PROM, DAY ONE: THE PROM-ENING

[these_balls]

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Scenic Tohjo Falls!
When: Friday, April 4
Summary: THIS IS THE LOG FOR DAY ONE OF POKEPROM! That means this is your RED-CARPET GALA, so put on your showstopping couture and go have a blast!
Rating: May vary by thread, please mark accordingly!
Log:

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☆ YOU ARE HERE ☆




KEY:

• BLUE areas are where the bulk of the party's events will be located! As you can see, the festivities will be taking place largely outdoors, and the grounds will reflect that; there'll be the usual decorations of pretty floral arrangements, little lights, things like that. Think upscale garden party! There'll also be a ballroom indoors for more traditionally fancy red-carpet goings-on, but most of the action (and volume of guests) will be found mingling out back.
• GREEN areas are where guests will be staying overnight! Unfortunately, you'll be sleeping-bagging it up, since there's a limited amount of bedrooms in this house and they're all being occupied by Clair, Lance, the Elite Four, and guests who are regrettably way more important than you. However, this is where you'll be given space to leave your possessions, claim some sleeping room, and generally crash for the night once the festivities do you in. (Note: you're welcome to try to sleep elsewhere, but Clair might catch you and disapprove. You don't want that, do you?)
• RED areas are unfortunately off-limits to guests! If asked about them, anyone will tell you that those are the rooms and areas that the Elite Four (and their special guests) have claimed for themselves, and they're sealed off tight. Please don't try to break into them anyway; you'll only be caught and punished.

• AREA A is the designated Indoor Ballroom area, for the people who prefer the classy elegance of a formal red-carpet gala over the more whimsy outdoor garden party atmosphere in the back. There's a big skylight, hardwood floors, tasteful artwork, and classy music — a little more upscale than the shenanigans going on outside, for the people who'd rather that kind of thing.

• AREA B will be the area of interest for anyone hoping to sneak a little Pokemon research on the side: this is the Library/Gallery area of the house. While most of it is your standard "tall shelves of ancient identical books" fare, there are a few points of interest — we've detailed them further right here. Guests are welcome to look around a little, but burying themselves in research the whole time will be highly frowned upon, and you'll be politely encouraged to leave the library alone and go rejoin the festivities if you hole up in there for too long.

• AREA C is...well, the Parking Lot. More importantly, it's where you take your Pokemon battles if you simply gotta get your battle on; keep it out and away from the house, please, and try not to make too much of a mess. Skirmishes, sorties, and sparring will be tolerated here and here alone. Do it anywhere else and you'll be facing some very displeased hosts.

• AREA D is the Elite Four's Trophy Room. Please be quiet and respectful if you come up here to have a look around; it's a solemn kind of place. Here you'll find various collections of badges, ribbons, awards, and trophies put on display, with one wall devoted to each member of the Elite Four. There are also pictures of the Elite Four members themselves, though it seems there's been a changeover since the last prom; the candids and Official Portraits™ depict different people entirely now (with the exception of Bruno) and there are a few photos of some sort of ceremony among the others. These photos include Lance being declared Champion of both regions by Professor Oak, while the rest of the Elite Four look on; Lorelai hugging Will and Karen immediately after their promotion to Elite Four; Agatha and Koga having an exhibition battle between her Gengar and his Crobat; all six of them piling into the frame for what amounts to a massive group selfie, etc.

☆ IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER: ☆

• This post is for threads taking place on DAY ONE of Prom, which means this is the RED-CARPET GALA! Only threads taking place on Friday, April 4 should go in this log!

• We recommend putting your character's location in the header of your comment, or if you're doing multiple locations in the same comment, mark them clearly so people can find you more easily!

• Once you've posted your top-level comment(s), make sure to go to Our PokéProm Masterpost Directory and link to it on the proper day and location, so we can find you more easily!

• The Masterpost Directory is also where we'll be linking the Special NPC Guest Stars' threads, so make sure to keep checking back there for links to their threads!

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Comments

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Henry is also outside because he isn't dressed nice enough to be on the main dance floor. Turns out a bow tie just isn't enough. So he's skulking around and taking photos of the few wild pokemon at the edges of the property when..

a thing...

walks by and goes all Fonz on him.]</sub>

Uh.

_{[He slowly lowers his camera. He does not need a photo of this.]}

God bless you kind soul.

[cantgofast]

[Oh I think he does.]

[Sonic notices the singular man with the camera and "accidentally" makes eye contact with him. He then approaches poor Henry with a overly-friendly smile.]

Hey there PAL!

[A few leaves fall off of him as he extends a dirt-stained gloved hand to his fellow human.]

Name's Sonic! Nice to meet you, man!

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry feels something in his guts turn and he's pretty sure it's not just left over woozy feelings from the flight over.]}

Uh.

<sub>[He looks at the glove. He's been here for years. The Masons have trained Being Social into him. But there was a line.]

[THERE WAS A LINE DAMN IT. The photographer's shell snapped shut around him faster than his Shellder's]</sub>

Hhhhi. 'Mhnery.

_{[He does not take the offered hand. Instead he accidentally snaps a photo of the ex-hedgehog's shoes.]}

[cantgofast]

Menry?

[Did he hear that right? And Sonic thought he had a weird name.]

Nice to meetcha, Menry!

[He kept his hand extended as an awkward hush fell over the two of them. Sonic's cheerful smile started to falter... That is until he saw the flash of the camera. OH! That's a good topic to get on!]

That's a really nice camera you have there! Mind if I take a look?

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry didn't have the nerves to correct Sonic. Something about the guy was hauntingly familiar but the layer of hobo was keeping him from making any connections.]}

Um.

