six (video) ♊ it's the pokémon christmas bash!

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux has been wandering around all by his lonesome since the Cinnabar incident, letting Karkat and Vanitas have their... alone time without a third wheel intruding. He's sure they were very grateful, but didn't actually get around to telling them he was leaving, so he couldn't be sure. He's been doing his own wanderings all over the place, contemplating maybe getting Badges or something... and never actually getting any Badges. Good job, Sollux. But now it's time to actually kick his ass back into gear; the Pokémon are getting antsy from all this wanderlust. He can feel it by the way Fefero slams him over the head with a cannon. That's a bored cannon.]

[There's a really quick video post up on the Network now; it looks like he's sitting on a beach, Axolotl the Absol on his lap as usual. Resting in Olivine does have its perks.]

Anyone in Johto know a place to go for the holidays? Preferably in a town with a Gym? [And yet he hasn't left the city yet.] I feel like integrating myself with the locals and getting my ass out of this chair at the same time.

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[trailweblaze]

Goldenrod and Violet should be nice this time of year.

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[viiru2alert]

...Goldenrod.

[His voice is a dead-sounding echo.]

Oh my lord, I can't even imagine what they would do in Goldenrod. You'd be blinded by the end of the month from all the seizurrific Christmas lights...

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[timelymaid]

[ Oh an Absol! Sollux has the cutest pokemon. ]

I'm going to Goldenrod with everyone else - well, the two groups that are going, I mean - but I'm not really certain what we're going to do there. I assume there will be human Christmas things?

Speaking of, have you had one of those before? [ She's probably riding on a borrowed Pokemon while heading to said city. Fun times. ]

[viiru2alert]

[He does have the cutest Pokémon. Literally all of them are sweetie babies. ...Except Yanmega.]

Goldenrod, huh?

...I'd been planning to go to Ecruteak to get that Fog Badge... so I can finally Surf...

[timelymaid]

[ ...Yeah she has to actually pull out a map for this to puzzle over the travel math there. ]

So that's...a week and a half from Goldenrod, I think? [ She doesn't have fly pokemon yet, anyway. ] You split off from Karkat?

[viiru2alert]

Thereabouts. [He's actually trying to get Surf so he can go to Cianwood and get Fly...]

Yeah, I did. He and Vanitas weren't moving fast enough. [Smug grin. This isn't all of what happened, of course, but it was close enough to the truth.]

[timelymaid]

[ So basically you're wandering around all alone. ]

Well, I'll probably stay in Goldenrod until whatever party everyone is planning is through with. How long do you think you'll need to be in Ecruteak?

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[brokenmemories]

I hear Goldenrod is a good place to go to around this time, especially with all the gift exchanges and parties I hear about.

There's also a gym there I believe, unless you've already fought them.

[viiru2alert]

...Goldenrod's kind of the go-to place when you need shit to do, isn't it?

[He has not fought the Gym there, as he was far too weak to challenge her when he'd been there last. But he can throttle her now!]

[viiru2alert]

[Yes, basically.]

Uh, just to get the Badge, so a few days. I guess if I start moving now, I can ride Typhlosion or something and get there before everything fun happens, and hit up Ecruteak after...

[timelymaid]

[ ...Oh, okay, she has to confirm Sollux is actually saying he's going to come to Goldenrod for social activities because if so exciting news. ]

You're going to spend Christmas here??? [ She's cautiously really excited!

Yeah there's nothing cautious about that.

...Oh Ecruteak on this map. Sollux. SOLLUX. Do you even realize what is in that city?? ] Wait, Ecruteak - that's right by two towers!

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[usedshooshpap]

More than likely the humans are going to be around Goldenrod for the holiday.

Figured that I'm essentially stuck here until that date passes. Fuck it all.

[brokenmemories]

Hey, there's a gym and a department store. Good enough reasons for me to head over there for me. [Mainly the department store part.]

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[islandshore]

Goldenrod's overrated.

Personally, I'd suggest Kanto or Olivine or, heck, Mahogany Town, since that is where the ice-themed gym's located.

[viiru2alert]

[Heh. Sollux grins at this.]

Who's got you all tied up? Vanitas?

[viiru2alert]

Yeah, true enough. It's easy for gifts, too.

...You humans do gifts, right?

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[viiru2alert]

[Sollux holds up the PokéGear and sweeps it around the area for a little while.]

Whaddya know, it's Olivine! And I'm bored out of my mutant fucking brain over here, too, so try again.

...Isn't Mahogany Town up north somewhere?

[brokenmemories]

Well, that's all we do back home around this time of season. That and eat some kind of cake.

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[islandshore]

[Aaand he shrugs.]

Hey, at least it's not Goldenrod.

[A beat.]

And Mahogany's up north. It's not a huge town and it's probably not incredibly exciting, but I guess it's worth checking out. Otherwise, Celadon and Saffron offer just as much as Goldenrod, if not more. And Fuchsia's got movie studios all over the place.

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[viiru2alert]

...Okay, seriously, dude, what have you got against Goldenrod?

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[islandshore]

Like I said, I think it's overrated. I mean, it's okay, but I just don't see what makes it any better than the other big cities. Heck, Celadon's got a Department Store, too, so it's not like that's an exclusive.

[papshooshing]

Our humans, fuckface.

[viiru2alert]

I guess. [No, he definitely didn't just decide to go as soon as you mentioned that you wanted to, Aradia. That was absolutely not how this conversation happened and if anyone asked Sollux would vehemently insist otherwise.] Christmas is supposed to be the time of being with other people, isn't it? If I'm passing through anyway to get to Ecruteak, I might as well--

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What.

[O. M. F. G.]

...Eheheheh. That's going to make a great vacation spot.

[viiru2alert]

Aww, they want to induce you into their inferior human merrymaking.











...I guess I already told Aradia that I'm coming too, didn't I.

[papshooshing]

[ brb laughing ]