@prettydrops
After having fled the horrible beast, he went off to put his Pokémon in the Pokémon Center first.
Then he went off to bother a random villager about the place. Little did he know what was in store for him.
‘Uh-huh? New trainer, eh?’ the man Valen spoke to asked, turning around to face him, adjusting his hat and putting aside a staff he'd been holding. ‘Curious about out little town, huh? Okay, then you're in for the long haul,’ he smirked, grabbed Valen and then put him down on a chair next to him that he hadn't registered existed, and the man sat down there, too. For some reason Valen felt like he wouldn't be able to leave this seat for a long while.
… With that the man stood up and walked, looking exceedingly satisfied. Had Valen survived? He may not have learned what he intended on learning, entirely depends on him.
What's Valen doing now?
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.
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@Rune_Alchemist
Claire started training in the Mountain Valley. After some battling, she’d find that the first birds she saw were not in fact the only things with wings that could be found in this area. Depending on how friendly she looked, one of these cotton-winged creatures might just try to sit on her head.
And then, from a cliffside of Mt. Strength, a creature yelled as it jumped from further up the mountain. Spreading its cape it flew quite a distance down the mountain before making an athletic summersault and landing on its feet in front of Claire in a battle stance, issuing its challenge towards her.
That all said.
So, unfortunately for Claire, 5/6 of her Pokémon are weak to Flying-types, hence she did have some trouble successfully training her Pokémon in this area. That said, 4/5 of those weak to birds fared EXCELLENTLY against the many Skiddos! … That left Pip, who’d lose the average encounter with a Skiddo. Still, suppose she could abuse Poisonpowder for at least one win.
Otherwise, she didn’t find anything particularly interesting.
What would Claire do now?
Connected areas:
Stillwood Village. A village hidden inside a forest, connected by the Mountain Valley road.
Route 10. The farmlands feeding Worldedge City awaits to the east, giving a mystic feeling.
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@Gardevoiran
Now, something to realize here is that Budew was a test-Pokémon. Budew wasn’t part of Earl’s core fighting team. These two are.
After having fed Elgyem the Spec Herbs, Elgyem immediately took Paradise’s Razor Leaf. No critical hit, but Elgyem was damaged. However, from sheer experience afterwards Elgyem was faster, focusing in a fast high-powered Confusion in on Paradise, which took more health in return. They traded back and forth, but on account of being level 6 against a level 9, Paradise couldn’t out-damage Elgyem and unfortunately fainted. So out came Seabreeze. Seabreeze was WAY faster, and committed to a Fowl Flap against Elgyem.
Except, Fowl Flap is not a move that actually does damage. Double except, nobody in the entire world knows how you actually perform Fowl Flap correctly on account it shouldn’t actually be a proper move, so Seabreeze somehow improvised it into an attack-move and struck Elgyem in the face. Elgyem fainted! … Seabreeze took recoil damage!
Then came Cubone. Earl shrugged and pulled out a Volt Tackle Potion.
… And, uh, that was it! He did not learn Volt Tackle Imitation nor suffer any status problems.
‘Er,’ Earl made a noise of someone whose plan didn’t work out, and Cubone looked back at him questioningly. It didn’t seem like it had tasted particularly dreadfully either. Seabreeze was then free to just Water Gun a panicking Cubone to fainting while Earl stood scratching his head trying to figure out what went wrong. It took an extra Water Gun because Cubone’s Special Defense ROSE for some reason, but otherwise it wasn’t a challenge seeing how Bone Club was Cubone’s only attack-move. Cubone fainted.
‘… Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh…’ Earl made a long noise, looking down at his fainted Cubone and raised a hand to his chin as he considered. ‘I could have sworn that I stabilized those effects… Well, give or take a few status effects…’
As he was debating this… another Pokémon suddenly emerged entirely on its own from one of Earl’s pockets. The herbalist blinked twice, suddenly alarmed, and spun around to another, bigger, skull-wearing Pokémon glaring at him.
‘Marowak!’ the Pokémon announced, causing Earl to jump out of the way in part-panic.
