Crusader Lord

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

Route 4, Evig

“Clarissa, are you alright?” He asked quietly.

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.

"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?

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.

"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."

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.

Ruins, Route 4, Evig

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.

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....history 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...

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.

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?

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.

[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)]

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii@Azure Bubbles@Goggy

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current/Active Team Pokemon:

• 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

Pokedollars: 500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Good Rod
• Potion x3
• Pokeballs x7
• Antidote x2

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

Route 4, Evig

Clarissa introduced herself to him awkwardly. "Sup, call me Frankie." He responded calmly, understanding that this was certainly a weird looking situation.

The Great Stick Poker Of 2025

Well, he seemed calm enough about the situation. Not that it was anything but an odd one to say the least. But why had he been poking her with a stick though? Really? Then again perhaps-

The girl in question emits a small groan from the dirt, "Ouugh... My head hurts... Why do I always trip..." she mutters as she was slowly helped off the ground, her eyes blurry as she recovered from the tumble she had took, looking at the gathered group of people before glancing at Clarissa, "Uh... Sorry, where- Oh, right! Thanks, yeah, I'm f-"

The Walking Disaster & Scare Victim

Ah! The psychic let out a small sigh of relief. Clarissa was glad the girl seemed to have enough of her senses about her, for the time being, but at the same time the psychic felt something from her powers...as if it was moving closer to them? A presence that is. Well that seemed odd enough. A similar feeling came from the old ruins she could see afar, but right here with them? Maybe-

TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Frightening And Most Tumpy One Of Them All

It took her but glancing up at the right moment (as old instincts admittedly kicked in)for the mischevious Phantump to appear, Amelia's it would seem, out of nowhere before shouting at the top of its little ethereal lungs in the once dirt-bound girl's ear. Consequently the shout would ring in the unfortunate psychic's ears as well, even as her grip on Vivian suddenly grew much tighter at the sudden attempt by the poor startled girl to rip herself free of her hands. It was, however, enough to yank the psychic forward with Vivian for a moment, at least before the grip she had on the other girl was ultimately broken (as it would be), and once detached from Vivian cause the former Orre girl to trip in turn over one of Vivian's feet as the other girl herself fell back over the once again comically-placed Wooper.

And then suddenly a number of things seemed to happen all at once to boot.

As two of Vivian's Pokemon erupted out of their Pokeballs to defend their trainer, one more proactively than the other, Clarissa hurtled into the ground with all the weight of her things on her back to help carry her. As the sudden new Scraggy entering the fray moved to block Atlas' punch, before the re-downed girl recalled him back again in kind, Sir Lopsalot would attempt to move into place to catch his falling trainer without a second thought...but it was too late. As her body somewhat twisted sideways due to the weight of her things on her back, the same weight that made stopping herself after Vivian broke free a bit less feasible than she'd have liked, the psychic would promptly hit the ground with a decently loud enough 'thud' as her little Buneary barely avoided getting turned into a small but adorable pancake.

In turn, two of Clarissa's Pokeballs would open on their own as two Pokemon shimmered into existence about her while Sir Lopsalot finished running over to where her head now lied after she'd ultimately fallen down on her left side. The first was something that looked like a literal sentient walking trashbag, but overall was just a little guy, a smaller fella' of a Pokemon who seemed to panic just a touch at the situation while also eyeing the Phantump back while his two little fists were held up as if he was...willing to fight despite himself? Huh. Meanwhile, the second Pokemon that emerged looked like a peculiar orange Igglybuff with feathers tinted with ember-like colors on its head instead of the trademark 'puff' of their Kantonian cousins. He would appear standing on the side of the downed Clarissa's backpack suitcase in kind, looking down to the side at her, at the downed Vivian, and then let out a tiny giggle before looking back up at the Phantump as if it could barely contain its amusement and laughter.

"Bffff...Bu...BUFF! Buff....iggly iggly iggly. Buff."

It eventually let out a notable laugh of its own at the scene, before seeming to make a critique to it in whatever language Pokemon species had been made to speak in for Arceus' sake. It was enough, however, to get Sir Lopsalot to look at him and put his tiny hands on his hips. Then as the two of them began to chat, the little walking trash bag with arms would also chirp in.

"Bun! Bun bun!"

"Buff buff. Iggly!"

"Bish? Trub trub trub trub trub. Bish bish."

"Buff? Buff buff, iggly."

