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[attr="class","ihead"]A STEALTHY ESCAPE
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UNCEREMONIOUSLY, THE DRAGAPULT spits out the beast ball. it makes a muted sound upon impact thanks to the sheer amount of dribble. under
Isra Nightingale's illusion, several escorts arrive. their dresses shift silently. with flashes of white and green,
marie jules and
Remiel Calcifet make their escape with the acquired artifact. when
Isra Nightingale's gardevoir
TELEPORTS, the mirage fades. no trace is left, save for a splotch of drool.[break][break][break]
[attr="class","ihead"]THE WORMHOLE
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THE DARK-HAIRED COUNCILMAN initiates immediate action. around the frenetic wormhole,
Orion Lykos's hydreigon erects
EARTH POWER pillars, forming a funnel. water bubbles from the dragon's mouth before colliding with the writhing tentacles. upon impact, a tentacle recoils and lashes forth. it wraps around one of the hydreigon's necks like a noose.[break][break][break]
however, before it can be pulled into the wormhole's guts,
Thomas Benoit's clawitzer severs the offending tentacle with a potent
WATER PULSE. it continues to fight back the wriggling onslaught.[break][break][break]
Ruby Walker TELEPORTS closer to the portal. despite her tears, she orders her pokemon to sedate several tentacles with
HYPNOSIS and
DAZZLING GLEAMS. like predatory snakes, the tentacles leap over the
EARTH POWER barrier. they snake toward
Ruby Walker, but
Alexei Ivanov's nidoking intervenes. the earth below it erupts, smashing into an incoming tentacle and preventing it from ensnaring
Ruby Walker.[break][break][break]
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as the nidoking growls, its own
EARTH POWER forces boulders from the earth in eruptions of debris. they fly upward before slamming into the portal like meteors. ahead, the slateport sea surges. the salty winds whip toward the party as
FERNANDO SILPH's tapu fini orders the water to heed its command. like a tidal wave, an immense wall of brine (
SURF) rushes into the coast before crashing into the wormhole. the sheer amount of water causes the attack to feel endless- but finally, as the last splash of seawater hits everyone's noses, the tentacles... seem to be gone.[break][break][break]
[attr="class","ihead"]THE MAIN NIHILEGO
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A YANMEGA SOARS CLOSE to the main nihilego. the engorged creature drips acids which score holes in the earth. as
Annie Mei delivers aerial support with
AIR SLASHES from her prehistoric insect, her type:null rushes forth with an
IRON HEAD. several tentacles are deflected, but one manages to evade the yanmega's attacks. it strikes back at the type:null with a terrible crack. the type:null collides on to the ground with a harsh skidding... and after a moment, struggles back on to all fours. its helmet is chipped. but not enough to reveal what lurks underneath.[break][break][break]
Adrian Malcolm's canine rushes past. before the same tentacle can reap
Annie Mei's immoral possession, it
SNARLS with such force. the blind tentacle recoils and slithers back while
Adrian Malcolm looks on atop his gyarados.[break][break][break]
Stormy Silph rushes to her type:null's aid. a tentacle clangs against her aegislash's
KING'S SHIELD. the tinny resonance shakes her, but before she can react to the approach of another appendage, a flash of steel surges forth. @nicole's metagross
METEOR MASHES the tentacle back before advancing. its
ZEN HEADBUTT slams into the nihilego while the riding togedemaru
NUZZLES with a flare of electricity. however, this close, the nihilego is able to wrap itself around the steel-spider.[break][break][break]
however,
Olivia Abbiati's jellicent extents its own tentacles.
WRINGING OUT the nihilego allows @nicole's metagross to escape, while her togedemaru clings on. as the ghostly fumes of the jellyfish's
HEX consume the alien, enough time is allowed for
persephone amavi's claydol to
RAPID SPIN to safety. her driblim launches a
SHADOW BALL. it collides with the rocky exterior, spewing acid as another crack forces itself in its crest. however, another tentacle launches from the ensuing cloud of debris to grab her drifblim's floaty limb.[break][break][break]
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thankfully,
Josh Dragomir's charizard fends it off with a sweltering
FLAMETHROWER. as his charizard roars, his raichu delivers a potent
THUNDER that slams down through the nihilego's center. the nihilego shrieks, crying in severe staccato notes before being blown back by
Balder Schwartz's solgaleo and its
SOLAR BEAM. as
Balder Schwartz rushes for the nihilego,
Thomas Benoit's scizor mega-evolves. with lightning speeds, it slams its
BULLET PUNCHES into the rocky exterior of their intruder. its body cracks further as it bleeds.[break][break][break]
after her owner is saved by the pokenger (
Kazimir Wynter), the sounds of puking accompany the shadow krookodile's surge in strength. after taking round after round of punishment, the krookodile digs its claws in and tears a tentacle off (
PAYBACK) with a spray of gore. the crocodile plummets and hits the ground while wrangling the severed limb. it continues to move even when detached before slowly stilling into a cold calcified state. the nihilego attempts to escape upward, but is momentarily stopped by
Kazimir Wynter's staryu's
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the brief pause is enough for
Kazimir Wynter to reach the nihilego in time. the hero kicks the nihilego back and down toward the earth.
Balder Schwartz catches the nihilego, and with a guttural cry, swings the nihilego as if he were in a hammer throw competition. after the alien dizzies from the rotations, the alolan man slams the nihilego in to the ground. cracks form from the point of impact.
Balder Schwartz's pokeball simply rolls off the creature and clatters on the ground.[break][break][break]
almost limping, the alien attempts to retreat defensively, but
kyle lopez's mega manectric is too fast for it. in a trail of lightning, the electric canine deflects tentacles with a swing of an
IRON TAIL before pinning the nihilego back into the earth with a ear-piercing crack of thunder thanks to
WILD CHARGE. in this weakened state, the
STATIC is able to prevent the nihilego from moving too much. immediately,
mateo martinez's mega sceptile and arcanine ensnare the exhausted creature with thick vines of a
FRENZY PLANT and haul it to the wormhole. as
Lucas Lane clings onto
Noelle Lane, her gyarados uses a
HURRICANE to keep the nihilego restrained. with a heave,
mateo martinez's pokemon hurl the alien invader back into the wormhole while
Noelle Lane's venusaur keeps them anchored with vines.[break][break][break]
[attr="class","ihead"]THE FINALE
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AS THE WORMHOLE DIMINISHES IN SIZE, noah faber watches intently alongside
kyle lopez. the portal seems to be losing stability. having remained open longer than normal in a foreign plane, the energies spark and fry in chaotic storms of sound.
mateo martinez celebrates, continuing his cheers from before. the
EARTH POWER from
Orion Lykos's hydreigon act as a crowning cap to the closing portal.[break][break][break]
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but before the portal can fully close, something leaps out of the portal. a thick tentacle, one that belongs to dahlia's corrupter, whips out in one last act of retaliation. before anyone can react, it wraps itself around
mateo martinez's body. the elite four member can barely spare enough time to convey his shock before he's violently grappled into the air and dragged into the wormhole. the portal closes as soon as his body disappears into the grid of ultraspace.[break][break][break]
all that is left of him is a shoe[break]and the pokemon secured by
Noelle Lane's venusaur.
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[attr="class","ihead"]GUIDELINES
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congratulations! you have reached the end of the event! rewards and a follow-up will come this weekend. feel free to post/roleplay in this "round" before the event closes sometime on
2/9 PST. of course, it is not mandatory to post in this round in order to receive full rewards.[break][break][break]
to applaud your participation, everyone in the tag list below receives
3 LUCKY LETTERS to redeem tomorrow.[break][break][break]