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POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 2:42:32 GMT

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[attr="class","omgentop"]THE WILDS: ULTRA DEEP SEA

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ONGOING EVENT

EXPLORATION

GRANITE CAVE[break]↓ ULTRA DEEP SEA

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CONTRARY TO ITS NAME, THE MAJORITY OF THE ULTRA DEEP SEA IS A VAST CAVE-LIKE WORLD. Shafts of light from an unknown source barely penetrate the dark, causing colorful diamond-like rocks to glisten against humid walls. The dim lighting makes the place seem like you're thousands of leagues under the sea... Eerily, an unceasing pulse can be heard like a heart beat that rumbles throughout the realm.[break][break]

Oddly enough, one is able to "swim" through this realm like Water-type Pokemon floating in air.[break][break]

One may stumble upon deep, cold pools of dark water and alien seaweed as they scout out the realm. Segments of this place open up into an astral sea, where islands of mysterious stone are suspended mid-air.

PROMPTS

LIST OF PROMPTS

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01 become poisoned by nihilego toxin temporarily.
03 use a pokemon to light your path.
04 explore the unnerving wreckage of a megalopolan vessel, named The Quaestor Lucis.
05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.
09 the longer you stay, the more likely you will receive a temporary and horrific mutation (e.g. a barnacle growing on the skin, a patch of shell, etc.) that disappears upon your return to hoenn.L
12 involve the realm's heartbeat-like sound and/or the discovery of large organ-like structures.
🗺️ utilize a z-move in a pivotal way.
🗺️ skyler dross & angelo vestri will have ultra beasts relentlessly hunt them due to their identities as FALLERS.
🗺️ Cyrus Silvermen's comfort and expertise of the sea must be pivotal in some way &/or the weight of his familial responsibilities must be explored.
🗺️ Locke Jamison's expertise at tag battles, lending support, etc. must be used in a pivotal way &/or he may explore how much he has grown since arriving in hoenn.

EXPEDITION TREASURES

AT THE END OF EACH EXPEDITION THREAD, all characters must ROLL for their final post. The HIGHEST FOUR ROLLS will be counted for what TREASURES are retrieved from the location. These treasures will be returned to each faction for future use...

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RULES

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES. A more comprehensive list of rules will be published in each event thread. These rules are also subject to change.[break][break][break]

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Your character can only be in ONE EXPEDITION THREAD at a time.
You may participate with all of your characters; however, be aware of your ability to post.
If a thread partner has not posted in awhile, please skip them in this event. Momentum is important for engagement.
Since these threads may feature combat, please be reasonable with your battling. Discuss with your group if you'd like one move per post, how many Pokemon are allowed to be brought, etc.
Try to keep posts short for clarity and speed.
Please be trusting and open to communicating with all of your thread partners.
Please INCLUDE WHICH PROMPTS you are using in your expedition thread.
Please have at least FIVE POSTS PER CHARACTER in your expedition thread.

IN YOUR FINAL POSTS, PLEASE ROLL.

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POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 19:16:53 GMT

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If asked, Skyler would vehemently deny being a tyrant. But the captain hadn't even stopped to consult Cyrus' opinion on the matter before dragging his ass all the way to the rift, pausing only briefly to throw some equipment his way along with short, vague instructions.

"We might be gone for a few hours. Bring your best, kid."

Granite Cave melts behind them (angelo vestri , Locke Jamison , Cyrus Silvermen ) now as they traverse into a realm of muted light and alien landscapes. Within her ribcage, a sense of strangeness wars with vague familiarity, and yet she's fully aware that she hasn't ever been here before.

Looking around, she feels as if she should be underwater. And yet... What's that thrum in the water? Wariness creeps into her shoulders, shrugged off quickly enough when something in the distance catches her attention - a wreckage?

"Time to see how many things in here want to kill us, huh?" Famous last words, Sky. Given how the last excursion had gone, with Skyler nearly throwing herself into a chasm, she'd learned to prepare for the worst.

Unaware of how hers and angelo vestri 's arrival had served as beacon to any and all Ultra Beasts in the vicinity, the captain releases Dhelmise and 'swims' towards the increasingly hulking shape further ahead, cast in shadow.

Skyler allows herself to linger behind for a moment, and she's side to side with Cyrus when she mutters under her breath, "I know you can handle yourself, kid, but if you get in trouble- Just... don't go too far." An unyielding gaze catches his. "Okay?"
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POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 0:14:15 GMT

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“Just another day at the office, then.” He throws a nonchalant grin towards skyler dross , as if the accusations of two long-dead children from their last trip had not taken root into his head. Famous last words, indeed.

