You heard of April Fools, get ready for-

[ulternnpc]

The reverse of that.

*image vaguely related

Silly white lies? No, none of that will be coming out of anyone's mouths today. Instead, anyone you meet and talk to you be shocked to realize you're incapable of lying. Staying silent may be an option--or is it? For whatever reason, it's really hard to keep your words in today.

You just might be spouting the first thing that comes out of your mind!

What another, peaceful day in Ultern it is!


...what do you mean that it's not? Well, things have been mostly peaceful for a while anyway. Some chaos is always in order! (Apologies to any Domeists in our midst).

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(🌺You thought there'd be no April Fools event?! Surprise! It's true, this is reverse-April Fools. Please enjoy, and don't forget about the OOC plotting post!🌺)

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[Red + no brain-to-mouth filter = ???]

[red_berry]

Red opens his mouth.

"Yeah you could, that's funny, I'm already silent, did I hear something I should be silent about? My Pokemon would stop you, who even are you though? I don't really care, you're kind of cute, don't like the threats though so that's a pass."

Red closes his mouth, internally slightly confused. Why did he say all of that out loud? Something strange is going on. Not to mention Attila's surprised expression... Did he say things he didn't intend to say out loud too?

[buson]

Insecurities flaring up, Attila looked taken aback at the comments.

"E-excuse me?! First it was that Gold kid thinkin' I was into him, now this random guy I'm threatenin' callin' me cute? What am I doing wrong to send all these mixed signals?! Hun ain't even around—shutupshutupSHUTUP!"


He clamped his hands over his mouth, fuming, then, looked at Red, now with a more tired, then angry expression.

Don't think about Rocket don'thinkaboutRocketdon'tthinkaboutRocket—fortunately, the latter part is all muffled (Red just might be able to guess from the repetition, though.)

Slowly lowering his hands now.

"... right. Don't think you'd say this stuff normally, so something's gone wrong with both of us. Glad you don't know me, I don't want you to, and I'd bet good money you don't want to know me either. So. Truce, let's just fix this. How long have we been like this? What did we do wrong? Maybe we just gotta back out of this spot, retrace our steps a little..."

[red_berry]

"You don't want to be cute, alright my bad, you're not that cute, Giovanni's hotter anyway, you know Gold? Why would Gold think you're into him, what did you do, you're dead if you did something. Why are you saying rocket, whatever, don't care."

All of that is stated with absolutely flat inflection and no expression on his face. He closes his mouth. Hm, yeah, he's talking way more than he usually would, something is seriously off here. He's going to have to remember that thing about Gold though, even if it's not the biggest of his worries at this moment.

"That's true something's wrong, I'm talking too much. Truce, were we enemies? Whatever, let's figure it out, some kind of magic affecting us, over this area maybe, caused by someone or something, don't know any Pokemon that would do it, don't see any around. Maybe if we leave it'll stop. I want to stop talking it's tiring."

[buson]

"What the hell—seriously, the b—DON'T. Don't talk about him."

Attila turned around sharply, covering his ears, trying to block this out a second.

Another moment to calm down again.

"... yeah. Let's stop. Didn't touch the kid, for the record. Thought my paying him extra to talk meant somethin' else. Mistook him for another kid from back home, s'all. Geez..."

Slowly walking out of this area.

"What kinda Pokemon... maybe one that'd make itself invisible or... use Psychic or something..."

[red_berry]

"Oh, you know Giovanni. Don't get along? None of my business though. I want to marry Giovanni but I know he's out of my league so I just make jokes about it. That's too much information, I should stop talking but it's really hard to stop."

Hmm. This is kind of annoying.

"Good to know. Your life is safe for now, not that I would've killed you, that would've been somebody else. A lot of people would kill for Gold, he's lucky that way, I wonder if anyone would do that for me."

And then Red follows after Attila while talking under his breath, sounding like he's making a list of people he knows that might kill somebody for hurting him and talking out his reasoning for why they might or might not do that, while also interrupting himself occasionally with something he notices about the environment or ideas about what might be causing this talkativeness effect. He looks like he might not even be noticing he's talking out loud anymore. It might be incredibly annoying, or it might turn into unnoticable background noise quickly.

[buson]

"It's worse—" than just not getting along, change the topic— "you're making it worse, I said stop bringing him up, quit talking to me!"

Yeah. Thanks for that... enlightening, completely unnecessary detail, Gold, exactly what Attila needed to hear about his boss.

