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March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay
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Forum: Advanced Roleplay
‘... What?’ Mariette looked on in brief confusion at the Queen suddenly started saying Mariette was an impostor and not the real Alice, as she hadn’t really made her intentions known. It was true that Mariette wasn’t on her side, and it was also true that Mariette had long walked around with the idea that “if she can read the ‘story’, she should know I’m going to betray her” in her head, but since that hadn’t happened yet, Mariette had momentarily assumed that the Queen couldn’t read like that. But, well. She was very much unsure why this of all moments was when she decided to realize Mariette was going to discard her. … But, ultimately, the Queen did not look very sane at the moment, and perhaps Mariette shouldn’t try to see reason in her actions.
Not to mention, before she could properly react there was the whole matter of Lea trying to murder her.
Lily slammed into Mariette, and through Lily’s speed they were both thrown off the building, falling. Being slammed like that hurt a bit, but not as much as Lea’s venomous punch would have. So, for now, the two of them fell from the rooftop…
Oh, and Dave came, too.
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So, a lot of heavy firepower was being launched at the Queen.
Between Gaia, that Stacy, MDP, Alicia coming flying, Su and Mika, there was simply a LOT being shot at the target. So, right now, it felt like a bad time to get close. Ronin and Miko looked at one another.
‘Restrain her movements,’ Miko said.
‘Prevent her shenanigans!’ Ronin replied.
The two nodded, and dashed to get close… but not too close. And there, they reached their hands forward.
They didn’t know if any one of them had the power to actually defeat the Queen. However, they had to count on it, and they would do what they could.
Their mid-air barriers. Instead of manifesting them as defense, they tried to gather their power to manifest it around the Queen’s arm. That is to say, should she try to swing the Storyslayer, she’d find it locked in a barrier that wouldn’t move, unable to defend against the incoming onslaught… or so they hoped. Together, the twins’ power was tiny compared to that of many of the powerhouses around here.
But perhaps just the smallest influence at the right place could be what changes everything.
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...
Mikayla isn’t exactly doing a lot, but she’s technically still here, floating in mid-air, unconcerned with the battle going on.
It looked like Ronja had saved her children before that dark dimension they were held in collapsed. She’d have to recover them later. But, what to do now…?
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‘... Tsk!’ Lea grunted in annoyance as equally fast Lily blasted past, having prevented her punch from killing Mariette. No more than a moment had passed after that, until Alexander came close. She immediately flew up into the air, her reaction speed more than fast enough to dodge a sword-swing. In retaliation, she swung a hand at him. The hand dissolved into wasps, and a small scattering of these wasps from her Insect specialization launched and buzzed down at great speed to attempt to sting him anywhere with exposed skin or thin clothing, each of their stingers coated with her poison. But, despite that, it was a half-hearted attack.
She cared naught for Alexander, she didn’t want to fight him. It was Mariette she wanted…!
And then a whole bunch of Penny’s appeared.
‘What…’ Lea flew higher into the air, glaring at the duplicates. Those weren’t hers to fight. There were others that were supposed to fight her. Freya. Mayra. Not… not Lea.
‘Drat…!’ Once again, she blasted off, intending to fly off over the edge and pursue Mariette…
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‘Look who we have here…’ Nina said, leaning forward as she was directing the Pennybots, and saw Lea through their eyes. Nina, usually neutral, looked with contempt at her former boss. ‘She’s a former fairy. She has a crippling weakness to both fire and iron. Get her!’
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So. The item that she was going to use in her seal against Asengav. The Black Mirror. It was gone.
Mariette had no means of securing another item quite as powerful in such a short amount of time.
However. What was it that Laat had told her, once, so long ago? In their meeting where they talked about this?
Ideas hold sway. Names hold sway.
That’s when it hit her.
A portal opened, and an item fell into her hand.
It was the remains of the Queen’s necklace, the one who had locked her into a cage without her freedom. A symbol of her captivity.
