept inside the cabinet.
16:34 RefMankey This unusual object was nothing more than...a silver monocle? Whatever this object was, its frame could almost serve as a mirror. The lenses, however, were clotted by dirt and mess.
16:38 Rayblade Hiro starred at what appeared to be a monocle. Looking at it he could easily tell, it wasn't clean, and needed to be wiped. However as he stared he thought it would be a good item for Ari, and his contests. "Hey Ari, I found a monocle here. You could use it for contests. Although they need to be cleaned" He said as he held the monocle in the air.
16:41 ZekeRef Chase was already running towards Hiro, trying to get a good look and sniff at the dirty accessory. Ari then walked in a moment later, looking at the wet puddles the skitty tracked across the floor."Ah, that's a nice find, maybe we can find next week's rent somewhere in this mess too...just wishful thinking." Ari crossed his fingers."Need any help in here?"
16:46 Rayblade Hiro kindly declined, and responded "That's quite alright. I believe we'll be done sooner if we work on different task." Hiro said as he handed Ari the monocle. "but maybe we should step outside for a bit once we're done..." He said as he continued to clean the room.
16:48 ZekeRef "Some fresh air should be good for all of us. We could go to the park and let Emma and Chase play." Ari suggested and as he was handed the monocle. He went to the bathroom to clean the piece of glass.
16:51 RefMankey Oh, the bathroom. Surprisingly, this area was well-kempt, especially where there was plumbing. Specks of lint littered the bathroom, but otherwise, it wasn't spotty. Maybe that didn't apply to the supplies lying around...everywhere.
16:52 RefMankey At least the room didn't smell like hodgepodges of artificial soaps and scents.
16:54 Rayblade "Phew... I think that's pretty good... Now to go clean the bedroom" Hiro said to himself, as he walked towards the bathroom to finish up cleaning. "After this I think we'll be done..."
16:55 ZekeRef Ari lightly dampened a wash cloth and placed a dab of soap on the rag, running the piece of glass under a light spray of warm water from the sink, getting all the grim off the monocle. He held it up to the light and smiled."Perfect.".
17:01 RefMankey Tender care refined the glass. Though the washcloth was a fair tool, it exposed another flaw in the glass: a teensy, jagged scratch near the bottom. It jagged up, and distorted an almost pious mirror effect. Meanwhile, Tanaka was doing a fair job organizing the bathroom essentials. Upon opening the medicine cabinet, no Weedle came flying out.
17:04 ZekeRef Ari did a double take at the monocle with the light it hit it."Hmm...it looks cool so it's okay." Ari smiled at the scratch."It gives it character."
17:04 ZekeRef *when
17:05 Rayblade Hiro had finished cleaning the remaining essentials within the bathroom, and commented. "Okay. I'm going to go clean the bedroom now okay Ari? After that we should be done." Hiro said as he left the bathroom, and wondered into the bedroom to finish cleaning.
17:09 ZekeRef "Sounds good." Ari walked out of the bathroom and put the monocle in his accessory case on the couch before sitting down and putting his boots on, tying the laces tightly.
17:13 RefMankey The bedroom was its own mess. Clothing was scattered all over the place, and not in a (now empty) closet. There were a few boxes here and there, packed with nick-nacks and toys of younger days, but no clothes! At least the few desks, placed around the room, were in decent shape.
17:16 RefMankey Putting himself together, Ari was almost packed for an adventure. The one thing to note was a strange piece of rice paper sticking out of a bed-desk. Was it sheet music? It wasn't like every other sheet of music Hiro put away.
17:18 ZekeRef Typically Ari wasn't a very nosy person but the paper was fairy more strange than what Hiro usually had laying about. Ari pulled the paper out of the bed -desk and looked at the paper.
17:25 RefMankey *unravel* It unraveled almost like a scroll. This paper was no magician's, however, but a note of ancient wisdom: "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. --Sun Tzu." It was an unusual place for philosophical works, and yet, here it was. Apparently, a sticker noted the piece was from a bookstore, selling for just 50
17:25 RefMankey Poke.
17:27 ZekeRef Ari looked towards Hiro and looked back at the scroll."Is this yours?
17:27 ZekeRef "
17:28 Rayblade Hiro responded as he looked at the scroll. "I don't remember buying it... Maybe I did and I don't remember..." He said as he went back to cleaning up the bedroom.
17:30 ZekeRef Ari put the scroll back on the desk and picked up some clothes off the floor, hanging them up inside the closet."Let's hurry so we can go outside~" Ari said cheerfully, wanting to run in the sunshine and watch their pokemon play.
17:32 Rayblade "don't worry we're almost done. Just a bit more and we can go. Maybe we can also go to a contest, or catch pokemon while we're out." Hiro said as he put up most of his sheet music, and other valuables.
17:34 ZekeRef Ari put all his cases in to his bag, stuffing them in there. Luckily he didn't have too much other junk in there, so his poffin, accessory, and pokeblock case all fit in nicely. Ari organized his plushies onto his desk and decided the room was clean enough."We're done, no more cleaning Hiro. No more..."
17:36 Rayblade "Well if you insist." Hiro replied as he grabbed his pokeball containing Emma, and his back containing all his items. "Where should we head first Ari?" He asked kindly
17:39 ZekeRef "To the park of course." Ari placed Chase inside his pokeball and put it on his belt. he then got a frisbee from on of the boxes with a piplup design on it.
