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| About Me: Name- Shazam, Shamrock, or Shammie is fine! Age- Over 18 Pronouns- She/They Country- United States ERP - I will write NSFW | Roleplay: I do one on one RPs mostly but open to groups! I like romance and for pairings I can do MxF or MxM (or NB). Will double! I don't RP as canon characters but happy to RP in fandom setting with OCs. I like romance (slow burn), fantasy, magic, adventure, modern setting, found family, & more For fandoms I am always up for Pokemon or some anime/magic settings | Request thread: Still getting set up |
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It seemed to Nils that Clarissa's latest fall must have been more serious than he'd thought, or than the previous ones, simply because of the reaction of the other trainers around her... sans Vivian, who was stuck in researcher mode. Practically as soon as Nils arrived at the scene, Sabine called him over to help the lilac-haired girl up; Valerian was 'Princeling', which would mean that he was supposed to be the 'Pretty Boy' she indicated. Well he wouldn't have refused to help his new friend out anyway, so Nils nodded to the lot of them and took up Sabine's place opposite Valerian in getting Clarissa to her feet.
And he couldn't help snorting a laugh at the prince's remark about her habits.
"How's the head? That looked like a pretty nasty fall."
Nils quickly recovered by clearing his throat and then allowing Valerian to do most of the supporting while he looked at Clarissa's general well being. Tors, too, gave the girl a sniff as though he could tell her health from her smell. Maybe he could, being a pokemon and all.
"I'm no Nurse Joy but Clarissa's tough," Nils said, finishing his vague inspection. She might have a bump, but there was no blood. He had no way of knowing what sort of mental trauma she might have been put through since he was in the dark about the strange properties of the black walls, so as far as he was concerned she passed her health examination.
"I think she'll be alright." Nils then addressed Clarissa directly. "You feeling okay?"
In the middle of her rousing, something unexpected happened. Though the group of trainers, fairly large at eight of them and their pokemon, had gone through the ruins none of them had seen sign of the Pokemon that just appeared to them, a quadruped with snow white fur and an imposing face.
"Disaster Pokemon?" Nils said to himself. The Pokedex description about warning people of danger that the various phones around the area chimed out couldn't be a coincidence, right? "That's... just like what's written on the ruins...!"
If it was leading them somewhere then they definitely had to go after it. Nils nodded somewhat absently at Valerian suggesting the very same thing, as his attention had shifted almost entirely to this mysterious Absol. "Yeah, we should," he said, but actually did not wait for the rest of the group to get their bearings. Leaving Clarissa in the prince's capable hands Nils followed Vivian's path after the Absol as though physically pulled, with his Mudbray at his heels.
Present! Hope you've been doing good and good luck with your move too!
I'm glad it's not being cancelled. I don't mind waiting, it's been a lot of fun so far! Take all the time away you need ^^ and I hope things get better for you soon!
Nils had figured that finding any physical thing among the ruins was going to be a long shot. Ancient relics had probably been long since collected by researchers, scientists, or roving adventurers that stole stuff and gave it to museums. There was hardly anything left besides the structures themselves, and even those had been chipped away at. Since he was going in not expecting much he wasn't disappointed, and he also was not above taking a neat looking rock along with him. His room back home already housed a couple of those.
Tors sniffed at the rock as Nils knelt down to pick it up. Nils turned the multi-faced stone over in his hand, curious if the mudbray was going to try and eat it... but he didn't, he merely seemed interested in it because his trainer was.
"You can hold onto it if you want, Tors," Nils said, an amused little smile on his face. Tors blew a puff of air from his mouth and wagged his tail.
[ Tors is now holding a Hard Stone ... somehow! ]
Truth be told, Nils hadn't expected to find much in general. It was only the age of the ruins that piqued his interest enough to at least look. So when he continued searching, swept his eyes over the runes, and then had to stop and stare at the high wall with wide eyes he was not only not disappointed, but taken completely by surprise.