Withered to destruction by the power of her friend.
Mariette gripped it tightly.
Her other hand opened a portal and the coin fell into her hand. The magnum opus of Olivia Giles, coin crafter, and the very reason Mariette had made her in the first place. The Grey Coin.
All she needed now was the pick. Penny had the pick.
Also, she had to…
‘Lily. I must come into contact with her. With my "Mother",’ she said, looking at Lily as they both fell down the building towards the awaiting, probably not that soft embrace of the Gothizzar Harvester, and also had Dave coming with them and would likely catch them first, and potentially also Lea charging over the corner at them if nobody was able to stop her. ‘I’m not fast enough. Can you help me?’ she asked, earnestly.
@Pirouette
Erika and Rose made their way up the stairs, Rose had her Pokémon send various sound-waves down to dissuade them from following. They came up to the scene of the reception, where a very annoyed Jigglypuff was angry that all her audience were for some reason not asleep. They were standing up and complaining to the receptionist, who had her hands up and trying to calm them all down, while at least one guy was standing with a phone in his ear in the back. When Erika came up, the receptionist aimed a couple exceedingly wide eyes at Erika emerging with the facility’s pride and joy giant Musharna pushed in front of her, and then she gave that excuse.
‘… What the-’ and then she just cursed and started shouting at the customers that the establishment would momentarily close and they should all get out of here and return at a different time.
Meanwhile, Erika had Sno Frost Breath down the stairs, creating nice tiles of ice on each step, and as they started pushing Musharna out the door, Rose helping now, they could hear the distant noise of Drowzees stumbling in the stairway as they slipped and fell, causing a pileup they would not soon be able to push through. And then, as they got out, for good measure, they froze the handle, too. Locking all the customers that refused to leave in there, as well. Erika had her message to Rose. Rose nodded.
‘I agree! Let’s hightail to the-’ Rose started, then her eyes widened.
Connected areas:
Route 12. A long, peaceful plain stretching far west towards Redcoast City.
Route 13. A route of eternal night, leading east towards Worldedge City.
Route 26. The calm waters north of Bigfjord City, leading towards Ironcliff Town.
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@Remram
His companions agreed and they went back to the Miner’s Lodge, the indoor area properly heated and with various miners showing off what they’d found.
Though, immediately when they came in, it seemed like there was a bit of a scene going on. A bunch of people were gathered, looking at two Pokémon lying together against the wall. One larger, one smaller.
Pokédex Entry #698 – Amaura, the Tundra Pokémon. This ancient Pokémon was restored from part of its body that had been frozen in ice for over 100 million years. It’s a very calm Pokémon that lived at a time without natural predators, and it’s comfortable in exceedingly cold temperatures. When it whinnies, it creates auroras.
Pokédex Entry #699 – Aurorus, the Tundra Pokémon. A quiet and kindly ancient Pokémon restored from a fossil. It uses the diamond-shaped crystals on its body to expel extremely cold air, capable of forming walls of ice to block attacks. When this Pokémon howls, auroras appear in the night sky.
Lots of people were just looking at them, calmly sleeping together.
‘They were freed from the ice together, and they just… were overjoyed to still be together,’ one guy explained.
‘Yepp! Doesn’t matter what we’re doing with them, we’re not separating them!’ another declared. Nope, these miners were now dedicated to protecting those two.
Anyway. The two people in his own party could look at their findings and figure out if they wanted them.
‘I don’t even know what these do,’ Anise stated, looking at the various rocks she’d found. Her proud party had uniced a Hard Stone, a Damp Rock, a Lagging Tail, an Icy Rock, a King’s Rock, and a Water Stone. ‘Well, this one I do,’ she said, lifting up the Water Stone. ‘But are there actually any Pokémon I would be interested in that evolves with this thing?’
‘… Hm,’ Earl, meanwhile, sat with his Leaf Stone, seemingly fascinated by it. He seemed happy enough with it. Cleffa cheered by his side.