‘GAH! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!’ Earl shouted as he rolled on the ground next to the area. Now, Marowak picked up the fainted Cubone, starting to cradle the smaller Pokémon while as Earl finally came to a stop. ‘You have to understand, he WANTS to fight. You have to let him do that. We already let you come along on the journey, you have to let him go a bit more than that…’
‘C-cu!?’ Being cradled suddenly caused the Cubone to awake from being fainted with a start, wide-eyed, when… ‘Cuboooooooooone…!’ … it leapt out of Marowak’s bosom to stand startled on his own, Marowak standing confused a bit away.
‘Oh, boy…’ Earl sighed.
‘Maro! Marowak!’ the Marowak called to the Cubone, sounding worried… Cubone! What’s the matter with you? I’m your mother!
‘Cu… cubone…’ Cubone replied. No… That’s not it…
Cubone, teary eyed, then raised his hand to touch the skull he was wearing… ‘Cu… cu… boooooooooooooone…!’ My mother’s… right… heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere…! Cubone said, starting to suddenly bawl loudly with an impressive amount of water coming from his eyes, most assuredly convinced the skull is that of its mother.‘Cubone, boooone…!’ My mother’s deeeaaad…!
‘Maro! Mawak!’ Marowak told, suddenly annoyed and putting her hands on her hips. Cubone! I am your mother!
‘Cu… cubone… cubone!’ No… that’s not true… That’s impossible! Cubone stated, in a state of total disbelief.
‘Marowak, maro-marowak!’ Search your feelings, you know it to be true! Marowak told back, giving her son a moment to collect himself.
‘Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…!’ Noooooooooooooooo…! … Cubone shouted out as he spun 180 degrees and started fleeing into the forest. Marowak was startled for a moment, and then started shouting after her son and started to chase after…
‘And there they go…’ Earl sighed, standing up and walking over to Skylar again. ‘Sorry about that. It’s a mother that won’t leave her son ever and a son that believes he’s wearing the skull of his dead mother. Anyways, you won. Good job.’
Back to real world. What was Skylar doing now, again?
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@Ephemeral
Erza managed to get to the lively resort town known as Redcoast City decently fine on his own while hurrying, and went to work healing his Pokémon.
After healing, he sent two of them back after relocating the Quick Claw. Don’t worry, Kalmia will take care of them. Then he asked about Safari Zone…
‘Er, there isn’t so much of a Safari Zone in Isson… though there is a Safari route. Route 6 to the south, south-east of Lakewatch Town is a large, open plain where many wild Pokémon often seen in the Safari Zone of other regions appear. But, if you’re talking about the aesthetics of the Safari Zone, then suppose Play Park? It’s just north-east of Worldedge City. You get balls and can try to catch the Pokémon that appear. The kinds vary greatly per month and day! Maybe that’s what you’re looking for?’
With that said, Erza could head on towards Route 11. Searching the route for rare Pokémon, eh.
So, he started searching the route, when he noticed that light rain started coming down again. It wasn’t a lot of rain, but then all of a sudden lightning struck, storm clouds showing up and being threatening. Trainers started moving on to potentially avoid… but here, let’s say Erza made a little discovery. The lightning which struck out of the storm clouds, they were always striking at the same place, at the same plains. If we say that he moved over to investigate…
A flock of Blitzles had appeared, collecting the lightning as it struck down at them to their horns, and they jumped about newly charged with electricity and looking rather pleased with themselves. So, would Erza do anything here?
Connected areas:
Redcoast City. Right behind you.
Rainrock City. Requires crossing Route 11, but it’s a pretty well-travelled and safe road.
Route 12. Requires crossing Route 11 on the way north, also pretty well-travelled.
Pokéball Factory. A turn east on the path north should bring you there.
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@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii
‘Aegi…!’ the golden sword and shield remarked, anger in the tone.
‘I don’t need a human to speak to me about working together!’ the young man shouted back, anger in his tone as well. ‘That woman. The one the spirits fear. She opened the seal we were locked in by so long ago, and then departed without a word. Her motives are a mystery, but I have to seize this chance. The prison that wretched god sealed us inside, for crimes we had not committed! For human superstition and misgivings! For so many years after that, humans visited the tomb… to look at us. Just look at us! Never to free us! Never lifting a finger to help, just inspecting, just researching us! And I should… negotiate peace… with them…!?’
