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In March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay → 5 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay




So, the twins were doing pretty well knocking the pieces of armor to the ground, but actually making them stay down looked like it would take a spirit-specialization or someone with a lot more firepower. … That, or they could just run past them, like Lily was doing. And, of course, wherever Lily goes, Alexander follows.

Or, perhaps entangling them with vines worked. Like what Gaia did. ‘Nice!’ Ronin called at the display (assuming it worked as intended), and with that she leapt out of Miko’s grip and landed back on her feet, Miko looking a little bit embarrassed at the display. It had worked, though.

‘Let’s not be left behind,’ Miko called, and the twins ran up with the rest, Ronin nodding and throwing a couple more discs and sword-slices if needed at any armors trying to follow them. That aside, they’d be heading with the rest to get back up, with Miko trying to pull out the Super Map again to see if anything had changed while Ronin covered her.

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The dragon grinned deliciously at her feet tore through Gryphon’s wing, and then landed on the same platform as Rachel while their enemy spun off. Rachel saw fit to give a backhanded compliment.

‘For a hippie butcher wannabe priest judge, you’re not bad yourself!’ Mayra replied to Rachel with more of a happy grin.

Then, as the enemy started running and then Gryphon launched up in a green and yellow vortex… ‘Whoa. Light show. … As she did that, Mayra took the opportunity to jump, falling back down to join the others.

So, that was a scary giant monster, accompanied by scary song. It seemed to bend understanding of the universe itself. Which was honestly fine. They, too, had a power that seemed to bend understanding of the universe itself.

Mayra landed with a smirk next to Magical Dream Princess, bending her knees and then making a tiny leap in her direction.

‘YES! YES WE WANT TO SEE YOUR ULTIMATE WACKY TACKY!’ she called, grinning as she leapt up to MDP grinning. ‘In fact, let me help you get closer, so mister Wocky can see it better!’

Without further ado, Mayra grabbed at MDP’s arm, and then spun, intending to swing the pastel Magical Girl with her. Then, she allowed a bit of Wonderland’s magic to influence her, because she wanted to sing a little.

‘Big Jobberdock thinks he will us scare,
Thinks he’s the baddest between earth and sky,
He’s stupid and wrong, I so declare,
YOU BETTER BEWARE THE CUTIEPIE!’

-and with that, she blasted with firepower off the ground, spun with fire-empowered strength for a second, and then just threw MDP with all her might at the vorpal rain and the monster beyond it.

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Freya gazed, taking a sharp breath as the queen raised her blade. As far as she knew, this might be her end. She could be gazing at the blade that was about to kill her. Yet, she would let it. For what it could potentially otherwise bring…

and the Queen sliced down, through a portal, and cut Freya in two. The two halves flew separately, beams of black light shining where they’d been cut… then an explosion enveloped them, and…

It took not even a fraction of a second before one side swung a gigantic weapon, and the other side rose up high with claws ready. They spun around, the direction they needed to turn towards one another. One, still a lamia, gleamed with yellow eyes like a predator about to strike down its prey. The other, human, glared back in defiance as a huge blade sought to end the predator in the midst of its assault. They looked like they were about to cut one another down where they stood…

Then they froze, both of them, glaring at one another from close, one with their claws about to cleave the little human apart and the human with a giant sword about to slice the lamia in half…

There they stood, unmoving.



… The two were the beast and the warrior, from a world where the two had been at war. In the end, the beasts had been victorious, but the only thing they had won was the pleasure of starving to death because they had killed everything else. Freya glared at Shelyn, with the memories of all this creature had caused her. Shelyn looked down at Freya, the one she’d wanted to rip apart for so long, and yet…

‘… Shelyn,’ Freya spoke. ‘We are free. We don’t have to fight.’

‘But I sho ve-y much wan to,’ Shelyn replied, neither retracting their weapons.

‘Right. But don’t you know? There’s an entire world out there. Penny’s out there, too. And don’t you know?’ Freya smirked. ‘Didn’t you hear the nice lady? There’s something she wants us to hunt.’

