prank #45 | video + action for rose (BACKDATED TO THIS MORNING)

[ghostytrainer]

action for rose:
[John has seen a lot of strange things in his life, and while what he's looking at this very second hardly takes the cake, it's definitely unexpected. And kind of weird.]

[But before making a Federal Fucking Issue about it, he figures he should probably check the facts.]

...hey sweetheart? You didn't happen to catch an Omanyte at some point, did you?

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video:
[The feed opens up to a view of... a toilet. But it's not the toilet that's interesting, but rather the Omanyte swimming in very tiny circles inside the bowl. Despite the rather confined space, the little thing seems to be happy as a clamperl, occasionally looking up at the camera and waving its tentacles with a happy sort of gurgle.]

[Eventually John's voice can be heard from behind the camera.]

I felt like this kind of qualifies as a "pics or it didn't happen" moment. Like... okay how often is it that you wake up and find an Omanyte using your toilet as a kiddie pool? Would anybody have believed me if I tried telling them about this later? I think not.

[The Omantye stops circling and blows some bubbles in the water.]

I am kind of thinking the little guy missed the memo about the whole rampaging thing though because the worst he's done so far is splash some water on the floor. And let's face it: that is not even remotely threatening. Even so, I am not sure I want to try and take him out of there...

[He had an... interesting experience with a Kabuto the first night following the seance. Note to self: angry Kabutos make for really shitty hats.]

Though I will admit I am somewhat baffled as to how he got in here in the first place. He's too big to have-- ah. [He seems to have something of a light bulb moment and, just as the Omanyte began to crawl out of the toilet, John turns the camera to himself. He looks somewhat exasperatedly unamused.] Dave, I swear this had better not be your idea of a prank. Because if so, zero out of five stars, this is lame even by your poor sta--AHHHAHAHAHAHA! That tickles, stop!!

[The view jostles wildly as John fumbles the gear, laughing loudly, before it falls to the floor with a clatter and cuts out entirely.]

Comments

[rapid_dash]

Who expects any pokemon t'be splashin' around in a toilet bowl when y'wake up?

[ghostytrainer]

[It takes a few minutes for John to reply, but when he finally does he seems to have gotten his laughs under control. He's also no longer in the bathroom, and the Omanyte is instead splashing happily in the kitchen sink.]

I know, right?! It's just crazy, even by the standards of this place. I mean at first I was kind of curious as to how he got in there but now that I have had some time to think about it I am more like "no, okay. I don't want to know, we're just going to go with it."

Pokémon World weirdness, it doesn't have to make sense.

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[viiru2alert]

Jesus fuck, John, how long can you take? If you're making a fucking video liveblog in there, I swear to god--

[There's one Sollux waiting impatiently outside the door to the bathroom, having missed the memo that there's an Omanyte making a swimming pool out of their load gaper. Hearing John talk to himself has done absolutely nothing to calm his nerves (which have been frayed for several days now), nor does it really do anything to hold off the fact that he kind of seriously needs to take a shit.]

[And then he hears John start laughing, loudly, through the door. ... Fuck that.]

[Sollux tries to wrench the thing open, and when that fails, he begins kicking it.]

What the fuck are you DOING in there?!

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[ghostytrainer]

[Fortunately for Sollux, the door wasn't actually locked since the Omanyte took John so by surprise that he hadn't actually gotten around to doing that. So when he wrenches on the door, it comes flying open and don't you eel a little silly now, dude?]

[But there's John, still laughing and trying to pull his foot away from an Omanyte who seems to think that his toes are just the most fascinating thing ever. The one time he actually WASN'T wearing socks... who knew?]

Stop stop! Oh god that's-- AHAHA!!! Fuck!! No seriously, quit it!! [He bends down and pulls the Omanyte off, holding it at arm's length as it continues to flail its tentacles in mid air, still making a variety of happy gurgling noises.] I swear to god if-- oh. [OH HI SOLLUX.] 'Sup dude. I didn't even realize you were still here!

Action of course.

[tentacletrainer]

An Omanyte? No, why? [[Rose was in the kitchen at the time, steeping some tea, but she abandons it for now to figure out why John was asking this.]]

of course. uwu

[ghostytrainer]

Oh... no reason.

[And once that's confirmed, he flips his 'gear on and proceeds to record what is surely his finest contribution to the network ever. If Rose doesn't see it on her own gear before reaching the bathroom, she'll open the door to find John struggling to get the Omanyte off his toes, laughing all the while because guess who WASN'T wearing socks for once in his life?]

[Tentacles feel weird on your toes, for the record.]

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[brokenmemories]

[John was right about one right. If he had told her about the Omantye in the toilet, she would've believe him. Hell, she still can't believe this sight, being so....random and unexpected.]