‘Ae… Aegigigigigigigig…!’
‘Hah… hahahahahahaha…!’
The human and the Pokémon laughed in chorus, the sound of their voices echoing in an eerie fashion against the walls of the tomb, the sound of it spreading to surrounding Pokémon under Aegislash’s control, who were turning towards the tomb all around.
‘Fine… perhaps we will,’ the young man said, a touch of amusement in his voice. The Bronzor floated in to float in mid-air beside the young man and the Aegislash. ‘Let us put you to sleep. Then, as you dream, you will get to speak to my master. Convince him, and all of this will end. But should you fail, you might just end up not waking up…’ so the young man cautioned/threatened, his voice taking something of ghastly amusement into his tone, as Bronzor started to spin a bit, preparing to potentially use Hypnosis.
Cofagrigus and Gengar threw looks at Amelia and Dawkin, as well as the newly arrived Greninja who had no frickin’ problem blowing past a couple level 8-10 grunts. It was up to them, ultimately.
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@Dusksong
Eryn hurried forward, getting deeper and deeper into the woods. There were sounds all about, living creatures crawling within the very aptly named Infested Woods. There were bugs, bugs and more bugs around. She couldn’t find any ghosts yet, but honestly this place was so spooky in the dark that it wouldn’t really seem that out-of-place. She headed onwards, dodging Spinaraks and Scatterbugs, hoping she wouldn’t have to dodge anything else as she followed Dei’s little flame…
And suddenly it felt like she had a thousand eyes upon her. Her Pokémon might notice it before she did. To her immediate left was a huge tree that was absolutely littered with black, white and red eyes, all focused on her. As she refocused to perhaps identify what they were… they were some of the most common bugs in the entire world. The whole family tree. The green little larva, the even greener cocoons and the debatably beautiful butterflies they one day grew to become.
They didn’t look very threatening, only plentiful. They most certainly didn’t usually count among the bugs that one would normally classify as the most dangerous of the lot. … That is, before she saw the view and heard the sound of what probably felt like the wings of a hundred Butterfrees taking off simultaneously and scattering above her, releasing a thick fog of green, yellow and purple mist. An absolute wall of Poison, Stun and Sleep powder was descending at her and her Pokémon in an uneven mix, and the Butterfrees looked to be more than willing to spin about to shower her with a round two if the first didn’t do its job, the horde of butterflies engaging Eryn in the midst of this dark woods.
… Eryn’s actions?
After having fled the horrible beast, he went off to put his Pokémon in the Pokémon Center first.
Then he went off to bother a random villager about the place. Little did he know what was in store for him.
‘Uh-huh? New trainer, eh?’ the man Valen spoke to asked, turning around to face him, adjusting his hat and putting aside a staff he'd been holding. ‘Curious about out little town, huh? Okay, then you're in for the long haul,’ he smirked, grabbed Valen and then put him down on a chair next to him that he hadn't registered existed, and the man sat down there, too. For some reason Valen felt like he wouldn't be able to leave this seat for a long while.
… With that the man stood up and walked, looking exceedingly satisfied. Had Valen survived? He may not have learned what he intended on learning, entirely depends on him.
What's Valen doing now?
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.
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@Rune_Alchemist
Claire started training in the Mountain Valley. After some battling, she’d find that the first birds she saw were not in fact the only things with wings that could be found in this area. Depending on how friendly she looked, one of these cotton-winged creatures might just try to sit on her head.
Pokédex Entry #333 – Swablu, the Cotton Bird Pokémon. Swablu has light and fluffy wings that are like cottony clouds. This Pokémon is not frightened of people. It lands on the heads of people and sits there like a cotton-fluff hat. As it cannot relax in dirty places it will clean any dirt it finds with its wings and then clean them in a stream.