After their venture into the rift on Mt Pyre, rumours of the Deep Sea had reached Nautica's ears. It hadn't taken much discussion to reach the decision to go.

Just as it hadn't taken Angelo long to reach out to Locke Jamison , asking him to join their small team. It felt like a natural choice nowadays.

While Skyler hangs back with Cyrus Silvermen (who's pestering tactic had finally paid off) he finds companionship with Locke.

“Hey.” He says quietly as he checks his equipment, Latios's presence close by. “If something comes up while we're down here, just send the word, alright? I'll hear you.”

With their Eon duo connection, no phone call was necessary.

Reaching the shadows of the wreck, long slumbering in the dark, Angelo cranes his neck up. Squinting, he slowly pieces together the faded name on the ship side.

“The Quaestor Lucis...” Angelo peeks down towards Locke Jamison then, raising an eyebrow with fox-like mischief. “Kind of ironic name for where it's ended up.”

In the corner of his gaze something bone pale sways like bleached kelp caught up in a gentle tide. Only when Angelo turns towards the far, dark corner in which he'd thought it lurked, nothing remained.

He turns back to Locke, expression collected and thoughtful. “Let's head up to the deck, see if we can find a way in that way.”

Sensing his partner's silent uncertainty, Latios's veiled presence drifts away to scout the ship perimeter.

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POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 20:10:24 GMT

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- using lanturn to light the way

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"I can't believe I agreed to this…"

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Between this and Eris Halla calling him in to explore Mt. Pyre's own rift, it seemed all of Locke's friends were hellbent on dragging him to these dangerous new locations. Even the thrill-seeking Latias had been less than enthused for this excursion after their last little trip into the unknown.

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But there were no spirits here to enact their vengeance through him, and he trusted angelo vestri and skyler dross enough to follow them into the depths of hell itself.

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And, uh, he was sure that other guy was cool too.

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The wreckage shouldn't have been as much of a surprise as it was. Everything else about this world felt eerie and dreamlike, even more so than your average cave system-but the vessel still felt alien and out of place in this not-quite-ocean.

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"I'll have to take your word on that," he replied, frowning at the foreign language.

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They followed their friend's lead upwards-or downwards, the lack of air bubbles to right their sense of direction turned this dimension into an Esheresque nightmare-until they reached the nose of the wreck, landing on the near-ninety degree angle of the deck with an unnatural ease only possible in this world without gravity.

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There was indeed a way inside there in the form of a watertight door fitted into the base of the helm that could potentially lead into either the captains quarters or the lower decks. Locke approached its cartoonish speedwheel and gave it an experimental tug, only to be met by the resistance of rust and time.

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Bracing both their boots against the doorframe, the courier tugged at the stubborn handle with the full weight of their body-all hundred and twenty pounds-until it finally snapped unlocked under the force of the invisible Latias' Telekinesis, and it was only the lack of gravity that spared her ward the indignity of falling on their ass.

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Steel creaked ominously as the door opened to reveal a set of stairs leading into pitch-darkness, claustrophobia itching under their skin at the familiar sight. They swallowed back their anxiety, fishing out a Pokéball from their bag and summoning their trusty Lanturn for light, before turning back to the group.

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"Well I'm sure not going first."

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 19:02:49 GMT

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i am the astro-creep, a demolition-style hell american freak. i am the crawling dead, a phantom in a box shadow in your head.

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Was it okay to be nervous? Someone should tell his heart if it wasn't. The damn thing wouldn't stop racing. It thumped what felt like a million beats in seconds. Cyrus swallowed and tried to focus on something else. [break][break]

All his pestering paid off. Skyler finally let him work for her. That seemed enough to ease Cyrus' nerves until he remembered what they were doing. Fuck. What good would he be in a place like this? The sea on Earth, Cyrus knew - loved even, but alien waters? [break][break]

skyler dross must have sensed his unease. Cyrus looked over to find her at his side. He straightened, trying to look braver than he felt. "Don't worry, I ain't gonna bite off more than I can chew." oops, too late. He smiled and met Skyler's eye. [break][break]

"Promise." [break][break]

Soon enough, they reach their goal. A ship unlike anything Cyrus had ever seen drifted into view. The otherwordly vessel sat in ruin. "Woah." he muttered, "I wonder what happened to it." they'd find out soon enough.[break][break]

Cyrus peered into the gap where a door once stood. "I'll go." the words came without thinking, "Since you're scared." he teased. Down he went, down into the depths of the lower deck. Where darkness gathered and predators lay in wait.

