🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂
Who: Everyone!
What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange
Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café
When: "August 1"; but really, what is time
Content Warnings: N/A
Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories.
🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party.
🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal.
🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone:
 "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you."
"It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well."
☕ OOC NOTES ☕
This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around.
There is a top-level included here for you to post OOC notes of what their characters have discussed on the log, as well as their own thoughts about the world. If there is anything important that people should know, please reply to the top-level with the information, so that it's easy to find for everyone. General info posts about what your character will be talking about are fine as well. Just please try to avoid multiple edits if you can as you thread if you are going that route! for the sake of my dw inbox...
Because this is an info exchange/mingle post, we encourage thread-jacking. However, we know that not everyone is into that kind of thing, so if you are okay with others hopping into your threads, please be sure to indicate it in your top-level.
Questions about the log can be directed to the ooc post.
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tabularasa_rp2020-08-01 05:06 pm
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Go easy on me! Pidgey aren't native to Galar, you know.
[ he could draw Rookidee until the Miltank came home, but he knows that it wouldn't apply here - Pidgey eyes are pretty distinct. he'll take the correction, seeing as Blue has firsthand knowledge of them.
his smile curls into a wide grin when he sees where Blue is heading next, though. right... the head was missing some extra skin, wasn't it? he's not doing a very good job of stifling his snickers behind a hand, either. ]
Of course! How could I miss that? [ he's just gonna hold his other hand out for a fist bump. well earned, dude. ]
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[He meets the fist without missing a beat, and then rubs his chin.]
You know, it looks kinda like a hat. Heh.
...Actually, they could probably use one... Or like, a sweater... Don't you think those guys look really cold?
[Blue tilts his head oooover to one side. He has had... a few drinks already.]
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You think? [ he squints. ] Yeah, I see it... but they don't really seem bothered by it, right? I mean, they don't seem bothered by anything.
[ after a lifetime of being around Pokémon, it's a little strange to see a creature so devoid of... personality? maybe that's it, but he can't quite put his finger on it. ]
If you had to give it a name, what would you go for?
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[Not even missing a beat, it just comes out before he actually thinks about it, and so when his brain catches up with his mouth he freezes, mouth open, and then closes it.]
[Cheeks pinking, he flicks his gaze here and there.]
....Nevermind, I guess we should pick something clean for the kiddos. Umm....
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[ he was half expecting something like that, and gives him a stiff poke in the arm with the back end of the marker. negative reinforcement for the naughty drunk boy! ]
Try to get your head out of the gutter, mate. [ speak for yourself, Raihan. he hums, thinking. ] I thought I heard some people calling it a "chicken"... whatever that is. Lemme just...
[ he writes down the word in one of his blanks, with a "?" in parentheses nest to it. it doesn't help at all! ]
Hm... How about "Nuken"? Since it's in the nude and all.
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[He was going to say 'come up with one yourself', but maybe that was a mistake.]
That's awful. [He huffs, crossing his arms.] Terrible!! Sounds like some kinda weird --gross schoolyard thing, like a wedgie. Surely they deserve better than that?
They gotta go around looking like that after all! [He spreads his palm out towards the drawing in question, and hums as he stares at it.] ...What's a 'chicken'...?
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[ he'll take a sip of his own drink - whiskey, from the looks of it. if this is how the creative process is going, he's going to need it. ]
I haven't heard anything better yet! We have to start somewhere. [ he pouts! this is harder than he thought it was going to be. ] No clue. I guess it's something that's not a Pokémon?
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I guess. They seem to have a lot of those. ['They' being all the other folks not from their own world, of which there was perhaps a shocking number, but maybe they were just self centered enough to see it as everyone else being the 'others'.]
[Blue's eyes trail towards the marker again, and he makes a reach for it as he ponders another name.] How about Peeeee......duck. [He tried.]
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[ not that the creatures around here aren't interesting, but Raihan can't even begin to imagine life that didn't have Pokemon in it. having to explain it to people has him trying to wrap his head around it, and it's harder than he thought it would be!
he watches the board as he Blue ponders the name, almost snorting whiskey at the "suggestion" ] That's what you come up with? Come on, mine was way better than that!
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[Blue sulks, and goes over the names to himself, first in his head, then out loud.]
