Call Ralph's Poke'Gear!

[rocketralph]

Hi there! Wanna thread but don't have time/want to set up a whole post for it?
Does your character just wanna call and shoot the breeze? LET'S DO IT.
Just use the CALL and MESSAGE threads below!

[Psst, if you need OOC contact, try here!]

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[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph is so not in the mood to explain bacteria.]}

Forget about it, kid.

_{[He turns and frowns at his bed, then up at the ceiling where Wrath had been dangling.]}

How'd you get up there?

[garbagechild]

_{[Judging by the way the ceiling-light is a little crooked now, that's what he'd been hanging from. HOW he got up to it is more of a mystery, and it's probably not about to be solved by Wrath's answer.]}

I climbed!

_{[... UP the wall, apparently.]}

[rocketralph]

_{[The very corner of the wrecker's mouth twitches. If anyone finds out about that, it could come out of his pay check. Damage to the building was a big deal and he'd already developed a reputaiton for it.]}

I see that.

_{[He turns on a heel and bends down to half scoop half shove Wrath toward the door.]}

Alright, kid, get a move on. Pokemon don't turn themselves in!

[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath is easily swept out the door-- the only thing stopping him from fitting right into one of Ralph's shovel-like hands is the fact that they're not quite as big here as they're supposed to be.]}

Okay!

<sub>[And, very agreeably, he trundles off down the hall.]







[Five minutes later, he's back.]</sub>

Um, I forget where it is.

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph has fiiiinaly gotten back into bed when Wrath pops in again. He throws off the covers in frustration and stomps across the room to shove him back out the door.]}

Fine, FINE! Just let me put on some pants!

_{[He slams his door and for a while, Wrath is left alone. But then he is rejoined by Ralph, in uniform, with a tired frown on his face.]}

Alright, let's go. This place is pretty easy to get turned around in, I guess. All the hallways look the same.

[garbagechild]

<sub>[BACK OUT THE DOOR WRATH GOES, completely unfazed by Ralph's shouting and shoving. And there he waits patiently, gently swinging the bedsheet-bag back and forth, until his team-mate emerges with pants.]

[Whereupon he perks up like a puppy that's been waiting for its owner to get home.]</sub>

Yeah!

I thought I found it but it turned out it was a closet.

There was a stick with lots of strings hanging from it but not much else. So I figured that probably wasn't the right place.

[rocketralph]

<sub>[AND AWAY THEY GO. Ralph tromps along behind Wrath like a grouchy wall that didn't get very much sleep. The doors pass along either side of them and the lights overhead hum and flicker. There is an elevator.]

[No, Wrath, you cannot push the button.]</sub>

Whacha gotta remember is the lady at the drop-off booth has really bad allergies so she's always sniffling and coughing. You can hear her from a hall away.

[garbagechild]

<sub>[HE MAY HAVE REACHED FOR THE BUTTONS.]

[Key word being 'reached'. Ralph is too big to resist being shoo'd along by.]</sub>

Oh, she sniffs and coughs?

What are allergies?

Is she dying?

_{[HE KNOWS THAT SNIFFING AND COUGHING IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HUMANS GET SICK, AND WHEN HUMANS GET SICK, THEY DIE.]}

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph's brows meet in a troubled frown. Sheesh, this kid is morbid.]}

No, it just means certain things in the air make her sick because how she's progr--I mean born. Not everybody has allergies.

_{[THIS ELEVATOR RIDE COULD NOT BE OVER SOON ENOUGH.]}

[garbagechild]

_{[This is only the tip of the iceberg, Ralph.]}

Oh.

So if you don't have allergies, you don't get sick?

How do you find out if you have allergies or not?

[rocketralph]

You can still get sick if you don't have allergies...you just get sick from the usual things. Like germs.

_{[WOW a question a minute. Ralph shifts his weight and watches the numbers above the door slowly change.]}

I don't know, kid.

[garbagechild]

What are germs?

_{[AAAAND we're back to square one.]}

[rocketralph]

_{[...U NO WAT, KID?]}

Germs are horrible invisible bugs that make you sick and they're everywhere! Especially on dirty things!

[garbagechild]

<sub>[Well that cuts Wrath off IMMEDIATELY.]

[He doesn't say anything, just STARES UP AT RALPH with perfectly-circular eyes.]</sub>

[rocketralph]

<sub>[Ralph soaks in that GLORIOUS silence and stares ahead as the elevator continues to clunk and churn.]

[Ding!]

[The doors creak open and Ralph steps out.]</sub>

Hear her?

[garbagechild]

<sub>[Wrath pads out behind him, still wide-eyed and silent.]

[He only nods.]

[YEAH HE HEARS HER. <8I]</sub>

[rocketralph]

_{[The big man lumbers on down the hallway, giving distracted half-waves to fellow grunts that pass them. He doesn't like them, but it pays not to go out of your way to be a jerk. He stops a few doors away from a small lobby built around a glass window.]}

Here y'ar. See'll walk you through the rest.

[garbagechild]

<sub>[Wrath nods again, says something that sounds like "f'nks", before trotting off towards the desk.]

[Approximately eleven seconds later, there's a loud scream, a 'splat' noise, and then Stinky Phil darts off down the hall and disappears into a vent.]

[RALPH, YOU HAVE DONE YOUR DUTY. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET BACK TO YOUR ROOM BEFORE YOU GET BLAMED FOR THIS.]</sub>

[rocketralph]

<sub>[Ralph dusts his hands off and turns to make his way to a different office to check up on something when he hears the chaos behind him.]

[NEW PLAN]

[He quickly crams himself back into the elevator and jabs the buttons until the doors close. HE WAS NEVER HERE. WHAT RATTATA? HE'S NEVER SEEN ONE IN HIS LIFE!]</sub>