Splintered doors, destroyed shelves, and a blown open hole, Kaida's eyes glanced over everything and trailed away, focusing instead on the footsteps beyond...no, no, they were supposed to investigate, were they not? "Garmr. Svart, please, search for me." She ordered, releasing an eager Snubble and buzzing Yamega into the air. The two Pokemon darted around the room, canine sniffing curiously and dragonfly patrolling the area.

Kaida was in familiar territory, among Rangers, she moved with a strict confidence, not waiting for any other order. Among Rangers, her leader was Laurence Anderson , and he was nowhere here. She supposed that would mean she had to step up. Hopefully her fellows were as agreeable as Pokemon. "Everyone. Let us work together." She straightened out and gazed at the others, "It seems someone escaped..." The footsteps leading into the forest were already somewhat old...it was heading into a forest, and if an explosion happened here, surely no Pokemon would stick around, she had to assume they'd be safe. "But we can catch it after making sure of everything." They'd be fools to hunt without even having an idea of what they were hunting, or leave the place unsafe...or at the very least, the job would be left incomplete.

"Everyone, search like my partners." To the point, and accompanied with an Ekans on her shoulder, mimicking her every move. Kaida certainly had decided she was leading the situation.

TLDR: Kaida arrives on the scene and attempts to take leadership. She notes the footsteps, but urges the team to search among the wreckage first before pursuit.

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It was a stark contrast to the meticulous organization of the rest of the storehouse. How quickly a world of complete organization made through some absurd degree of bookkeeping had shifted to one of disarray, marred by the presence of splinters, strewn about fragments of Pokeballs, and a trail of ongoing destruction.

Elaine stood with her arms crossed as she focused her gaze towards a location at a slightly different location from the others. While the others looked to the trails and Pokeballs on the floor, she saw something in the vicinity that was different from the rest.

With an arm still held across her chest, she knelt and picked the object off the ground before standing back up with the same semi-cross-armed position maintained.

“Bailey Cooper.”

Though she muttered, it would have been easy for anyone to hear her low utterance of the deceased former-Champion’s name. Though she knew little about the woman in question, she was fully aware of her death, as was likely everyone standing in the facility.

“Was it out of grief? Or out of a desire to stretch after being confined ever since her passing?” There was little to go on in regards to what its motive was. Elaine was hardly an expert in determining a Pokemon’s emotional state from their footprints alone, unlike some people. “Well, it’s obvious that it got emotional and went on a rampage.”

Unfortunately, there were a few things she was unable to figure out even further. “But how did it break out to begin with? Pokeballs aren’t exactly easy to break from the inside once a Pokemon is caught. Did someone else let it out or did it really somehow break out from within?”

She continued to speak of possibilities, as if dancing to her own tune, ignorant to the rhythm of the others who were working with her for this incident. All the while, she gazed at the tattered nameplate she held.

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TL;DR: Elaine spots the nameplate and begins to mull over and hypothesize that the Pokemon broke out due to emotional state though what emotional state and how it even broke out remain unknown to her.

Tags: Pace Mahmoud & boruta maher & Kaida Adachi

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"You said Bailey? I heard of her." Kaida perked her ears up, hearing Elaine's muttering. Really, it would be strange to have not heard of her, but with Kaida, it was a special case. The woman barely paid attention to anything outside of her sight, but said Champion had been big, big enough for even Kaida to have heard of her power, following her death.

As Pace and Boruta's own investigations started to reveal the culprit of the escape was certainly the Champion's Pokemon, Kaida abruptly shifted gears, "We need to go." She hastily whistled and beckoned her Pokemon, cutting them off from investigating the cause, "I heard of her Pokemon, they're strong, dangerous too." She hoped the forest Pokemon knew to stay out of its way, "Even if it didn't escape on its own, I wouldn't trust its emotional state." Elaine had to be right about the Pokemon being upset, and a powerful, trainer taught Pokemon being released in grief in the wild? Kaida didn't want to leave it to its own devices...it could destroy ecosystems that were only now starting to recover, should it rampage.

