[center][h1][b][color=violet]Clarissa Ryte[/color][/b][/h1] [h3][i]Route 4, Evig[/i][/h3][/center] [quote]“Clarissa, are you alright?” He asked quietly.[/quote] The sore psychic would give a silent 'thumbs up' gesutre to Valerian's quiet inquiry about her current state of affairs. Even so, Jotaro, Sir Lopsalot, and the brave little trashbag had finally finished helping her sit up, and for what it was worth she would look over to them with a rather small smile temporarily appearing for a flash of a moment as she ruffled each of their heads with a free hand. Not that the Igglybuff hadn't laughed at the scene first to her recollection, but all the same he'd still come to help in the end at least. Yet by the time she pulled herself up to stand, and took the offered hand by Nils with a thankful nod, Amelia had presented herself while a Mimikyu held the now seemingly a bit confused little troublemaker in its entrapping and shadowy grip. [quote]"I'm sorry about Phantump. I know he meant no harm but I think scaring you like that while you were recovering from your earlier fall. I hope you can forgive him." Said Phantump, still trapped, looked between everyone, clearly confused on what it had done wrong. No one got hurt so all should be fine, right?[/quote] The wince the girl made at Valerian's words, however, wasn't fully lost on her either. Even so, the psychic let Vivian talk first, mostly as she'd been the primary target, and aside from accepting the smaller girl's apology the clumsy-seeming girl did offer to go with them to the ruins. Indeed, that was something she'd been hoping to bring up as well! So it seemed those interests aligned, even as Amelia piped in with her own interest as well to boot as her face (thankfully) brightened back up before Clarissa's very eyes on the topic. [color=violet]"Agreed. We should find a good place to camp for the night. I'd like to go to the ruins as well, perhaps even discover and catch some new Pokemon there as well if we can."[/color] She'd then somewhat awkwardly tried to put a reassuring hand on Amelia's shoulder, at least for a moment for the girl to notice, before they left for the ruins proper it would seem. [center][h3][i]Ruins, Route 4, Evig[/i][/h3][/center] [quote]Dilapidated clay buildings worn down by time covered in green moss loomed over them. Some of them barely had any walls or even a ceiling and some were just a singular column either standing or broken with a jagged end pointing up to the sky like spears. There was a stillness to them, a reminder that whatever this was long ago, was now a fragment of a time long forgotten by history and the people of this region. A stillness that came from a lack of life. Well, that was not entirely true. As they walked through the ruins, they would see bits of walls with strange markings pop off from the wall and float before a shadowy figure emerged from the slab. They would look at them curiously before meandering to haunt these ruins though some of them took a special interest in Amelia, floating around her with great focus.Dilapidated clay buildings worn down by time covered in green moss loomed over them. Some of them barely had any walls or even a ceiling and some were just a singular column either standing or broken with a jagged end pointing up to the sky like spears. There was a stillness to them, a reminder that whatever this was long ago, was now a fragment of a time long forgotten by history and the people of this region. A stillness that came from a lack of life.[/quote] Clarissa almost drug behind the group near the back as they moved along, letting her hands trace gently over the worn edges of time-worn walls, her fingers dance over the feeling of spear-like columns as she traced them up toward the skies above, and her eyes soak in the moss-covered clay corners that had once housed presumably the ancient people of Evig. Even her powers seemed to gently wake up somewhat in a place such as this, the dance of life and the movement of Pokemon hidden from view at first but becoming more and more present as they moved along. Especially so for Amelia, it seemed, who seemed to draw the attention of ghostly Pokemon that their Rotom Dexes would call out the entries of upon first sighting. Yet with it all in mind, the psychic felt a thrum of....[b]history[/b] from this place that spoke to something deeper inside of herself. Something familiar, and yet also totally alien to her at the same time. A bit sad and yet more deeply fascinating at the same time. She couldn't quite put a finger on it all, nor find a word that encapsulated the sensations running through her body and mind as they moved along. Even the eventual stop where Connor and Sabine were, and their comments about Frankie, were secondary to the psychic's primary focus on the ruins around them. Even more so... [quote]As they continued to explore the ruins though she would enter what she would assume to be the middle and there would find a strange sight. Various walls towering over some of the ruined buildings with strange glyphs and runes she had never seen before even in her own history books though perhaps what was odder were the walls themselves. They were black with an impossible smoothness and sheen, reflecting daylight like the most perfect mirrors.[/quote] [i]If the weathered clay could tell stories, then what kind of stories would these ancient walls and floors and such tell them? Of lives and lights, and eyes that shined with hope like gleaming gem? Would they sing of lives and tales and families far gone, and of things left forgotten under the light of new dawn? Would they whisper of footsteps taken in trepidation at the start of new journeys, or last breaths taken and of tender mercies? And if the sheen of these mirror-like engravings were lone' left to tell, then what did they hold of times and things that once befell?