"Bun."

"Trub!"

"Buuuuuufffff....buff."

Whatever conversation had just gone down, the odd Igglybuff would glance back at the psychic's face for a few silent moments before he let out his own little sigh of exasperation and Sir Lopsalot crossed his arms. The Igglybuff would then get down from Clarissa, albeit not before sticking his tongue out at Sir Lopsalot for what it was worth, and try to help the other two try to sit Clarissa back up at the very least. Or...well, they were trying to do so as best as they could, bless their little hearts, at the very least.

"Hmmpidhsthmm...."

A small murmuring of incomprehensible grumbling barely came from Clarissa's lips as she let her Pokemon try to help her sit up again, albeit she was slow to frankly join them as she eventually would try to sit up again (albeit slowly enough after the impact). Wasn't her first fall, and it surely wasn't going to be her last either, in the span of her lifetime. But in her mind, at least, she'd managed to hold back an outburst from her powers or voice alike at the last second, albeit that had come at the cost of not paying enough attention to catching herself in the fall.

Er, not that the sudden sideways turn of her fall had made it very viable either to catch herself, but it is what it was in any case. Yet the soreness emanating from the side of her head, left hip, and left arm for the moment being anyways as far as she could tell were benign enough. This, however, came second...even as her eyes looked at her right ankle and a small sigh of actual relief escaped as it didn't seemed to feel or be twisted as she rolled her right foot a little to check it out.

'Good'

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii@Azure Bubbles@Goggy

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current/Active Team Pokemon:

• 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

Pokedollars: 500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Good Rod
• Potion x3
• Pokeballs x7
• Antidote x2

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

Lobby, Pokemon Center, Grand Glory City

Clarissa would be able to easily pick up on the palpable fear that came off the child who needed a couple of seconds to calm down, her grip on Mimikyu tightening until the Ghost let out a cry of discomfort. Once she was calm enough, Amelia turned towards the older trainers, her gaze on the as she spoke in a quiet voice.
"Um... I... I don't care where we go but um... would it be... would it be okay if we avoid Florasong? Please? I... I can't... I can't go there yet."

It didn't take psychic powers to see Amelia somewhat mildly freak out a bit at the mere mention of the town of Florasong...but why? Was it her hometown? Had something bad happened to her there? In any case she seemed to be trying to calm down, if nothing else, and feeling a pang of empathy that nearly made her wince Clarissa would turn to the younger girl and get on one knee down to her level. She would attempt to put some kind of reassuring hand on the smaller girl's shoulder as well, even if a bit awkwardly from the looks of it on her own end of things at least, before glancing over to the two boys for a moment (trying to to catch their eyes) and then looking back at Amelia again. At the same time, the new trainer was trying to keep herself in her usual more stoic state of appearance...not the best synergy, she figued, but her tone was at least calm as she'd move on to speak to the other girl.

"We can avoid Florasong for the time being. That won't be a problem."

She hoped. She really hoped. Because reflexively she was saying this to try to comfort Amelia. But Nils didn't seem to be the brash sort to throw such anxieties of another aside, at least, and Valerian-...er, she had no idea for the time being. Better to not let him handle sensitive situations from the sounds of it, though, given what she'd heard of him so far. Would need to see how he was on the road moving forward otherwise to get a better idea of him.

Route 4, Evig

Well, the visit to the Pokemart had been an...interesting one at the very least. Maybe. Or it had the potential to be her worst possible decision making time period as of yet in her entire life. Because before her trip she'd been prepared, ready, set to start, gone over ideas of budgets, and her father had exhorted her to 'not worry too much about it' wile her mother had been a bit more supportive (albeit encouraging her to relax a bit too for that matter). Yet at the Pokemart she had gone and...w-well...after some thinking....had s-splurged a little on something out of the blue?

...

...

...

The psychic walked along with the others onto Route 4, somewhat a little gloomier in the way she carried herself, her suitcase of supplies and such sitting on her back like a backpack now as they moved along. A hand was holding each shoulder-slung strap of the suitcase she carried as she walked along, yet on the outside of her suitcase now sat something new that had been strapped to the right side of it. Sticking up a bit like a mundane flagpole, all shiny and new and such like, was a brand new Good Rod she had purchased at the Pokemart. A fishing rod. A fishing rod...for someone who had only been fishing aboout as many times as she had fingers on one hand in the past with her father at Gateon Port a few times.

