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TO SOW DRAGON'S TEETH (RIGHTWARD)
POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 6:33:18 GMT
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priam had been observing, though it took him long enough to realize that maybe he should be participating in the fight.

he scales down just in time for the ground to split, finding himself on the right side of the fissure. frozen pokemon around him does little to his nerves, but his espeon's safety does.

"we just attack, right?"

a hidden power blasts through the defenses of the dragon. he hides behind the multitude of people trying to defeat the dragon as he considers options to make an actual entrance.

this entry wasn't loud. it doesn't count.

  • priam arrives and doesn't know what to do
  • espeon uses hidden power to attack


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POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 18:22:31 GMT
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priam releases his pokemon from its ball.

"you know the drill, gabby," he instructs his gabite. "we did this a lot of times before already!"

unlike most pokemon, his gabite had been his partner in crime once upon a time. it was when fights weren't as prevalent and most jobs he had with his gabite only needed its expertise on the ground.

excavation was one of the few things he did. whether it's fossils from mt. moon, or from sinnoh's underground or shoal cave, his gabite knows the amount of digging it needs just to unearth stuff without breaking them.

"i bet ya got me cause i'm, like, one of the experts we have with the heist stuff, huh? ah, to be so great at a lost art when everyone else only knows how to fight and do computer stuff."

priam starts to ramble.

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POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 18:16:06 GMT
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"well, that's your fault for takin' the job!" priam points out. "but that just means i'll get a little extra now that we have our rematch!"

he releases his gabite from its ball.

"what do you mean? a gabite's more practical! they do everythin' ya can ask a garchomp for, and they're easier to feed, and i have a friend who buys any scales that get chipped off from battle for traditional medicine!"

better thank him for that when almost every trainer evolves their gabite at the first chance they get.

priam takes his place in the field, with his gabite taking front. he fills the silence with chatter, if there had been any point in time that n words came between the two of them.

"and come on! ya think i came all the way here just to deliberately throw? your gym haven't seen any challengers win with unevolved 'mons yet?"


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POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 17:32:44 GMT
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"what do you think of route 123?"

it seems like a random location at first, but it was an area of hoenn where something similar to the nature of crystalblooms lives.

"oh! it's where we keep a tree of life around. it wasn't as big as the one we had here in sootopolis, but it's still the real deal."

crystalblooms were delicate as they already are, but they were still a good choice to grow with a seed they have no idea about since its infinity energy might help with the seed's growth.

if it was just infinity energy they need, however, priam figured he might as well point out another source of it in case that opens up options for the head scientist.

"we currently have zorua hiding it with illusions, but it's pretty off the beaten path anyways even without it. too much security, and it'll stick out, so inhibiting information is, like, just another layer of security so no one knows much about it."

she has the right to know of it since she was a head scientist. priam, on the other hand...

"if y'er gonna ask why i know such info, lemme tell ya that the one that got that specimen 'and' help transport it is yours truly. i really am just that reliable, y'know, and that's still an understatement!"

his last sentence made it seem like priam had brought it up only to brag.

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POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 17:13:24 GMT
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the hypothetical question itself brings fear in priam.

"i guess this is the end of that trust then."

his muscles finally relax. he's pulling the plug so bryan doesn't have to.

"it's fine. rockets weren't meant to feel attached anyways. they always told me that's what gets you killed." he doesn't mean it to be a dig at bryan's immortality.

he gets up from the pool and stretches. he wrings out the excess water from his hair and casually wipes his face with whatever moisture was left on his palms.

"yeah, sorry bry. i'm not even sure how i'll act by my own. had to do it that way, else i won't survive, y'know?"

soft, weak, malleable. priam was nothing that he advertised himself as.

priam prepares to leave the room, giving bryan one last glance before exit to give him a chance to call him back. would he, though? he asks himself.

