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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 7[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]//////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (14/70)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b]  Sandswept Sky - Tostarena Town
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Midna’s assessment that there was an end to the madness seemed to have been an entirely wrong one, as wave after wave of racers just kept coming and coming over the ridge line and swerving around their little bastion.

[color=Aquamarine]”Would you all kindly fuck off! Some of us are trying to walk here!”[/color] She yelled at them, before throwing a rock at a passing bike rider and watching him tumble off his mechanical steed as it struck him in the dome.

It turned out the best way to deal with the riders was some lateral thinking that let them, well, not deal with the riders. Of course some like Sectonia were already doing so, but a bit of clambering and helping hands up pushed most of the more mobile team members up to the towering architecture surrounding the canyon. Once up there they proceeded to platform across while the small but tough team who were unable to do so got off the main road and took some winding side paths where they could stay out of the traffic.

Midna lent them a hand by racing ahead on her wolfos steed (which was incredibly deft at climbing, leaping and bounding through the towering teetering obstacle course with ease) and scouting them out a path that avoided any dead ends. Both because it was a nice thing to do and because it reduced the amount of delays and waiting around that had to be done that would have been caused by non optimal pathing.

After a fair bit of this they finally found their way to the starting line, and found out why there was no end to the racers as wave after wave after wave of them were spawned in by some kind of starting line closer to the base of the mountain. Midna arrived last with the ground ploders hot on her heels.

[color=Aquamarine]”So this is where the jester show starts?”[/color] she said, raising a hand to shield her eyes to take it in before shaking her head at the nonsense of it all, simply calling it [color=Aquamarine]”Ridiculous”[/color] and then moving on with her life

She took the short break. They had to pull her mask off again and then take a few moments to try and dust herself down to clear off the, well, dust. This cleaning wasn't helped by her Wolfos shaking itself clean like a wet dog, sending sand flying everywhere much to the annoyance of anyone nearby.

After that break/recovery period it was time to move on. They ascended up towards the snowline, passing by nothing but a few critters of little interest to anyone who wasn't a Pokemon trainer who could see the hidden potential/collection value in the various shrews, snakes and weird mole things. If they had had one, Midna might have been interested in the future blade handed hedgehogs, shotgun snakes and weird mole things but now in a triple pack. But there wasn't so she ignored them.  Meanwhile the big slightly goofy bunnies that were at their max potential already, and who could have been a nuisance if they wanted, clearly didn't have any interest in risking life and limb in trying to shoo these invaders of their territory away.

A most wise decision considering Midna was having to hold back her Wolfos mount’s natural instincts to go chasing after all these critters with some very stern words and forehead chops.

Past those they climbed further and further  till they reached the beginnings of the snow, the world turning cool in the daylight for the first time since they set off, and found their way blocked first by a vast cliff and then, upon finding what might be a way though, by the most massive bear you ever did see.

[color=Aquamarine]”Goddesses, but he is”[/color] Midna agreed with Skull at the sheer size of said bear.

Once they were done marveling at the bear some fearless fools decided to give it a bit of a bit of  poking, prodding and yelling in the year to try and wake it up. Unfortunately it seemed like if it didn't threaten the bear, then said bear was happy to simply snooze through whatever they were doing too or around it. Sora and Minamoto started arguing about whether they should fight it or go around it, both poor plans in Midna’s eyes, while Razputin suggested petting it awake.

[color=Aquamarine]”I mean that’d be better than stabbing the big thing, but I’m not sure if you can wake it up with pleasantness. Not that I think it will hurt to have it in a lax mood if my idea works out”[/color] she says, while adding her own large magic hand to the mix. Rather than going in to pet the bear however, this one was delicately holding the biggest leaf she could find (inspired by how said snoot sniffled when the leaves blew by naturally) between its thumb and index finger, which she proceeded to use like a feather to tickle the bear’s snoot.

[color=Aquamarine]”You try and keep it calm with some petting, while I give this nose a little tickle, and we’ll see what happens”[/color] She said, casually putting the boy in the line of fire if things went wrong with her plan.