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

[scension]

[...This is not the time to ponder such things, but Sagi has to wonder how long it's going to take for Toki to forget the remaining 25% of his name so that he doesn't recognise the attempts any more.]

Yeah... I just wanted to say, I'm really sorry about the other day. I didn't know the nurses would start ganging up on you like that.

[yokeye]

[Toki and Hana-chan stare at each other for a moment. Are they having a telepathic conversation? Spacing out in sync? Musing over the quality of the boba? No one knows. As one, they turn back to Sagi.]

It's okay. It wasn't your fault, but-

[Another telepathic conference.]

Who is this Toly?

[scension]

[Sagi waits patiently through both silent conspiracies, looking only relieved when Toki tells him it's okay, but he can't restrain himself from blurting out:]

You remember Toly, but not my name?

[That makes him feel a little sad...]

I made him up. I thought they'd lay off of you if they believed it. Um, I'm sorry for that, too.

[yokeye]

I know your name! It's Ziji!

[Which is not even what he thought it was two minutes ago. At the explanation, Toki has another 'conference' with Hana-chan.]

So there isn't another me out there running around? Hana-chan saw one.

[She nods and slurps more boba.]

I had different hair and my hand wasn't broken. If it wasn't Toly, who was he?

[scension]

Sagi.

[His heart isn't in the correction, partly because now he's just as baffled. It isn't something he would have consciously remembered without Toki saying it, but now that he thinks back, Toki's hand did seem fine before he got dragged away.]

But wasn't that just... you?

[yokeye]

[Toki is now beyond confused.]

So the other me isn't Toly but Sagi, but you think it's still me? I mean... I guess it was, because I remember some of it, but like, it's not me at the same time, right? It's some other entity, this Tolysagi, who took over my body for a while!

[Even Hana-chan can't follow that. She ignores the conversation henceforth, taking the lid off her boba cup and fishing inside for the boba balls.]

[scension]

No, Sagi is my name! I didn't take you over!

[He had the right idea before. He shouldn't even try. It would probably behoove him to drop the subject entirely, but the mental image of him possessing someone else is just... gross. Actually, all of Toki's babbling is getting on his nerves right now. He'll take a break from sweeping after this, he thinks.]

Maybe something else did. I don't know.

[yokeye]

It is!? But I thought it was Sura!

[So there's only Toly, who is him... but possibly also now something he'd been possessed by? It's too much to think about, so Toki doesn't. He stares blankly as he erases those memories; away they go, into a little storage vault in his brain that he does not have the combination to.]

Anyway~! Do you want some boba, Sagi? It's really good and they're half-price today! You look like you could use a break!

[A break from Toki, but he does not realize this.]

[scension]

[He got it right this time! That might be a first. Sagi finds himself curious about how long it's going to stick. Even if he wasn't, a break doesn't sound too bad right now - he figures that's why Toki came across as annoying just now, rather than anything specific that he said - and Toki seems to have cheered up, thank goodness.]

Is there room? I'll go get one.

[Once he empties his card full of broken glass into the sack they're using for recycling, he heads over to join the line. It's surprisingly long, but then, not all of the seating is clear of debris or properly cleaned up yet. Who knows what Toki or Hana-chan could end up doing while he's waiting.]

[yokeye]

[Toki had meant to buy Sagi a drink, but he wasn't clear with that intention. He shrugs to himself when Sagi goes to order. Oh, well. More money for them, safely secured in Hana-chan's bib pocket.

While Sagi's waiting in line, Toki and Hana-chan finish their boba and get bored pretty quickly. Hana-chan fidgets, trying to find a more comfortable spot in her seat. Toki is lining up the milk tea boba balls on the table, looking at them with intense concentration, for reasons unknown.]

[scension]

[When Sagi returns, carrying another regular milk tea, the line of boba balls catches his eye long before Toki and Hana-chan's fidgeting. He occupied himself by people-watching the other customers while waiting in line, so he didn't get much of a sense of how long he took.]