But the better the rod, she'd read up prior to becoming a trainer, the more and better the Pokemon it could catch...right? Right?! So it'd be good to, say, do a bit of fishing in the rivers and lakes and such along the way to find even more Pokemen then, yeah?

So technically yes, it had been an utter and total impulse buy, sure, leaving her with only 2000P left to her name and nearly causing her to panic in the shop over the matter. Almost. She'd frozen up a little bit on the fly, really, as the reality had hit her at the very least. Yet 1500P of that had then been at least enough for her to buy three Potions (900P), two Antidotes (200P), and two more Pokeballs (400P) before she'd almost run out of money altogether. She at least was replenishing her Potions, and in case of poisonous types on the way she'd bought Antidotes as a precaution, and she was only three Pokeballs down from where she'd started her journey thus far as well at least. But still...ugh! It was so...so stupidly frustrating! B-But the price was outrageous anyways, right? It was 5000P for a blasted fishing rod of all things?! At least the last 500P she'd managdd to keep ahold of for now...

"Bun. Bun bun."

Sir Lopsalot would somewhat consolingly pat her head with a gentle touch from where he sat on her right shoulder now, at least, as they all walked along. The rest of her Pokemon, then, sat in their Pokeballs neatly and properly in usual fashion. Though she had promised Amelia to let her see her new Pokemon, so perhaps once they made it somewhere else or settled in somewhere eventually for the night that'd be a good time to show her the others.

Arriving at the start of Route 4, though, the psychic let out a small sigh and brought her eyes up to look about the place. Get a lay of the land. The road was one thing, even if they couldn't use it, and the footpath seemed a fair bit more rough yet adventerous in comparison. It was a simple enough a path forward, then, it seemed, despite how much greenery and such was around them. To her it was almost alien to some extent, to see so much green and lively wildlife around. It felt almost familiar to Agate Village in a sense due to the amount of green here, though that place had its own...oh, what was the word? Mood? Scene? Energy to it?

There would certainly be a lot to see along the way, though, depending on what direction they took mooving forward along Route 4. Good. That was good. Clarissa would then take out her Pokedex to see if any info was availible about the Route and its Pokemon thus far, hopingto get an idea of things as it rattled off some nearby Pokemon to her as well, before the glint of something old and stone in the daylight caught her eye after a minute or two. Said eye-catching glint then caught her full attention sooner than later in turn, before she would in kind put up her Rotom dex in an inner coat pocket once more.

"Hmm. Could we perhaps explore those ruins over there first?" she said, her tone picking up again to its normal calm as she looked around at the others, pointing in the direction of the ruins, "If that is amenable enough for you-...all......eh?"

"...Bun?"

Also, for some reason there was a black-haired girl (@Goggy) face first on the ground with a Wooper also face first on the ground. A boy was crouched down poking her with a stick.

Why was someone face down in the dirt and being poked with a stick? Actually, scratch that, why was the boy poking her with a stick in the first place? And why was a Wooper there in the same ground-placed-face position to boot?

Walking over without another word, then, she hoped the rest of the group would maybe catch up as she approached the downed girl and Pokemon. The psychic would first try to help up the peculiar little Wooper on the ground, Sir Lopsalot hopping off her shoulder to assist her in doing so with care, before turning her attention to the boy with the stick and breifly looking at him for a moment. She'd then silently turn her attention to the downed black-haired girl (@Goggy) and trying to help her up now as well. Er, at least as best as she could if nothing else...and unless the girl panicked while she did so or something to push her away while trying to help her at least.

"Ah, hello there by the way. I'm Clarissa," she'd say, somewhat awkwardly trying to introduce herself to the boy as she moved to help the girl and would turn her attention to her in turn, "And are you ok, miss?"

(([UPDATED 12/5/25] Note For GM: Clarissa began withh 7000P, spent 5000P on a Good Rod, 900P on three Potions, 200P on two Antidotes, and then her last 400P on two Pokeballs. Thus her remaining cash is 500P.))

