87th moon [video]

[paladinlost]

Help! Help!

[Or was that Fable! Fable!, perhaps? Not everyone can understand the words of a panicking Clefable, after all, though the panic itself should be very easy to see in her eyes.]

Our trainer, he's still not back! It's been four days since everything stopped being weird and he's still not back!

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[yoctogram]

[Twin Eevees in Everstone collars pop up on the screen] Sometimes people go away and don't come back for a long, long time.

Yeah, what Nand said. Daddy was gone for a whole month before he came back. Do you have someone else to take care of you if your trainer doesn't come back?

[Sho's Eevees had developed some fairly interesting ideas on trainers. To be fair to the twins, though, spending much time around Sho was bound to drive anyone crazy.]

[paladinlost]

But if he was gone like that, this wouldn't work at all, right?

[Or at least, that's how she thinks it works. It's not like her trainer does a lot with the Pokégear in the first place.]

We still have food, so we'll be fine for a while. But Avenger is starting to be a brat again.

[yoctogram]

I dunno. Mommy shoved all of daddy's things in the computer when he left -

Including Riemannian Zeta-Function and boy was she angry!

[The boy Eevee sighs at the interruption] so we didn't have the chance to see if it would still work. Are there any places that you think he might be? Do you have friends to help you look?

Oh, oh! Are you friends with a Snorlax? If you stick someone under a Snorlax's arm they can't be as much of a brat. Or, well, it's easier to ignore them.

[paladinlost]

He likes to visit Gyms a lot, but he doesn't do that much anymore... He also-

I bet a Snorlax ate him. You wouldn't stick me under the arm of something that ate him, would you?

[An amused Banette shoves his head in the picture, grinning at Rosie the whole time.]

Shut up, Avenger. Go bother Lia.

[yoctogram]

[Nand sits up and slicks her ears back in the same way that RZF does. It's rather weirder on an Eevee than on a Liepard.] Snorlax-es don't eat people! I know 'cause Beelze hasn't eaten anyone at all and mommy and daddy wouldn't be mad at her if she did!

[Impressionable Eevees and sociopaths make for interesting travelling.]You're just trying to scare everyone by saying that!

[Nor ignores both Nand and Avenger in favour of talking to Rosie more]Okay, well. Try contacting the pokemon of the gym trainers and see if he's been there anyway? What else were you trying to say?

[paladinlost]

That's just because she hasn't had the opportunity ye-

[And that would be when Rosie decides to push him offscreen.]

As I was saying, he has guests and he'd never be rude to the point of leaving guests alone deliberately. Not even for the pretty ladies at the Gym.

[yoctogram]

Sure she has!

[Nand sits up in indignation on the part of her Snorlax friend, only for Nor to take a cue from Rosie and sit on his sister with his front paws in her mouth. Hey, it works to stop daddy from ranting.]

Huh, okay that is weird. I still think it'd probably be a good idea to try calling around? Get your friends to have their trainers help you look? What does your trainer look like, anyway? We'll keep an eye out for him too.

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[throw_stone]

[Dealing with one missing person and one canon update coma person - well, Ramza hasn't been sleeping alright. But, he's still trying.

But this isn't Ramza. This is Hildegard, the Noctowl, sitting by Rosie.]
Unless he sprouts wings, he won't be coming back, methinks.

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[paladinlost]

Well, then, he'll simply be growing wings over the next few days. He'd never leave us all alone for Christmas.

[Because they are a very polite family of hosts and would never deliberately be so rude.]

I do hope Dora has not been bothering you in the meantime?

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[throw_stone]

Little Deidameia has been rather bothered by Dora - I know better then to stay when a Dragon is involved.
[Hildegard spreads her wings a little - to fluff herself up.]
If only he'd taken his Talking Device with him - we'd be able to fly to him.

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[paladinlost]

Goodness. It seems I'll have to take the frying pan out again.

[She sighs. Her siblings, sometimes.]

He leaves it here when he goes out to buy food, sometimes. But buying food has never taken so long.

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[throw_stone]

...Hm. Perhaps he was getting food. But then! He collapsed, like Mister Walter.
[hildegard stop your logic train]

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[paladinlost]

Wouldn't that mean he couldn't stay safely away from the tornado?

[And now she'll have nightmares about her beloved trainer getting ripped apart by the wind. Gee, thanks.]

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[copycat]

[Pokemon using the communicators by themselves was a new thing for her, but she can tell easily this little fairy critter was distressed]

What's wrong?

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[paladinlost]

Clefclef fable clefable clefableble, fableclef! Clefablefable!

[Well, it's really Our trainer disappeared when all those weird people showed up, and he still isn't back! He might be hurt or lost somewhere!, but the exact details might be difficult for a human to understand.]

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[copycat]

[Kaede nods a few times. She understands the gist of it, sorta.]

Okay, can you write that down please?

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[paladinlost]

[Writing! That's something she can do! Rosie nods before running off. She comes back a minute later, pen and paper in hand. She ends up writing the following words:]

TRAINER MISING 4 DAYS NO CAL

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[copycat]

[Oh no, Kaede looks crestfallen, but still ready to help a pokemon in need. She nods back, thinning her lips.]

Where are you? Is anyone else with you?

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[paladinlost]

[Scritch scratch goes the pen, before she raises the paper again.]

CELADON, GUESTS + SIBLINS

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[crackpotcrocker]

[There's something untrustworthy about the man who appears on the screen. It's almost like he's plotting something as he looks at her.]

Why hello there. Little Clefable..

What seems to be the problem?

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[paladinlost]

[On the one hand, between Avenger and Dora she knows what a plotting look is like.

On the other hand, she's not in a position to reject any potential help. Good thing she still has that pad of paper.]

TRAINER STIL NOT BAK

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[crackpotcrocker]

Oh? And what exactly does your trainer look like, mmmm?

[Crocker's glasses give a quick gleam in the darkness.]

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[paladinlost]

[She goes back to the paper pad, and after two or three minutes turns it around to show a surprisingly decent sketch of a man with long white hair, wearing a headband and makeup.]

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[crackpotcrocker]

[Crocker scratches his head.]

No, can't say I've seen him.

[There's a sly grin spreading on Crocker's face but now he has a face to who owns the Clefairy.]

However, if I do see him. Where should I say that you are?

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[paladinlost]

HOME. NO FIRE.

[The part where she managed to keep everyone else from destroying the house is very important, thank you very much.]