Chicken, huh..... Peeduck... Chicken... Nuken.... Pee...Nuken.... Chicken.... Pee........
[Blue jumps up suddenly, hands slapping down on the table between them, and grins wildly as he shouts, AHA! That's it!!! He's got it!!]
Chickpee! [He declares, beaming proudly at Raihan as he awaits his genius to be recognized!!!]
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Alright, alright! I still like mine better, but it's worth throwing up there.
[ he'll transcribe the name underneath his sketch, pausing before taking the pen away from the board to write *ᴛᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ in superscript next to it. ]
We'll see if anyone else comes up with something else! [ not that the bar of quality is very high... ]
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[But Blue seems satisfied enough, and goes back to nursing his drink.] Oh, so how's things, by the way? Were you able to find anythin' else useful in Hammerlocke? [Or... not-Hammerlocke, whatever it was, up there.]
Me and Red've been spending all our time looking around the mountain to see what's different, things look stranger every time I visit.
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[ notably, none of the locales he's visited seem to be in the same state of disarray that Hammerlocke is. it's disappointing to say the least, but he doesn't wear as much on his expression. instead, he focuses on what Blue has to say. ]
Stranger? How so?
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[Blue rests his chin in his hand, stirring around his drink.] Mmm... like, things keep appearing in there! New stuff, that wasn't there when we were exploring before. Except it's super dark in there, now, the way it is in here. Pikachu's Flash won't work either, like a lot of moves. It's pretty frustrating, but Red's so used to those caves that we managed somehow.
[Even with them all changed up. Eevee's hearing was pretty good too, so with all of them combined, they were able to cover some ground.] Oh, anyway, so Red said there's a whole marketplace that appeared in the lower caverns, now. We'll go explore it more later, but it sounds pretty huge...
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[ unless Eevee is well-versed in the distinct musk of Galarian artifacts, everything else seems to be in ruins. there's the power plant underground, but the elevator shaft looked to be completely collapsed, too... Arceus knows if it's even safe to go down there. ]
No kidding? [ his eyebrows raise! he wasn't sure what to expect, but it sure wasn't that. ] I guess he couldn't do a lot of looking around, but did he find anything in there that looked useful?
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[But Blue isn't in much of a hurry, given the circumstances.]
[Blue hums, nursing his drink thoughtfully for a moment. Surely, they could try to fix up parts of Hammerlocke- at least the stadium, maybe- if they had their full teams. Blue wishes he had Rhyperior or Machamp's Pokéball on him, but they could make do....]
If you could get under there... that Vault place, what'll that do? What kinda stuff woulda been in there, exactly?
[Was it like a shrine to a powerful legendary dragon-type Pokémon, or something...?]
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[ he's having trouble trying to imagine something like that in a dark, dingy cave... whenever they can get hold of a proper light source, that's going to be one of the first things that he scopes out. even if he's not feeling particularly hungry right now, preparing feels like it would be the best course of action.
right now, however, Hammerlocke is still the main thing on his mind. it'll be impossible to bring it back to its proper glory with the resources they have now, but the stadium, at least... it should be cleaned up some when they can. ]
Nothing that you'd care much about, probably. [ he smiles, but this one is softer than his previous ones. it's not exactly Pokémon related (or so he'd thought, until recently!), so most Trainers tend to tune out. ] It's an important place for the preservation of Galarian history. There's a bunch of impressive artifacts in there, but the crown jewels are these hand-woven tapestries that tell the story about the first kings of the region. It's my job to make sure that they stay safe.
[ or at least, it was supposed to be. ]
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You should come along! Or try to make your way down there, sometime. Duraludon would sure be a help if we need to clear any rubble from that path, too. [Blue had found himself fond of the Steel dragon- he had a sort of calm personality that probably balanced his trainer well... It reminded him of his Alakazam.]
Oh. [Yeah sorry Raihan, that's kinda lame. Blue's eyes lid....] ...Man, Kanto doesn't have anything like that anymore. The whole region's such a huge industrial area. It's only when you travel out into the mountains, like over to Johto, that you get anything older like that. [If Blue was thinking of anything in Kanto that remained of traditional culture, it was the traditions of Fuchsia Gym that still carried on through its current leader, Janine. But there weren't really any artifacts or ancient buildings of note...]
I thought maybe it was a shrine, like in the den.