And then, from a cliffside of Mt. Strength, a creature yelled as it jumped from further up the mountain. Spreading its cape it flew quite a distance down the mountain before making an athletic summersault and landing on its feet in front of Claire in a battle stance, issuing its challenge towards her.
Pokédex Entry #701 – Hawlucha, the Wrestling Pokémon. Although its body is small, its proficient fighting skills enable it to keep up with big bruisers like Machamp and Hariyama. With its wings, it controls its position in the air. It likes to attack from above, a maneuver that is difficult to defend against.
That all said.
So, unfortunately for Claire, 5/6 of her Pokémon are weak to Flying-types, hence she did have some trouble successfully training her Pokémon in this area. That said, 4/5 of those weak to birds fared EXCELLENTLY against the many Skiddos! … That left Pip, who’d lose the average encounter with a Skiddo. Still, suppose she could abuse Poisonpowder for at least one win.
Ralia grew to level 15!
Ritz grew to level 16!
Lure grew to level 15!
Del grew to level 15! Del learned Focus Energy!
Zeal grew to level 15!
Pip grew to level 11!
Ritz grew to level 16!
Lure grew to level 15!
Del grew to level 15! Del learned Focus Energy!
Zeal grew to level 15!
Pip grew to level 11!
Otherwise, she didn’t find anything particularly interesting.
What would Claire do now?
Connected areas:
Stillwood Village. A village hidden inside a forest, connected by the Mountain Valley road.
Route 10. The farmlands feeding Worldedge City awaits to the east, giving a mystic feeling.
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@Gardevoiran
Now, something to realize here is that Budew was a test-Pokémon. Budew wasn’t part of Earl’s core fighting team. These two are.
After having fed Elgyem the Spec Herbs, Elgyem immediately took Paradise’s Razor Leaf. No critical hit, but Elgyem was damaged. However, from sheer experience afterwards Elgyem was faster, focusing in a fast high-powered Confusion in on Paradise, which took more health in return. They traded back and forth, but on account of being level 6 against a level 9, Paradise couldn’t out-damage Elgyem and unfortunately fainted. So out came Seabreeze. Seabreeze was WAY faster, and committed to a Fowl Flap against Elgyem.
Except, Fowl Flap is not a move that actually does damage. Double except, nobody in the entire world knows how you actually perform Fowl Flap correctly on account it shouldn’t actually be a proper move, so Seabreeze somehow improvised it into an attack-move and struck Elgyem in the face. Elgyem fainted! … Seabreeze took recoil damage!
Paradise grew to level 7!
Then came Cubone. Earl shrugged and pulled out a Volt Tackle Potion.
Earl used Volt Tackle Potion!
Electric-type was added to Cubone!
Cubone’s Defense severely fell!
Cubone’s Special Defense rose!
Electric-type was added to Cubone!
Cubone’s Defense severely fell!
Cubone’s Special Defense rose!
… And, uh, that was it! He did not learn Volt Tackle Imitation nor suffer any status problems.
‘Er,’ Earl made a noise of someone whose plan didn’t work out, and Cubone looked back at him questioningly. It didn’t seem like it had tasted particularly dreadfully either. Seabreeze was then free to just Water Gun a panicking Cubone to fainting while Earl stood scratching his head trying to figure out what went wrong. It took an extra Water Gun because Cubone’s Special Defense ROSE for some reason, but otherwise it wasn’t a challenge seeing how Bone Club was Cubone’s only attack-move. Cubone fainted.
Seabreeze grew to level 8! Seabreeze learned Wing Attack!
Skylar was victorious! Skylar gained 650 P for winning!
‘… Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh…’ Earl made a long noise, looking down at his fainted Cubone and raised a hand to his chin as he considered. ‘I could have sworn that I stabilized those effects… Well, give or take a few status effects…’
As he was debating this… another Pokémon suddenly emerged entirely on its own from one of Earl’s pockets. The herbalist blinked twice, suddenly alarmed, and spun around to another, bigger, skull-wearing Pokémon glaring at him.
Pokédex Entry #105 – Marowak, the Bone Keeper Pokémon. Having overcome the grief of losing its mother, it has grown tough. It seeks out special Marowak cemeteries, where it collects bones to serve as its weapons. It was once a weak creature, but skilled usage of these weapons has helped it grow ever stronger.