17:39 ZekeRef ((taking a shower brb 20ish minutes))
17:40 Rayblade ))Alright))
17:41 RefMankey Locations, locations! Even Accumula Town had sights worth seeing, so this cultural city would lack no facilities. Well, industrial areas were a scarcity, but parks were a-plenty. Scattered about the city like stalactites in a cave, they were sightly, but omnipresent. The closest one even had a newspaper stand, one where articles were printed free of cost to
17:42 RefMankey citizens.
17:42 RefMankey ( You gotcha~ )
17:50 Rayblade "Hmmm... Maybe reading the news will do me some good..." Hiro said as he casually walked towards the stand and picked up a newspaper to read the latest news. "Let's see what's going..."
17:59 ZekeRef ((back))
17:59 RefMankey ( gotcha )
18:02 RefMankey It was a small commute to Kzyl park. One plaque, just by skimming, read this: "[200 years ago], the expert bassoonist Kzyl fought racial tensions to unite people, keeping differences aside. The city commends his efforts in..." and that's when the plaque got specific. Grass here was worthy of a bassoonist; almost like bamboo, being curled, but still present.
18:03 RefMankey And of course, the free newspaper stand. Composed of steel, newspapers were tilted over to lie diagonally in these cubbies. The pages were rubber-banded together.
18:04 ZekeRef Ari looked over Hiro's shoulder to read the paper."What's it say, anything important?"
18:05 Rayblade "Huh... never read any heading such as that..." Hiro said as he then turned to Ari. He then responded. "I'm not so sure honestly... Why don't you take a read too?"
18:06 RefMankey There were many headings. In fact, they were all deserving of their own reads:
18:08 RefMankey 'SHELLDER POPULATION EXPLODES ON ROUTE 13!" "LISIA VISITS LACUNOSA FOR CONTESTS - WOWS COMPETITION, INSPIRES CROWD!" "VOLTORB SPOTTED ON SKYARROW BRIDGE?"
18:09 ZekeRef "Ooh Lisia is in town? Where...ugh...I've seen her on TV but I'm scared to meet her. She's so good too...Hiro, first world problems right here."
18:10 RefMankey "GARDEVOIR REVEALED TO BE BEHIND MURDERS? AN INSIDE LOOK FROM A VICTIM" "PepCo STOCK GAINS 300 POINTS - COMPANY GOES WILD!" "REMAINS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION FOUND IN MAN'S BACKYARD - BONES ACCIDENTALLY USED AS FUEL" "CASTLE PURPORTED TO EXIST UNDERNEATH ROUTE 9?"
18:12 Rayblade "I agree, but all of these headlines are quite strange I must admit. What do you think Ari?" Hiro asked as he looked directly at Ari.
18:14 ZekeRef "This is why I don't read the newspaper...or read in general. This stuff is fabricated and over-exaggerated. Let's just go to the park."
18:16 Rayblade "Well off to the park I guess. It'll be good to have Emma, and Chase play around in the open." Hiro said as he put the newspaper back, and began to walk towards the park.
18:20 RefMankey Kzyl Park was an open location. A group of middle-aged men were holding a picnic, and two women jogged alongside a Herdier. They were carefree in their jogging, peering nowhere but the trail ahead. Speaking of trail, one trail passed through the park and stretched across the entire city! The other park attendees were alone, lying on park blankets or
18:24 RefMankey playing with their Pokemon. One man of about twenty stood dead in the middle of the park. His body was no stranger to activity, but wasn't quite a bodybuilder's either. His yellow eyes watched a Skitty threw a pink tennis-ball back to the man.
18:26 ZekeRef Ari released Chase out of his pokeball and the kitten jumped around happily and rolled into the grass. It looked so happy to be out of the tiny apartment. Ari smiled at his skitty and held the frisbee out, looking towards his boyfriend."What should we do first?"
18:27 RefMankey *bof*
18:28 Rayblade Hiro reached out for his pokeball as his Emolga jumped out of the ball. The Emolga had already seemed happy, and began to fly around blissfully. "I'm not very sure. Maybe we can have a nice chat with the locals?
18:29 RefMankey Skitty [Chase] M 20/20 HP, Emma [Emolga] F 20/20 HP
18:33 ZekeRef "Ah...talk to the locals...Okay, you can talk to them. I'll stand behind you and nod my head." Ari threw the piplup designed frisbee towards Emma and Chase."We can talk to uh..." The green eyed coordinator looked around the park,"Oh hey," He noticed a man throwing a ball back and forth to a skitty,"he has a skitty too."
18:36 Rayblade "Does he? Well maybe Chase, and the other skitty can go play. That sounds like a pretty good idea. Let's go talk to him first shall we Ari?" Hiro said as he casually walked towards the man, and his skitty, waving. "Hello!" Hiro said with a friendly smile.
18:36 RefMankey In their bliss, Emma and Chase breathed new life. The joy of exercise finally reached them, and the frisbee only fueled their emotion. The two were already content to toss it between one another.
18:47 RefMankey Meanwhile, the two were on prompt to approach the man and his Skitty. They were almost playing wall ball with the tennis ball, sending it back and forth at rapid speeds. The man held the ball for just a moment, yelling: "Hang on, Drusilla." His Skitty returned to his side, noticing the two affable-looking folk. "Hello!" one of them said.
18:48 RefMankey The man wasn't usually interrupted during training, but he had a few minutes to spare here. With his best regards: "Oh, hey...! You new here?"
18:50 Rayblade "No, not exactly new, but we came to say hi. My name is Hiro Tanaka, and this is Ari Campari. How are you doing today?" Hiro asked politely.