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ROCKET HOLIDAY PARTY ❄️ (MEGA SOCIAL)
POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 16:57:23 GMT
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"fine, fine. lycanroc ones are probably out of stock by now anyways." that was what liked in terms of pokemon, as far as he knows. he then turns to . "and for ya, i'll even crochet a flame decal one if i have to!." it'll match with his genesect.

his hands were fumbling about the envelope in the mean time, and only after he yapped did he read its contents. he smiles, and looks for in the crowd, but loses him in the sea of people.

maybe he'll just spring the request out of the blue sometime. it's better if it happens when he least expects it anyways.

the search was officially ended when he was handed a glass of whiskey by oscar. he hates the taste of liquor, more so when it's those fancy ones with a high level of alcohol purity. his taste never did evolve from that of a child, but someone like him wouldn't admit to it.

"t-to another splendid year!"

he chugs the rest down the hatch so he doesn't have to taste it. the act burns his throat, and the watery eyes was quickly wiped with the sweater's sleeve when zev asks him a question.

"they're part of the performers we have tonight!" he answers before coughing. he spoke too quick before recovering from the show he made. "i haven't seen their shows. ooh, maybe the organizers know!"

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POSTED ON Dec 17, 2023 18:20:30 GMT
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his eyes can't bring itself to look at bryan.

"i think i do love you, but if you're having doubts, then what if i actually don't and i just don't know it..."

his shoulders tense, and then relaxes the next moment. walls were being torn down for the sake of the conversation, dredging up realizations he made with himself during their trip to galar.

"you know how it is in rocket. you have to condition yourself, or else you won't last long. it's why i tried not to get you involved with the higher positions."

something tells him to shut up, but he's programmed to answer to superiors.

"how certain are we that what i'm feeling is genuine and isn't, like, just me being conditioned to mesh well with other people?"

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POSTED ON Dec 17, 2023 17:53:10 GMT
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the beauty of not being a high ranking official of rocket is that people often get ignored if they're simply grunts. his face wasn't plastered everyone, but there's irony with the fact that only the highest on the ladder recognizes his name, but not the common folk.

blue vega.

that's the name he registered himself with for navy's gym. coincidentally, a color's name has also been a pet name of his during his stay in rocket, not unlike navy's own.

when the gym leader comes out to face his challenger, priam just waves his hand at him.

"well, y'know how it is. it got busy after the ultra sea stuff, and then there was the galar stuff, and then some other stuff afterwards. i tried camping out on your gym during the resurfaced island stuff too, but you weren't here!"

it sounded like complaints, but it was just priam trying to be loud for the sake of being loud.

"i felt bad leaving an empty promise behind so i got my busy schedule out of the way and made some time to visit since i did promise a match. we can call it quits now after you invited me to your office at slateport and i found it empty."


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POSTED ON Dec 17, 2023 17:35:50 GMT
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"a wild mega glalie," he answers. "and this was before mega evolution was discovered, so i thought, like, cool! a new glalie evo!"

it attacked them, and between a grunt who barely has money to feed pokemon beyond their first stages and a civilian, it was a miracle they even managed to fend it off.

of course, priam wouldn't word it like that.

"at that time, it was like, super scary, y'know, but it still wouldn't have beaten me! if i faced it now, though? even easier! it went to league custody at the end, but oh well. they did the research work for everyone so i can't be that mad."

he forgets about the archeology part of the chat they have since his mind has been preoccupied by recalling a previous adventure in the caves.

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POSTED ON Dec 17, 2023 17:09:30 GMT
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priam giggles at his own work.

"haha, i don't even know," he confesses to parker. "i just used all the garden-related ones."

that was a beauty of being a person who was widely known as the flower shop person. using plant-related metaphors would always seem like in character, and they would all be sexual in nature at some point or another.

priam isn't sure how, but he knows that was the case.

"we can probably just tell her that her phone got hacked," he assures parker. "that's kinda realistic, right? we're in a criminal organization anyways, so there's a good number of master hackers around to clear our name!"

he'd imply that they're dumb enough to not be suspects for hacking, but priam isn't going to talk himself down.

