@Rune_Alchemist Ooooh. Yeah, telepathy on that way does make sense. Very well.
… Now, then. To consider if Confusion can actually impact a- *does some research* Oy, it says right here. It’s a telekinetic blow. Not really telekinesis as we consider it, but it’s a telekinetic blow that needs a bit of charge to do damage. Alright, so it can be used like this. But will it be enough to change the trajectory of a pretty large, flying, spinning slab of concrete? … That, we’ll see.
Nicely posted. Now, let’s see where this goes.
@Joshua Tamashii Um. Now, she WOULD feel ghost-types… But they’re Drifloons. Want more than one? XD
@Rune_Alchemist I know it wasn't an attack, but I wanted to explain my reasoning in the face of distaste anyway! XD
I do weight the force of logic over that of dice, of course. I'm happy the inclusion of randomness hasn't been that much of an issue. I'll keep it in mind, though.
Delays are entirely fine. Things happen. Haha.
@Pikmin Eye Yupp. Nice little speech. And yes, Cathia's going to head on, but I'll give a little something, just because. Heh, looking such things up on the Pokédex... Yeah, it's not what I considered, but sure. After all, I consider all other regions explored, and Kalmia had the help of Professor Oak. Of course he knows what the items are used for. Using the Pokédex as your Bulbapedia probably works fine, you just can't check the Isson facts on it yet. Haha. Anyway. Nicely posted.
@Pirouette *snicker* I'm amused by the results of Joshua's compliments. I need to get another female character your age near you so you can start understanding he does this to everyone. Actually, that might fix itself soon. Heh. Anyways, yupp. I'm going to have a bit of fun now. Nicely posted.
@Rune_Alchemist I will defend my choice a bit by saying I do want to make sure the unlikely happens SOMETIMES, and dice allows me to remain unbiased as to when it will happen. Anyways, that aside.
@Eklispe Yupp. Nice little post of just what you're feeling. That's nice, too. Nicely posted.
I randomly felt like posting for those two because reasons, so I did.
Am still intending on posting again in two days time for anyone who has posted by then.
Nincada braced for the rock, and indeed it came. The rock slammed into the grounded bug, sending a small shock through Nincada and the sound echoed through the cave, and the thundering rock was stopped. However, beyond it, Nincada toppled over, having taken more damage than he could handle. Nincada fainted.
However, this gave Sprout his opening. The Vine Whip was sent surging for the Onix, and while the rock snake curled back in an attempt to avoid, there simply wasn’t enough space in the cave to escape lest she wished to risk running over her own trainer. The Onix stopped abruptly before that could happen, but was struck by Sprout’s whips. The huge snake let out a roar of pain, the grassy vines leaving rows of vegetation damaging the rock/ground type considerably more than a physical whip would normally have damaged such a tough creature, and Onix’s head fell to crash down in front of Cathia’s eyes.
Dawkin and Martin were victorious! Dawkin and Martin each gained 1423 P for winning! Wooper grew to level 8! Atlas grew to level 9! Nincada grew to level 11! Sprout grew to level 11!
‘O-Onix…’ She lamented, before sighing and raising a Pokéball to return the massive fainted creature back into her Pokéball. ‘D-don’t worry. You’ll be much more formidable when you’re made of steel.’
That said, she sighed again, before turning with a focused expression towards Martin and Dawkin. She advanced towards them, her expression twitching a little to a frown though she was clearly trying to maintain an aura of grace, despite having become quite the opposite during the actual battle. Then… she took a deep breath… and spoke.
‘… It doesn’t count. The rules of battle were completely lopsided and unclear. You were somehow playing by the rules of two-trainer double battle, while I was playing by single-trainer battle, and then you switched mid-battle. So, it clearly doesn’t count towards my requirement of never losing.’
She looked away, looking a bit ashamed, before she took forward her bag (that she was clearly carrying around) and put her hands into it, preparing to retrieve some things from it.
‘Er, that is. You know you won, but…’
And then all of a sudden the two trainers found numerous things thrust into their hands.
‘… Just…’
Martin was given 2000P! Dawkin was given 2000P!
‘… don’t…’
Martin was given a Rare Candy! Dawkin was given a Rare Candy!
‘… tell…’
Martin was given a Water Stone! Dawkin was given a Moon Stone!
‘… anyone…’
Martin was given a King’s Rock! Dawkin was given a Dragon Scale!
‘… Okay?’
She gave the both of them a slightest, embarrassed smirk, before turning and running at full speed for the exit. Didn’t seem like she wanted to continue conversing.
