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If he couldn't walk out, and likely wasn't going to crawl out either, another exfiltration had to be planned. Perhaps he could... call someone! The signal down here likely wouldn't be great, but it was better than bleeding out or starving, whichever came first. His phone had been in his right pocket, which meant extra care was required to not disturb the injuries there.
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''
Okay...,'' he huffed. ''
Just like you're going to steal it...'' Gingerly, he slid his fingers down over his hip bone and pressed them into the top of his pant's pocket. That the slacks were such a tight fit didn't aid in his cause, but his choice was made for the sake of fashion rather than surprise spelunking. Sliding inside the distance between the opening and plastic of the phone seemed eternal.
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The overwhelming throb of his right leg didn't increase, so there was the assumption that he was doing it right. After his finger tips met plastic, Andy idly wondered why no one had attempted to call him. Perhaps they had while he was unconscious. Slipping grip around the plastic and mashing it against the slim phone to grasp it he immediately yelped.
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''
Ah! Shit!'' It felt as if a thousand tiny blades sliced into his fingers. Snatching his hand from his pocket, the phone clattered against the stone along with the tale tale tingles of a shattered glass screen. ''
Ugh...'' Of course, how could his leg have gotten smashed and something as brittle as his expensive phone survived?
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A painful breath was inhaled through the clinched teeth of a wince. The sudden moments made his leg throb harder. Well, it made his entire body throb in an onslaught of misery. He would have writhed if that wouldn't have made it even worse. Although forcing himself to be still didn't seem to alleviate all that much either. Now what was he going to do?
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Somehow, even only the small sound of his labored breaths echoing off the walls made it hard to think.
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Perhaps it was the induced cave in, the rush of exterior air inside further exacerbated by many a pokemon piling inside, but the scent of their wayward comrade seemed to be adversely affected. Similarly, the subterranean environment seemed to negatively impact the orbeetles of
John Sullivan's
Search Team 1. Something about the area interfered with their typically precise capabilities.
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Many energies seemed to be in flux within the region as of late. While likely not the cause of Frankie's madness, at least as far as most knew, it certainly wouldn't have helped any creature forced to deal with its influences.
Eris Halla's luxray surprisingly did not detect something waiting within the darkness for their team in particular, allowing the rest of her comrades to press forward.
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Ruby Walker's xatu would comply with her request, but how did you portray a scene submerged in absolute darkness? An abyss was all that would be revealed to the girl, with the poignant aromas of dirt and blood. It was accompanied only by the sounds of labored breaths. Perhaps such sounds would come across as inhuman. They weren't clear enough to discern.
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Search Team 2 seemed to be momentarily distracted by infighting.
Greyson Connors kept his mind to the task, although his steelix's
magnet rise makes for slow going through the rubble to ground zero. It's a logical place to look if one was expecting to find remains rather than a survivor. The rocks part as if pressed by the prow of a ship on a lumbering voyage.
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While
Celia Auclair's pokemon(?) assist it does little to speed the progress. With all the shouting and blows, their tail thought it as good a time as any to strike.
Ronald Rogers's toxicroak's uncanny sixth sense would allow it alone to
anticipate the coming assault. It was a fortunate thing too, as the sceptile caused not a branch to creak, nor a leaf to rustle until it broadsided the party.
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It boldly weaved into the lot of them with a
fury cutter swiping at any any all until it met the toxicroak. Enraged that it had been driven from his home some time ago, it sought to dole out a harsh reprisal to any new interlopers who dared show their face here. These were
his hunting grounds and he wasn't going to let them be stolen away again.
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[
Team Two: please make a roll that exceeds fifty to avoid taking damage from the serious sceptile. This one roll will still also count towards your team total, so no worries. Ronald Rogers and his toxicroak are exempt from this due to anticipation, and may immediately retaliate.]
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In the depths of their own cave,
Search Team 3's
kyle lopez's naganadel didn't elicit an immediate reprisal from the darkness. Nor did
mint frost's proffered
confuse ray signifying that at least for the moment the way forwards was safe. As
MATIAS SILPH' voltorb wanders forward illuminating the path with its
light screen only empty, craggy terrain is revealed.
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For the time being, the
rage powder sprinkled along the way by
Xander Belmont's volcarona is also met with an eerie silence, but depending on where the breeze carries it within that can quickly change. To that end,
Eva Morales's
future sight reveals that the current peace will not last. A vision of many enraged eyes stared back out of the darkness at her from the future.
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Two parts came together to form a
Search Team 4. While
Kaida Adachi's durant cleared the path forwards, and her dragpult scouted ahead of it,
Allison Hawthorne brought greetings, but not all tidings were so pleasant. Not a moment into such exchanged pleasantries, stones exploded from the darkness as the shadow shrouded form of a rhyperior exploded at the Blackadder girl.
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This trespasser was destined to be
bulldozed into the cave wall just past her new teammate if the perturbed pokemon had its way. Just as with other local pokemon, being ejected from its habitat made the rhyperior far more irate than usual, and all the noise echoing through the cave drew his rage from the darkness behind the two girls, opposite the direction of
Kaida Adachi's forawrd pokemon.
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[
Allison Hawthorne please make a roll that meets or exceeds sixty five to avoid taking damage from the wrathful rhyperior. This one roll will still also count towards your team total.]
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Totals:[break]
Search Team 1 - 474[break]
Search Team 2 - 460[break]
Search Team 3 - 502[break]
Search Team 4 - 37