Xaltwind
Lunamaria Hawke
Kon Kon
Floofenstein
RPM
Renose
Rune_Alchemist
Savo@Pirouette
‘Alright! Then let's hear an applause for Erika, who secured herself two wins!’ Makirisu called out over the crowd, and she got a modest applause from the public before she stepped outside. More battles were going on, and Makirisu was the one attending that one, so all she got was a receptionist smiling happily at her in the front. There, the receptionist slid three disks over to her.
‘Makirisu was quite fond of you. She’d like you to have these, and said that if you ever want to come back, you’d be quite welcome!’
And if she doesn’t want one or multiple of them, she can hand them back and get 1,000P per TM she hands back.
With that, she was off, again. The Entertainment District indeed stretched out in all directions, including up and down, and there were places to look out towards the skyscrapers standing like pillars holding the Commercial District up above them. Pathways allowed one to walk around the buildings on the outside, looking out over the railings at all the other places one could go to in the depths of Worldedge City. Indeed, too many catchy tunes and too many neon signs could become exhausting. So Erika took the stairs or one of many elevators available to reach the somewhat less loud Commercial District.
The Commercial District was more what one would expect of a normal city, with people milling about looking for whatever was on their hearts right now, less playful but more functional. Still with the added flair of strangeness of Worldedge City, however, as one could peek down at the Entertainment District between the streets and also look up to realize the Commercial District’s buildings were, in turn, keeping the Residential District above it. So, a perfectly chill place, with a lot more normal stores around that sold whatever one could imagine…
Including the completely insane.
The entrance looks like someone’s garage where they left the doors just wide open. There’s a driveway, but it’s shock-full of unidentifiable mechanical machinery and tinkermajings pushed haphazardly aside to create some form of a path into the building itself. It could have been mistaken for mechanical trash, if it weren’t for the fact they had price-tags on them. All of it was for sale. A lot of them looked like attempts at engines, strange cylindrical machines, and one over there was entirely frozen over in a sheet of ice, for some reason. And a lot of helmets, goggles, boots and bracelets. The machine to the left had a spinning gear holding a broomstick it was swinging high in the sky. Another had a fan on it… and a lot of other things. Above it all, a big sign said… “Russel’s Store”, in extremely plain text.
Inside, more strangeness, more machines. A grandfather clock was sitting against the wall for no clear reason. A giant metallic cylinder was attached to the wall, with a couple Magnemites attached to it. For no apparent reason, here stood a fire hydrant almost entirely in the middle of the way. There’s a living Pidgey standing, upside down, on the ceiling. It has a metallic backpack, and has lifted its head to stare at the new visitor. By a table over there an Abra is sitting with a strange helmet on, a pen in one hand, trying to write something, it looks like. Another Abra is sitting by a strange panel on the floor, a white one that almost looks like it glows, this Abra too has something mechanical attached around its head for unclear reasons. It seems to wait for someone or something to walk onto the panel…
‘-are completely useless! How could you sell these to me!?’ … But perhaps most obvious was the lady yelling into the face of this old guy over here. The lady looked moderately well-off, in a long blue dress and a pretty hat, but also with quite a red face right now. She was waving a set of goggles in the man’s face.
‘What did they do?’ On the other side of the counter, leaning casually on it, was Russel himself. An older man, bald top of his head, with a white beard and white mustache, wearing what was unmistakingly a worker’s outfit, and with a set of goggles of his own with completely different design stuck on his face.
‘What did they- THEY DID NOT GUIDE ME HOME! I thought it was exactly what I needed, as a person who gets lost easily, BUT THEY WERE NOT!’ the lady yelled back.
‘Yeah? So what did they do instead?’ Russel asked, not looking particularly bothered by her anger.
‘They did not guide me home!’ the lady repeated.
‘Yes, yes, but what did they do instead? Did they guide you somewhere specific? Did they do nothing?’ Russel insisted.
‘They brought me to the entrance of Mt. Edge!’ she now declared.
