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Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

@Sickle-cell

*deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaath*

spoilers to everything that has happened if you ever want to read it yourself

Wards - Sonar (NPC leader), Messiah, Margrave, Epsilon and Martyr called to Protectorate base. Started out by getting new member Tulpa. Was having friendly chatter until suddenly emergency, villain had been taken hostages. Eyeblight of the Community, power to make himself a scarecrow, fought them in the sewers. Margrave turned his bombs into toys, though, and they beat him. However, at the final hour, other Community members arrived and Xolotl smashed Sonar's helmet.

Sonar's helmet was built by Hero, legendary tinker, unfortunately deceased, and he needed it to live. They thought they lost him, but some development made Epsilon believe they can fix him, so he at least can live a normal life. Martyr appointed new leader, but he left a note and left because couldn't handle the pressure (player left), Messiah new leader. The heroes had a practice session with them where Protean made them answer riddles and the last one was to be attacked by the hero. They failed the test because they didn't come to save their comrade by the end.

TIMESKIP!

Now, new member. Tiger Lily joined. Friendly chatter. They got devices from Decoy which enabled them to create decoy illusions of themselves to fool enemies. Now heading to take Community Shipment that should be unprotected due to Community Rally.

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Jacks - Headhunter, Sofia, Chatterbox and Lovecraft called by mysterious guy called Broker to do jobs for him. He brought in some guy that was their first target (was he an ice-man?) and then he was beaten and huh. Then,
they were to meet up with fifth member Arsenal and conduct a raid against a convoy going with Gamble towards prison. Gamble's power makes it so that, the more unlikely what he wants to do is, the more likely he succeeds.
So obviously, they succeed in saving him, despite Captain Morales and Noble both being there. Broker got Gamble.

Love Craft was captured, though. (player left). Then Arsenal vanished into thin air. (player left)

TIMESKIP!

Heartless and Thunderbolt join the ranks. Now they're going to go take a Community Shipment that should be unprotected due to Community Rally.

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Minutemen - Originally comprised of G4MER, Artificer and Kyoshi as the newest member. First to note. Sonika,
russian mobster villain, had lost a shipment of a Stranger, Cassidy Hendricks. She was rescued when she was out on the streets by another Stranger, Macavity, and came to a realization of how she wanted to live her life.
But, her player's gone, so that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that Sonika flew to find her, ended up in a battle with local NPC hero Furnace, and the Minutemen saw this and went to the scene.

The scene attracted Celia Clark and Outsider, too. Sonika was eventually made to leave after having failed to use Celia as a hostage, then the Minutemen were there and recruited Outsider (and would have recruited Celia, but player left). Then they were called by Wisp's sister, Speedrunner, to save her sister, and went and attacked a Rocker base, but other than goons they found it empty. It was slightly disappointing. But they still took credit for it and were endorsed by Furnace.

TIMESKIP! (oh, and G4MER and Artificer's players left.)

They're more famous now, and are being asked by a woman to... save her father... I think it was... I mean,
I read it, but I don't really remember... Some Minutemen help me out here, please? Oh, and Swarm showed up after his failure at the Rockers house (see Wisp's story) and wanting them to bash up the Rocker's leadership so he can take over in the power-vacuum.

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Lethal Force - Their members all had different independent experiences first, I believe. Zach had a battle that had him team up with Arsenal to fight Necro, but then Zach got captured in containment foam, or something.
Sparce and Farse had... some kind of adventure I don't remember a lot of but they did, it involved Retcon.
Regardless, they all decided they were to create a new team which would eliminate villains rather than just capture them. Their first target was Necro (who's player left), whom they successfully killed. I believe it was.

TIMESKIP!

They've been hunting Community members, and whops, they drew their ire. Troll (not preferred name) contacted them through a screen with female hostage, using her power to get on their nerves. This caused Zach to break the TV.
Limbo appeared and was like "oh, you got her mad" and then Sparce and Farse could find their apartment broken.
Troll intended to kill the woman, but she triggered, woah. Now she has another plan. And... um... not sure if there have been any developments past that. String Theory looks like she'll be joining. No, not canon String Theory, our String Theory.

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Overlook - He was trapped in a hole scouting on the Protectorate through his drone. He was, obviously, seen because using a drone to find out the identities of Wards would be terrible. I think he spoke to one of them briefly? Anyway. Decoy tracked him down, and Overlook said he was interested in leaving his bunker and becoming proper hero, or something. So they sent a team and brought him in and

TIMESKIP!

he's now a proper hero, though people doubt what he'll be capable of. Yeah.