"I'd like to get them in a safe place fast. Just in case." A normal Pokemon would likely wander, but be fine eventually, maybe even find its own way home...after her encounters, Kaida didn't trust in the idea of a "normal" Pokemon just happening to be involved. "Let's follow the escaped one, it cannot be far."

TLDR: Kaida takes in the information, and concludes its a Champion's Pokemon. Remembering how powerful they supposedly were, and agreeing with the fact that it might be emotional, Kaida urges the others into the forest after it.

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LEAGUE BARRACKS I

FIRST POST

THE TRAIL LEADS them well into the forest. the deeper the descent the more destruction in their wake. trees are toppled. bark is ripped and splintered from trunks wide enough to show their age.

upon closer examination, privy eyes will be able to surmise that the perpetrator boasts incredible PHYSICAL STRENGTH. some cuts look wild, imprinted from claws that rely on strength rather than sharpness. others look torn, as if dislodged from a flailing appendage or tail.

following the path leads up to a small clearing of disheveled soil. deep trenches show evidence of some skirmish, spread out from a single epicenter. among the broken branches and still standing shrubbery are the remains of injured pokemon. at least those that remain. among them, the trainers will find several dead, others with wounds that range from mild to serious.

should you aid them, you will fine that they suffer from the cleanest incisions and residual poison.

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OBJECTIVES

• post at least 5 time total.
• at least 2 participant(s) should reference the damage.
• at least 1 participant should examine the damage in detail.
• at least 1 participant should verbalize a hypothesis on what happened.
• at least 3 posts should address the injured pokemon in some fashion.
• at least 1 participant should comment about that a pokemon was killed.

once all objective have been completed you may request a new mod post to progress your story.

the earliest you may request a new mod post is JANUARY 3RD.

NOTE:

anyone who has not posted in this thread at least once by the NEXT MOD POST will be kicked. instead, they may join part two.

Kaida Adachi
Pace Mahmoud
Elaine Highland
boruta maher

“Being prepared for more than just one is probably a good idea. While I surmised that it broke out, we can’t even say that it did so on its own.” There were too many unknowns as usual. At the early stage, eliminating the vast array of possibilities was the best bet, but it wasn’t like they could do much else based on the information here.

Placing the nameplate to the side, on one of the still remaining shelves, she looked off into the distance of the hole that was left behind. In the end, the next course of action was clear. They needed to venture out into the trail of destruction left behind.

“Elaine Highland, detective.” Among the flurry of introductions that were being given, Elaine dropped one of her own before making her way out the hole. She had initially planned to use Ginga to survey from overhead, but the one going by Bo had already thrown out a Pokemon to do just that. There was no point in adding to the list of Pokemon scouting, especially if the one she would have added was going to be far too conspicuous.

As she (and presumably the rest of the group) made headway deeper and deeper into the woods, the aftereffects became more and more evident. It was like the world before them had been rent apart by a typhoon of destruction, leaving behind scars of death and despair. If the Pokemon in question was rampaging out of any sort of despair, it sure as hell was spreading it quite well.

Unfortunately, Elaine was no doctor. She was not the type of person who could render aid to those who were hurt beyond basic first aid. She, however, was the type of person who could examine a corpse without batting an eye.

While the tears in the earth and the epicenter were one thing, the remains of the recently killed were another, so she went straight for that.

“Incisions and...is that some poison?” She said, while running a finger on one of the dead. Given the likely type of Pokemon, she could narrow down to some extent what had escaped, though she had no knowledge of what Pokemon Bailey Cooper had used. “Did she have a Drapion?”

Elaine quickly shook her head. “No, it’s not like that’s the only Pokemon that could use poison attacks and cause this much damage. Regardless, it either probably ran into something large enough that could try and fight its rampage.” Running her hand across the dead Zigzagoon she had been examining, she shook her head again. “Or it got further agitated after seeing other Pokemon in the vicinity.”

No matter what happened, tragedy begat more tragedy and it was almost certain that this new tragedy was going to bring forth a new chain of more. It was inevitable. Just that reality was enough was to make Elaine clench her teeth and a fist.