‘Did they? DID THEY!?’ Russel suddenly spun around, focusing all his attention towards the lady. ‘Interesting. How very interesting. What’s your connection to Mt. Edge?’
‘I’ve never been inside the mountain in my life! Far too dangerous for me!’ the woman replied.
‘Alright!’ He then snatched the goggles out of the lady’s hands, then leaned down and deposited a bunch of money in front of the lady. ‘Thanks for testing my invention for me. Here’s your prize money,’ he declared.
‘Test-!?’ the woman did not look happy. ‘You sold it to me like it was a finished product!’
‘Well, whenever I used them, they always guided me back home!’ Russel laughed, and the woman seemed to have had enough, so she collected the prize-money and angrily left, walking by Erika…
Russel, looking kind of exciting, walked to the back of his store, and wrote something new at the bottom of a whiteboard. The whiteboard was labelled “Quest Board”, and had multiple lines, but Erika would have to get closer to read them.
‘Hm? Oh, someone new. What can I get you?’ Russel turned back, saw Erika, and immediately addressed her. Still, if she wanted to look around he could go back to tinkering with a round bowl of some kind he had behind his desk with an unknown purpose.
There’s a more comprehensible list of things for sale by the desk.
Notably, two of the bigger machines here are labelled the “Confusing Candy dispensers” and another is the “Perilous Potion brewer”, and yet another is a “Risky Revive maker”. They’re also for sale, for a sum of money higher than Erika can obtain during a regular adventure.
Anyway! If examined further, the list comprised of a list of Pokémon that Russel wanted, and also a bunch of things he wanted.
So, what does Erika do?
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@Typical
Dei shot out a cloud of smoke that successfully cloaked around the Glalie, hitting it straight on and covering the angry ice ball in black fog that made it unable to see. It shouted out angrily and gave the trainer a moment to breathe.
‘Woo, well done!’ he said, getting to his feet and then reaching for his belt, where he had his Pokéballs. While he did this, Eryn sent out Peri, and had her use Stealth Rock. However, perhaps calling out to Eryn that she’d done well was a mistake, because Glalie turned straight at him despite being in the midst of smoke and unleashed another Frost Breath!
‘WHOA!’ the trainer side-hopped in the last possible moment, eyes wide in shock, and then his feet slid and he briefly fell down on all fours and slid on a piece of ice for a moment, just barely sliding out of the Frost Breath’s range with a very impressive speed. It looked like he got hit a little, but it didn’t stick. Frost Breath being a blowing kind of attack, it also dispersed a large part of the smokescreen. Eryn called to make them charge…
‘Right!’ the trainer called, spinning around towards the field of Stealth Rock that had manifested between the two Glalies, taking two steps on four legs to get speed on the ice and then struggling up on two to run and duck under the floating rocks as he headed that direction. ‘C’mon, ugly ice rock! You’ll never catch me!’ he shouted…
And Glalie stared at him, motionless, not pursuing. The trainer slid to a confused halt.
Instead, it spun around and glared at Eryn and Peri. Unfortunately, it was very hard to hide an Onix in here. And then… it took off towards them!
‘Ah, crud,’ the trainer said. He started running after the Glalie, while simultaneously calling out ‘GOLDUCK!’
Over there, unfortunately, Golduck was in the midst of wrestling with the teeth of the other Glalie, rolling around and was quite occupied. The Golduck shouted back an angry quack.
‘Oh, right!’ the trainer said, reaching for another Pokéball on his belt since he’d failed to grab one before the attack last time.
That didn’t necessarily help Eryn quite yet, though, because she had an angry Glalie coming flying towards Peri and Eryn and it seemed quite intent on unleashing yet another Frost Breath.
What would Eryn do?
Connected areas:
Frozen Cave, Mines. At the entrance of the Frozen Cave.
Route 9. If you were to get all the way through.
________________________
@Remram
‘… Alright! If you’re here to watch, the stands are that way…’ the attendant said, still taking the payment of 350P, though.