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Wisp - She's a Stranger Rogue who's stealing for her sister, Speedrunner, to stay alive. Suddenly, Rockers come beating down on her door. She makes them leave, but makes a deal that she'll come to see them to talk about potential recruitment to do it. Now, Wisp would never want to join a villain team, but she sees the opportunity to perhaps work from the other side, to trust her ability to do good even when used by the bad ones. Speedrunner fears she'll be captured, and such calls Minutemen on the Rockers to save Wisp. But, they get there too late.

Wisp meets with Shatterpoint of the Rockers, and while making it clear she won't do villainous things, agrees to do scouting and perhaps even fighting other villains for them. Then Swarm comes in and tries to take over the Rockers. Wisp manages to sneak behind him (Stranger) and destabilize him for long enough for Shatterpoint to take him out.
That said, now Minutemen are attacking, so both Wisp and Shatterpoint hightail. Now, she wouldn't want her villainous activities to be associated with who she is, who is Wisp, so she takes a new name. Creep.

TIMESKIP!

Creep is tasked to do minor thefts and scouting for the Rockers. Fine. Then, she's now sent to the Community Rally, to check what it's all about. She heads there and finds out their leader, the Patriarch, has the power to make anyone he touches basically instantly brainwashed, it seems like, and has obtained Sonika for his family.
He wants to make the entire city his family. He also warns that the Rockers have obtained a Stranger, being Creep, of course. She has no idea how they learned. But, nobody at the rally seemed to see her. With that,
Creep now hurries back to tell Shatterpoint, and intends to inform the Protectorate of her findings as well.

I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING. If I got anything wrong, people are free to correct me. And I forgot some details. Hah.

Pokémon: Start

@Project Alright. I hope you'll be able to find the creativity. I've been missing you, after all.

@Pyromaniacwolf What, is it hard to fight fish? XD

Nicely posted. Alright. Nice to have you back. Now let's see if I can figure out what to- XD

Worm - The Malfesant Throne

Whelp, now I got self-conscious about how many female characters we're making. ... OH, WELL, IT'S CANON THAT THERE ARE MORE FEMALE CAPES THAN MALE! XD

Basically, I was like, "everyone's probably going to be villains" and made a hero to watch everything happen. But, heh. We'll see what happens. Here she is.

Knight

_{She has a helmet of similar fashion as the armor to hide her face when out, though the helmet lets her hair hang out under it behind. And the armor does not have a red dress in it, it’s armored legs instead.}

_{Image by raikoart.}

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Name: Rosaline Buckner

Cape Name: Knight

Theme Song: The inspiration for the entire character

Aspects

High Concept: Modern Knight Determined To Defend

Trouble: Insecurity, Insufficiency, Insincerity

Origin: Child of Riches and Glory

Growth: Like Father Like Daughter

Adventure: I Hope to be Our Liberator

Bio

Personality: Knight is a generally kind-natured girl with a mild case of insecurity. She’s not the social butterfly nor the social recluse, but more the kind to stand close to the rest and privately hope she doesn’t have to speak. She’s most at home when there’s only a few around that she knows well and share a close partnership with. She doesn’t handle stress well, and may flounder if the objectives are unclear. Yet still, she wants to be the hero that defends the people.

Because of how her life developed, Knight wants to do her best as a Hero of the Protectorate. She feels proud of her father who once stood where she now stands, and wants to uphold his proud legacy. Despite this, she’s a little lazy and will avoid taking on additional non-essential duties if she can at all avoid it, her past as a girl who had everything shining through. Nevertheless, she reacts hopefully to all notions of stopping villains, becoming fully alert.

That said, while her power is capable, she’s not experienced quite yet. While Knight has had plenty of training and her body is fit, she has only had a minimal amount of actual encounters with villains. Also, these stalemates where the Protectorate are unable to just head out and deal with villains despite knowing they’re there confuse her considerably, and puts additional stress on her mind. She can but be wary, when will the time come to strike…? She can but wait and hope.

History:

For those who have read Worm

Rosaline was born the daughter of a rather well-off man named Harold Buckner and his wife. They had made a minor empire in the world of transporting wares across the nation and the storing logistics behind it. Herself, Rosaline was raised a relatively normal girl, with friends and going to parties and such. She was aware of the cape-scene, but wouldn’t take part in it because she wasn’t concerned, mostly.