‘Marowak!’ the Pokémon announced, causing Earl to jump out of the way in part-panic.
‘GAH! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!’ Earl shouted as he rolled on the ground next to the area. Now, Marowak picked up the fainted Cubone, starting to cradle the smaller Pokémon while as Earl finally came to a stop. ‘You have to understand, he WANTS to fight. You have to let him do that. We already let you come along on the journey, you have to let him go a bit more than that…’
‘C-cu!?’ Being cradled suddenly caused the Cubone to awake from being fainted with a start, wide-eyed, when… ‘Cuboooooooooone…!’ … it leapt out of Marowak’s bosom to stand startled on his own, Marowak standing confused a bit away.
‘Oh, boy…’ Earl sighed.
‘Maro! Marowak!’ the Marowak called to the Cubone, sounding worried… Cubone! What’s the matter with you? I’m your mother!
‘Cu… cubone…’ Cubone replied. No… That’s not it…
Cubone, teary eyed, then raised his hand to touch the skull he was wearing… ‘Cu… cu… boooooooooooooone…!’ My mother’s… right… heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere…! Cubone said, starting to suddenly bawl loudly with an impressive amount of water coming from his eyes, most assuredly convinced the skull is that of its mother.‘Cubone, boooone…!’ My mother’s deeeaaad…!
‘Maro! Mawak!’ Marowak told, suddenly annoyed and putting her hands on her hips. Cubone! I am your mother!
‘Cu… cubone… cubone!’ No… that’s not true… That’s impossible! Cubone stated, in a state of total disbelief.
‘Marowak, maro-marowak!’ Search your feelings, you know it to be true! Marowak told back, giving her son a moment to collect himself.
‘Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…!’ Noooooooooooooooo…! … Cubone shouted out as he spun 180 degrees and started fleeing into the forest. Marowak was startled for a moment, and then started shouting after her son and started to chase after…
‘And there they go…’ Earl sighed, standing up and walking over to Skylar again. ‘Sorry about that. It’s a mother that won’t leave her son ever and a son that believes he’s wearing the skull of his dead mother. Anyways, you won. Good job.’
Back to real world. What was Skylar doing now, again?
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@Ephemeral
Erza managed to get to the lively resort town known as Redcoast City decently fine on his own while hurrying, and went to work healing his Pokémon.
After healing, he sent two of them back after relocating the Quick Claw. Don’t worry, Kalmia will take care of them. Then he asked about Safari Zone…
‘Er, there isn’t so much of a Safari Zone in Isson… though there is a Safari route. Route 6 to the south, south-east of Lakewatch Town is a large, open plain where many wild Pokémon often seen in the Safari Zone of other regions appear. But, if you’re talking about the aesthetics of the Safari Zone, then suppose Play Park? It’s just north-east of Worldedge City. You get balls and can try to catch the Pokémon that appear. The kinds vary greatly per month and day! Maybe that’s what you’re looking for?’
With that said, Erza could head on towards Route 11. Searching the route for rare Pokémon, eh.
So, he started searching the route, when he noticed that light rain started coming down again. It wasn’t a lot of rain, but then all of a sudden lightning struck, storm clouds showing up and being threatening. Trainers started moving on to potentially avoid… but here, let’s say Erza made a little discovery. The lightning which struck out of the storm clouds, they were always striking at the same place, at the same plains. If we say that he moved over to investigate…
Pokédex Entry #522 – Blitzle, the Electrified Pokémon. Its mane shines when it discharges electricity. They use the frequency and rhythm of these flashes to communicate. They gather where storm-clouds go, catching the lightning strikes with their horns like lightning rods in order to charge themselves.
A flock of Blitzles had appeared, collecting the lightning as it struck down at them to their horns, and they jumped about newly charged with electricity and looking rather pleased with themselves. So, would Erza do anything here?
Connected areas:
Redcoast City. Right behind you.
Rainrock City. Requires crossing Route 11, but it’s a pretty well-travelled and safe road.