Here at the Treehouse Arena, the average age of people was relatively young, and prepared trainers. It was also relatively uneventful here in the lobby, so Basil’s sudden music definitely immediately had everyone’s attention. Then he started speaking like an infomercial and quite a few of them immediately lost interest and continued whatever they were doing, others were curious enough to keep on listening. Mostly because there’s not a lot of advertisement in Stillwood Village. He was definitely getting a bunch of strange looks, and not a lot of nods. Then, he got to the part where he brought out the sweets, and…
‘What, those sweets are supposed to be good for our Pokémon? I’ll believe it when I see it,’ some boy said.
‘Wait, it’s the HERB STORE that is selling these? THAT Herb Store?’ another asked, incredulous.
‘I guess she’s trying something new! I suppose I’ll give it a try, at least,’ a girl said, sounding supportive.
‘Does that mean she’s not selling the regular herbs anymore? But I liked those…’ one boy said. The Oddish beside him, though, looked ready to jump for joy.
‘Yeah, I don’t know if I trust the sweets, but I’ll support the local establishments!’ someone else said…
Overall, it seemed like the overall consensus was relatively positive and it resulted in a number of them walking off immediately in the direction of the Herb Store. So on that point, mission success. Also, though…
‘Excuse me,’ … there was suddenly the clerk that had walked up to him with a smile but had also brought along a staff member that looked a lot like a guard. ‘We would appreciate it if you asked us if it’s okay before you start advertising in our facility. You did not have our permission,’ she stated, pretty simply.
Simply put, he was successful, and he’d then be asked to leave the area.
What would he do now?
Connected areas:
Route 4. Forest route at the base of Mt. Strength leading west to Rainrock City.
Route 5. A grassy incline connecting mountains, forests, plains, Stillwood and Lakewatch.
Route 14. The waters of Dragon Lake are also known as Route 14. It connects Lakewatch Town, Highhill Town and Stillwood Village.
Mountain Valley. A passage between Mt. Strength and Mt. Chill, a shortcut to Worldedge City.
‘Alright! Then let's hear an applause for Erika, who secured herself two wins!’ Makirisu called out over the crowd, and she got a modest applause from the public before she stepped outside. More battles were going on, and Makirisu was the one attending that one, so all she got was a receptionist smiling happily at her in the front. There, the receptionist slid three disks over to her.
‘Makirisu was quite fond of you. She’d like you to have these, and said that if you ever want to come back, you’d be quite welcome!’
Erika obtained TM52 Steel Wing!
Erika obtained TM08 Bulk Up!
Erika obtained TM86 Grass Knot!
Erika obtained TM08 Bulk Up!
Erika obtained TM86 Grass Knot!
And if she doesn’t want one or multiple of them, she can hand them back and get 1,000P per TM she hands back.
With that, she was off, again. The Entertainment District indeed stretched out in all directions, including up and down, and there were places to look out towards the skyscrapers standing like pillars holding the Commercial District up above them. Pathways allowed one to walk around the buildings on the outside, looking out over the railings at all the other places one could go to in the depths of Worldedge City. Indeed, too many catchy tunes and too many neon signs could become exhausting. So Erika took the stairs or one of many elevators available to reach the somewhat less loud Commercial District.
The Commercial District was more what one would expect of a normal city, with people milling about looking for whatever was on their hearts right now, less playful but more functional. Still with the added flair of strangeness of Worldedge City, however, as one could peek down at the Entertainment District between the streets and also look up to realize the Commercial District’s buildings were, in turn, keeping the Residential District above it. So, a perfectly chill place, with a lot more normal stores around that sold whatever one could imagine…
Including the completely insane.
The entrance looks like someone’s garage where they left the doors just wide open. There’s a driveway, but it’s shock-full of unidentifiable mechanical machinery and tinkermajings pushed haphazardly aside to create some form of a path into the building itself. It could have been mistaken for mechanical trash, if it weren’t for the fact they had price-tags on them. All of it was for sale. A lot of them looked like attempts at engines, strange cylindrical machines, and one over there was entirely frozen over in a sheet of ice, for some reason. And a lot of helmets, goggles, boots and bracelets. The machine to the left had a spinning gear holding a broomstick it was swinging high in the sky. Another had a fan on it… and a lot of other things. Above it all, a big sign said… “Russel’s Store”, in extremely plain text.