However, one day her father and his wife were attacked while driving in their car. No doubt the attackers thought to take the rich man and get rich of him when the car crashed from the attack. When they then approached the car, they found the car filled with blood. Not wanting to be associated with murder, the villains hightailed. The blood was that of Rosaline’s mother. She died, and Harold could do nothing but let himself be overcome with hatred. This was not what he told Rosaline. He told her he had triggered, and killed the assailants. She believed him.

The lie somehow went undetected, while Harold went through the motions. He managed to make himself contacted by Cauldron. He used a hefty amount of his fortune to earn himself his powers as soon as possible. Then, when he finally got his powers, Harold took the less-than-subtle name Retribution, left his company and became a Protectorate hero in Boston in order to find those that had killed his wife.

Rosaline, while of course sad over her mother’s death, supported her father and took over working at home while also going to school, intending to be the sunshine in her father’s otherwise very dangerous life, to always meet him with a smile. And it worked. For a while. They were happy together, and the villains knew Retribution as a formidable hero. Rosaline was proud of him, and hoped he’d always be there to defend the city…

After five years of service, Retribution vanished. He didn’t come home one night, and Rosaline had to continue life on her own. Day after day, she could simply hope her dad came back. She lived close to a supermarket, and to school, and money wasn’t really an issue. Then, one day, Harold was declared KIA due to extended absence. Perhaps, he had done something Cauldron did not approve of and they had him removed…?

Rosaline was crushed. She had now lost both her parents to villainy. What… would she do?

… After considerable searching on the internet, she received an email. It was… exactly what she had been looking for.

Just like with her father, Cauldron found a Buckner seeking powers on the internet. They never told her that her father had done the very same thing fairly recently. The rest of the story continues as could be expected. Rosaline used her considerable inheritance and spared no expense. Alone she had no need for the family mansion, and as long as she kept enough to seem like she was still reasonably wealthy it all still connected.

But, now she owes Cauldron a few favors, that may or may not come back to haunt her…

Honestly, compared to what she paid for, Rosaline’s power is a little lacking. The vial she got should have given her a stronger power. But what’s done is done, she isn’t about to complain.

Cauldron arranged a kidnapping to take place to explain her sudden triggering, hiring some villains to “kidnap” her and through that explain why Rosaline triggered. It was simple enough. She was a rich girl that was the child of a recently deceased rich man. An easy target. Going along with this and then “scaring away” her kidnappers, Rosaline had her explanation for why she got her powers. And then she was set.

Ever since her father had become a hero, Rosaline had been taking self-defense courses, just in case someone wanted to use her against her father she had wanted to be prepared if she had to defend herself. Turned out this would be to good use. Then, when she did get her powers, she used the remaining money to fashion herself a suit of armor to be her battlefield suit. She was the daughter of Retribution, and she’d be placed in the same city. She wanted to succeed where her father had failed.

Now, at 19, she’s just over the limit to become a Ward. So officially, she’s a Hero. But, she’s still young.

For those who haven’t read Worm

Rosaline was born the daughter of a rather well-off man and his wife. They had made a minor empire in the world of transporting wares across the nation and the storing logistics behind it. Herself, Rosaline was raised a relatively normal girl, with friends and going to parties and such. She was aware of the cape-scene, but wouldn’t take part in it because she wasn’t concerned, mostly.

However, one day her father and his wife were attacked while driving in their car. No doubt the attackers thought to take the rich man and get rich of him when the car crashed from the attack. When they then approached the car, Harold Buckner triggered, and killed the attackers. But, after the dust had settled, his wife had already died by their attack.

Harold, taking the name Retribution, left his company in the hands of his capable management while he himself went and became a Protectorate hero in Boston. Rosaline, while of course sad over her mother’s death, supported her father and took over working at home while also going to school, to be the sunshine in her father’s otherwise very dangerous life, to always meet him with a smile. And it worked. For a while. They were happy together, and the villains knew Retribution as a formidable hero. Rosaline was proud of him, and hoped he’d always be there to defend the city…

After five years of service, Retribution vanished. Did he die where nobody could see him? He didn’t come home one night, and Rosaline had to continue life on her own. Day after day, she could simply hope her dad came back. She lived close to a supermarket, and to school, and money wasn’t really an issue. Then, one day, Harold was declared KIA due to extended absence. Rosaline was crushed. She had now lost both her parents to villainy. She had lost purpose to her life. She was unsure what to do next.

Fortunately for her, some villains decided that for her. A rich girl, living all by herself, with recently deceased parents? Is there any sweeter a target? … Though, they seemed to not entirely have considered what happened last time someone attacked a member of the Buckner family. Alike to her father, upon being attacked Rosaline triggered in a panic as they invaded into her mansion, and somehow repelled the attackers. And it… it felt good.

