I must admit that I felt REALLY guilty last time I manipulated reality in this game like that. It felt like I was god-modding. It felt extremely dirty. Hah.
Edit: Okay. Now I feel even more dirty. Anyway. Ramping up the attempted affecting of the world around Amelie. First, escape the blanket. Second, ignore a wound. Third, stop impending doom by significantly increasing Amelie's supposed magical prowess. Until proven it doesn't work, I suppose someone will have to experiment.
I am privately going to be a bit disappointed if this works. Relieved, but disappointed. It's an experiment, anyways. An experiment about words written with surety. Terminal, if one can't do that, please kill her. Haha.
However, until proven that I can't do that (which I hope I can't), any coming posts would be nice if they didn't go directly opposite of my post. Hopefully there's some way to make it all work out. Hah.
On a different note, if I live, I'll vanish from midday Thursday to late Sunday, would be horrible if I have to type out a post on my mobile phone during my computer-less trip to the mountains for a few days. ... So, dying might be a bit convenient for me. Haha.
The Trevenant watched Amelia intently as she made her inquiry, staring down at her. Behind her, Laurinda was keeping her attention split between her and the Gourgeists moving about, knowing they had a tendency to be dangerous. But, upon having heard Amelia’s plea, the Trevenant took a few moments before replying. And… the tree replied by grinning and slowly bending backwards and letting out a loud, genuine belly laugh, or whatever qualified for it in a tree Pokémon. The Phantumps behind it also started snickering, though mostly seemingly just to be in-line with their parent.
Then… the Trevenant let out a louder roar, a ghostly sound which sounded like it had some form of meaning, for the Trevenants around turned their heads to look at it, and then to Amelia. There was some form of acknowledgement going around. Then, the ingrained trees around moved. A few of them moved out of a way, numerous branches turned to allow a passage. It was a direction which was roughly 30 degrees to the right from the source of the darker presence, not towards but somewhat closer. The Trevenant lifted one of his big tree-hands and pointed through the path that had been created through the ghastly woods.
The indication was clear. Follow the passage. Behind her, Laurinda stood, analyzing what had happened with interest. Up to Amelia if she was going to follow the path or so.
Assuming that Amelia followed the route given to her by the Trevenant, she’d find that the potentially hostile stares of the trees around to be lessened. The aura wouldn’t have felt as threatening to an average trainer, and although Amelia’s experience with ghosts apparently meant she felt none of that, the wood felt more at ease with her. Of course, whatever nagging existence that tried to draw her in that direction to the left was still there, but the rest of the wood seemed to have determined she was a friend. The Trevenants stood rooted in place, but numerous Phantumps seemed to have gotten curious and followed her, peeking out between trees around and from behind Trevenants, including Laurinda’s Trevenant. Laurinda followed her, her expression calm and analyzing.
Amelia would eventually walk into a little glade. A very dead glade, with trees withering from whatever otherworldly power was stretching from that place close by. There were numerous Trevenants around the glade, as if they had been standing guard, but they were more relaxed, like the rest. In fact, it felt like a few had moved to allow Amelia to come through. And, as she stepped in… a little song touched her ears. It sounded like the song of a tiny female child, singing ghastly through the woods.
‘Yow, yow, yow yo bowt, genty down the stream…’
The sound felt like it was coming from all directions, and it was steadily creeping closer, as something had felt her approach. And, it continued singing, as if wanting to scare her...
‘… Mejuly, mejuly, mejuly, wuife is buth a dream…’
… But of course, it’s pointless for a ghost to try to sneak up on Amelia as she could sense exactly where it really was. If she looked diagonally behind her to the right, she’d find what she was looking for.
‘…’ The Phantump would blink if looked at, stopping a bit and looking a bit taken aback at that it had apparently been noticed.
‘Phantump?’ It’d then tilt its head, like asking what Amelia was doing here. There were more Phantumps around than just this one, but this one in particularly had seemingly led the charge. Maybe not entirely surprisingly, being a shiny is something of a status in Pokémon terms as well.