18:53 ZekeRef Ari waved quietly towards the man, turning his head slightly to watch Emma and Chase throw their frisbee back and forth.
18:53 RefMankey "Huh..." noted the broad-shouldered man. Six foot four, he loomed above Ari and Hiro, albeit not by much. "...introductions? Very well," he said reluctantly. A right-most, coal-black undercut laid silent as he was. Until now.
18:57 RefMankey "I am Basajaun Kedzierski." He was slow to pronounce his last name. Looking down at Hiro, Basajaun noted: "...nice exchanging with you, then." The Skitty, determined to keep its energy, circled around
18:57 RefMankey Basajaun.
18:58 RefMankey The game of catch was rather lopsided in Emma's favor, the Skitty too slow to keep up with the squirrel's electrifying throwing speed. It caused a Taillow far above Emma to watch the game from above.
19:00 Rayblade "Well then... may we ask what you're doing this fine day...?" Hiro asked nicely once again. He felt as if Basajaun was not interested in talking, so he tried to keep it short
19:01 ZekeRef Ari looked at Basajaun's skitty and then back at his own. He felt albeit enviously that Chase wasn't as fast at this man's skitty or Emma. Maybe he would start physically and mentally training Chase soon.
19:03 RefMankey "Aye," he replied. There was a change in tone after watching these two's Pokemon, a Skitty and an Emolga, play catch with one another. To that, Basajuan has a reply: "Dursilla and I are preparing for Undella's Pokeathlon." Crossing his arms, the tall man suddenly became more interested in this conversation. "Have you heard of the Pokeathlon, by chance?"
19:07 ZekeRef "Yes, I almost entered one a few years ago." Ari said quietly."They're interesting to say the least." Ari said quietly.
19:07 Rayblade "Yes I have heard of them. I hear great trainers, and pokemon compete there. It must be great to have such a strong bond with your pokemon, if you're competing!" Hiro said with interest in his voice. "I myself is a musician, and Ari is a coordinator. Can you tell us what the pokeathlon is like?"
19:12 RefMankey "Oh!" The man's stoic expression...was still almost blank, if it wasn't warming. "Then maybe..." and that's when, almost like a performance, Drusilla crawled up his back and onto his shoulder. "I can say!" He was more or less reluctant to pay heed to Ari, and answered the curious Hiro's questions.
19:15 RefMankey "It's a composition for the body. Truly, it allows my Pokemon and I to become one with eachother, and exude our strength to the world!" He then rubbed Drusilla on its hand-tail. Then, looking to Ari, he had his own question to ask. "Now, you /were/ interested?"
19:17 RefMankey The Taillow finally stopped watching the two frisbee-tossing Pokemon, leaving at once.
19:19 ZekeRef "I've always wanted to participate in one of the contest but I don't do good with crowds. I spend about 2 months training but I just couldn't force myself to enter. I do love the adrenaline rush and the teamwork though."
19:24 RefMankey "So you're...crowd-shy?" Basajaun was looking to his left, watching the Pokemon play. That, or the joggers. Regardless, he wanted to give Ari the truth. It's a hard truth, one difficult to digest. But would he?
19:25 RefMankey Losing his doubt, he spoke looking away from Ari. "I was, at one point. the same. Until..." Basajaun drifted off somewhere with his words. Just where was he going with this?
19:27 ZekeRef "Until what..."Ari asked the taller man. he felt Chase nuzzle his leg and he looked down petting the kitten before it scampered off to go nuzzle Emma.
19:33 RefMankey "...it wasn't about the crowd." He turned back to Ari. "I learned that the crowds didn't matter. We entered...for ourselves." He then pulled out a giant, three-liter bottle of water from his black trenchcoat, and *drank* up.
19:33 RefMankey *GULP GULP*
19:33 RefMankey Basajaun 18/18HP
19:37 ZekeRef Ari watched the man drink the 3 litter of water within seconds."Can't you explode from that much water or something...?" Ari looked to Hiro, "Right?"
19:38 Rayblade "Water is good for you. I think it's fine" Hiro said casually.
19:38 ZekeRef "But that's too much water."
19:39 RefMankey That was a misconception Basajaun squashed in seconds, leaning towards Hiro's suggestion. "Water can only replenish the body! It's A-OK to drink - just watch yourselves!" And that's when Basajaun begun to laugh. Straight-faced to /laughter/.
19:41 ZekeRef Ari was put off by the man. He was intimating at first but now he was just flat out creepy. Ari nodded slightly and grabbed Hiro's wrist."Let's go see some other people and chat. Maybe they're lonely."
19:42 Rayblade "Huh? Wh- Ari wait a second... Uhhh, it was a pleasure talking to Basajuan" Hiro said before he was completely dragged off.
19:46 RefMankey Basajaun was somewhat offed by Ari's sudden interjection. Regardless, he had one thing to say to the two leaving men: "...uh, you too!" And that left him with Drusilla, the Skitty that left a soft whimper for Chase, but would be lost in the escape.
19:49 RefMankey Well, not to say the rest of Kzyl park was closed off. There was a sandwich vendor about 120 meters away, and between it and the vendor was a patch of taller bamboo. And a few of the rods were /rustling/.
19:53 ZekeRef Ari looked towards the rustling bamboo."That's odd..." he stepped towards the bamboo and looked through the plants.
19:54 Rayblade "What's wrong Ari?" Hiro asked, as he stared in the direction he was. "Did you seen anything weird just now?" He asked.
19:55 RefMankey No, he definitely saw something bizarre. The bamboo, tall and proud, could conceal a resting Onix. And here it was, shaking and crumbling. That's all thanks to...
