"okay okay, uh, Robin, do i have permission to start spreading the flyers? Bah, I could drive way better blindfolded you doofus, shit's dirty right now."

"I'll spread them!"

Playing grabs a handful, and runs off.

Mintleaf is on the floor with a single flyer on her head. "Fuck, I'm stuck."

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Aug 11th 2023 at 7:27:05 AM

Cassie pries the flyer off of Mint's head.

"One poster and you're pinned to the floor...psh"

Mintleaf springs to her feet, whereupon she immediately trips and falls.

A second flyer lands on her head. "noooooooooooo"

"Yeah, let's get going."
(Robin takes his bag full of flyers and steps out of the bus.)

Before the Togepi can eat Garrett's nachos, Snorlax swipes them up and gobbles them down in seconds.

"Sorry about that. Snorlax gotta eat and all."

Sticking a flyer onto the closest pole outside of Tropey Mart, Cassie walks into the mart at a rhythmic pace, ready to keep the flyers flyin'.

Of course, the flyers have already attracted their attention, owing to an unknown, ginger-haired man already snatching the outside flyer, observing it with a wicked grin, eager to take the rewards by his own hands.

Garrett: Great. So Snorlax will eat anything I put out? I might as well not make food at all. Unless… (Garrett then proceeds to make three pizzas)

Apartment

(Togepi takes himself out of the high chair, carefully climbs out, and waddles to the living room to turn on the TV.)
"Coming up next on Smeg TV, an all-day classic Jerry Springer marathon! All the best fights and drama ever assembled with limited commercials!"
"Togepi?"

Tropey Mart

(Robin was tacking some flyers up on the bulletin board before taking out a cart and setting off.)
"Right... Brownies for Lux..."

de mart

"uhhhhhhhhhhhh do we need anything for the snorlax? Like bulk food? What if we come home with an empty pantry?"

Cassie accidentally sticks a poster on a random customer, who then blacks out.

Garrett: (Garrett tries fiddling with the remote to no avail) This stuff looks like trash, I’m tryna watch Family Guy.

"Anything would work."

Here comes Playing, shopping cart packed to the brim with food, flyers in hand.

Edited by Playing_with_boy on Aug 18th 2023 at 8:26:05 AM

Snorlax eats all three pizzas.

"Hey gimme that." I turn the tv to HDMI 2

Apartment

"Togepi? Toge! Toge Togepi!"
(Togepi was gesturing at the TV while talking to Lux and Garrett.)

apartment

A knock-knock-knock is audible on the entrance door.

"Olá? I heard about a lost Togepi from the flyers!" A voice can be heard outside.

Edited by SomeLibre on Aug 18th 2023 at 4:14:48 PM

Garrett: Yeah, there's one here. But, what do want to do with it?

Playing sticks up a bunch of flyers on every freezer-food door in the mall.

apartment, outside

"...well I'm here to pick them up!" The guy says.

(Static, followed by a technical difficulties slide.)
"We are terribly sorry for the interruption. We have experienced a transmitter breakdown and the engineers at TropeNet are working hard to fix it. While we will try our best to get Tropers: The Series back to you, there is a chance that it would take hours to repair this. We sincerely apologize to our viewers for this and if such a thing happens, we will re-air tonight's episode in its entirety at a later date. TropeNet would like to thank our viewers for their loyalty and appreciate your patience during this time."
(Cue elevator music.)

Hi, everyone.

I'm very, very sorry that this episode hardly went anywhere and for letting anyone down as a result. I've been hella busy with IRL obligations and have recently been in a mental slump. I also have no idea on what else to do at this point of the episode or in this thread in general anymore; well, aside from the preceding part.

I will come back to this thread and continue on with "Robin and The Togepi" at some point, I don't know exactly when but I will. Until then, if anyone wants to do another episode, go right ahead.

Once again, I'm very sorry.

