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Pokemon Day-Care - Route 117
Diego fidgeted while he waited for the old woman to attend to them. The other girl seemed a little preoccupied with egg, and despite his usual social self he left her to her own thoughts while he warmed himself. Still he couldn't help but glance at them when the woman revealed the egg didn't belong to the daycare. Oh shit. It was actually kind of funny. In a concerning panicky sort of way. The egg was in good hands now though.
The Azumarill, Joy, returned and handed him a towel. Thanking her, he began drying off and made to follow the old woman and the girl, but was stopped short by her comment about a bath. Diego found himself blushing, which was weird. It usually took a lot to make Diego feel embarrassed. For some reason, this situation did. Maybe it was her age, just the fact that she was a generous host, or just delayed guilt at being so impatient with his generous host. Regardless, he self-consciously lifted an arm to smell underneath. It's not that bad.
After helping Joy with the other girl's pack, he followed her down a hallway to a bathroom. As she led him in to the well-stocked bathroom and showed him to the toiletries, Diego became aware he hadn't even asked for any of this. It was just in the nature of the day-care woman and her Pokemon to be so hospitable. Making a mental note to pay them back somehow, he set the water running and began to undress. He considered taking a bath, but knew that he'd end up soaking in the hot water for an hour. No, best to just avoid that possibility and shower. He unconsciously took another whiff under his arm.
After standing in the hot water an extra five minutes after getting clean, he came out and toweled off, only to realize his clothes were missing. True to form, they'd likely taken his clothes to dry them out. Problem was the rest of his stuff was gone too. Surely it wasn't all wet. He stood around awkwardly in his towel for a few minutes before he decided he'd have to venture out or at least call out to someone. Luckily, he opened the door to find Joy holding a set of clothes out to him. Sighing in relief, the young man thanked the Pokemon. Apparently she felt guilty, because she seemed to be embarrassed. "I really appreciate it. Thanks again," he said hoping to ease her embarrassment. Even then, he had to hold his tongue to keep form asking about his own clothes. He'd just search them out later.
They looked a little small, but a quick check of the sizing suggested they weren't far off from his own. He immediately regretted that thought as he tried to slip on the shorts. This... was going to be awkward. With some mild struggle, he got the clothing on. It was definitely tight, but the material wasn't too bad. He was definitely going to have to do something about the lack of underwear though. He glanced at the mirror to make sure he didn't look too scandalous, but it wasn't such a huge difference from wearing running shorts and a tank top, right? ...right? Joy's reaction told him it might cause some discomfort in public. Holding back a chuckle, he tried to assure her again. "It's fine, really."
She led him to a guest room and he was not surprised to find it very homey. A little old-fashioned, but he felt at home. It was small, but really it was about the size of his first apartment in Goldenrod. He caught sight of himself in the mirror. Grinning, he turned around giving himself a good look up and down. "Shit, I should be an underwear model." Of course, now that the idea had crossed his mind it was too good not to pass up the chance to post a picture online. He grabbed his phone and snapped a quick picture. He chuckled to himself. Cecilia was gonna give him so much crap over this, but it would be worth it. As he was typing up the caption, "When you get caught in a storm and gotta borrow some dry clothes... These shorts make my butt look big? #goinhoenn" he heard a tap on the window.
He tensed, startled by the sudden noise. Quickly hitting the submit button and tossing the phone on his bed, he walked to the window and pulled back the drapes to see what looked like a wet zombie outside. "What the hell, man?" Eyes wide, he stepped back from the window. He looked around, but he was still alone in the room and no one seemed to be in the hall. Turning back towards the man, he called out. "I'm not letting you in through the window, man. Hurry up around front. We gotta get you out of that storm, but you come in the front door like everyone else." He gestured to the man in the direction he assumed was the shortest walk around to the front of the building.
"Come on man..."
"GO AROUND." Diego, still tense, gestured once more. The man disappeared from window, and Diego sighed in relief. "Sketchy weirdo..." The man seemed harmless and definitely in need of help. But put off by his insistence on coming through the window, Diego quickly pulled on his gauntlet and called out his Azumarill and Scyther.
"Sapphire, go find the daycare woman or her Azumarill, let em know someone else is here. Zip, just go to the door. If it seems like he's taking too long, we'll have see if we can go out and find him. I'm gonna grab the guy a towel, but I'll be right there."
Zip bolted from the room, clearly intent on her duty. Sapphire left too, her self-assured and purposeful gait a huge contrast to that of the other Azumarill. Diego himself followed after Zip, popping into the bathroom to grab a large towel. He came walked to the front desk to find the man standing there now, dripping and shivering. He was eyeing the mantis Pokemon and the scythes on her forearms somewhat nervously. For her part Zip, was doing her best to be alert without being too threatening.
"Man, don't look so pathetic. She's not gonna do anything. Here..." He handed the man a towel. As he wrapped himself in the towel and slowly dried off, Diego got a better look at him. "When did you last eat? Umm... all right look, so apparently dinner's in a little while. In the meantime, take this." He materialized a protein bar and handed it to the man. It was actually pretty old, but it should still be good. The man took the bar and unwrapped it with shaking hands, and Diego realized he was really trembling pretty badly.
Unsure of what to do and wondering where Sapphire was, he looked around until he found a chair. Without really thinking about it, he walked over and picked up the chair and carried it to the man. "Okay, yeah just sit down there."