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POSTED ON Jan 31, 2023 20:26:43 GMT

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Skyler follows right after Cyrus Silvermen , shadowing his steps as they dive into the unforgiving lightless depths without a second thought. The Quaestor groans with age around them, a sleeping behemoth long past its prime. Its built is wholly unlike any sea-worthy ship that Skyler knew of, but given its location - and the lack of a proper ocean - the captain can't say she's too surprised.

"Take this," she tells Cyrus Silvermen and Locke Jamison , unstrapping her knives. "You probably won't need to use 'em, but better safe than sorry." And if it gave the younger pair an extra layer of protection in close quarters, then all the better.

Skyler doubted the Quaestor would reveal its secrets without exacting a price.

Trading Dhelmise for Tentacruel, she allows the caphalopod's Dazzling Gleam to illuminate the fork ahead - branching out into dimly lit corridors. Propped up against one of the walls, long picked clean, is a humanoid skeleton.

And then another. And another.

The captain doesn't slow her stride when approaching them, guessing at their non-human nature by the Sharpedo-sharp teeth spanning the length of dead grins. A near-perfect match to some of her scars.

Her eyes seek out angelo vestri 's, storm-tossed with suppressed fury.

"Megalopolans." She nearly spits the word out, cracking bones under the heel of her boot with unspoken pleasure. "We might find more of these if this vessel was fully operational when it-" sunk? moored? "-found its end."

Somewhere ahead, spider-like tendrils unfurl themselves in predatory expectation. Remaining just at the edge of the light and watching, hungry, as the Fallers wander further into the ship - and away from the exit.
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05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.

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POSTED ON Feb 1, 2023 20:27:56 GMT

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Alarm prickles down the back of Angelo's neck like the cold touch of winter, grim warnings fed directly into his mind from his scouting partner.

Judging by how he senses Latios's connection growing closer, they'd better not stick around.

“Well I call dibs on last. In you go.” With the push of his hand on their back, Angelo gives Locke Jamison an encouraging shove over the threshold.

Waiting until Latios slips in, invisible, he takes up the rear of the group. Door slamming shut behind him with a TELEKINESIS swing.

And missing the creeping mass of bleached tentacles climbing over the side of the ship...

What they find in the dark, hollow corridors however, doesn't bode any brighter.

Bathed in the glow of the Tentacruel's light, shadows cast haunting patterns upon bleached bones, elongating cruel edges of predator teeth.

He steels himself in the storm, eyes locking with the crashing fury within skyler dross's gaze.

“They've been rotting here for a long time. This place is just a ghost ship now.” Crouching down near a Megalopolan, voice flinty, Angelo rummages around in the pockets of one where fabric still clings. “But them being here in the first place isn't a good sign. It could be connected with their home world.”

Finding little of value, save for a beast ball that he tosses to the floor - broken and contents empty - Angelo stands.

He looks down both sides of the fork with a pinch between his brows, considering shrouded corridors.

“I say we should sti-”

But the Fallers fates had been sealed long before they'd passed through the rift. Written when strands of hair had turned white. Ghostly, like the Nihilego tentacles that coil around their limbs and drags them into darkness.

skyler dross to the left.

angelo vestri to the right.

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POSTED ON Feb 2, 2023 15:19:31 GMT

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- latias is invisible
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- chasing angelo down the right hall

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"Fear's a perfectly reasonable response to this situation," they deadpanned back at Cyrus Silvermen as he passed through. "You guys are the weird ones…"

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skyler dross's knife was pressed into their hands as they said that, which the courier immediately fumbled when angelo vestri pushed them inside after their companions.

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"C-Careful!" they hissed. "I-"

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Whatever complaint they were about to make fell to silence as the Questar's fate was revealed under their and Skyler's Pokémon's light, bright yellows and blues playing along the skeletal remains of her long-forgotten crew. Locke instinctually took a step back from the scene, bumping into their unseen companion as she tried to steady them both.

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But it was one step too far away.

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In an instant Angelo and Skyler were both gone, followed by a rush of panic as Latias pursued their friend and brother down the right path. Locke was close behind, calling out to Cyrus before they too vanished from sight.

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"H-Help Skyler!"

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Chou-Chou's light guided him through the tunnel-like hall, down increasingly-odd curves and turns that seemingly led to nowhere at all. The sound of boot against metal gradually faded into something softer, squishier.

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Was the steady thrumming in his ears his heart-or someone else's? Either way, he couldn't stand the sound of it anymore, so he drowned it in the name of his lost companion.

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"Angelo!"

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POSTED ON Mar 12, 2023 15:35:20 GMT

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Skyler would curse herself endlessly afterwards, for her lack of attention in this moment.