Attila felt like he really needed a drink, but that also wouldn't help this disastrous situation any. Maybe he could go home, drink himself into a stupor, and all of this would simply go away tomorrow. He no longer felt like investigating anything, least of all with this nuisance tagging along!

This guy just goes on and on...!

It got on Attila's last nerve—which wasn't very impressive, really, given Attila's very short temper.

"Oi. Quit following me," he said, glaring over his shoulder, taking out a pokeball. "I was only keeping you around in case it was like that Heart Swap thing."

[red_berry]

"Oh, my bad, I usually don't talk, don't know how to stop, it's kind of relieving to get all my words out like this like I'm normal, I'm not normal I'm just creepy and everybody thinks I'm weird if I talk or if I don't talk but I want to be able to talk, I want people to understand me, it's too difficult. Ah, talking to a random stranger like this is weird too, don't even know his name, what's your name I'm Red."

...Red's starting to think maybe he's not welcome here. However, when Attila brings out the Pokeball Red's eyes zero in on it with a sudden an intense look, and he tunes out everything Attila's saying.

"You want to battle? My Pokemon want to battle, your Pokeball looks weird, there hasn't been any strong opponents, they're bored, especially Nickie. Fight. Fight fight fiiight."

The last part is spoken like a somewhat tuneless song, as Red takes out a translucent Pokeball you can just barely see a Nidoqueen inside.

[buson]

"Then, find somebody to talk to and get all'a this noise out of your head, 'cause I'm not it! I'm Akira and I'd like to be left alone. Skarmory, come on out!"

Attila sent out his Skarmory, honestly feeling a little creeped out by Red's intense look.
"Scary..."

Yeah, really wishing he hadn't said that outloud.

1/2?

[red_berry]

Yeah, that intense look isn't disappearing.

"Akira," Red acknowledges with a nod, then throws the Pokeball. "Nickie."

A Nidoqueen pops out, roaring cheerfully while punching her fists together, ready to fight.

[red_berry]

Red's got an instinctual knowledge of most Pokemon types, but the more recently discovered ones - steel, dark, and fairy - still give him pause. So when he sees Skarmory, he starts muttering to himself.

"Flying, something else maybe, glittering wings, fairy or steel. Poison strong against fairy, not effective on steel, let's test it."

Unfortunately, this moment of uncertainty leads to Red's loss in the end, as Nidoqueen can't quite make the difference against Skarmory with her two type disadvantages. Red recalls her.

"Nickie. Sorry. You wanted to fight but I should've sent out somebody who'd be strong against it, my mistake, we'll win next one."

And without a moment's pause, takes out another Pokeball.

"Pika," he says, sending out his Pikachu.

[past coming back to bite him in the behind!]

[buson]

"Electric... the Crystal—"

Attila clamped down, trying to shut himself up, biting the inside of his cheek this time.

Don't talk about the Crystal System, stupid!

At least swearing under his breath won't give him away, he can't talk much if he's in pain, besides—he really would like to escape, he only had two Pokemon on hand... he stared at Red, but really, he was checking the other end of the alley, heading out to the street. He could flee that way—no, there's some Electric types he messed with earlier prowling around and it looks like they either scented him or recognized his voice when he stupidly mentioned the crystal. GREAT. Can't go that way!

Looking to the side—alright, beggars can't be choosers, he kicked a trash-can Red's way, letting it barrel down the incline, as he ran off out the back, and some very angry Electric types come running up from behind Red, weaving around his legs and shoving past him to chase after Attila.

[exit, pursued by Electric-types]

[red_berry]

"Electric? The crystal?" Red repeats automatically, voicing his thoughts. "Z-Crystal? If he has one this'll be tough-"

But then a bunch of Electric-types show up from behind, and Attila kicks a trash can at Red. Pika yelps and instinctively smacks it to the side before it can hit Red.

"Thanks," Red says, and then they both stare at the escaping Attila and the electric-types chasing after him. "...The battle got interrupted. Nickie won't be happy. Electric-types hate him?"

"(I feel kind of left out,)" Pika complains in Pikachu language, also effected by the truth-telling. "(Should I hate that guy too? What'd he do?)"

"...He kicked a trashcan at me, why, that was rude," Red mutters. He's left with a lot of questions and confusion, and decides he'll have to find this 'Akira' guy again for a rematch. And maybe some answers, but mostly just the rematch.