‘Huu-unt…’ Shelyn’s eyes narrowed, glaring at Freya.

‘Yeah. So how about it? Shall we see who can take it down first?’ Freya asked, retaining her smirk, even as sweat was breaking out.

‘Youuuu…’ Shelyn replied, not so foolish as to not recognize someone trying to play to her likes, as few as they were. That said… Shelyn smiled, too. ‘I will win,’ she postured.

‘Prove it!’ Freya challenged.

… And then, claws and sword struck against each other once, before the were-lamia and the human turned and charged as one at the great monster beyond the portal, who was already raising its limbs to enter battle…!



Ronja and Suzette will be cheering for their freed comrade, Victoria will be egging them both on, Tullia will wonder why on earth Mariette isn’t doing the simple solution, while Lea still stood silently.

Meanwhile.




‘… Right, um,’ Mariette turned quickly to Su and Mika. The queen seemed distracted, so she was going to try to talk quickly, while also sorta trying to pay attention to the life-altering event that was happening to Freya behind her because she cared about Freya.

‘We’re going to try to kill Asengav,’ she said, looking towards Su with a slightly shaky voice. ‘To do this, we’re starting his ritual. The one he sent us all to Penrose to perform in the first place. It was because I knew I had this opportunity that I didn’t leave his command back then,’ she said. ‘It’s… it’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re starting all the mirrors so they start draining the Nexus, and Penrose, of magic. When they’re all activated it will, um, be felt by people in Penrose, but because they’re all occupied with the Queen’s invasion, they won’t… interfere. That’s why we haven’t started the ritual until now. We wouldn’t win. Penrose would crush us.’

‘The finishing touch will be made by Asengav himself, in a cave deep under Penrose. That’s where… the Queen claims she can kill him, and I have my own plan. But also-’ her throat got caught in her mouth, as she whispered really silently.

‘Each moment she spends helping me here, is a moment she’s not cutting down our friends in battle,’ she whispered.

‘The Queen, whom I will refer to as “Mother” because she has-’ Mariette considered how to say this. ‘Because she says she’s my mother,’ Yes. ‘… She has momentarily taken away my ability to portal so I don’t leave. So I can be happy with her.’ She could gesture to the queen-themed necklace (“the pieces of it looking like magnificently hued and multilayered crystals”) she was wearing, too tight to lift off her neck. ‘She says she needs to kill Asengav to make a door in the Nexus so she can reach the Grand Magistrate and kill them. And I figured… we have a common goal, there. The first part, anyway. I don’t know what the second one means, entirely. She says they’re the source of all magic, and with the Storyslayer, she can write a happy ending for herself…?’

And that… will do as a summary.

In Pokémon: Start → 5 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Pirouette

‘Oh, Renaud?’ the red-haired one replied to her question about the Major Gym Leader here. ‘Dark-type Gym Leader of Bigfjord City…’ While the girl was wearing a mask, she definitely grimaced under it. ‘Yeah, we figure he’s not on our side.’

‘He’s not a noble, but he’s actively cooperating with them,’ the gas-mask wearing guy said. ‘He heads the Renaud Syndicate, a cooperation between a bunch of companies with shared bosses. Some in construction, distribution of power, security…’ he then sighs. ‘… and the promise him and his Gym Trainers will come to their aid if any of their companies or stores are robbed. Those around him also pay “protection fees”, for the same extended benefit. Which is why we generally don’t rob Foxhole Foundries in south-east Bigfjord…’

‘But, but~!’ the Chimecho trainer chimed in. ‘I met him, and he was super nice to me! He protected me from some ruffians!’

‘That wasn’t while you were fighting on this side,’ the gas-mask wearing guy inserted.

‘He was a gentleman!’ the Chimecho trainer insisted. ‘Me and Chimecho agree! There is nothing wrong with his heart!’ she insisted, crossing her arms.

