[@Typical] [right][sub][sub][sub][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2RR9XARrX8]Random music I listened to while writing.[/url][/sub][/sub][/sub][/right] Wilhelm did appear to enjoy having someone around that actually enjoyed his little jokes. In any case, they searched on, and Froakie kept looking at them a bit curiously as Eryn waved to it before continuing on. Braith’s possible line of thinking about being called old aside, Quagsire gave a light reply about the “remember where they parked” but. [color=98cfe3]‘Quagsire!’[/color] it sounded like. Whatever that meant. So, after having maneuvered the underwater architecture and finally arriving in a new, alien area… Claydol floated away, steadily as if knowing where it was going. There was sounds of water running here and there, and from sheer logic they were clearly not on surface level yet. Wherever this was, it was still very much underwater. [color=d6d6b8]‘I did, indeed! But, the rocks supposedly found under Lakewatch Town were never described as anything as complex as THIS! … Huh?’[/color] Wilhelm then looked surprised when Eryn told that this was a trial, to do without help. With that, Eryn prepared herself to get going after that conversation with Tula, and Wilhelm was told to probably stay here. [color=d6d6b8]‘Very well! I’ll just, study and look over everything I can… in this immediate area! Would you join me, Quagsire?’[/color] Wilhelm asked the blue Pokémon. [color=98cfe3]‘Quaaaaaag!’[/color] Quagsire replied, and then Eryn was off to wherever she felt that she needed to go… The feelings of “where to go” had gone away. They’d guided her here, but from here on out, she was on her own. As such, she followed the path which Claydol had gone. This led her up a decently empty corridor, where she constantly had to watch where she placed her feet lest she’d stumble over some ancient cable or chute, which seemed to be spread across the structure, some water trickling through basically any and all corridors. Finally, some corridor later, she arrived to a more open room. There were pillars and architecture spread around in ruins, unfathomable in their original purpose, but it meant there’s things to hide behind. Meanwhile, there was Claydol, floating in to the middle of the room… Claydol blasted a sudden magnetan blast of energy from one arm that loudly impacted one of the weird pillars, the sound of the violent impact echoing through the area. Psybeam fired relentlessly and mercilessly at the pillar… and from it fell a poor little Scatterbug that had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Apparently, there was the occasional Scatterbug down here… as soon as they weren’t being found by Claydols, anyway. There was an odd sensation in the air. A desire that she leave, a powerful sensation that something did not want her there. It was [i]not[/i] the same sort of feeling that had been directing her here. That will still presented the desire that she find the exit without help. The one that wanted her [i]out of here[/i], was separate, threatening, alien, in sharp contrast to the first, and only just now awoke. And as it did… Claydol turned around, looking for something to shoot, both arms raised. It hadn’t seen Eryn yet, assuming she hid somewhere when she had the chance, but there was the problem of Claydol having eyes in all directions. There’s only one other exit from this room. What will Eryn do here? [hider=Map][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/IXsdiUM.png[/img][/center] Blue dot - Entrance. Pink dot - Eryn, if she didn’t enter the room. If she did, she’s in the room above, hopefully hiding behind a pillar not on the map if she knows what’s good for her. Red dot - Claydol.[/hider]