Love always,
Chey

(We start with a long shot of Sunflora Apartments.)
"Y'know, when I took over this place five years ago, it was a reeeeeeal dump."
(We then cut to the episode's subject, Sonny Sunflora. Sonny was sitting on the bench with his son Simon Sunkern.)
"At first, I wanted to tear the sucker down and start from scratch! I almost did too if you catch my drift."
(Cut to a scene from the third season opener "Back in Tropesburg", then back to Sonny at the bench, who is covering up the top of Simon so he wouldn't hear the next sentence.)
"I got my ass kicked by those Tropers at dodgeball over it."
(Sonny uncovers Simon.)
"I tried comin' to a compromise with them after that. I was gonna tear the sucker down and rebuild it with the original blueprints and the quickest yet hardest working construction crew I've ever enlisted, but they weren't havin' that either. I can see just how important this crusty shack meant to 'em. So we ended up workin' our butts off to fix up and remodel everything, gettin' everything to code... We certainly cleaned this place up mighty fine, lemme tell ya. Now Sunflora Apartments is my pride and joy and a part of our city's heritage. And it's gonna be my family's legacy! Hell, I got the next generation sitting beside me right now."
(Simon smiles as Sonny hugs him.)
"I love you, honey child."
"I love you too, Daddy! Can I go play now?"
"Sure, sweetheart, but stay in the playground and right where I can see ya!"
(Simon then merrily goes off to the playground.)
"I gotta be frank here, that's my real legacy goin' off to the swings. Anyway, lemme tell ya, honey, I have went through every single layer of HELL and all the way back to get to where I am today. I'll start from the beginnin' once I get back inside."
(Cut to the episode's title card, which consists of a silhouette of Sonny and the title in a semi-cursive font beside it.)

Season 10, Episode 6: "Sonny Sunflora: A Very Far Out Story"

"Damn it, why did I agree to this space mission. I don't know the first thing about interstellar travel!"

Tropes fiddles with some levers, to no avail.

"Guess it would have been too pedestrian to include a 'check engine' light on this thing, huh. Sometimes I feel like science is synonymous with hubris."

Forlorn, Tropes glances out the window, down to the faint blue glow of the planet Earth.

"All those people down there...Chey...Director Hendricks...Winston Smith From 1984...Sonny Sunflora. And right now, I'm Very Far Out from them!"

With a less of a crash than a thud, the craft falls to the surface of the nearest celestial body Silenus IV. Tropes stumbles out, somewhat dazed, though perhaps just because he's always somewhat dazed.

"Ah, there are worse places to crash land. At least here there's great Silenus IV mining town. An authentic slice of real spacer life. Surely that'll be a great place to find a homely little hotel."

After an epic trek of 800 metres, Tropes arrives at a sign.

SILENBERG

Population: 20 Lightyears

Sure enough, there's a town behind it. Filled with buildings, and streets, and vehicles. Town things. Reassuring. Made the total silence less unnerving.

"And he says 'I only listen to the original Credence Clearwater!'"

Canned Laughter

"Ah, music to my ears. Gotta remember to write that one down before I forget it."

Tropes is in a room in an otherwise empty hotel, kept company by the Canned Laughter Machine, which he salvaged from the wreckage.

"I wish the execs would stop bugging us to ditch the laugh track. Other shows not doing it anymore just makes us more special! Can't believe Mr. Meddling called it a useless air-spewing machine. Air spewing machines are so useful! People buy hair dryers for a reason!"

He sighs. "Man, how am I supposed to get 30-minutes-minus-commercials' worth of entertainment out of this town? Everyone's, like, hiding or something. And I can't even get any phone reception out here. I hope no one's too worried about me. I'm probably gonna have a billion unread messages, and - "

He is interrupted by the sound of something being slipped through the mailbox on the ground floor. Having been on the verge of total cabin fever, he instantly grabs the canned laughter machine and slides down the banisters to the door. He finds an envelope, adorned with the logo of the Evryday Mining Company.

"Oh right, they never outlawed company towns out here. Talk about culture shock."

He finds himself increasingly curious about what's going on here.

Edited by TropesForever on Apr 27th 2024 at 10:33:25 PM

Tropes pounds on the door of the fifteenth house. As with the previous fourteen, there is no response. Nor is there any sign of who left the envelope, despite the fact that one seems to have been delivered to every house. It'd probably explain a lot if he read the thing, but he's too caught up in his doorknocking right now.

"Just gotta find a suitably quirky resident, and our comical hijinks will be legendary!"

Just then, he notices something.

"Hey, that key hole...am I crazy or does it look exactly the right shape to fit a keyblade through? Man, if only I hadn't come alone..."

A brainwave strikes him.

Grabbing the Canned Laughter Machine, strips a small piece of metal off of its casing. He then says "Take my wife, please." This produces such uproarious laughter that the friction heat of the machine's inner workings is able to smelt the piece of metal into something...vaguely resembling a keyblade.

"Perfect."