Also, I obviously don't know all the Magical Girls that are in Eli's notebook, because Deni and Eli simply scouted all those they could find for the weeks they had. It's useful to have. Should we actually go and attempt recruitment, well, I'll leave it to the GM how that's actually going to go.
‘… Hm.’ Mariette sounded out as Penny voiced that they may want to move, looking over at the ship. Yeah, this is right where Justine’s attack left it, they’d know exactly where they are. ‘I can move it. Tell me where,’ she told, staring at the ship. Then, Alexander made his request.
Mariette gave him a slow look, then focused her power. It took longer to open the portal due to longer distance, but soon enough she had connected a portal to fairly far away and a man-sized portal opened in front of him, leading to the forest he had requested.
‘I can leave the portal open for you, just decreased in size, so you can come back and tell when it’s time to return,’ Mariette told him. ‘Or you could simply give me an amount of time after which I should retrieve you.’ … It was a problem that she didn’t necessarily know when to get people. Which is why she wanted that phone she had requested of Alicia. Idly she checked with Absolute Direction…
… Huh. She was coming towards them, at breakneck speed, making tight corners, and- what the-
Having not connected she was in a fast-moving car, Mariette initially thought Alicia was flying fast at low altitude and making the weirdest turns. But then, the car came into view, and it seemed the answer was a little simpler. Mariette dropped the frown, and simply stared in the direction, clutching her bunny. Alicia would know what Mariette wanted to know.
Meanwhile, Eli was approaching Sue, Anaya, anyone else close to there, leafing through her notebook.
‘Are we looking for people likely to help, or everyone?’ Eli asked. ‘Because then, we have quite a few written down…’ Eli then started explaining about numerous Magical Girls she knew off, perhaps noting those whom which could be used to recruit others in turn or those who by her calculations would be likely to want to help, and such. These could be swiftly reached simply using Mariette’s portals, and so on.
@Pikmin Eye There you go. Feel free to decide what you do from here. Also, I’m amused by my tale as to what happened here and it’s rather inconsequential to any plot as a whole, so I’m going to share it, if you’d like to read.
So, guy has to travel the Vast Underground. Because it can be dangerous with all the violent Durants, he reluctantly takes with him a Trubbish with the stench ability, keeping the Durants away. However, the guy becomes tired and the time grows late, meaning he decides to set up camp and sleep. However, there’s no way he’ll sleep with Trubbish’s horrible scent around. So he returns Trubbish to the ball, and Trubbish not being part of his regular team he places the Pokéball in the bag rather than on his belt. To nobody’s great surprise, after removing Trubbish’s scent the camp is attacked by Durants in his sleep. Panicked, he leaves everything behind and flees. Trubbish is left behind. Yupp.
@Rune_Alchemist I did wonder a bit what I’d do with you now, but this should make enough sense. Now, then. You can probably do quick-training if you wish, heh. Then it would be the same as quick-battling, you tell me the tactics you’re going to be using, I then tell what happen and perhaps pause if something unexpected happens. You can do several at the same time if you wish.
@Pirouette … Sorry, I specifically went and checked how much HP this Pikachu would have, and it was under 40. XD
@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii And you two can keep talking. Eklispe, I think it’s your turn? You can keep talking without my input.
Edit: Just in case, I'd like to note that the note about Amelia being cold is more like a reminder "this should be very uncomfortable", but you can still type that she just shrugs it off if you feel like it, hah.
Martin wandered in the direction of the flowing water. The amount of Pokémon decreased rather drastically here. While it wasn’t as extreme as to the right, the air grew colder here, too. Was that a touch of wind he was feeling? Regardless, he could climb the rocks of this vast cavern towards the sound.
And there it is. An underground river, coursing from his right to his left. It floods on an angle, coming down with plenty of sound from the uneven and rocky river’s bottom, crashing off making plenty of foam. On the other side of the river the cavern continues further, it’s just this sudden river blocking the way. The river is too deep to cross on foot, and there’s a powerful current towards Martin’s left should he desire to cross. It was difficult to lean to try to see where the river came from or where it went.
There are two sets of red fish in the water. Some are Goldeens, bravely defying the powerful current and swimming up the river to the right, displaying themselves with the grace they’re known for. The others are, uh, rather big, red fishes with vacant eyes trying desperately to swim up the current but are being flushed down left. So both fishes are facing the same direction… but each is moving in a different direction, one braving the current and the other flushed away by it. Huh.