[/i] Yet before the mirror's sheen of the ancient wall, here at the center of it all, the psychic felt her breath catch in her throat for but a moment and would stop before her own reflection and the captured light of this lovely day in the impossibly smooth contours of the ancient stone. Or, well, she presumed it was some kind of impossibly-wrought stone on first glance at least. Even so, the seemingly inhuman quality of its held a sort of innate beauty of its own perhaps. Still, Clarissa felt she'd let her fascination run its course before trying to catch some Pokemon. She was interested in a Yamask and a Baltoy at least, though if any others appeared she hoped to see them while they were they. Er, if they could. Not just for the Pokedex either, really, but...well, she was a bit curious what might live in an ancient place like this. Even Sir Lopsalot and Jotaro, who each sat on one of her shoulders, and Scrapper, as he walked along beside her in this case, seemed at least a bit curious about things around them in the meantime to boot for the moment being. Then with a gentle and careful touch, the psychic would reach out to touch the mirrored wall with her right hand, to use her fingers to gently trace glyph and rune and relaxing her powers just a little to see if she could get any sort of 'feeling' from the wall or surrounding area. Just a small exertion of her powers, nothing obvious or visible she'd hope, though Clarissa had no clue if the wandering Pokemon like Baltoy or Yamask would pick up on it as they had done with Amelia's own seemingly innate psychic abilities. In any case, she wasn't thinking too hard on the matter aside from Kapoc's warning in the back of her mind to avoid revealing things if she could. [b][Clarissa feels fascinated with the ruins as they go along; she is also touching and tracing the runes and glyphs on the Mirrored Wall wioth her right hand fingers while letting her powers reach out a little bit to get a feel of the wall and the area as she does so. She is trying not to be obvious or show her hand, as Kapoc warned her of, but has no idea if local Pokemon or such might react to it all (or the wall for that matter)][/b] [@Remram][@Shazamrock][@Joshua Tamashii][@Azure Bubbles][@Goggy] [hider=Current Pokemon/Money/Items] [b]Current/Active Team Pokemon[/b]: [list] [*]Sir Lopsalot - Buneary - Male - Level 7 - Full HP [*]Scrapper - Trubbish - Male - Level 6 - Full HP [*]Jotaro - Igglybuff (Evig Form) - Male - Level 5 - Full HP [*]Pyrite - Roggenrola - Male - Level 5 - Full HP [*] [*] [/list] [b]Pokedollars[/b]: 500 [b]Items[/b]: [list] [*]Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes [*]Good Rod [*]Potion x3 [*]Pokeballs x7 [*]Antidote x2 [/list] [hider=Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far] [list] [*]Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) - [quote]And now everything had come to a still. It was funny, after an intense battle the only thing that was left was the peaceful sound of silence. As they went to pick up their Pokeballs, there was something that they had not noticed that under any other circumstances they should have been aware of as soon as they entered this chamber were not for the fact that they were on a rescue mission: there was a mural of the region of Evig painted on one of the walls though it was incomplete, the entire southern region and parts the western landmass were simply not there There were several things odd about it, but what was odd were the symbols on them: a flower near Florasong, a sundial near Starbor, and a crown in the Jormun Trench. Yes, many things to ponder about...[/quote] [*]Video of Clarissa, Nils, the punk kid, and Dudley the Detective leaving the Pokemon Den in Hidden Cavern and leaving back to the Grand Glory Sewers, ending on a shot of the hole gown down from the sewers to the Hidden Cavern. [*][hider=Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern] [quote][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/89/b2/b289b2fdb48046563f15c04cf37cacf0.jpg[/img][/center] An ethereal glow hung in air literally lighting the enclosed space of red rock with a blueish hue. There was an energy about it, something that resonated through the air though what it was was hard to say. It was a vast network of tunnels, an eerily quiet space where even the slightest sound bounced off the walls. There was no doubt that this place had not been touched by human hands, if it was even known by the inhabitants of the city above. A fragment of another time from long ago, isolated and forgotten. However, those who found themselves in this strange network of tunnels would quickly find that they were not alone. As expected of a place located deep underground, there were a litany of Pokemon that made their homes here. Armored little creatures scuttled around, looking for iron ore and other bits of metallic minerals they can get their mouths on.[/quote] Going for her Rotom Phone, Clarissa would have it film the appearaance of the place and the Pokemon she could see there, including a proper look back at the tunnel that had led her there. Then she had the camera turn to herself for a moment, then, speaking clearly for the camera and gesturing to the lighting and features. [color=violet]"This cave system seems to sit underneath the Grand Glory Sewers, which might explain the presence of Aron down here eating at the pipework in the sewers above. I came down here through a tunnel the Pokemon here dug up at an angle into the sewer system, with them seeking more food I believe, while seeking whatever Pokemon is making the crying noise people have heard down here before. I don't know how far the tunnels go, or if there are more connections to the sewers, but....this place is...beautiful, I believe, in its own way."[/color] Untouched by human hands, thriving with life of its own, and yet part of her felt enthralled to simply look about the underground cavern of sorts. Still, before she ended the video, Clarissa looked back at the camera of her Rotom Phone again. [color=violet]"And Nils, if you are watching this, I'm sending this to let you know it's seeminglly safe to come down as well if you wish. But we might need to eventually go back for some potions and other supplies if this place goes deep enough. I'm heading deeper in to explore in the meantime. I'll try to keep in touch."[/color] [/hider] [*] [/list] [/hider] [/hider]