[indent] [/indent][h3][hr][color=palevioletred]Eryn Montero[/color][/h3][hr][sup][i]Route 2: Outer Infested Woods  ||  Afternoon[/i][/sup][indent] [/indent]
The morning was spent heading back and forth between the woods and Pureplain as Eryn trained her Pokemon. Much to her delight, the woods seemed to offer a bounty of fodder wilds if she looked in the right places. However, Eryn quickly realized that fodder Pokemon failed to provide her Pokemon much of a challenge, and only Tula seemed to be getting anything out of her battles, which were less about wits and strategy than about simply slapping the foe down with some well-timed Struggles. 

So, on she went, leading her Pokemon deeper into the woods where danger seemed to lie around every wrong corner. Around the right corners, though, Eryn was able to pit her Pokemon against foes that weren’t felled at the first blow; wilds like Spinarak, Karrablast, and Metapod provided sufficient resistance for Eryn to practice some new tactics with her Pokemon, and soon enough Dei picked up Smokescreen, giving him access to an array of interesting ambush tactics provided he didn’t run out of energy beforehand. 

But, like before, Eryn soon ran into a wall when her Pokemon grew too strong for their opponents, and after a few hours of limited success trying to find the middle threats of the Deep Infested Woods, she realized that she was probably better off moving on to the Wet Caverns to try her luck. 

With this in mind, out of the woods she went, Tula in her hands and Kylie and Dei at her side. As she walked, however, she was interrupted by a cry from Kylie, which immediately preceded an extremely human call that sent Eryn whirling around in alarm, prepared to face the ghosts from the previous night. Instead, though, she found herself looking at a quintet of youngsters, all bright smiles and eyes as they fanned out around her, chattering away at her.

Eryn opened her mouth to speak, then closed it, thinking it over. ‘Mute lady?’ So her doppelganger had been busy, if not today then before. Though Eryn found it hard to believe that her double had existed before she’d first stepped foot in the woods, having put her double’s origins up to ghosts or some other mysterious origin, maybe Eryn had been looking at it wrong. Perhaps her double was another person wholly her own… but how? Why? And what were the circumstances under which she became so similar to Eryn herself?

But, these were questions that Eryn knew she’d have to save for someone else. Now, she had to address the matter of the energetic kids around her.

Biting her tongue back from another attempt to reply, Eryn opted to grin and wave enthusiastically with her free hand. One youngster requested a battle, and one requested tricks. Another offered her a white, shimmery fabric, which Eryn received with a hesitant smile, patting the youngster’s shoulder as she tucked away the scarf. She’d see that it gets to her double since she had a few questions she wanted answers to.

Pointing at the boy who had issued the battle request, Eryn grinned. This is how her double had done it, right?
[indent] [/indent][hr][hider=Actions][u][b][color=palevioletred]     Actions:          [/color][/b][/u]
Eryn pockets the Silk Scarf and accepts the youngster’s battle challenge.[h3] [/h3][/hider]
[hider=Pokemon][u][b][color=palevioletred]     Pokemon Party:          [/color][/b][/u]
[hider=Dei — Charmander][h3][color=palevioletred]Dei[/color][/h3][hr][img]https://www.smogon.com/dex/media/sprites/xy/charmander.gif[/img]
[hr][sup][color=silver]Charmander  [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   Level 12 [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   ♂   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]  Blaze   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   90%[/color][/sup]
[list][*]Physical — Scratch
[*]Status — Growl, Smokescreen
[*]Special — Ember
[/list][h3] [/h3][/hider]
[hider=Kyllene — Mawile][h3][color=palevioletred]Kyllene / “Kylie”[/color][/h3][hr][img]https://www.smogon.com/dex/media/sprites/xy/mawile.gif[/img]
[hr][sup][color=silver]Mawile  [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   Level 12 [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   ♀   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   Hyper Cutter   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   90%[/color][/sup]
Holding: [b]Occa Berry[/b]
[list][*]Physical — Astonish, Bite
[*]Status — Taunt, Growl, Fake Tears
[*]Special — Fairy Wind
[/list][h3] [/h3][/hider]
[hider=Tula — Magikarp][h3][color=palevioletred]Tula / “Tutu”[/color][/h3][hr][img]https://www.smogon.com/dex/media/sprites/xy/magikarp.gif[/img]
[hr][sup][color=silver]Magikarp  [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   Level 8 [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   ♀   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]  Rattled   [color=palevioletred]◼[/color]   80%[/color][/sup]
[list][*]Physical — (Struggle)
[*]Status — Splash
[*]Special — N/A
[/list][h3] [/h3][/hider][/hider]
[hider=Inventory][u][b][color=palevioletred]     Inventory:          [/color][/b][/u]
Pokédollars — 4000
[list][*]Potion — 1
[*]Pokeballs — 4
[*]Old Rod
[*]Silk Scarf
[/list][h3] [/h3][/hider]
[@PlatinumSkink]