You aren't going to eat those?

[yokeye]

They're more fun to play with.

[Hana-chan doesn't think so and snatches one out of the line to eat. It's not as good as her berry boba, but it will do.]

What kind did you get? Have you tried them all yet? Did you get both stamps? What do you think they give you if you collect them all?

[scension]

Um...

[Toki rattled off that whole stream of questions in about the length of time it takes Sagi to think of anything to say at all.]

Yeah, I wonder what the prize is. Making you travel around for it when most people don't seem to travel much has to be worth more than just another free drink. Or whatever those promos usually are.

[yokeye]

[What could this amazing prize be?]

Maybe it's how we go home.

[scension]

Sure would be nice. Are you going to work on it and find out?

[A little muffled. Why would you pick out and play with these things when you can just shove them all in your mouth at once?]

[yokeye]

[Toki separates his milk boba balls into sections of five after lining them up. Why? No one knows. Hana-chan steals one and Toki doesn't notice. He'll think he miscounted if he goes back over them.]

I could! I can get boba stamps! That's not too hard!

[There's a glimmer of hope in his eyes, he could help with something. It's quickly replaced by an 'oh no!' type of realization. He has changed his mind almost immediately.]

But it is hard, though, because what if I get like every stamp but the last one and then I lose the card and all my effort was for nothing!? It's not worth it to extend that much energy when it can easily go wrong, and like, what if I don't want any boba one time and then can't get a card stamped without ordering something I don't like? No, stamp collecting isn't for me~!

[Hana-chan nods in agreement, though she hasn't actually followed Toki's train of thought.]

[scension]

[Sagi didn't either, but he tried. He got about halfway.]

You might not lose the card. I think it's worth a try anyway.

[yokeye]

[Ugh. Trying.]

There's a tiny, tiny chance I won't lose it, so really, the odds are in favour of backing out now~!

[scension]

[Sagi wants to call that a defeatist attitude, but... it does sound accurate to what he knows of Toki.]

You could, um... clip it to something you won't lose?

[If such a mythical object exists.]

[yokeye]

[Hana-chan drums her paws on the table like bongos. She has an idea! After getting Toki's attention, she takes one of his milk tea boba balls and slowly places it in her bib pocket, then nods.]

Oh! Hana-chan can keep it safe, and I won't lose her!

[scension]

[There was something after all! See, optimism pays off.]

Yeah, I think that should work! And she won't lose you either. You two always look so close.

[yokeye]

Yeah! Maybe we can collect them all!

[Hana-chan bongos again, but she's plotting to lose the card 'accidentally', because she never wants Toki to go 'home'. At least not without her.]

[scension]

[Sagi beams, glad to have given Toki a confidence boost for however long he's going to remember it.] You will! I'm sure of it.

[Okay, maybe he's drained enough of this milk tea while Toki was rambling that he can just down the rest and get back to work. He lifts the cup, tips his head back -

- and, a few seconds later, ends up coughing and spluttering across Toki's inscrutable boba ball formation on the table. Not quite enough.]

[yokeye]

Are you okay!?

[Toki slides his chair away as Sagi's boba flies everywhere. The boba balls are dangerous and maybe he got one caught in his throat. Hana-chan seems to have come to the same conclusion and she bongos on Sagi's back; which is maybe not the best thing to do, but she thinks she's helping. Don't choke!]

[scension]

[Getting bongoed on the feathers by a Spinda's unsteady paws is a uniquely uncomfortable feeling, similar to but not quite the same as getting arrhythmically thumped on the back, skull and ribcage all at once. Sagi finds himself pulling away from Hana-chan to get away from it and gripping the table for support instead, just as soon as his hacking and spluttering subsides enough to let him. His nearly empty boba cup rolls away from him, sad and forgotten.]

I, I'm fine - sorry - [Cough.] I'm not - choking.

[He coughs again, then a couple more times. Maybe he did choke a tiny bit, but only because the milk tea went down the wrong hole. He'll live. It's all good.]