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii@Azure Bubbles@Goggy

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current/Active Team Pokemon:

• 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

Pokedollars: 500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Good Rod
• Potion x3
• Pokeballs x7
• Antidote x2

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

Lobby, Pokemon Center, Grand Glory City

A hot shower....a thing that had been rather soothing for the body and the mind in this case. She couldn't feel the sensation of eyes staring at her, couldn't hear or see lips whispering about her, nor frankly had she lost control of her powers such as to hear the thoughts of others at that. Likewise she'd return to pick up her clothes from the laundry while returning, fresh and clean and frankly another relief to her mind at this venture. Though she had to admit that the unexpected appearance of Amelia had led to some conversation, which was in hindsight something to get her mind more off her herself in the moment really, albeit she'd gotten to share the story of the past few-...hours, maybe? Something of the sort. Likewise it seemed Amelia hadn't been in a totally boring state of affairs either for that matter.

Yet returning to the front counter of the Pokemon center with the smaller girl in tow, now dressed in cleaned clothes and with her things back in order, the psychic would happily go to retrive her Pokemon back from Nurse Joy. Albeit she would do so with a touch of further and earnest apologizing for...er...the stink. Beyond that she would let the matter go with a bit of practiced, focused breathing for a moment. That all being noted, however, knowing her Pokemon were back in good condition was certianly a thing that put her mind at ease after the prior adventure they'd been through. Scrapper had been in the worst shape, Sir Lopsalot had been hanging on by a thin margin, and the rest had been a mess in one way or another.

She'd likewise visit the PCs, transferring some of her captured Pokemon to the Professor in the meantime and hoping he'd gotten her now clear video and apology text. Yet from here it would be a simple enough matter to look over and see Nils talking with the same pink-jacket boy she'd thought back to when Amelia had mentioned this "Valerian" she'd run into out there. Another one of the trainers from the Professor's lab, yes, she recognized him well enough now in that respect at least. Albeit he'd seemingly made a mess of things for the smaller girl....but she'd take Amelia's word that he was a good person at heart and so forth. Not that the Professor seemed the type to bring on sketchy people as trainers either.

Afterwards, though, Clarissa would glance about breifly once more, and then she would in kind turn again to Nurse Joy and ask a question as a certain sign in the center caught her attention.

"Ah, if I may ask, what is a Move Tutor? And do you know more about when they'll be back?"

...Look, you didn't grow up in a place with the most scare amount of Pokemon seemingly in the world without needing to ask some questions. She didn't want to sound stupid, but she was still new to things and hadn't read up on perfectly everything about being a trainer ahead of time. She was just one girl! Albeit it seemed like a good thing to know for the road if nothing else.

If or whenever she'd get her answer from the attending Nurse, she hoped, the psychic would then move to approach the two boys with an attempt at a casual wave to say 'hi' before making it too close to them.

"I think we're mostly ready to get some supplies and such before we hit the road, unless we wish to check out another part of the city or such before doing so as well," she said to Nils, with a side glance at Amelia out of concern in case the other girl didn't feel like such yet or had other business before they hit the road as well, before looking over to Valerian after a moment of silence, "Ah, you're from the Professor's Lab earlier as well, yes? A pleasure to meet you again. Will you be coming along with us?"

She'd extend a hand to shake, if this Valerian felt so inclined to accept it, as a polite greeting and goodwill gesture. Or at least she intended it that way if nothing else.

Earlier Clarissa had indeed tried to go and ask others to group up and travel, but only Amelia had seemingly responded at first before Nils had joined in and they'd gone outside for their first Pokemon battle. Some had just blitzed out of the lab as if their lives depended on it, or had jumped ship to get out there in haste such that she hadn't the chance to ask....not that she blamed them either, even if it had all been a bit discouraging internally for herself in the heat of the moment. Still, safety in groups was a good thing overall, right? Right.

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii@Azure Bubbles

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current/Active Team Pokemon:

• 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

Pokedollars: 5500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Potion x0 - Need To Refill
• Pokeballs x5

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Update to catching mechanic:

I'm gonna do it like ZA where you can knock a Pokemon out to increase your odds of catching it at the cost failing the encounter should it get out somehow

@Remram

Finally I Have A Use For This Song

Pokemon Singularity

Holy rolling miltanks

@Xaltwind

The Collective, Echoing, Generational Video Game Trauma of Those Who Played Gen 2 And Its Remakes Without A Machop In Their Party-

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

Lobby, Pokemon Center, Grand Glory City

She had been more than a little happy to get out of the sewers....finally. Oh so very much finally. She had become accustomed to the chaos such that the smell had become, er, something more of a secondary concern for her for more obvious reasons. Though the Hidden Cavern had at least been a break from it all if nothing else. Yet the trip back? The trip back was almost surprising if she hadn't recalled where they had just been running about in. The only one who seemed to not be actively avoiding them for understandable reasons was Scrapper, and while that could be due to what he was it seemed to be more in this case due to him being in her arms, almost knocked out or worse from face-taking a fireball, and not being able to do anything about it but half-mumble while trying to seemingly stay awake during the trip back. Not that he got to see much of the city in his current state even then. The farther they walked, then, the more anxious the psychic grew about getting herself a shower and getting cleaned up properly and fully despite trying to keep a mental note to drop off her Pokemon for healing at the center and wanting to see Amelia again.

