“Mochi, Mochi, Mochi” the strange chant loudly rang as it was performed by people dancing through the Littleroot Town streets.

At first Johanna thought it was some sort of weird procession, a cultural display of some sort, but when they came close and began to grow aggressive toward her she realized that it was not the case.

Johanna managed to avoid the first onslaught, but it was clear these mochi-dancers had set their sights on her. At first she tried to run away through alleys and streets, but the dancers skipped, hopped and mochi-waltzed along after her.

What’s up with them? Johanna thought as she tried to hide for a moment behind a big trash-container.

Unfortunately the mochi-enthralled Pokemon that followed their enslaved masters noticed her. But it wasn’t all bad, the proximity allowed her to notice something peculiar stuck to the victims, some sort of chain.

She quickly hauled herself over the trash container, its lid almost buckling beneath her weight before she jumped off on the opposite side and got some distance between her and the Mochi-horde.

With sufficient distance to the approaching mochi-horde she summoned three Pokemon, a Nihilego, Vileplume and Tentacruel.

“Ni, Tenta keep them contained. Plume put them to sleep with Sleep Powder!” Johanna instructed. All three pokemon went to work eager to help.

The toxic-dancers and their Pokémon put up a good fight, but the former-Gym Leader’s coordination was superior and so she managed to quell the horde, well at least this horde. Not that she knew it was going on around the whole town. The townsfolk and their Pokemon fell one by one. Some to the Sleep Powder, others to the force of her tentacled-friends.

With the situation somewhat contained, she began to inspect the victims. The chains around the Pokemon disintegrated leaving naught a trace, but on the people she found what she could best describe as mochi, which did fit with their chants. She took a whiff and honestly the smell that struck her was indescribable.

She retrieved a PokeNav Plus from her pocket and sent a voice message to those on her list of contacts inside the League she figured had the highest chance of being in Littleroot Town, among them was Josh Devlin. Though she sent the very same message to Megan Whitmore for good measure, knowing she would be chewed out if she did not.

This was just as much a report as it was a check in.

“Hi. This is Johanna Joy with a a message for those of you currently in Littleroot Town or nearby.”

“Something seriously weird is going on. I do not know what it is, but something is affecting the people and pokemon here. I know this is going to sound crazy, but they were dancing and chanting ‘mochi-mochi’ and they became aggressive when I got too close. They also had this weird chain-thing around them that disintegrated when they were knocked out. Lastly I found some mochi-looking stuff on one of them, I have yet to check the rest yet.”

“If there’s already any established safe zones where I can bring the afflicted, let me know, but until then I will be keeping this area in the Southern part of Littleroot safe for now.”

The voice message is followed by an attached ‘Mochi-image.png’ and a ‘PokéMap-location-Pin’ attachment.

Guess I will be busy for a while.



PROMPTS
- attack or defend against a hostile townsperson.
- defeat a toxic-chained pokemon.
- incorporate a POKENAV PLUS device in your post.
OOC:
- +1 Mochi Acquired

Josh Devlin Megan Whitmore