This is...! he started to think to himself, but found it hard to even voice in his own head. These were familiar shapes, words he could read, even in a language so different from the common speech of Evig now.
Nils stood frozen for what seemed like a long time, just taking in as many words as he could and trying to piece together the context of what was written. His eyes traced every rune, then jumped to the next line, the next wall. It was a lot. His head was even starting to hurt a little, but his heart... it beat strongly, partly elated that he'd found this, what just had to be a clue, and partly saddened that he was not as fluent as he could have been. But that was what this journey was for. Now, hours after taking his first step and meeting his partner pokemon, he felt that he'd just taken his second.
After a while of committing words to memory and trying to figure out what the message was spelling out (he guessed it was about some sort of cataclysm, but was it a chronicle? A prophecy? A warning?), Nils recalled that he was not actually in the past with the words. This was the modern era; he had a Rotom Phone. Giving his eyes and brain a rest, the boy took a few photos of the carved walls. He doubted he would be able to translate them in full anytime soon, if at all, but he wanted to keep this proof.
Tors had seated himself in the grass, just beginning to doze off when Nils pulled the phone out and roused the pokemon inadvertently. The mudbray shook its head to clear the drowsiness and then hopped back up onto its four feet, looking up at Nils. "Muuu mud?"
"Almost done, buddy. I want to stick around here a little longer though, see if I can't find whatever this is..." as Nils said that, he gently traced the rune in front of him with his hand. He wasn't exactly sure what it said. Automaton... so something like a robot? Did they even have those back when this was written? Maybe it was supposed to be golem instead?
Nils absently petted Tors' head as he thought about it. "It might not even still be here. But it doesn't hurt to look, right? So let's see... I guess we can start by finding a building that might have been a barracks, or something?"
Tors tilted his head, oblivious to what a barracks even was.
Before the two of them could start their search (but really just continue with more direction), there was yet another nearby commotion. This one was not as loud as the girls' screams from just earlier, but since Nils was not as far away this time he heard it pretty clearly. In another part of the ruins a thump of something hitting the ground and the surprised reactions of the other trainers. Tors jumped to alertness, and he and Nils turned curious eyes in that direction. A moment later and they went over to see what had happened, and coming upon Clarissa on the ground once more (she was a bit of a trouble magnet, wasn't she?) with Vivian hovering over her, to then hear what happened following Vivian's enthusiastic grilling.
It was a short trek to the ruins, and when they arrived... well, Nils wasn't sure what exactly he'd expected. It was pretty much as Frankie had said: old, creepy buildings. Not that Nils found them all that creepy, but they were definitely old if nothing else. While Tors stepped carefully through the area, his ears standing tall and alert on his head, Nils ambled through more casually. His eyes wandered curiously from the worn clay structures to the pokemon living among them, trailing after a baltoy for a little bit before returning to the ruins at large.
He didn't know what he should be looking for. It was frustrating to be honest, but far from enough to get him to quit before he'd even really started searching. He kept the frown from his face by turning to the group to see what kind of impression his new friends had of the place. Maybe he could take a cue from the real history nerds about how best to go about looking around ancient ruins for secret information!
...nah, not when he couldn't exactly ask them about it without raising any suspicions. Besides, it was possible that these ruins would turn out to be a complete bust.
Regardless he could easily see who was into the ruins and who was indifferent. It also seemed like the ghost-types were as interested in Amelia as she seemed to be in them. And soon enough, a couple of more trainers joined them. Nils gave the girl and boy who turned out to be Frankie's pals a friendly little wave. He also chuckled at Valerian's reaction to their greeting. Maybe, as a prince, he didn't have a lot of friends around his age to share teasing and ribbing with?
"It makes sense though, I bet this place can get pretty spooky at night," Nils said to justify some of Frankie's nervousness. Ghost-types could get pretty ruthless in their own element after all. Although since it was still daylight, he didn't think they'd run into much trouble.
