[OOC] PokeGear + IC Contact

[puppetnurse]

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"....l-leave a message please...."

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voice; 2/3

[lullabytes]

[ She'll just...lend a hand in unobtrusively distracting Tsumiki. ]

Hey, Tsumiki-san, have you ever given out friendship chocolates...? Is that a thing that classmates are supposed to do?

[ ...Well, also, she wanted to bring this up with someone who wasn't Saionji, and Hinata and Kuzuryuu seem pretty busy and Kirigiri and the others are still dealing with the last meltdown so hey this works. ]

I can't figure out how it's supposed to work...it seems like they give them to girls and boys here? Are there rules for it...? Am I supposed to give them to anyone?

[ ...She's legitimately not sure, this isn't something that's usually covered in games outside of the genre she's bad with. Surely Tsumiki's answer can't be any less helpful than Saionji's was. ]

voice; 2/3

[puppetnurse]

Ah, N-Nanami-san!

[To say she was surprised by the call is an understatement. Especially with all of the "excitement" going on. But good call on Nanami's part.

Though unfortunately she's probably going to be less helpful than Saionji.]

Friendship chocolates...

[Nodding, she sits on her bed.]

...I-I did. Sometimes, yes. I think classmates...and friends are supposed to do that. I don't know if there are rules here about it though...I'm sorry. I think I always did it wrong too...nobody...accepted my chocolates.

So maybe I'm not the best person to ask...

voice; 2/3

[lullabytes]

[ Joining in on the "excitement" just seems like asking for trouble...

...and actually, knowing she's not the only one at a loss is a good thing. She has eleven days left to figure it out, at least. ]

Hm...well, if it's something that you did, though...I think that's enough to go on. I've never even done that much...

[ For reasons they won't get into. ]

Although if it's making chocolates, I'm not really sure how to do that, either. Is it bad if they're store-bought...? Or I can try to figure out how to make them. If I pretend it's a game, maybe it'll be easier...?

[ ...Considering her cooking skills are Cooking Mama based, they will probably end up store bought, though. ]

We're not in the same place any longer or I'd say we could try making them together...ah, but I think maybe we'll come back to Goldenrod at least for that day? Or I wonder if Shaun-kun has things that could deliver chocolates?

[ She is way overthinking this but she doesn't want to slight any of her friends just because she doesn't understand Valentines Day in practice. ]

2/14...ish.

[lullabytes]

[ More or less on time unlike Lucy Nanami will deposit some chocolates - for which she apparently found some sort of mold tray with buneary shapes - and an egg in Tsumiki's account.

The egg is giftwrapped, and will hatch into an Eevee. There's also a card with two Skittys sending hearts at one another, inside which is the following note: Happy Valentine's Day. The egg will be an Eevee, so you should think about what sort of evolution you'd like. A friendship-based one, right?

Nanami's signature is a little haphazard and childish, but easy to read. ]

action; 3/14 FORWARD DATING LIKE A CHAMP

[impheired]

[Hey, Tsumiki. Tsumiki. Are you in your room? You better be in your fucking room because there's somebody knocking on your door. Which...might be a little unexpected considering that there's still over an hour to go before Nanami's party. Who on earth could it be?]

[Surprise, it's Kuzuryuu.]

action; 3/14 SUPER ULTRA FORWARD DATING ACTION!!!

[puppetnurse]

[Surprise is right. And unexpected is also right! She's in the middle of pulling her hair back, trying to...tame it...somewhat for the party when she hears the knock. Putting her brush and hair tie down, she moves to open the door, sort of peeking around it at first.]

Kuzuryuu-san?

[Alright, she can open the door more for him. Though she honestly looks a little distressed. Why are you here?]

I...a-am I late? Did the time change?

action; 3/14 YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[impheired]

What?

[Okay that was neither the response nor the facial expression he was expecting. HE WAS TRYING HIS BEST NOT TO LOOK ANGRY WHY DOES SHE SEEM TO THINK SHE'S IN TROUBLE oh wait because she's Tsumiki. Duh. Mystery solved.]

No, it's still at the same time. I'm not here because of the party...

[Okay, come on Kuzuryuu. All you have to do is just hand her the present. It's not big deal. Come on, you fucking pansy. IF SHE COULD DO IT ON VALENTINE'S DAY, YOU CAN DO IT RIGHT NOW.]

[...]

Here.

[Okay apparently we're not going to give an actual explanation, we're just going to kind of stiffly hold out a small white gift bag and try not to break eye contact. You go, Kuzuryuu. You are the White Day champ.]

pc delivery 3/14

[ghostytrainer]

[Okay so thankfully Tenten once mentioned to John that White Day is a thing and even though he is Very American, he does try to be culturally sensitive. So he might have tried his best to look up what he's actually supposed to DO for this holiday that basically sounds like Valentine's Day 2.0.]

[Whenever Tsumiki gets around to checking her PC, she'll find a small, flat, unwrapped white box, the sort of thing one would find either chocolates or jewelry inside. In this case, it's the former. There are ten white chocolate covered marshmallows inside, each styled to look like a smiling Litwick, complete with a purple (grape) or light blue (blue raspberry) jelly bean for the flame. There's also a simple card wishing her a Happy White Day because that seemed like something he should include in there.]

pc delivery, 3/14

[ardent]

[After spending way too long trying to figure out what he's supposed to do and how to avoid making this overfamiliar, she'll be receiving a plain gift bag containing a fair amount of white chocolate in it; happy White Day, Tsumiki-kun.]

pc delivery, 3/14

[superordinary]

[ At some point during the day, a box of white chocolate can be found in the PC. The chocolate is good but nothing super fancy or overly extravagant and attached is a note thanking her for the chocolate he received last month. ]

voice; 3/21

[lullabytes]

Hey, Tsumiki-san, did you get a plastic pokeball thrown at you?

voice; 3/21

[puppetnurse]

Um...I did! I found a few, but...they were all empty. [Which is no big deal to Tsumiki. It's whatever.]