"Th-thanks..."
He considered bringing out Toasty to help warm the guy up, but who knew what would happen if he freaked out and overdid it. A familiar blue ball waddled in from the back with a cup in hand. With a chirp, Joy handed the cup of tea to the stranger. He had no trouble grabbing it in the same hand that held the protein bar wrapper, so he seemed not to be in too bad of condition. Still, Diego held back a curse when Joy helped the man remove his soaked vest. Oh right... the wet clothes.
Pulling on his hand, Joy gestured for the man to get up then waved Diego over to help her to move him somewhere else. Presumably somewhere he could change. But if Joy was here, where had Sapphire gone?
Writing up my post while I try not to think about the election.
Post should be up tonight
Post should be up tonight
@Prints Avoid I made a few edits to your particular section. Let me know if I rectified your concerns or not. If there's anything else you're dissatisfied or uncomfortable with, let me know. :D
Nah, we good. The edits definitely made a good post 100 times better. And no worries, I get this is a format we still need to play with and figure out. As long as we keep communication open there shouldn't be anything that can't be quickly resolved.
Eh, I'd say this post was right on the line for me. That is, Diego's part does. I can't speak for the rest I should make clear that normally I wouldn't have been okay with so much power-playing. In this specific instance though, I consider it a detailed time skip. You didn't make any decisions of consequence for Diego. Only part that made me uncomfortable was him assuming his missing clothes were a prank. Not a big thing, but still not quite the reaction he'd have.
The clothes though. He definitely carries more than one set of clothes. Not sure if that was a thing, or they assumed the rest of his clothes were also wet, or we can chalk it up to more of Joy being Joy. Either way the end result is too good not to keep.
Just to be clear, the new guy is knocking on the window of the room Diego is in?
The clothes though. He definitely carries more than one set of clothes. Not sure if that was a thing, or they assumed the rest of his clothes were also wet, or we can chalk it up to more of Joy being Joy. Either way the end result is too good not to keep.
Just to be clear, the new guy is knocking on the window of the room Diego is in?
@c3p-0h How's it going? I just wanted to check in with you. Did you want to see more from me before posting, yourself?
@Prints Avoid So, did you feel comfortable playing the NPCs or would you rather I add a little something for you to piggy-back on?
@Xan the G Haven't heard from you in a while. How's everything going? Did you need some ideas on where to go for your next post?
@DepressedSoviet Haven't heard from you in a while. You okay?
Nah, I can work with what we got. I just thought you had decided to add more and was waiting for that. I can write up a post tonight
@Prints Avoid@c3p-0h@Xan the G@Kymera@DepressedSoviet
I'm going to be posting either tonight or tomorrow regardless of who's posted or working on a post. I'm just going to move my own post a little bit forward, though. So if you needed more to respond to, then you'll have it ;)
Let me know if you want me to hold off on it, though. ^^
But I'd like it if you (the players) weren't stricty reactionary. Take some charge in your story! I'm just here to throw stuff at you, essentially. ;)
I would appreciate that. Honestly I was having trouble figuring out where to go from the bath. I mean, I could write five paragraphs about Diego taking a bath if you'd like... but I think we'd both rather move things along lol. If nothing else, I'll have Diego bring out his own Azumarill to interact with Joy.
And I still need to think of nicknames for the team...
Fair enough, I don't think they had much time to interact anyway, @c3p-0h I just had a lot of work this week, lol. I'm trying to post sometime tonight
Finally posted -_-
Not the longest post, but I wanted to jump in
Not the longest post, but I wanted to jump in
Dorado woke up to find himself in a strange room. Getting up, he groggily looked around the room until he recognized it as one of the rooms onboard the Peregrine. That was right, he'd laid down for a short nap earlier that afternoon. He wasn't really the type to nap, and it wasn't often that it was even an option. He always had something going on at Salem,and he spent his summers similarly occupied. In fact, he'd say all but two of the naps he'd taken in the past six years had been aboard this very vehicle. The rides to and from Salem were easily the most uneventful days of any year.
He glanced at the clock to find it was already three in the afternoon. That nap had gone on much longer than expected. Still, by this point everyone had probably been picked up. It was time to go down and see what everyone was up to. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, and pulling on a short sleeve button up walked out of his room to head downstairs.
On his way down, Dor tried to his best to avoid looking out any windows. He hated being reminded that he was technically inside a Muggle automobile. Getting in always made him a little nervous, but he got over it once inside. He just didn't like seeing the road. He found himself humming, and didn't notice until he walked into the hangout area that it was the song that had been playing on Muggle radio all summer.
Walking in, his eyes scanned the room. It didn't seem many of his friends were in here yet. Mostly a bunch of younger students. He walked to the couches usually reserved for the older students. He noticed Gatsby, who seemed to be abosrbed in his book. The guy was all right. Dor would have said something, but he personally didn't enjoy being bothered while reading so he just avoided him. Wes was also nearby. Dor looked for a different area to sit. He was not exactly looking to start the year off having to deal with her. But then again, his mind changed when he caught sight of Ebony. With a grin, he walked over to the pair of girls and plopped down on a couch across from them.
"Well hey there, Ebony, Wes. Had a good summer, I hope? Mine was... somethin' else." He made a show of staring off as if remembering it wistfully, then glanced back at the girls with a chuckle.
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