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TL;DR: Elaine examines one of the dead and further attempts to hypothesize about what had happened though it ends up being a couple of possibilities that may at best be only partially right.

Tags: Pace Mahmoud & boruta maher & Kaida Adachi

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Names? Kaida's eyes widened slightly, suddenly aware that she didn't know any of their names, nor the other way around. Should they enter a dangerous situation, they would need ways to identify each other, "Oh. I forgot...I'm Kaida Adachi. It is good to meet you all." She didn't speak of her experience, feeling it was uneeded...besides, there had been more than enough incidents she'd been a part of that she was at least aware that the way she carried herself was one with confidence.

Abruptly, she raised her arm to her Pokemon, continuing the introduction with a...smile? "And this is Ormr, Garmr, and Svart...they are all my pack. As long as you are with us, I will protect all of you." A bold promise, but one she spoke with confidence. "Now let us go...I don't think this is good." She'd soon find that was the mother of all understatements.

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It was worse than Kaida could have imagined. She would have thought a normal Pokemon would have found a place to hide, or sought out other humans...at its most destructive, it should have challenged any Pokemon that got in its way. This was no normal Pokemon. Her Ekans drew back in shock at the sight before them, tail rattling in instinctive fear. Boldly, her Yamega zipped forward, insectoid eyes roving over the carnage, watching for any movement before screeching Kaida over to several moving Pokemon.

The dead were dead. They had to focus upon the living.

Kaida's face, which had turned white briefly at the sight, tried to twist itself into normalcy, but found itself grimacing and twitching, just avoiding grief. "Help the living! You, er, Boruta, have your partner found anything else?" Something this destructive would be visible from the skies, surely, especially if this was the evidence of a fight that it looked like. While her Yamega was handling the general area and defense of the injured, she was ready to trust boruta maher 's Fearow to scouting. Elaine Highland's question got a shake of her head, "I don't know. The most we know is that it can't fly...hopefully..." She could only imagine how far this beast would have gotten if it could, but for all they knew, it was choosing this route on purpose.

The Electrike under her hand cried out in pain, internal injuries shifting under the slightest touch...it's leg hung on from the cleanest cut Kaida had ever seen. "Tch. Come here, my friend." She whispered, taking out a Pokeball and capturing the electric pup, it was dead unless she got it medical intervention, that much was clear. She only hoped that wasn't the case for the others, she sucked in a breath as she reached into her pack for bandages, her Snubble guiding her over to a Zigzagoon that attempted to limp away. She was no healer, so first aid would have to do.

TLDR: Kaida introduces her team before heading into the forest. She notes the damage and tries to help any live Pokemon. She tries to order others around her to help anything alive. She captures an Electrike.

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Picking herself off her knees after having gone through as much as she could with the corpse before her, Elaine once again looked around to reassess the damage. The others had already gotten to work with assisting the surviving Pokemon.

She, unfortunately, held no skill in doing what the others were doing. The grim reality was that Elaine was the type of person who only thrived after tragedy struck and even then was only the type who thrived off of solving puzzles.

Walking past the others who were tending to the few living left behind and doing so in a way that needed no intervention on her part, Elaine walked over to the epicenter and found her eyes trailing over the damage around her.

“Still, it’s dangerous to be around here. We don’t know whether it left, is still around, or is going to circle back here without paying attention to its surroundings.”

From next to the epicenter, she pointed at the damage that had been left behind to the surroundings as she walked to one of the deepest wounds in the timber around them she could find. “Moreover, between the clean incisions on all of the Pokemon and the damage to the surroundings, it’s possible that multiple Pokemon are now active and engaged.”

Suffice to say the danger hadn’t passed and as aloof as Elaine had been acting, the reality was that there was good reason to be anxious, no matter how much she was hiding it.

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TL;DR: Elaine examines the damage in detail and points out the possibility of something else being engaged with the rampaging Pokemon.

Tags: Pace Mahmoud ; boruta maher ; Kaida Adachi

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