It was clear to her. She was her father’s daughter. She had been taking self-defense classes even before this, but it was time to put it to good use. Alike to her father, Rosaline went to the Protectorate to enlist, wanting to make good on her father’s legacy.

Now, at 19, she’s just over the limit to become a Ward. So officially, she’s a Hero. But, she’s still young.

Abilities

Shaker 5, Mover 2

Knight’s power allows her to pause time in a block of certain volume around her. This space becomes what essentially amounts to an immovable object, because the area of paused time allows nothing to penetrate it. However, that isn’t all of it. She can also shape said area that she forms to almost any shape she wants it to have, and can then telekinetically move it within a range around herself with considerable speed. She uses these in several different ways.

Her range lies at around 15 meters around her, while the total volume of frozen air she can make lies around a cubic meter. She can feel where her frozen air is, and controls its shape and movement through that link. The exact measurements and the force she can apply differs by the day and if her power feels like cooperating fully on said day. At peak efficiency she can be a fearsome opponent. The force of her telekinetic ability is comparable to the force of what a Brute 2 should be able to accomplish.

Because light cannot go through her frozen time, the blocks mostly appear somewhat dull blue from the nitrogen inside. It is possible for her to seal physical objects inside her frozen air, however, and if those are close to the surface then the color of those objects will be seen. If objects or air were in motion when she froze it, then upon releasing the frozen time the object will retain the motion and potentially come crashing out of it in the same manner it was frozen.

If they don’t have too high volume, she’s able to create two or three fields at the same time. She can hold one Knight’s Sword while still being able to create a Knight’s Shield in front of her, or stand on her Knight’s Steed while still able to Shield or Sword as necessary. However, the size and telekinetic power she can apply on each when splitting up is decreased, and it will take more on her mind, as described in the final paragraph here. Depends slightly on if her power is working efficiently currently.

Different uses of her power.

Knight’s Shield - The area she creates is essentially an immovable object that she can control. By simply making it a wall, she can block enemy attacks and halt the progress of movement. She can also shift it around telekinetically, making it impact objects with certain amount of force and block the attacks of others. Or she can just smash the block into someone to try to hurt them, but then she’s better off using the next ability.

Knight’s Sword - She shapes a weapon in the air in front of her using paused time. She then grips it and telekinetically moves it, and she has a weapon of stopped time. Because she can shape it, she can make this into whatever bladed weapon she currently needs and make it really, really sharp. Also, with the illusion that she’s wielding it as a weapon, she hopes to make people forget she’s moving it telekinetically to slice in at an enemy from an unexpected angle as she can make it shape itself or leave her hand but still slice at will.

Knight’s Steed - Here’s why she’s a part Mover. She can freeze an area beneath herself that she then stands on as a platform, and then she makes it fly using her telekinetic control of said area. Of course, using said platform reduces the amount of focus she can give her other abilities, but the momentum allows her to carry herself and others to new places. While her acceleration is somewhat low compared to many fliers and damages her maneuverability when on the steed, she can focus said acceleration over time to actually build pretty good speed before air-resistance puts a stop to it.

Knight’s Armor - Knight’s most powerful ability. She completely seals herself in a thin stretch of frozen time around herself, and then shaped said stretch as she moves to accommodate her and then she can use her telekinesis to propel herself to attack. In this form, Knight becomes practically invulnerable to physical blows as they cannot pass through her barrier of frozen time. But, she does need two slits to see with her eyes, though she can seal those if necessary. However, she cannot use her other abilities when using this, meaning she’ll be unable to support team-mates or similar. Also, she doesn’t actually get stronger, so while she cannot be damaged enemies can restrain her still. In addition, doing this combines all aspects of her power and it puts considerable stress on her mind, refer to the final paragraph.

Limitations - She cannot pause time when there’s anything living inside the field she tries to pause. This includes humans and animals, but also things like plants and insects. This is Manton Effect working, and she cannot freeze herself either.

Also, while she can control things telekinetically, the force she moves it with can be countered by the strength of others. So although enemies cannot themselves move the immovable block she creates, they CAN stop her from moving it herself with their own strength. While she can freeze time around objects, she prefers simply using air. Because, if she freezes a part of a wall, she can’t move her frozen area because the rest of the wall resists the movement.