‘… It could be worth a shot,’ the leader ultimately mumbled, having considered Erika’s implied suggestion. ‘While it doesn’t sound likely, were it to work…’

Meanwhile, Erika was looking through the goggles…

They were frankly hard to see through. They were pretty heavy to have on your head, as well. It was like a fog had fallen over the city. Yet, as promised, there were as if purple lines scattered in the air. Gently drifting in the air, like lines directing somewhere. And they were going… to two separate locations.

The most obvious lines were going directly to the giant tower. The one with the text saying “RUKH” on it. Following those lines would mean going directly to the heart of Bigfjord City.

Yet, there were a couple others. They were leading roughly north-east, keeping in mind that you’re currently in the west part of the city. From where Erika was currently they almost immediately went behind buildings, so she couldn’t see their ultimate destination.

What would she do?





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@Remram

Uxie’s head was turned to Basil as he proceeded with his question and then his pleading, as if staring towards him with closed eyes.

‘I can’t believe it…’ Anise muttered. ‘What are you…’ she started towards Uxie, but didn’t finish her question and instead frowned.

Uxie took a moment to look between the two of them… and then ope

Basil momentarily forgot where he was or why he was there.

It also was like he was somewhere else. He was no longer in a forest. Instead, he was in a building. Sort of. He didn’t have a body here. It was as if he was but a consciousness, presented with a room.

The room was windowless, with sterile, white walls. At the center stood a large, oval container of water. Instruments were connected to the container, cables drawn to numerous computers reading data. Numerous people in lab-coats were inspecting the data, while other, dark-clad men with Pokéballs at their belts looked much more like security. There were multiple exits, but they were all locked metal doors. And… inside the container of water…

Was an unconscious girl, around Basil’s age. She had long, flower blue hair, swirling around her head. Her eyes were closed, her limbs floating idly within the container, almost as if she was her patient. Yet, for some reason, it was clear. These people did not mean her well. She was not there because she wanted to. For her, this was a prison.

The presence that had been in front of Basil before he saw this vision appeared at his side. It looked towards him, and asked a wordless question.

h e l p _ s a v e _ h e r ?


So it asked him. He was free to answer in any way he saw fit.
In March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay → 5 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay


So, everyone had gone out. An alarm had gone, that the ritual was starting, and everyone went out to do their thing. This meant the only one wandering the halls of the second hideout of Mariette’s forces was Olivia Giles. The blonde girl was walking through gloomy corridors with strange paintings hung up, as if trying to mimic the mansion that Mariette once had, despite the fact that this was located underground.

Sighing slightly, she kept on walking. As far as she knew, she’d done her part. There was an item. An item that Mariette was going to need at the end of it all, at the end of the ritual. So Olivia was heading over to get it. It was inside the workshop that she and Taihei shared, where they could build magic items and things for Mariette and the others. So, she came upon the door, opened it, and froze in place.

A plant had broken out in the middle of the room. A large, humanoid rose, broken through the floor and gently swinging. Behind it, the broken Grief Seed which Mariette had been given once upon a time, after which she’d given it to Taihei to let the artificer try to figure out what was special with the item. Around it, swirling around the rose, was a cloud of spores that-

A spirit summoned by Olivia’s spirit specialization quickly grabbed the item she came for, threw it through the door where Olivia grabbed it, and then she quickly slammed the door shut. She waved the item in panic just in case any spores or whatever it was had gotten onto it. She then spun, springing to a run.

‘H-hello!? Miss overseer!? Camera girl!? You who are constantly spying on us!?’ she shouted out as she began running through the corridors. ‘Something’s wrong in the workshop! I feel like something’s broken out…!’ she shouted… and nobody replied. Usually she would have gotten a confirmation of some kind. ‘Miss overseer!?’ Olivia asked again, somewhat more frantically than before, as she kept running. Wh-what was she supposed to do then!?

Hold on. Jelena, hurt from that explosion from the previous visit to Wonderland, was resting in Ronja’s hospital room upstairs. If something was breaking loose inside the base, then Olivia had to get her out.

With that, Olivia started dashing to get up, and also had to assume the overseer got the message and was relaying it as quickly as possible…!
In March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay → 5 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay



So Mayra was getting herself into position to strike at Gryphon from an unexpected direction… and then she saw Rachel doing just that.