19:57 RefMankey ...an elephant's nose, crunching on the plant like candy!
19:58 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP
19:58 ZekeRef nope
19:58 ZekeRef *leaves*
20:00 Rayblade "What the... A Drowzee crunching on a Onix...? Ari, i'm not hallucinating am I...?" Hiro asked with disbelief
20:02 RefMankey Nope. He was being lied to by his brain. That was an ordinary Drowzee eating ordinary bamboo in an ordinary park. This is not a super Drowzee. But there was another super Pokemon approaching the herbivore, ready to fight it for crop.
20:04 RefMankey From the lower realms emerged a Scraggy, an older-looking one at that, that was displaced by the grass. But now it wanted said grass.
20:04 RefMankey And it wouldn't share.
20:04 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP VS Scraggy M 20/20 HP
20:08 Rayblade Looking at the two feuding pokemon, Hiro slowly bent down on the grass and plucked out a long strand of grass. "We can't have pokemon fight like this, can we...?" Hiro said as approached the Scraggy, and offered it the blade of grass. "Here you go" He said with a smile.
20:09 RefMankey Pokemon could very well be parrots. That Scraggy was one of the cities, taking words at will. So when Hiro approached the Scraggy, holding his sliver of grass, the Scraggy uttered an unexpected phrase: "NO!" It *swatted* that crap from his hand, and prepared the first strike!
20:09 RefMankey It used *faint attack* on Drowzee!
20:10 RefMankey The Drowzee, awoken by the attack, retaliated with *pound*!
20:10 RefMankey They...*slam*
20:10 RefMankey COLLISION!
20:10 RefMankey *slap* *slap* *SLAP*
20:11 RefMankey The Drowzee countered the Scraggy with not one, not two...THREE separate slaps! Each one put a whooping on the thuggish Scraggy.
20:11 ZekeRef Ari sighed at Hiro's failed actions of trying to stop them ffrom fighting. The brunet walked over the sandwich stand to buy 2 sandwiches in hopes the wild pokemon would eat it.
20:11 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP VS Scraggy M 12/20 HP
20:12 RefMankey "ACK!" And with that, the Scraggy fled to the stands....with its pants down!
20:13 RefMankey It wasn't the Drowzee that cared. Not that it bested the thug, it could go right back to the bamboo. It even acknowledged Hiro's efforts, offering the boy a small stash of the tall grass.
20:15 RefMankey The Scraggy, meanwhile, found itself in open space. Covering its head, it ran wherever it could find security. That sandwich shop....hey! It wasn't being watched! So the Scraggy picked up its trousers and ran there.
20:16 Rayblade Hiro petted the Drowzee on it's head, as he kindly declined shaking his head no. However Hiro then walked to where the scraggy was and asked if it was hungry. "Are you hungry Scraggy?" He asked
20:16 RefMankey Ari approached the sandwich vendor, a sixty-years-old man without beard or pennance. His round face resembled a politicians', if only because of the smile. "What can I do for 'ya," asked the vendor? Subs were on the menu.
20:17 ZekeRef 'Hmm, one cheese sub and one meat sub please."
20:18 RefMankey "That'll be sixty Pokedollars," the old man replied, already preparing the subs. The Scraggy situated itself underneath the wheels of the truck. Only now, it had Hiro to deal with. Again.
20:19 RefMankey It immediately *snapped* at Hiro from the safety of the truck, trying to collect the last of its ego. Vendor didn't notice.
20:20 ZekeRef Ari handed over the money and turned towards Scraggy."You can have 2 sandwiches buddy."
20:21 RefMankey S...sandwiches? But how? It couldn't digest the meat...leaving one sub for itself. It could hardly...
20:21 RefMankey *CRUNCH*
20:21 RefMankey ...it just ate a whole sandwich in one bite.
20:21 RefMankey Scraggy M 16/20 HP
16:03 RefMankey Their room, however, was a complete mess. Perhaps this is for the tools of the artists' trades. Regardless, it should've been clear the room was a mess - especially with the current lighting. Even a few pieces of memorbrillia were scattered about.
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16:07 ZekeRef Ari was playfully rolling a ball of yarn across the living room floor for his skitty to chase. The cloth easily became tangled in the kitten pokemon;'s paws.The brunet petted the pink ball of fluff and stood up, stretching. He looked at the mess that had accumulated over time due to his boyfriend being a musician and Ari being...well generally messy,
16:10 Rayblade Taking the time to actually look around the apartment, he could easily see that both he, and his mate had not been getting around to cleaning that apartment. The whole apartment was a big mess, one that Hiro couldn't stand to be in for too long. "Hey Ari, do you think it's time we cleaned up the apartment...?" Hiro asked kindly.
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16:15 ZekeRef Ari tilted his directions of his line of sight to look directly at his skitty's cute face. "I dunno Hiro..." Ari picked up the kitten pokemon and then picked up the mangled ball of yarn, tossing it at Hiro while sticking his tongue out. He then fled towards the small kitchen, shouting,"I'll try to clean the dishes...yuck!"
16:17 Rayblade Hiro responded as the ball of yarn had hit his face. "Oh come now, it can't be all that bad. We'll be done in a matter of seconds." hiro said with a small smile as he began to pick up various objects on the floor.
16:20 RefMankey Ari began to shuffle through their belongings. More than just littered sheet music, trash of all kinds found itself disposed. This made the wastebin a cocktail of bizarre, yet organic, smells. All in all, it was a sharp scent.
