[@Pirouette] The man smiled and rose as well, and assuming that was in order to shake his hand, he took and shook her hand. ‘To ten more, haha.’ ‘Until next time, then!’ he waved her good bye as she and Sno departed. She sent her messages to the others, asking them to convene on Route 13… [color=db845c]‘ON OUR WAY’[/color] Maple answered basically instantly. [color=decdad]‘We’ll be there soon. Joshua is in the middle of coordinating right now so he can probably not answer,’[/color] Ewan wrote her back. [color=668570]‘im in the midle of cordinating right now but ill be there soon ’[/color] Joshua replied soon after. [color=507173]‘Dear Erika,’[/color] Ellyn started her message. [color=507173]‘On account that Maple has dragged me all the way to Route 9 and that we’re in front of Cooldome City right now we’ll probably not be able to join you, regardless of what Maple just wrote. I hope you can enjoy whatever next adventure you’re embarking on without us.’[/color] She’d written rather eloquently… [color=db845c]‘NVM ELLYN, WE ARE COMING’[/color] Maple sent moments after Ellyn’s message. [color=507173]‘I was just dragged all the way from Worldedge City to Cooldome City, I am not going to be dragged all the way back again. Disregard Maple.’[/color] Ellyn wrote to Erika. [color=db845c]‘WE ARE HIRING A FREECAPE FERRYMAN FOR ELLYN’[/color] Maple sent to Erika a fraction of a second later [color=507173]‘Miss Maple has forgotten she spent all her money,’[/color] Ellyn wrote. [color=db845c]‘JUST WAIT RIGHT THERE, WE’LL BE THERE’[/color] [color=507173]‘We will not.’[/color] And those were the last messages Erika got from them for now. With that, Erika was able to head back to the route of the endless night, Route 13. [hider][center][h2]Route 13[/h2] [url=https://i.imgur.com/nAUNgij.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/nAUNgij.jpg[/img][/url] [sub][sub][sub]No cat people, sorry.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/center] Route 13 is the route between Worldedge City and Bigfjord City, it is known as the route on which it is always night. Why, exactly, is it always night? The reason escapes proper explanation, but it is as if the very energy of the sun is being sucked away when it enters this area. Instead there are dark clouds, which all habitually strike at the Power Station located in the north-east of the route. The result is that this grassy plain of otherwise unremarkable characteristics is masked by a constant shroud of darkness that is never going away, and it is charged with the electricity of the many wind turbines spread across the route as well as the Power Station itself. Many man-made machines lie around this route, powered by electricity, and there’s also many hiding places should you want to hide. The route has numerous darkness-dwelling birds, Hoothoot and Murkrow being the most common. There’s also Bunnelbys and Meowths, stalking around. However, inspired by the electricity around, some electric Pokémon have been drawn to these plains, even during the night, like Electrike and Shinx. As mentioned, the Power Station lies mildly ominously to the north-east, lightning strikes blasting it through the darkness with unnerving frequency, but in the south on a cliff lifted by the beginning of Mt. Strength also carries the Private Palace, owned by perhaps the richest man in Isson. It is said he has Pokémon in his garden that he allows people to catch if they were to go there.[/hider] [hider=Suggestions to actions]1. Find Pokémon. [i]Can be specified what kind of Pokémon is being searched for, and how you search.[/i] 2. Train Pokémon. [i]With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding.[/i] 3. Seek trainers. [i]Seek out trainers and battle them.[/i] 4. Talk. [i]See if they can answer whatever questions you want answered.[/i] 5. Move along. [i]Move along normally, letting any events that may come happen naturally.[/i] 6. Hurry along. [i]Intentionally avoid confrontations and try to get safely to the next destination.[/i] 7. Specify. [i]If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result.[/i] 8. Trigger random event. [i]Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you.[/i] 9. Go Camping. [i]Where would be a better place to sleep than the place where it’s always night? Well, according to popular consensus, anyway.