A Better Place To Live - August 23rd, 2012

23 August 2012 @ 11:55 am

2 - Basic Badge

[A: Park, during the day.]

Okay, Infernape... Use Flare Blitz!

[Training in the park as he often does, Ash Ketchum watches as his flaming ape charges the tree... and goes right through it, causing no damage at all. Not even the slightest scorch mark.]

... Huh, that's weird.

[He'll walk over to the tree and decide to try punching it to see what happens. He finds that his fist connects with a now rather solid trunk.]

Ow! That hurt! Infernape, return.

[With the primate Pokémon now returned to it's ball, Ash shakes out his hand a little as he and Pikachu investigate the solidness of the tree.]

[B: Evening, phone]

Hey, anyone else notice anything odd the past few days? I was training this afternoon and Infernape managed to go right through a tree without causin' any damage...

Tags: *location: john doe park, *location: topper street, c: ash ketchum

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23 August 2012 @ 09:24 pm

30 // Action

ACTION; Music Store

[She's pouring through the records, looking for anything beyond the usual fifties selection. Anything European at this point. At least something to drown out that noise--polish or lithuanian would be nice. But half the store down, she's beginning to give up hope on anything besides American music. She clicks her tongue and looks around in a bit of frustration]

ACTION; Diner

[Her old job looks precisely the same. The same girls skate around the drive in and she remembers those falls and skinned knees. A little sigh escapes. Koharu would enjoy a job now. Something to keep her busy when all her assigned chores are done.

She pushes open the door and puts on her most cheerful face as she asks for a malt. None of the girls who had claimed familiarity with her as a girl even glance her way as an adult. Mrs Laurinaitis this and that. Not that drones were real friends but still. While waiting, she glances around for any familiar faces.]

ACTION; 5720 Cunningham Lane

[Koharu had remembered to bring the cookies this time--she had forgotten last time and had had to run back to fetch them after all her shopping. Knocking is polite still--even if Ukraine probably wouldn't have minded if she had just walked in]

Ukraine?

ACTION; 1333 Benny Road

[Koharu doesn't even think about it when she twists the knob on the front door and puts her hand on the wood to push it open and her hand slides right through. After a few days, it's starting to wear on her--but it's nothing she can't shake off--except she can't.

Her hand stops and she's pulling the door back and forth with her arm now. She can hear the radio screeching from the kitchen--though she had sworn that she had turned it all the way down and off--and the television is murmured voices and static.

And she's fairly sure no one is home. This is perfect really. She opens the door and sets her bag of shopping on the front hall's table and sighs.]

I hope we don't have to destroy it to get me out...

Tags: c: koharu izaki

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23 August 2012 @ 10:02 pm

the 2nd case

|| Action || Mayfield General Store

[ Sure, he had noticed all the little things happening around town lately. Who didn't? It was the kind of thing that you tried to ignore because it hurts your brain to try and understand any of it. But it's a little more difficult to ignore when it's happening to you. See, Adachi here was just placing the last bag of fresh flour up on the shelf when the entire thing just turns intangible. Which leads to Aisle 5 becoming nothing more than a mess of assorted bags of flour, sugar and other goods along with one disheveled employee laying on top of the pile. ]

Damn it! That's the second time today.

[ He really doesn't look like he wants to deal with this again. ]

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