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CYBERCHASE CONUNDRUM (EVENT)
POSTED ON Aug 26, 2022 19:49:36 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","omgen"] [attr="class","omgentop"]CYBERCHASE CONUNDRUM  [attr="class","omgenmid"] ICLY SET IN MID-JULY DEATH-ENABLED RAID EVENT [player]https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_rgzy5ps7In1yrg70yo1.mp3[/player] [break] 🎼 NEW THEME SONG - "Weakness" by Yuki Hayashi, Pokemon Journeys OST PORYGON PROTECTION
 PORYGONS SWARM THE ASCENDING PLATFORM. Their angular glares and pointed beaks point toward their targets. Deadly beams fire, aiming to pick off any Pokemon or trainer as a bonus.[break][break]
However, while some debate their fate in all-consuming lights, others motion to retaliate until the bitter end.[break][break]
Aaron Toral's FRILLISH hovers about, firing a HYDRO PUMP at a swooping digital bird. As another attempts to spear the child with its body, Andrea Vaneau's MEGA KANGASKHAN DIZZY PUNCHES it; the PARENTAL BOND between mother and child ensuring the attacker's confusion. It fidgets and glitches, spiraling about in the air.[break][break]
As Rowan Wrynn is knocked out, Melody Miro's PRIMARINA stands on its white tail fins. A SPRINGTIDE STORM deters any PORYGON from reaching them in a swirl of petals as Raziel Beckett's METAGROSS pulses an EXPANDING FORCE outward from its trainer who is being cut with self-doubt.[break][break]
 Similarly, kyle lopez's SMEARGLE protects its owner as he speaks to MATIAS SILPH. The dog swings its inky tail, and a SKETCHED SPATIAL REND knocks a PORYGON away as it fires a beam that soars toward their destination above...
ALTERNATIVES
OTHERS FIGHT AGAINST THEIR DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES by spitefully testing their doppelgangers. Leonidas Stone and Eva Morales assault their digital doubles with their Pokemon. An AIR SLASH and PSYCHO CUT from their NOIVERN & GALLADE land against smiling reflections. Lulu Flint attempts to recover her stolen data with her PORYGON too, the lower-half of her skull glitching. Ultimately, little effect transpires; in fact, should the attacks make contact, whatever deletion occurs on the other side of the numbers is swiftly recovered.[break][break]
After all, this is THE CLOUD. Data is stored. Replenished. Corruptions are disposed of so that the proper data can replace them. It is a valiant effort, if not entirely unnerving for they see the stretched smiles of their copies.[break][break]
Others freeze. Paralyzed by their anxiety, Lethe Ascelin and @aries cling to each other. While the former is unable to cope and manage, the latter is able to seek what is within their control: their ability to comfort. MARISOL SIMONE is comforted instead, by Leonidas Stone's decision to continue on, while Violet Fairbanks consoles her friend, Elaine Highland as the chaos eddies and pools around them. While Elaine Highland's trauma bubbles up in her chest, her theory and wager is lost to the turbulence of human panic and Pokemon frenzy. To reason in chaos is an exercise in futility.[break][break]
Callan Young watches his friend sacrifice himself, a plea for him to stop stopping just before his tongue can sing the words. After all, who are we to make decisions for another?[break][break]
FERNANDO SILPH thinks about the future. Whatever is coming, he understands they must hold on to any power they have. Any body willing. His frustration at DEREK HOFFMAN and Thomas Benoit falls on deaf ears, but illeana reyes is saved. For Greyson Connors, however, he succumbs to his fatigue. To him, to acquiesce to one's self to death in this foreign plane is unfathomable. Thankfully, those he holds close, annalise henderson and PENELOPE LIVY, remain safe. By the now mentally immature PENELOPE LIVY, nagi miwa grasps onto Johanna Joy's POKEMON, trembling as the stress and desperation bruises his cheeks.[break][break]
Nearby, angelo vestri rescues Locke Jamison with his DRAGAPULT as Eris Halla is left to enact her final farewell. His seafaring wife, skyler dross, prevents him from saving anyone else and a defiant middle finger is swung toward her doppelganger. Yvaine Varron performs rescue too, haranguing Josh Devlin after she thrusts her fist into his gut.[break][break]