And so, they were ready to get going. Eugene nodded to Claire’s words, and then took out three Pokéballs, throwing them onto the ground. To perhaps nobody’s surprise, they all contained Skarmories. Apparently, variation was not a requirement when you were doing this as a business. The three metal birds all had metal handles, saddles and a safety-harness to ensure whoever was wearing it was definitely not falling off and a place to set a foot on each side. Eugene went around and examined the equipment for a bit, while the whole thing was pulling some attention from quite a few young trainers. It wasn’t something they were supposed to see yet at their level.
‘Alright. C’mon.’ He offered a hand to Yvonne, helping her get her foot in the right place to rise onto the Skarmory. Yvonne looked a little uncomfortable having to do that, considering she wasn’t wearing the longest of skirts. The saddle was constructed so that one’s legs were placed backwards along the creature, as to not get in the way of the Skarmory’s wings, while the handles were up by the shoulders. Essentially, one would be leaning over the Skarmory for the ride in order to ensure safety and free flying. Yvonne eventually got up, and harness in place, after Eugene set it into place. There was a place to strap backpacks and such safely, too.
‘Alright! I am ready to set off for the skies!’ Yvonne announced, pointing upwards. The Skarmory didn’t move an inch and started scratching itself under the left wing with its metal beak.
‘Alright. Now you.’ Eugene said, walking to the next Skarmory and offering Claire a hand to help her up on hers. The same way which was for Yvonne, there was a step strapped on the behind of the Skarmory to allow her to get up on a saddle made for pretty much lying on the Skarmory to ensure the leg weren’t in the way of the wings, and a harness binding a person to the Skarmory to ensure no chance of falling off. If Claire for some reason didn’t get up, then tell so here, because then the rest of the post will be very different.
‘Okay. You’ll do fine. Good to know. Good luck on your journeys. I’ll be… right here.’ Laurinda said to them, sounding a bit tired, before turning around to walk into the Infested Woods again. Delphox looked after her and then at Yvonne and Claire, before raising one of her paw-hands in farewell.
‘Phoooox.’ She called, not exactly in an inspiring tone, but it had been a modest distraction from how boring the woods usually were, so they deserved a bit of a greeting. She then turned to follow Laurinda back into the woods.
‘… And now we have to do something about the mess you did in the Deep Infested Woods before night comes…’ Laurinda said, giving a little stare at Delphox, who shrugged a bit but followed along. So they were off.
Assuming Claire didn’t object in some ways, she’d soon be properly bound to the Skarmory while Eugene went to his own. He’d throw a final glance after Laurinda and them smile to his customers.
‘Alright. For safety, do not attempt to dislodge from the Skarmory at any time. It’s going to be a long way down. But otherwise, you’re all ready?’ And the answer would hopefully be yes at this point.
Then, Eugene gave a hand signal for forward, and the Skarmories started off running a few steps before lifting their wings and flapping powerfully, lifting off the ground rider and all. They lifted from the ground, and the riders would feel the forces of wind and motion hit them as they lifted higher and higher as the birds waved their wings and they broke out of the trees of the woods. Soon, they were high above Route 2, continuing higher and higher, and it’d almost feel to Claire as if they were being carried back towards Pureplain… but then they turned northward, and they were getting higher and higher. High up here, on top of a metal bird, there was quite a view.
From here, she could see the vastness of the Pureplain suburbs and height of the city from a high point of her own. She could tell where the Infested Woods spread, and how the trees seemed to get darker the further in one arrived even as they were always thick. To the east lay the Dragon Lake and Route 14, from here simply looking like a vast lake surrounded by trees in the north and by a cliff in the south. The cliff being the one which the Wet Caverns went through, and just beyond that lay a town which the water seemed to leak into, which was Lakewatch City from a distance…
In the north of there, by what if Claire had seen a map should be the location of Stillwood Village, there was but forest. One could not actually see a village, it was only forest there. Seeing further was blocked by the mountain range of Mt. Strength. On the west side of the lake, there was a pretty easy green path seen going through a nice little amount of buildings on hills that was assumingly Highhill Town, which went north into an area where it was currently raining. It was harder to see in that direction, for it rained on Rainrock City, right by the foot of Mt, Strength. To the west of Highhill Town was a forest, assumingly the Silent Forest, which contained the Silent Shrine though that one could not be seen from here.