Meanwhile, there were numerous miners selling their findings to the Miner’s Shop, it seemed that was always an option.
‘Bony Fossil? What’s a Bony Fossil?’ A person inspecting the list of items asked, seeing the cheap bottom fossil.
‘Oh, those, yeah…’ the shopkeeper looked apologetic. ‘They just become Magikarps when revived,’ he said.
‘… Oh.’
Meanwhile, there were three people that had found Pokémon in the ice and seemed open to potentially trading them, not as ancient as the previous two.
‘I found this guy,’ one person was lifting up a purple shell, with two big white eyes and a tongue sticking out of it. ‘Anyone want to give him a home?’
Pokédex Entry #90 – Shellder, the Bivalve Pokémon. While its shell is said to be harder than diamond, its contents are very tender. It burrows into the seafloor sand and waits to snatch prey with its tongue. It swims backwards by rapidly opening and closing its shell, and it can be surprisingly fast. It is uniquely involved in Slowpoke’s evolution by biting its tail.
‘I’m willing to trade these guys for something,’ another said, holding up a pair of creatures sticking out of a rock. Despite the note of “guys”, they were female.
Pokédex Entry #688 – Binacle, the Two-Handed Pokémon. Two Binacles always live together on the same rock. They move stretching and then contracting, yanking their rocks along. They eat seaweed washed up on shorelines. If the two of them fight, one of them will move to a different rock. Despite this, partner-less Binacles are exceptionally rare.
Then there was a girl, staring blankly at a rock floating in front of her face. The rock had five odd white prostitution, and two black eye-like spots, and cracks dividing it into four parts. She stared at it, quite confused. She eventually just said. ‘I have no idea what you are.’
‘Miniooor~’ the floating rock replied without any outer lips or anything moving.
While it was only the rock visible here, the Pokédex also showed the contents of the shell as a separate picture.
Pokédex Entry #774 – Minior, the Meteor Pokémon. Originally making its home in the ozone layer, it feeds on dust in the atmosphere and forms a shell with it. The composition of the dust determines the color of its core. It can fall to the surface when knocked down by a Pokémon or if its shell grows too heavy. It will die if its core is exposed for too long, but it can be saved by putting it in a Pokéball.
Anyway. What does Basil do?
Connected areas:
Route 5. Exit the mines and you’ll be right there.
Frozen Cave. The Frozen Cave proper awaits beyond the mine.
Erika and Rose made their way up the stairs, Rose had her Pokémon send various sound-waves down to dissuade them from following. They came up to the scene of the reception, where a very annoyed Jigglypuff was angry that all her audience were for some reason not asleep. They were standing up and complaining to the receptionist, who had her hands up and trying to calm them all down, while at least one guy was standing with a phone in his ear in the back. When Erika came up, the receptionist aimed a couple exceedingly wide eyes at Erika emerging with the facility’s pride and joy giant Musharna pushed in front of her, and then she gave that excuse.
‘… What the-’ and then she just cursed and started shouting at the customers that the establishment would momentarily close and they should all get out of here and return at a different time.
Meanwhile, Erika had Sno Frost Breath down the stairs, creating nice tiles of ice on each step, and as they started pushing Musharna out the door, Rose helping now, they could hear the distant noise of Drowzees stumbling in the stairway as they slipped and fell, causing a pileup they would not soon be able to push through. And then, as they got out, for good measure, they froze the handle, too. Locking all the customers that refused to leave in there, as well. Erika had her message to Rose. Rose nodded.
‘I agree! Let’s hightail to the-’ Rose started, then her eyes widened.
Connected areas:
Route 12. A long, peaceful plain stretching far west towards Redcoast City.
Route 13. A route of eternal night, leading east towards Worldedge City.
Route 26. The calm waters north of Bigfjord City, leading towards Ironcliff Town.
