Father Bill
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Bill Anderson
YMCA [Raid]
POSTED ON Oct 25, 2021 6:55:49 GMT
  Your Meddling
Calls Attention BLACK ROUTE
As the boats pull away from the dock, leaving Adrian Malcolm and Rowan Wrynn stranded, the mood grows dark.
Adrian Malcolm 's heart and mind cry out for an escape from this place, and against all odds his Xatu manifests a portal right in front of them. Through it, he can see a twisting image of the outside world. The bright light and noble facades of Ever Grande city, and splashes of bright graffiti spelling out a string of numerals. Zero seven three, followed by a comma. Two three five, followed by curt, slashing hyphen, and another pair of triplets. First, seven nine and five, another comma, and then the final triplet of three zero and two.
It's a way out. Perhaps it would lead to a hint for a later round.
The five people crammed into their boats see the portal open behind them, and can clearly see the sunshine streaming from the other side.
Safely on board, Martín del Mar clutches his prize: an Enigma berry. The information he gleaned from his tome told him it would be important, and it is, but one thing he couldn't have expected was the itching.
The scratch from the Enigma berry tree, though healed, burns with a powerful itch, as if the acid from the berry got under his skin. The cut intersects with the mark he received from the book, and the burning mingles with his Augur mark. The inky infection spreads, moving like spilled oil underneath his skin, all the while burning like intravenous flames.
The boats rock as they drift downriver and the blinded Aaron Toral clutches his Egg. He feels a strong heartbeat, and strange sounds coming from within.
Being blinded, what Aaron doesn't notice is that his Egg looks different. Thin, black lines swirl across the creamy shell, forming strange patterns full of double-backs and pseudo letters.
kyle lopez 's Egg bears the same strange markings, though much less pronounced. His Egg also lacks the strong heartbeat. It shows no signs of being ready to hatch. He will need to cuddle it more.
Black Total over 3000 - Thinking with Portals
As the boats continue downriver, following the floating, changing shape of oscar clayton 's Claydol, they will see that the passage ahead thins to a series of shipping channels. Pale Tentacool bob under the surface of the murky water.
Above these canals, another portal opens, and from within emerges an Angel. Blinding white light obscures the creature's true form, and it soars away, further down the canal.
As the two boats follow the Angel, more twisting portals form in the water around and ahead of them. Half submerged in the brackish stream, water pours through these holes in space, forming rogue currents that suck the boats towards them.
Unlike the portal on the dock, which leads to safety, the canal portals spell only disaster. kyle lopez 's keen, gamer eyes catch flashes of crashing waterfalls, and jagged rocks on the other side of these portals. One of them even shows a bird's eye view of Ever Grande, with the other side opening up many miles above the city.
The boats tip, pulled towards the yawning portals. The people within must take quick action or else their vessels will carry them to disaster.
Black route prompts- Avoid the canal portals at any cost (+20 Black)
- Have a Pokemon fall through a portal (+50 Black)
- Find something in your boat that was left by smugglers (+10 Black)
- Put your boat over capacity (+10 Black)
WHITE ROUTE White Total over 5000 - It's Polite to Bough
Hideo Kino leads the chase for the Persian, with Cardamom Bliss and Ruby Walker not far behind. The trio clamber upwards and into the twisted branches. The world is dark here, cramped with dense boughs that press in from all sides. Pangur slips nimbly through the foliage, a pale panther in its home forest, but those that follow will have significant difficulty passing through.
It is easy to get lost in the branches.
As they follow the cat upwards the smell of smoke gets stronger, and ash drifts down like gray snow. As they near the peak of the trees, they catch glimpses of orange and purple light flickering through gaps in the foliage.
Kaida Adachi starts to follow Pangur, but the allure of the mysterious berries pulls her astray. Her Onix forms a stony bridge towards the fruit, but a dark coil finds her first, and yanks her off balance. She falls fast, and is impaled on the branches below.
Underneath, Melody's Protect shelters the singer from her Pokemon, keeping them at bay as her own serpent winds closer. "It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears," whispers the snake, wafts of sweet poison drifting from its mouth. "There is sadness in these woods, but you cannot see it. You must look with your heart."
The serpent spits in Melody's face. Venom and bitter blood fill her eyes, and she gets her wish.
