Adrian followed after him, anything but blind to Senon's passive dismissals. Maybe he shouldn't have been so offended, but he was. Maybe he wasn't some crazy strong League Representative...

But his sleeves had room for more than a few tricks, so he didn't see why Senon was so bothered by having an escort. Besides, the League usually assigned orders in pairs. And now of all times...

...Well, it'd pay to have a second set of eyes.

"I'm not exactly selling out stadiums these days," Actually his ratings overall had begun a sharp decline, perhaps on account of him not writing a damn thing. He hadn't even released his song from the New Year, unless his record label had gone around behind his back. And if he had, Adrian hadn't started hearing it everywhere, or anywhere for that matter. "Besides, you need the help, whether you realize it or not."

Missions like this usually went sideways for one reason or another, whether that was just Hoenn's magic at work or the insidious nature of its inhabitants, he couldn't say. "Now stop yammering about it, 'Ranger' Game, sir."

Still can't believe he's going to try and throw his lot in with them so lightly... They seemed sketchy. Or maybe he was just unwilling to risk anything in the name of anything other than himself after...

"We almost there?" If they could navigate, then he'd hoped they would have gotten there by now, or flown if he'd knew it was going to take so long...

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Sénon Game

"I wouldn't use the word star." he admitted indifferently. Sure, some people liked his music. Sometimes he scraped together enough money from gigs to pay for some fancy stuff. But most of his day-to-day expenditures came out of a trust.


Adrian seems rather distracted as Senon handles the people skills, looking around the digsite, watching so many people labor away tirelessly in spite of what was coming. It was kind of unbelievable, and also somehow sad to witness. They should be with their friends and families.

Paying enough attention to learn what had happened, Adrian remarked pointedly as to the cumbersome burden being carried: "Not if they're using pokemon of their own, you know."

While Ranger Senon dispatched his ragtag crew, maximizing their potential through proper delegation, Adrian took a lazier approach. An absurdly massive flock of avian pokemon were released from his pokeballs in a cacophony of energy bursting simultaneously, the flapping of wings drowning out the hammer of pickaxes.

"Go. Look for anything suspicious you can find... come back in three minutes, even if you're coming empty handed." It would be a pain if they started traveling freely across the area while he was honorbound to the mission.

All he planned to do now was wait and see what happened. If they were nearby, as they were told to expect, then they ought to find something soon.

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Sénon Game

The birds hadn't found much. Nothing of import anyhow, although many returned with something, perhaps to win over their master. Eh. Oh well.

It was always worth taking a shot at something.

It seemed Senon's pokemon had fared much better, the dejected Riolu aside. His features twinged with pity to see it troubled so, but soon enough they were off to pursue a different lead. At the time, he still had Reign in to, its hulking, lustrous plumage claiming the skies above as Adrian and Sirius stalked the ground below, bringing up the rear as they found... Paydirt?

"What the f@#% is that, some sorta lingo?"

As they'd gotten near it, Sirius had lowered its shoulders towards the ground, a low growl breaking its silence. "You smell something...?"

While Reign lumbered through the air, grinding its wings, he was forced to wait and figure out what Senon was going on about. Obviously the spot looked a little out of place, but... did he think they were buried here in a temporary cache of sorts?

"Why don't you take point, Ranger Game?"

Adrian had sprung enough traps in his own time.

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Sénon Game

"Gotta hand it to ya, you're doin' a good job."

Would've liked it a little less cramped, though... But it might become unstable down here, and he very much didn't want the earth above caving in on them, even if it wasn't massively underground.

With Senon's pokemon carving the path and taking point, he was able to afford a brisk yet leisurely sort of pace, hands stuffed in empty pockets.

"If we find anything, remember to be careful," his words were aimed at Senon, but truly it was his pokemon that should've taken the sentiment to heart. "They're carrying fossils; fragile, delicate. Try to keep the goods in one piece so it's not all in vain." Emphasis on try.

Adrian still wasn't sure whether they would find anything meaningful in time, but at least they weren't sitting around a dusty dig site being worked to the bone. That'd been less than ideal.

I wonder how Florian's been doing since back then... Adrian paid enough attention not to step on Senon's heels, though he verged on it with his lengthy gait. "See anything up ahead yet?"

He'd preferred taking up the rear rather than bumping shoulder-to-shoulder as they walked.

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Sénon Game

"Oh, great..." That was just the sort of job he'd been looking forward to; lugging the rocks all the way back through the tunnel. "Alrighty then."

It also made him worry about whether Senon could handle the situation by his lonesome. Taking care not to let the human culprit get too banged up while clashing with a virulent lizardon was tricky.

But Adrian supposed this is what giving them his 'trust' was all about, as he stumbled through the dark, the fossils in tow shifting in the parcel.

Once he got back to the site, looking to have taken a dirt shower, he was able to drop off the stolen goods and give a bit of a synopsis as to what they'd found. "He's still down there, but he'll be back soon. If not, well... shit." He shrugged.

It'd been his idea, so he better be damned ready to follow up and not make him look bad for leaving.

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Sénon Game ^{I HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED THE MISSION REWARDS BUT NOT THE FOSSIL IF THAT MAYBE MATTERS!
Although Sen seemed to want something from this mission.}