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[*Looks like someone left their Grumpearl on.
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🤍Yes ‎ ‎ ‎ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ *Do Not]

... Why did I have to find Lusamine? I don't even care that she's in a stupid coma.

[You don't feel a sense of love or attachment or empathy... but there's a pang of something. Another name on the list. Another petal plucked.]

Hee hee... what an idiot. She spent so much energy trying to 'fix' me that she couldn't even take care of herself. Now look at us. I'm still here and she might as well be dead.

[Maybe he should have taken her soul. Then maybe she...

... no. Sharing a body has never worked out for him. And the last thing he wants is someone that close. Reading his thoughts, the stupid impulses that pass for 'feelings'... what a joke.]

I hate everyone. I hate all of them!!!

I hate every single one of those stupid losers! I hope they ALL drop dead!!

[He knows he doesn't mean it. But do you?]

AUGUST 2025 EVENT LOG

⋆✩ THE FIRST TRUE EXPEDITION ✩⋆

The Guildleader’s announcement comes off the excitement of yet another round of mysterious new arrivals floundering their way into society. It comes not long after a fresh round of beach parties and campfires, announced simply by notices posted to the Quest Board concerning a vital announcement to be made at the Archive’s steps. Within the first week of the month, that announcement has been made.

It’s time to expand their borders. It’s time to break through the unknown.

It’s time, the Guilds agree, for an Expedition.

( OFF TO A NEW FRONTIER )

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[Closed] Play Nice? Not Play Rough?

Who: Guilmon, Emporio and Anasui ft. a Litwik
What: Play Nice
Where: South Forest
Warnings: Anasui being violent

( [Choose the damaging move] )

[closed] while the snow falls all around me

Who: Emmet, Laios, Ingo
What: Play Nice and Exploration: Blue, for now
When: various points in August
Where: Middle Forest, uncharted territory past the Southern Outpost at current
Warnings: Cold weather environmental hazards; to be added if they come up

( drifting closer to the edge but she won't have me )

[CLOSED] Lay low, clutch your limbs forever

Who: Umemiya, Guilmon, Anasui
What: Expedition: Blue
Where: Out in the wilds
Warnings: None yet
( Lying here together, in the cold, cold, cold )

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[CLOSED] Play Nice

Who: Akechi, Ren, Ingo
What: Play Nice
Where: The woods bordering the outpost.
Warnings: Wacky shenanigans with a Pelipper

( Birdy buddies...? )

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[CLOSED] far over the misty mountains cold

Who: A.B.A, Shoka Sakurane, Firoza Istus
What: Exploration: Blue
When: Mid-August
Where: South of the Outpost
Warnings: Auditory hallucinations, terrain hazards (avalanches, cave-ins, etc.)

( to dungeons deep and caverns old )

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Exploration: Red

Who: Akechi, Emporio, Akira
What: Exploration: Red
Where: North of the outpost
Warnings: Environmental hazards, probable combat, and overall peril.

( Feelin' hot, hot, hot... )

Current Music: https://open.spotify.com/track/3U25ECkI7LVkQuHrr1Slke

August ALL THE THINGS (Quests and Open)

Who: Umemiya and you
When: August 2025
Where: In town, The Spire, Quest Locations
Summary: Umemiya settles in, offers his services, and starts getting to work
Warnings: None yet
Note: I default to prose; feel free to flip me to brackets
( Soundtrack: The Pioneers by Tuung )

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jjba: emporio alniño

August Quest Catch All!

WHO: Emporio, and his fellow Quest Takers
WHAT: QUESTS! QUESTS!
WHEN: Through August
WHERE: Bottlecap Bay/The Outpost/Etc...
WARNINGS: To be noted as needed

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August Catch-all

Who: Flowey & Perrin, Bigby, Akechi, Siffrin, Siffrin (again), Chara
What: Quests!! The boy's got his non-existent hands full again! (Exploration: Yellow, Carts Before Charts, Flower Showers, Play Nice)
Where: New territory beyond the middle forest; places in and around the new Outpost
When: Throughout August
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), severe weather, Flowey's trauma (mentions of/themes of depression, depersonalization, guilt, child death, murder)

[AUDIO] - The Clinic

[Emporio holds his pearl with care, making sure not to project much of a video image. The mental audio is best here he thinks, if at least because of what he's 'talking' about.

...

With difficulty, but he's trying to keep those feelings out of the transmission as well.]

Everyone- Uh. I need you to know that Guildmaster Ribombee brought Firepaw in today. ...He found him outside his office door, with a report in his jaws.

...Firepaw was. ...Was working really hard the last little while. He was down here so many times that Anasui and I had to pull him out more than once to try and get him to sleep, but.

[Distantly, one might actually make out the sounds of the Espartha cursing. Anyone who actually knows the bird can tell that he's upset.

But not in an 'angry' way.

Emporio presses on.]

...I'd say I'd hope he can get some rest for a bit now, but after what happened to A.B.A...

...Well. We'll all be taking turns looking after him with the others. But please. Just... ...Look after yourselves too. Don't push it.

[The connection ends.]