So, yes, sure, she could be like “Hey, that’s my strategy!”

But do you know what would hurt a lot more than being hit by one unexpected flanking attack?

Being hit by two unexpected flanking attacks from opposite directions at the same time.

So Mayra leaped with all her might while Gryphon was still preoccupied with sniping her duplicates. As she approached, she’d spin in mid-air and intend to slam both of her feet into Gryphon from the opposite side that Rachel was attacking from, and try to time it so that she did so at the exact same time as Rachel’s blow. Should they manage to hit at the same time, it would certainly cause much more damage as Gryphon would be unable to fly somewhere between their two blows.

And in case that failed, like if Gryphon suddenly dodged… then Mayra was going to plant her feet in Rachel’s hammer, and with a quick ‘LAUNCH ME!’ intend that Rachel could redirect Mayra at wherever Gryphon had redirected to, and be sent flying like a burning comet at her new location with both fists ready to slam forward into her and hopefully intercept her in the middle of the dodge.

… And in case all that failed Mayra could attempt to blast herself out of the way of any counter-attacks with fire and then use Darkness magic to slip back down into the shadows. Oh, but maybe the duplicates would have a chance to launch themselves at Gryphon in case that happened. Or they could leap to protect original Mayra, they know they’re less worth. Covering your bases, as such.

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The Queen’s hand stopped Mariette from walking closer to Lea, which she then just accepted because maybe walking close to Lea was a bad idea right now. That aside, she soon had her hands full comprehending that Su was now here. And Mika. But mostly Su.

Mariette stayed mostly silent as the Queen cupped her cheek, and said her parts… ‘Yes, we do…’ she said. Though, after the Queen let go, Mariette turned back to Su anyway.

‘I…’ Mariette started, looking towards Su with an anxious tone. She was guilty as charged, in being in deeper trouble than last time. ‘I’m in the middle of something, yeah. This… this is going to be the end. One way or another, the way I have lived up until now is going to end,’ she said. Be it as Asengav’s servant, the Queen’s puppet, free or even alive at all, was currently up in the air.

‘Are you here to help me? If so… there may be some waiting around before anything happens. We need to go through three more rooms, first. I was going to just…’ Mariette looked over at the Queen opening another portal. ‘Hold on. The next one is Victoria and Tullia’s charge,’ she could tell by the sheer chill spilling out of the portal.

The Queen called out that they could be free if they followed her, and…



‘Well, I’ve got nothing better planned! Why the heck not?’ Suzette said, throwing her sleeves into the air and then looking back at Ronja.

‘… I would advise a modicum of caution, but otherwise, this sounds like something interesting I wouldn’t want to miss,’ Ronja agreed, and the spider-girl followed Suzette as the two headed to follow the Queen.



‘I-I…’ Tullia said, tears pouring down her cheeks and hands held over her face. ‘I want to go back…’

‘There’s not gonna be anything left,’ Victoria said, frowning at her friend. ‘It’s in the past.’

‘I know…!’ Tullia cried out. ‘B-but… some of my friends were magical girls. They… they might still be there…’

‘… I got it,’ Victoria sighed. ‘Alright, I’ll help you find it,’ Victoria said. She, herself, had no past whatsoever to long back to… and that somehow made her want to help her friend that did. Tullia removed her hands and looked up at Victoria, all teary-eyed.

‘Y-you will…?’ she asked, her voice all cracked.

‘Yeah! So come on, get on your feet, or they’re gonna leave without us!’ Victoria called, then grabbed Tullia’s hand to pull the distressed girl back on her feet. She then kicked Tullia’s staff back up, so she could grab it. ‘Now, come on! Where are we going?’



Lea stood up. Her expression was blank and quiet compared to earlier, head lowered as she looked down into the floor, eyes wide. Wordlessly, she followed the Queen.