_______________________
@Remram
His companions agreed and they went back to the Miner’s Lodge, the indoor area properly heated and with various miners showing off what they’d found.
Though, immediately when they came in, it seemed like there was a bit of a scene going on. A bunch of people were gathered, looking at two Pokémon lying together against the wall. One larger, one smaller.
Pokédex Entry #698 – Amaura, the Tundra Pokémon. This ancient Pokémon was restored from part of its body that had been frozen in ice for over 100 million years. It’s a very calm Pokémon that lived at a time without natural predators, and it’s comfortable in exceedingly cold temperatures. When it whinnies, it creates auroras.
Pokédex Entry #699 – Aurorus, the Tundra Pokémon. A quiet and kindly ancient Pokémon restored from a fossil. It uses the diamond-shaped crystals on its body to expel extremely cold air, capable of forming walls of ice to block attacks. When this Pokémon howls, auroras appear in the night sky.
Lots of people were just looking at them, calmly sleeping together.
‘They were freed from the ice together, and they just… were overjoyed to still be together,’ one guy explained.
‘Yepp! Doesn’t matter what we’re doing with them, we’re not separating them!’ another declared. Nope, these miners were now dedicated to protecting those two.
Anyway. The two people in his own party could look at their findings and figure out if they wanted them.
‘I don’t even know what these do,’ Anise stated, looking at the various rocks she’d found. Her proud party had uniced a Hard Stone, a Damp Rock, a Lagging Tail, an Icy Rock, a King’s Rock, and a Water Stone. ‘Well, this one I do,’ she said, lifting up the Water Stone. ‘But are there actually any Pokémon I would be interested in that evolves with this thing?’
‘… Hm,’ Earl, meanwhile, sat with his Leaf Stone, seemingly fascinated by it. He seemed happy enough with it. Cleffa cheered by his side.
Meanwhile, there were numerous miners selling their findings to the Miner’s Shop, it seemed that was always an option.
‘Bony Fossil? What’s a Bony Fossil?’ A person inspecting the list of items asked, seeing the cheap bottom fossil.
‘Oh, those, yeah…’ the shopkeeper looked apologetic. ‘They just become Magikarps when revived,’ he said.
‘… Oh.’
Meanwhile, there were three people that had found Pokémon in the ice and seemed open to potentially trading them, not as ancient as the previous two.
‘I found this guy,’ one person was lifting up a purple shell, with two big white eyes and a tongue sticking out of it. ‘Anyone want to give him a home?’
Pokédex Entry #90 – Shellder, the Bivalve Pokémon. While its shell is said to be harder than diamond, its contents are very tender. It burrows into the seafloor sand and waits to snatch prey with its tongue. It swims backwards by rapidly opening and closing its shell, and it can be surprisingly fast. It is uniquely involved in Slowpoke’s evolution by biting its tail.
‘I’m willing to trade these guys for something,’ another said, holding up a pair of creatures sticking out of a rock. Despite the note of “guys”, they were female.
Pokédex Entry #688 – Binacle, the Two-Handed Pokémon. Two Binacles always live together on the same rock. They move stretching and then contracting, yanking their rocks along. They eat seaweed washed up on shorelines. If the two of them fight, one of them will move to a different rock. Despite this, partner-less Binacles are exceptionally rare.
Then there was a girl, staring blankly at a rock floating in front of her face. The rock had five odd white prostitution, and two black eye-like spots, and cracks dividing it into four parts. She stared at it, quite confused. She eventually just said. ‘I have no idea what you are.’
‘Miniooor~’ the floating rock replied without any outer lips or anything moving.
While it was only the rock visible here, the Pokédex also showed the contents of the shell as a separate picture.
Pokédex Entry #774 – Minior, the Meteor Pokémon. Originally making its home in the ozone layer, it feeds on dust in the atmosphere and forms a shell with it. The composition of the dust determines the color of its core. It can fall to the surface when knocked down by a Pokémon or if its shell grows too heavy. It will die if its core is exposed for too long, but it can be saved by putting it in a Pokéball.
