o1. audio / action

[ladyofluminosity]

[Voice]

Hello, can anyone hear me? I believe I'm still in the signal area. In any case, I believe that I may have found something interesting! A community of Spearows, so close to the city! I thought that they were solitary Pokémon, and yet there must be at least half a dozen of them nesting here, in close proximity. While I have not been able to get too close, I have been able to construct quite a few interesting ske--

Camille, what are you doing there? Camille, sto--

[The feed abruptly cuts off.]

[Action]

[The Verdant Forest, early morning, the trees covered in a new layer of fluffy white snow. The ratata are slowly crawling out from their hidey-holes to find their first meal of the day; pidgey cooing gently, welcoming in the day; the sweet, dulcimer cry of an errant Enlightened screaming--wait, what?!]

Comments

[indy_wannabe]

If nothing else they shouldn't be able to do too much to you while you're in ghost form. We can back you up, I think that's probably the best plan.

[thewindything]

[He nods. He kind of was the one best to go after it. He takes a few steps back and shifts back into his Gastly form.]

Alright, let's backtrack.

[And off he goes!]

[ladyofluminosity]

If you're sure--wait, John!

[She gives John a concerned look. They were kind of giving him the short end of the stick. But before she could get a proper answer, off he went; she bolted after him.

Sure enough, they were still there, and there was a nice--well, once nice, now being picked apart by sharp beaks--leather sketchbook in the snow, surrounded by the small flock of spearow. Pulling at the pages, pecking at some of the pictures, papers were strewn about.

There was a small, upset whimper from behind one of the trees. Yup, she saw it. All her work...]

[sixwholeplates]

[Cecilia made a face, keeping her groan in, because that wouldn't do at all. She still reached a hand over and patted Lux on the shoulder, then shook her head.]

[That sketchbook... was for the birds.]

[indy_wannabe]

Ouch. Nasty business that. If John can give me a distraction I can probably port in and grab it.

[thewindything]

[Wow, what a bunch of actual feathery assholes. John kind of wants to raze them right there, but he knows better and also lacks that kind of skillset. Alas.]

[Time to see just what they might do though. He could either try to reason with them, or he could just make a giant distraction and hope the others could grab the book. He kind of lacked hands right now, anyway. When John speaks it's not in human, he's actually speaking as a pokemon.]

Gastly- Gas Gast?

[(Hey, how's it going?)]

[ladyofluminosity]

[Seeing the Ghastly float toward them, a few of the spearow stop. Most of them have probably never seen one before--except for a few minutes ago, but really they were focusing more on chasing the Dratini and it's human-thing for messing with their nests. Also the other human-things, because damn those attacks hurt.]

Spearrrrr spee. Spee speearow. Rrrr.

[(None of your business. Go away. Ugly.)]

[Lux, standing behind a tree close by, clenches her fists at her side. Oh, please let this work. She's ready to jump in if or when needed

Camille, however, is a bit less, well, complacent. She's grumbling something. John might be able to hear.]

[(Ugly?! Did they just call him ugly?! Have you LOOKED in a mirror lately, or even SMELLED yourselves?! Gross! Disgusting! Putrid little--)]

[She might not know what Camille is saying, but she quickly pulls a hand over the Dratini's mouth. Shhhhhh.]

[thewindything]

[LSK;askmfa;;a WHat??? Ugly??]

[(Wow, rude? At least I don't smell like I rolled in my own crap.)]

[Yeah, I don't know who they were kidding when John set out to be the mediator. Looks like we're going with plan distraction.]

[ladyofluminosity]

[Lux wasn't sure what John was saying, but from the way the flock of spearow suddenly started to fluff out their feathers and squawk, she assumed negotiations weren't going well.

At least he was in ghost form, otherwise those scratches and pecks would not be feeling good right about now.]

[indy_wannabe]

...yeah let's just get this done.

[Ez blinks out and appears beside the book, launching a shot at one of the nearest birds and snatching it up.]

RUN

[sixwholeplates]

TWICE IN ONE DAY!

[Cecilia shrieks and bolts, running like a madwoman when Ez screams. She does yell, though -- maybe it'll get some of the Spearows' attention?]

[thewindything]

[John is cursing up a storm that Lux should probably cover Camille's ears for if she could understand angry ghost noises.]

[He's also letting the Spearow get close because his body is made up of poison gas right now and watching them drop is cathartic. After he takes a few out he'll rush after the others.]

[ladyofluminosity]

[Wow this looked familiar. They were off running again. Indeed, a few spearow got caught in the poison gas, and yet more continued to trail after John.

Cecilia did manage to get a few birds' attention, but the real attention grabber was the human that suddenly teleported in near the sketchbook.

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT EVEN ABOUT? PECK AT HIS HEAD FIRST ASK QUESTIONS AFTER!]

[sixwholeplates]

Run, Ezrael! Run!

[Cecilia shouts it in his direction -- and then she gets an idea; it makes her slow, because she's turning at the waist to look at Ez while she runs. She raises a hand up. There is a shimmer in the air, a faint pink light around Ez.]

[A few ghostly flowers sprinkle by, and a sparkle of light -- and then Ezrael's defenses are briefly supernaturally enhanced!]

[Raftina whistles loudly, then; with a yelp, Cecilia ducks around the tree she almost ran into.]

[indy_wannabe]

[Ez takes off running, blasting a few of the Spearow with bolts of lightning and swearing. Finally, after a few seconds and a few shots, he teleports back away and takes off, catching up with everyone else]