Post-October Event Log

[nyom]

Who: Everyone
Where: Throughout Mango City
When: October 29 to November 2
What: Use this time to check on your CR, help people out, or do whatever. Everyone can make their own top-levels and you don't have to use the provided prompts. Wildcard it if you want. Have fun!

The nightmare is finally over and the aftermath sinks in. Wherever you are, news will eventually spread that the pokemon stopped their rampaging status, looking confused and some horrified by what had happened around them. Mari's Steelixes are finally off their guard duty, people are crying out of various emotions and people who are physically well enough flood out of the shelters in an attempt to search for their loved ones out there, whether they be people or pokemon. Some are reunited, some are not. Either way, people are in this together, comforting others over their losses and rebuilding the city. There's been quite a lot of destruction apart from the Pokemon Center and the hospital, after all. Some buildings are missing a roof, holes on the side wall, doors knocked down... some are unfortunate to have been entirely blasted away by an extremely strong rampaging pokemon's hyper beam (thanks, random Hydreigon).

After most people calm from their initial high emotions, the reconstruction starts. Of course, they also contact the people from Toran who helped with reconstruction efforts. Looks like the handymen will never rest...

The Pokemon Center is looking for additional manpower, getting pokeballs here to there, labeling whose pokemon are whose in things looking like incubators for those in queue of getting healed, and managing supplies. They are extremely short-staffed right now, so they will be looking for any help possible. Though, if you cause too much trouble than helping, you may be politely asked to leave or to help somewhere else. They don't have time for this. During the nights, the Pokemon Center may be crowded. After all, many people just lost their homes. They got nowhere to go.

The hospital is similar, in which they are also short-staffed. They're looking for disaster volunteers, and especially pokemon with healing capabilities to lessen the load on doctors and nurses who need to care for the more gravely wounded. With more help, the hospital will no longer seem as chaotic as before, but more along the lines of an orderly busy time. It helps that the people are no longer stuck inside due to the ongoings of the events outside, so the hospital is emptier than before, compared to when it was jam packed. The mental health department is also using Drowzees and Munnas to give people good dreams and eating nightmares without repercussions so that they can have a good night's rest. Not all wounds are physical, after all.

With the local Mart's help and other establishments, some people band together to supply people with food and drinks in a very open area in the park. Take a breather and eat something. If you look like you're running yourself ragged, one of the townspeople will drag you to eat and drink a proper meal. They don't need another patient in the hospital right now.

Remember that boba shop? Or those restaurants that you had the delicious meat from? Their damages vary from a broken window to being absolutely trashed. Pokemon and people alike are helping with moving the debris and cleaning up the mess. Someone piped up about recycling broken glass to make brand new windows with fire pokemon and proper glass making methods, so please don't throw them away!

The Radio Tower and the cemetery tower? They're both closed off to the public right now with yellow police caution tapes all around them. Your friendly policemen who all look the same advise nearby people to stay away from the two buildings at the moment. Please don't cause trouble or ask them questions... they're tired as it is like everyone else and they're not allowed to say anything for now, if ever. Your energy is better used elsewhere.

Comments

[yokeye]

[They're not, but Chloe does hit on a simplistic way to describe how Toki often feels.]

Nothing fits.

[He cries harder at that, and pulls Hana-chan close to hug her, desperate for something to cling to. She squirms, but doesn't try to escape even though Toki's getting tears all over her fur and it will be matted and gross later.]

[cooloutfits]

H-Hey--

[Chloe has to blink tears out of her eyes too, because Toki's sudden harder crying is--maybe something she, too, has been trying to avoid for the past few days. Her empathy is naturally high, too, so it's just... hard not to feel for others.

She puts a hand on his shoulder, a little helplessly. She doesn't really know what's appropriate to do here... they're not such good friends that she could go for a hug easily, and what if it would be weird for Toki. She just kind of half-pats, half-pets his shoulder, trying not to cry herself.]

[yokeye]

[At the touch on his shoulder, Chloe is being pulled in for a hug too. He barely knows her, but she's here and she was nice to him before, and he thinks that on some level, she might understand. If not, he's just some disturbed boy crying all over her and she can run away.]

jfc i do Not have icons

[cooloutfits]

[It's okay in a way, because she does understand, even if it's the wrong thing she understands. She hugs him back, a little awkwardly, but mostly because she's used to hugging girls more. How do you hug guys? They're all... not soft.

Toki's sadness is getting to her, too, and she finds herself actually crying before long. Shroomish makes sad, worried noises because she doesn't understand why everyone is sad, but she will share the sad with them. :( She jumps up on Chloe's lap to sort of wiggle in between them, in lieu of hugging them because Shroomish don't have arms.]

I wanna go home...

[It's not actually the exact feeling itself, but that's the best Chloe can get. And she does want to go home, but also she kind of... wants to forget being here, or at least the bad things that happened here. It was supposed to be a vacation, and then people died. She's never actually seen anyone die, apart from some distant relatives, and even that was from naturally growing too old, not violent death. She wants to go home and for things to be normal and to have been normal all along.]

[yokeye]

[Hana-chan struggles to reach the Shroomish, she can't hug her from her position in Toki's arms, but she can give one little tap.]

Me too.

[It's not the same type of want, but that doesn't matter. They're both sad and it feels a little less lonely to have someone sitting with him, even if Toki isn't completely connected at the moment. Chloe is solid and there, at least it seems so. He could have made her up entirely, but that's also fine.]

[cooloutfits]

I-I thought this was just someplace, and then... No one knows where Unova is, a-and no one knows about the people or things I talk about, and I can't call anyone, and we can't go anywhere, and--

[Open the floodgates. Chloe has been trying to hold on, pushing away how scared and confused she is, but it spills out now, and she feels like nothing more than a little girl who got separated from her parents, when the world is too big and unfamiliar and confusing.]

[yokeye]

[Chloe's upset rambling brings Toki a little more to the present. He doesn't know where Unova is. Chloe is just as lost as him, though in a more literal way.]

It's scary, isn't it?

[He wipes his eyes roughly, just making his skin look red and blotchy.]

[cooloutfits]

[Even in the depths of Being Sad, Chloe has opinions about skincare.]

N-No, come on, you'll just irritate the skin like that...

[Still sniffling, she pulls back to open her purse and hand Toki a small bottle of water and a packet of cotton pads.]

You need to... [sniff] wash your eyes first... and then moisturizer...

[yokeye]

[Toki sniffles, staring at the cotton. The sadness has drifted into confusion. He's never done this kind of thing before.]

You wash your eyes with these?

[The eyeball part? He's going to blind himself.]

[cooloutfits]

[Chloe's sadness, meanwhile, quickly grows to horror as she realizes Toki is about to put the cotton into his eye.]

No no no, just around the eyes! Like this!

[Well, her makeup is pretty ruined from crying anyway and it's late, so might as well take it off. She takes out the ever-helpful makeup purse from her bag and pulls out a bottle, holding it up like a teacher giving a lecture.]

Alright, pay attention! First, micellar water! You put it on the cotton, [like this], then wipe around the eyes. This one's got stuff in it that's good for the skin, too, so if you want I can give you the brand names you can actually find around here.

[She stares at Toki for a little bit.]

Though you're probably too young for makeup, huh?

[yokeye]

[Toki is at least distracted from further sadness by the makeup confusion.]

You bottle water from your cellar?

[He's never lived in a place with a basement, but maybe there's underground onsens down there.]

I don't know. How old do you have to be?

[Must be this old to buy makeup.]