Zompania Draft - Draftees only, days 1-3.5

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: This is your death. Followed by your time-traveling life and desperate bomb hunting.
When: From May 22 to May 20 to early May 23 (days 1-4)
Where: Zompania
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post is for the draftee-only portion of the Zompania draft--the day 3 death, time travel to day 1, and then the events until the arrival of the reinforcements. Be sure to use the above info post for any plotting needs you might have. Enjoy!

Please note that there is a specific top-level comment thread for:

• The day 3 arrival of the draftees and the 6 hours that follow until the bomb is dropped
  
• Death--This thread can be treated as REFERENCE ONLY. Responding to it isn't necessary.
  
• Threads prior to departing for Zompania--post resurrection freak outs, arguments over how to proceed, etc.

All other threading, from day 1 until the reinforcements arrive, should be conducted as normal.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name

Comments

It's ok! I know the feeling.

[friendshipfirst]

[ Ash continues to follow as quietly as possible. When Wan brings up the fire it sparks his curiosity but he holds his tongue until he knows that they're safe and he can talk. But he focuses on the fire as well as where they're going because it's far better than focusing on his injuries. ]

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[justdid]

[Wan himself stayed quiet, listening for any movement. He glanced around for any movement, and lump or shadow that wasn't there before. It was almost too quiet for him. Thankfully the room isn't very far from the escape. For now at least, his hideaway really was abandoned.

The room itself must have been some sort of lounge, as there was some modest furnishings. Wan wouldn't really know either way, as he's never lived in a modern city. Aside from the occasional bloodstain it was comfortable enough for him.]

We're here.

[He still has the fire going, it get's pretty dark without electricity.]

[friendshipfirst]

[ Ash looks around at the room when they arrived. This is much better than being outside. The occasional bloodstain is still unsettling but at least they're something he can look away as they're not in every direction. ]

Thank you. um... How long can you keep that flame going?

[ Because this room is large enough where he might be able to bring out Charizard for a time. ]

[justdid]

A little fire like this?

[glancing at the flame in the palm of his hand.]

I can keep it going as long as I'm awake.

[Or until his hand cramps up from being stuck in position for so long, whichever comes first. But he won't let the kid worry about it.]

Let's relax, I bet you've had a long day too.

[friendshipfirst]

'Kay. If you need someone t' take over though I have my friend Charizard who can help.

[ He nods at the idea of relaxing though. It has been a long day and he could really use it. So he sits in one of the chairs that are there are carefully as possible as Pikachu curls up on his lap. ]

[justdid]

[Wan will sit across from him.]

With or without the help, I would be honored to meet him.

[Wan smiles as he watches Pikachu curl up. He can they're close. Might as well start the conversation with that.]

It looks like you two have been friends for a long time.

[friendshipfirst]

I think there's 'nough room here t' let him out.

[ Oh, but before he does that he smiles a little and nods at Wan's comment. ]

Pikachu's my best buddy. He was the first Pokemon I got when I started my journey and he's been with me ever since.

[justdid]

I've seen a pokemon in luceti before, but he looked like a giant bird. I had no idea there were so many different kinds.

[Because let me tell you, a pikachu looks NOTHING like a swellow.

Show him your pokemon, Ash. You know you want to.]

[friendshipfirst]

Yeah. There are a bunch o' different kinds. Here, lemme show you th' other two I have with me.

[ Because yes he totally wants to. After all Pokemon are his comfort and he needs that right now. So he carefully takes two Pokeballs off his belt and opens them. And in a flash Snivy and Charizard comes out side by side in the open spot between the two seats. ]

Meet Snivy and Charizard. [ Shouldn't be too hard to guess which one is which, right? Both of them look tired but they seem to realize that they're not out to battle anything at the moment. ]

[justdid]

[Pokemon are... really amazing. A little weird looking, but amazing.

Thankfully on top of their physical characteristics the naming conventions for charizard and snivy aren't too different from the animals back home. Charizard is Char + Lizard (even if he definitely looked like some kind of weird fat dragon to him) and Snivy was Snake + Ivy (even if snakes don't have arms and legs? Snivy looks way more like a lizard than charizard)]

So your element is fire [He looks at charizard, before turning to Snivy.] and your's is...plant?

[friendshipfirst]

[ Charizard nods his head. With the fire that's at the end of his tail it's not hard to figure out. Snivy however doesn't say anything because nope wrong. ]

Close, but Snivy is a grass type Pokemon.

you know what Ash might as well give the "welcome to the world of pokemon" speech

[justdid]

[Pikachu is a lot harder to guess, but his tail does kind of look like a bolt of lightning... sort of. But you know, his era is way before people discovered electricity. So what is lightning, even.]