And then, of course, there’s her own limit. Every time she uses her power, a pressure is put on her mind which works to keep the time frozen. Every time she needs to shape or move the barriers of frozen time, the pressure works inside her head. If she tries to strain herself to do more, which she can, she’ll eventually feel an echoing, growing pain on her mentality. Her power has the potential to make her basically invincible… but that, is first at the price of considerable pain and pressure on a particular thread inside her mind, and that might one day snap.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

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_{ALICIA! I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE TIME TO DEAL WITH THE HORSE-INFESTATION BEFORE DELIVERING THAT MESSAGE...!}

Pokémon: Start

@Joshua Tamashii Oh, um. I have another hider under the one on the first post in the OOC where it shows Routes. I just thought it looked cluttered with the routes in it so I made the main version be without them. Still, heading for Old Tombs is the right direction to head to Route 16. XD

Anyways. Grinding against trainers does fine. Let's see what we can do. It's a bit tougher than against wild Pokémon, of course, because you can't be sure the person you're challenging isn't necessarily better prepared than you, but I'm not necessarily intending on being too mean. Heh.

Yupp, nicely posted. 9 Pokéballs and 1 Umbrella comes out at 1850. Yeah, well within your price-range. Heh.

@Rune_Alchemist Teh-heh. That's how you celebrate. The antics of the Ralia-clones made me chuckle a bit. Alright. That was nice to read. Nicely posted. Now, then.

Worm - A Gritty Parahuman Roleplay Interest Check

... Heh. Joining one from the very beginning might be fun. I'll note I'm part of the other one, so I may be satisfied with Worm roleplays potentially, but I am kind of a big fan of the universe that has read through the entire serial and would potentially be interested...

I'll read the OOC and check how things develop. Let me place my tentative interest here. Depends on how much I like the atmosphere.

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

... Sheila's going to want a talk with Shatterpoint that's a little... more than their usual chats. Heh.

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

Creep

Sheila Hopkins

Community Rally, and leaving

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… If his power was enough to make the whole city his family, then… then he had to be dealt with. And then he…

Oh. They knew of her. She didn’t even bother trying to think of how they knew that, she wouldn’t find an answer. It was with a cold shiver that she realized… there was only the Community and the Rockers left, huh? … And there was no way the Rockers would win, was there? Creep kept herself silent, merely frowning under her blindfold. As far as she could tell, they hadn’t seen her. But, they were wary of her. She didn’t want to give them any opportunity to collect her.

Creep turned and walked. Silent, as usual, keeping herself from walking into people, but simply walked away. Her ability to see around her scouted for even the slightest indication that someone was following her, and probably resulted in several false positives that she then made sure to lose. With the assumption that she’d not be followed or tracked down, she’d then take a very long, very convoluted detour to hopefully get people to stop following her, JUST IN CASE someone was able to track her from the rally.

… But then she’d head to meet Shatterpoint again. Either at the base or if she had someplace where it was determined that they’d meet. She had something… she wanted to talk to him about, besides the whole reporting what she had seen thing.

@Eklispe

Pokémon: Start

@Eklispe There's the post I hoped I'd get. Thank you. Nicely posted. Now then.

@Pirouette There we go. If you want to interrupt him before he gets going, you totally could do that.

@Rune_Alchemist If you want to do/say anything before stuff happens, tell me. Hahaha. That was nice.

@Joshua Tamashii Yeah, you've got a bunch of options of what to do next.

@Pikmin Eye@Eklispe And you've got a new town. Or maybe you want to head somewhere else? That's always possible. Hah.

@Pyromaniacwolf@Project@TheIrishJJ So, what's up? And I mean that question literally, what's directly upwards from your current position?

Pokémon: Start

@Pirouette

Joshua simply smiled widely at Erika’s reaction, before they headed on. Then soon enough… Yeah, they encountered the sign and the invitation. The two boys didn’t particularly have anything to say, so they went inside with her. There… yeah, there was the chair. Ewan had no particular expression while Joshua was as perplexed as her. So, when Erika went forth and addressed the chair…

‘Argh!’ A noise was heard as the whole chair jumped a bit. ‘You noticed me hiding under the chair!? Grrh… You’re sharper than you look!’ Not responding to her question of when he started hiding there, suddenly the whole huge chair was sent flying, along with a whole pile of empty water bottles and empty cans… and a young man jumped up from underneath onto the chair left in its wake, standing over the three young trainers. A brown-haired young man with red-rimmed glasses looking down at them with a confident smirk. It was an older version of the exhilarated kid in the framed photographs.

‘Ta-ha, did I surprise you? I am the mighty Trail Master!’ He announces, proudly.