The Skarmories flew out west, over sea, on their journey northwards. Their journey took them towards a city awaiting them right ahead, by the sea and with shores next to it. It was larger than both Highhill and Rainrock, but perhaps not as big as Pureplain, yet still. Redcoast City awaited them, and the Skarmories would eventually start to descend towards it. Yvonne let out somewhat of a cry of excitement on the journey, holding onto the metal bird for dear life as they zoomed in. On the way, to the west of Redcoast… there was an island. Claire couldn’t see much of it from here, but it was flat and decidedly bright with yellow. It was hard to tell why, though.
And so… the buildings grew larger as they homed in.
Redcoast City
Redcoast City. Named so for the beautiful twilights that this sea is said to provide on the nights by the sandy beaches to the immediate west. Perhaps it is due to the perpetual rain over Rainrock, but it almost never rains here, and what started out as simply a pathway between Worldedge and Pureplain grew into a small city in its own right. Here, people mainly gather for the outpost towards the sea and to spend a well-deserved vacation. The buildings here are a mix of old fancy styles rich people might appreciate and healthy modern buildings, many green trees and pools of water invite nature in here. But the city is also not big enough to intimidate the average visitor, many open spaces exist with fresh vacation-air going through town, a homely feeling. Redcoast is close enough to Pureplain to be able to partake in all sorts of worldly delicacies, and hotels as well as restaurants of the fanciest kinds exist along the streets. But these things isn’t the main reason why Pokémon Trainers would be coming to Redcoast City,
A Pokémon Gym exists, one which all Pokémon Trainers who wish to partake in the Pokémon League needs to enter eventually. It is said to be a run-down ware-house that emits an evil aura and cries of pain can be heard from within frightening those who’d wish to visit. For a Pokémon Coordinator, this is also the city where their adventure starts, with the Contest Hall allowing tryouts for the newest talents and Dreamer Studios allowing for training within the field for those wishing to take on the world. Closer to the water lies the Surfer’s Club, where one can partake in training and sports for those who wishes to ride their Pokémon across the waves along with other activities. And then, also closer to the sea, is a large building where Team Virtue resides in their West Base opposite their main base in Justroad City, reminding that this place us under their guard. They’re always accepting applicants.
1. Find Pokémon. Can still search for Pokémon in towns~ 2. Talk. In cities, there are considerably more people one can talk to. Talking can give you info on local rumors and such. 3. Exit. Exit the town to any of the connected areas. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Notable Buildings. Visit any of the facilities of the city! 6.1. Pokémon Center. Heal all your Pokémon. 6.2. PokéMart. Go to a store and buy things. 6.3. Pokémon Gym. ??? 6.4. Normal Contest Hall. Rank 1 / 4. Where dreamers become hopefuls! 6.5. Dreamer Studios. Ready to catch any growing talent in their infancy. Offers training for wannabe coordinators. 6.6. Surfer’s Club. Vocal local presence who surfs the seas with their Pokémon. 6.7. Redcoast Hotels/Restaurants. You can’t afford them, but who knows? 6.8. Team Virtue, West Base. Taken residence here due to the former Team Amethyst presence here.
Connected areas: Route 11. A semi-populated road east under greying skies, where it quickly reaches a steep climb towards Rainrock. Route 15. A simple walk down to the beach, where the sea leads on.