Nearer still, an emotional drama is played. The actors of Guillermo Marceliño, Alexei Ivanov and Kaida Adachi engaging in a constant seesaw of death and undeath, their hearts colliding like meteoroid and planet. Others are more firm with their decisions. klaus anchoret denies self-sacrifice. Elisabeth Fiorelli too, "trauma be damned."[break][break]
Closer to the center, Amor Rose attempts an a drastic measure. His DRAGONITE is commanded to tear the main terminal, the central machine that is powering their ascent, apart. However, the rampaging dragon is stopped by Katherine Fairburne and her NIHILEGO's Z-MOVE. A SANCTUARY erects itself around the terminal, protecting against the dragon's claws. The dome shimmers with each strike as Katherine Fairburne admonishes the young CEO.[break][break]
However, Amor Rose retaliates. A Z-CRYSTAL SHARD is smashed, allowing the DRAGONITE to GIGAVOLT HAVOC the SANCTUARY, smashing against the protective barrier. The barrier does its job, and after the surge of electricity dissipates the dome, the terminal is exposed.[break][break]
 Hideo Kino's ROTOM attempts to "hack" the terminal, but it finds that MALDACENA is correct. Transferring this amount of data to reality at this speed and density would be a disastrous attempt. The scan would kill the "real" counterparts and transfer their data to their copies, after which, the copies will be uploaded into Hoenn instead. However, the ROTOM finds a peculiar string of text: monroe.copy.upload. MATIAS SILPH has asked a good question indeed.
SYSTEM FAILURE
THE TUG-OF-WAR OF LIFE AND DEATH places duress on the terminal and the process itself. As luka chêne witnessed with her Pokemon's FUTURE SIGHT, the prophesized text, "SYSTEM FAILURE", manifests above the ascending, rickety platform. It is accompanied by a blaring alarm that pierces the hearing like an Excadrill's blade.
Suddenly, those left in the pillars of light disappear. The torn bodies of oscar clayton, Thomas Benoit, Eris Halla, luka chêne & Remiel Calcifet (together), Isaac Merlo, DEREK HOFFMAN, Johanna Joy, @tobias, and Alexei Ivanov are erased. Their Pokemon, should they have been left with others, would notice the absence of their trainers immediately, for when a beloved's life is purged from reality, this temporary recess of existence acts as the deepest gash of the heart. There is no body to recover. No body to mourn. Despite the panic, there is a sudden hush.[break][break]
However, when the scan attempts to consume mint frost after he is pushed by annalise henderson, the blue-haired Rocket finds that he is completely unscathed. After all, jayden cross's DITTO, devoid of any move or ability, has wrapped itself around him like a jelly condom. Curiously, the scan can not detect mint frost and the DITTO too, is saved.[break][break]
However, jayden cross's rescue of mint frost, Amor Rose's interference and Hideo Kino's ROTOM have tampered with the terminal's operations. Glitching segments manifest in the air, fragmenting the space in corrupted RGB hues. SYSTEM FAILURE continues to ring out as the whole platform quakes. The platform maintains its speed, but if the process if interrupted in its middle, how will everyone turn out when they are uploaded back onto the other side?[break][break]
In midst the bedlam, Martín del Mar's mind wavers in and out of lucidity. Occasionally, BARNABY FINCH's soft pleading voice reaches him, but it is swiftly overtaken by the sounds of thousands of chirruping UNOWN.[break][break]
Suddenly, Martín del Mar is wracked by another flurry of pain and confusion, which Yvaine Varron hears vividly. If he isn't already, he crumples toward the floor. Sweaty palms lay flat against the teetering, platform. Lines of data travel from the terminal and the edges of the platform. They move toward him like beaded snakes and when they reach his fingertips they do not stop. They infiltrate his body. Surge into him. The coding of the world, shapes of Unown-glyph, seeps into him and runs across his body.[break][break]
