[center][h1][color=gold][u]Evelyn[/u][/color][/h1][/center]
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[b]Key Items:[/b]
[list][*]1x Rotom Phone Pokédex
[*]1x Pair of (Stylized) Work Gloves
[*]1x Solar-chargeable Flashlight
[*]Needle and Thread[/list]
[b]Consumables:[/b]
[list][*]Pokedollars: 1000p
[*]3x Potions
[*]3x Antidotes
[*]3x Paralyze Heals
[*]8x Pokeballs
[*]1x Leaf Stone
[*]3x Oran Berries[/list]
[b]Extras:[/b]
[list][*]
3x Small Mushrooms
[*]1x Big Mushroom
[*]An unspecified amount of extra clothes
[*]A fair few cosmetics, skin and haircare products, along with things like styling scissors, brushes, combs and even a nail file.
[*]Dental care products and items, like toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss, etc.[/list][/hider][/center]
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[b]On Hand:[/b]
[list][*]Joltik - Level 9, [color=lightgreen]Healthy[/color]
[*]Sentret - Level 7, [color=lightgreen]Healthy[/color]
[*]Growlithe - Level 7, [color=yellow]Bruised[/color]
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[b]In Storage:[/b]
[list][*]N/A[/list]
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Thus, the brave blonde girl and her menagerie of intrepud partners set off, into the great, wide, wild unknown! In search of a supposed exticnt but not really extinct pokemo, to protect it from the clutches of vil bug-eyed bug-maniacs, who'd probably just stick it in a jar and gawk at it all day if they got their grubby mitts on it. Go, Evelyn! Ride, Evelyn! For great justice and animal protectin-rights!

...

And then shit got real damn dark, real damn fast. What the hell!? Was this really a forest? It felt more like they were trying to traverse some kinda organic, plant-covered cave! The road was gone, replaced by a laughable excuse for a 'path', there were no other people, a thick-ass and completely unnecessary misty fog was rolling in, [b][i]and[/i][/b] there weere ledges and drops that would see you fall down into certain doom. Or at least broken limb territory. And good luck getting an abulance or medical chopper to find you in [b]this[/b] place!

Evelyn silently cursed under breath. She was [i]really[/i] starting to regret her decision. But, she'd come this far, and there was nothing for it but to press on. Growlithe hadn't stopped and barked at anything just yet, so whatever had made thsoes slashy scratches on the trees earlier hand't been found yet.

As the trio proceeded into the dark depths of the Starbur forest, they warily watched the wide variety of potentially vicisous worm-things that were ready to wallop them. Not to mention those cocoon things were just too damn creepy! Did they [i]really[/i] need eye sockets!? Joltik latched onto Sentret, who in turn hugged Joltik, while their heads kept turning form left to right and then back again. Meanwhile, the fire-pup was happily just sniffin' that ground, plotting along as if there wasn't anything amiss in the world.

They passed a bunch of little green spider pokemn too. [i]Hmph, those ones ain't got nothing on my Joltik.[/i] A certain internal commentary concluded.

But then, everything stopped. They came to a dark place with a lot of fog... But there was somehting in it. Barely visible. Evelyn squinted. Growlithe had, for the moment, stopped. Was that... It? Was that the legendary exticnt pok-[b]OHMYGODISTHATAFAWKIN'HUMANSKULL!?![/b]

Evelyn let out a sharp and girly '[i]AAaaaiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee![/i]', which caused Sentret and Joltik to leap inot the air and scamper around in a circle non-effectively, until they ran into each other and collapsed in a heap. Growlithe just raised his sniffer and looked athe distant, blurry, obscured thing, then shoved the snout back down into the ground.

[color=gold]"Wh-Wh-Wh-what... Why's there... Who... Wha... That's... How did... Who did... Huuuuuuh...?"[/color] A very pale-faced Eve was trying to come to terms with the decapitated skeletal remains ahead of her in the dark.

Thankfull, she came to terms with fast. Especially when it started glowing.

Wait.

It glows...?

... And then somehting skittered out of it.

Another [i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MNVcBsXis]AAaaaiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee[/url]/[/i]

As glowy eyes of disturbing doom suddenly stared at her from the bone-head...! Was this some kind of horror movie? Had she become the unfortunate protagonist of some splatter film, where she'd spend the next 1.5 hours running through a nmisty forest while being chased by a lunatic wearing a Swlowbro-mask and wielding a chainsaw!?

... Nope. 'Cuz her handy-dandy Rotom Phone suddenly spoke up.

... Apparently, it wasn't a skull. Just a pokemon. In the sahep of a skull.

Evelyn blinked and stared at the pokemon, who was now staring at her and her own pokemon.

[color=gold]"I... It's a pokemon...? Not a ... Something else... Oh, thank heavens..."[/color]

The strength left her legs, and she fell onto the damp ground with her knees together and legs sprawled out in a most indignant fashion. A giant wave of relief washed across her entire being. Thank the frikkin' fates she ahdn't just stumbled upon the remains of some poor, dead traveler who got lost in this damn forest. 'Cuz that woulda been a real bad omen for the blonde. She took a few deep breaths and managed to calm herself down, her pulse slowing back down, her heart stopping it's drum-like palpitations and the color slowly returning to her sheet-white face. Sentret and Joltik had also calmed down, a bit.

[color=gold]"Is... Is this it though? A spinerak with a different body-shape? I... I guess? It was being sought after by those bug-fanatics... Maybe they go crazy over weird little irregularities like this?"[/color] She tried to grasp and rationalize the situation. To nobody except herself, of course.

Sentret stayed still, looking at the skull-spider. Joltik though, leapt off his brown-furred friend and slowly approached, tilting his head from side to side and chittering curiously at the other creature. This was,a fter all, a sort of... Cousin(?) to it. Well, at least as far as subspecies were concerned. For now though, Eve was happy enough to keep staying on the ground and calming down for a bit. She'd probably be in an outrage once she got up and noticed any grass or dirt-stains on her clothes, but that was an issue for Future-Eve to deal with.

[b][u]Evelyn is recovering from nearly fainting from the sight of human-skull-shaped pokemon. Growlithe continues to sniff the ground in search of "The Extinct" pokemon. Sentret is keeping an eye on the Skull-spinerak. Joltik is curiously investigating the Skull-spinerak.[/u][/b]