_{[Henry raised the camera and snapped another photo(this time of Sonic's face) in self defense.]}

Sorry! Sor-- no. It's very expensive. I...I've got to go...doathing.

_{[He starts sidling to the left.]}

[cantgofast]

[The camera bumped against Sonic's long nose as Henry raised it.]

Oooh that's a pretty nice-

[The flash from the little device almost blinded him, making him stumble back a couple steps as he held his hands over his face.]

Wahh!

[Sonic rubbed his eyes and squinted back at Henry. Behind the purple-y dots in his vision, he saw that Menry was trying to get away. Not on his watch!]

W-wait! [He reached out for him.]

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Speed is not Henry's highest stat so he's easily caught.]}

Ihavetogodoathing.

_{[His voice has dropped to a smushed-together mumble now. The photographer glances around for some form of security but then remembers he's out here because security didn't like him! Oh, man.]}

Yousmelllikeanursarang.

[cantgofast]

[Sonic got his arm! Thank goodness. Too bad he couldn't understand a word Henry was saying.]

Please! Just... Wait!

[Looking at Menry's face, he could see how uncomfortable he was. Eugh... Way to make this even more awkward.]

Look, can't we talk?

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[At that, Henry stops murmurbabbling and looks at Sonic with that thousand-yard stare.]

[In this case, Sonic, it's not you. This is actually Henry's listening face. Talk away!]</sub>

[cantgofast]

[The look he was giving Sonic was very similar to the ones Too Slow gave him.

Freaky, but at least he had his attention.]

I... I'm sorry, alright? I didn't mean to freak you out.

[He let Henry go.

Part of him wanted to spill his guts to this poor random guy but he was worried if that'd be too much. He was already pushing the envelope. Keep it short.]

I'm having a hard time fitting in.

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Miraculously, Henry doesn't cut a trail once he's let go. The man makes sure he has a little breathing room but he quietly and attentivly listens to the not-a-hedgehog.]

[Man, that sounded rough. It might help if this guy, y'know, had a bath. But he doesn't say that.]</sub>

Have you been here long?

_{[Look at that! A whole sentence! At a--well still quiet, but audible level!]}

[cantgofast]

[Wow, even Sonic was surprised he didn't make a run for it.]

IIII think a month. Or two? I can't tell.

[Time went way too slow for the "hedgehog". It felt like it had been years already.]

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry nods, though more so to himself than to Sonic. Honestly, Sonic kind of looked the way he did after the first few months. Henry had been a weird bushman until the Masons bodily dragged him out of the forest.]}

Fitting in is hard...I never really figured it out either. But find a couple of people you have something in common with and the world sucks a lot less.

[cantgofast]

[Thanks for the advice Menry. But how do you find people to have things in common with if no-one else has been turned from an animal to a human? He hadn't met anyone who was as awkward as he was about it. Not to mention it wasn't something you could tell someone without being seen as a total nutjob.

However, with how he looked, what more did he have to lose?]

... Do you know anyone else who isn't a human? Uh- I mean... Like... Not originally a human?

[no_ufo_ending]

Um...Hmm...

_{[Henry has a good think about that. It did explain why this guy was hanging out in the bushes. He wonders what he used to be.]}

I think...Heather knows some. Uh. Ponies. Have you asked the network lately? New people show up all the time.

[cantgofast]

[The silence between them as Menry thought made Sonic a nervous wreck. He thought he was crazy, didn't he? He waited for the part where the guy would get up, walk away, and never talk to him again.

However, things took a turn for the better. He mentioned someone named Heather that might know others who were in the same situation as he was.]

What? Really?!

[no_ufo_ending]

Yeah. I think the one she's closest to is called Applejack but I've never met her. And we used to know a guy who was a robot. He went home...

_{[Plus Henry still has no idea that his best non family friend is a homunculous.]}

But...yeah. Check the network. Just ask. There are people from all kinds of worlds.

[cantgofast]

[Applejack... He'd have to remember that.]

The network?

[That sounded like something up Tails' alley. Sonic sighed internally. He missed his little brother...]

[no_ufo_ending]

Y'know...this thing.

_{[Henry fishes his Poke'gear out of his pocket with one hand and flips it open to the feed of posts and videos slowly scrolling by.]}

[cantgofast]

[...OH! Sonic reached down into one of his pockets and pulls out his own 'Gear, a few sticks falling out as well. He held it with both hands and recalled what happened the last time he used it.]

I've only used it once... By accident. But no-one was a big help. They kinda laughed at me.

[Then there was the old fart who scolded him but whatever.]

I guess they told me a little bit about this place, but nothing on being a human.

[no_ufo_ending]

Once?

_{[Well no wonder this guy's so lost!]}

Try again. And, uhm. On purpose.

[cantgofast]

[He looked at Menry and then back to the 'Gear. To tell you the truth, he was kind of afraid to. Back home the only one who ever ridiculed him was Eggman. But that didn't really count since he was a evil. But being laughed at by innocent bystanders... It was new and he didn't like it.]

... Can't you just give me a few pointers on being a human?

[Way to cop out.]

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Henry just gives Sonic a slow blink. It's not annoyed or condescending. It's just that he's sure Sonic doesn't know he's asking a terrible example.]

[He was an art student for crying out loud.]</sub>

I can...try?

[cantgofast]

Right on!

[Sonic turned his full attention to his 'mentor' and waited eagerly for the obviously wonderful pointers he was going to give him.]

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[The photographer looks around. Oh, man, he is so not qualified for this.]}

Well...first off, you should talk to people on the network...and...knock before you go into houses and...

_{[He gives Sonic a little squint.]}

take baths if you wanna make friends.