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[thelittlegingerthatcould]

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[Video] October 9th, around lunch time

[toothaches]

_{[Maurice flickers onto the screen with a broad grin.]}

Dude! Dude the hotel I work at has pumpkin scented towels. I just needed to tell someone.

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Color Hanna surprised.] Wait...how do they do that? seasonal detergent?

[Video]

[toothaches]

I don't know but it's some next-level wizard shit, you gotta check it out!

_{[Cyndi can be seen in the background swaddled in one and inhaling deep whifs from the fibers.]}

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

I'm not so sure about that, I mean. Pretty mundane magic but I totally will. Well. If I can. You're not going to get in trouble if I bust in and hang out for a bit, right?

[Hanna wants to smell. He so wants to smell.]

[Video]

[toothaches]

What do you mean mundane!

_{[A huff!]}

Wait...how much magic have you been around? And naw. I'm just the laundry boy. So long as I'm working, I don't think they'll care. My break is coming up anyway.

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

I just mean it doesn't have much use. Like. It's not going to really help anyone. Just make the room more homey. [He'll shrug and start towards the hotel at his reassurance though, having not wanted to get his friend in trouble.]

And I've been around a fair bit. Like, back home I could actually do magic, but it's all gone here. And I'm not the slight of hand kind of guy so there goes that. But...it came with the fixer upper, so I can't complain too much. Also, I'm on my way. See you in a few?

[Video]

[toothaches]

_{[Maurice is too busy being awed to comment on how pumpkin scented towels could CHANGE THE WORLD if given the chance.]}

So you're like a...a sorcerer dude?

_{[There's a little worry in the ex-pire's brows. He's had a spell put on him before and he didn't like it.]}

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

I wouldn't say sorcerer. My magic isn't super strong, just useful in a pinch. That and it takes a while to do since it's all rune based. Think of...casting except for instead of waiting for your magic to get it's shit together, you're drawing it on what ever surface works and hoping your lines don't get broken.

[He thinks he mentioned a tiny bit of paranormal investigating before, but doesn't remember how much.] I was guy who tried to unfuck all of the paranormal shit happening in my city. Usually if I could fix it with a little friendly conversation, I wouldn't even have to use my magic, but some people are just really stubborn.

[Video]

[toothaches]

_{[Maurice blinks rapidly in response.]}

I don't know what most of that means but...man. I wish it'd been you sweeping my town instead of Jhonez.

_{[The little Sentret in the background looks up, bouncy ears perking. Trainer doesn't usually get somber.]}

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Hanna himself sobers a little at the comment, curiosity getting the better of him.] Jhonez? You had a hunter or something after you?

I honestly don't get that like...some people just got unfortunate circumstances. Not everyone is all blood in wine glasses and weird slave dungeon parties in huge mansions. [He thinks most hunters just watch too much underworld.]

[Video]

[toothaches]

_{[He offers up a bitter snort.]}

Well yeah. I was a monster and monsters get hunted. Pretty sure the dude just sees himself as a glorified exterminator or something. Whatever. I'm better now and he's not here.

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

I don't think you were a monster. You were a vampire. Most people don't chose that...and it isn't fair to shove a label like that on someone. Your Jhonez was a bonified asshole if he put his bullets before his words.

[Hanna is pushing through the front doors of the hotel now, glancing at the signs and heading towards the laundry room.] In any case, I don't think you deserve that kind of treatment. You're a really nice guy.

[Video]

[toothaches]

It was a piece of wood actually. He just picked it up right off the street like some psycho. If I were a monsterhunting douchebag I'd at least stab people with a knife or something...

_{[Though there he makes a face and puts a hand to his chest--right below his sternum.]}

Guess he did come around eventually but--

_{[He looks up from a little table at the edge of the lobby. Cyndi is still bundled in her towel but now it's clear that Maurice has been sitting on Meatloaf's back this whole time. A laundry trolley rests next to him, empty and waiting for the nearest steam room to empty out.]}

Ey!

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

Are you serious? [Hanna was just about to continue when he spots Maurice and his entourage. His pokemon were currently all in their places on his belt, but he was tempted to let Amelia out so she could say hi. She seemed to like most of Maurice's pokemon even if Cyndi could be a bit much.]

Hey! So, where are these magical towels you were talking about?

[Video]

[toothaches]

Dead serious.

_{[But he lets the gloomy subject sit aside as the much better subject of THE BEST TOWELS ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET arises. He reaches over to take hold of his Sentret's towel.]}

Can my buddy check this out for just a minute? He'll give it right back.

_{[Cyndi bobs her ears and gives Hanna a curious look before tightening her grip on the towel and shaking her head. Maurice sighs and hefts the bundle of fur and fabric up to hand the whole thing to Hanna. Just as Maurice had promised, it was utterly saturated in a pumpkin perfume.]}

Whatdya think? Pretty wild, huh? Could you really make somethin' like this if you were back home?

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Hanna laughs when he gets handed the towel and the sentret, holding Cyndi carefully while smelling the towel she was wrapped up in.] Wow...that is pretty damn delightful.

