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BATTLEFRONT 1: LEAGUE HQ

POSTED ON Oct 24, 2018 13:33:08 GMT

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"jet, tamara, we need to go!" panic leaks through the otherwise commanding words as his croconaw and altaria face off with an arbok and weezing. rocket numbers are rising at the entrance of the building as more members seem to materialize out of thin air, leaving zeke rainey outnumbered and at a massive disadvantage.

the unexpected nature of the attack has left him in a fearful state as the threat of rocket suddenly solidifies into something legitimate and present in hoenn. he will not make the same mistakes he made in kanto years ago. tamara unleashes a dragon pulse strong enough to blow both enemy pokemon back. "Now!" pokemon on his heels, he bursts through the front door and is met with another wave of battle. bodies of trainers, rockets, and pokemon are strewn across the ground in the hallways and in the grand entrance, the evidence of the massacre that he'd sworn only just began.

gambling comes to mind; what brings silph's words to the forefront of his consciousness remains a mystery for now as he shoves past a rocket member, trying to get deeper into the facility where league members are surely more concentrated. his life is, again, at stake, and he is more comfortable here than he was at the pachinko machine with someone else's money. flashes of past battles in similar situations plague him as a hydro pump blasts past him.

blue hair -- that explains the gambling. "silph. thank fuck." saying the name unleashes a wave of catharsis -- he is no longer one man against a million. zeke's towering form passes the sceptile and mimikyu and finally halts next to FERNANDO SILPH. another man he does not recognize is nearby.

"there's a lot more just outside the entrance." his hands fall to his knees as he catches his breath.

- was outside the league HQ for some reason.
- fought jessie and james knock offs.
- ran inside and found FERNANDO SILPH and @thermopylae .
- altaria and croconaw active.

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POSTED ON Oct 24, 2018 2:36:18 GMT

zeke does not ask for it, but fernando offers his wisdom. he finds himself wondering if fernando has thoughts and opinions on everything as he watches the screen light up with another win: a luxio. the electric-type reminds him of scott, and he cannot keep himself from cashing in on this one. with a press of his thumb he is dispensed another pokemon for his use. an incredulous chuckle breathes from his barely parted lips at the ease of the acquisition.

he rolls again.

somehow, silph's words are resonate with him. his head shakes back and forth at the thought of paying for the watchog, and suddenly he's wondering why they're playing at all as the wheel spins again, sucking him in further, deeper. "i guess that makes sense." it doesn't, but he nods tentatively. zeke finds the strength to break his gaze from the machine as it goes round and round to look at silph.

"definitely don't have a hero complex. but i'll be honest, i would have let your company go down in flames to save my life if it came to that." he refers to kanto, the thing that seemingly brought them here today. the unusual nature of their meeting sticks in his mind but drifts further to the back as time passes.

silph seems more human today than he did yesterday, or at the debrief. "though obviously i thought it was worth the gamble to save back then, so i don't know." he'd seen a few guys die on one particular day in kanto. was it to save silph co.?

he can't remember quite clearly enough, but the idea of them dying so he could get this free luxio today in a casino churns his stomach the wrong way.

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diagram the light [mission]

POSTED ON Oct 23, 2018 1:31:18 GMT

[attr="class","dilyrics4"]Glory to the night that shows me what i am as i go to the party on my knees saying take it all please. tell me no, tell me no

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[attr="class","dibody4"]A quick scan of the room they enter into offers him more input than he'd expected: its untouched state is eerie in itself, but confirms the fact that the source of the disturbance is likely accredited to something supernatural. Persephone summons her Lucario, its aura reading ability probably meant to somehow confirm a ghostly presence -- she's probably on the same page as he is. Nevertheless, she asks his opinion. A laugh escapes his lips as she closes the case. "Case closed? We can go now?"

"But uh, my professional opinion? Ghosts, probably. If I were some asshole kid I'd have wrecked the place. And if I were some asshole Rocket...I'd still probably have wrecked the place." he chuckles softly and picks up a Taillow figurine from an end table. His eyes track up to the chandelier that hangs above them, specks of dust interrupting his gaze as the float through the air, their rest disturbed by Zeke and Persephone's appearance. "Think your Lucario can get us close to a source if it is ghosts?" the taller man brushes past Persephone, voice clicking into something of a commanding (but not disrespectfully so) tone as he further searches the apartment.