Yet the movement of feet, the whispers of people, the attention it drew to them due to their situation....it made the psychic begin to start controlling her breathing to some extent to try to channel a greater level of self-control and calm than normal. Normally she wouldn't see it as a problem these days, but this situation was pushing her buttons somewhat. she hadn't thought much about the aftermath of a sewer excursion beforehand as much as she'd thought about trying to help a Pokemon all lonely and afraid down there to be truthful. Clarissa would even stop glancing to the sides at others to the sides of them, all while trying to focus ahead as if she put blinders on mentally and physically. That and trying to direct and control her breathing was a more deliberate action as well for certain. In and out. In and out. It was stagnant city air, but that was a far call from reeking sewer air in kind. And, for that matter, how had the Hidden Cavern managed to stay full of cleaner air compared to the sewers above it? Was there some kind of passage to aboveground still present, or was it something else like something producing breatheable air down there?

By Arceus, she wished she could at least hear a 'ping' from her phone with a response from the Professor at least. Or see Amelia standing there. Something. Another distraction before they-....oh!

By the time her racing thoughts and efforts into focusing on the path ahead had made enough of a course through her mind, they had finally arrived at their destination. The red roof and Pokeball hologram were a sight for stinky eyes for a surety, though the psychic nearly fumbled as she tried to grab her Pokeballs in her hands for delivery to the nurse. And luckily her things were sealed up in her suitcase as well, a rather good suitcase sealing her things against the stink and environmental hazards and filth at least, so that wasn't a worry for her to be concerned over in the moment at the very least (also much to her relief).

Two things stood out as they walked inside, aside from the people avoiding them yet still, in Clarissa's eyes. The first was the red hair and styled loops of Nurse Joy, along with the type of smile she'd heard these Nurses usually bore in such places for those coming in, and the second was a familiar (and luckily not lost) smaller child sitting to the side in her little hoodie. Yet it also took enough self-control to not just blitz toward the entrance of the showers in a mad scramble at this point. Even her feet were getting visibly antsy and anxious to move in the right direction, even while putting Scrapper back in his Pokeball in the meantime as well.

"Amelia! We're here."

Despite her stoicism and calmer tone, ah, after calling out to the other younger girl she would take a brief pause before amending her words. They did, after all, smell like an Alolan Grimer's buffet table. Eww.

"W-We need to take a shower first, though, so you can meet me there if you want."

Breathe. In and out. Good. Keep focus. Eyes on the prize. With her Pokeballs in her hands, and not attached to her belt, the psychic would try to hurry over to the counter where Nurse Joy stood whhile still trying to hold her composure and nerves. She wasn't about to totally lose her cool, but it was working her nerves a bit yet with the whole stinky sewer situation in hindsight...yeah.

Next to the Nurse Joy station was another counter top that just had a sign that said Move Tutors returning soon!

Approaching the station, Nurse Joy gave her an upbeat smile and said, "Welcome to the-" The smell hit the Nurse Joy like a baseball to a window. "Showers, now."

This was not a request; it was a demand.

"Yes. Will do. Please heal my Pokemon as well, as they're not in very good shape after what we've just gone through. Sorry sorry sorry! Thank you!"

Making barely sure not to drop her Pokeball on the floor as she placed them all with a now more visible haste onto the counter, Clarissa would barely turn enough to wave at Nils, motion toward where she was headed, and then literally sprinted toward Accomodations and the potential of a nice, long, hot shower. Still felt a bit as if the eyes of everyone there were drawn toward her the whole way, but the psychic was not putting up any more pretenses of patience. She wanted to clean up, she had give her Pokemon all over in their Pokeballs to be cared for by the Nurse, and she didn't want to feel the sensation of staring any longer than she'd had to thus far already!