[/i][/hider] [i]Connected areas: [/i] Route 12. [i]To the west stretches a long patch of gentle grassland and tall cliffs.[/i] Route 10. [i]To the east, past Worldedge City, are the farmlands where Psychic Pokémon do the farming.[/i] Power Station. [i]The source of Isson’s electricity stands to the north of Route 13.[/i] Private Palace. [i]To the south of Route 13 stands the home of the richest man in Isson. Care to visit?[/i] Bigfjord City. [i]To the north-west, the gigantic city known for its dark sky-scrapers rises tall.[/i] Worldedge City. [i]The mystical capital of Isson hangs in the air around Mt. Edge.[/i] [hider=Route 13, known Pokémon]Common: #52 Meowth #163 Hoothoot #198 Murkrow #309 Electrike Uncommon: #403 Shinx #431 Glameow #659 Bunnelby Rare: [/hider] What will she do here? She would have time for a regular post action before they came. Albeit, if she just waited long enough. Eventually, the two boys Erika befriended appeared before her… [hider=Joshua][url=http://i.imgur.com/h6d9fcG.jpg][img]http://i.imgur.com/H8RAtFr.jpg[/img][/url][/hider] [hider=Ewan][url=http://i.imgur.com/6N9jlim.jpg][img]http://i.imgur.com/TbQ3Nbt.png[/img][/url][/hider] Joshua had a new Pokémon walking behind him. A pink, quadruped creature with a gem on its forehead. [center][url=https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Espeon_(Pok%C3%A9mon)][img]https://i.imgur.com/6VLtl0S.png[/img][/url] [color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #196 – Espeon, the Sun Pokémon. Born from an Eevee who felt immense loyalty to its trainer, it developed Psychic powers to protect its trainer. Its skin has a texture like velvet, and it is so sensitive it can use it to predict the weather and the opponent’s next move. As its gem is bathed in sunlight, it charges its Psychic power which it uses to sense the future and the thoughts of others.[/i][/color][/center] [color=668570]‘I’m delighted to see you once again, fair Erika!’[/color] Joshua twirled around and extended a hand towards her, as if presenting her, not for her to grab. [color=668570]‘Please forgive the poor penmanship of my message, but I was in the middle of something…!’[/color] he presented, calling out happily. The Espeon looked amused behind him. [color=decdad]‘He was in the middle of coordinating an elaborate contest performance that involved his Eevee evolving mid-performance, when suddenly he just pauses, says “sorry, gotta answer this”, and replies to your text-message in the middle of everything. I could not believe my eyes,’[/color] Ewan shook his head. [color=668570]‘Ah, but it was but practice! A practice performance, before the real deal! After all, winning or losing does not matter in Contest Clarity!’[/color] Joshua protested. [color=668570]‘As it was, replying to my dear friend was more important!’[/color] [color=decdad]‘Unbelievable,’[/color] Ewan, despite sighing, still looked a bit amused by it all. [color=decdad]‘In any case. We did say we wanted to head for Power Station or Bigfjord City. What did you think?’[/color] Ewan asked Erika. … No sign of Maple and Ellyn yet. What would Erika do? ________________________ [@Typical] The other party, trainer and Pokémon, did not seem like they realized what the Pokémon disguised as a Bagon was going through. Instead, focus went to the Glaceon, who was asked once more if they wanted to join Kaz’s team… the Glaceon had a little smug look in its eyes as it gave a couple small cries. For the Pokémon present, the cry translated to. [color=c1e4e2]‘[i]Come back to this very cave, alone, in exactly five days. Bring three Sitrus Berries. Put one of them on the ground and hold the other two in each hand. Then give me your best impression of a Glalie. If you manage that, I’ll come with you.[/i]’[/color] Kaz recoiled a bit, blinking at the Glaceon. [color=98684D]‘Er… I mean…’[/color] his gaze briefly flashed towards Eryn and her Pokémon and then turned to his own Pokémon. [color=98684D]‘Did you guys get that?’