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@Demon Shinobi Yupp. Long, good post that contains all we need. Nicely posted. I'll respond soon enough. And, heh. About a Munchlax's daily intake of food... I won't need you to actually roleplay that if you don't want to. XD It'd be good if you can make references to it occasionally, but I won't demand you to play a certain way just because, hah. Just wanted to tell you that somewhere, heh.

@Rune_Alchemist Alright. That's what I figured you'd do. Nicely posted. And... time to figure out what those antennas on Meganium actually are for. XD

@Old Amsterdam Teh-heh. It'll be fun writing the reaction to this one. Nicely posted. Excited kids are fun.

@Gardevoiran Oh, alright. If you feel more comfortable with sending Xatu home. I will admit that I was under the initial impression that he had the Xatu in order to at all be able to manage travelling in terrain, but if you feel he'll be able to handle himself with only Seabreeze's sight to guide him, then sure. I'm not sure how well he's going to be able to battle like this, but, heh, I'll leave the means of perception to you, then. Nicely posted.

@Joshua Tamashii Whelp. Is this scaring the kid or testing his ingenuity? Hahahaha. Oh, well.

@Dusksong So, I just about want to post again for the ones in the Pokémon Lab. How are you doing? Can we expect a post soon, do you think?
I got a little input from Spiffy about Swarm's reaction for this post.

I do not know if others see that illusion or not, asking the GM resulted in a version of "That's my job (to write?), you just go ahead", hah.

My apologies for having Sheila think so much and not say a word.
Creep
Sheila Hopkins

Villain’s Meeting
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Sheila’s offer had been spurned from anger at Swarm for his suggestion, and now her anger was slowly placating. A slight terror for what the consequences of what she had suggested might be ran through her, but this was no time for regrets. Her focus was on the Broker, slightly aware of the discussion going on between the Lethal Force members over there albeit she couldn’t hear what they said, waiting for the conclusion.

The giant man from the Jacks spoke, the one who had started this meeting. She inspected him. He was huge, intimidating, black armour and skull-like helmet, but the words he had contributed with so far had sounded reasonable. Of course, he was scary as heck and Sheila’d never want to fight him… but he spoke out for her, and even offered his personal money to assist her.

Huh? What? Creep turned to look at him, even though she didn’t need to, in order to show that she was acknowledging him. But beyond that… What? Why? Sheila felt confused. Why would he offer his own personal money to help fund her second vial? Was he just that bored? No. More likely, he was seeking to make her owe him. He’d show up later and possibly ask for compensation. If Creep was a new leader, she was likely impressionable, and as such easy to sway.

She couldn’t truly deny it. He did seem reasonable, she could imagine that she had just been swayed into thinking of him in a positive light, albeit he was also giant and scary. She had no idea what kind of actions were acceptable at this point, so Creep simply gave a slow nod towards him. She hoped it would be translated to “I appreciate it”, but she didn’t want to say that in case it was perceived as weakness.

… Then Purge cut in, and a chill went down Sheila’s spine. Not him. She couldn’t compete with him. Sabotage, too? Well, rather her than him, but… But then the Broker cut short, saying the offer was between her and Swarm only. Sheila didn’t understand entirely why, but she wasn’t about to complain. And then the verdict came… and it was to her. Damn, a tiny part of her that hoped to escape that pressure cursed for her.

Creep grimly nodded to the Broker’s statement, mildly panicked within, unable to reply. She didn’t trust herself to say anything intelligent. The offer had been made in the heat of the moment, because Swarm had angered her. The anger was now gone, and she was starting to consider the scope of what she just got herself into. Not only had she just promised her efforts to the Broker with the slim hope she could make a move to help the world somehow, but she had made herself a target by owning two vials. She felt… so exposed.

With her power, she saw Swarm’s reaction, how he angrily glared at her. The Broker handed her the vials, and the pressure became real. Creep inspected the liquid in her hands, while her power looked at where everyone else in the room was looking. She knew for a fact that Swarm, Purge and Sabotage all wanted those vials, and probably the rest as well. It was a unique opportunity, and all that stood between them was the pathetic and now leaderless Rockers as well as this thin weak-looking girl in a blindfold. It occurred to her that even the man that was now paying for her vial might have done so because he considered her an easy target to steal the vials from after the meeting, since he couldn’t buy them himself as a member of the Jacks. … She could be attacked in this weakened state at any time. She needed back-up.