[Clarissa is headed off to take a shower, after dropping off her now Pokeball-contained party of Pokemon off with Nurse Joy, as well as to escape the sensation of being stared at on her part due to the stink situation. (We can timeskip this IC I figure, yes please.)]

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current Pokemon:

• Sir Lopsalot - Buneary - Male - Level 7 - POISONED - Low HP
• Scrapper - Trubbish - Male - Level 6 - Livin' On A Prayer...ah, literally so as far as HP is concerned
• Lady Goowain - Alolan Grimer - Female - Level 4 - Low HP
• Libera - Aron - Female - Level 5 - Low HP
• Pyrite - Roggenrola - Male - Level 5 - Half HP
• Jotaro - Igglybuff (Evig Form) - Male - Level 5 - Low HP

Pokedollars: 5500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Potion x0 - Need To Refill
• Pokeballs x5

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Psst, hey! Hey, kid! You wanna buy sum 'shroooOOOoOOooms~?
*Shifty eyes and eerie grin*

@Xaltwind

The kids seem curious, even if rather midly, and yet you feel....as if something is watching you. Judging you. Lurking just out of sight, waiting to free its kin from sale (or consumption) by human hands. It's....oh no....it's-

The Shroom Lord Has Seen You

XD

Pokemon Singularity

Clarissa Ryte

"The Cave of Tuff", Tunnel Network, Hidden Cavern, Grand Glory City

↓

Grand Glory Sewers, Grand Glory City

The battle was finally over, it seemed, though before she could get her bearings of it all the mural nearby drew her gaze as she put up her new Pokeball-bound team member. It was large, smooth, more detailed than most might imagine to ever find down here, and had odd symbols in certain locations. How had they not seen it first when stepping into this place? It was only a partial map, it seemed, yet to be completed, but she was able to recognize it as a map of...Evig? Quickly she reached down to get her Rotom Phone, only to realize...that it had been still taking video this entire time, floating just behind her and to the left.

It had filmed the entire battle, as quick as it had been compared to how long it had felt to get through it, and was still rolling. With a few quick words, then, the psychic would tell it to stop recording things and to take "the best picture you can" of the mural proper. She could look at the footage later, but for now the kidnapped boy was thankfully safe while the Hidden Cavern down here seemed to have yet more to give them as of yet. telling it to take the best pictures of the mural it could Yet before she could turn to Nils and say more Clarissa was soon interrupted by-

"Oh, thank god!"

The wannabe punk boy ran over to the two them and clasped his hands on their shoulders with tears in his eyes and snot dribbling down from his nose. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I thought I was gonna be char siu for those Igglypuff! I just wanted to explore man, I just wanted to be free and be my own man, not dead!"

From the distance the three of them could hear soft chanting. It sounded like, "Tuff, tuff, tuff, tuff!"

The boy almost squealed and said, "Come on, get me out of here before they get here!"

It's Not A PHASE, MOM!!!

...Had, had it been that bad down here with these two?!

In any case, before they made their expedient retreat Clarissa would check her Rotom Phone to see what pictures it took before they left and she picked up Scrapper to carry while the others returned to their Pokeballs for the time being. She had what they needed for the most part, though she would have her Rotom Phone record the path back from the Pokemon den they were in all the way back to the sewers. Simply for showing where they had been with better proof if nothing else. A simple shorter video to go along with the evidence of the other one she'd taken heading into the Pokemon den in the first place. Even then, however, her Rotom Phone would stop filming and finally return to her pockets one more after they emerged and got a final shot in the video of the hole going down to the Hidden Cavern. Albeit, given the state of things, Clarissa had volunteered to go last through the hole back to the sewers for obvious reasons of modesty on her part.

"Looks like you saved your friend and the kid."

I Miss My Wife, Tails

Hmm. Thius was the detective Nils had spoken about before, yes?? The greasy looking, somehow seemingly sad man waiting there for them seemed to be familiar with Nils at least, and that was good enough for her for the time being despite her own reserved yet silent caution about the matter. Indeed, it was great to be back in the sewers, of all things, as odd as it was to admit to herself. But they needed to get back to the surface and-

*DING*

Also, when they both returned to the sewers, they instantly received a text from Amelia that read as such:

Are you both doing okay? I'll be at the pokecenter, if the two of you are stilling wanting to travel with me.