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And so, they landed right at the entrance of the city, by a road that led inside. The Skarmories made sure to take a few swings of their wings to slow down their descent before landing, and multiple people in vacationly dresses and shorts dodged out of the way as the birds landed. Eugene was quick to jump off his bird and go help the two girls off theirs. Yvonne’s head seemed to be spinning a bit, she appeared to be feeling a touch of motion-sickness, despite the fact that she had apparently had previous flying experience in her way of ending up in Infested Woods. But, the girl would eventually be able to get down and then Eugene would help Claire down.
‘Okay. You’ll be fine from here?’ Eugene asked, looking to Claire and Yvonne.
As he walked through the kingdom, he got numerous stares of different kinds as he passed, the King looking grudgingly on while his Princess stared at him in awe after Martin had called his success.
‘Big brother! Become like that!’ The little girl demanded as Martin passed by.
‘I’ll, uh. I’ll try.’ Lewis replied, scratching his hair a bit awkwardly and looking away.
Then the rest of the journey happened.
‘Lesse, two Pokéballs, two repels, two potions, awakening, paralyze heal, escape rope and a Great Ball. Yeah, that’ll be 3300 P. Is that all?’ The man behind the counter said as Martin had his things. He’s free to go through with the purchase.
In the event that then Dawkin came forth to the counter in order to buy what he wanted.
‘Escape rope, two repels, awakening, paralyze heal and an antidote. That’ll be 1800 P. Is that all?’ The man behind the counter said to Dawkin.
They were both obviously free to pick more from the stock if they had the money and/or desire to do so.
Pokéball - 200P
Great Ball - 600P
Potion - 300P
Super Potion - 700P
Revive - 1,500P
Antidote - 100P
Paralyze Heal - 200P
Awakening - 250P
Burn Heal - 250P
Ice Heal - 250P
Escape Rope - 550P
Repel - 350P
Otherwise, they could head on somewhere else if they wanted to.
1. Find Pokémon. Can still search for Pokémon in towns~ 2. Talk. In cities, there are considerably more people one can talk to. Specify what kind you’re looking for. 3. Exit. Exit the town to any of the connected areas. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Notable Buildings. Visit any of the facilities of the city! 6.1. Pokémon Center. Heal all your Pokémon. 6.2. PokéMart. Go to a store and buy things. 6.3. Gym. ??? 6.4. Super Contests. Rank 2 / 4. Where hopefuls become idols! 6.5. Trainer’s School. Where young trainers study to become better. Has a little park of wild Pokémon. 6.6. Kalmia’s Lab. You know you’re always welcome. 6.7. Pureplain Harbor. Known as the Gateway of Isson, it has a marketplace and ferries to places.
Connected areas: Route 1. Easier path, just follow the bigger road. Route 2. Walk through quite an amount of suburbs until you eventually reach the path. Sea. There’s water, alright. Can take you anywhere you want to go, assuming you have means to traverse it.
When Ren then offered getting some food, Ewan first looked at her a bit in surprise, but then had some trouble containing a smile so he led a hand in front of his mouth. This was in response to knowing exactly how his companion was going to reply. Because Joshua was already beaming in rejoice and Pikachu was pretty much absorbing his excitement as well, the ears and tail rising up excitedly.
‘MOST CERTAINLY!’ He hit a hand to his chest, smiling happily, and Pikachu was quick to copy the gesture. ‘We’d be happy to accept your gratitude! We’re interested in all the food, especially when offered by such a sweet and cute friend of ours! We’d be honored to accept!’ … Yupp. Most definitely up for food.
‘Yeah, we’re up for it. Thank you.’ Ewan said, nodding to her, having accepted that Joshua’s word was going to take preference this time.
They could then head off to find whatever kind of place Ren wanted to treat her new friends to, and if Ren wanted to, she could ask them specific questions. But, otherwise we could just assume they had a pleasant time talking and so before eventually becoming done with that before it was time to leave again, upon which time the options were laid up for her again. She’d still be with Joshua and Ewan at the time, of course.
Otherwise, they could head on somewhere else if they wanted to.
