004 | Goldenrod City | Text / Action;

[nostabbing]

[It's late afternoon, it's eighty-six degrees and sunny, and here on a Goldenrod City park bench sits Parker with her hair pulled back in a ratty braid that dangles forgotten over one shoulder. She's basically commandeered the whole bench at this point, even though she's only occupying one small end of it; the rest remains wholly unusuable because it's covered in all manner of stuff, from Pokemon plushies to coin purses to potted plants to other odds and ends you might find at the prize counter of an arcade (and yes, there's a red-and-white Pokeball tucked away in there, too).

But despite the heaps of stuff (and the Poochyena in a fedora standing guard over it nearby, and the Vulpix with the diamond necklace for a collar sifting through it with interest), Parker doesn't seem particularly happy as she hangs out on the bench, silent but for the sound of the pencil scratching idly over the sketchpad propped against her knees. One word for her demeanor here might be "indifferent"; another few that could probably also fit would be "apathetic", "detached", "listless", or even just plain "bored".

Page by page, she's filling the sketchpad with drawings that, to all appearances, she couldn't care less about. Which might be more accurate a description than one might expect, really; this time, appearances aren't deceiving.

But eventually she sets the sketchpad aside, screws up her face for a ninety-second impromptu theater of Frustration: The Facial Expressions, and then reaches for her Gear to posit a burning question to the network: ]

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Hey, so.

How do you know when you like stuff?


[...What? IT'S A SERIOUS QUESTION. ಠ_ಠ ]

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[nostabbing]

...Do they have those here? We should find out.

Like right now.

[CHOCOLATE: THE MISSION.]

[rapid_dash]

....If they don't, this place will quickly sink t'the bottom of places t'visit or get stuck in for a semi-permanent amount of time, yo.

Mission objective: find chocolate ice cream and put as many toppings as possible.

[Vanillite ice cream places are about to get raided.]

[nostabbing]

[AND THEN SUDDENLY THESE TWO IDIOTS CARJACKED AN ICE CREAM VAN...]

Are you in Goldenrod City?

[rapid_dash]

[Welp, there goes the neighborhood. These two are finally joining forces.]

...No, but I can find a way there. That place is huge, ain't it? Probably real easy t'find what we're lookin' for.

[nostabbing]

Yeah, it's the biggest city in this half of the nation. I think the biggest on the other side is Celadon, but I haven't been there yet.

[rapid_dash]

Haven't been t'Celadon either. Didn't have the funds at first, but now I just ain't had the direction.

I'll find a way over t'that Goldenrod place soon....