@Pikmin Eye Sooo, I will say I’m somewhat boosting Onix’s stats. Because it makes no sense that a 8.8 meter 210 kg rock snake able to travel at 80 km/h has the same attack stat as the half a meter tall bug with claws that it’s currently throwing a rock at. So, had it not been for that, Nincada probably would have-
@Rune_Alchemist I grabbed “three o’clock” from nowhere, just giving a general thing of where I imagined the clones to be in correlation with the rest. It’s not like he could say “there”. And then, Conkeldurr rolled good on his throw. When it comes to chances to hit, I do roll. Now, of course, I factor in Double Team and the fact he didn’t actually know exactly where to aim… but he rolled that good. So it’s basically a laser-guided piece of rock coming flying. So, um. Yeah. Anyways. Have fun reacting to that.
@Joshua Tamashii You’re free to stop following whenever you like, or start up random conversation, or whatever. If you’d like to keep going but STILL keep random conversation while walking up, we could do those by PMs while still continuing the main adventure, heh. Anyways. Yeah. I left the option of wandering all the way back to Route 3 here, anyways.
Tell me if I did any capital mistakes. Here's where I'd ask "what's up" to those that haven't posted and haven't told why, but I seriously need to sleep right now. So, another day. Hah.
Cathia blinked a bit in realization and slight panic as Nincada came out, but her expression went back to tense determination fairly quickly, coming to terms with the new circumstances.
‘Marill, Water Gun the Vine Whip! Stay alive!’ She commanded, and Marill did as commanded.
So, Nincada came out, and directed himself to take the rock that Onix threw. The huge rock came falling at Sprout, but Nincada charged in the way and bashed himself against it. There was a considerable impact, a slam sounding out across the tunnel, numerous cracks having formed in the rock as it was forced back. But, Nincada stood, taking the full brunt of the blow from the rock before forcing it back, and the rock hit the ground without recourse. The rock threatened to crush the bug, but Nincada’s brace of the ground kept it stable, and it got by. However, by now, Nincada had suffered serious damage, and would not be able to take another such boulder. However, he still stood.
Meanwhile, Marill blew water trying to hit the Vine Whip, but surprise, a whip’s kind of hard to hit. Not to mention, Sprout could just move the vines from a distance and avoid the water-blast. So, a stream of water was fired into the air, and Sprout’s vines curved around it seeking in and striking the water-Pokémon on the other end.
‘Mariiiiiill…!’ Marill shouted out as she was struck by the vine, the grass of the vine somehow draining it of its strength during the brief impact as the round creature was sent rolling back before stopping on its back in front of its trainer. Marill fainted.
‘Oooh…’ Cathia made a little upset sound as she lost her second to last Pokémon, and now only had Onix left, and she could but look at the two opponents and… ‘Um… Rock Throw?’ She said, seemingly out of other commands.
Onix glared at Nincada and Sprout before grabbing another large rock with its tail and lobbed it hard at Sprout. While its trainer looked kind of distraught and lost, Onix was yet still determined to battle and ready to attempt dodging a Vine Whip or whatever attack might come its way.
Ralia teleported while Lure dodged away, Conkeldurr came to a stop, since his trainer had told him to stop if Teleport was used. Hector, meanwhile, looked around. He didn’t immediately see her, but while she was charging her Confusion…
‘THREE O’CLOCK, AMONG THE CLONES!’ Hector pointed in the direction of Ralia, somehow noticing. Conkeldurr spun, seeing where his gaze was pointed, and threw the slab of rock he had left so it flew spinning in her direction. … Now, by the power of chance, Ralia wouldn’t have time to properly get out of the way or teleport before the rock came crashing down. But she perhaps had time to do something else if she desired before the rock slammed into her location. Maybe. Otherwise the slab come spinning slamming into her and send her into the wall, which would become too much (of course) and mean she fainted.
Directly after throwing, not even bothering to look at the results of the throw, Conkeldurr took his own initiative and spun to dash at Lure. Before that, he took a Gust blowing into him, and he staggered a bit, before glaring forward at the bug and dashing again, intending to Chip Away, a move that wouldn’t be double Not-Effective. Reminding once again, by sheer level-difference, Conkeldurr’s faster than Lure, but she could attempt dodging by sheer maneuvering.
Poison drained on the now slab-less muscular Pokémon. He didn’t have much left. He had to aim to take out Lure quickly.
‘CONKELDUUUURR…!’ He shouted out, as he launched himself at Lure using his legs, springing to a dash waving both hands to catch up to the bee Pokémon. Now, what?
She got curious stares (from under the caps) of the Raltses, but they looked happy enough to be petted, for whatever reason.
‘Raaaaaaaaaaaalts!’ She got in reply to her question from several of their number with different lengths of their cry, which sounded fairly positive in its meaning.