Goldeens going up, and…
Pokédex Entry #129 – Magikarp, the Fish Pokémon. While known for being extremely weak and washed away by even the weakest current, Magikarp can survive even in the most polluted of water. They’re incredibly fertile and have spread to waters all around the world. They jump fairly high, and older Magikarps are known to brave mountains with these jumps, seeking evolution.
… going down.
But, that wasn’t all that was here. Martin could look to his right and find what appeared to be a former campsite. Someone had been here, recently, and decided to pitch a tent and light a fire for the night. Except, whoever the person was must have left in a hurry. The sticks that made a fire are strewn about and scorched from being on-fire, the tent was still there but collapsed and torn apart, and there was remnants from a bag here which contents were spilled out.
… There was a torn Team Virtue uniform (for a male) spilling out of it. … There may be other things left behind in the bag, but it was pretty clear Durants had been all over this and taken all they considered of value.
But, he could still see a couple of things if he searched the remnants of the camp.
Martin found Team Virtue Lvl 1 Keycard!
Martin found 334 P!
Martin found an Antidote!
Martin found an Thunder Stone!
Martin found 3 Great Balls!
… … …
There’s a Pokémon in one of the Great Balls.
The Great Ball opened, and with a flash something took shape in front of him. But, before the Pokémon could even form, a horrifying stench reached Martin’s nose. However, as a native of Goldshore Town, the smell would be… familiar. There were quite a few of these at home.
‘… Trubbish?’ asked the sack of garbage that had taken shape in front of him, looking up at his with two curious eyes. It was clearly rather surprised.
Pokédex Entry #568 – Trubbish, the Trash Bag Pokémon. This Pokémon is born out of a chemical reaction between garbage bags and industrial waste. They like unsanitary places, eating garbage to fuel the poison within, and will stalk people who litter. The poison it belches out can put someone to sleep for a week.
Notable Ability; Stench - Functions similarly as a repel, constantly. Decreases likelihood of being attacked.
As Claire stopped Ralia, Yvonne called back Stefan as well. The Absol looked very unhappy with this result. Yvonne frowned, but was quick to reassure him.
‘Don’t worry. You’re still the coolest. Nobody can compete with you when it comes to cool.’
‘Absol,’ Stefan stated with surety and a nod of “of course”, looking quite proud of himself. Yvonne crossed her arms, raised her chin and looked over towards Claire.
‘This would be the point when the judges judged who was the cleverest, but I’m pretty sure everyone present is too biased to make that kind of call right now,’ she proudly stated, Stefan turning and reinforcing this call with a glare.
‘Wanna continue? I can totally do this all day, I’ve got plenty of tricks prepared to make you feel bad about yourself!’ Yvonne continued, sneering a little.
Ralia felt concern from Yvonne, but she was disguising it with a haughty proud demeanour.
But before that, as a result of this training…
Ralia gained some Clever-appeal!
… Or whatsoever. She’ll now appeal a bit more to a Clever-crowd in the first round.
Now, then.
1. Keep training! 1.1. Cool Training! Yvonne’s Pokémon: Stefan 1.1. Beautiful Training! Yvonne’s Pokémon: ??? 1.1. Cute Training! Yvonne’s Pokémon: Jeffrey(in lack of better choices) 1.1. Clever Training! Yvonne’s Pokémon: Stefan 1.1. Tough Training! Yvonne’s Pokémon: Jeffrey 2. Leave. Back to Redcoast, just to Route 11, wherever 3. Talk. Suppose you always could do that! 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.(this will always be an option! XD)
Thing is, Dragon Rage is a projectile, described as a shock-wave but animated as a purple fireball, so no need to charge to do it. Anyways.
Gibs first sand-attack showered Pikachu with sand, causing the Pokémon to shake himself to try to get the sand off. Then, trying to counter, Pikachu let off a pika-shout and launched a Thundershock… which promptly missed, just sending some shocks into the grass at the wrong place. Gibs sand-attack was doing work. Then, Gibs launched the Dragon Rage, which Pikachu just managed to get sand out of his eyes to see coming.
‘PIK-!’ he shouted, too late, as the attack impacted and Pikachu was sent flying back, rolling in the grass from the dragon’s attack.
Pikachu fainted!