Adrenaline slams into her system, and Skyler looks up just quickly enough to see the flash of surprise across Angelo's face before he, too, disappears down into the bowels of the ship.

Rage is a funny thing, more so when it stems from the blueprints of past trauma. It sink its hooks under her skin and pulls on puppet strings, and what results of it is something other than herself - or herself entirely, raw and visceral.

Poison is pumped into her veins as she's dragged through the corridor, and Skyler feels herself scream. It sputters out into a gurgle when a tendril pushes into her throat. Her hands search frantically for the blade that had saved her last time, only to realise she'd given it away. Her pokeballs are just out of reach, except for one.

Dhelmise fades into the darkness.

Another tentacle wraps around her ribcage and she feels something give with a sharp crack.

Her mouth tastes of blood.

Not again. Please. Not again.

Her teeth sink into soft alien flesh even as ecstatic lethargy spreads through her limbs, a siren's song. "Get away from my mind, you f-fuck." Her tongue wraps sloppily around the words, numb with venom and faint intention.

Seaweed tendrils materialize by the Nihilego, and Dhelmise's Curse of the Drowned withers the Nihilego somewhat.

A high-pitched shriek echoes in Skyler's brain as an Anchor Shot rams the Nihilego into the wall, causing it to loosen its grip just enough for the captain to stumble out.

The Ultra Beast doesn't linger, slipping instead into the depths of the shipwrecked vessel to await another chance. Dhelmise's ghostly glow illuminates the curve of Skyler's back as she leans against the wall and retches a thick, black substance onto the floor.

"We have to find Angelo." Cleaning her mouth, the captain ignores the tide of endorphins in her system, the giddy ecstasy that tickles the surface of her skin. She shakes her head, but it hardly serves to dislodge the poison in her mind.

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POSTED ON Mar 19, 2023 16:55:35 GMT

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Angelo awakens with a pounding in his head not unlike that of the pulse that had welcomed them into the sea realm and a sticky heat upon his temple. Throbs dulled through the haze of darkened hallways and his own subdued consciousness.

There had been a struggle in the narrow corridor, tentacles trapping breath and guttural protest in his throat. Constricting around him like quickening sand.

Then there's light. His body freed. And he falls.

When eyelids fight away the heaviness to steal a slither of the world around him, Angelo finds it skewed upside down.

He's awakens on his back. And not alone.

Two pairs of eyes hover over him, and even though their watchful shapes distort somewhat to the left as he comes to, he knows them instantly.

“Latios? Latias?”

Angelo looks up at the eon duo, endorphins surging and pulling his lips into a giddy, relieved kind of smile. Even as he clumsily sits up and feels his hand squelch in a wet pool beside him, it doesn't falter.

In the corner of his eye something sits crumpled against the wall like a deflated balloon. His captor now but a puddle of limp tendrils, soggy from its own venom fleeing its limp body.

The Nihilego lies dead.

He feels his mouth part, chuckles bubbling for reasons unknown. Then, clumsily, Angelo gets to his feet.

“We have to-” He falters, bile stinging his throat. “Find Sky. Which way did we come from?”

Even though his mind swam disorientated with poison, he sought her, his lighthouse in the darkness.

Obliging the request, his companions keep watch until Angelo has finished expelling the venom with violent retches from his body. Then together they venture into the depths of the alien ship, the eon duo remaining close as their friend walks uneven.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2023 22:23:20 GMT

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Skyler runs a hand over her sweaty forehead, and wonders at how hot it feels. How hot everything feels. It's like an inferno pressing outwards through the thin lining of her skin. Perspiration gathers in the hollow of her throat, slides down her back and presses her clothes to her skin.

Dhelmise follows at a distance behind its floundering trainer. The corridor feels unending, each advance marked by either copious amounts of retching or the occasional snort and giggle. Sometimes both.

She's high as a kite.

"Ffffuck Angel, stop hidin'..." Her lips are dry. Her mouth is dry. She could devour the ocean whole, if only it'd cure her of her thirst. But maybe. Maybe.

Maybe angelo vestri would do just fine. She could devour him whole too. Several times. He'd thank her for it.

If only the bastard dared show himself.

It's a small miracle that Skyler manages to stumble all the way back to where they'd been before, and that no opportunistic Ultra Beasts had decided to make good on an easy prey.

She'd fight them, Skyler thinks through the molasses of her thoughts. She'd fight them all and be crowned Queen Beast.

Movement catches her eye, and it's an effort to follow it with her eyes. Everything is just a little too bright, too shiny.

"Angel." And she stumbles forward to hug Latios.
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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2023 10:00:38 GMT

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“Skyleeer,” comes the throaty call through a cracked door. “You in here?”

