❀ 7th Konpeito ❀ [Video/Action] (Backdated to 13th July morning)

[konpeitoqueen]

VIDEO

[When you open up the video feed, you'll see Saionji's face pressed up really close to the screen. As if she doesn't want to show anything else. You can hear an endless pitter-patter of rain in the background, too. HEY GUESS WHO GOT UNCEREMONIOUSLY SCARED OUT OF HER WITS YESTERDAY? The, ahem, recent events in Goldenrod definitely didn't help to calm her down when that happened. Holy shit.

Now that she's awake, though, it's time to be a good citizen and inform everyone of something odd going on! ...Right?]

Someone, send a search party to look for a dead body in the National Park. Specifically, one that might have been torn apart by birds.

[She's not at Goldenrod yet, so she keeps the message short- which might not be a good idea. Who needs explanations, anyway? She's Saionji Hiyoko, just fucking do it!]

ACTION

[If you're in Route 35 or the general north outskirts of Goldenrod, you might spot a girl with a short bob cut walking in the rain with the most sour expression and a pathetic yellow wax umbrella over her head. She's tucked her (utterly drenched) large yellow hat under her right arm. She normally wears it to conceal that hideous new haircut of hers, but she doesn't want to have even more a headache than she already has.

And when I say she looks utterly miserable, I mean 'her kimono is drenched up till kneelength with mud, she's sniffling periodically and there is dried soil between her toes' miserable.

...Will you approach? She looks like she might bite you.]

Comments

[konpeitoqueen]

[Voice, alright, she replies easily to that.]

In the dead of night, I heard chuckling... and then a scream! Imagine that, happening to a little girl like me! Uuu... it's a good thing I got away in time...

[envy_the_sinners]

And this happened in the National Park? You think whoever the voice belonged to has been killed?

[Aren't there police here, for that?]

[konpeitoqueen]

It's possible! That scream definitely wasn't a normal one! [What the hell even counts as a 'normal' scream, Saionji?] It sounded... unlike a human's, but unlike a Pokémon's, too.

And- and there was a gash in a tree, where the scream came from!

[envy_the_sinners]

Did you notify the police?

[Not that he trusts them, but... It's a place to start.]

[konpeitoqueen]

No- [Because she's already talked to them once in the last month and they might think her bluffing if she reports another case, haha, if she doesn't trust anyone she sure as hell doesn't trust the police...] -but if this happens to someone else... they might actually do something about it.

[Saionji's also kinda gotten on the bad side of the Gym Leaders and she assumes, by extension, the police force. S o .]

[envy_the_sinners]

[That logic... What...]

How did you know to suspect that it would have been "torn apart by birds"?

[konpeitoqueen]

[the saionjer thought process is really really weird

ok no it's just hypocritical and paranoid]

Near the gash, I found large, black feathers. It could be fake, or involved somehow. How many Pokémon have large, black feathers here?

[envy_the_sinners]

I do not know. There are at least one or two species... Murkrow, I believe they are called?

Regardless, this does not sound like something you should be handling. Are you still near the place it happened?

[konpeitoqueen]

Murkrow... it didn't sound like one, though. [Gulp.]

I spent the whole night running! And now, I'm back on the route, but still far from Goldenrod City... uwaaah, how annoying...