[He takes in another breath and thinks for a moment how he could actually achieve the same affect.] Well...It'd be probably more trouble than it's worth to do it with magic. You'd have to seal it in the cloth.

[Video]

[toothaches]

_{[Cyndi huffs and puffs at Hanna. HE CANT HAVE HER TOWEL! Meanwhile, Meatloaf rumbles a hello and lifts his head, stretching his stubby neck out for nosepats.]}

It's really cool that you can just...man I don't know. Rattle off exactly how to do a thing. I don't know anything about magic. I could do a couple magic things I guess but it didn't feel like it.

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Hanna cradles Cyndi with her towel to hopefully appease her anger and reaches his other hand out to Meatloaf, rubbing at the pokemon's nose in greeting.]

Eh, it's not all that great. Like, Honestly you're probably imagining something much more grand than I'm certainly capable of, but thanks. I mean, it's one of the only things I can really do well enough to be able to almost feel confident bragging about it. [He kind of smiles.]

Funny I can't even do it any more...Guess that leaves me with no bragging rights.

[Video]

[toothaches]

_{[The Rhyhorn is pleased and lowers his chin back to the floor only to let out a honk of surprise as Maurice rocks forward, his hands grabbing either side of Meatloaf's crest so that he can be on Hanna's eye-level.]}

But dude! That's so awesome! You coulda been a--shit I don't know--a bazillionare! A pumpkin towel in every bathroom on the planet! People would loose their minds! It'd be amazing! All I could do was turn into a dog and get hit by cars!

_{[Maurice finally cools his jets and sits back down. Meatloaf blinks to uncross his eyes.]}

If they send you back home, you gotta promise me you'll do that.

[Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Hanna snorts.] Well, maybe? I mean, it'd at least make my apartment smell better, that's for sure. I wonder how you would like...pitch that. I'm not the best public speaker.

[Though he'll promise, extending his hand.] We can shake on it. I'll make the best pumpkin towels the world has ever seen if I ever get the chance back home.

[Video]

[toothaches]

Awesome!

_{[He slaps his hand into Hanna's, giving him a shake hearty enough to jostle the entire ginger.]}

Hey you think this place'll give me a raise for advertising? Cyndi could be a spokes'mon. I really like it here but...I'm startin' to need a better job. Or at least fight different trainers. It may be time to head to a new town. It's almost too chilly to enjoy the beach.

Re: [Video]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

[Hanna kind of hordes his money so he doesnt need much of a raise but with the level his pokemon are getting, a change of pace would be nice.

After he steadies himself from Maurice's handshake, he nods, thinking.] Well i wanted to go start my gym stuff...i dunno which town the first gym is in but I'd at least be a travel buddy as far as you're going anyways!

[TEXT]

[purramedic]

Hanna. I must show you something of dire importance.

Σ:3

It is a cat face!!!

[TEXT]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

Oh man, that is so cool!

Look at this one:
^ ^
mm=˚ᆺ˚=mm <MEOW MEOW

Re: [TEXT]

[purramedic]

MAKER'S BREATH LOOK AT ITS LITTLE PAWS!!

[TEXT]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

I wonder if I can do more...they're kinda hard, right?

But awesome. Also that last emoji was totally in love with you, I think you should adopt it.

Re: [TEXT]

[purramedic]

Can you do that??

[TEXT]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

Naw I just mean you could like, use it.

Share your cat emojis to the world.

[purramedic]

You know what? I'll do it. I will take the world by storm with cute cat faces. It will be glorious.

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

Everyone deserves one. Make it a chainmail or something. People love those.

[No they don't Hanna, don't listen to him Anders.]

[purramedic]

How would I make cat faces out of chainmail? That sounds like it would take awfully great skill...

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

Oh...not like. Physical chainmail but a chain mail. You send it to one person and then tell them to send it to ten people and so on.

Sometimes they go viral and just get everywhere so everyone ends up seeing them.

[purramedic]

I still don't understand.

[He actually understands less. Whoops.]

[thelittlegingerthatcould]

It...it's called a chain mail because it's mail that creates a chain between people, like one person can receive it and it goes to the next and maybe sometimes it gets sent back, like. Creating a chain that doesn't actually exist.

It's supposed to go on forever. Just...kind of pointless and- You know what? Forget it. Chain mails are stupid and everyone hated them anyways.

Just. Whenever the mood strikes you, share cat face and be happy. I think that's much easier.

[purramedic]

I suppose I will.

[It makes a little more sense now, but he's chuckling to himself over Hanna tripping all over himself trying to explain. Thankfully he doesn't have to feel bad about it off of audio.]

[delivery!]

[purramedic]

[Hanna receives a gift from the Pidgey Post! It’s a note on top of a hideous holiday sweater. It is absolutely intentionally ugly and not a throwaway gift. Why would you ever accuse him of something like that.]

Hanna, you strike me as a man who can appreciate the more bizarre things that most people cannot. You were one of the first friends I made here, and this was one of the first projects I took on when I picked up knitting seriously. It’s poetic, in a way, isn’t it?
Anders

[There is another note hidden wrapped up in the yarn abomination.]

I’m so sorry. If you don’t like it I’ll make you something to your specifications.