Week 7.

[azumods]

WEEK 7 After a week of nothing but snow, it's likely that the city is a welcome sight. The city proper is likewise blanketed in snow, but it's far shallower here, easily walked through; it's soft and powdery and unlikely to cause you to slip, the kind of snow small children and Pokémon might enjoy playing in if they're the sort to enjoy that kind of thing. And if they were capable of enjoying much, in the case of the children. That said, the people here are still in the mildly improved state you witnessed in Eterna; it isn't much, but it is improvement, and the world around you continues to change in other, smaller ways as well, so it isn't all for naught. The wild Pokémon here, however, seem to be experiencing something a little...different from what you've been seeing so far - specifically, the Shellos here seem a little hostile toward one another. Snowpoint City is separate from and parallel to the giant mountain you passed last week, and it's populated by both the blue and pink varieties; the different sorts...don't seem to like each other much. It isn't all-out warfare or anything, but there are definitely skirmishes and mounting tensions happening in slug culture here. Mediate if you choose, or just enjoy your time in the city. You've earned it, after last week. CURRENT LOCATION: SNOWPOINT CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week seven of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!]

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[discutio]

[Ignis spent most of the day around the city in the usual way; offering his culinary services to the locals in exchange for the use of their kitchen, willing to give cooking lessons if any vague interest was shown in the concept. There was a warm and filling vegetable stew left in the Pokemon Center in the early afternoon; everyone would have to keep their strength up, after all.]

[Not too long after, he could be found near the site of what appeared to be a pink and blue slug standoff. Listening carefully with most of his team beside him and a Larvesta on his shoulder, Ignis either seemed to be deep in thought over how to handle the situation...or just trying to figure out what in the hell was going on.]

[After the sun had started to go down, he'd taken to training for a while near the edge of the city. It remained something of a difficult process even with the research he'd been doing; knowing specific moves seemed to be an occasional hangup for most of them. But he was getting by, sharp commands of a tactician with the concentration of a soldier. Sonantis in particular was outmatched by most of the Ghost and Dark types within the city, but there was still the occasional Magnemite he could handle. And after a short while of that...there was a bright flash of light, then all of a sudden the tiny Chingling wasn't quite as tiny anymore. Which prompted Ignis to remark under his breath:]

...likely going to need to ask someone what just happened there.

[Not that he was unfamiliar with evolution as a concept by now, but u ok buddy? Sonantis, for his part, floated right back over to his trainer with an almost cheerful-sounding chime.]

around the city

[niceoppai]

Afternoon! [Chelsea waves, coming out of the Pokémon Centre.] You must be having a lot of success with that cooking business.

[discutio]

Good afternoon, Chelsea. [He smiled slightly, Highwind floating over on cotton wings to see if he could perch on Chelsea's head.]

Enough success to get by, I think. It's almost seeming as though the residents are halfway interested in the concept by now.

[niceoppai]

[She laughs and lets him. Hey, as long as the floof bird actually wants a thing...]

That's great! I just sold some stuff I dug up on the beach. Found a couple pearls down there!

[discutio]

That's not a bad idea, actually. I'm glad to hear it's worked out for you.

[niceoppai]

Wonder if there's anything to find in all this cold, though. Probably buried under a meter of snow.

Edge of the City

[takestheblame]

[A while after Snorunt was done with her meal of snow, Kiryu had been on the way back when he encountered Ignis. He had been about to greet Ignis when the evolution started. Wow! Look at that, the Pokemon in this group of travelers sure are growing up a lot!]

Congratulations for your Pokemon's evolution, Ignis.

[It's proof of effort!]

[discutio]

So that's what evolution's like?

[He reached out to the Chimecho, who seemed reasonably content to bump right up against his leather-gloved hand.]

...he's quite a bit larger now, isn't he?

[takestheblame]

More like long. Instead of being a ball, now it's...a ball with a long tail.

[It's kind of cute, though]

[discutio]

He still sounds the same, at least. I have to confess a drastic change quite like this is something I'm not at all familiar with.

[takestheblame]

Even though its body changes, the mind and soul stay the same. It's comforting to know such drastic changes doesn't mean they're suddenly a different person.

Around the City

[eudaimonikos]

Watch you don't step on the slugs. There's some kinda siege happening around here.

[Cat Janet is off on her own business elsewhere in Snowpoint, luckily, so it's just Michael and his new Gastly here, with nobody randomly attacking slugs. Of course, Ignis probably has no way to tell that Gastly's present; it does just sort of float.]

[discutio]

It's alright, I can hear them well enough to avoid that.

[but also like: what.]

What is it they're doing, exactly? I can't quite place it.

[eudaimonikos]

Half of them are pink and half of them are blue, and the two groups seem to have developed a problem with each other. Right now they're just sort of facing off, but this could be a big slimy fight in an hour or two.

[discutio]

...And at the risk of sounding like a complete lunatic, do you think we should intervene?

[eudaimonikos]

To stop them, you mean, or just to get involved in the fighting?

edge of the city

[nightcure]

Hey, looks like your friend got bigger.

[ He's smiling as he watches Sonantis jingle along. ]

Are you proud of yourself, buddy?

[discutio]

They tend to do that, on occasion.

[do you want a smiling bell all up in your face noctis, because that's how you get just that, all jingling up in your business.]

It seems quite the fascinating process.

[nightcure]

[ He grins and gently pokes at Sonantis. ]

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I wonder if Lepidia will get there.

[discutio]

It might not surprise me much if that were the case. This seems quite the common process.

[yessss pet the orb]

[nightcure]

[ he will absolutely pet the orb. ]

Yeah? I've got a ton to learn about this world.

edge of the city

[semistableman]

[He's never going to get used to seeing animals suddenly be completely different animals. At least he can kind of see how this one came from the other, at least.]

He's a cute looking critter, isn't he?

[discutio]

Still wouldn't know.

[He seemed cheerful enough about the remark, petting the Chimecho lightly.]

[semistableman]

You should give 'im a pet with your left hand, that's as good a way to test it as any, use both hands.

[discutio]

Ah, of course. The standard scientific process of a basic examination.

[he's just going to pet this weird smiling bell orb, who seems reasonably happy about the situation.]