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[foolishwren]

<sub>[The screen is slightly steamed up when it comes on, but it soon clears enough to give a shaky view of the ... bathroom floor, and part of a towel? It doesn't stay there, though. Instead, the focus seems to be (or is TRYING to be) on the football-sized black thing zipping across the floor and out of view.]

[Then the camera awkwardly turns to the face of its holder, who apparently just get out of the shower, judging by the way her hair is plastered down wetly around the sides of her face and the towel she's got wrapped around her shoulders like a cloak. Said shoulders are hunched. Apparently she's perched on the edge of the bathtub. No questionable steamy semi-nude shots from THIS girl, though-- this is SERIOUS BUSINESS, and Heather's voice is an odd mix between amused, proud, and exasperated.]</sub>

This is a Public Services Announcement about why you shouldn't let your Pokemon into the bathroom when they're about to level up even if they do like playing in all the water leftover after a shower.

Watch and be enlightened.

<sub>[The camera turns to the floor again as Heather slowly and methodically sticks one foot out and sets it down on the tile.]

[INSTANTLY and without any warning, the black thing comes streaking back onto the camera with the intention of violently attacking its trainer's toes with a long yellow beak and a volley of chittering squawks.]

[Heather yanks her foot up again with a small shriek and the Murkrow goes scuttling off behind the sink.]</sub>

See? SEE?

Here, I'll repeat the demonstration for anyone who may have missed that.

Everybody watching?

<sub>[She repeats the motion, this time putting both feet on the ground.]

[The attack-crow reappears, wings flared and beak wide-open. It squabbles and pecks around in circles around Heather's feet for a second or two before, once again, skittering off across the floor to hide in the bath curtains, tiny claws clicking on the tiles.]</sub>

I can't make it more than a couple of steps without getting Murkrow'd. I used to be able to outrun her, but now she's like an unstoppable toe-eating machine.

And all because of this.

_{[She presses a button on the 'Gear to make it repeat its last automated message. Which it does, in a cheerful computerized voice.]}

WREN grew to LEVEL 5! WREN learned PURSUIT!

Comments

[Video]

[k9tantei.livejournal.com]

[]

...Yanno, I think I'm kinda glad I got an older one.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Hopefully yours has grown out of the toe-eating phase.

Or maybe mine is just special.

[action]

[harryusedworry.livejournal.com]

[Knocking on the door.]

Heather what are you doing?

[action]

[foolishwren]

_{[Her answer is muffled through the door.]}

NOTHIN'.

Just protecting my feet from a menace.

Wren learned a new attack.

video.

[miniworth]

Pursuit teaches your Pokémon to eat toes, Heather?

video.

[foolishwren]

No, she's always been a toe-eater.

Learning Pursuit just enabled her.

[Voice this time because oh god she's in the shower the awkward]

[shiromadoushi]

Too fascinated with her new skill not to use it?

[Voice don't worry bakura there is really nothing to see]

[foolishwren]

Apparently. I wish she'd waited until I could get into the room with the BEDS to stand on, though.

[video/action]

[no-ufo-ending.livejournal.com]

_{[He knows Heather is in the bathroom...but...but his sleeping bag is so much closer to the TV! He'll get off his ass in a minute, don't worry!]}

What.

[video/action]

[foolishwren]

I'm trapped.

Send food and ammo.

[video]

[bakaitoukid]

[... right, so, despite the shot being fairly G-rated for a shower scene, Kaito has a very overactive imagination, soooooo there might be a light flush on his cheeks when he responds. Not that he is going to call attention to it]

Tricky little bird, isn't he?

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Oh, Kaito. Your imagination is probably so much more exciting than reality.]}

She.

But yeah. I thought she just wanted to roll around under the showerhead, but apparently she had ulterior foot-mauling motives.

I don't know whether to be proud or really annoyed.

[video]

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

...so it turns into a foot-eating monster?

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[... Pff Otacon.]}

She was already a foot-eating monster, but now she's 75% more effective at it.

I can't get out.

video

[unzodiacal.livejournal.com]

Hey... you should put some clothes on.



Gives a new definition to 'bird brain.'

video

[foolishwren]

I would, but she's already claimed my jeans as a fortress.

_{[Fortunately she's not really pointing the camera at herself all that much-- she's aiming it at the bird, who... does indeed appear to have claimed one of the pantlegs as a hiding spot.]}

As it is, I may need to fashion a toga out of the shower curtain.

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

[Envy is not going to hide his amusement at all.]

So you've been trapped there by a tiny bird?

[video]

[foolishwren]

I like my feet NOT to be full of holes, thanks.

[video, cause lol this'll break his brain]

[monochrome-mind.livejournal.com]

...

[He's not looking directly at the camera, but it's clear that Sasha is feeling awkward having watched a girl filming in the bathroom.]

...Have you tried calling the pokemon back into it's pokeball? Or maybe you can get it to chase something other than your feet?

[video, HAHAHA fortunately there is nothing to see. like at all]

[foolishwren]

_{[Whaaaat, never seen people wrapped in towels before? C'MON BRO. The camera's not even on her anymore! IT'S SAFE.]}

Pokeball's in the other room.

