audio, backdated to during the Dragafloat Festival

[telewarped]

[Following a successful but taxing bounty quest, Shoka has been stuck in the Pokéclinic since the 15th—and judging by the way the clinic Pokémon look at her and the way her stupid, freak body keeps telling her it's somehow still on fire, even when it totally isn't, she's going to be stuck there for some time. She can still walk, kind of, and it doesn't hurt all the time, so if anyone were to ask her, she'd tell them that this amount of caution is entirely unnecessary... But no one did ask her.

The Grumpearl message comes in darkness; no visuals or even true audio—just pure thought:]

This bites. I wanna go to the festival!

Maybe I can sneak out...?

[This is almost definitely the Grumpearl version of a butt-dial. In Shoka's case, it's more of a head-dial, considering that her pearl is still stowed away inside the hollow of her disguise's false Pikachu head.]

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Video;

[quirkynote]

[As someone who doesn't use a phone very often, it should really be no surprise that A.B.A has no concept of the butt, head, or anything dial.]

If someone's biting you, you need to bite them back.

...only much harder.

Video

[moondregs]

There will be other festivals.

[Audio]

[bladeofnymeia]

...Shoka, why are you in a position where you need to sneak out?

[If you just want snacks Firoza will bring them to you]

[friendlyflower]

[And then there's a little annoying voice like a mosquito in her ear.] Hey, Shoka Suckarane, you left your Grumpearl on. How are you butt-dialing with no butt, genius?

[sneaks in an Action]

[loopsiedaisy]

[It's a good thing most of the clinic beds are practically on the ground, to accommodate tiny Pokemon heights for many of the nurses... because otherwise Siffrin wouldn't be able to hop up next to Shoka right now. Impressively on the clinic's part, one of their forelegs is in a sling, and they haven't been able to squirm out. They're limping on a back leg, too.]

[Still, that doesn't stop Siffrin from starting right in with a,] Between the two of us, I bet we could find a way out.