1. Find Pokémon. Can still search for Pokémon in towns~ 2. Talk. In cities, there are considerably more people one can talk to. Specify what kind you’re looking for. 3. Exit. Exit the town to any of the connected areas. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Notable Buildings. Visit any of the facilities of the city! 6.1. Pokémon Center. Heal all your Pokémon. 6.2. PokéMart. Go to a store and buy things. 6.3. Gym. ??? 6.4. Super Contests. Rank 2 / 4. Where hopefuls become idols! 6.5. Trainer’s School. Where young trainers study to become better. Has a little park of wild Pokémon. 6.6. Kalmia’s Lab. You know you’re always welcome. 6.7. Pureplain Harbor. Known as the Gateway of Isson, it has a marketplace and ferries to places.
Connected areas: Route 1. Easier path, just follow the bigger road. Route 2. Walk through quite an amount of suburbs until you eventually reach the path. Sea. There’s water, alright. Can take you anywhere you want to go, assuming you have means to traverse it.
@Rune_Alchemist@Joshua Tamashii For both of you I decided to hurry a bit along. For Claire, I had in mind to pause mid-flight because maybe she wants to screw around while flying or something, and I thought that maybe Amelia decided to do something radical instead of following the path, who knows? Players exist to make things difficult for the GM, after all. Not entirely the truth, but close enough. Mainly because I was taking a while to post, I wanted to give my trainers a treat on those I could. That'd be you two.
@Rune_Alchemist Of course, if Claire DOES decide to force her Skarmory to take a detour or something (lord save me XD) @Joshua Tamashii Or if Amelia suddenly wants to go "Hey, bind up Laurinda for me so she doesn't prevent me from going to the center of Wilted Woods" and the Trevenant goes like "Sure" and Laurinda and the GM simultaneously goes "wat" or something (oh dear gosh)
... Then feel free, tell me where your actions break off from the post as written, and we'll take it from there. Haha.
@Joshua Tamashii ... And clever girl. I probably wouldn't have let you find one if you searched regularly, but like this... Hahaha. Nicely rolled plus nicely played. Go for it.
@Pikmin Eye@Eklispe And you two have the choice of either concluding your purchase and doing something else in Pureplain, getting more to buy, telling me my math is off or interrupt the actions of one another if you so please. Hahaha. Yeah, you're in the same place, go for it.
@Delta44 And you. You're free to either just continue talking to Joshua and Ewan if you want to over food, or move on. Or move on in the real game and have that discussion in a PM if you want to do both. All kinds of options there. Haha.
Edit: ... Aaaaaaaaaaand "Preview" highlights the mentions regardless if I got the names wrong or not. Hah.
@Eklispe So, do you intend to involve yourself with Martin in the next post? I mean, I can go through with posting to him, anyway, he's just buying a bunch of stuff, but otherwise it's nice for us all to know.
‘Thank you.’ Amelie said to Ariett about the hoodie, nodding to her thankfully. She then listened to Fortune’s words and to the archers. Kael had gotten here during his teacher’s demonstration, but couldn’t get back. Was it but a coincidence that he ended up in the exact same limo that Penny had put Amelie in? Or had the dimensional pathways hit each other somehow? … Then it was definitely Amelie that knocked into Kael, in that eventuality, which might also explain why he can’t get back. Amelie mentally apologized about that. She considered what Fortune had said. After all, he was from this world… right? … So his words held weight. Not in the physical world, how was that even possible? Guests of a daemon, or a powerful sorcerer? She noted “sorcerer”, not “magician”, which they’d be called in her world. Meaning supernatural, even to her. Hm. Either case, she wanted to practice her magic, see if she could get it working.
She focused on forming a small orb, and just when she thought she succeeded and a bit of a bright happy smile formed, the orb vanished, going flying into the edge at a speed faster than anyone not linked to the orb by magic could realize.
Um. Ops.
Amelie’s magic was usually rooted to the relative speed of the environment. Anything else would be stupid in a universe where all planets move. This meaning it would normally be rooted relative to the ground, but if it had been created inside an airplane then it’d be rooted to the environment of the airplane. As such, she had naturally assumed the environment in here would have been inside the “slug” and that her orb would have stayed there.