A hallway stems from the main room and heads east, another heading west. Ahead, a balcony oversees a man-made courtyard in the middle of the complex. His feet carry him somewhat cautiously toward the hallway heading west, a hand running along the wall slowly as he goes. "I don't really know the case, but people, like, always die in bedrooms right?"

This man is an officer of the law basing his professional opinions on CSI: Lumiose episodes. He stops, suddenly bringing the sound of ticking to the forefront of his consciousness. "Is that a clock ticking?" would an operational clock still have battery power after all this time?

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POSTED ON Oct 23, 2018 0:55:41 GMT

zeke rainey finds himself learning the rules of the pachinko rather quickly, passing over the watchog under the promise of a better role soon. the game's set up entices him to swipe his card once again, this time without excessive gratitude toward fernando. the businessman is busy talking anyways, explaining his modus operandi in words easy enough for zeke to comprehend fully. it isn't the answer he expects -- aren't businessmen known for taking risks?

perhaps silph is in a league of his own.

the ball begins to plunk down again and again, another prize waiting at the end. pokemon are forever. air escapes his nostrils at the notion followed by a sideways look at silph. regirock's hyper beam replays. "if you're lucky...i guess i am a gambler." the moment during which Marin nearly disintegrated makes him realize he risks his pokemon, and he laughs softly.

"why am i more willing to gamble my life than my money?" the question is mostly rhetorical, its tone meant to be humorous as he watches the glow of the pachinko screen in front of him.

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POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 22:28:12 GMT

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the clenching of jaws is enough to snap everyone to attention, all three figures turning on their heels rapidly enough to see a mawile crushing through rock with its massive maw via vicegrip. with them near the far depths of the cave, zeke deems good enough time to catch a pokemon and retreat to mauville. "alm, earth power." the nidoking stomps a foot and a pillar of earth erupts from the ground beneath mawile, sending it crashing into the ceiling with an echoing thud.

unlike the mauville ruins, granite cave is sturdy enough to take the sudden impact as mawile falls back to the ground. the wild pokemon recovers quickly enough, her protective maw swinging around for an iron head on alm. the nidoking absorbs the blow and falls back, his hulking body tumbling into the electabuzz before settling on the dusty earth. "zurich, thunder wave, then electro ball."

electabuzz emerges from the nidoking's fallout and summons static from his fingertips, unleashing it like a spiderweb and tripping up the mawile. a ball of electricity follows quickly after, its impact meant to benefit from the decreased speed of the newly paralyzed mawile. the strategy is nothing new: both trainer and pokemon appear comfortable as the mawile stumbles to the ground, maw tucked beneath it.

zeke grabs an empty pokeball and unleashes it with every intention of leaving this cave the second it comes to rest.

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POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 22:13:53 GMT

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i'm here with you, aren't i?

the words float around in zeke's head but materialize as a small chuckle followed by a shrug of the shoulders. "every once in a while." the answer doesn't matter, of course -- they're already sitting in the casino in front of the pachinko machine, its clinging and clanging ringing incessantly but amusingly in their ears. fernando stares into the machine, watching its deceptive nature play out; zeke finds himself enthralled by the blue-haired millionaire before him. he is almost sure that fernando did not notice his interest in him during the debrief, thankfully.

silence hangs in the air for a moment before the realization that he is staring hits him. a cough clears his throat, "and you? i guess you have to be, right? as a businessman?" zeke knows nothing about business and will not pretend to if pressed on the topic. his eyes fall back to his own machine and then down to the card in his hand. the money on it is silph's: a gift, supposedly, for his action in kanto. with all that happened in kanto, it would be no surprise that silph or zeke had forgotten about the officer's efforts for silph co.

however, history remembers that event, and so does zeke. everything surrounding silph in kanto tumbles around in the back of his head and comes to the forefront with the visions that regirock had imparted on him.

he spends his share and allows for his own pachinko to initiate. "thanks again, by the way. you really didn't have to do this. a drink would have been just as good." nothing at all would have been fine, too.