So, assuming they didn’t interrupt her or somehow prevent her from running, they’re left by themselves in Wet Caverns again.
Though, considering the state of their Pokémon, it’s likely that they’re probably headed for the nearest town. Which is straight forward, out the exit that Cathia just dashed for.
They headed through the shining opening, and finally, they were out in the sunlight once more. The brighter light is momentarily blinding, before they could finally see what lay ahead of him. There was a small bridge, leading over a river, the river being small parts of the Dragon Lake pouring down back into the ocean. The river from the Wet Caverns also fell down in a small waterfall, joining said river. On the other side was a hill, leading down via a dirty road down to a collection of buildings. Beyond the buildings, was plains, a tall icy mountain, and more forest. Regardless, for now they could head down to the buildings. There…
Lakewatch Town
As one looks upon Lakewatch, it is clear it was once built by the side of the water. Yet, over time, Dragon Lake has actually increased in volume, the water-level rising and swallowing the town. Then the natural conclusion would be to move the town back, follow the water-level, and rebuild at the new shore, right? That, does not appear to have been the thought that went through the minds of the designers of this Town, which is essentially placed out in the water on top of older buildings, the streets of the town flooded in water and to get around one has to make use of their many canoes or get on the back of a Pokémon.
The town of Lakewatch rises fairly high for its size, and vegetation grows pretty freely around the buildings. Most buildings and streets have white floating cobblestone to walk on either side of the streets, with a river of water flowing in the middle. People here are highly accustomed to this, and the streets are constantly bustling with people heading back and forth, as well as people actually gliding down from the higher buildings from the roofs above using strange little paragliders. It appears people live in the higher floors, while business takes place on ground/water-level. There are canoes basically everywhere that anyone’s free to borrow, townspeople commonly jumping down on a canoe, using the force of the jump to drift it to the other side and then simply jump off.
Now, anyone could hear from the name that Lakewatch Town is the town that basically rules the Dragon Lake. The Lakewatchers are a group of people that regularly patrol the waters, and become friends with the dragons that live there. Tours by the Lakewatchers are the primary tourist attraction of the place, along with the fish that is procured from the same lake, and guides are trained to show the way in any surrounding areas. Their boats are also those who trade with the western side through Highhill, keeping the place alive and busy. Plus, there’s always the rumors of treasure or otherwise hiding deep in Flooded Lakewatch, and Descent Tower looms in the middle of town for those hoping to explore… but who really knows? It’s a nice and different place, definitely.
So, with that, they arrived into this new place, and there are people who just automatically wave at him and congratulate for breaching the Wet Caverns before going about their business, and there are plenty of canoes or people on Pokémon crossing the rivers… a favorite appears to be crossing on a Quagsire, for some reason. There are plenty of them. Also, their pre-evolution Wooper was also hanging around a bit of everywhere.
Pokédex Entry #194 – Wooper, the Water Fish Pokémon. It lives in cold water, sleeping on the bottom and seeking food by the shore when it's cold. When walking above water, wild Woopers cover their bodies with a slimy, poisonous film that keeps them from dehydrating. It's slightly dull-witted.
Pokédex Entry #195 – Quagsire, the Water Fish Pokémon. A very easy-going Pokémon, they swim about and don’t even mind if they bump their heads into things. When hunting, it simply opens its mouth and moves no muscles, waiting for prey to blunder in. When not moving, it expands very little energy and does not need food for a long time.
Anyways. What would they do, now?
Note, one basically has to cross water to get through this town. It’s not going to be used to slow anyone down, but to be considered when writing a post about crossing it.
1. Find Pokémon. There’s plenty of water here. Could be any number of Water Pokémon in the different rivers through town. 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. Lakewatcher Base. From where Lakewatchers embark to patrol Dragon Lake. 6.5. Lakewatch Docks. For getting tours of Dragon Lake, just taking a ferry or fishing! 6.6. Explorer’s Guide Service. With all these strange places around, Lakewatch offers guides to the surrounding areas! 6.7. Descent Tower. A tower in the middle of town, with stairs down to Flooded Lakewatch. Come prepared for the underwater. 6.8. Back Alleys. … What? Lakewatch has a darker section? What are you talking about?
Connected areas: Wet Caverns. Water-filled caverns that are located to the west. There’s a small hill to climb to get to the entrance. Route 5. The main exit of Lakewatch, leading to a grassy incline connecting mountains, forests and plains. Route 14. The waters of Dragon Lake are also known as Route 14. It connects Lakewatch Town, Highhill Town and Stillwood Village.
@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.’
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