Options. With these two vials, the option existed to cut her losses and run. The Broker would be mad, but what could he do about it? Except, then she’d be giving up all that she had here, an in on the villains. However, if she stayed, he’d expect her to use the vials. There was no way she’d use them on Rockers. Despite that, these vials presented her with the rare opportunity to get allies of her own, who were aware of what she was doing and potentially supported it. But who in the world trusted her enough for that, that she also trusted in return? There was no such person after she triggered, certainly. Not to mention, they’d have to be an insignificant civilian, or else there was a chance Patriarch had already got his hands on them.

So she’d have to find an insignificant civilian-

Under the blindfold, Sheila’s eyes widened a little in realization.

-that she trusted from before triggering-

Sheila closed her eyes for a moment.

-that also felt an attachment to her in turn.

… There… there were a couple such individuals, wasn’t there? Her friends. Her former friends, from before she triggered. Could she do that? Could she drag them into this hell, all because she felt she needed backup?

... Sheila reckoned she had to think about it. Of course, if she did it, she had to give it as an option that they could deny, and she didn’t even know if the offer would appeal to any of them. Before all that, she had to get the Rockers under her control if at all possible, before thinking about trying to add people to it. First off, she needed to hide the vials.

Coming to this conclusion, Creep started slowly deposited the vials and the note into a pocket on the right side inside of her coat. As she did that, she also attempted to make an illusion with light which would be displayed to others where she reversed so it looked like she was putting the vials in a different pocket on the left side. She figured that maybe she wasn’t trying to affect others, she was simply affecting the light that then affected the others. Worst thing that could happen was simply that it didn’t work. Best case scenario, however, someone who would attempt to pickpocket her would do so on the left side, where there were no vials. Creep then made sure that her illusion (if existent) and her real self got back to the exact same casual stance so she could stop without issue. At the end, she didn’t even know if it had worked or not.

Whenever the meeting ended, she’d have to vanish fast when she came out, that’s for sure. Then deposit the vials somewhere safe, however impossible somewhere like that was to find, before going to try to get the Rockers back in order. Hopefully Visage wouldn’t be troublesome. Ooouugh, what was she getting herself into…?

For now, Creep sat back down where she’d been sitting, keeping part of her eyes on everyone, using her powers. Anyone looking too intently at her, with too much purpose…
@Demon Shinobi Nicely posted. Alright, let's get this show on the road.

@Dusksong@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam There we go. I'm sorry if it feels I'm rushing you all along, but I did want to make sure you got to experience the same things as the others did, and that means this potential rival-battle. I did consider that perhaps you wanted to face one another, but eh! Of course, you can just say that you have no interest in that, and then we can move on. You could quick-battle the rivals if you don't want to spend the time roleplaying turn-per-turn, hah. Anyways. I wanted to do this.

Oh, and if any of you have any reactions that would cut the conversation short or something, those could still happen, I'd just need to edit the post, hah.

@Rune_Alchemist And for you... I continue that. You're free to do stuff, heh. Also, Chikorita is apparently 0.9 meters tall. That's way bigger than I was imagining. Think that is to the top of its head or to the tip of its lead? Hah.

@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii And I suppose I should be typing up a desert pretty soon? Teh-heh.
@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?
@Demon Shinobi As soon as you put back Defense Curl, sure. It's a level 4 move, you have no reason not to know it at level 5. You'll get mileage out of that one once you reach level 36, heh.

Feel free to post it in the characters tab, and then post about arriving at Kalmia's lab. It would make things easier for me if I could include you in the next post.
@Demon Shinobi Ah, no, don't remove Metronome. In fact, I look forward to you using it. rubs hands together XD
Right. There we go.

@Rune_Alchemist@Eklispe@Apollosarcher I took some serious measures due to Pirouette's failure to report back to me. I felt that the princess was too important a character for me to just assume control over... so I did this. My apologies, I do have a plan, so if you'd all just confirm you're pursuing or whatever you're doing so, that'd be great.

@Pirouette I have momentarily removed Reina from the equation. If you feel ready to come back, I have a little side-thing that I'd be willing to play with you. Should you be able to get through the entire side-thing with steady posting, then I'll allow you back. Otherwise, the side-thing will not be canon at all and I'll figure out what to do when the time comes.

@Lmpkio@Crimson Raven Meanwhile, you two appear on the outside for now. You can talk out a plan of action, if you feel you should have one, hah.

There you have it. I remind you can click any smaller images to get the big version of it. Now, excuse me, I have five NPC conversations to write, hah.

Oh, and...

He was actually there all along. I didn't suddenly make him appear out of nowhere.





I didn't entirely intend him to do this, but, eh, hah. Oh, well.
Voss nodded to Isolde’s thanks before turning and exchanging a couple of words with Romilda, keeping silent for some reason. Romilda mostly glared at him in return.