‘Alright, then. I’m counting on you, as always.’ Lorette said with a smile to the Raltses before extending a Pokéball and returning Larvesta to his Pokéball, immediately making the room a lot colder. ‘Okay, shall we?’ Lorette asked, directing outwards into the rain.
As said, Ledian used Safeguard to protect them from the rain, a white shimmering barrier showing around their bodies as the rain tried to strike them. It kind of felt like the rain was hitting them, but they didn’t become wet or cold. Like, an attack definitely would still hit, but the effects of the attack would not remain. Anyways. Moving on.
‘Fla!’ ‘Bé!’ ‘Bébé!’
Three Flabébés that still had accompanied the whole way swirled overhead, because they had agreed to guide Lorette home, and Amelia was tagging along. So, leaving the shrine, they had the shrine maiden Raltses waving a bit to them as they departed, and then walked back into the rainy forest.
Northern Silent Forest
Before you lies a forest, dark to the sight but that is mostly due to the clouds gathered overhead. Unlike on Route 3, however, the thickness of the trees prevent actually seeing above the trees. The place has a lonely feeling, made only worse by the constant downpour which is the rain around Rainrock City, yet the place is filled with things one would not expect. There are lanterns shining blue light in the trees, there are arcs around the forest for unknown reasons that sometimes look like they’re glowing themselves. There were definitely mystifying powers at work here, these wooden arcs standing as if guiding the way somewhere, yet they lead nowhere, and are strewn around seemingly randomly.
True to its name, other than the rain barely any sounds come from within the forest. And yet, among the trees, small creatures dwell. Despite the lonely feeling, it is hard to look in a direction and not seemingly see a sign of movement. On the ground, smaller grass-type creatures were invariably found, while larger creatures that enjoy the rain could also be expected. But most of all, the air was populated by small, floating flowers, and the tiny denizens on top of them… This place was fairly well known for the fairies that inhabited it. If you’re looking for a place to name the Fairy Forest of Isson… This is a good candidate.
So, there were still gates standing around, though none in particular was glowing to guide the way anywhere, they had already been there. Now it was considerably harder to find the way back, and one might understand why Lorette so commonly got lost in here, especially with the perpetual darkness created by the rainclouds overhead, only the lanterns to guide the way and they too became very similar very fast. But, there were Flabébés drifting around in the forest, and they were following these three that were happily drifting forth, so it’d be easy to reach someplace.
Now, it’s perfectly fine for Amelia to start up a conversation or something, try to talk to the Flabébés and such, or maybe she wants to remain in Silent Forest for any reason or depart in a different direction than south-east, but in case she doesn’t…!
Route 3
Route 3 is partly covered by the Silent Forest, but a path has been made through the trees for people travelling by the northern path from Rainrock down to Highhill and onto Pureplain. It is a fairly decently travelled road, as it’s the main road from Pureplain to the other cities of Isson. But, that doesn’t change that it’s almost constantly under a heavy downpour from the many clouds known to gather in the routes around Rainrock City. The atmosphere is constantly damp, thanks to the rainy weather. Chances are large that Pokémon preferring a rainy day will be found in this route.
While there’s likely a road for vehicles, the route for travellers is much different. With the proximity to Highhill, there’s actually a fair amount of hills in the area, and the route goes up and down. The path itself is fenced in with wooden fences and stairs up and down the hills, following those would lead to a fairly easy traversal to Rainrock City. But, step outside, and you’re officially in Silent Forest. The path is mostly cobblestone and stairs. The trees are mostly green with leaves but some blossom in pink or stranger colors. And of course, plenty of Pokémon if you just stray slightly from the road.
Due to the high amounts of rain and vegetation, few people live on this route, and besides the route itself there’s little in the ways of civilization. Just a very long, very wet route, with two splits. One near Highhill Town going deeper into the forest to the Silent Shrine, and one close to Rainrock east for those heading to Route 4 and Mt. Strength or Stillwood Village. Regardless… the rain will feel like it ends very suddenly, in either of those directions. But it has been like that for so long, people have just accepted it. “It rains on Route 3”, “water is wet”. And so, reality continues.
Common: #69 Bellsprout #285 Shroomish
Uncommon: #425 Drifloon
Rare:
They’d arrive back at Route 3, where they’d have to climb over/dodge under the fence separating the Silent Forest and Route 3 to get back onto it. From there, it was a simple way north or south, and since you had arrived from the west it was a simple matter to determine which way was which.
‘Thank you, my friends.’ Lorette said with a smile to the floating Flabébés, who replied with some happy chirping of their names as they drifted above their heads. From there, Lorette no longer needed any help. She did, however, pull some candy out of her pockets and offered to the fairies, who happily drifted down to grab their pieces. Appears that Lorette was ready to reward them for their efforts.
‘I’ll be heading back to my Gym in Highhill Town.’ Lorette said to Amelia, looking with a smile where the Flabébés were happily eating on their candies. ‘You?’ Lorette asked, looking directly at Amelia with a little playful smile. She was expecting a certain kind of an answer.