This horrific affliction of Martín del Mar would ultimately prove to be MALDACENA'S UNDOING. For when their captor visited BARISTACATS & BONE APPETIT! LAST AUGUST and noticed an anomaly, they thought it to be the absence of their ally: ASSASSIN R. He had been accosted by FERNANDO SILPH's CURSE on MT. CHIMNEY a few days prior after all, the resulting injury delaying his return to his food stalls.[break][break]
But in fact, there was another anomaly. The anomaly of the UNOWN REPORT being distributed without being under the watchful eye of one of the DARK TRIAD. Such information should have never fallen into the hands of this Hoenn's inhabitants. And now, this report swam in the synapses of Martín del Mar's brain.[break][break]
A SURGE OF STRENGTH returns to Martín del Mar. As the data traverses throughout his conduit body, it cycles back to the terminal in this man-to-digital circuitry. The UNOWN whisper nonsensical sounds that translate into words he has remembered. He has learned. The entirety of the UNOWN REPORT embeds itself within his psychic space, and suddenly, the whole platform glows. Illuminated. Enlightened.[break][break]
Martín del Mar restores the data previously lost. Reverts the deletion that has occurred all around him and as the terminal ascends to a blinding light above, the future-forged warning of SYSTEM FAILURE shifts signage: SYSTEM RESTORE.[break][break]
As the terminal ascends to the real world, the blinding light is all encompassing.
HOME
EVERYONE FINDS THEMSELVES MANIFESTING ON SAND, for they have returned with the MIRAGE ISLAND itself. Pokemon once thought to have been deleted have returned, their expressions a mix of relief and surprise. Deleted body parts, memories and emotions are restored as well, for when the sea's briny winds tickle the senses and skin, there comes with it, a sense of bodily completion.[break][break]
However, perhaps, more importantly, are the people. Those who have sacrificed themselves have returned to the beach. Their domed Hoenn. When they look to the sea, there are no more whirlpools. Just vast, unbroken blue.[break][break]
Those who have attempted to RECORD ANYTHING will only have been able to document corrupted, distorted audio such as the one below:[break][break]
[player]https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_rc2bn5FbbP1yrg70yo1.mp3[/player][break][break]
In the aftermath, many may desire to return home. To flee. To discuss. What they have witnessed below and what they have learned about the world around them may have caused the pliancy of perspective... or the doubling down of ambition as the region's survival quakes with incertitude.
RULES & GUIDELINES INSTRUCTIONS
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THANK YOU EVERYONE for participating in Cyberchase Conundrum! I hope you enjoyed the story and that this offers a springboard for many plots, relationships for you and your characters.[break][break]
Due note that you are free to be creative with the after-effects of bodily deletion, memory loss, emotion or personality adjustments. However, people's comfort levels in regards to such things may vary. Please be sensitive to that if plotting involves the aforementioned.[break][break]
You are ALLOWED TO POST IN THIS THREAD still, but I will be archiving this thread by AUGUST 29TH with a post including REWARDS.[break][break]
Lastly, the UNOWN REPORT has officially "concluded." However, feel free to continue reporting UNOWN to it. Occasionally, I will update the report with interesting words that may be plot relevant at the time![break][break]
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she had dreamt about the eye of a greater god once. it had glared down upon her until she burst into flames and fell to ashes. she trusted the unown so much less now.[break][break]
The pain was fleeting. It disappeared as quickly as his pixelated flesh. Ephemeral, like the time they had remaining in this digital realm. Even as their group descended into chaotic squabbling, grandstanding, and talk of martyrdom, all Barnaby could manage to do was lean back and sit where he'd been teleported. 
Another reset.
