belphe | [Video/Action for Cherrygrove]

[When the feed comes on, it's displaying this glorious beast.    Sho is tangled up in the inn room's sheets and blankets so badly that its hard to tell where they end and he begins. Feverish and puffy-eyed, his breathing is a ragged hunhgh noise at best, punctuated by coughs that sounded like someone's rattling marbles in a bucket of jelly.

On his butt sits a hat. At his back is the Purrloin who put that hat there, insistently pawing at him as if hoping that her benevolent gesture of returning it to her trainer might make all of this go away.    All in all, the whole scene looks like a hot mess.]

So... [says the alto female voice behind the camera, who sounds oddly unconcerned]   ...this has been going on since he fell into the water two nights ago while we were traveling here.   I don't think he's dying yet, though I wonder if anyone knows what it might be.

[A pause as she's interrupted by another explosion of coughing]   I'd have taken him to a doctor, but I don't think you appreciate how dedicated he is to that bed at the moment... [or how difficult it was dragging him in here in the first place, for that matter...

As the purrloin continues to nudge and poke him with her paw, a hand suddenly explodes out of the cocoon of blankets and seizes the feline by the scruff of her neck.   He sits up, looking blearily-disoriented but clearly thinking he's awake enough to growl into his pokemon's face:]

In arctic and tropical climes,
the integers, addition, and times,
taken (mod p) will yield
a full finite field,
as p ranges over the primes!

[She is not sure whether this was a reprimand or not, and so, responds by grabbing for his bandana.   There's a sigh that sounds slightly exasperated behind the camera as the video cuts out]

((OOC - this is a joint post. People can address either Belphegor, Sho, or both and they will answer accordingly!))

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That sounds like a nasty cough. I hope it isn't pneumonia.

[Her expression slips a few notches from 'vaguely annoyed' to 'thoughtful' as she considers it]

The one they get from walking around with no shoes? If it was, how would it be cured?

Medicine and rest, mostly. There's not much else you can do.

I see. What sort of medicine?

[teach her, Senpai, or else she's probably just going to grab a bunch at random and see what they do to him]

I couldn't tell you what they call it here. Try finding a doctor, they'll know!

_{[They don't have any toad's eyes or dog tongues for sale in Johto and that was an old home remedy anyway.]}

[Her eyes shift to the side in a seemingly self-conscious way. She hates being at a loss for information that seems obvious to others.

In her proper world, finding a doctor wasn't a problem. Due to humans breaking so easily, they were everywhere.

HERE, though...it was almost as if people were only concerned with their battle pets' health rather than their own]

Maybe the nurses in the Pokemon Center could tell me where to find one, then.

_{[Jack taps his chin thoughtfully and continues.]}

However, if it isn't pneumonia and is just a bad cold, fluids, warm soup, and lots of rest can fix that right up.

_{[Jack remembers his first living cold in this place all too well.]}

[She has yet to experience such joys for herself. But she seems to find her good mood again in the face of this advice]

That should be more than manageable. Thank you.

...you sound as if you've been here awhile.

You're welcome!

_{[His smile wavers just a tad.]}

Three Halloweens I've been here.

[Well, that's concerning...]

I hope to be summoned back before the next. Lady Beatrice would be angry to know I'd left her endless Halloween to play in another.

[Despite the fact she never really asked to be here]

I'll hope for you, then. I've seen people come and go, and even show up a second time. Johto is hanging onto me for whatever reason.

What is your Halloween like?

_{[As fun as an endless Halloween sounds, he couldn't imagine all the stress that would come with keeping it up and running!]}

[If only she knew she was one of the people who'd left once and come back again...]

Highly interesting. I believe Lady Beatrice had just been about to force her opponent to surrender. He can't possibly continue to claim the murders weren't done by a witch after her latest move.

_[Opponents?]

Ah! A Halloween game? How do you play?

It's a game that was invented by witches to prevent them from becoming consumed by boredom. The game master presents a series of murders having been done by supernatural means. It then falls to the opponent to explain the circumstances under which the murders are, instead, entirely earthly.

Whoever presents more the most compelling reasoning at the end of the final round is declared the winner.

_{[Jack listens, utterly enchanted.]}

What a clever-sounding game! Perhaps, if I can gather enough people around, we can play it this Halloween!

_{[No, Jack...]}

[Jack wat r u doin. JACK. STAHP.

Nevermind, she seems to beam at the prospect. Way to go.]

If you do, I'd be glad to help. I've become good at picking out victims

Great! I'll let you know once Fall rolls around.

I'll be waiting~

Please don't disappoint me.

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