16:21 ZekeRef Ari let Chase down on the counter as the green eyed young adult became making some warm, soupy dishwater, noting they were almost out of the liquid. Ari walked over the fridge and scribble on the shopping list they kept,'dish soap'. He then walked back over to the sink only to find skitty splashing around in the sink. Ari sighed and picked him up and placed
16:21 ZekeRef it on the floor, not really caring if the kitten tracked water on the floor. Ari began cleaning the dishes with a sponge.
16:25 RefMankey Once a mess, the apartment was already beginning to appear a more organized lot. Leaving the note regarding dish soap on the fridge, Ari went on to manage his Skitty; one that was somewhat ruffled, but briefly so. Cleaning dishes was the next task. And the scrubbing was fast, but...helter-skelter.
16:27 RefMankey *ring*
16:27 RefMankey Oh! Something dropped from the pile of sheet music!
16:28 ZekeRef Ari decided the dishes were done except for a pan he didn't wash but Hiro wouldn't ntoice would he? He spent the next few minutes cleaning down the counters and table.
16:29 Rayblade As Hiro continued to pick up many objects from the floor, and put them in proper areas, Hiro had asked Ari whether he needed his assistance or not. "Ari do you need any help?" He asked before he noticed something fall from the sheet music. "Hmm? What the..." He said as he went to check.
16:32 ZekeRef Ari shook his head slightly at the sound of Hiro asking him if he needed help. It was just a small task to clean their tiny kitchen even if Ari only half-assed things."Nah, I got it already." He stuck his tongue out between his lips slightly, looking around the semi-clean kitchen before spraying some air freshener they kept inside the cabinet.
16:34 RefMankey This unusual object was nothing more than...a silver monocle? Whatever this object was, its frame could almost serve as a mirror. The lenses, however, were clotted by dirt and mess.
16:38 Rayblade Hiro starred at what appeared to be a monocle. Looking at it he could easily tell, it wasn't clean, and needed to be wiped. However as he stared he thought it would be a good item for Ari, and his contests. "Hey Ari, I found a monocle here. You could use it for contests. Although they need to be cleaned" He said as he held the monocle in the air.
16:41 ZekeRef Chase was already running towards Hiro, trying to get a good look and sniff at the dirty accessory. Ari then walked in a moment later, looking at the wet puddles the skitty tracked across the floor."Ah, that's a nice find, maybe we can find next week's rent somewhere in this mess too...just wishful thinking." Ari crossed his fingers."Need any help in here?"
16:46 Rayblade Hiro kindly declined, and responded "That's quite alright. I believe we'll be done sooner if we work on different task." Hiro said as he handed Ari the monocle. "but maybe we should step outside for a bit once we're done..." He said as he continued to clean the room.
16:48 ZekeRef "Some fresh air should be good for all of us. We could go to the park and let Emma and Chase play." Ari suggested and as he was handed the monocle. He went to the bathroom to clean the piece of glass.
16:51 RefMankey Oh, the bathroom. Surprisingly, this area was well-kempt, especially where there was plumbing. Specks of lint littered the bathroom, but otherwise, it wasn't spotty. Maybe that didn't apply to the supplies lying around...everywhere.
16:52 RefMankey At least the room didn't smell like hodgepodges of artificial soaps and scents.
16:54 Rayblade "Phew... I think that's pretty good... Now to go clean the bedroom" Hiro said to himself, as he walked towards the bathroom to finish up cleaning. "After this I think we'll be done..."
16:55 ZekeRef Ari lightly dampened a wash cloth and placed a dab of soap on the rag, running the piece of glass under a light spray of warm water from the sink, getting all the grim off the monocle. He held it up to the light and smiled."Perfect.".
17:01 RefMankey Tender care refined the glass. Though the washcloth was a fair tool, it exposed another flaw in the glass: a teensy, jagged scratch near the bottom. It jagged up, and distorted an almost pious mirror effect. Meanwhile, Tanaka was doing a fair job organizing the bathroom essentials. Upon opening the medicine cabinet, no Weedle came flying out.
17:04 ZekeRef Ari did a double take at the monocle with the light it hit it."Hmm...it looks cool so it's okay." Ari smiled at the scratch."It gives it character."
17:04 ZekeRef *when
17:05 Rayblade Hiro had finished cleaning the remaining essentials within the bathroom, and commented. "Okay. I'm going to go clean the bedroom now okay Ari? After that we should be done." Hiro said as he left the bathroom, and wondered into the bedroom to finish cleaning.
17:09 ZekeRef "Sounds good." Ari walked out of the bathroom and put the monocle in his accessory case on the couch before sitting down and putting his boots on, tying the laces tightly.
17:13 RefMankey The bedroom was its own mess. Clothing was scattered all over the place, and not in a (now empty) closet. There were a few boxes here and there, packed with nick-nacks and toys of younger days, but no clothes! At least the few desks, placed around the room, were in decent shape.
17:16 RefMankey Putting himself together, Ari was almost packed for an adventure. The one thing to note was a strange piece of rice paper sticking out of a bed-desk. Was it sheet music? It wasn't like every other sheet of music Hiro put away.
17:18 ZekeRef Typically Ari wasn't a very nosy person but the paper was fairy more strange than what Hiro usually had laying about. Ari pulled the paper out of the bed -desk and looked at the paper.
17:25 RefMankey *unravel* It unraveled almost like a scroll. This paper was no magician's, however, but a note of ancient wisdom: "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. --Sun Tzu." It was an unusual place for philosophical works, and yet, here it was. Apparently, a sticker noted the piece was from a bookstore, selling for just 50
17:25 RefMankey Poke.