How many types of pokemon are there?

[fire, air, water, earth... grass apparently...? Is there an animal type? A flower type? a tree type? ...spirit type?]

lmfao he really should

[friendshipfirst]

There are a lot o' different types. Water, Grass, Electric, Flying, Ground, Rock, Dragon and a lot more. And some of 'em have two types like Charizard. He's a fire type but he's also a flying type too.

now I want him to meet Lance and his fluffy bird that is also a dragon

[justdid]

[Even though he was trying to distract Ash with something positive to talk about, Wan is also genuinely curious, listening intently. He has a lot of questions, like what ALL the types are and why ground is different than rock, but first he needs to address something really important:]

Wait, so... he's not a dragon?

[glancing at charizard in slight disbelief. Fire was obvious, and flying would make sense because of the wings. But even if he didn't look like the dragons back home he kind of figured "giant fire breathing reptile that flies" would make him a dragon.]

he totally should

[friendshipfirst]

[ Ash shakes his head. He can't help but smile a little at this. Not long before arriving at Luceti one of his friends made the same mistake. ]

Nope. He's a fire and flying type. Look.

[ He carefully reaches into his pocket and pull out his Pokedex. He then shows Wan the screen which shows none other than Charizard as well as some information. ]

Charizard, the Flame Pokemon. It is both a Fire type and a Flying type. Charizard's fire burns hotter the harsher battles it experiences.

One of these days someone needs to show Wan stuff like movies and video games

[justdid]

[Sorry Ash, Wan is now totally enchanted by your pokedex. Which is WAY MORE AWESOME then stuff like showers and kitchen appliances and other "modern" technologies he's encountered in luceti. Not that those things weren't awesome too. But the pokedex? That was magical. In a good way, unlike his journal

Yup. Totally leaning in and checking out the screen]

Oh man that would be fun to see

[friendshipfirst]

[ Here, Ash will entertain you a bit more with the Pokedex by turning it so the screen is facing him. After a few seconds he'll turn it back around and instead of Charizard it's now Pikachu that's on the screen. ]

Pikachu, the Mouse Pokémon, and the evolved form of Pichu. Pikachu's tail is sometimes struck by lightning as it raises it to check its surroundings.

[justdid]

So he's an... "electric" type?

[it wold have been easier to guess earlier given pikachu has a lightning shaped tail but.. he's only heard of "electricity" and not jut "lightning" in luceti. It's still very new and foreign to him.]

[friendshipfirst]

That's right.

[ Normally Pikachu would show that but sparking his cheeks but he's still resting in Ash's lap too tired to really do much of anything. Since he hates his Pokemon he never really had the chance to rest like Charizard and Snivy. So Ash just moves on to the last Pokedex entry for his Pokemon. ]

Snivy, the Grass Snake Pokémon. Cool, calm, and collected, Snivy uses photosynthesis to collect energy with the leaf on its tail.

[justdid]

[Snivy gets a smile of approval. So photo-whatever was how plants got their energy from sunlight. Or maybe that was a pokemon thing. Look, science is not that advanced in his time ok. But he still has lingering questions about pikachu-]

What did it mean when it said pikachu "evolved"?

[friendshipfirst]

Pikachu evolves from another Pokemon called Pichu. A lotta Pokemon can evolve and grow stronger, like Charizard. He's the final evolution of a Pokemon called Charmander. Pikachu and Snivy can evolve too.

Maybe by the end of 20 questions Wan will be a pokemon master

[justdid]

So if it's strong enough one pokemon... can change into another?

[That is so weird.]

or at least on the path to one!

[friendshipfirst]

Kinda. But not all Pokemon evolve like that. Some o' them evolve from stones, like Pikachu to evolve into a Raichu. Some by tradin' Pokemon with someone else, and some by holding an item. There's all sorts of ways to evolve.

all he needs is a pokemon partner

[justdid]

Wow, Pokemon are amazing.

[...totally strange to him, but still amazing.]

So what's it like traveling together?

[He's been isolated in one city his whole life and as far as he knows the rest of the world is filled with angry spirits that want to kill him. Even if he wants to keep Ash talking he also wants to know what it's like to go on a journey like that.]

i vote turtwig and some fire type

[friendshipfirst]

Traveling together is really fun! You get to meet all different kinds of Pokemon that you've never seen before and meet all kinds of new people and make a lotta new friends. There are a lotta challenges, but no matter what as long as I'm not alone I know that I'll make it. That's why I'm glad to have Pikachu as my partner. And my other Pokemon and friends too.