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No walking... No calls... There was little choice. Either he would drag himself out, or die here. While death had been faced down a number of times since coming to Hoenn, the thought of a slow demise was daunting. Perhaps such impatience couldn't be laid completely at the fault of youth in this instance. But not all hope was lost.
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He had
one good arm.
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Pushing the limb hard to his side in preparation to roll himself over, the sting of the glass in his flesh elicited a sharp inhale through his teeth once again. It was a minor annoyance compared to how the rest of him felt however. With effort, and squeezing out as much remaining determination as he could, he pressed the arm out to flop over onto his belly.
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This was a mistake.
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Not only did rolling over his broken arm hurt, not only was his mangled right leg hitting the ground excruciating, something had to be wrong with his insides. There was the inclination to yell out in pain, but he found no breath come, nor went. The weight of himself and his backpack laying on top of him made him feel as if he were being squeezed so tight he might pop.
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It was if he was being slowly crushed underfoot. Instead the quiet, pitiful, short gurgles escaped him as he abandoned the notion of trying to drag himself forward. Instead he pressed his functioning arm against the stone again, and glass be damned, rolled back over onto his back. The stale subterranean air finally came into his lungs, and felt like a dozen punches to the chest.
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After the initial gasp came ragged coughs, which caused even more agony. Horrid as the ordeal was, it lasted less than a minute, but it still felt like an eternity to Andy. While there as been a dull ache in his chest before, now each breath felt like its own separate beating. Once again he was forced to pay a harsh toll to look fully upon reality:
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He wasn't going anywhere.
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Search Team 1 decides to split up for various reasons. Were this a time when the forest was still Frankie's domain such a decision might have ended with deadly consequences. Perhaps the peace in its wake will offer more safety. Perhaps not. Within the cave that
Hideo Kino unearthed with his dugtrio,
Arashi Akiyama sends forth his steelix to burrow through the terrain.
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As the metal serpant
digs John Sullivan's orbeetles suddenly detect something. An intense flare-up of misery becomes apparent to them much further on. Perhaps this is relayed to the present members via
telepathy, painting a ping of red pain down into the earth before it slowly fades from their experience.
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Perhaps the light provided by
dazzling gleam will make distance and depth somewhat difficult to judge for mere humans. At any rate the strange interference eventually drowns it from their collective extrasensory sight. Rather distraction causes an error in the steelix's
digging, or the cave just weakens with disturbance, a portion gives.
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With a thunderous racket a crack chases up the cave ceiling above its head. Boulders from the size of gravel to basketballs tumble from the high dark towards
Eris Halla , where maybe she has became a little distracted herself in her attempts to communicate with
Ruby Walker . Should they hit the girl, the injuries could easily derail the party's search.
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[
Eris Halla please make a roll of or exceeding fifty to avoid the small cave in. Failure may result in injury.]
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At the original incident site,
Search Team 2 is fairing much more poorly due to the fauna. Perhaps a little too engrossed within his labors, the sceptile's
fury cutter delivers a nasty cut to
Greyson Connors 's back. While it would finish the job on the trespassing human, he has the man's compatriots to deal with. While boltund does acquire a scent, its distracted by its master's assault.
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A blast of horrid sludge splats against it, staggering the grass pokemon. Letting out its own roar it leaps, making a broad tail swipe with
quick attack, the blades there leave superficial cuts across
Celia Auclair and @stromy, drawing her own pokemon's attention from the vibrations it had felt in front and below them. The
quick guard of
arthur finnian vanderbilt 's escavalier wards away any such injures for the wayward royal.
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An
icy wind from frosmoth ensure such alacrity will be robbed from the sceptile in the future. Before the sneaky sceptile can do anymore harm,
stone edge grabs at its feet, though it's little more and a momentary nuisance in the face of a grass type. Still, as it goes to step forwards, it stumbles once and then twice, wincing before it falls, succumbing to the rapid poison of
Ronald Rogers 's toxicroak.
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In the subterranean darkness, the stark shadows created by
Search Team 3's pokemons various light sources remains quiet for a tense moment.
kyle lopez 's
air slash propelled
rage powder wafts further into the darkness. The sound of the attack's breeze dies away for a moment before something echos from further within.
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The wind picks up as the gritty rush of a
sandstorm blasts through the tunnel at the party. The buffeting murk becomes filled with even greater racket. Through the gale, light reflects from dozens of tale tale eyes belonging to roggenrola. Then absolute chaos erupts. The swarm of rock rectums surges down the narrow neck of the cave at them.
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They are accompanied by a handful of boldores and a singular giglith. Each lashes out with every type of rock attack imaginable, with a few others sewn in as well. These assaults impact their fellow pack members, themselves, and the unfortunate rescuers all at the same time flung every direction, their
sturdy bodies keeping many going much longer than expected.
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While
mint frost 's
ice beam did little to phase the rock pokemon,
iron tail cut a defensive swath through the horde to protect the trainer. However a
stone edge is cast at
kyle lopez and his pokemon. A
rock blast assaults
Eva Morales . An
explosion occurs right near
MATIAS SILPH .
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A
rock slide rockets towards
Xander Belmont . Further down the cave, the light and tremors of several
explosions threatens the group's progress as roggenrola yet unseen attack anything in sight, if not bring the entire cave down under the wrath of the enraged rock colony they have stumbled upon.
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[
With the exception of mint frost , Team 3 each need to make a roll of or exceeding fifty to avoid the pokemon's attacks. These rolls will be included in the team's total. Mind being buffered by the sandstorm.]
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Elsewhere in the network of caves,
Search Team 4 battled. The
glare from
Kaida Adachi 's ekans slows the rhyperior, but not before the creature's
bulldoze sent
Allison Hawthorne flying into the cave wall with a worrying thud. Such an impact was likely to
break bones on its own and could have done worse were it not for the other trainer's quick thinking.
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While the rhyperior would have continued the assault, the
iron head from the durant staggered the it backwards, away from the Blackadder girl. Not to be deterred, their attack let out a deafening roar before charging the durant with a
drill run, knowing the ant needed to be swept aside so he could continue his quest for territorial dominance.
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With
Allison Hawthorne 's injuries, even after the rhyperior was dealt with, the girl was likely going to need immediate medical aide not found in the wilderness to avoid peril. Though without yet another rampaging pokemon neutralized, no one may see either of the women ever again...
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Totals:[break]
Search Team 1 - 679[break]
Search Team 2 - 654[break]
Search Team 3 - 882[break]
Search Team 4 - 68