Poppin' Arms ~ Dorm Lounge

[Adamhuarts]

"Ivy doesn't know what Cocoa is, but Ivy likes sugar!" Ivy said with gleaming eyes.

"Take Ivy and Soul to the Cocoa place, Invincible Petram!"

 

[Cresselia92]

“You don’t have to tell me twice!” Petram puffed up his chest and pointed a paw toward the sky. “Mission of the day: seek sugar! The soldiers who cannot participate speak forever or never more!”

One second passed.

“Sweet! No objections! Onward we go!”

Petram led Soul and Ivy toward another area, which had a few machines to brew hot beverages. He hopped on the desk and turned to the others.

“So! For our quest to obtain the cocoa, we need two main elements!” He lifted one tail. “Brown powder — and no, not the kind of stuff you find on the ground — and moomoo! Once we get them, we’ll be one step closer to the cocoa and its sugar!”

He glanced around the area. “But, huh… now the question is where to find them…”

 

[Adamhuarts]

Ivy raised a flower when brown powder was mentioned, but lowered it down when Petram said it wasn't to be the one found on the ground.

"What does the brown powder smell like? And what is 'moomoo'? Does Soul know?" Ivy asked, turning to her.

 

[Shiny Phantump]

Soul didn't know anything about brown powder or "moomoo." If neither of the others knew how to get it either, the endeavour may not work out. "How do we find them? What will we do if we can't?"

 

[Adamhuarts]

"That is no good. We need to find the ingredients for our Cocoa! Ivy will lift every rock, search every tree and go under the oceans until Ivy gets Cocoa!" Ivy said, wearing the most determined look she could muster.

"Does Cocoa come from trees or rocks?"

 

[Cresselia92]

Petram glanced at Ivy. “Moomoo is moomoo. Like, y’know, moomoo,” explained Petram very clearly.

“Only thing I know is that cocoa can be found in some trees, buuut I dunno where those trees are.” He shrugged. “Worse comes to worse, we could brew some coffee?”

And in that moment, the coffee machine sputtered and short-circuited, leaking a black liquid from its holes. Petram stared at it, then brought his tongue out.

“Eww! You’re gross, machine! Anyway, it seems that it’s cocoa or cocoa!”

 

[Shiny Phantump]

"I don't know what moomoo, moomoo or moomoo are, though! I don't know if we can find it." Soul looked distraught. They really had gotten their hopes up for cocoa. "I don't think we're going to be able to find it! What if we can't have cocoa, and we can:t even have coffee either?"

 

[Adamhuarts]

Ivy held her head with a grimace and fell into deep thinking. Well, as deep as it could get for Ivy. She walked up to the desk Petram was on and noticed a draw. So, he latched on and pulled it all the way out.

A couple sachets of pre-made Cocoa mixes fell out with the drawer, though the drawer itself fell out and landed on Ivy, dissolving her form and trapping her ultra stone underneath.

 

[Shiny Phantump]

Soul let out a sound roughly equivalent to that of a real vulpix having the breath pulled from their lungs in surprise. They lept at the drawer that had attacked Ivy and batted it away.

"Are you okay? Can you hear me?"

 

[Cresselia92]

"I don't know what moomoo, moomoo or moomoo are, though! I don't know if we can find it." Soul looked distraught. They really had gotten their hopes up for cocoa. "I don't think we're going to be able to find it! What if we can't have cocoa, and we can:t even have coffee either?"

“Fear not, my sibling! Because for every solution, there is a problem!” chirped Petram with enthusiasm, before sitting on his haunches. “The obvious answer is to think like cocoa. If we knew how to think like cocoa, then it would be only a matter of finding ourselves, no?”

Then, the drawer fell and Petram turned toward the fallen item. He noticed the two packages on the floor, before clapping with glee. “Oh, Ivy! You thought like cocoa and found yourself! Nice!” He tilted his head and hopped off of the desk, staring at the stone. “Huh… I think you thought a bit too hard, however…”

 

[Adamhuarts]

Ivy's stone jiggled on the ground, then her body sprouted from it rapidly. She looked around, confused at first, then threw her flowers in the air.

"Ivy is okay!"

 

[Cresselia92]

“Ha! Good to hear, Ivy Okay!” chirped Petram with enthusiasm, before poking the packages of cocoa. “So we got the powder! Step one of our mission is complete! Now,” he began looking around, “to find some moomoo or other liquid to mix with this powder. Because, well, we can’t drink powder… huh, can we?”

 

[Shiny Phantump]

Soul's tails wagged. "We can't drink powder, but if we can't find this 'moomoo' stuff we could lick it!"

 

[Adamhuarts]

Ivy grabbed a sachet of Cocoa powder and tugged at it, but it didn't rip. She tried again, but her claws were too blunt to even tear into it.

"How do you open this thing! Ivy wants to have Cocoa!" she said, flailing the sachet around to no avail. "Maybe it's evil..."

 

[Cresselia92]

“Oh! Oh! I can help!” exclaimed Petram, waving his stubby paws. “Behold the power of the Invincible Petram!”

He grabbed the package and raised the other paw, which caught some flames.

“Ha!”

With a quick swipe, Petram tore through the package… causing the powder to explode and scatter everywhere, covering the trio of shades in cocoa powder.

“Wohoho! In your face, evil fiend!” cried out Petram, hissing at the broken package. Then, he licked some of the powder from his muzzle, and his eyes seemed to dilate slightly. “Sweeeeet~!”

 

[Adamhuarts]

"You're right, it is sweet!" Ivy said, eyes glowing while she licked off the ones on her flowers. She bent over to pick up the remains of the sachet which had some Cocoa left in it.

"Soul, you should try some Cocoa too!" Ivy said, offering it to them.

 

[Shiny Phantump]

The cocoa powder melted into Soul's shadowy form. It felt sweet and rich. "Ooh, I like this!"

Soul lapped the offered cocoa off Ivy's extended flower. "Thank you."

 

[Adamhuarts]

"Where do we find Moomoo now?" Ivy asked with a bright smile.

 

[Cresselia92]

“Good question~!! Um…”

Then, as if the energy of the sugar reached his spectral brain, Petram got a spark of illumination and held his forepaw on his forehead.

‘Hi, Daddy! Little question: where can we find some moomoo near the lounge? We need it sooo badly and before immediately~!’

Huh, Petram? Thou art sounding… bizarrely. Did thou ingest too much su—

‘Moomoo! We need moomoo!! Pleeeeease? With a biiig cherry on top? Yes? Yes?!’

…Err, um… Did thou check the fridge?

‘Fridge?! Okay! Thanks~!’

Wait a minute, Pet—

And just like that, Petram hung up… somehow.

“Oh! Fridge! Gotta check in the fridge!” He turned to Soul. “Oi! You are made of ice and fridges have ice, no? So that’s a mission for you~!”

 

[Shiny Phantump]

"I'm not a fridge!" Soul declared. "I don't have any moomoo in me!"

They stopped to sniff themself. "At least, I don't think I do. I imagine that's the kind of thing I'd noticed!"