these_balls: (NPC PROTON)
Route 29: mods ([personal profile] these_balls) wrote in [community profile] route_10652012-05-05 09:10 pm

Spring Cleaning: the log!

Who: Everyone!
Where: The six urban centers: Goldenrod, Olivine, Ecruteak, Violet, Saffron and Celadon, as well as outlying routes.
When: May 5-8
Summary: It's the Toxicalypse, and the Rockets are out to make a racket! Hide yo kids, hide yo wives, they lootin' errybody out here. The pokemon are between levels 5-95 as required, and include Grimer, Trubbish, Muk and Garbodor. NPC Rockets will probably be packing Skuntank and Weezing for lulz and grossness.
Rating: PG-13 for violence, swearing, the usual.
Log:

At 7:30AM on May 5th...

It can't be heard. It's one of those sounds, far out of range of human hearing; some pokemon might pick it up, if they have sensitive ears, but even to them it probably registers as little more than an unpleasant buzz. In fact, it doesn't even interrupt regular broadcasting; if you're on a route, the likelihood of noticing any sort of danger is slim. The effect in the urban areas, however, is instantaneous.

Letters have been flying to Gym leaders and mayors and other important people about the poor trash collecting job of the last few days; it seems the streets of Johto and Kanto have never seen this much garbage. The heat is stifling, oppressive, the rain of just yesterday pushing down the smog and the smell, trapping it low against the sizzling concrete. For the ecologically-conscious citizens of this world, who sort their trash into six neat piles, a harmful act against the environment like this is unthinkable, horrendous; it never occurs to them that it could be intentional, because honestly, what kind of monster would treat the habitat of pokémon so lightly?

Team Rocket, it seems, picks up quickly on new and different ways of thinking.

The devices whirr to life, beep and flash and pop open very lightly like waking insects. From them, a special radio wave is emitted; around them, the vast swaths of trash begin to move, and warp and dissolve into sludge and organs and joints. One Muk is two Muks, two is suddenly four, and then there is nothing but panic and rushing and the smell, the horrendous toxic smell.

Someone screams, and after that, chaos.

[[ooc notes: each sub-thread involves not only the individual locations, but also directly connected routes. For example, if you're on Route 34, feel free to use the Goldenrod thread.]]
wontdieifkilled: (I will draw this sword)

[personal profile] wontdieifkilled 2012-05-08 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...Maybe! But where's the most of it in that case? It'd be too hard to spread around the city, so they've gotta have a big pile of it somewhere!
returntospring: (All alone)

[personal profile] returntospring 2012-05-08 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... [Sakura had been steering clear of the trash piles that had been accumulating throughout the city lately, so it's hard to judge where it may or may not be.]

It can't be in the center of the town, could it? That would look too suspicious... are there any other very open areas of the city we haven't checked?
wontdieifkilled: (Focused)

[personal profile] wontdieifkilled 2012-05-08 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Maybe when Excalibur and Caladbolg get back...