‘… Hold on,’ Freya called to the Queen. Mariette immediately got an expression of “be careful”. ‘You, who changed our lives with a single slice of your blade. I,’ Freya gestured to herself. ‘am two. I am Freya, the magical girl, and within me is Shelyn, the monster. Could you split us apart? Or, if not, could you make it so her blood-lust no longer overcomes me, so that I must prey on humans to subsist?’ she asked. You miss all the shots you don’t take, she figured.

If anyone did feel like going through the portal…



In March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay → 5 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay



‘Yeah… yeah, that figures,’ Miko commented, as the suits of armour became animated and started moving at them.

‘Looks like it's up to us to keep them busy, sis!’ Ronin called.

‘Yeah… yeah, it is,’ Miko responded, and together they posed with their swords.

Following this, Miko crouched down and did a sweeping kick. This was before the armours were in any kind of range. From her kick came a gust of magic wind at feet-level, intending on toppling the armours.

Meanwhile, Ronin lifted a hand and materialized numerous discs of Reinforcement magic power, which she then jumped up and threw, one after another, intending on striking a couple armours with each. She tried to aim so that the disks bounced from one armour into another, using Martial Training which gave insight into a large amount of weapons, including throwing discs.

Then…

‘Ronin!’ Ronin called, gripping her sword in the air.

‘Miko!’ Miko replied, sheathing hers.

‘Let’s do this!’

With that, Miko gripped Ronin’s feet, and then spun around, swinging her own sword-wielding sister as a weapon. The armour looked too tough for them to hurt on their own… but there were two of them.

Miko swung Ronin around like a two-handed sword, and she in turn could swing her sword to either chop at halberds or knock straight at the armours to strike them down/knock them away. At the same time, Ronin could evade or block attacks at her, while Miko stayed out of range and obviously didn't swing Ronin into any situations where she'd be in excessive danger, keeping track of enemies and making sure to swing Ronin only so she could see whatever was going to come her way.

This whole strategy had been Ronin’s idea, of course, when they had practiced it off-screen a while ago.
In Pokémon: Start → 5 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Pirouette

"...How do you really make a difference here, then?"

‘Lady, if we knew that, we’d be doing it already,’ the thief with the red hair who had used a Magnemite in the previous confrontation said, crossing her arms over there.

‘I am one of those office workers…’ the guy in the gas-mask said. ‘I have tried to change things from the inside. Still do. But believe me, the bureaucracy is built to crush any such attempt. They laugh it off, saying this is the way it is supposed to be…’ he continued.

‘So we resort to using our Pokémon~’ the Chimecho trainer inserted. ‘Unfortunately, just beating them in battle isn't going to change the system~’

The thieves had spoken in order from left to right in a half-circle, so following that the attention went to the big guy with the Quilladin… and he said nothing.

‘Our solution,’ the leader thief filled the silence. ‘is to make our teams and make robberies on noble-owned stores, and give the money to more deserving, and then to try to break into their bases and try to find anything incriminating. But if you're asking what you can do…’

‘Not much, probably~’ said the Chimecho trainer. ‘There’s a whole caste of powerful people who would try to stop you~’

‘But that's why we work together,’ the gas-mask guy said. ‘You could make or join a team trying to change things. There's quite a few of us in the city.’

‘Or, hey! There's a perfectly good team right here!’ the red-haired one said, clearly smirking under her mask as she held her arms out in demonstration towards the rest of them.

‘... If you can think of any other way to change the city, we’re all ears,’ the leader said. ‘We’ve tried to raise awareness in other cities with demonstrations, but the media always blocks it out, and it just becomes an excuse for them to brandish us as troublemakers. So for now, we do the one thing we’ve thought of that helps somebody,’ she continued, and then gripped her Pokéball again.

‘We fight.’
‘and steal!’
‘And give~’

The two later callers looked at the guy with the gas-mask.

‘I’ve got nothing,’ he stated.

‘Aw, c’mon! We almost said something cool together as a team!’

‘And so spontaneously, too~’

‘It’s because it was spontaneous that I’ve got nothing! If you want to be able to say stuff like that together, you have to rehearse it!’