[/color] What followed was all five of them nodding, then, Klefki pretending to be an analog clock, spinning around the keys as if they were the hands the equivalent of five days, with Skrelp helpfully pretending to fall asleep and then wake up every other spin of the long key-hand. Gourgeist shot out three Bullet Seeds, caught them, and then placed one on the ground and held the other two in each of its hair-hands, while Golduck went up to Kaz, intruded into his bag much to Kaz’s surprise, and then lifted up a Sitrus Berry from it and pointed at the various Bullet Seeds. Finally, Heracross, giving its absolutely best cry to mimic a Glalie, that looked more like a Heracross making an angry Heracross impression. Kaz looked at his party thoughtfully. [color=98684D]‘I have no idea what you guys are doing,’[/color] he declared, and his five party-members collectively collapsed on their spots. [color=98684D]‘… But that does mean there was something Glaceon said, right?’[/color] he confirmed, and his Pokémon looked up and all nodded together. [color=98684D]‘That means, I just need to figure out what you all are trying to tell me, and then I’ll come back!’[/color] he declared, and pointed back at Glaceon. [color=98684D]‘Count on it! I’ll be back in… a couple days!’[/color] Kaz declared, grinning! The Glaceon, apparently satisfied, spun around and leapt for one of the two exits, walking out of the room. [color=98684D]‘Alright! There we go!’[/color] Kaz grinned, and then spun back to Eryn. [color=98684D]‘Alright, as for you… would you like to be lifted back up?’[/color] he asked, making a thumb-motion at the icy slide back to where she had slid down from. The options would be to try to find an alternative way up through one of the two other exits out of this room. What will Eryn and co do? [hider=Frozen Cave][center][h3]Frozen Cave[/h3][/center] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/3E58zVV.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/3E58zVVh.jpg[/img][/url][/center] The tunnels of the Frozen Cave are a series of pathways inside, and above, the mountain range surrounding Cooldome City and Route 9. In various places the signs of construction are evident, as people attempted to tame the caverns, but ultimately to no avail. There are quite a few paths that lead down through icy halls where only the frozen walls are your companions, but an equal amount lead in over the mountainside with the open sky above and a constant snowfall. Ice sticks out like crystals, forming both the path that one may walk on as well as the scenery one might be awed by. The icy nature here is untamed and wild. Compared to the calm coolness of the mines, here the cold feels substantially more hostile. Any trainer heading through here must beware or they will slip, and not all paths one can slip down have access to easy paths back up. Cold blows eternally from above and below. Many ice-Pokémon make their home here, and quite a few of them are at least somewhat aggressive in nature. All of this caused these caves to once be judged to be a great challenge, and any Pokémon Trainer that is able to brave them is worthy of the battle-focused city of Cooldome City that awaits on the other side… Albeit, most people who make their way to Cooldome City does so by the far safer Tunnel on the eastern side instead.[/hider] [hider=Suggestions to actions]1. Find Pokémon. [i]Can be specified what kind of Pokémon is being searched for, and how you search.[/i] 2. Train Pokémon. [i]With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding.[/i] 3. Move back. [i]Go back to the Frozen Cave Mines, and to safety.[/i] 4. Proceed. [i]Delve deeper into the Frozen Cave, possibly seeking a destination.[/i] 4.1. Get through. [i]There is an exit on the other side of the Frozen Cave. You can attempt getting to it.[/i] 4.2. Descend. [i]It very much feels like you can descend lower and lower through these caves. What could await down there?[/i] 4.3. Ascend. [i]Besides down, it also feels like upwards could be a potential direction, climbing up through the various holes the snow and wind falls through.[/i] 5. Specify. [i]If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result.[/i] 6. Trigger random event. [i]Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you.[/i] 7. Kaz. [i]Does something, perhaps, feel off about what just happened in front of you?[/i] [/hider] [i]Connected areas: [/i] Frozen Cave, Mines. [i]At the entrance of the Frozen Cave.[/i] Route 9. [i]If you were to get all the way through.[/i] [hider=Frozen Cave, known Pokémon]Common: #41 Zubat #220 Swinub #361 Snorunt Uncommon: #215 Sneasel #225 Delibird #362 Glalie Rare: #471 Glaceon [/hider]