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POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 15:58:39 GMT

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granite cave remains dark, but its mystery fades as the ferrothorn lays behind them. zeke convinces himself that the steel-type he'd just knocked out was the worst of their worries here. with alm, passage into the caverns depths would be a breeze, each step somehow easier than the last. zurich lights of the area around them like an electric torch, the caravan moving slowly but without interruption.

the darkness implores him to think as he walks, his mind prodding at the nightmares that haunt him. even in the middle of the day, regirock's curse irritates him and harasses him seemingly endlessly.

it is interrupted by the toddling of a shieldon from a corner of the room. small, cream-colored feet carry it closer and closer to the trio; it's body language expresses no amount of hostility. when it reaches his shin, zeke kneels down and runs his hand across the iron surface of the pokemon's forehead.

they share a moment before he stands up and moves on -- the shieldon does not deserve to be exposed to the bullshit that is happening outside of these walls. it's too good-natured for that.

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POSTED ON Oct 20, 2018 14:23:43 GMT

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the creaking is interrupted by a rumbling as the duo marches along. zurich finds himself moving closer to his trainer -- they are in a cave full of ground-types, after all. rock begins to fall just up ahead of them on the path and a ferrothorn emerges from the wall. its steely form blocks zeke and his pokemon from moving, an intimidating cry shrieking into the echoing darkness in an attempt to get them to turn around.

a flash of light and his nidoking is standing in front of the electabuzz, who has put up a light screen reflexively. "alm, earth power." the room in made of earth, ragged pieces of it jutting out into the ferrothorn in an attempt to topple it. green tendrils steady the wild pokemon, who quickly and readily replies. flash cannon's bright power fills the cavern and soars toward the nidoking; alm tanks the attack with ease thanks to the light screen from zurich.

zurich reappears from the background, unleashing a thunder wave. the static traverses the gap between them quickly and sticks to the ferrothorn, slowing it down even more. "electro ball, earth power." the pokemon unleash their attacks separately but simultaneously. a thud fills the cavern, dust rising up from the ground beneath ferrothorn due to the clash. zeke steps forward, his eye trained to the wild pokemon's outline as the dust begins to die down.

it is fainted, and so they move further. he steps over the KOed pokemon, pokemon in tow.

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01. ROCKET INVASION

POSTED ON Oct 19, 2018 12:25:38 GMT

zeke rainey - 1) nidoking 2) electabuzz 3) altaria 4) cryogonal 5) croconaw 6) kabuto
@aya - 1) scyther 2) bayleef 3) cofagrigus n maybe another if i work quickly?

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DEBRIEF [POST RAID MEGATHREAD]

POSTED ON Oct 18, 2018 3:35:14 GMT

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while he is familiar with FERNANDO SILPH , it is not due to the expedition into the ruins. zeke can only vaguely recollect his presence (oddly enough) and accredits that gap of information to the splintering of the group. the moment that appears on the screen -- the freefall of those 3 trainers -- cuts the group in half. the trauma of it all, especially the stuff that does not make the clip, has its claws sinking into zeke but does not wipe his memory of the little details; his job entails recollection of minutiae even under the toughest of circumstances.

the words to describe the scene do not come to his lips. instead, his eyes search the room. not the faces that fill it, but the place itself. doing so feels futile and fruitless, but he cannot stop his mind from pondering the curse that plagues it, and, despite being aversive to hippie bullshit, he begins reaching for abstract answers for the nightmares. in his memory, zeke cannot recall seeing a distinctive skyscraper such as this one in any realm other than his dreams. so why did he know it? was it an omen?

the spiraling internal monologue outwardly presents itself as a dopey looking man trying to look pensive as his eyes search the corners of the ceiling.

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diagram the light [mission]

POSTED ON Oct 18, 2018 2:33:55 GMT

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[attr="class","dilyrics4"]Glory to the night that shows me what i am as i go to the party on my knees saying take it all please. tell me no, tell me no

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[attr="class","dibody4"]"I'm sure the League will be relieved to know they have such capable agents on the case." voice coy and lips curled, he mirrors persephone's body language subconsciously. it's been a while since he's teamed up with someone relatively age-appropriate and somewhat humorous -- he almost has to laugh when she asks about his standing as the bravest member of the M.P.D. "Bravest...dumbest...least lazy...whatever. It's all the same right?" a smirk plays across his otherwise stony visage as a look passes between the two of them, his own tone indicating a lack of worry in his qualification. The comment is meant to ease Persephone, whether or not it comes off that way.