17:27 ZekeRef Ari looked towards Hiro and looked back at the scroll."Is this yours?
17:27 ZekeRef "
17:28 Rayblade Hiro responded as he looked at the scroll. "I don't remember buying it... Maybe I did and I don't remember..." He said as he went back to cleaning up the bedroom.
17:30 ZekeRef Ari put the scroll back on the desk and picked up some clothes off the floor, hanging them up inside the closet."Let's hurry so we can go outside~" Ari said cheerfully, wanting to run in the sunshine and watch their pokemon play.
17:32 Rayblade "don't worry we're almost done. Just a bit more and we can go. Maybe we can also go to a contest, or catch pokemon while we're out." Hiro said as he put up most of his sheet music, and other valuables.
17:34 ZekeRef Ari put all his cases in to his bag, stuffing them in there. Luckily he didn't have too much other junk in there, so his poffin, accessory, and pokeblock case all fit in nicely. Ari organized his plushies onto his desk and decided the room was clean enough."We're done, no more cleaning Hiro. No more..."
17:36 Rayblade "Well if you insist." Hiro replied as he grabbed his pokeball containing Emma, and his back containing all his items. "Where should we head first Ari?" He asked kindly
17:39 ZekeRef "To the park of course." Ari placed Chase inside his pokeball and put it on his belt. he then got a frisbee from on of the boxes with a piplup design on it.
17:39 ZekeRef ((taking a shower brb 20ish minutes))
17:40 Rayblade ))Alright))
17:41 RefMankey Locations, locations! Even Accumula Town had sights worth seeing, so this cultural city would lack no facilities. Well, industrial areas were a scarcity, but parks were a-plenty. Scattered about the city like stalactites in a cave, they were sightly, but omnipresent. The closest one even had a newspaper stand, one where articles were printed free of cost to
17:42 RefMankey citizens.
17:42 RefMankey ( You gotcha~ )
17:50 Rayblade "Hmmm... Maybe reading the news will do me some good..." Hiro said as he casually walked towards the stand and picked up a newspaper to read the latest news. "Let's see what's going..."
17:59 ZekeRef ((back))
17:59 RefMankey ( gotcha )
18:02 RefMankey It was a small commute to Kzyl park. One plaque, just by skimming, read this: "[200 years ago], the expert bassoonist Kzyl fought racial tensions to unite people, keeping differences aside. The city commends his efforts in..." and that's when the plaque got specific. Grass here was worthy of a bassoonist; almost like bamboo, being curled, but still present.
18:03 RefMankey And of course, the free newspaper stand. Composed of steel, newspapers were tilted over to lie diagonally in these cubbies. The pages were rubber-banded together.
18:04 ZekeRef Ari looked over Hiro's shoulder to read the paper."What's it say, anything important?"
18:05 Rayblade "Huh... never read any heading such as that..." Hiro said as he then turned to Ari. He then responded. "I'm not so sure honestly... Why don't you take a read too?"
18:06 RefMankey There were many headings. In fact, they were all deserving of their own reads:
18:08 RefMankey 'SHELLDER POPULATION EXPLODES ON ROUTE 13!" "LISIA VISITS LACUNOSA FOR CONTESTS - WOWS COMPETITION, INSPIRES CROWD!" "VOLTORB SPOTTED ON SKYARROW BRIDGE?"
18:09 ZekeRef "Ooh Lisia is in town? Where...ugh...I've seen her on TV but I'm scared to meet her. She's so good too...Hiro, first world problems right here."
18:10 RefMankey "GARDEVOIR REVEALED TO BE BEHIND MURDERS? AN INSIDE LOOK FROM A VICTIM" "PepCo STOCK GAINS 300 POINTS - COMPANY GOES WILD!" "REMAINS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION FOUND IN MAN'S BACKYARD - BONES ACCIDENTALLY USED AS FUEL" "CASTLE PURPORTED TO EXIST UNDERNEATH ROUTE 9?"
18:12 Rayblade "I agree, but all of these headlines are quite strange I must admit. What do you think Ari?" Hiro asked as he looked directly at Ari.
18:14 ZekeRef "This is why I don't read the newspaper...or read in general. This stuff is fabricated and over-exaggerated. Let's just go to the park."
18:16 Rayblade "Well off to the park I guess. It'll be good to have Emma, and Chase play around in the open." Hiro said as he put the newspaper back, and began to walk towards the park.
18:20 RefMankey Kzyl Park was an open location. A group of middle-aged men were holding a picnic, and two women jogged alongside a Herdier. They were carefree in their jogging, peering nowhere but the trail ahead. Speaking of trail, one trail passed through the park and stretched across the entire city! The other park attendees were alone, lying on park blankets or
18:24 RefMankey playing with their Pokemon. One man of about twenty stood dead in the middle of the park. His body was no stranger to activity, but wasn't quite a bodybuilder's either. His yellow eyes watched a Skitty threw a pink tennis-ball back to the man.
18:26 ZekeRef Ari released Chase out of his pokeball and the kitten jumped around happily and rolled into the grass. It looked so happy to be out of the tiny apartment. Ari smiled at his skitty and held the frisbee out, looking towards his boyfriend."What should we do first?"
18:27 RefMankey *bof*
18:28 Rayblade Hiro reached out for his pokeball as his Emolga jumped out of the ball. The Emolga had already seemed happy, and began to fly around blissfully. "I'm not very sure. Maybe we can have a nice chat with the locals?