‘Rehearsing is boring! We’ve got more important things to do!’

‘You could’ve said “and infiltrate”~’

… And the three of them behind the leader kept a sudden argument going. In the meantime, the leader looked to Erika.

‘No single person can be expected to change the world. I won't demand you do anything. That said…’ she steeled her voice. ‘For something to change, someone must do something. So, what will you do?’

She was asked again.




In March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay → 5 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay



The group of horror-girls tensed up when the Queen lifted her blade. It looked like a motion that would start a fight, after all.

‘Don’t kill…!’ Mariette quickly whispered as she realized the Queen was attacking, not knowing she had nothing to fear yet.

When the Queen swung her sword, the agents jumped in various directions, Victoria and Tullia one way, Suzette and Ronja another. Tullia conjured an ice-shield to protect their side, while Ronja threw out a reinforced web that would shield them, just in case dodging was not enough. Lea was flying high already while Freya sprung aside, both prepared in case it was a Killing Blow that was being fired…

But they were all mistaken, for the attack was not against their physical bodies, but at an aspect of their existence.

Suzette dropped to the floor, having jumped to avoid the blow. Her eyes widened as she contemplated the new… no, repressed insight she had.



‘… Huh,’ Suzette breathed out. ‘Well, ain’t that something…’ she smirked, because that’s how she handles things, but her voice cracked with fear that hadn't been there before.

Beside her Ronja landed, her web falling uselessly. The blind spider-girl was not as affected as her companion, but nonetheless perturbed.



‘Oo…’ Ronja wavered on numerous spidery legs, her head spinning a bit. ‘That’s some power you have in that sword… You okay, Suzette?’

‘I’m hanging on…’ she said, with a smirk. ‘I wonder if the queen knows how cruel she just were, giving us insight, but still leaving us trapped…’

On the other side, Victoria and Tullia landed. Victoria merely stood straight, frowning, more annoyed than anything else.



‘… Tsk ’ Victoria simply made an annoyed noise. Then… she was startled by the sound of Tullia’s staff falling onto the floor. ‘… Tullia?’ Victoria asked, looking over to see her friend’s utterly horrified expression.



Tullia suddenly stumbled back, her eyes wide, stunned as her perception of reality suddenly changed. ‘Wait, I-’ she blinked, and turned to look from person to person, finally backing up against the wall. ‘No, no, no, no, no…!’ and she could do nothing but break down in tears, crying out as her hands came to clasp against her face.

‘Tullia, hold on, calm down…’ Victoria turned to her, her companion all these years, notably distressed by her friend’s state, a note of concern in her eyes as she lifted her hands, trying to figure out how she could use them to help.

Meanwhile, behind them, the half-snake Freya was coming to a stop, frowning, staring blankly ahead. She, too, had received new insight.



‘…’ Freya stayed immobile. She took a moment to consider the sudden new perspective she’d been given. All she could do was grunt. ‘Fuck.’

There was a moment of silence, as all the troops of Asengav came to a stop… and then the green form of Lea came slamming down into the floor, having fallen from on high, spraying a couple of butterflies in every direction.



‘Lea. Are you… alright?’ Mariette took a step forward, but stopped herself, not sure if she should be worried about Lea or not, seeing how Lea had been nothing but hostile towards Mariette. Yet seeing the proud magical girl collapse like that was… uncomfortable. Lea was taking her time, but she was, in fact, slowly moving her arms as in an effort to push herself up…

Meanwhile.

‘… Huh,’ Xander said as he saw Su and Mika leap past him into the portal. He hadn't expected that, and also didn’t really know if he should do anything.

Back now.

‘Hey, behind you!’ Suzette suddenly warned, not knowing if the incoming girls were hostile or not. Mariette spun around, and…

‘... Su, Mika?’ Mariette asked, surprised, and then had to get moving immediately. ‘Wait! Don’t fight! None of you fight!’ she asked of them, stumbling forward to try to stand in between the Queen and the incoming two, albeit she wasn’t exactly the fastest. Over there Suzette, Ronja and Freya had enough presence of mind to refocus on what was going on, while Victoria was busy trying to manage the inconsolable Tullia and Lea was still out of commission.