Trial Master

‘Yes! The one and only Trail Master! The grandson of the famous Trick Master! … _{That nobody on Isson has ever heard about…}’ … So, he went silent for a bit, then shook his head and pointed at them. ‘YOU THREE! So, you’re here to accept my trial, are you not!? Well, be happy, for my trails accept YOU! The task is simple! Use your Pokémon to reach the end of my trial, and you will be rewarded! This will be unlike any trainer battle, for this is a challenging TRIAL! Seek to overcome it only if you’re confident in your abilities! The only rule is no teleportation or digging around the trial, you need to actually get through the room! So, I’ll see you on the other side, if you win! Tahahaha…!’

And then he pulled an Escape Rope out of nowhere, and it pulled him through nowhere and he was suddenly gone.

Behind him… the white stone wall behind him swung open, because it was apparently a huge double-door, showing the dark entrance into a very finely carved-out cavern, inviting inwards, and it was very dark. In the distance, inside the cave… was the sound of… blowing wind?

The challenge had been made. Would Erika press on? Or perhaps she wanted to consult her companions? Joshua was just looking a bit perplexed right now while Ewan was standing silent for the time being. If she was quiet for long enough one of them would speak, of course, but until then.

What’s Erika’s reaction?

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@Rune_Alchemist

Now, would the telekinetic power of a Confusion be able to shift the incoming spinning slab of concrete that was coming her way?

… The answer was no, there’s not enough force in Confusion to accomplish that.

However, what it DID, was slightly upset the balance of the spin. Instead of coming at her straight and spinning vertically, the spin lifted so it spun at her more as the side of a wheel. After that, there was too little time to do anything else. The slab of concrete came spinning down at her…

And impacted slightly in front of her instead of right at her because of the upset to the spin. It’d then fall down with excess power to probably flatten her, normally, but because it was in full spin, it maintained its momentum despite having hit the floor. Parts of the slab carved through the floor right in front of her which had recoiled just enough force for it to keep itself airborne just long enough to stay afloat with enough momentum forward to have it sail straight over Ralia, with the assumption that she was crouching. To an onlooker, it probably looked like the rock rolled right over Ralia yet somehow she was still standing when it came out on the other side. The spinning rock had spun so it hit the floor right in front of her and right behind her, missing by a hair’s width. Ralia’s totally free to think precisely whatever she wanted about this.

The rock kept going and smashed a huge hole in the wall, sending cracks all over the sides of that wall, debris falling additionally from the hole in the ceiling and they now had a new, huge, deformed window out into open air that parts of wall were now falling down from. The still intact walls on that side gave an audible groan. Er.

Meanwhile, Lure started dodging Conkeldurrs attacks. The comparatively massive muscle-creature swung his arms, but Lure dodged bit by bit, yet Conkeldurr was experienced and intent to catch her. With each miss, Lure would feel the air of power as each swipe after her was made. If she let up for even a moment, Conkeldurr would easily have smashed her. She may have to reevaluate those “pro dodge skills”, every single dodge felt hair-fine and like it could have easily been the end. And the swipes just kept coming…!

Then, she may have made a slight mistake in the last dodge, for the next swipe of the arm seemed to be going right into the place where Lure had planned to dodge to. Regardless of what she desired, it seemed like she was going to be hit by a yet still very powerful Chip Away that still would have meant the end to a Combee if it hit-

-When Conkeldurr suddenly jerked to, messing up the swing and letting Lure dodge under it, for Conkeldurr had just been hit in the side of his face by the surviving Ralia’s Confusion. The mountain of muscle staggered away a bit before glaring in anger and damage at Ralia, still standing right where he left her, and Lure probably flying surviving away from him.

‘Conkel…!’ He took a step to hunt them down again… when he staggered forward, blinking a little in surprise trying to maintain balance. Hector was watching curiously, and a smile spread on his lips.

‘Durr…?’ Conkeldurr asked, raising his head, and looking forward, his eyes a bit unfocused as he tried to look at the enemies past his big red nose… … … … …

‘… Duuuuuuuuuuurr…’Before he slowly, steadily, began to accelerate backwards, falling off his comparatively tiny feet as the creature fell back, slamming its back against the floor behind it. The poison and the constant attacks had finally become too much. Conkeldurr fainted.

Claire was victorious! Claire gained 2500 P for winning!
Ralia grew to level 12! Ralia learned Disarming Voice!
Ritz grew to level 12!
Del grew to level 10!
Lure grew to level 10!