Nils spent a few moments after that watching Clarissa and Vivian to see if he actually could get a sense of how they went about studying ruins, but it wasn't long until he struck out on his own to look around the place. "Alright, I'm gonna look around."
It wasn't a large enough area to truly be separated from the others, and he got glimpses of them as he and they moved about. He had only the vaguest of clues to go off of, but anything was better than nothing... so he walked through the buildings, around the pillars, and up to the strange, dark walls, keeping an eye out for anything interesting... or, if he was lucky, meaningful.
[ Search ruins for: writing, artifacts, items ]
[ Investigate runes on the black mirror wall ]
The longer Nils spent listening, the easier it was to piece together what had happened. So it wasn't actually a fight breaking out, just the first instincts of startled trainers and their pokemon. Seemed like the girls had been gotten good by a prank, and the culprit for all this tomfoolery was pretty obvious even without Amelia's apology. Nils looked at Phantump, still wrangled by Amelia's other pokemon. "You really did a number on 'em, huh?"
His voice was neither accusatory nor encouraging, but there was a little glint of amusement in his gaze now that he understood the situation wasn't serious. He turned away from Phantump then and reached out to help Clarissa onto her feet, making sure she was alright in the process. Tors tilted his head, not completely grasping the full situation just yet, but he plodded over to the buneary to ask. "Bwaa bry?"
With everything seemingly handled and calming down Nils regarded the group, especially the two strangers. When the dark haired girl introduced herself it took a moment for the name to click in his head, but she confirmed it herself not longer after: she was part of the pair of latecomers the one that had texted him back earlier. "Oh, so you're Vivian," he said with a nod and a smile. Then he pointed to himself. "It's Nils, the guy that sent you that message before. We ended up meeting pretty fast!"
Maybe he'd get to find out what had happened in her reply, but honestly he had a feeling he already knew. She brought up the nearby ruins, which Amelia seemed pretty enthusiastic about. If the group wanted to pay them a visit, that suited Nils just fine.
"I wanted to check them out too," Nils said. "I think it'd be neat, and I'm sort of interested in that stuff. Ah, the ruins I mean, I can leave the ghost hunting to the rest of you."
It was a more recent interest, and disconnected from the standard curriculum of Evig's public education, but it was there all the same. Nils scratched at the back of his head (and then seemed to realize his hair was still loose, so swapped to pulling a dark ribbon out of his bag to tie it into a ponytatail) before glancing at the gathered teenagers.
"If not everyone's up for it we could always split up and meet again later, like we did this morning. We should pick out a good spot to camp out too while we're at it."
After saying that Nils' smile turned to a grin. He really enjoyed camping, and it would be all the more fun with everyone around and getting to know each other. The invitation was even offered to the stylish boy with the scraggy, as Nils looked at him with a small tilt of his head.
"Wanna head over there now?"
Alright I was wrong before but I am 100% back now!
It's okay, no worries! ^^/
And happy birthday by the way!
Wooops, sorry @Shazamrock!
I didn't even notice until now that I gave your post a laugh. I meant to give it a Like. My bad. :(
It's okay, no worries! ^^/
And happy birthday by the way!
Given that the group wasn't on a time constraint, they stopped by the Pokemart on their way out of the city. Nils had perused the wares at a leisurely pace as he thought about what he might need for the road ahead. He still had pokeballs, but since catching pokemon to record data and sending them back to Professor Kapoc was technically the task of his assistants, it would probably be a good idea to make sure he had plenty on hand. He definitely wanted potions in case they ran into trouble and didn't have easy access to a pokemon center, and as for anything else... well, after seeing Sir Lopsalot suffering from being poisoned earlier, Nils didn't want any of his pokemon to go through the same thing if he could help it - so at least one antidote. And... why not another status cleanser for good measure?
[ Purchase: Pokeball x3, Potion x2, Antidote x1, Paralyze Heal x1 ]
[ -1500p ]
That was probably good for now, at least until Nils could get a real sense of how the adventure was going to go. It was his first time being this far from home after all; long distance traveling was going to be a new experience. One that he was excited for, yes, but hard to know what to buy or bring since he'd never done it before.