Aldo looked at each of the three that spoke in turn about the woman’s fate, and then joined with looking towards Reina. Reina took a little bit of time considering the best cause of action, before replying.

"I think we should-"

SLAM


Chapter 1 - In Times of Need




The impact came too quickly for anybody to react to, from a source that had come running far too silently. An elbow impacted Reina’s head all of a sudden, the princess finding her vision going black and being unable to retain consciousness. The unknown robed figure that had delivered the blow promptly caught her, giving a slight smile in the direction of those that remained.



‘She’s the one who has the thing, right? Right. So sorry, but I’m taking this one.’

As several people were probably in the motion of intercepting him when he finished that sentence, the unknown man holding Reina’s unconscious form had already started running away at a phenomenal speed, which only maybe could be caught up to by those who were mounted. On his feet…

‘… Tsk, he has Swiftsoles…!’ Aldo informed in distress, his own motion far too slow to catch up to the Rogue running for the exit they were all heading for.

While the rest of them could decide what they thought was the most reasonable course of action, Voss turned to Romilda’s cell, picking up the key in the priest’s pocket next to the bars.

"I’ll be letting you out," he said for Romilda, and began undoing the curse placed on the prison doors. Of course, that probably was taking far too long for the people in the prison.

The Rogue that had claimed Reina was dashing for the secret exit they were to leave through, already opened at the end of the corridor where a brick wall had been moved aside by Morag’s group as they came in. The size was not entirely friendly for horses or Wyverns should they move at high speeds, but the Rogue wasn’t going to be having any problems.

What would they do?



Notable Individuals;






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Meanwhile!

On top of a Wyvern, two humans and a Manakete were approaching the town surrounding Grado Keep. There were lower-level Jehannan troops running about town, fighting pockets of resistance and seeking to route them out. Seemed like the higher-level guys had all ran into the keep while the grunts were sent into the town around.

Hevel was utterly still, holding onto Servus and letting Kara sleep on him best she wanted. The time to wake up was approaching, however. Should Kara try to feel it, she’d feel the Fire Emblem following a passage underground (at fairly high speed) and it felt like it would eventually emerge among the buildings to the right. That may not be entirely ideal.

Would they have a plan of action here? Come closer, and Jehannans would most certainly spot them. Did they have a plan?



Notable Individuals;





Alright, let's see now. Demon here's the last of the newcomers that were coming, so, yeah, this'll do.

@Demon Shinobi Yupp, nicely written. There is, however, some standards that I've had the other players adhere to that I'll have you do, too. You should start with 500 P and only one Potion... ... ... ... Oh, you bought a Pokéball with those 200 P. ... ... ... ... ... Ya know what? Fine, they're available in all common stores anyway, heh. Just don't go catching a Pokémon before actually getting your starter!

Munchlax, hah. They actually start with that many moves, oh, boy. Gosh, this moveset differs rather dramatically from the moveset of Snorlax, for some reason. Very well. By the personal rules I've put on myself to limit the "level 1 moves", I'd like you to remove Lick for now, on account Munchlax learns it later anyway. I was debating letting you replace it with Recycle, but I am going to go with "no", just in case there is any other Pokémon out there that has a stupidly overpowered move just out-of-range of the four highest level 1 moves. ... Starting with Metronome, hah...

No held items for the starter Pokémon, I'm afraid. I... I wrote that somewhere, right? I can't find it. Have I missed actually including one of my basic rules for starter Pokémon in the first post for two years? ... HAH!

Anyways. With those changes, Axl is accepted.

@Dusksong Yupp. This is a good example of socializing. I'm rather happy with this post. Nicely posted.

@Gardevoiran Seabreeze is an epic name for a seagull, haha. Yeah, that was a cool little interaction. Nicely posted. Now let's see what I do.

@Rune_Alchemist Teh-heh. Small impromptu haircut was a slight bit closer to dangerous than I was imagining, but sure. Alright, then. Yeah, this is amusing. Nicely posted.

@Joshua Tamashii I'll note that one of the things I am avoiding is having the NPCs saying things that'll (maybe rightly) scare the kids, hah. Pokémon journeys should be exciting, not terrifying. Jury's still out on if I've succeeded with that or not. Still, the warnings do make sense, but, yeah, oh well. In character given he has reason to worry for Amelia. Mmm. Nicely posted. You two give me a mention when it's time, heh.

@Old Amsterdam Yupp. Excitement is heartwarming. Nicely posted. Now everyone there has posted, I have reason to post. I have to post once somewhere else, though, so that might be tomorrow or later. We'll see.
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