"Key...right..." the image of his hand reaching for the envelope containing the key on Milner's desk reappears in his mind, now searching his pockets for a brief moment to relocate it. "Y'ever have to break down a door? It's fun." a nervous laugh surfaces, his hands frantically patting his own ass to feel for the keycard. "There it is. Looks like you won't have to."

The elevator doors open and the door is before them -- this is the penthouse after all. A foyer stands between them and the front door, occupied only by a shitty lamp on a rather useless end table of sorts and a fake plant in the corner. 704 is depicted in gold metallic numbers on the charcoal colored door.

The room of interest occupies a large portion of the floor, with several bedrooms and bathrooms making up the apartment unit. He readies the keycard for a swipe before looking at Persephone again, impishness flickering in his eyes. "Unless you really want to?" the legal ramifications of the action are not lost on him as he searches her eyes for an answer for a moment. He laughs and slides the key in and out quickly, unlocking the door and swinging it open.

"Kidding. Next time maybe."

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POSTED ON Oct 18, 2018 2:16:13 GMT

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caves and attics and floorboards are the only things that creak. granite cave creaks. darkness surrounds zeke rainey, threatening to consume him if not for the dim light his electabuzz emits. zurich walks beside him like an equal as the two attempt to navigate the cavern together. a dormant flashlight hangs on his hip, the same one from the mauville ruins raid.

it needs batteries, having been left on once the group emerged into the light of the overworld, victorious. a trip to dewford is to serve him as an escape from mauville's permanent claustrophobia.

so he goes spelunking once again, alone this time. with the death of so many pokemon in that cave, he knew he was lucky to have preserved his entire team. at the risk of seeming insensitive and making his pokemon seem expendable, he decides it may be time to catch another.

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POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 19:36:35 GMT

nidorino -> nidoking (50 poke)
totodile -> croconaw (50 poke)

(...so 100 poke please)

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DOMINANCE [flashback pre-raid]

POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 2:15:22 GMT

FERNANDO SILPH 's head nods enough to confirm the arrest. his presence alone leaves Queen outnumbered, so the steps come easier as the treads of the officer's boots mesh in the fresh blood pooling around the goons. zeke's height dwarfs the woman, but the air about her makes him feel small. cuffing her hands together does nothing to quell the diminutive sensation that he assumes is caused by the rocket.

zeke locks her wrists together with no minimal force -- she does not resist.

her hands look dainty and clean, and he wonders how much blood they have on them. zeke does not bring himself to look at the deformities she's caused to the men beside her.

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POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 1:55:15 GMT

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with a start he awakens.

it is with a start every time and every night for the past 6 nights. zeke rainey can almost still feel purple tendrils wrapping around him as he props himself up each time, an abstract impression of the same towering skyscraper imprinted on his retinas with each startled awakening. sweat beads on his forehead and stains his sheets every night, regirock's curse haunting him. he cannot escape and his brain begins to feel tired and battered after the first few incidences.

now he feels crazy.

going home in mauville feels like a necessity right after the expedition, rejecting silph's offer. scott's sudden disappearance from the rescue mission is out of character and concerning, but zeke does not get the chance to speak with him. it is yet another missed connection between them, and the disturbance of his recurring nightmares is punctuated by the absence of his only friend in the region. he feels alone.

this morning, unlike the rest, he is not in his apartment. sunlight creeps through the sheer curtains of a slateport hotel room, its soft presence a welcome contrast to his own torrent of emotion and panic each morning. more sweaty sheets. he mentally apologizes to the cleaning staff as if it counts.

FERNANDO SILPH has called for a debriefing -- why? he still thinks about the kid that was eviscerated by regirock right before him, but other than that, things went fine.

"what...is this?" his tall stature is dwarfed by the silph building in slateport. he expects the purple, the tendrils, the ink to spill in from his periphery. instead, the monstrous building is framed with clouds and blue skies. zeke swallows hard; what is he looking at, and what does it mean?

he feels crazier.

when he arrives in the debriefing room, familiar and unfamiliar faces are scattered about. his index and his thumb pinch the bridge of his nose in distress. silph's blue, almost sinister hair commanding zeke's attention as he sits himself down next to someone. whether it is intentional or not, silph transfixes him.

- did not go back to slateport after the raid
- stayed in mauville looking for lover, had lots of nightmares a la the curse from regi
- arrives and immediately recognizes the silph building as the one from the dreams
- just staring at FERNANDO SILPH
- sitting next to @ someone

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