Out of all the places....even a sink seemed more acceptable. [Just shaking her head in disbelief here because that's apparently the main concern here.] You always manage to get yourself into strange situations, huh?

video

[ghostytrainer]

[It's not until several minutes later that John finally replies. Had to get the damn thing off his toes and out of the bathroom. He is now splashing around in the kitchen sink instead because there's more room in there and people needed to use the bathroom so John couldn't just put him in the tub.]

Haha, right? Story of my life, basically.

[This is probably the first time Misaki has actually seen John on camera since his canon update last month. Though his voice remained largely unchanged, maybe only the tiniest bit deeper but nothing really to write home about, the same cannot be said about his appearance now that he's more than just a quick WE ARE UNAMUSED face on a screen.]

[He's sixteen now and actually LOOKS his age, instead of being a fifteen year old who looks several years younger. Seems he finally hit his growth spurt, and nearly all of the chub he once had has been lost or toned into muscle. He's hardly ripped but, in the arms and chest especially, it's a pretty noticeable difference from before.]

Oh and, since you saved me having to make a call once I am more awake: happy birthday, Misaki!!

[papshooshing]

With you? I'd just about believe anything...

[ghostytrainer]

I am choosing to take that as a good thing!

[John has moved from the bathroom to the kitchen by the time he gets around to responding. The Omanyte is happily splashing around in the sink and omfg there is so much more room in this pool!]

[audio]

[iownahoofbeast]

Given the circumstances, I would not have found this particularly unbelievable.

[Even without the fossil invasion, really...]

[audio]

[ghostytrainer]

Haha, really? Why do you say that? Did you wake up to a fossil in your toilet this morning too? Is this some kind of prehistoric pandemic?

[video]

[enjoymyatelier]

...well, I suppose it would be unreasonable to suspect every Pokemon to go on a rampage upon being returned to life, but that... certainly is something.

[something ridiculous, at least to him...]

[video]

[ghostytrainer]

[Oh no, it's okay. Even John thinks his new buddy is ridiculous. The fact that he's moved him from the toilet bowl to the kitchen sink does nothing to make this any less ridiculous either. But hey, at least the little guy has more room to swim around now.]

Yeah, I mean it makes sense! But this is the first one I have seen who hasn't been pissed off at the modern world, so it was a little surprising. Not that I'm complaining though. I mean if I absolutely have to run into a zombie fossil in my bathroom first thing in the morning, I would take this little guy over one of the rage-face ones any day.

[Video]

[hollower]

[If these terrible monsters don't make Perona jump and squawk every time they appear over someone's feed, it'll be too soon. As it stands, Perona did just that upon seeing the nasty tentacle beast sloshing and making unholy noises out of...a toilet bowl? Eurgh, was no where safe from these monsters? It'd be so much better if most of them didn't look like bugs! She had her ow shrieking fits with a couple, ending in her poor pokemon beaten up by them. They were sturdy little devils...tch.]

WEEH! John-kun, don't touch that thing! [Oh god, it sounded like it escaped from the toilet water. D8 Germs, man, fuckin' germs.] Aaaaah! You had better throw it out immediately! It's disgusting! Don't touch it more than you have to! And take a long bath after! It's a filthy little devil, throw it out right away, o-or you may get sick!

[Video]

[ghostytrainer]

[It's a couple of minutes before John gets back to her, but unfortunately it seems he did not get rid of the tentacle-devil. No. Instead, he moved him from the toilet to the kitchen sink. Give him a little more room to swim... not that the Omanyte really seemed to mind the toilet bowl. Nor does he seem to view the sink as any better, he's just as happily splashing and swimming around as he was before.]

Aww, he's not filthy! I mean at least it was clean toilet water. I might take a long bath in a bit though, that does sound nice now that you mention it. I was just going to take a shower before I found this guy but I think I have changed my mind!

[John, that has nothing to do with anything...]

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[readapts]

Well...um... It seems like not all of them are going on the rampage, which is really good...

[Otherwise everything would be wrecked. But, take the shieldon that is fast asleep in Chihiro's lap in this video feed for another example.]

He's pretty cute, though...and he seems happy, though a toilet is a little...

[Bathtub might be better...]

video

[ghostytrainer]

[Bathtub would be better but unfortunately the best he could get for now was the kitchen sink. Not that the Omanyte seems to mind either way, judging by the way he's splashing around in the background. He's just happy to be in water of any kind, apparently.]

Bizarre? Yeah I... I really don't know. I guess he just went for the first source of water he could find? But yeah, it's good to see that not all of them are cranky and pissed at the world.

Speaking of, is that a Shieldon I see? I hadn't seen any of those around here! I was beginning to wonder if maybe Sabrina's backfired seance hadn't risen all of the fossils or something like that. It's mostly just Omanyte and Kabuto over here. Couple of Anorith and Lileep... so I guess maybe it's a habitat thing?