Angelo leans against the frame on unsteady legs, waiting. When no answer comes from the gloom, sandpaper chuckles scratch out from his parched, bruised throat.

It's like a game, Angelo concludes in his intoxicated mind. He'd have to think of a good prize to claim from skyler dross when he finds her. After all the searching she's making him do, he craves her mouth bestowing him victory and reprieve.

“Don't worry, you two. I'll find her.” Angelo smiles, turning to regard his companions, before hacking up a splatter of ink.

Both eon siblings exasperated expressions, staring wearily at their charge, are lost when faced with the haze that has glossed over usually sharp blues.

This had been the umpteenth time they'd stopped.

Latias stays by pilot's side to encourage his staggered steps when they finally close in on their destination. Angelo mutters in Alto Marean that he missed her.

At the head of their party, Latios freezes. There's a flash of displeased alarm in his eyes before he blips from the embrace that reaches for him.

In his place Angelo stumbles on uneven footing into Skyler, ally switched into her arms. They collide in a mess of unreliable limbs.

“That's me.” Comes the gravelled laugh in his wife's ear, hands fumbling to find tight purchase around her back. “Gotcha. I win.”

A clumsy kiss is planted somewhere on her face.

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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2023 11:19:33 GMT

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"Hello, love of my life." There's a sunbeam of a silly grin on her face and a light fizzy feeling where her skin touches his, mapping out all well-travelled roads that lead home. "Yeah, you wi- Ow! That's my eye!"

Latios' alarmed façade, and the subsequent Ally Switch, seemed to have gone entirely unnoticed by the captain.

Behind her, Dhelmise's single eye finds the eon duo and mirrors their exasperation in the best way a sentient anchor can.

Skyler snorts a laugh and stumbles into Angelo in an attempt to get closer, causing them to teeter perilously in place. Her glazed eyes meet his and she's caught unaware by how far she's willing to swim in them. If she went on forever, she wonders drunkenly, what would she find? What dangers and mysteries would be held in her hands, hers and hers alone?

She needs to discover it all, if it took her a lifetime.

The next kiss somehow finds his lips, and it is a greedy and graceless thing, primal in some way that burns through her. It is a sharp-teethed hunger. It is her fingers winding in his hair and pulling him closer and she doesn't care for anything else but getting lost in this, in him-

Until something pinches her butt.

"Wha-" The captain whips around and the world swirls around with her in dizzying whirls of colors and shapes that she does not remember ever being there.

She'd find nothing there except for emptiness and an embarassed Dhelmise who has covered its single eye with a few rose-tinted tendrils of seaweed. Or maybe that was the Nihilego poison talking.

Angelo, however, would be able to spot the pearlescent scales winding down her thighs and peeking from the top of her shorts.

Shit, she's turning into a fish.

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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2023 20:14:04 GMT

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Together they stumble on unreliable legs, refusing to let the other go even as they balance and sway precariously over the lip of gravity's jaws. Their dance teasing the laws of the world, as they do most days.

“Shit. Guess it's a good thing pirates like eyepatches.”

Laughter bubbling from his throat, merry from more than just the poison swimming through his veins, Angelo takes her cheeks into callused palms. “Let me see.”

His hazy vision lowers. Only to find distant, sea mist covered gaze staring spellbound right into him. It envelops him, too.

Looking into Skyler Dross's eyes, he's drunk twofold.

A thumb brushes agonisingly slow against her cheekbone, grazing a lower lash. “What is it, cuore mio?”

Whatever it is she's looking for in the depths of his being, she already has it. All of what he is and will be.

Lips collide against his mouth in her demand and Angelo answers the kiss in kind. Greedily taking all of her in exchange, hands rough and claiming. Encouraging her to fight for more with teeth sharply taunting her bottom lip.

When she jolts away, so too does Angelo's stability. His feet stumble, shoulder bumping against the ship wall and an ache blooms hot down his spine.

Instead, a snort rips from his throat when he notices her, pain dulled by the toxins still in his veins. “Nice scales, fish butt.”

As if he's one to talk. It turns out the itching that had crawled along the length of his sweat-damp back was the feathering beginnings of a dorsal fin. It peeks out of the top of his neckline.

Angelo reaches a wandering hand towards the silver scales on Skyler's thigh, only to pause just short. A flash of awareness striking crisp like a bolt through his head.

The pilot stills, moving only to look over at a pair of draconic, narrowed ruby eyes in the gloom of the alien ship corridor. Latios's telepathic call to attention may as well have plunged him in frozen water.

Looks like it was time to go. He was done babysitting.

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