Xaltwind
Mage
Pirouette
Alby47
Izurich
Damycles
jimapple
Zapdos
Remram@Rune_Alchemist
Chikorita looked happy as she jumped aside to dodge away from Claire’s initial lounge, making use of her smaller size to slip by an opening in the rocks of the ruins. Given the fact that these were ruins, that means that Chikorita just exited straight out into the forest. If Claire hesitated to follow, Chikorita threw another Razor Leaf that was intended to miss her, before smirking and…
‘Chikorita!’ … dashing straight out into the forest, hoping to be followed. That would be fine and all, except she was intentionally running straight under the giant petals of some planted Vileplumes, dangerously close to a Breloom practicing punching bushes and a pair of annoyed-looking Roserades on the journey dashing through the forest. All of which were suddenly looking around for what was disturbing them.
Committing to the chase suddenly became a bit more dangerous. Would she?
Meganium did not appear particularly worried. The evolved Pokémon was relaxing, letting the little one do whatever it wanted. Ralia wasn’t particularly bothering. To reach higher, an option would be to teleport up to some branches higher up, if that was the idea. Or to disturb the Meganium.
In any case. What were they doing?
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@Dusksong@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam
Kalmia looked on happily as she watched the two new trainers getting their first Pokémon while the first new trainer watched as well. She simply nodded to the thanks she received. Then, Alice turned to her with some questions, and Kalmia went straight to attentive mode.
'Oh, for the first Gym, there’s one in Highhill Town just past Route 1, with a fairly lenient Gym Leader. She knows that most of those that will be arriving from Pureplain City will be complete newcomers, so she won’t go all out on you. That should make her a good place to start!' Kalmia shared with a wide smile, and then, the other questions.
'I believe Horseas typically eat insects and rock moss. But, otherwise, PokéMarts carry all the different kinds of snacks that we know Pokémon enjoy!'
'Beldum?' Kalmia looked a little surprised by the specific request, and started considering it. 'Yeah, those levitating psychic metal things that move by magnetism? I wonder. I’d have to check my notes to- No, wait.' Kalmia was about to turn to check a book in one of the shelves, when she froze, blinking a bit. Then, she smiled, and turned back to Alice.
'Right. I know where they are,' she said, a touch of pride in her voice. 'The Pokémon you seek reside within the maze that is Mt. Edge, at the center of Isson, surrounded by Worldedge City. It’s a mysterious place, something within Mt. Edge gives out mystical power that tampers with physics allows Worldedge City to look like it does. Careful, should you wish to travel within it, for Mt. Edge attracts many creatures sensitive to this mystical energy, some more powerful than others, but the Beldum you seek should exist within. They may be rare, but they tend to travel in swarms, if I remember right, so you should know them when you see them. Good luck~!'
Kalmia nodded proudly, and then looked about.
'Hm, there should be one more-'
@Demon Shinobi
-and that’s when Axl came bursting through the door, with all likelihood startling everything except Slowpoke. Kalmia breathed out a bit, then smiled and walked over to Axl.
Kalmia was a decently tall woman, wearing glasses and had blonde hair tied into a ponytail, and wore casual blue clothes under a white professor-like lab-coat. Her hair was completely soaked and she had a towel around her neck for some reason.
'Welcome, Axl. I figure you might have been a little stressed, but still, I do appreciate if you can be a bit more careful when opening my doors. That said, I totally understand your excitement and panic at being late, teh-heh.'
Oh, and then there was Eryn, Skylar and Alice here, too.
'Alright, to catch you up…' Kalmia said, walking over to her desk to retrieve an item from a box. She walked over to Axl and presented it to him. 'Here you go, your Pokédex.'
'Now for a little explaining.'
With all that said, Kalmia walked back to her computer and pressed a couple buttons. A Pokéball materialized, downloaded from the servers, and Kalmia took it and placed on the table where the other two had picked up theirs.
'And here, is your first Pokémon. Go for it!' Kalmia smiled to him, stepping aside to offer for him the room to go pick up his Pokémon.
With the assumption he went to open the Pokéball.
With that, Axl was allowed to have his little moment of meeting his Pokémon. Insert that here.
And then, after that… there was a knock on the door.
'… Hm? Did I forget anyone?' Kalmia asked, walking over to the door and opened it…
'Ah! Jacques!' Kalmia took a surprised step back from the door as the top-hat and suit wearing white-haired man in glasses smirked at her.
'Fu-fu. Hello again, Professor Kalmia. I heard you acquired some more hopefuls. Am I in time?' he asked, before looking into the room with the newly become trainers. 'Ah, it would seem I missed the most crucial moment. A shame,' he said, pulling his hat down over his eyes like he was sad, but he was still clearly smiling his sneaky little smile. Kalmia frowned at him a bit, before looking back to the trainers.