Turns out, it didn’t.
The girl blinked a little, noting the wobbling and what happened after. Um. Whoops. Amelie’s smile vanished and she grew somewhat pale. She sat still in place, putting her tag back in her pocket. She looked around, wide-eyed, hoping mentally she hadn’t accidentally killed them all… and if not that, she hoped they wouldn’t figure out the cause. Because if they did, protecting her life would become all that much harder. And just as the man calmed her fears by saying they weren’t in danger, they shot out elsewhere. … Why did he let go of his shield!?
Weightlessness was a considerable problem. Any single movement could be amplified with enough force to career a person slowly but surely into certain doom. Aware of this, Amelie did her best to not move in the slightest, her eyes staring out at what she could from the shield breaking up and spinning quickly, though with a blurry vision she could barely see what was going on, even though she could figure it out.
She prayed inside her head for everyone’s safety. … Because if something happened now, it would be mostly her fault.
Do tell me if I'm wrong, but I did get the impression that we were to be exceptional. So, um, assuming the troopers weren't exceptional as well, I believe this was in due realism with the Lataniva I imagined. Heh.
Lataniva stared at the soldiers as negotiation started, immobile. When it became clear there wouldn’t be any immediate action, she lifted her halberd and spun it a number of laps over her head before placing it horizontally over her shoulders behind her head while holding it with both arms, on the left and right. The motion likely unnerved some of the soldiers. In fact, Lataniva didn’t much like this, either.
… Lataniva could have pulled the man’s aim off Amy when he aimed at his daughter with a simple psionic whim. But, that family conflict mildly amused her, so she wanted to see where it was going. She could also tell how good his aim was with her senses. So, the father with the superior vision had a daughter who was blind. Interesting. She kept watching the soldiers with uninterested eyes, looking on with her senses…
And then, well, that happened. Simply shot. Disappointing, yet inevitable. She would have wanted some assistance. Oh, well. Lataniva sighed a little before pulling her hand forward as she dodged a laser. Forming a line, were they?
Six remained after the drones fired into them. Lataniva grabbed the leftmost and pulled him powerfully into the other five, causing all of them to stumble and be shaken by the impacts. Lataniva dashed at them, and threw her halberd forward, projecting it with psionics forward. The long halberd hit straight through the middle trooper by the throat, no doubt startling the troopers as Lataniva dashed.
She drew two of her daggers and caused them to shoot into the laser rifles of the two troopers fastest to recover, knocking them back. Before she arrived, she pulled forward with her arms twice. The first time caused the third fastest trooper to suddenly lose balance and collapse forward into the floor headfirst, while the second caused her halberd to exit the lethal wound of the first trooper so the halberd spun back into her hand, which she caught.
Lataniva jumped, high, over the first laser actually attempted to shoot at the new threat, and after a brief vault Lataniva sliced down with her halberd in a long arc to take down the trooper’s arm, causing blood to spill and screams to sound. And then she went to work, her halberd slicing through them while she dashed through the trooper lines, her two released knives occasionally flying like possessed into recovering enemies by her psionic powers in a battle where Lataniva controlled both her own movements and that of her enemies, who thanks to her psionics found it near impossible to aim for her on this close a range…
She’d be finished soon enough. It was only six of them, after all, and unless any of them were exceptional they wouldn’t be a match for this woman who had stricken fear through the galaxy and the deadzone… She was among the worst of the worst, after all, just a few troopers shouldn’t be expected to be able to handle her. Soon enough, she’d be standing on a bunch of bleeding troopers, the weapons lying discarded around while Lataniva looked back with a quizzical look and a bloody halberd while recollecting her knives with psionics.
Now, what would they tell Amy? … She left that humorous job to the others. Lataniva but watched with pity waiting for more orders.
@Eklispe I got excited and wrote a bunch. If Shatterpoint wants to interrupt at some point, he can, but otherwise Wisp will go that mile. That's about that.
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