‘Haha, HAHAHAHA…!’ Hector laughs out loud, and Claire would hear from around her considerable applause from the inhabitants of the gym, Pokémon as well as humans, and numerous wistles and cheers from some more enthusiastic individuals. Not really super-star level applause, but they’re clearly appreciating the effort she managed to put in. Anise sighed out in relief, on the side, and nodded to her. Like, acknowledging, well done.

‘You’re good. You got guts. You got enthusiastic Pokémon. And above all, you’ve got the spirit to win.’ He grins widely, before advancing forward towards Claire with glee. ‘YOU GOT MY RESPECT! HERE IT IS; THE CHALLENGE BADGE OF REDCOAST GYM! YOU’VE EARNED IT!’ So he declares, and if he’s at all allowed to he’ll grab her hand and clasp the badge into her palm.

Claire obtained the Challenge Badge!

The badge is depicting a dot of impact which has fire blasting out in all direction clearly meant to look like something struck the middle and everything exploded. It’s in the dark-brown/dark-red color of fighting. … Could honestly have been mistaken for a fire-type badge, but eh.

‘Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand THIS!’

Claire obtained TM98, Power-Up Punch!

‘Power-Up Punch! Power yourself up, AND hit the enemy for damage! Can’t consider a better combo!’ Hector makes a fist lifted upwards to show his enthusiasm.

‘Though, don’t worry about it if you lose your badge. The match was tracked by the Pokédex you got there, right? Meaning your victory has already been registered into the Pokémon League database! That’s to make sure silly things like stealing badges doesn’t work! Something should have been marked into your Trainer Card, too! Feel free to have a look!’ He grins at her. If she looks, then Claire will see that the image of the Challenge Badge has been registered in the row for Minor League badges, in slot four of nine.

Sooooooooooooo, they had left the floor of the arena completely in shambles and danger of walking on sharp rocks for anyone barefoot, made a Lucario-shaped hole in the back wall, made a huge hole through ANOTHER wall where the giant slab had flown through, and they had collapsed part of the ceiling. And that was ONE battle. … Yupp, this place did not seem like it would need less maintenance anytime soon.

Now, then. Claire and co’s reactions.

… … … … …

Oh?

Del may feel his consciousness returning…

If not cancelled…

He’d feel that his experience to be sufficient. If he WANTED it, he could let the energy collect itself. If he DOESN’T, then in the future he can choose to evolve whenever he wants to.

But should he choose to, a surge of energy might catch everybody’s attention, as a crack suddenly appeared in the back of the supposedly fainted Kakuna’s shell. With a surge of light streaming out of the back, the light would charge brighter and brighter, the shell cracking further and further, until finally, wings sprouted in the back, and Del could raise himself up on his new, four limbs, two of which had sharp stingers on its ends, and he himself could stand tall as a great, yellow wasp…

Del evolved into Beedrill!

Pokédex Entry #15 – Beedrill, the Poison Bee Pokémon. Extremely territorial, should someone intrude on their grounds they attack in furious swarms. They fly at high speed and attack with their venomous stingers. A poisoned prey is then taken back to the nest to feed on.

Del learned Fury Attack!

Del got a new Ability! Shed Skin was replaced with Swarm! Boosts the power of Bug-Type moves when heavily damaged!

New Pokémon evolved! Claire earned 2000 P!

And, for some reason involving that it was the Kakuna shell that took damage and such, Del’s healthy again! Just because!

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@Joshua Tamashii

Amelia did sense a couple of ghosts on the way, and Lorette was kind of curious as to why these detours were to be taken so she tagged along. But, finding that the ghosts were all Drifloons, they could then head back on track. Anyways. Moving on.

‘Fla~!’ ‘Bé~!’ ‘Bé~!’ The three little fairies happily nuzzled with Amelia’s hand, but were otherwise not really intending on leaving their forest, so with that intention, they’d wave to her and be on their way.

Lorette listened to Amelia’s words about not feeling ready to challenge her, and Lorette smiled and gave her a nod. While not offended, she did look a little disappointed.

‘Alright. Whenever you feel ready, then. I’ll be waiting.’ She nodded to her, and then Lorette intended on heading back to Highhill Town.

Now, Amelia could go with her and be guarded from the rain by Ledian’s Safeguard to Highhill Town…

Highhill Town

Highhill Town

Highhill Town is a small, lively place that has seemingly stood atop this hill from time immemorial and never really changed. The atmosphere in Highhill Town is much fresher than surrounding places, the buildings are older and the work as honest as ever. The old town is populated by elders and younglings aplenty, and the town has a culture of their own. Plenty of Pokémon assist with the work, either as work-force or the animals that work is being done on.