I must use my wits to outsmart this beast.

_{[The camera is still aimed at the floor, but from a higher vantage point. She appears to be edging around the room using the rim of the tub and the towel railing.]}

[voice]

[daddydothis.livejournal.com]

[Trying so hard not to laugh or sound scandalized at once]

Heathah, honey, put th'towel 'round yourself.

[voice]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[To be fair, she's already got the towel wrapped around herself pretty thoroughly! There's nothin' to see here.]

[Heather roooolls her eyes.]</sub>

Aw, c'mon. I'm decent.

[video]

[pokemondolly.livejournal.com]

[oh lord]

Why is she pursuing your toes?

[video]

[foolishwren]

Because they're bite-sized and fleshy?

I dunno, don't ask me to figure out what's going on in that weird little brain of hers.

[Video]

[jack-of-cups.livejournal.com]

[]

It looks like your little friend's enthusiastic about her practice.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[MAKE FUN OF HER PLIGHT, WILL YOU? Nah j/k she actually thinks it's pretty funny, too.]}

Yeah.

I dread the day that she learns how to, like, shoot fireballs or something. She's a huge show-off.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

... That is not how you train your creatures.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Heather is not the best trainer in the world.]}

Well, how would YOU solve this problem?

... Besides blasting a crater in the floor.

[video]

[ahokonakamori.livejournal.com]

[.....what.]

Heather, are you gonna be okay?

[video]

[foolishwren]

Oh, I'm gonna be just fine. I'd just like to be able to get to my clothes without losing a toe.

[video]

[eh-whatsupdoc.livejournal.com]

[It's a black bird. It's not a duck, but it's still a bird. And it's bothering someone.]

Jus' set some traps. [Or get a gun, he'll recommend that in a minute.]

[video]

[foolishwren]

Set some traps?

Using what, soap and a loofah?

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

That's...um, have you tried bait?

[foolishwren]

Well, I don't usually bring snacks into the bathroom with me while I clean up. That seems kind of counterproductive.

[video]

[usedspiritgun.livejournal.com]

Tell it you're gonna make a sandwich out of it. Works like a charm for this guy.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Sorry Yusuke, you'll have to use your imagination. Not only is Heather just about the most boobless chick around, but she's also got the camera focused squarely on her face. Nudie shower-pics were for looooserrrrs.]}

Nah, that pretty much just encourages her.

I used to say 'I'm gonna kick your butt', but all THAT did was teach her how to say the word 'butt' and now I can't do anything with her.

_{[Feel free to either be charmed or amused by the mental image of a crow toddling around in circles and cheerfully announcing "BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS" to anyone willing to listen.]}

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

That is quite an impressive attack, let me tell you. Very useful, at times.

[NOPE, NOT GOING TO MENTION HOW THE LAST CONVERSATION ENDED.]

[voice]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[NEITHER IS SHE, BUT YOU BET SHE'S PRETTY UNCOMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW. :(;;]

[IN FACT SHE'S NOT GONNA ANSWER UNTIL A FEW MOMENTS LATER WHEN SHE'S GOT ALL HER CLOTHES ON AND ISN'T HIDING IN THE BATHTUB ANYMORE.]</sub>

Why? What does it do specifically?

[video]

[restardom.livejournal.com]

... [ it's been awhile since Rise's spoken to Heather, and not out of any sense of desired avoidance, but really just because she has NO idea how to bring up the events of what happened, and she didn't trust herself to do it without completely losing composure over it.

But she's there now, observing this curiously until the skittering bird startles a laugh out of her. ]

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the shower...

[video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Yeah... Heather tried to drop her a line at some point after waking up, just to make sure she was okay, but it has been awhile... Something that Heather herself probably hasn't paid much heed to (Rise is a busy person, after all!) but still.]

[Her voice is low and ominous when it replies.]</sub>

It came.

STEALTH RAVEN.

[video]

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

Can't you just distract it with something shiny?

[It was a raven-like thing. And birds liked shiny objects, right?]

[video]

[foolishwren]

It's a bathroom.

Unless I wanna yank one of the shower knobs out of the wall and chuck it, I don't have much around that's shiny.

video

[waypastcool.livejournal.com]

[Must not laugh... must not--

Okay, he's laughing.]

Man! Never thought a Pokémon would use their trainer for target practice.

video

[foolishwren]

Really?

Watch the network more often. This kind of thing happens a LOT.

_{[Or maybe it only happened to half-baked trainers like Heather.]}

Voice

[no-nukes-plz.livejournal.com]

It might be easier to get someone to trap her and hold her to stop her from eating your toes.

Voice

[foolishwren]

Iiiiieee may have to wind up doing that.

{Video}

[used-glare.livejournal.com]

{Blinking, and tilting her head to the side.}

....I'm rather glad Shuuhei chooses to leave my ankles alone now.

{Video}

[foolishwren]

_{[The reply comes awhile later-- after Heather's already dressed. Her hair's still wet, though.]}

Never knew that BIRDS could be ankle-biters...