'Okay. Trainers, this is Jacques, of the Elite Four. He was-'
Edit: @Old Amsterdam has informed Alice is about to "start a F*****G FIRE" around here, interrupting the conversation and going for Jacques. Details in her post as soon as it's posted, reactions to which will be posted after. Eventually, Kalmia might be able to continue.
'Heh, okay. Jacques here last time I gave out Pokédexes, too. He was here, because…' Kalmia started, after the last turning her eyes to him again. It was clear she wasn’t entirely comfortable with him (Edit: though Alice's reaction will likely have somewhat brightened her mood). Jacques, of course, simply smiled.
'Because I, too, have given numerous young hopefuls Pokédexes and Pokémon so they may partake in this experience. See, not knowing Kalmia was doing the same, I made a request to Professor Sycamore of Kalos to provide Pokédexes for the trainers I picked out. He was more than happy to provide, a really pleasant fellow, that one. But, when I heard Kalmia was doing the same thing, I thought it would be an excellent idea that our trainers could meet, because life is so much more fun when you know other hopefuls,' Jacques told with a proud smirk.
'I’m here to offer our friendship. More hopefuls with Pokédexes is simply a good thing for Pokémon research, after all. So for that, I wanted to offer a friendly competition. You all, against my hopefuls. Be it in Pokémon Battle, catching the most Pokémon or perhaps even in Contests, I feel that having some rivals should drive you all to become the very best you can.'
'So he says,' Kalmia said, tone neutral, not looking at Jacques or at them, clearly not having been given a choice in this.
'Fu-fu, Jacques chuckled a little. 'So, with all that said… How about we start it off with a Pokémon Battle? I brought a few of my trainers back from their trips, waiting outside. Don’t worry, I’m making them use all-new Pokémon for this special occasion, so they won’t be stronger than you are currently,' Jacques offered, looking eagerly to the new trainers. Kalmia sighed a bit.
'I’ll emphasize that you don’t have to if you don’t want to and want to be on your ways. That said, would you like to kick these guys’ asses for me?' Kalmia waved a thumb in Jacques direction, with just a slight smirk aside from her other irritation at Jacques inserting himself into the scene. Jacques exhaled slightly from his nose and rolled his eyes just a little at Kalmia’s choice of words, not falling for that one again.
What would they all want?
Chikorita looked happy as she jumped aside to dodge away from Claire’s initial lounge, making use of her smaller size to slip by an opening in the rocks of the ruins. Given the fact that these were ruins, that means that Chikorita just exited straight out into the forest. If Claire hesitated to follow, Chikorita threw another Razor Leaf that was intended to miss her, before smirking and…
‘Chikorita!’ … dashing straight out into the forest, hoping to be followed. That would be fine and all, except she was intentionally running straight under the giant petals of some planted Vileplumes, dangerously close to a Breloom practicing punching bushes and a pair of annoyed-looking Roserades on the journey dashing through the forest. All of which were suddenly looking around for what was disturbing them.
Committing to the chase suddenly became a bit more dangerous. Would she?
Meganium did not appear particularly worried. The evolved Pokémon was relaxing, letting the little one do whatever it wanted. Ralia wasn’t particularly bothering. To reach higher, an option would be to teleport up to some branches higher up, if that was the idea. Or to disturb the Meganium.
In any case. What were they doing?
__________________________
@Dusksong@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam
Kalmia looked on happily as she watched the two new trainers getting their first Pokémon while the first new trainer watched as well. She simply nodded to the thanks she received. Then, Alice turned to her with some questions, and Kalmia went straight to attentive mode.
'Oh, for the first Gym, there’s one in Highhill Town just past Route 1, with a fairly lenient Gym Leader. She knows that most of those that will be arriving from Pureplain City will be complete newcomers, so she won’t go all out on you. That should make her a good place to start!' Kalmia shared with a wide smile, and then, the other questions.
'I believe Horseas typically eat insects and rock moss. But, otherwise, PokéMarts carry all the different kinds of snacks that we know Pokémon enjoy!'
'Beldum?' Kalmia looked a little surprised by the specific request, and started considering it. 'Yeah, those levitating psychic metal things that move by magnetism? I wonder. I’d have to check my notes to- No, wait.' Kalmia was about to turn to check a book in one of the shelves, when she froze, blinking a bit. Then, she smiled, and turned back to Alice.
