Ongoing Snarguffle / nightblitz42 - ABP Test 2

[nightblitz42]

Lance the Beedrill

Moves: Twineedle, Tailwind

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When you wake up in the late morning, your Trainer is already gone. He usually is on the weekdays. You flutter on over to the dining room, where atop the table waits a vase of pansies and cornflowers for you to drink the sweet, sweet nectar from (left for you by Snarguffle -- who else?). It's as pleasant a breakfast treat as you've ever had.

As you wipe the last of the droplets from your mouth, you notice a greeting card on the table next to the vase. On closer inspection, it's a holiday card. Snarguffle had said he was going to mail one to a relative, didn't he? But, silly him, he forgot and left it on the table. You poke it open with your stinger. Oh, he hasn't even written a message into it yet! How forgetful! He'll be very upset when he returns home and finds out he's too late to mail it out before the holiday.

Then you think, you can fix this, can't you? After all, your Trainer did go through the trouble of preparing your favorite flowers. All you have to do is put a message on the card, seal it in an envelope, and drop it into your mailbox. Clumsy old Snarguffle won't even realize he missed anything!

Ah, but you're getting ahead of yourself. Step 1: Putting a message in the card. After all, we can't send a blank card, can we?


Snarguffle 's turn

 

[Snarguffle]

Having a pair of lethal stingers attached to your arms is a trait that comes with quite a few disadvantages, among them the inability to handle any sort of writing implements. Lance isn't one to give up quite so easily, however. He's seen enough of how humans write to have a reasonable idea of what to do. By touching his stinger to the paper, he can use it as a makeshift pen, using small amounts of venom as the pigment.

As for the message, a short, generic greeting is probably enough for a holiday card. Thinking for just a moment, he settles on "Happy holidays from Snarguffle and Lance". With that decided, all that's left is to trace out the shapes of the letters.

Very, very carefully, now...

[Twineedle]

 

[nightblitz42]

You tip your stingers with bright purple venom and gently, softly put their points to the paper. You write. (with trepidation at first). But as your stingers dance across the paper, you quickly discover that your nervousness is unwarranted. How beautifully you draw the letters! "Happy holidays from Snarguffle and Lance," in swooping cursive script your message reads. It seems you've discovered a latent talent for penmanship.

Now, for the next step: inserting the card into its envelope. This part might be trouble; the envelope is perfectly fitted for the card, allowing only the smallest fraction of a millimeter of extra space. What a shame it would be, to write the perfect message but be stopped from sending it by this hurdle!


Snarguffle what will you do?