3rd Quest [Video, after completing Heads or Tails]

[bladeofnymeia]

[It's finally a sunny, warm day, hot but not terribly humid, and perfect for laying out bolts of felt to dry after May's deluge of rain. Or, well, to let them dry after being cleaned to ensure there's no mold or mildew or anything gross trying to grow on the fabric Firoza has worked so hard to make. And as she sits in the middle of this fabric drying in the sun, her mind wanders towards her efforts with Laios and Emmett to locate a missing Pokemon. The eerie feeling, the thought that came unbidden, the state that Zweilous was found in...

She has to talk about this. She has to express this. And when she comes in over the Grumpearls, you can get that sense of concern and confusion settling around her, making the sunny day a bit dimmer as a result.]

I don't recall Zweilous having gone missing before our arrival here. Has this Pokemon wandered off before?

[She hums, little Nidoran brow furrowed. It's important to note that she's finally started to keep her bandana pulled down again, and her right cheek (her right) has a wispy scar trailing across it, like tendrils of flame licking out. It's all healed, it doesn't look grotesque, but wow it sure is there!]

There's just...a feeling I had. "No, no, not again"...and I couldn't shake how familiar it was, to know you are missing a name and face, but you cannot put it together. Though how it can be familiar I'm not sure...

[Tap tap tap goes a paw, impatient as she thinks.]

Have any of you felt something similar, from a mission? Or am I overthinking this?

Comments

[bladeofnymeia]

Shiny...but a different color?

[Usually something that was shiny was just its own color. Like, you could get a metallic dye and then your clothes or armor would be shiny.]

I don't understand.

[outbounds]

Hmm. Most Pokemon of a given species will be pretty much the same color?

But very rarely. You will get ones who aren't. Those are generally called shinies. [ Or if you talk to someone more old school about it, maybe "Shining Pokemon". ] They are called that because they will also often ... glimmer, a little. Under the right circumstances.

[bladeofnymeia]

[BIG WIDE EYES EMOJI]

Ooh! Incredible...so it's just a special coloration! You see that in some creatures in the wild where I am from, too. But they don't glimmer.

[outbounds]

Correct.

We even have an example among us in Shoka.

[ Luckily for Shoka, she is not, in fact, sparkling at all times all over the place (unless...?). Could you imagine. ]

[bladeofnymeia]

Is she? Wh...I never noticed!

[WEH HER FRIEND IS SPECIAL THAT'S AWESOME]

[outbounds]

Yup. If you ever see her and the other Mimikyu here next to each other. The one in Lum? [ The former possessed necklace who he never got the name of. ] Or well, most any other Mimikyu you might find. You might notice the difference.

[ Technically A.B.A is also a special color but his ass isn't gonna know that since he's not part of the team who created this super secret artificial species, much less know what it's supposed to look like. Type: Full is still a terrible species name, smh. ]

[bladeofnymeia]

[Clearly A.B.A is just the best ever and totally unique]

I will have to check that for myself, thank you. That is...hm. It's...fun.

Somehow. Fun just sounds like the right word.

[outbounds]

It is. Fun is definitely the word for it, yep.

[ There is not quite as much energy as would be in that usually, what with the rest of what they're discussing, but shinies and other Pokemon fun facts are still just. Well. Fun. ]

[bladeofnymeia]

...Sorry. When you say something is fun, you ought to sound like it...I'm just trying to describe...how it makes me feel.

[Words hard, feelings harder.]

[outbounds]

Huh? But I am not saying it is not fun. I agree with you.

[ Oh, this is a tone thing, isn't it. Usually the emotional end of the pearls' telepathic network helps smooth that over a little, despite the lack of more obvious physical cues, but it will still remain a fact that Emmet is more a physically expressive man than a vocal one. And probably him trying to hold back his disquiet about what's going on with Zweilous and Phantump leaves... not too much feeling in the link to inform Firoza?

Words hard, feelings harder. ]

[bladeofnymeia]

I-I know...I just feel that I ought to sound like it is, if I'm the one saying it.

[She didn't feel like her tone was right! It was more...inquisitive, curious. Not excited.]

[outbounds]

[ They're both bad at this and caught in a loop now, send help. ]

It is okay? Psychic-type stuff is probably hard for a reason. Do not worry about it?