[center][h1][color=F27357][i]Nils[/i][/color][/h1][color=#2E2C2C]_[/color][color=#3B302E]_[/color][color=#483531]_[/color][color=#553A34]_[/color][color=#623E37]_[/color][color=#6F433A]_[/color][color=#7C483D]_[/color][color=#894D40]_[/color][color=#965142]_[/color][color=#A35645]_[/color][color=#B05B48]_[/color][color=#BD604B]_[/color][color=#CA644E]_[/color][color=#D76951]_[/color][color=#E46E54]_[/color][color=#F17356]_[/color][color=#E46E54]_[/color][color=#D76951]_[/color][color=#CA644E]_[/color][color=#BD604B]_[/color][color=#B05B48]_[/color][color=#A35645]_[/color][color=#965142]_[/color][color=#894D40]_[/color][color=#7C483D]_[/color][color=#6F433A]_[/color][color=#623E37]_[/color][color=#553A34]_[/color][color=#483531]_[/color][color=#3B302E]_[/color]
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[hider=Inventory][b]2500p[/b]
Pokeballs [color=C0C0C0]x8[/color]

[b]Key Items:[/b]
Camping Supplies
Dudley's Business Card
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[b][u]Tors[/u][/b]
Species: Mudbray ♂
Type: Ground
Level: 7
Status: [color=00C728]Healthy[/color]
Ability: Stamina
Moves: Mud-Slap, Rock Smash, 
Iron Defense, Smack Down*
Held Item: --[/cell][cell][img]https://i.imgur.com/zk36tW1.png[/img]
[b][u]Rau[/u][/b]
Species: A-Rattata ♂
Type: Dark/Normal
Level: 6
Status: [color=00C728]Healthy[/color]
Ability: Hustle
Moves: 
Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack
Held Item: --[/cell][cell][img]https://i.imgur.com/11Z93yO.png[/img]
( TBD )
Species: Aron ♀
Type: Steel/Rock
Level: 5
Status: [color=FFA500]Hurt[/color]
Ability: Sturdy
Moves: 
Tackle, Harden, Metal Claw
Held Item: --[/cell][/row][/table][hider=In the PC]None yet.[/hider]
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[color=F27357][b]Location[/b]:[/color] Grand Glory City: Sewers[/center][hr]
The more Nils heard from Detective Dudley's mouth, the more he felt this guy was not really a threat. While appearances could easily be deceiving, and the spoken words could just as easily be lies as they were truth, Nils just didn't get the sense that the man was deceiving him. [i]This is just really sad,[/i] Nils thought as Dudley continued. He slipped the business card into his pocket and somewhat awkwardly listened to the rest of the story, concluding with the man's destitute situation and the rhetorical question.

[color=F27357]"I guess not,"[/color] Nils answered. It was definitely weird to find other people traipsing around in the sewers after all. As for the detective, Nils judged his earlier self-disparaging comment to be right: the guy was a weirdo, but not the creepy dangerous kind. 

The other part of the story, before Dudley had just started talking about how awful his life currently was (Nils felt bad for him but there wasn't much he could for him), was what most caught the newbie trainer's attention. Assuming that the detective wasn't lying, then there was a string of disappearances in Grand Glory City. Kidnappings, or something else...? And why the heck would a sewer be the last place a rich kid had been seen before going missing?

Nils crossed his arms as he closed his eyes to think about the situation. At the same time Tors had apparently decided that Dudley wasn't too dangerous to help out of the waste water, and reached his neck out for that purpose. Once the detective got close enough he'd chomp onto the nearest unsullied part of the man's outfit to haul him back onto the platform.

A missing kid and their pokemon, the last place they were known to have been being in the sewers under the city... and not only them, but a trend of missing people and pokemon... Hmmm... Had they all just happened to get lost playing around down here...? Were they brought to this place, or perhaps lured...?

[quote=Detective Dudley][color=#a1f542]"Actually, you wouldn't have seen anything would you?"[/color][/quote]
Nils opened his eyes to look at the man and shook his head. [color=F27357]"No, we've only seen local pokemon so far. Besides, well, finding [i]you[/i], nothing weird happened other than running into that tunnel when... we were following that... crying noise..."[/color]

The boy trailed off, his eyes growing large as he heard his own words. That crying sound! If they really thought about it, how could it be heard on the surface from all the way down beneath the city with all of the earth, metal, and concrete in the way? Before Nils had been of the same mind as Clarissa and that there was some sad pokemon making the noise, but with what he knew now it cast the crying in a much more suspicious light. If other kids had followed that crying noise down here too, then... wasn't it possible that's how they disappeared?! 

Which meant that Nils definitely shouldn't have let Clarissa go on by herself. Maybe that message she'd tried to send was some kind of warning, or an SOS, and she was in trouble!

[color=F27357]"Tors, return!"[/color] Nils suddenly exclaimed as he turned and bolted back the way they'd come. The mudbray was recalled to his pokeball, and in his place Nils released Rau. The Rattata didn't let any confusion at the situation stop him from keeping up with his trainer, and then swiftly obeying his orders as he bid the pokemon, [color=F27357]"run ahead and down that tunnel, go find Clarissa!"[/color]

Far faster than a human, the pokemon was out of sight within a few seconds. Nils didn't look back at Dudley but he assumed the man would follow after him, especially when he shouted to the man, [color=F27357]"it could be nothing, but we might have found your lead, detective!"[/color]

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