Inside, more strangeness, more machines. A grandfather clock was sitting against the wall for no clear reason. A giant metallic cylinder was attached to the wall, with a couple Magnemites attached to it. For no apparent reason, here stood a fire hydrant almost entirely in the middle of the way. There’s a living Pidgey standing, upside down, on the ceiling. It has a metallic backpack, and has lifted its head to stare at the new visitor. By a table over there an Abra is sitting with a strange helmet on, a pen in one hand, trying to write something, it looks like. Another Abra is sitting by a strange panel on the floor, a white one that almost looks like it glows, this Abra too has something mechanical attached around its head for unclear reasons. It seems to wait for someone or something to walk onto the panel…
‘-are completely useless! How could you sell these to me!?’ … But perhaps most obvious was the lady yelling into the face of this old guy over here. The lady looked moderately well-off, in a long blue dress and a pretty hat, but also with quite a red face right now. She was waving a set of goggles in the man’s face.
‘What did they do?’ On the other side of the counter, leaning casually on it, was Russel himself. An older man, bald top of his head, with a white beard and white mustache, wearing what was unmistakingly a worker’s outfit, and with a set of goggles of his own with completely different design stuck on his face.
‘What did they- THEY DID NOT GUIDE ME HOME! I thought it was exactly what I needed, as a person who gets lost easily, BUT THEY WERE NOT!’ the lady yelled back.
‘Yeah? So what did they do instead?’ Russel asked, not looking particularly bothered by her anger.
‘They did not guide me home!’ the lady repeated.
‘Yes, yes, but what did they do instead? Did they guide you somewhere specific? Did they do nothing?’ Russel insisted.
‘They brought me to the entrance of Mt. Edge!’ she now declared.
‘Did they? DID THEY!?’ Russel suddenly spun around, focusing all his attention towards the lady. ‘Interesting. How very interesting. What’s your connection to Mt. Edge?’
‘I’ve never been inside the mountain in my life! Far too dangerous for me!’ the woman replied.
‘Alright!’ He then snatched the goggles out of the lady’s hands, then leaned down and deposited a bunch of money in front of the lady. ‘Thanks for testing my invention for me. Here’s your prize money,’ he declared.
‘Test-!?’ the woman did not look happy. ‘You sold it to me like it was a finished product!’
‘Well, whenever I used them, they always guided me back home!’ Russel laughed, and the woman seemed to have had enough, so she collected the prize-money and angrily left, walking by Erika…
Russel, looking kind of exciting, walked to the back of his store, and wrote something new at the bottom of a whiteboard. The whiteboard was labelled “Quest Board”, and had multiple lines, but Erika would have to get closer to read them.
‘Hm? Oh, someone new. What can I get you?’ Russel turned back, saw Erika, and immediately addressed her. Still, if she wanted to look around he could go back to tinkering with a round bowl of some kind he had behind his desk with an unknown purpose.
There’s a more comprehensible list of things for sale by the desk.
Notably, two of the bigger machines here are labelled the “Confusing Candy dispensers” and another is the “Perilous Potion brewer”, and yet another is a “Risky Revive maker”. They’re also for sale, for a sum of money higher than Erika can obtain during a regular adventure.
Anyway! If examined further, the list comprised of a list of Pokémon that Russel wanted, and also a bunch of things he wanted.
So, what does Erika do?
________________________
@Typical
Dei shot out a cloud of smoke that successfully cloaked around the Glalie, hitting it straight on and covering the angry ice ball in black fog that made it unable to see. It shouted out angrily and gave the trainer a moment to breathe.