One usually only crosses Highhill Town on a trip to or from Pureplain City. Regardless, it is a place of beauty. The fields around it are cultivated by hard-working people and Pokémon while the lake to the east gleams in the sunshine as fishermen attend it. There are small roads of asphalt spiraling up the hill to lead to all the old buildings, and children playing around in stairs or nature is very common.

It is said that a trainer praying at the nearby Silent Shrine will be blessed on their journey, so many travel to Highhill Town just for that. There’s also a set of very ancient rocks spread about town, pointing out towards the lake on top of the hill with some engravings. What they mean? Nobody knows. Also, Highhill Town is the residence of a certain Move Changer, whose abilities are sought by some new trainers. What he can do? Visit him to find out.

Suggestions to actions

1. Find Pokémon. Can still search for Pokémon in towns~
2. Talk. In cities and towns, 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. Docks. For fishermen or perhaps a ticket across Route 14.
6.5. Ancient Rocks. Of completely unknown origin, ancient writing on them.
6.6. Ranch. There are ranches around Highhill, if you stand to gain from them.
6.7. Move Changer. We can guess from the name, but what can this man do?
6.8. Mayor’s House. If you see reason to visit, it’s right by the rocks.

Connected areas:
Route 1. To the south, is the common route of first journeys. Green and straight.
Route 3. To the north, the route to Rainrock or the Silent Shrine. A wet woodland.
Route 14. To the east, the lake known as the Dragon Lake, potentially for crossing.

Highhill Town, known Pokémon

Common:
#66 Machop

Uncommon:

Rare:

Or maybe she stays here on Route 3 or just takes a round-trip to buy another umbrella for 50P.

Route 3

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.

Suggestions to actions

1. Find Pokémon. Feel free to specify searching for a specific kind, if so.
2. Train Pokémon. With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding.
3. Seek trainers. There should be some here and there. Note, some may challenge you, regardless.
4. Talk. There’s some travellers traveling along the rainy route. They can be talked to.
5. Move along. Move along normally, letting any events that may come happen naturally.
6. Hurry along. Intentionally avoid confrontations and try to get safely to the next destination.
7. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result.
8. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you.
9. Team Virtue members. There are currently Team Virtue members on Route 3. They likely won’t trouble anyone just being normal trainers, but they’re patrolling right now and it’s slightly notable.

Connected areas:
Rainrock City. Across the route, north.
Route 4. Head east just before Rainrock.
Silent Shrine. Head west just before Highhill, through the forest.
Highhill Town. Just south.
<technically, you could reach Silent Forest by just jumping off west, and Dragon Lake by just jumping off right, but those aren’t listed as proper “connected areas”>

Route 3, known Pokémon

Common:
#69 Bellsprout
#285 Shroomish

Uncommon:
#425 Drifloon

Rare:

Or maybe she goes somewhere else, which is entirely fine.

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@Pikmin Eye@Eklispe

At Martin’s words, Cathia briefly slowed down and stopped by the opening. She turned her head back and analyzed him absently, her calm demeanour regained, her look acknowledging that she had heard him and perhaps considering if she should reply while looking at him with slight interest. Deciding against it, she turned and dashed out again to continue her own journey.

Heading down to find the Pokémon Center, they’d find the people pretty understanding that they’d need to head there and wouldn’t have any trouble being pointed towards it and get a boat to row to it with, free of charge. And so, as they arrive at the indent in a taller building that currently served as a Pokémon Center… Cathia could be seen dashing out of it and leaving in another direction. Yeah, she needed to stop by there, too. She just made sure to have gotten there first so she could then be on her way before she ran into them again.

In any case. They could easily head in and get their Pokémon healed.

nurse

‘Hello, and welcome to the Pokémon Center. Would you like to rest your Pokémon?’

Assumingly, yes.

‘Okay. I’ll take your Pokémon for a few seconds, then.’

She’d then accept the Pokéballs and put them into the machine, and…

Di, di, di-do-da!

‘Thank you for waiting. We’ve restored your Pokémon to full health.’

She says as she hands the Pokéballs back. She then bows to her customer and gives a friendly smile.

‘We hope to see you again!’

But, yes. Now they were in Lakewatch Town. What’s next?

Suggestions to actions

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 east. 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.

Known Pokémon

In Town
Common:
#194 Wooper
#195 Quagsire

Waters outside
Common:
#60 Poliwag

Uncommon:
#318 Carvanha
#535 Tympole

Rare: