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[anexcitableboy]

[At first the screen shows a blur of orange and a bit of floor. Then it turns, shakily, to show Jimmy not looking so good. Face drawn, eyes bloodshot and ringed in hollows, he looks a lot like death warmed over lying curled up on the floor of his cheap hotel room. It could be some sort of flu, but it's mostly a miserable hangover. One he's been nursing in private for most of the day, but his Cubone has had enough. After several headbutts had been ignored, Omi finally simply fumbled with his trainer's 'Gear until he got it recording.]

[Jimmy's been holed up with cheap booze and packaged meals, the realization of his situation having come upon him hard and all at once. He wasn't about to wake up back home. This wasn't some quick little vacation from reality. This was his damned life now and that was scarier than almost anything else that had happened to him these last few months.]

[But the booze had run out, and his money was about to, so here he is in the middle of an unplanned drying out and when he sees Omi set down the 'gear he groans.]

Jesus, what'd ya go and do that for? Nobody wants to see this... hey, turn it back a sec.

[And only when the screen is facing down does he stretch and grabs the machine, rolling over onto his back and making sure his bare hands are out of screen.]

Sorry. Feeling under the weather and Omi's all freaked out, I guess. I dunno if he was trying to call somebody or something, but...guess I look pretty bad, by Pokemon standards. Guess I should be lucky I had pants on when he did it, huh.

But since this is beaming out into the 'gear wavespace or whatever... what do they got around here that's good for churning guts?

And cheap.

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[defyingfrigidity]

Jimmy?

[I know seeing the faces of your worried friends is probably NOT what you want to see right now, Jimmy, but that's what you're getting. Elsa looks a bit startled at the sight, and the shock quickly turns to a look of complete worry.]

That looks like a bit more than just "under the weather"...!

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[anexcitableboy]

Hey, Elsa.

[Great Omi, thanks. Now everybody was going to know he'd been hanging off the wagon.]

Nah, it's fine. Just got the old hobo flu, you dig?

[defyingfrigidity]

[That, if anything, makes her brows furrow even more in concern.]

No matter what it is, an illness can still be very bad... do you need anything?

[anexcitableboy]

No it's not...it's not illness. It's the wrath of the grapes. Tied a few too many on and fell asleep, woke up like a skunk-ape crawled inside me and died.

I need a new head, but I don't think that's on the menu. Nah, I'll be fine.

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[rocketralph]

Yikes what happened to you? Go see a doctor!

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[anexcitableboy]

I don't need a doctor, I just need something to settle my stomach.

It's...you know. The wrath of the grapes.

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[rocketralph]

_[Blink.]

You're allergic to grapes?

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[wing_attack]

[This? This is the face of an extremely unamused kid. The guy seemed nice enough and... well. He'd seen this kind of thing get bad. He knows the signs, and his Pokemon seems concerned enough that he wanted to call for help. Who's he to not respond?]

Where are you? What city, I mean?

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[anexcitableboy]

Is that really gonna make a difference in what cheap medicine I'm gonna find? I just need something to settle my stomach.

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[wing_attack]

It makes a difference because I can't give it to you if I can't find you.

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[If there's one benefit to having befriended a socially-stunted feral child, it's that he won't scold you or freak out when you show up on the network hideously hungover.]

[... On the other hand, socially-stunted feral children are loud.]</sub>

JIMMY!

Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy!

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[anexcitableboy]

[Oh wow, that is loud, and Jimmy winces.]

Hey, dial it down there, Wolfboy. My lobes can't handle the decibels there.

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[Dial it down? Decibel? Wrath is unfamiliar with those turns of phrase!]

[So he blinks expressively, and tips his head to one side.]

[But HEY. AT LEAST HE'S NOT YELLING INTO THE PHONE.]</sub>

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[the_pilgrim]

Well, I haven't seen much medicine for humans here. But, my mom always gave us saltine crackers and ginger ale when we got sick to our stomachs....

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[anexcitableboy]

There's gotta be people medicine.

Salt crackers, yeah...

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[the_pilgrim]

Maybe I'm just in too small a town? Wait, that doesn't make sense at all.

Can you keep anything down, even?

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[red_roses]

[Gasp!] Oh, no! Jimmy, have you made it to Goldenrod City yet? I have a Pokemon that knows Heal Pulse!

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[anexcitableboy]

I did. Got here and stopped. It's okay, I'll be fine by tomorrow. Cross my heart.

[Now he's starting to feel a little guilty, both for the binge and for subjecting his friends to it. Though that was Omi's fault, not his.]

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[red_roses]

No, it's okay! I live in Goldenrod City. Gardrevoir and I will be there right away!

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[angerpoints]

[... you know, being the child of an alcoholic parent, it's really kind of hard for Yusuke to see someone curled up on the floor like that and not immediately assume they've been hitting the bottle. Then again, the guy says he's under the weather, so who knows, maybe he's just got a bad bug or something. Either way, he's gonna turn the 'Gear on and wave a bottle of liquid at him, taking care to hold it so that the label's facing the screen.]

Palpito-Bismoad. Takes care of nausea, the runs, you name it. I take it with me when I'm on the road. Helps when all the hiking's liquidating my bowels, y'know what I'm saying?

[Gee, thanks for sharing, Yusuke.]

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[anexcitableboy]

That sounds like exactly what I need right now, thanks. Palpito Bismoad.

[He gets a good look at the label, through bleary eyes.]

Think the hotel gift shop'd have it?

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[angerpoints]

[Satisfied that the guy now knows what to look for, Yusuke leans back in his chair and begins tossing the bottle up and down, shrugging at his question.]

Dunno. Maybe. If not you'll probably find it at the Pokemart. They got a whole row of anti-shit meds there.

[Most of them with cutesy mascots on the label. Y'know, because that combination makes sense, friggin' Jigglypuffs and medicine that keeps you from... well, anyway.]

[nvcr]

At the risk of this sounding like a joke, have you tried just shoving an entire thing of ginger in there?

[anexcitableboy]

In...where?

I ain't putting ginger up inside me. I ain't putting anything up inside me.

[nvcr]

Oh.

I suppose you could also eat it, or brew it into a tea along with some honey and...I dunno, whatever organs you have lying around.

Any way you choose to put it inside your body, it's supposedly very good for nausea.