[usedswift]

John?

[Tenten actually looks a little concerned because she's been fighting fossil-dinosaur-Pokémon-things around Blackthorn all day, and that...

Well, it really doesn't look that threatening as she brushes a sweaty piece of hair away from her face.]

You oka-- Dammit!

[The curse is in response to the sudden roar of a Cranidos, scraping a foot against the ground before charging at her again. She lunges to her feet and slams the butt of a knife down on the top of its head, stunning the headbutt momentarily.]

[ghostytrainer]

[Despite the fact that the Omanyte really didn't look that threatening, it still takes John a while to get back to his gear. When he does, he's moved into the kitchen and turned the sink into a slightly bigger pool for the Omanyte to play in.]

[Look at all those threatening splashes. Golly this thing is dangerous.]

I'm fine, yeah. He just got my toes with his tentacles, no biggie. But uh... what about you though? It looks like you have your hands full over there.

voice

[wontturntostone]

Perhaps he crawled in through a window?

[Kanaya hesitates to imagine how it also then proceeded into the toilet but...still.]

Are you going to keep him?

voice

[ghostytrainer]

I think I like that theory better than Sollux's suggestion that he just spawned in there. That's a little weird to think about. Also I am not sure how between the three of us, he would managed to go completely unnoticed in there for an entire day...

[Omanyte, you make no sense. But that's pretty on par for the Pokémon World course.]

Anyway, yes, I am keeping him. I can't help but feel like he wouldn't last very long out there on his own. Plus, Rose really likes him, but then again he has tentacles so who is really surprised by that fact?

[Nobody. Nobody is surprised by that fact. In fact you can almost hear John rolling his eyes as he says it.]

And he has already become quite attached to her toes, or technically her socks, so that's that, I guess. The little guy is here to stay. Luckily he's adorable so I can't even be mad.

[Video]

[moveslikestrider]

[Similarly to John's post, this one opens up a video shot of the toaster. There's something that sounds suspiciously like a saxaphone before it cuts out.

It turns on again to something making little cooing noises but the shot is an angle side vide of the toaster. Whatever is making the noise is unknown.

It shuts off again.]

[Video]

[ghostytrainer]

[John just stares at the screen.]

[Double checks the ID. Yup, Dave.]

[More staring at the screen.]

[Staaaarrriiiiiinnngggg...]

Dave, what the actual fuck are you doing? I swear if this is your idea of pranking...

[heartdive]

Some friend, if he thinks that is a good prank.

[ghostytrainer]

I know, right? Fortunately, I do not think it was him. So he has been spared prankvengeance for the time being.

For the record though, he is kind of bad at pranking. Just not quite this bad.

[islandshore]

[...Wow, there are no words for the sheer oddity Riku has just witnessed. In fact, he starts out staring into the feed, opening his mouth, shutting it, and just trying to form words.

And then he just laughs.]

Look on the bright side. At least it's not trying to eat your brain.

[ghostytrainer]

[By the time John gets around to answering, the Omanyte is swimming around happily in the kitchen sink.]

And I am definitely thankful for that. In the long run, a toe attack is much better than a brain attack.

[ video ]

[tendered]

That's really really cute! I kinda found my guy a similar way! [ Here! Have a Tirtouga. ] He was beached on a tall sand dune and couldn't get up! [ HEHEHE ONLY CAPTURE BEST CAPTURE. Actually, no, she got something for Aradia. ]

However, something swimming in a toilet is a lot weirder. At least you didn't get hurt! [ She's actually confused as to how this happened but it's cute. ]

[ video ]

[ghostytrainer]

[Once John turns his end of the feed back on, the Omanyte has been moved to a bigger "pool". Namely: the kitchen sink. Just look at how much bigger the circles he can make are now! Okay yeah, no he's still swimming in pretty small circles since it's a sink, not a pool or the ocean.]

Hehehe, awww. Did he get flipped over the wrong way? I am definitely glad that he wasn't the vicious type though. Because if I absolutely had to have a fossil in my toilet, I would rather it be a friendly one out for my blood.

[video]

[styxiedust]

Oh.

[Sounds familiar...it must be the excitable boy that talked to her about ghosts.

...Oh he's precious.]

Ahaha! It seems like he likes you quite a bit!

[video]

[ghostytrainer]

[Yup, that's him alright. Perhaps the Dusknoir pattern on his shirt will even further give that fact away once he finally gets around to responding. He's moved into the kitchen now, and set up his new fossil friend inside the kitchen sink so he has a bit more room to play.]

Heheh, yeah he is definitely the friendly sort. Which I am glad for, for obvious reasons most likely.