You're supposed to have fun on your birthday, right?

[galactic_geezer]

[There is a small red-and-white checkered blanket spread out somewhere in the Central Meeting Area today. Resting on top of this blanket is a plate full of delectable, freshly-made chocolate cupcakes. There's nobody anywhere in sight, so it looks like they're ripe for the taking!

The key word here being, looks like.

Those with good eyes will notice

Comments

in which Taku is a cheater

[pedofloon]

[Cupcakes you say? Well thank God I'm a floating ghost Pokemon, otherwise there might be a problem here. So have a Drifloon floating over your blanket and looking around for some sign of other people around-it would be rude to take a cupcake without asking first after all...although that raises the question of whether Drifloons even eat cupcakes. :|b]

I was wondering who'd be the first to do that

[galactic_geezer]

[Charon had hoped that no Pokémon capable of flight would have spotted the cupcakes, because the trip strings are all on the ground. He stands up from behind the bush.]

What's this all about, then?

[1/2]

[galactic_geezer]

[... aaaaand of course it would stand to reason that anything chocolate may as well be labeled Francesca-bait. To be an ass and let her hit a trip string, or to step out and distract her; that is the question.]

[2/2]

[galactic_geezer]

[... ah, let's be an ass and stay hidden. He can always feign innocence or pretend it was a prank if need be.]

And the chaos begins

[genetikitty]

[La-la-la, just a Mew wandering around, la-la-l---
OH. MY. GOD. Are those chocolate cupcakes?! And there's no one around to scold him for eating one! Score!
Mew floats over to the cupcakes, takes one, and... Promptly lands on a trip wire while sitting down to eat. Oh joy.
Charon, here's your first victim. ACTIVATE TRAP TIEM NOW?]

[1/2]

[galactic_geezer]

[... an alternate-colored Pokémon. And a Mew at that. What.

No, seriously, what.]

[2/2]

[galactic_geezer]

[No matter, one of the trips has been hit, and thus the trap activates. Several of the other strings suddenly snap taut. Unless Mew has insanely fast reflexes, he will suddenly find a bunch of string pulled tight around his ankles.]

1/idfk

[genetikitty]

[Unfortunately for Mew, his reflexes aren't anywhere near nine thousand fast enough to escape. Good job, Charon; you sucsessfully have caught Mew in yoiur trap.
Oh, and you wanted to record reactions? Here they come:]

[mydadthemaster]

Cupcakes! [in which traits from her father are demonstrated, goes right for them with no second thought]

[galactic_geezer]

[Watch out, Amanda. Going for the bait without a second though means you're extremely likely to hit more than one of those trip strings. If that happens, you're going to find your ankles suddenly bound tightly by a lot of string, keeping you in place. Or possibly tripping you and wrapping more trip wires around your arms.]

[mydadthemaster]

[and that's exactly what happens. there's an obligitory TWANNNNNG noise]

Wah! Hey! What the heck?!

[galactic_geezer]

[Success! Charon appears from behind the bush, a smug smirk on his face.]

Well, now. It appears that you have ensnared yourself in this trap. Most unfortunate. I presume that you are aware of the fact that this result could have easily been averted had you been more attentive to your surroundings.