Kricketune's jagged notes punctuate Kaida's tragedy, the sawing notes cutting at the ears of those present. chryssa glasgow 's reaches up with her Honedge, and the inky shield of its Hidden Power strips the branches impaling Kaida.
Her prize clutched in her hand, the woman is lowered to the ground without further harm. Her abdomen and right leg are pierced by several finger-sized splinters, each driven deep into her flesh by the fall. The wounds all ooze the same foul, dark corruption.
luka chêne does what she can to heal Kaida. The deep wounds heal over, but the infection remains, as does the pain.
Nursing her own injuries, Luka returns her attention to the tome. There is much to see, from the repeating circular symbol, to the loose pages stuffed between forgotten music. One section in particular calls to her, and she finds the words floating from her mouth. Uncalled and indecipherable, the lyrics twist like willowing mist against her tongue as she calls for the cat.
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Pangur is gone, but the song continues, the ancient words and unfamiliar sounds mixing with chryssa glasgow 's Perish Song in a cursed concerto that fills the lower boughs of the dream forest.
Guarded by Houndoom, the surface of Kaida Adachi 's Egg crawls with dark, inky markings. A pattern forms, circling and slicing again and again.
A circle bisected by two crossed lines.
White route prompts- Do not return a Pokemon affected by Perish Song (+20 White/per)
- Get lost in the upper branches (+20 White)
- Notice strange markings on the trees (+10 White)
RED ROUTE Kano Iyona is the first to see the sand monsters, and the first to respond. They are dispatched indelicately with another Explosion that rocks the cliffs and sprays Chu-e Choi , @hades , and Cillian Quinn with burning shrapnel.
The crypts shudder, and Eris Halla , Locke Jamison and John Sullivan duck into the maze of twisting alcoves, avoiding the worst of the damage just as Chu-e Choi adds to the mayhem with an Explosion of his own.
Chu-e Choi is thrown into the wall, smashing more of the urns and suffering deep cuts to his back, sides, and backside. Inside one of the broken urns he finds a dried berry. Shriveled and long ago drained of its juice, it looks like it was preserved in the ashes of one of the priests.
Red Total over 3500 - Pounding Sand
The aftershocks of the Explosions rock the crypts for far longer than they should, and the sandy ground surges upwards in response, sucking and pulling at the feet and ankles of Chu-e Choi , @hades , Kano Iyona , and Cillian Quinn .
The ground beneath them shudders and the gray sand surges upwards, forming into another grasping fist, which engulfs @hades .
This time, unlike with Kyle, there is no safe exit.
With sickening strength, the sand compacts around Atticus, crushing the man with fatal force. With one final twist his body is broken, and his pulverized corpse is pulled down into the now rising sand.
The toppled Andy Blackadder is too slow, and as he tries to float away from the monsters, their hammers come down. Arms of stone break and bash the boy, and his Gengars barely manage to pull him away from the pummeling and out over the water where the sand cannot follow.
Wounded, yet floating, he reaches the tree in the middle of the oily lake. Gastly chomps down on one of the berries, but with every great gain comes a cost, and as the ghostly mouth closes around the Enigma berry there is a flash of white light and a soft pop. Gravity takes hold, and Epitaph the Egg falls towards the lake.
Above him, the shifting sands part to reveal a passage into the scorched crypts. This passage will close at the end of next round.
Red Total over 4000 - It is Watching
John Sullivan , Locke Jamison , and Eris Halla feel the shuddering through the walls. The sandy floor rises underneath them, and there is a creeping sensation that they are being watched.
But it isn't coming from the portraits of Bill Anderson , luka chêne , Locke Jamison , and Martín del Mar .
A shifting mass of black moves in the shadows above them.
A thousand milky eyes open.
The monster has reappeared.
Dislodging itself from the darkness, it clambers between the jagged cliffs like a tumorous spider, strange limbs twisting and sticking as it descends towards the trio.
Phantom jaws rend the air, opening wide around Doug's Mankey, Eris's Delphox, and Locke's Absol.