Anyway. What does Basil do?
Connected areas:
Route 5. Exit the mines and you’ll be right there.
Frozen Cave. The Frozen Cave proper awaits beyond the mine.
I kinda figured you might have forgot, but I just had to make Victor make that assumption, hah.
... I can kinda picture Victor with a Grookey. XD
now, sure, he already has a grass-type, but
Aaaaaand then another boy barreled into their conversation with all the grace of a druk Grookey.
... I can kinda picture Victor with a Grookey. XD
now, sure, he already has a grass-type, but
Alright, thank you! ^^
@Xaltwind
Indeed. XD
I mean, I kinda like that she does show concern for Hazel over there? So I like it, like that. It's just that while that is happening Victor is somewhere else. So maybe just move it a little, possibly? If possible? Hah.
Indeed. XD
I mean, I kinda like that she does show concern for Hazel over there? So I like it, like that. It's just that while that is happening Victor is somewhere else. So maybe just move it a little, possibly? If possible? Hah.
Okay, so Tilly looking over and seeing Stella and Hazel while with Victor does create a little disconnect with Victor's being in multiple scenes at once at different times because he's simultaneously also petting Fantasia while Stella and Hazel is doing their thing...
So, Tilly's absolutely allowed to look over at them. She can do that.
But for Stella and Hazel, please do treat it like Victor is exclusively off by Fantasia right now. XD
So, Tilly's absolutely allowed to look over at them. She can do that.
But for Stella and Hazel, please do treat it like Victor is exclusively off by Fantasia right now. XD
@Xaltwind
Victor flinched as the head of the body he was looking at talked to him, his expression just full of surprise as he stumbled a little back and looked at Tilly’s face as she introduced herself and asked if he saw something he liked or if he was looking for something.
‘I, uh,’ he spattered out, very short on words. ‘I did?’ he asked, confused. ‘I mean, uh,’
‘I seek many things,’ he tried desperately to get back into Gallagher mode. ‘I just, uh, don’t know them yet!’ … is what his head that couldn’t, for the moment, keep a single thought in mind came up with.
Tilly, in her odd accent, told him that dressing like that just made sense in this temperature. Not with those words.
‘I- I guess that makes sense...’ he replied to her, his gaze just happening to drift down again… and then he flinched and looked up at her face again in a hurry.
‘We-well! I, uh, wish us both well on our adventures ahead, then!’ he said, getting scared enough to want to leave this conversation because he felt like he was somehow making a fool out of himself in front of this pretty lady. He was then going to attempt to tactically retreat.
‘Budeeeew~’ Bud on his shoulder said happily to her.
@Savo
You know what? Victor respects “exploring the region” as something to be excited about! … But not enough not to run after having pushed the coffee cup on him.
The reason, of course, was that if Remi saw Victor dismiss the coffee at a sink or the like, Victor would be revealed to not like coffee, which was unacceptable. But, if he instead gives it to someone else that needs it more? Then he is kindhearted instead! :D
@Crusader Lord@Renose@Savo
‘Whoa-’ Victor flinched from being chopped at and bringing his hands over his head as if to defend himself, more out of surprise than anything else. He looked wide-eyed at Lina. ‘I-I’m sorry? I didn’t know?’ he asked, confused, because he thought he was being nice.
‘Bu-deeew~’ Bud sounded out in a happy tone, absolutely not the first time he’d seen his trainer admonished.
He also flinched when Yuu came back right here, too, and gave him a stern warning. Victor was successfully intimidated, and he apologetically placed his hands together in front of his face.
‘I understand! I’m sorry!’ he said, kinda quietly but still with the intensity of an exclamation mark.
He then watched Lina’s talking to the blind person, introducing herself… and it worked? Just the same greeting that Victor had pretty much been doing, except somehow different? Curious now, Victor held quiet, simply observing as the blind boy took some pills; Victor was curious what those were, too, but he held his tongue; and then finally said he was happy to meet them four.