So, I'm taking a few liberties here. Like, nothing was really described about the route Alicia was running to get to the train station, so I was like, "Hm, where'd be a cool place to talk? Oh, I know! A currently closed department store!" ... Which I don't know if I can actually say, because maybe Alicia avoids department stores like the plague without my knowledge, I don't actually know if a closed department store would actually be filled with people, I don't actually know if this is taking place at a time a department store would be closed (it's really early, right? still night-kind early?), and I don't actually know the geography of Penrose, so, hah.
Also, I'm currently assuming Alicia will stop to inspect the anomaly in front of her. That FEELS reasonable, but, er, not actually under my control, so if she does anything that clashes with the post as I've written it, tell it and I can do my best to adjust, because Mariette is the one that will have to adapt. That, and if there are any obvious problems with the location I picked that I didn't consider. Hah.
Anyways. Everyone else. I gave Flamelord a heads up about that I'd do this a while back, so, unless something else is an issue that I've not considered, we'll be collaborating the encounter for extra speed, and that's about that. I just wanted to post the first part to let everyone know what's going on. So, sorry train-station combatants, Mariette's going to momentarily borrow what would be part of your reinforcements, heh.
While she ran, Alicia was being watched from a distance. Her route was closely monitored. After all, no action could be taken while she was running in a relatively open area. But, at some point during her run to the train station, it became apparent that the quickest route was straight through a currently closed department store. The building itself was still open enough for a Magical Girl, just all the stores were closed behind metal roll-up doors closing them off with colorful signs above, her shoes probably echoing a bit as she ran through. In here, protected by the walls of the closed department store, this would be fine.
A portal suddenly opened, quickly widening from nothing at all to a two-meter diameter hole in reality in front of Alicia. It was a certain distance away, so she’d have time to stop and review the situation. With the assumption that she’d actually stop and not attempt to just run around, a girl would calmly step out of it. A somewhat tall girl, with white skin and very long straight white hair reaching her knees, a dark elaborate dress holding her body and an eyepatch covering her right eye. Her expression was blank, and with her right arm she was clutching a large stuffed bunny…
Behind her a much shorter, seven-and-a-half year old girl, whose hands were fluid-feathered wings and body seemingly entirely composed of black liquid with white color lighting up her face to simulate a face, eyes staring down at a notebook currently partly submerged in her right fluid wing. Clearly a monster-girl, a liquid harpy. Assuming Alicia hadn’t taken initiative by now, the portal to darkness they had come from would close, and Eli would start speaking while reading off her notes. Her voice sounded… defeated.
‘Name: Alicia Hayden. Affiliation: Beacon. Specialization: Light. The purifying light-specialization brings with it the side-effect that its user can tell if those they speak to are lying…’
‘… Meaning, you’ll know I’m telling the truth.’ Mariette finished, a certain triumph in her tone, her expression touched by a small smile as she looked at the girl in front of her.
‘Hello, Alicia. I am Mariette Pedersen. I wish to speak with you.’
... But Wisp's currently Creep, who's a part-time villain, and a thief regardless, and therefore a good guy is perfectly viable a threat right alongside villains, and Wisp's naturally paranoid anyway, so, yeeeeaaaah... XD
Alright. I'm home. I'm a little busy getting the mess I left behind in order, but I'll start writing posts when I get spare time.
@Pikmin Eye Yupp. Nicely posted. That reasoning works, and I get a clear picture of what goes on from your description. I know what'll happen.
@Rune_Alchemist Alright. Heh. I do wonder a little how Ralia knew to only teleport herself, but hah. We do have it established that Teleport can be used on others because Abras teleporting others are a thing in the game, but, heh. I know Hector has a bunch of 'secret signals' for tactics they've trained in the gym, which he's been using here and there, but... heh. ANYWAYS! Nicely posted. I'll have a reply for you soon enough.
@Joshua Tamashii Yepp. That works just fine. Nicely posted. Now to write something.
@Pikmin Eye I'm going to say "unclear" on that point. Cathia has been exchanging her Pokémon freely without consideration for any imaginary trainer-boundaries, like the ones you two have by ensuring you always have one Pokémon out each. You're currently in the midst of heated battle, there is no judge to call you out on it. If you decide to follow the same rules as Cathia, then yeah, you can. I'll keep how Cathia might react to myself, though. Teh-heh.
@Pikmin Eye I CAN DO TINY POST BEFORE I LEAVE IN THREE HOURS!
... Huh. I just realized, Cathia had an inherent advantage in being alone, if no matter what order her Pokémon were taken out in she'd always have her last two Pokémon at the stage. Following those rules, perhaps Martin should be allowed to send out his other Pokémon right about now?
Eh, Cathia's too pumped up to think of such details, so hah! XD
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