Red route prompts- Escape the rising quicksand (+10 Red)
- Attack the monster recklessly (+20 Red)
- Use Destiny Bond on the monster (+10 Red)
- Save one of the targeted Pokemon (+10 Red)
MOVES/ABILITIES Each round, please select one move or ability, and roll with your post. The color of your move ( Black, Red, White) will determine the color of your roll. You may use both a move and an ability, if they are the same color. Doing so will provide a +10 to your roll. Additional moves can be used for flavor, but only one move will be taken into account. Please clearly identify which move and color you are using in your TL;DR. The following Moves and Abilities will provide bonuses within the raid. Moves with particular importance have been underlined. It is recommended that you bring moves from multiple categories. BLACK - Crime, Theft, Trickery
MOVES: Curse, Thief, Beat Up, Torment, Grudge, Absorb, Leech Seed, Giga Drain, Mega Drain, Strength Sap, Drain Punch, Draining Kiss, Horn Leech, Leech Life, Oblivion Wing, Parabolic Charge, Perish Song, False Surrender, Feint Attack, Foul Play, Sucker Punch, Switcheroo, Covet, Snatch, Ally Switch, Trick-or-Treat,
ABILITIES: Frisk, Imposter, Infiltrator, Sticky Hold, Dark Aura, Cursed Body, Stakeout, Pickpocket, Prankster
RED - Sacrifice, Injury, Passion
MOVES: Fury Attack, Cut, Dragon Rage, Rage, Spite, Outrage, Pain Split, Thrash, Bite, Crunch, Self-Destruct, Explosion, Destiny Bond, Revenge, Rage Powder, Incinerate, Work Up, Stomping Tantrum, Fishious Rend, Burning Jealousy, Bide, Guillotine, Frustration, Retaliate, Fury Cutter, Attract, Swagger
ABILITIES: Aftermath, Guts, Innards Out, Perish Body, Merciless, Anger Point, Defiant, No Guard, Intimidate
WHITE - Purification, Protection, Divinity
MOVES: Purify, Protect, Detect, Wide Guard, Meditate, Recover, Heal Bell, Hidden Power, Ancient Power, Wish, Role Play, Imprison, Refresh, Cosmic Power, Healing Wish, Heal Block, Simple Beam, Haze, Clear Smog, Stored Power, Heal Pulse, Life Dew, Bestow, Extrasensory, Secret Power, Revelation Dance, Future Sight
ABILITIES: Sturdy, Forewarn, Friend Guard, Healer, Immunity, Natural Cure, Justified
PROMPTS
Each round you can complete prompts to add to your rolls. Unless otherwise stated, you can only claim each bonus once per round.
Anyone can complete the prompts below, but some prompts only provide a bonus to rolls of a certain color.
- Use a move AND an ability of the same color (+10)
- Try to hatch one of the eggs (+10)
Everyone who correctly identified the code word reCreation can add +30 to their roll.
REDThe following people and Pokemon are injured. They have unlocked a new prompt for use in future posts. Reference you/your Pokemon's Injury (+10 Red )
BLACKoscar clayton 's Claydol has made mental contact with the monster. He has unlocked a new prompt for use in future posts. Something is wrong with your Pokemon ( +10 Black)
WHITEThe following Pokemon are fainted. They have unlocked a new prompt for use in future posts. Revive a Pokemon ( +30 White)
GENERAL
The following people are corrupted. A black, inky infection spreads outward from their wound, following their veins and covering more of their body over time. They have unlocked a new prompt for use in future posts. The ink pattern spreads ( +10) In the case of Locke Jamison , Martín del Mar , and luka chêne , the infection has mixed with their Augur markings, and the ink forms words, symbols, and even cryptic warnings. In the case of luka chêne and chryssa glasgow , as they ingested the infectious material, their tongues have turned black, and they will find strange sounds and phrases rising unbidden to their tongues. The Augurs have unlocked a new prompt for use in future posts. Witness a marking linked to the ritual ( +15)
RULES
Here are some quick reminders/tips:
- Players start with 3 Pokemon
- Movesets are not locked
- Use 1 move each round and Roll with your post
- Complete prompts for a bonus to your roll
- Identify move/ability, color, and prompts in your TL;DR
If you have any questions please DM me on Discord (D-Bug) or tag me in the #YMCA-Raid channel.
The round will end in 7 days. Sunday 31st of October 8pm Pacific Time.
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