Episode #1: The Beginning

Lewis didn't normally care for the festival. Sure, the candy was tasty, and his mom was a lot more fun to be around after her third or fourth glass of pecha wine, but at the end of the day he'd always have a stomach ache and some jerk would always manage to step right in his ink pots. Every. Single. One. Every. Single. Time. But this time was different. Undine had finally broken down and let him join the explorer's guild. Sure, technically she'd made arrangements to keep him from being a full fledged member, but that didn't change the fact that he was around the real deal on the daily. 

After finishing sweeping up the bottom floor of the guildhouse, Lewis scampered down to the inn. Surely the other townsfolk were too busy getting ready for the festival to bother SImisear....or not. The door to the inn had a crowd around it so big that one might assume the entire town was there.

"Darn" Lewis muttered under his breath. That was okay though. Lewis could wait.

Melanie leans on her long club as she surveys the crowd around the inn from another direction. She only arrived a few days ago, a little while before Simisear, and to be perfectly honest she's not sure how she feels about the crowds. But she survived a couple of months in Celeste City, even if she spent most of it in the library, so she supposes she can handle the festival.

She smiles behind her mask as she spots another Cubone among the crowd and wanders over to talk to him. After growing up almost entirely surrounded by her own clan back in the mountains, she doesn't see many other Cubone around outside of it, so this is an unusual encounter for her. "Good morning. Hoping to see Simisear before the big speech?

Kyria runs from stall to stall, she wasn't slowing down any time soon, "but Virgil, look at all the cool things! We don't have very long before the ceremony and i wanna see as much as I can!" She didn't even stop moving when saying that. Kyria lost where she was going long ago, and really didn't pay attention to where she was heading now, right towards a crowd of people around the inn. She charges through them and finds herself moving right at an eevee with a painted tail on the other end.

Virgil struggles to hop along after the exuberant Mawile. He notices the Eevee in her path and squeals, "Wait, look out!" But he's just too late to stop the mad-dashing Mawile. He winces as the two collide. Bounding over, he worries over the two of them. Well the Eevee at least, Kyria had a hard head. "Are you two ok? I told you to watch where you were going Mawile. Here let me help you Eevee." He tries to brush the worst of the dust off the two of them as he helps them get back up. "W-weren't you at the Guild house earlier?" Virgil isn't quite sure, he thought he'd seen the Eevee before but they hadn't been in Guild House very long.

Kyria groans, shaking her head, its a good thing they were in a more open space as her jaw swings as well. "Sorry about that, you have pretty good form!" She extends a hand for the eevee, "Kinda, but not really, we just got here earlier. I'm Kyria" She never cared for formalities, that wouldn't change now either.

He doesn't seem like much of Explorer but I guess I don't either. Well at least they found a new Guildmate that could tolerate Kyria's rashness too. "We just joined today," Virgil chimes in. They were still novices really. At the mention of Simisear, Virgil asks, "Are they the speaker that the Guildmaster mentioned?

Kyria, Lewis & Virgil

Every stall seems to sell a marginally different sort of trinket. As Kyria wanders through, leaving Pokemon in her wake ranging from 'upset' to 'annoyed' as her wayward jaws smack them, she sees everything from berries to strange beaded bracelets. Almost all of it within her price range. Apparently the stalls are tailored to tourists without much money - or possibly tailored to encourage people to buy lots of little things.

As she is momentarily waylaid by Lewis, the nearest stall-owner (an Espurr selling the aforementioned bracelets) takes advantage to call over to the three of you. "Would any of you fine young Pokemon care to purchase a Nightmare-catcher? Guaranteed to keep your dreams peaceful!" His sales pitch is only mildly hindered by the snort of disapproval from his neighbour, a Houndour who appears to be selling pieces of string in small bottles.

Melanie

Further away from the centre of the town, the Cubone Melanie is talking to scoffs somewhat. "Yeah, the great Simisear!" he drawls sardonically. "Who wouldn't want to hear one of his oh-so-famous tales? Morning to you too," he adds after a moment, less sarcastically.

Franzeska

As you land on a tent, you hear an "Oi, gerrof!" from the Miltank that owns it, though he makes no move to dislodge you, grumbling to herself as she continues stacking boxes. From your position, though, you can see over most of the crowd that has formed around the inn to where a Simisear is the centre of attention. He seems to currently be talking to a small Azurill. "Tell me, little child, why on earth would I -" He pauses, looks around, and clears his throat. "Ahem. That is to say, I will of course venture into this local dungeon of yours to look for your toy. And may I remind you all that Mystery Dungeons are dangerous places. If you're not a famous explorer like me, the Great Simisear, of course!" he adds with a chortle, seeming to get into his stride somewhat in the latter parts. You can almost hear the capitals.

"Well surely some of the tales must be true?" Virgil asks the Eevee, while he thinks the matter over. "I guess anything is possible with how the Guild Chapters have been shutting down," he says a little dejectedly.
Oh right! Shopping. He gives the Eevee a nod ans says cheerfully, "Well I think we have some shopping to do. You're welcome to join us though."

He then turns to inspect the Espurr's bracelets. He didn't have trouble with nightmares usually, Virgil was a heaving sleeper. He could still help Kyria pick one out. Looking the stall over, he eventually points to one with more red beads than the rest, "That one would look the best for you. Probably."