What about you, Nanami-san?

voice; 3/21

[lullabytes]

Empty ones...? Oh, I guess some of them probably are. I got one with a silver ticket inside it, though. There's going to be a party of some sort...! It's going to be at Tohjo Falls! Thrown by the Elite Four!

[ CLEARLY THAT'S EXCITING SOMEHOW...To the SHSL Gamer, at least. They had her at "party thrown by the Elite Four". ]

It's okay that you didn't find a ticket, though. It says you can bring a plus one, so if you want, you can come as mine?

voice; 4/7

[lullabytes]

Tsumiki-san? ...Are you free to meet up? Mm, I'm outside the Pokecenter if so. I...need to talk to you.

[ Since Tsumiki is presumably in Cianwood with Nanami, Chihiro, Hinata, and possibly Naegi?

Someone got cleared to give out spoilers about virtual reality and AIs, although nothing further. ]

voice; 4/7

[puppetnurse]

Talk to me...? I-I'm sorry, Nanami-san! [For what, Tsumiki?] I-I'll be there r-right away!

[Clearly if you need to talk to her, she did something wrong. But she isn't lying. Slipping on her shoes and ushering her gaggle of mons outside, she's doing her best to get to the Center as quickly as possible.

Which probably would work better if she left the Pokemon back in the room.]

voice; 4/7

[lullabytes]

...Ah, thanks. It's nothing for you to apologize for. [ ... ] If anything, that would be my phrase...and it's okay, I can wait.

[ She is really just sitting on a bench with her Musharna in her lap, sleeping.

Truly, she feels a connection to her starter. ]

voice; 4/26

[pipers_son]

Hey Tsumiki! Whenever ya get this, let me know~. The Circus is nearly done with!

[He leaves the message without too much thought put into it, and then the rest of his work ends up taking precedence in his mind. It's only towards the end of the day that he realizes he hasn't gotten any reply, and he double checks to make sure.]

[Hm, that's strange... He thought someone with her sort of personality would answer right away.]

[Oh well, time to go hassle one of her other friends to see if they can get a hold of her.]

5/4

[pipers_son]

check your pc!!!!!!!!

[Hi my name is Joker and I will overuse exclamation marks all I damn well please. But if Tsumiki does go to check out her PC whenever she gets the message, she'll find a big bag of cotton candy, a DVD, and one of the Circus' calling cards. Written on the back of that card-]

The Eve's Garden Circus is sad that Miss Tsumiki could not join us on our big day. We're certain that Tsumiki is as well. To make up for it, please enjoy some cotton candy and a video of one of our shows!

We all look forward to seeing you awake.

Sincerely,

Joker, Angel, Rogue, Invidia, and the rest of the Circus

5/14; a couple hours after she wakes up

[puppetnurse]

[She wanted to reply to the messages, but checked her PC first instead. So when she DOES reply, it's with tears.]

J-Joker-s-san...I-I'm sorry!!!

[She thought she was ready to reply, but apparently not, as that's all she manages to say really.]

text; 8/14

[lullabytes]

DON'T READ THIS u will get kissed on the nearest possible wednesday by ur crush. Tomorrow will be the best day ever and u will catch a rare pokemon. HOWEVER IF U DONT FORWARD THIS TO AT LEAST 5 PEOPLE bad luck will rear it's ugly head at u!! THIS IS NOT A JOKE. There are consiquences for ignoring this, u will get chased by 50 beedrills and sprayed by a skuntank!!!!11!

**NOTE** The more people U send this to, the better luck you have!

P.S. I did not make this up, someone sent it to me so I am passing it on!

> ENCRYPTED ATTACHMENT: pory-con-invite.txt

text; 8/14

[puppetnurse]

Nanami-san, do you believe this is real?

[She's already had a lengthy discussion with Kuzuryuu about it and has been somewhat depressed since then, now knowing that the kiss probably isn't going to happen...]

action; 9/7

[perfectstrike]

[Tsumiki why would you even want your Pokégear back. Why would you even. Let the pandas have it.

Peko's sitting nearby as Tsumiki pleads for help. She looks like she's not quite sure if she's allowed to pet them, but she's holding her (off) Pokégear in both hands in the hopes it'll attract some of the pandas to her.]

Panda...

[she murmurs, so quiet that Tsumiki might not be able to hear her. Don't mind Peko. She's just sitting with her hands in her lap, ostensibly making sure Tsumiki doesn't get hurt, in reality just working up the courage to pet a panda.]

action; 9/7

[puppetnurse]

[She needs it! Plus, Kuzuryuu would probably yell at her if she just...let the pandas keep it...

Tsumiki does not at all mind having Peko nearby as she now tries to negotiate with the pandas for the gear. Here, do you want more berries? She has some other things in her pack you could have if you want...just give it back to her.......a little too preoccupied to hear Peko, but that doesn't mean she's not going to turn and try and get her attention.]

P-Pekoyama-san what do I do? They won't give it baaack.

[Halp. And come pet a panda in the process!]

text; 10/29

[lullabytes]

I went through a weird portal and found some plot. I don't know when I'll be back, since it disappeared after I went through. But I should be fine, I think.

text; 10/29

[puppetnurse]

What?! Are you alright? Is it safe there?