But he was feeling pretty good about it, and still had a decent amount of money left over too. It was more than could be said about Clarissa on both accounts, and more than once Nils had given her a sympathetic smile when it looked like she was worrying too much over her purchase of a fishing rod. Fishing was fun! He was planning to do some himself before settling in for the night, if they ended up close to water. Of course he was also planning just to make a rod himself, but it wasn't like a professionally made one was a bad buy.
For now though, Route 4. It was nice; the rolling hills, the river streaked fields, the warm sun. The weather made for a pleasant trek so far as the group continued moving through the area. He did find himself laughing lightly at Valerian's description of the route. Nils cast his gaze over everything, from the terrain to the wild pokemon... and eventually slowed his pace from the others.
"I'm gonna do some battling I think, see what the pokemon around here are all about," Nils told the rest of the group. "Don't wait up for me, I'll catch back up soon."
[ Train Pokemon ]
And so while the others continued on the main path, Nils made a detour down a shallow embankment, drawing a pokeball from his pocket. It shouldn't take long, right? A couple of battles each for his team, and then he'd meet back up with Amelia, Clarissa, and Valerian again.
As the training got underway, a problem quickly became apparent to Nils: out of the four pokemon he currently had, three of them were weak to water. That meant that most of the team had to avoid the brook and its water-type pokemon. Those pokemon were left to Rau to deal with, while the rest took on the rock and normal-types.
They weren't at it for too long since Nils didn't want to be left behind by the rest of the group, but just long enough that he could start getting a feel for battling with the Aron and Igglybuff while also continuing to toughen up the Mudbray and Rattata. During the battling Nils considered what to do shore up his current roster's weakness. He wasn't the type that wanted to fill up all six slots as soon as possible, but... a grass or electric type would be good to add, and sooner than later. Maybe both at once, if there was a pokemon like that out there? Otherwise he didn't think it would be too difficult to at least find a grass-type either out there in the field or in the forest ahead once they got there.
As much as Nils may have wanted to let all of his pokemon walk around on the route with him following their little training session, he knew it would be too chaotic. For now, Tors was the lucky member of the team to remain outside of his ball as pokemon and trainer climbed up the little hill and returned to the road. He held his hand up to shield his eyes from the sun, but found no trace of his new friends.
"Can't have gotten that far though, right Tors?" Nils said, to which the mudbray replied, "Muu."
They started off after the group, though the first thing that caught Nils' eye was the tips of the nearby ruins as it gradually came into view. He hadn't really been a history nerd growing up, but in recent years his interest had grown. He was sure checking them out would at least be a little neat even if they weren't related to what he was looking for. Maybe he had time for another detour...
Which is when he heard people ahead of him. They must have been just a little past the ruins, or maybe next to them, but either way the very loud cry of a Phantump followed by a girl's shriek was impossible to mistake. Even if Nils hadn't think it was Amelia's partner that had shouted, he still would have investigated - and so he took off towards the source of the noise with Tors on his heels. When he arrived, skidding to a halt beside the trainers, he came upon a scene of an unfamiliar girl on the ground and an unfamiliar boy standing nearby, both with pokemon out in battle stances. Clarissa, Valerian, and Amelia were there too, along with the latter's Phantump.
...was a battle going on, or just about to start? Nils glanced at Amelia and asked her, "what's going on?"
I had to catch up with work from while I was sick, but I am also feeling better now and back now! I will start working on a post for today!
If you still need a compile list, Nils caught three... alolan rattata, aron, and evig igglybuff.
Take from Discord.
"Hey just letting you guys know that I think that I have been too stingey with the reward money you guys get from catching Pokemon so I will increase it from now on
If everyone could compile what they have caught so I can give you guys what you owe that would be great."
If you still need a compile list, Nils caught three... alolan rattata, aron, and evig igglybuff.
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