Route 12. Requires crossing Route 11 on the way north, also pretty well-travelled.
Pokéball Factory. A turn east on the path north should bring you there.
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@Eklispe@Joshua Tamashii
‘Aegi…!’ the golden sword and shield remarked, anger in the tone.
‘I don’t need a human to speak to me about working together!’ the young man shouted back, anger in his tone as well. ‘That woman. The one the spirits fear. She opened the seal we were locked in by so long ago, and then departed without a word. Her motives are a mystery, but I have to seize this chance. The prison that wretched god sealed us inside, for crimes we had not committed! For human superstition and misgivings! For so many years after that, humans visited the tomb… to look at us. Just look at us! Never to free us! Never lifting a finger to help, just inspecting, just researching us! And I should… negotiate peace… with them…!?’
‘Ae… Aegigigigigigigig…!’
‘Hah… hahahahahahaha…!’
The human and the Pokémon laughed in chorus, the sound of their voices echoing in an eerie fashion against the walls of the tomb, the sound of it spreading to surrounding Pokémon under Aegislash’s control, who were turning towards the tomb all around.
‘Fine… perhaps we will,’ the young man said, a touch of amusement in his voice. The Bronzor floated in to float in mid-air beside the young man and the Aegislash. ‘Let us put you to sleep. Then, as you dream, you will get to speak to my master. Convince him, and all of this will end. But should you fail, you might just end up not waking up…’ so the young man cautioned/threatened, his voice taking something of ghastly amusement into his tone, as Bronzor started to spin a bit, preparing to potentially use Hypnosis.
Cofagrigus and Gengar threw looks at Amelia and Dawkin, as well as the newly arrived Greninja who had no frickin’ problem blowing past a couple level 8-10 grunts. It was up to them, ultimately.
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@Dusksong
Eryn hurried forward, getting deeper and deeper into the woods. There were sounds all about, living creatures crawling within the very aptly named Infested Woods. There were bugs, bugs and more bugs around. She couldn’t find any ghosts yet, but honestly this place was so spooky in the dark that it wouldn’t really seem that out-of-place. She headed onwards, dodging Spinaraks and Scatterbugs, hoping she wouldn’t have to dodge anything else as she followed Dei’s little flame…
And suddenly it felt like she had a thousand eyes upon her. Her Pokémon might notice it before she did. To her immediate left was a huge tree that was absolutely littered with black, white and red eyes, all focused on her. As she refocused to perhaps identify what they were… they were some of the most common bugs in the entire world. The whole family tree. The green little larva, the even greener cocoons and the debatably beautiful butterflies they one day grew to become.
Pokédex Entry #10 – Caterpie, the Worm Pokémon. It has a great appetite and eats green leaves larger than itself. Its feet has suction cups allowing it to climb on any surface. If attacked, it can release a stench from its antenna to ward off attackers. It is known to grow fast, and will create a cocoon out of silk for itself to evolve.
Pokédex Entry #11 – Metapod, the Cocoon Pokémon. Caterpie encloses itself in a shell as it prepares for its final evolution. The shell is normally soft and tender, but can quickly harden to the toughness of an iron slab. To avoid damage it doesn’t move, simply enduring hardships while awaiting evolution.
Pokédex Entry #12 – Butterfree, the Butterfly Pokémon. It loves honey and can locate flower patches that have even the tiniest amount of pollen. Its wings are covered in a toxic rain-repellant dust, which allows it to fly even through rain. Should it be endangered, it will flap its wings at the offender, scattering the toxic dust.
They didn’t look very threatening, only plentiful. They most certainly didn’t usually count among the bugs that one would normally classify as the most dangerous of the lot. … That is, before she saw the view and heard the sound of what probably felt like the wings of a hundred Butterfrees taking off simultaneously and scattering above her, releasing a thick fog of green, yellow and purple mist. An absolute wall of Poison, Stun and Sleep powder was descending at her and her Pokémon in an uneven mix, and the Butterfrees looked to be more than willing to spin about to shower her with a round two if the first didn’t do its job, the horde of butterflies engaging Eryn in the midst of this dark woods.
… Eryn’s actions?