‘Woo, well done!’ he said, getting to his feet and then reaching for his belt, where he had his Pokéballs. While he did this, Eryn sent out Peri, and had her use Stealth Rock. However, perhaps calling out to Eryn that she’d done well was a mistake, because Glalie turned straight at him despite being in the midst of smoke and unleashed another Frost Breath!
‘WHOA!’ the trainer side-hopped in the last possible moment, eyes wide in shock, and then his feet slid and he briefly fell down on all fours and slid on a piece of ice for a moment, just barely sliding out of the Frost Breath’s range with a very impressive speed. It looked like he got hit a little, but it didn’t stick. Frost Breath being a blowing kind of attack, it also dispersed a large part of the smokescreen. Eryn called to make them charge…
‘Right!’ the trainer called, spinning around towards the field of Stealth Rock that had manifested between the two Glalies, taking two steps on four legs to get speed on the ice and then struggling up on two to run and duck under the floating rocks as he headed that direction. ‘C’mon, ugly ice rock! You’ll never catch me!’ he shouted…
And Glalie stared at him, motionless, not pursuing. The trainer slid to a confused halt.
Instead, it spun around and glared at Eryn and Peri. Unfortunately, it was very hard to hide an Onix in here. And then… it took off towards them!
‘Ah, crud,’ the trainer said. He started running after the Glalie, while simultaneously calling out ‘GOLDUCK!’
Over there, unfortunately, Golduck was in the midst of wrestling with the teeth of the other Glalie, rolling around and was quite occupied. The Golduck shouted back an angry quack.
‘Oh, right!’ the trainer said, reaching for another Pokéball on his belt since he’d failed to grab one before the attack last time.
That didn’t necessarily help Eryn quite yet, though, because she had an angry Glalie coming flying towards Peri and Eryn and it seemed quite intent on unleashing yet another Frost Breath.
What would Eryn do?
Connected areas:
Frozen Cave, Mines. At the entrance of the Frozen Cave.
Route 9. If you were to get all the way through.
________________________
@Remram
‘… Alright! If you’re here to watch, the stands are that way…’ the attendant said, still taking the payment of 350P, though.
Here at the Treehouse Arena, the average age of people was relatively young, and prepared trainers. It was also relatively uneventful here in the lobby, so Basil’s sudden music definitely immediately had everyone’s attention. Then he started speaking like an infomercial and quite a few of them immediately lost interest and continued whatever they were doing, others were curious enough to keep on listening. Mostly because there’s not a lot of advertisement in Stillwood Village. He was definitely getting a bunch of strange looks, and not a lot of nods. Then, he got to the part where he brought out the sweets, and…
‘What, those sweets are supposed to be good for our Pokémon? I’ll believe it when I see it,’ some boy said.
‘Wait, it’s the HERB STORE that is selling these? THAT Herb Store?’ another asked, incredulous.
‘I guess she’s trying something new! I suppose I’ll give it a try, at least,’ a girl said, sounding supportive.
‘Does that mean she’s not selling the regular herbs anymore? But I liked those…’ one boy said. The Oddish beside him, though, looked ready to jump for joy.
‘Yeah, I don’t know if I trust the sweets, but I’ll support the local establishments!’ someone else said…
Overall, it seemed like the overall consensus was relatively positive and it resulted in a number of them walking off immediately in the direction of the Herb Store. So on that point, mission success. Also, though…
‘Excuse me,’ … there was suddenly the clerk that had walked up to him with a smile but had also brought along a staff member that looked a lot like a guard. ‘We would appreciate it if you asked us if it’s okay before you start advertising in our facility. You did not have our permission,’ she stated, pretty simply.
Simply put, he was successful, and he’d then be asked to leave the area.
What would he do now?
Connected areas:
Route 4. Forest route at the base of Mt. Strength leading west to Rainrock City.
Route 5. A grassy incline connecting mountains, forests, plains, Stillwood and Lakewatch.
Route 14. The waters of Dragon Lake are also known as Route 14. It connects Lakewatch Town, Highhill Town and Stillwood Village.
Mountain Valley. A passage between Mt. Strength and Mt. Chill, a shortcut to Worldedge City.