… So. Dragon Rage is a move that grows less powerful the stronger the Pokémon fighting are, so for the moment it is massively overpowered. Pikachu’s of this level cannot handle that level of power. Would Erika want to try again? There’s another Pikachu over there…
Flushing the hill with water roused several Oddishes, who looked around curiously just to ensure they weren’t being attacked, before starting to randomly tread around drinking of the water that had been added to the soil, as a bit of a backdrop to their current conversation.
The currently rather cold air and a wet outfit was definitely not a good combination for Amelia, she might want to do something about that pretty soon.
Suppose this is the second Protectorate post, then? It was mostly that I felt like it was the most effective if I simply wrote my next part as my own post, and, well, there it is. Tell me if there's any problems.
Knight entered the ring, feeling tension as she was accompanied by Ifrit and Gamble. To think she’d ever be at the point she entered a ring at a fighting-event. She felt tense. A lot of that was due to the name that she was confronting. Black Kaze. Legendary murderess. Extremely useful power. What’s worse… it was her duty to put the final stop to the woman. No pressure. She drew her sword.
‘Before we start,’ she said to her opponents, holding her sword forward before the call to fight was heard. ‘This is not a real sword. It is not sharp. It is a stylish baton. You do not need to fear for your lives.’ … Just in case. She didn’t want to be accused of attempting murder, so to say. Saying so, she inspected each enemy.
Black Kaze, of course. Knight shuddered a bit. Zabiniya, who was dangerous but not in the league of Black Kaze, as far as Knight had gotten the impression. Then Talion, who didn’t make much of an impression on her-
”You shouldn’t be here.”
Knight was taken aback. Those words were not what she expected to hear. She barely heard them as it was, it was but the slightest whisper, but she heard them. And… she couldn’t make anything from them. Her, specifically? ‘… I beg your pardon, but what do you-’
She broke her sentence, as she identified that their host had his microphone stolen, and that a new voice was speaking to them. A new voice which-
Oh. Oh, damn.
So, Talion was charging Gamble. Her first instinct was to throw up a wall, but… that would make things more likely for Gamble, hence worse for him, wouldn’t it? Knight instead looked to the other two who- were they still enemies? This newest development might have put them on the same side. … Apparently not, because Ifrit fired upon Black Kaze.
‘Tsk,’ Knight noised out as Ifrit’s smokescreen was deployed. With this, Knight jumped forward. She a thin wall of air was paused in time in front of her, and upon contact she molded it around her, to make a sphere which floated a bit into the air, containing her. In the sphere, she started creating small holes for her to see through, hopefully too small for Black Kaze’s sword to penetrate, it wasn’t a rapier, after all. Molding this would take a bit of time, but after she’d hopefully be able to “see” out when the time came, and she’d hear where the opponents were. She never completely closed the sphere behind her, allowing sound through. While she was molding, she shouted out.
‘Wait, time out, are we still doing this!? Something’s clearly going on with her and Talion! Talion’s not allowed to kill in here! Black Kaze!? Zabiniya!? … Pipeline!?’ … She had to try. She turned her head to where she thought Pipeline sat when she said the last part. Something abnormal was clearly going on, so. Still, Ifrit shot first, so she doubted the success, which is why she was molding her sphere at the same time, somewhat into mid air but obstructed by the smokescreen, which she was intending to send into someone to then mold and restrain them, hopefully. It was taking a considerable amount of mental strain to keep the sphere up and molding it, but, it should do fine. Maybe.
@Shifter_Master Heh. I can have Mariette portal it somewhere else. It'd be a bit of a bigger portal and she'd need to focus for longer, but she can do it. She might not think of it on her own, though. The ship is not as important as the magical girls themselves, to her.
I've been preoccupied by Christmas and New Years things for a while, but should be back by the 2nd of January. Heh.
@Eklispe Well, that's certainly one way to engage in conversation. XD Nicely posted. Yeah, that'll do. I'm also amused by using Rare Candies to make Pokémon happy is certainly a strategy, just be careful with making them expect Rare Candies as treats. Rare Candies are, after all, rare. XD
@Joshua Tamashii And nicely posted in turn. Yupp, that's all completely acceptable.
Yeah, you two can keep talking if you wish, now. Heh.
[@All] I'll be occupied to roughly after new-year. Make that 2nd to 4th of January. That time forward, updates will come as scheduled, barring considerable complications.
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