18:29 RefMankey Skitty [Chase] M 20/20 HP, Emma [Emolga] F 20/20 HP
18:33 ZekeRef "Ah...talk to the locals...Okay, you can talk to them. I'll stand behind you and nod my head." Ari threw the piplup designed frisbee towards Emma and Chase."We can talk to uh..." The green eyed coordinator looked around the park,"Oh hey," He noticed a man throwing a ball back and forth to a skitty,"he has a skitty too."
18:36 Rayblade "Does he? Well maybe Chase, and the other skitty can go play. That sounds like a pretty good idea. Let's go talk to him first shall we Ari?" Hiro said as he casually walked towards the man, and his skitty, waving. "Hello!" Hiro said with a friendly smile.
18:36 RefMankey In their bliss, Emma and Chase breathed new life. The joy of exercise finally reached them, and the frisbee only fueled their emotion. The two were already content to toss it between one another.
18:47 RefMankey Meanwhile, the two were on prompt to approach the man and his Skitty. They were almost playing wall ball with the tennis ball, sending it back and forth at rapid speeds. The man held the ball for just a moment, yelling: "Hang on, Drusilla." His Skitty returned to his side, noticing the two affable-looking folk. "Hello!" one of them said.
18:48 RefMankey The man wasn't usually interrupted during training, but he had a few minutes to spare here. With his best regards: "Oh, hey...! You new here?"
18:50 Rayblade "No, not exactly new, but we came to say hi. My name is Hiro Tanaka, and this is Ari Campari. How are you doing today?" Hiro asked politely.
18:53 ZekeRef Ari waved quietly towards the man, turning his head slightly to watch Emma and Chase throw their frisbee back and forth.
18:53 RefMankey "Huh..." noted the broad-shouldered man. Six foot four, he loomed above Ari and Hiro, albeit not by much. "...introductions? Very well," he said reluctantly. A right-most, coal-black undercut laid silent as he was. Until now.
18:57 RefMankey "I am Basajaun Kedzierski." He was slow to pronounce his last name. Looking down at Hiro, Basajaun noted: "...nice exchanging with you, then." The Skitty, determined to keep its energy, circled around
18:57 RefMankey Basajaun.
18:58 RefMankey The game of catch was rather lopsided in Emma's favor, the Skitty too slow to keep up with the squirrel's electrifying throwing speed. It caused a Taillow far above Emma to watch the game from above.
19:00 Rayblade "Well then... may we ask what you're doing this fine day...?" Hiro asked nicely once again. He felt as if Basajaun was not interested in talking, so he tried to keep it short
19:01 ZekeRef Ari looked at Basajaun's skitty and then back at his own. He felt albeit enviously that Chase wasn't as fast at this man's skitty or Emma. Maybe he would start physically and mentally training Chase soon.
19:03 RefMankey "Aye," he replied. There was a change in tone after watching these two's Pokemon, a Skitty and an Emolga, play catch with one another. To that, Basajuan has a reply: "Dursilla and I are preparing for Undella's Pokeathlon." Crossing his arms, the tall man suddenly became more interested in this conversation. "Have you heard of the Pokeathlon, by chance?"
19:07 ZekeRef "Yes, I almost entered one a few years ago." Ari said quietly."They're interesting to say the least." Ari said quietly.
19:07 Rayblade "Yes I have heard of them. I hear great trainers, and pokemon compete there. It must be great to have such a strong bond with your pokemon, if you're competing!" Hiro said with interest in his voice. "I myself is a musician, and Ari is a coordinator. Can you tell us what the pokeathlon is like?"
19:12 RefMankey "Oh!" The man's stoic expression...was still almost blank, if it wasn't warming. "Then maybe..." and that's when, almost like a performance, Drusilla crawled up his back and onto his shoulder. "I can say!" He was more or less reluctant to pay heed to Ari, and answered the curious Hiro's questions.
19:15 RefMankey "It's a composition for the body. Truly, it allows my Pokemon and I to become one with eachother, and exude our strength to the world!" He then rubbed Drusilla on its hand-tail. Then, looking to Ari, he had his own question to ask. "Now, you /were/ interested?"
19:17 RefMankey The Taillow finally stopped watching the two frisbee-tossing Pokemon, leaving at once.
19:19 ZekeRef "I've always wanted to participate in one of the contest but I don't do good with crowds. I spend about 2 months training but I just couldn't force myself to enter. I do love the adrenaline rush and the teamwork though."
19:24 RefMankey "So you're...crowd-shy?" Basajaun was looking to his left, watching the Pokemon play. That, or the joggers. Regardless, he wanted to give Ari the truth. It's a hard truth, one difficult to digest. But would he?
19:25 RefMankey Losing his doubt, he spoke looking away from Ari. "I was, at one point. the same. Until..." Basajaun drifted off somewhere with his words. Just where was he going with this?
19:27 ZekeRef "Until what..."Ari asked the taller man. he felt Chase nuzzle his leg and he looked down petting the kitten before it scampered off to go nuzzle Emma.
19:33 RefMankey "...it wasn't about the crowd." He turned back to Ari. "I learned that the crowds didn't matter. We entered...for ourselves." He then pulled out a giant, three-liter bottle of water from his black trenchcoat, and *drank* up.
19:33 RefMankey *GULP GULP*
19:33 RefMankey Basajaun 18/18HP
19:37 ZekeRef Ari watched the man drink the 3 litter of water within seconds."Can't you explode from that much water or something...?" Ari looked to Hiro, "Right?"
