That's the one I'm on! What did you do

Towards Saffron [They're pretty sure. They hope.]

[The DeDenny's. Somehow, Loop has never been... which means they picked what to order by seeing what BJ got and then ordering the thing exactly two steps down on the menu. They are now faced with the Minccinomon Roll Pancake Slam®.]

[It is large and intimidating.]

[Loop looks at the waitress. Then at Beetlejuice. Then back at the waitress. Then, with a tone of extreme confidence, they explain,] Pokemon relay obstacle... capture the flag.

[Surely that's a thing somewhere out there!!]

[Fleuirk, meanwhile, takes a big chomp out of one of their pancakes.]

[Oh. Ohhh, this is very useful actually! Loop pulls the Gear over and inspects the map. It's too bad their memory's still garbage, but they can at least try to memorize this.]

[The conventions of fire escape plans don't match the kind of maps they're used to, but with a bit of rotating the Gear around they can figure out what's supposed to be representing the front door and go from there.] It looks like there's another exit around the back, and one on this side...?

...oh. [They have to think about it for a moment.] Orrery has Confusion, but I didn't bring her. She'd be too big and noticeable, I think... and Fleuirk can burn or jump scare people, but that's only one person at a time. Unless you can think of something else?

[The last sentence is addressed to Fleuirk, who immediately takes a deep breath in - and is interrupted by Loop clapping a hand over her mouth, preventing her from Screeching at full volume right in their ears.]

Not that! That'll bring them all onto us! [It probably is temporarily incapacitating for humans at very close range, though.]

I could go grab Burnoît, though. He has Smokescreen.

[Good point. There are those, aren't there...]

[Loop's a bit nervous to ask, but -]

Do you have a way to... uh, round them up beforehand? And let them know what we're doing?

[Loop prods at their terrifying stack of pancakes with a fork, trying to figure out where to start.]

[Right. Of course.]

You found out where they are?

[Loop finally just stabs a pancake and starts munching on it, on the principle of worrying about one breakfast food at a time.]

[Fleuirk has been "helping," at this point worrying one of their pancakes like a dog. She pauses, pancake dangling, to give BJ an interested look. Yeah, where are the ghost hangouts here right now?]

Did they just build over the ones they couldn't move...?

[That feels... bad? Yeah. Bad. Logically, there's a lot of buildings out there built over dead things, but...]

[Loop is suddenly feeling more sympathetic to the ghosties.]

...yeah, that should be plenty. One or two ghosts can probably handle a person each, right?

[They still remember the ghostly tea party!!]

[They know what you were gonna say Beetlejuice!!]

Of course. [Do they?]

I guess we could always try to jump some of the workers heading in or out, steal some uniforms...

It'll probably be easier to find them in your size than mine. [This is the closest they will get to outright admitting that they're short.]

[Loop eyes BJ's patched up suit, then shrugs mentally. Yeah, that should be fine.] Works for me.

[They start in on the rest of the plate, munching on the hash browns, eggs, and bacon. They are... actually finding themself more hungry as they go along, so maybe it's a good thing this plate is huge. They haven't always been eating the most consistently, what with usually traveling solo aside from their Pokemon.]

[They wave their fork.] Rounding up ghosts first, or disguises first? [Or is there something else they should worry about?]

[Loop thinks about a certain teahouse ghost incident. They did get Fleuirk and Booger out of it, and as much of a pain as Fleuirk can be, they have grown fond of her... so it wasn't all bad. Still -]

I'll leave that to you, then~ [They chirp.]

[Loop finishes off the mouthful they were working on and sacrifices the rest of the plate to Fleuirk, who happily hoovers it up. They stretch, cracking their gloved fingers above their head. Seems like they're ready too.]

[It's not long before the two are back outside. Loop mutters something to Fleuirk, who zooms off excitedly on some sort of quest. (Fetching Burnoît, it's fetching Burnoît.) Then they turn to BJ.] Lead the way!

[Let's see where these relocated graves are at. And how nasty the local ghosts are.]

[Huh. To Loop it doesn't actually look that terrible, but...]

[...actually, you know what, this is a good question.]

Do ghosts actually like flowers? [The ones Loop has seen here seem to prefer spookier environments to haunt. Loop can't say they'd do the same, though they'd prefer not to stick around at all - if they had to pick, a flowery coastline or something sounds much nicer.]

[On the other hand, you'd get to be a lot more dramatic haunting somewhere eerie. So okay, maybe they get it.]