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ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and in the spirit of Halloween: August's GHOST TRICK event!

O-Bon festival: The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

Who you gonna call?: Remember “The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak”? Well, some of the local Gastly, Duskull, and Yamask seem to have gotten it into their heads that this kind of tomfoolery is somehow good medicine. If your trainer had someone in their life, someone now dead, that they have unresolved business with, these ghosties may take it upon themselves to play a little dress-up and follow your trainer around in the guise of said dead person until the issue is resolved. It’s their way of saying thank you for all the spiritual appeasement of the festival.

These ghosts won’t speak; Pokémon don’t talk, after all. So yes, your trainer is going to be followed around by some silent echo of their past who will not leave them alone.

Or, of course, write your own!

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Oooh, deflecting! Wow, you're just overflowing with confidence on this.

[He's crossed his arms now, not really looking like he cares about the question much.]

Honestly, it's so much more fun to sit back and watch. You know like three guys dinged that bell in the past hour? Just a fun fact for you.

But yeah, no. Rigged. Totally.

[There's a Bad Idea alarm blaring somewhere. He is completely ignoring it and grabbing the mallet instead. Whatever, it'll go away eventually. Always does.]

Oh, I get it. You couldn't do it yourself, so you've just decided to sit around and watch instead, because that makes it better somehow, right? Just gotta sit there being superior to somebody.

[As usual, that somebody is GOB.]

Come on, let's see you try.

[This is where he's gonna try and hand the mallet over to Felix, because this totally won't backfire.]

[Felix just... raises an eyebrow. Wow. Just... wow. This guy is something else.]

Really? I mean, really man, come on, this is the hill you wanna die on? You know that some of us just aren't all that interested in festival games, right?

I know it's hard to imagine, but not all of us are just dying to go home with that special Ponyta plush.

[He rolls his eyes and just take the mallet. He spins it around a little, like an asshole.]

But hey, if you want to see superior? Then sure. [Compared to a lot of people back home, Felix is maybe not the strongest person. There's a lot of guys with more raw physical strength out there. But he's a mercenary, he used to be a soldier, and he still fights physically an awful lot.

So it's not a huge surprise that when he hits the tester with the mallet, the bell rings. Not the most solid ringing, there's better hits out there, but it got up there. And this smug douchebag just turns around, smirk still on his face.] Yeah, you know, I see what you mean now. So rigged.

So scooping up goldfish's more your speed? [He's stepped back a little and has his arms crossed, too, just waiting for the thing to not move an in---

A lot of inches. Oh. Shit. Some people might feel a little inadequate right about now, but GOB doesn't know the meaning of the word.] Right, you just-- bribed a carnie or something, obviously-- give me that!

[This is him flailing a little to take the thing back.] By the time I'm through here they're gonna be all out of Ponytas for the next millennium.

[Nothing to it, right? Just gotta swing the mallet and hit.]

Edited 2016-10-16 00:28 (UTC)

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