008. Video

[foolishwren]

<sub>[When the screen comes on, it's pointed straight at the sky-- specifically, at the deep, smoke-gray thunderheads starting to roll in. The foliage just peeking over the bottom of the screen's view is whipping around in a frenzy, buffeted by the foreboding winds that have sprung up in the face of the storm.]

[Heather's voice then cuts in over the roar of weather. She's YELLING to make herself heard.]</sub>

Can you BELIEVE this!?

Can you friggin' believe this?!

All day yesterday I'm slogging along through the heat and then the moment I get to the city to actually chill around in civilization, THIS happ--

_{[A handful or so of wet leaves is quite suddenly plastered against the camera lens. Thank you, 60 mph wind. Thank you]}

Ackplthh--!!

_{[... And apparently Heather was hit in the face by several, too.]}

PLHHHFFLT! If I have to spend another week sitting in the Pokemon Center in order not to drown, I am gonna...... oh boy.

<sub>[Aaaand here comes the rolling wall of pure downpour. The camera turns sharply and any viewers still watching are treated to a tilta-whirl of grass, dirt, a running Sentret, and occasionally Heather's boots as she high-tails it away from the rain. THAT'S RIGHT, HEATHER. IF YOU RUN FAST ENOUGH, YOU CAN OUTRUN NATURE.]

[Eventually the video feed cuts out.]</sub>

Comments

[destinyfruit.livejournal.com]

Did you get inside okay?

[Text]

[foolishwren]

yeah

camera shorted out.

I'm in the center now, moping over this development

[text -> action?]

[destinyfruit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm stuck in the center too! Hold on...

[turn2candy.livejournal.com]

Meow! Good luck, meow!

[Text]

[foolishwren]

_{[The rain shorted out Heather's camera, so all she can do is listen to this message in bewilderment. ... Meow? ..... And her reply is an eloquent:]}

... wtf?

[Voice]

[turn2candy.livejournal.com]

_{[She doesn't understand what that means, sorry, Heather.]}

Meow?

[usedstringshot.livejournal.com]

At least you got inside. I'm in a cave. I had to jury rig an umbrella out of sticks, leaves, and Spinarak webbing. I am pretty sure there are ZUBATS in here.

[Text]

[foolishwren]

Thank god for civilization.

Caves kinda suck. Better than nothing, though, I guess.

Re: [Text]

[usedstringshot.livejournal.com]

Point, but man, at this rate I'm never gonna get to the ruins in time to find out what Cobra Commander's doing there.

[itssextillion.livejournal.com]

[slow clap]

[Text]

[foolishwren]

Screw you.

_{[Well to be fair, Heather, YOU were the one who decided to go stand on a hill and be melodramatic about the storm...]}

voice;

[itssextillion.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but your idea was just so zetta brilliant.

[masterofbonk.livejournal.com]

It's just some fuckin' rain and wind.

[Text]

[foolishwren]

It's some fuckin' rain and wind that I'm not about to go running around in when I'm in a world with no laundromats or apparently dryers!

[video]

[bakaitoukid]

[sorry Heather he's laughing]

[Text]

[foolishwren]

If I had video capabilities on this thing right now, I would be making rude gestures.

But I don't.

So just imagine them.

_{[Heather, you DID kinda bring it on yourself. Kinda. Or a lot.]}

[video]

[bakaitoukid]

[that just makes him laugh harder]

Cheer up! At least you made some people laugh! That's a good thing, right?

[pillowichooseu.livejournal.com]

Umm... That's why it is best to stay indoors when the weather is this bad.

Are you okay?

[Text]

[foolishwren]

Well, the storm kind of blew in while I was all the way on the other side of town than the Center. You know, nature is dumb.

I'm fine, but my Gear is busted. This sucks.

[Text]

[pillowichooseu.livejournal.com]

I see. Well, was it really that far of a walk to the center? Is Violet city bigger than Cherrygrove?

Is there anyway to get it fixed?

[ACTION]

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

[A few minutes later, an absolutely soaking wet Liquid walked through the Pokemon Center's doors.]

[Soaking. Wet.]

[He looked kind of like a blond drowned rat. A shirtless, blond, peeved drowned rat.]

...

Bloody weather.

[This is what he got for wandering away from civilization to sneak up on and scare people. Karma rears its ugly head once again.]

[ACTION]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Heather is already very busy being sulky and melodramatic about her Pokegear being temporarily busted. So when Liquid comes busting in, she's slumped over one of the seats, looking pissy and miserable...]

[... And then she notices Liquid. Who, like in their very first meeting, has been a victim of the weather. Except this time, he so deserved it. He so thoroughly, utterly deserved it.]

[He doesn't get a hello. Not just yet. Just a great big smirk on Heather's face, directed straight at him, should he choose to look over in her direction.]</sub>

[ACTION]

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

[Oh yeah, he saw that smirk.]

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

[He sat down on one of the seats to remove his boots and dump out the small lake that had accumulated in each of them.]

[actionnnn~]

[otaku-mk-ii.livejournal.com]

[Sup Heather.]

Good to see you again. I'm...guessing you got caught in the rain.

[actionnnn~]

[foolishwren]

_{[Soaking wet, bedraggled, and bearing such large splatters of mud on her previously-pristine vest that she looked like she'd skinned a pinto pony and was wearing it. Your guess is right, good sir.]}

... Nah. I just got attacked by a weather monster. _{[Cue airy shrug.]} It happens.

Sup, Hal?