Open Info Collection Post

[thaumewturge]

Who: Rhel + anyone who wants to help out
Where: Pokemon Center
When: August 8th
What: So Rhel wants to get all the information folks may have learned written down! Come help?

[Rhel can only hope that other people are of the same mind when it comes to gathering information. She doesn't know much about this place, she doubts other people know all that much about this place, and the more information they can get and make accessible the better.

So she asks Minato for help and tells the people she recognizes what the plan is and on the eighth of the month she settles down for a day-long info gathering fest.

She's quite pleased with the rather pretty journal and pencil she managed to find, too.]

OOC: Like it says in the explanation, Rhel wants to get all the information everyone's been gathering piecemeal and write it down! Feel free to threadjack if everyone's okay with it, I just play a nerd who'd do this sorta thing.

Comments

[rateup]

[ tfw i play someone who would know any of this........ ]

Man, I'd feel bad for Bounsweet... But yeah, they'd know a move like Sweet Scent. Some Bug Pokemon should be able to learn it at a relatively low level too.

[ only, the difference between him and chiaki is that itaru isn't an AI. realistically he wouldn't know each and everyone's moves just yet. ]

Alternatively you might be able to lure it in with Combee honey? Not sure if it'd work on Gyarados in particular, but slathering honey on trees is another way of catching Pokemon.

[compendiem]

Mm... I attract a lot of bug Pokemon any time I gather honey from the hives. Maybe... slathering trees with honey, and the resulting bug Pokemon use Sweet Scent...? Somehow.

[ Would they listen to a bunch of people asking them to be Gyarados bait? If they could get this to work, though, it'd be a triple prong honey-sweet scent-grub bait. ]

[rateup]

[ it'd be fine, food chains are still a thing in the pokemon world. but also - ]

Mm, you might be onto something here. Hell, we might not have to slather them on trees at all. Like, if someone goes out to the lake with enough jars of honey, we might be able to get Gyarados to go wherever we want it to go.

[compendiem]

Who's going to want to do that? ...Though, I guess I would.

[ He supposes!! If nobody else wants to and this is the best idea they can come up with, he supposes he would do it... ]

Maybe somebody as a water Pokemon that can swim fast enough to lure the Gyarados while towing a boat.

[rateup]

Yeah, no. I have Mudkip myself, so I'll... [ gulp ] I'll take one for the team?

[ he doesn't know how to swim, but there should be some lifevests on these boats? hopefully?? ]

[compendiem]

[ DON'T OFFER YOURSELF WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM........... he doesn't even have to be there on the boat with Mudkip but he's willing to sacrifice himself anyways... ]

Mudkip... You got that from the Game Corner, right? Too bad Castform isn't in the prize rotation.

[rateup]

[ they both aren't the one to talk, huh... ]

Yeah, I even made sure to ask before I claimed it. Said that they're rare as they come.

Oh, but Mudkip could proooobably help with the water slide thing? Need to ask Nanami 'bout this to make sure, though.

[compendiem]

[ Oh? Oh!! His water slide idea is actually being considered. ]

What do you have in mind?

[rateup]

Like what if... our Water Pokemon can get together and flush it out somehow? But I guess the problem is that as of right now they're a little too underleveled to take on that Gyarados anyway.

[compendiem]

Which is where strategy comes in.

[ His gaze flickers over to Joonghyuk who'd brought up status ailments and using that to their advantage, and he's sure they'll be able to figure something out if they all put their heads together. ]

There's always a way to beat an opponent much stronger than you- we just gotta outsmart the boss. I told Joonghyuk that I don't want to kick the Gyarados out of its home... but it has to calm down for us to make any progress. Unless we figure out another way, that's gonna involve fighting it.

[regression]

... It's protecting something, isn't it?

[ Hm. Joonghyuk wasn't too sure about the slide, even if he isn't counting it out. It may work if their water Pokemon were strong enough. ]

If we can confuse it long enough, we can use Han Sooyoung's Ditto to shift into whatever it is and lure it out.

[rateup]

Has anyone gotten close enough to see what it's protecting, exactly?

[ itaru closes his eyes and tries to brainblast. ]

Mm, this isn't like in any of the games at all, huh.

[authoriser]

Excuse me? Who said you could use my Ditto?

[ Sooyoung glares over at Joonghyuk. ]

That thing won't listen to anybody but me.

[scension]

Wait, I'll - [He raises his hand like a kid at volunteering-to-fall-off-a-boat class.] I'll come too. I've got... some kind of fish.

[Imagine knowing Pokemon names without someone telling you first.]

Between them, that should be enough bait. Plus, safety in numbers, right? Unless... well, I don't know how that thing's memory for faces is...

[Whether it'll remember him throwing boba at it, he means. What about its memory for the half a bird's worth of feathers overlaid on his back? Shh.]

[rateup]

Ehh. Nice one, Sagi. What kinda fish is it?

[ the walking-talking pokedex can figure it out for you. ]

And I guess with those wings of yours, you can just zip it outta there. But you'll carry me too if it comes right down to it, right?

[ please don't leave him there ]

[scension]

Yikes, no pressure. [He's sheepish again.] Wish I could tell you yes, but I can't fly for longer than most people. Uh, not people here, I mean, just... Best be ready to swim. Sorry.

[Believe him, it hurts part of his teenage heart to choose honesty there over allowing someone to assume he and his wings are cooler than they are. So sad. Only Itaru's inevitable drowning will be sadder.]

The fish is - hold on. [With absolutely no fanfare, he deploys his Basculin onto the floor by his feet, where it squirms impatiently. They're not in a fight, and anyway there's no room to strike a pose in here.] This. It's... a fish. Does it count?

[regression]

... You haven't named it.

[ SAAAAGI? ]

[scension]

N... Name it?

[Was he... was he supposed to... He's genuinely drawing a blank. This is way too many damn rules.]

[regression]

How would you call to it when it's around other Basculin?

[ It just seems inefficient to go about... Not giving it a name. ]

[scension]

Well, it hasn't happened yet.

["Fishy" it is, then. Look, if he'd ever been remotely curious about names, he would probably have lost interest again five seconds after looking up his own.]

[rateup]

Don't pressure him, man. The right name will come to him when he least expects it.

[ speak for yourself, nerd ]

[regression]

It sounds like you haven't named your Rowlet.

[ He is pointing fingers here. ]

[rateup]

Oh, it's a... [ crap what the fuck is this pokemon again, the fifth gen introduced so much - ] Basculin! Yeah, that's sure is a fish.

[ a pretty unremarkable fish, at least to itaru's eyes. but he doesn't want to damper sagi's optimism by introducing him to competitive meta, so he'll keep his mouth shut on the subject. anyway! ]

But yeah, that's fair. You'll just save me when I inevitably drown in the depths of the lake, at least.

[ right??? ]

[scension]

All right, all right. It's a little early to get that morbid.

[Sure is a fish that's going straight back in the Pokeball before it can get excitable again. Still, it's good to have something to call it! "Basculin", huh... Despite that pointed look from Joonghyuk, Sagi might have let it remain "a fish" for the rest of its life otherwise.]

[thaumewturge]

Agreed, let's not talk as if drowning is a certainty. That's the last thing any of us need.