video, at the end of october

[friendlyflower]

[A weird, half-dead sunflower seed with dilated eyes and sweat rolling down its shell appears, shouting at you from the clinic.]

THE VOTE IS CLOSE!!!!!!! VOTE FOR UMBREON NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[He grabs the Grumpearl with a vine.]

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT VOTING FOR LURANTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nurse Chansey from the clinic visibly tries to wrestle the Grumpearl away from him. He shouts various curses that Emporio taught him. You may or may not have a headache now.]

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[improvking]

[ ...Yeah ok yknow what actually he'll just. assume for now that the other means "knocked unconscious", but either way: ]

one can but hope and dream.

[dunchies]

[ Sighing... ]

At least he's not making a death threat to the whole Bay this time, so it could be worse.

[improvking]

yet somehow that managed to be less concerning...

[dunchies]

Hm. [ Let him think about this for a second. ] It is a bit more deranged, isn't it? Wonder if something else is on his mind...

[improvking]

he seems awfully preoccupied with the election. I wonder why he's so invested? none of the candidates struck me as particularly *bad*... though I did hear Malamar was particularly resistant to the locals' traditional relationship with Froslass. I'll admit that one does sound like a bigger problem waiting to happen.

[ If it's the local tradition to get mind-controlled by someone specific for a month every so often, then maybe it's rude to try interfering too much with that?? He understands the resistance to having people be mind controlled, but also... ]

[dunchies]

Lurantis is the representative from Cheri, but... [ Actually, that might be the whole reason. ] He hasn't exactly been happy with how Ribombee handles things.

[ Putting it lightly, but Laios is absolutely not going to rock that boat. ]

Mm. I've heard that too. About Malamar, I mean. But I don't know... Froslass didn't give some of us much of a choice with her festival either.

[improvking]

oh, he doesn't like how she was picked... hm. Umbreon was handpicked the same way, but... it *was* by a different person. I suppose it could be that he trusts Mightyena's judgment over Ribombee's...

[ Lots to think about, there. ]

unfortunately, I suspect the locals see the mind control as a part of the festival. I can see why people objected to it - hell, I stayed on the fringes despite an explicit invitation to go visit the Outpost. but there had to be a better way to express *our* discomfort with that aspect without *attacking* their festivities.

...then again, I may be underestimating how much pokemon are willing to decide via impromptu battle. maybe Malamar wasn't being rude after all.

[dunchies]

The locals didn't exactly prepare us for what to expect. [ He doesn't sound too convinced by his own comment though. ] But not everyone was even effected. Maybe the locals had no idea it'd get so... far.

[ All this to say: some festivals aren't for everyone. ]

Heh. And you say that, but I don't think I ever saw Malamar and Froslass have a proper battle that whole time!