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ROCKET HOLIDAY PARTY ❄️ (MEGA SOCIAL)
POSTED ON Dec 17, 2023 16:48:04 GMT
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"oscaaaar!"

priam takes a running start and them jumps into 's arms, never mind that he has the worse constitution out of the two of them. it wouldn't be priam's fault if oscar took off and then continued to not improve his health after all that time.

it is only after he crashes that he manags to turn his attention to . "thank you! i picked it myself!" he responds with eagerness. "i'll pick up one for ya if y'er interested."

he turns back to . "the offer's open to you too!"

in the midst of the reunion, priam notices people move to the casino's foyer from the main area. it's probably for the white elephant thing. the thought of someone getting his gift makes his smile stretch from ear to ear.

"well, that's only if ya didn't get my gift for the exchange! what didya guys get for it? mine's, like, super good, y'know. like a collector's item! if ya didn't get mine, the consolation gift's gotta be the sweater picked by yours truly, chosen to fit the personality of my dear friends."

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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2023 4:21:19 GMT
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"roger!" priam shouts with a salute.

he's been familiar with the world of mining and archeology, especially with the amount of time he has spent with individuals whose particular hobby revolve around them.

"did you know this is where the roots of mega evolution came from?" he shares with theo. "i found an abandoned research lab about that here with one of the league's scientists before. i wonder why they built their lab here though."

priam was mindlessly talking about the reminiscent memories rather than talking about the mission. it would be nice if they didn't get any disturbances, especially since he figured theo's old bones can't manage to run away fast.

"wait, but why should we be careful about them?" he asks, circling back to the conversation.

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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2023 3:51:31 GMT
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he sinks into the water. confronted with revealing himself didn't sit right with him, but not as much as leaving details out for bryan.

"why would you think i'm scared of you? me? the one and only priam conrad?"

he chuckles at his own exaggerated narcissism. eyes fall down to the water afterwards, too afraid to make eye contact.

"but it's not that. it's just... i don't actually know how to feel..."

he doesn't know what constitutes actual love. he's seen couples within the organization come and go. priam can only replicate what he sees, but what happens behind closed doors remain unseen.

bryan had been his only template so far.

"w-would you also-" let me do what i needed to cope in that situation?

he doesn't finish the question, and instead replaces it.

"do you think i love you?"

priam continues not to maintain eye contact. hands grab and squeeze his knees in the water as he finds himself stifling a laugh to cope with a different kind of stress he hasn't experienced before.

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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2023 3:29:17 GMT
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"i don't think i remember any tree in my dream. i don't think it's a seed for the tree of life either since i don't remember any infinity energy stuff happening near that place before."

priam shrugs.

both sides of the race was heavily involved in the research of infinity energy, and the location of where it happened did not seem to be a place of interest during the entirety of the research period.

"but if it's related to the tera crystal cavern stuff and that weird dream trip, then what if it's like a tree of life that brought us to another dimension before?"

like a roller coaster, the sullen disposition from the uncertainty of it rises up to a beam of hope when possibilities enter the realm of his grandeur daydreams.

"ah, i'm so excited to see it grow, but it looks so special and we only have one chance to not fuck up. gardening's hard work, y'know."

he turns to nomi. "have you grown plants before, miss sato?"

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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2023 2:49:55 GMT
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"we can match the energy," he enthusiastically replies at the sight of the response.

although she doesn't seem to be the type to use emojis, priam thinks she's definitely the type not to fight back in a war of attrition. the proper response to emojis would be emojis as well.

"the underboss likes plants and stuff, right? let's use some of those!"

priam borrows the phone once more and types in the response he has in mind. he lets parker take one look at the message and leaves the approval to her.

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the life cycle of a butterfree was one of the last few lessons in a proper school setting that he learned. he might as well use it in a real life situation.