'Right. I know where they are,' she said, a touch of pride in her voice. 'The Pokémon you seek reside within the maze that is Mt. Edge, at the center of Isson, surrounded by Worldedge City. It’s a mysterious place, something within Mt. Edge gives out mystical power that tampers with physics allows Worldedge City to look like it does. Careful, should you wish to travel within it, for Mt. Edge attracts many creatures sensitive to this mystical energy, some more powerful than others, but the Beldum you seek should exist within. They may be rare, but they tend to travel in swarms, if I remember right, so you should know them when you see them. Good luck~!'
Kalmia nodded proudly, and then looked about.
'Hm, there should be one more-'
@Demon Shinobi
-and that’s when Axl came bursting through the door, with all likelihood startling everything except Slowpoke. Kalmia breathed out a bit, then smiled and walked over to Axl.
Kalmia was a decently tall woman, wearing glasses and had blonde hair tied into a ponytail, and wore casual blue clothes under a white professor-like lab-coat. Her hair was completely soaked and she had a towel around her neck for some reason.
'Welcome, Axl. I figure you might have been a little stressed, but still, I do appreciate if you can be a bit more careful when opening my doors. That said, I totally understand your excitement and panic at being late, teh-heh.'
Oh, and then there was Eryn, Skylar and Alice here, too.
'Alright, to catch you up…' Kalmia said, walking over to her desk to retrieve an item from a box. She walked over to Axl and presented it to him. 'Here you go, your Pokédex.'
'Now for a little explaining.'
With all that said, Kalmia walked back to her computer and pressed a couple buttons. A Pokéball materialized, downloaded from the servers, and Kalmia took it and placed on the table where the other two had picked up theirs.
'And here, is your first Pokémon. Go for it!' Kalmia smiled to him, stepping aside to offer for him the room to go pick up his Pokémon.
With the assumption he went to open the Pokéball.
With that, Axl was allowed to have his little moment of meeting his Pokémon. Insert that here.
And then, after that… there was a knock on the door.
'… Hm? Did I forget anyone?' Kalmia asked, walking over to the door and opened it…
'Ah! Jacques!' Kalmia took a surprised step back from the door as the top-hat and suit wearing white-haired man in glasses smirked at her.
'Fu-fu. Hello again, Professor Kalmia. I heard you acquired some more hopefuls. Am I in time?' he asked, before looking into the room with the newly become trainers. 'Ah, it would seem I missed the most crucial moment. A shame,' he said, pulling his hat down over his eyes like he was sad, but he was still clearly smiling his sneaky little smile. Kalmia frowned at him a bit, before looking back to the trainers.
'Okay. Trainers, this is Jacques, of the Elite Four. He was-'
Edit: @Old Amsterdam has informed Alice is about to "start a F*****G FIRE" around here, interrupting the conversation and going for Jacques. Details in her post as soon as it's posted, reactions to which will be posted after. Eventually, Kalmia might be able to continue.
'Heh, okay. Jacques here last time I gave out Pokédexes, too. He was here, because…' Kalmia started, after the last turning her eyes to him again. It was clear she wasn’t entirely comfortable with him (Edit: though Alice's reaction will likely have somewhat brightened her mood). Jacques, of course, simply smiled.
'Because I, too, have given numerous young hopefuls Pokédexes and Pokémon so they may partake in this experience. See, not knowing Kalmia was doing the same, I made a request to Professor Sycamore of Kalos to provide Pokédexes for the trainers I picked out. He was more than happy to provide, a really pleasant fellow, that one. But, when I heard Kalmia was doing the same thing, I thought it would be an excellent idea that our trainers could meet, because life is so much more fun when you know other hopefuls,' Jacques told with a proud smirk.
'I’m here to offer our friendship. More hopefuls with Pokédexes is simply a good thing for Pokémon research, after all. So for that, I wanted to offer a friendly competition. You all, against my hopefuls. Be it in Pokémon Battle, catching the most Pokémon or perhaps even in Contests, I feel that having some rivals should drive you all to become the very best you can.'
'So he says,' Kalmia said, tone neutral, not looking at Jacques or at them, clearly not having been given a choice in this.
'Fu-fu, Jacques chuckled a little. 'So, with all that said… How about we start it off with a Pokémon Battle? I brought a few of my trainers back from their trips, waiting outside. Don’t worry, I’m making them use all-new Pokémon for this special occasion, so they won’t be stronger than you are currently,' Jacques offered, looking eagerly to the new trainers. Kalmia sighed a bit.
'I’ll emphasize that you don’t have to if you don’t want to and want to be on your ways. That said, would you like to kick these guys’ asses for me?' Kalmia waved a thumb in Jacques direction, with just a slight smirk aside from her other irritation at Jacques inserting himself into the scene. Jacques exhaled slightly from his nose and rolled his eyes just a little at Kalmia’s choice of words, not falling for that one again.
What would they all want?