19:38 Rayblade "Water is good for you. I think it's fine" Hiro said casually.
19:38 ZekeRef "But that's too much water."
19:39 RefMankey That was a misconception Basajaun squashed in seconds, leaning towards Hiro's suggestion. "Water can only replenish the body! It's A-OK to drink - just watch yourselves!" And that's when Basajaun begun to laugh. Straight-faced to /laughter/.
19:41 ZekeRef Ari was put off by the man. He was intimating at first but now he was just flat out creepy. Ari nodded slightly and grabbed Hiro's wrist."Let's go see some other people and chat. Maybe they're lonely."
19:42 Rayblade "Huh? Wh- Ari wait a second... Uhhh, it was a pleasure talking to Basajuan" Hiro said before he was completely dragged off.
19:46 RefMankey Basajaun was somewhat offed by Ari's sudden interjection. Regardless, he had one thing to say to the two leaving men: "...uh, you too!" And that left him with Drusilla, the Skitty that left a soft whimper for Chase, but would be lost in the escape.
19:49 RefMankey Well, not to say the rest of Kzyl park was closed off. There was a sandwich vendor about 120 meters away, and between it and the vendor was a patch of taller bamboo. And a few of the rods were /rustling/.
19:53 ZekeRef Ari looked towards the rustling bamboo."That's odd..." he stepped towards the bamboo and looked through the plants.
19:54 Rayblade "What's wrong Ari?" Hiro asked, as he stared in the direction he was. "Did you seen anything weird just now?" He asked.
19:55 RefMankey No, he definitely saw something bizarre. The bamboo, tall and proud, could conceal a resting Onix. And here it was, shaking and crumbling. That's all thanks to...
19:57 RefMankey ...an elephant's nose, crunching on the plant like candy!
19:58 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP
19:58 ZekeRef nope
19:58 ZekeRef *leaves*
20:00 Rayblade "What the... A Drowzee crunching on a Onix...? Ari, i'm not hallucinating am I...?" Hiro asked with disbelief
20:02 RefMankey Nope. He was being lied to by his brain. That was an ordinary Drowzee eating ordinary bamboo in an ordinary park. This is not a super Drowzee. But there was another super Pokemon approaching the herbivore, ready to fight it for crop.
20:04 RefMankey From the lower realms emerged a Scraggy, an older-looking one at that, that was displaced by the grass. But now it wanted said grass.
20:04 RefMankey And it wouldn't share.
20:04 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP VS Scraggy M 20/20 HP
20:08 Rayblade Looking at the two feuding pokemon, Hiro slowly bent down on the grass and plucked out a long strand of grass. "We can't have pokemon fight like this, can we...?" Hiro said as approached the Scraggy, and offered it the blade of grass. "Here you go" He said with a smile.
20:09 RefMankey Pokemon could very well be parrots. That Scraggy was one of the cities, taking words at will. So when Hiro approached the Scraggy, holding his sliver of grass, the Scraggy uttered an unexpected phrase: "NO!" It *swatted* that crap from his hand, and prepared the first strike!
20:09 RefMankey It used *faint attack* on Drowzee!
20:10 RefMankey The Drowzee, awoken by the attack, retaliated with *pound*!
20:10 RefMankey They...*slam*
20:10 RefMankey COLLISION!
20:10 RefMankey *slap* *slap* *SLAP*
20:11 RefMankey The Drowzee countered the Scraggy with not one, not two...THREE separate slaps! Each one put a whooping on the thuggish Scraggy.
20:11 ZekeRef Ari sighed at Hiro's failed actions of trying to stop them ffrom fighting. The brunet walked over the sandwich stand to buy 2 sandwiches in hopes the wild pokemon would eat it.
20:11 RefMankey Drowzee F 20/20 HP VS Scraggy M 12/20 HP
20:12 RefMankey "ACK!" And with that, the Scraggy fled to the stands....with its pants down!
20:13 RefMankey It wasn't the Drowzee that cared. Not that it bested the thug, it could go right back to the bamboo. It even acknowledged Hiro's efforts, offering the boy a small stash of the tall grass.
20:15 RefMankey The Scraggy, meanwhile, found itself in open space. Covering its head, it ran wherever it could find security. That sandwich shop....hey! It wasn't being watched! So the Scraggy picked up its trousers and ran there.
20:16 Rayblade Hiro petted the Drowzee on it's head, as he kindly declined shaking his head no. However Hiro then walked to where the scraggy was and asked if it was hungry. "Are you hungry Scraggy?" He asked
20:16 RefMankey Ari approached the sandwich vendor, a sixty-years-old man without beard or pennance. His round face resembled a politicians', if only because of the smile. "What can I do for 'ya," asked the vendor? Subs were on the menu.
20:17 ZekeRef 'Hmm, one cheese sub and one meat sub please."
20:18 RefMankey "That'll be sixty Pokedollars," the old man replied, already preparing the subs. The Scraggy situated itself underneath the wheels of the truck. Only now, it had Hiro to deal with. Again.
20:19 RefMankey It immediately *snapped* at Hiro from the safety of the truck, trying to collect the last of its ego. Vendor didn't notice.
20:20 ZekeRef Ari handed over the money and turned towards Scraggy."You can have 2 sandwiches buddy."
20:21 RefMankey S...sandwiches? But how? It couldn't digest the meat...leaving one sub for itself. It could hardly...
20:21 RefMankey *CRUNCH*
20:21 RefMankey ...it just ate a whole sandwich in one bite.
20:21 RefMankey Scraggy M 16/20 HP