One Smol Text

Amelia! She didn't want to keep her waiting too long, and admittedly they did need a shower...and even more so their Pokemon needed healing to boot at that. Still, with phone signal back (finally) the psychic would try to send a proper message to Amelia this time. She'd include her first video of the Hidden Cavern (after she'd first gone down there), and the following message-

'Sorry if we worried you, Amelia, and we'll be back soon to travel with you! I'm not going back on my word on that.

But we found this hidden cavern network full of Pokemon underneath the sewers, and phone service doesn't work down there for some odd reason. Somehow also ended up on a rescue mission of a punk kid kidnapped by Igglybuff, and Nils ran into a detective looking for the missing kid. Long story. Our Pokemon are inmjured or worn out. Will explain it all back at the Pokemon Center after we get back.

P.S.: Video I'm sending should be fully clear this time, I hope.'

For Amelia:

Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

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.

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.

"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."

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. Perhaps this place hadn't been connected to the surface before the city was built, but it reminded her of the red rocks from back in Orre. At the same time, this wasn't Orre....indeed, this was the home of many Pokemon, it seemed, who hadn't a care in the world about the city above save for using the sewers for food perhaps. Like a sort of harmony where Pokemon and the living places of people had by chance touched upon each other, though there was some room for concern perhaps.

Still, before she ended the video, Clarissa looked back at the camera of her Rotom Phone again.

"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."

Likewise, Clarissa would send a cursory and polite apology text to the Professor in kind now. She'd attach her first video, the same sent to Amelia (this time hopefully clearly) along with the video of their escape back into the sewers. That and an apology for her former message and quick explanation of what had happend (like what she'd said to Amelia, but more professional in this case). She hoped that would, er, be enough to help smooth the situation over a little bit and help the Professor out a touch. Hopefully. Either way, Aaron eating at the pipes was still a really bad idea and-

"B...ish...Trub."

Scrapper peeped out a bare noise, hurt and loopy and tired from the sounds of it to a fair bit of an extent. But even so, he'd held on tight for what it was worth. And she'd just caught him today! Yet if his kind were food for the Alolan Grimer down here, thinking back on his Pokedex entry, then....perhaps she'd managed to save a Pokemon down here like she'd hoped to beforehand. Hmm. Just not in the way she'd thought about prior, all before he'd helped her save another person at that. And now she had several Pokemon on her person at that, new catches with one or two already feeling a bit closer to her in her mind after this whole mess of a situation.

A small sigh would escape Clarissa's lips before she turned to look at Nils, Scrapper held up to her chest and gingerly in her two arms.

"Let's hurry back to Amelia at the Pokemon Center, Nils. Before we all get into any more trouble down here perhaps."

And, for but a moment, an attempt at a rather small smile tugged at the corners of Clarissa's lips. It didn't last long at all before fading back to her usual expression of stoicism all the same, but it was...almost something? It was something.

If Evig was going to be this adventerous, well, they did need a good group to head out with after all! But part of her was looking even more forward now to what would come ahead, funnily enough, despite what they'd been through thus far. Like their adventure was only now going to be really just beginning in greater earnest. Hmm. It was strange, and yet in part she....also welcomed it.

[Clarissa wants to expediently leave the sewers and travel back to the Pokemon Center that Amelia is waiting for them at!]

@Remram@Shazamrock@Joshua Tamashii

Current Pokemon/Money/Items

Current Pokemon:

• Sir Lopsalot - Buneary - Male - Level 7 - POISONED - Low HP
• Scrapper - Trubbish - Male - Level 6 - Livin' On A Prayer...ah, literally so as far as HP is concerned
• Lady Goowain - Alolan Grimer - Female - Level 4 - Low HP
• Libera - Aron - Female - Level 5 - Low HP
• Pyrite - Roggenrola - Male - Level 5 - Half HP
• Jotaro - Igglybuff (Evig Form) - Male - Level 5 - Low HP

Pokedollars: 5500

Items:

• Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes
• Potion x0 - Need To Refill
• Pokeballs x5

Important Info/Pictures/Videos Thus Far

• Pictures Of The Strange Mural From Hidden Cavern (Under the Grand Glory City Sewers) -

  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...

• 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.
• Clarissa's First Video Of The Hidden Cavern

  

  
  
  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.

  
  
  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.
  
  "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."
  
  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.
  
  "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."

Pokemon Singularity

Closing in on my goal though... I can feel it.

@Xaltwind

You've got this! Hopefully. Probably. Totally. Yes. Also-

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