Oh! Despite being blind, he was observant enough to notice Bud and say hello to him, too! Very nice of him! … So Victor thought and nodded.
‘Same, Ryuuichi!’ he simply said in a hopeful tone… and then quickly glanced in concern at Lina to get a sense if that also was rude somehow, before looking back.
‘Buuud~’ said the Budew on his shoulder.
Victor flinched as the head of the body he was looking at talked to him, his expression just full of surprise as he stumbled a little back and looked at Tilly’s face as she introduced herself and asked if he saw something he liked or if he was looking for something.
‘I, uh,’ he spattered out, very short on words. ‘I did?’ he asked, confused. ‘I mean, uh,’
‘I seek many things,’ he tried desperately to get back into Gallagher mode. ‘I just, uh, don’t know them yet!’ … is what his head that couldn’t, for the moment, keep a single thought in mind came up with.
Tilly, in her odd accent, told him that dressing like that just made sense in this temperature. Not with those words.
‘I- I guess that makes sense...’ he replied to her, his gaze just happening to drift down again… and then he flinched and looked up at her face again in a hurry.
‘We-well! I, uh, wish us both well on our adventures ahead, then!’ he said, getting scared enough to want to leave this conversation because he felt like he was somehow making a fool out of himself in front of this pretty lady. He was then going to attempt to tactically retreat.
‘Budeeeew~’ Bud on his shoulder said happily to her.
@Savo
You know what? Victor respects “exploring the region” as something to be excited about! … But not enough not to run after having pushed the coffee cup on him.
The reason, of course, was that if Remi saw Victor dismiss the coffee at a sink or the like, Victor would be revealed to not like coffee, which was unacceptable. But, if he instead gives it to someone else that needs it more? Then he is kindhearted instead! :D
@Crusader Lord@Renose@Savo
‘Whoa-’ Victor flinched from being chopped at and bringing his hands over his head as if to defend himself, more out of surprise than anything else. He looked wide-eyed at Lina. ‘I-I’m sorry? I didn’t know?’ he asked, confused, because he thought he was being nice.
‘Bu-deeew~’ Bud sounded out in a happy tone, absolutely not the first time he’d seen his trainer admonished.
He also flinched when Yuu came back right here, too, and gave him a stern warning. Victor was successfully intimidated, and he apologetically placed his hands together in front of his face.
‘I understand! I’m sorry!’ he said, kinda quietly but still with the intensity of an exclamation mark.
He then watched Lina’s talking to the blind person, introducing herself… and it worked? Just the same greeting that Victor had pretty much been doing, except somehow different? Curious now, Victor held quiet, simply observing as the blind boy took some pills; Victor was curious what those were, too, but he held his tongue; and then finally said he was happy to meet them four.
Oh! Despite being blind, he was observant enough to notice Bud and say hello to him, too! Very nice of him! … So Victor thought and nodded.
‘Same, Ryuuichi!’ he simply said in a hopeful tone… and then quickly glanced in concern at Lina to get a sense if that also was rude somehow, before looking back.
‘Buuud~’ said the Budew on his shoulder.
That’s like living your entire life without any light, right?
The many implications of this sentence alone for Ryuuichi. I really like it.
Should, uh, should he have said it out loud? It kinda was just a silly way of framing it as a thought? But I'm glad it resonated. :D
Victor: "That’s like living your entire life without any light, right?"
Ryuuichi: "... Yes."
Victor: "Or colors?"
Ryuuichi: "... Yes."
Victor: "Or shapes?!"
Ryuuichhi: "... ... Yes."
Victor: "Or--"
*Yuu dropkicks Victor into the wall*
Ryuuichi: "... W-What was that noise?"
Lina: "Nothing important. let's get you that drink."
I can picture Victor going on this questioning spree. XD
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