There was also another thing, she realized. If the still brainwashed Nina had just watched them get un-brainwashed, she’d report it to Asengav immediately, so Mariette spun to talk to a wall. A wall she knew a camera and listening device was implanted into.

‘Nina, I need you to-’ She stopped short. ‘... Nina?’ she asked. The single-word question was not to the person whose name it was, just a general sound of confusion. Because, she shouldn’t be able to remember that name.

Nobody should.

… And that’s how she knew Nina, too, had been affected by that cut, somehow.



… Figuring she would address Nina later if she had to, Mariette refocused on Su, Mika and the Queen, trying to avoid a disaster here. She’d told them not to fight, everything else hung on if they let her try to say why.
In Pokémon: Start → 6 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

@Remram

Anise looked away at his question, she didn’t really have an answer for him. When he lamented the second part… she raised an eyebrow at him, but then deigned not to reply.

Meanwhile, Crocus followed Chikorita behind the rock, where it stopped, spun around and…

‘Chiko!’ it called, gesturing proudly at a being floating in mid-air, behind the rock so that the humans couldn’t see it. The being looked down at Crocus, and held one of its arms over its mouth, indicating to stay quiet. Chikorita was all happy, feeling like it had shown a cool thing to Crocus.

Anise followed along as Basil stepped over. When offering the berries, the Chikorita excitedly jumped to grab the berry, smiling with the little leaf twirling a little as it enjoyed the berry. Meganium looked over towards him with a gentle look, then also ate the berry offered with a single chomp before resting its head again.

Basil spoke all that to Anise, and, from Crocus perspective, the Pokémon behind the rock appeared to be listening to the conversation, and then…

"It's not like I come here, make an offering, and expect another Legendary Pokemon to just show up out of the blue."


Like on cue, the Pokémon flew up a couple of meters, stopping just above the rock.

‘Fair,’ Anise said. ‘I’m just taking precautions beca-’ and she stopped mid-sentence because she saw the thing that just drifted up over there. A small flying Pokémon with a blue body, two tails and a yellow face and helmet-like thing on its head.







Connected areas:
Stillwood Village. Behind you.

In Pokémon: Start → 6 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Pirouette

Erika gave her command, and Chic sent a fireball into a nearby trash-can, setting it utterly on fire. They ran past, and Erika shouted her thing back at Everfair… who stopped short.

‘How could you! Dragonair, put it out! Use…’ Everfair stopped short again. Dragonair spun around, stopping its effort to cause a Twister to impede their advance. Unfortunately, this was the moment where Everfair was confronted with the reality that his super-cool dragon-serpent that lives in water does not learn any water-moves until level 39. He instead resolved to stand helplessly as he picked up a phone from his pocket and dialed a number.

‘Hello? I’d like to report a fire…’

Of course, this bought the two of them far and away enough time to turn a corner and run away from their pursuer. The thief looked behind them and there were no signs of their pursuers.

‘I’ll have to remember that one, good job,’ she said, sounding a bit impressed. Golbat made a noise, and she quickly looked up… ‘Don’t look up,’ she then quickly told Erika as they wandered on…



They kept walking, snaking through several back-alleys and walked through several dark streets. In one spot, the thief stopped, as there was noise nearby. Looking out by a corner… there was a Pokémon battle going on. A band of four was fighting another band or four. There were various Pokémon, primarily fire on one side, a variety on the other side. The combatants were all wearing masks, albeit the four on the fire-type side had gone all the way and were wearing fiery red complete suits. The other side were also covering their faces, but their masks were just black, but with the classic card suits on them for some reason. Clubs, hearts, diamonds, spades.





Fire was flying, which the Breloom was trying to dodge as best it can, and the Alomomola sent sprays of water back, and the battle continued, with the trainers on both sides intense in their commands. What few regular people was left were running for cover. Still, the ones with the fire-Pokémon seemed like they had the edge…

‘The Clovers and Daybreak,’ the thief muttered. ‘We’re taking a detour.’ With that statement, she turned around and they took a different route.

With that, the thief escorted Erika through what felt like it must have been half the city. If Erika knew her directions, she would be able to tell they were heading roughly north-west. Eventually… the buildings started to look a lot less fancy.

Despite this being the main street, the main street looked dirty. The buildings grew far more closely together, the street smaller and more claustrophobic, and it felt like a lot less care had been taken in lumping these buildings together. Darkness found its way naturally into the corners, as the buildings themselves were covering for any overhead light. There were people walking around, and few of them looked well-off. They looked dispirited, simply accepting that this is the way life is now. To the west, the buildings were getting shorter, indicating the end of the city. In the distance the sun could be seen, as if making its descent.

‘Welcome to the Sunset Slums,’ the thief said in a dry tone.



Eventually, they arrived in front of a building. In front of it stood the other four robbers. A girl in a beanie with some red hair under, black sunglasses, the one that had used a Magnemite. A girl with brown hair and a cheery expression, the one with the Chimecho. A seriously big guy, the one with the Quilladin. A lanky guy with a gas-mask, the one with the Koffing. All were wearing black and some form of masks. Only Quilladin of the Pokémon was still out.

‘You brought one of the freshies?’ the guy in the gas-mask asked.

‘Ssh. Let’s just show her what we do, first,’ the thief said. In the building, there was a counter and they brought the stolen goods to said counter… Where a purple Pokémon with gems for eyes suddenly peeked up.



Pokédex Entry #302 – Sableye, the Darkness Pokémon. They live quiet lives in dark caves where they dig for their favorite food, raw gems. These gems surface on their eyes as glittering jewels. They tend to be feared, for it is said that those who meet with these glittering eyes in a dark cave have their spirits stolen away.


The Pokémon took the goods, inspected them very, VERY closely, and then dove down behind the counter. Then, it skipped up again, and put a bunch of money on the counter. The thief picked it up, and…

‘… Geh. It would have been more…’ the thief muttered.

‘It would have been more, but a gallant hero got in our way~’ the Chimecho trainer called weirdly jovially in Erika’s direction.

‘I mean, it makes sense, we look like bad guys,’ the guy in the gas-mask said.

They stepped out, and the five of them journeyed a bit more. Eventually, they stopped by a new building. They knocked on the building’s front door… and eventually, an older woman opened the door. The leader of the thieves held forward the money to her.

‘This should cover the rent of those two families we couldn’t pay for last time, right?’

‘It will. I’ll feed them, too. Thank you for your service,’ the woman nodded to them, and the door closed.

They then stopped at a couple more places of various sentimental value. A day-care with both kids and Pokémon, a home-bakery, a little shrine…

Eventually, they’d distributed all the money they’d received, and then headed for a place where they could look back east towards Bigfjord City proper.

There, the thief turned back to Erika.

‘I’m going to ask you one more time. Do you truly want to know what’s going on here? I warn you that, when you’ve heard it, you won’t be able to unhear it. You can always leave this city, go back to your blissful life as a normal person. Are you sure you want to know?’



What will Erika do?
In Pokémon: Start → 6 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

@Remram

‘There could just be a bunch of sacred places. Stillwood Village can have its own ancient mythology. I just remember hearing about it while researching my own ancient mystery,’ Anise said with a shrug. ‘You don’t have to solve this one,’ she remarked, sounding almost like the first step in an intervention.

She did look the tiniest amused by Crocus being infatuated with the Chikorita. She crossed her arms and watched curiously.

The specific one Chikorita that Crocus approached looked at him curiously as he approached, and made his noise… then smiled happily and called.

‘Chiko!’ it called, and then bounced forward at him before starting to try to run in circles around him and then just generally wanting to play. Skipping around through a bunch of flowers or so. Not a romantic gesture, just wanted to play. Meganium just rested peacefully. The other Chikorita was also curious and wanted to play, really.







Connected areas:
Stillwood Village. Behind you.


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