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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 explore the unnerving wreckage of a megalopolan vessel, named The Quaestor Lucis.
02 involve the venomous adhesive of a poipole or nagandel.
05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.
07 escape corrupted sharpedo and veluza attempting to hunt you down.
08 the deeper one ventures into the realm, the more you become paranoid.
🗺️ utilize mega evolution in a pivotal way.
🗺️ Andrea Vaneau's expertise in cosplaying must be pivotal in some way.
🗺️ Shalin Nariya's expertise in "step step revolution" must be pivotal in some way.

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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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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He'd only heard of this place from @micah in a way that she described simply as The Little Mermaid on heroin. Morbid curiosity got the better of him, and he figured it posed an opportunity for them to venture together. Perhaps the most haunting portion of this venture was the steady heartbeat of the 'ocean'. His own pulse moved in tandem to it, and it felt enough to send him into a panic. Breath grew heavy as it felt like his chest had weight applied to it as if in an attempt to crush the cavity below. Eyes dilated as a hand worriedly reached for the scientist at his side. Feeling her warm, slender fingers was enough to steady his mind and rapid breathing. For once, he didn't feel the heavy weight of holding up the mask of his typically extroverted persona.

Or, perhaps, he'd spoken too soon.

Once his eyes landed on Andrea Vaneau , the mask of his streamer personality took hold of him and made him wave almost gleefully at the pokemaniac. He'd remembered her from her performance in Silver Corps sponsored contests and had the pleasure of judging her second debut.

"Small world! What's got you wandering a place like this?"

The same question could be asked in turn to him. Shalin Nariya caught his peripheral vision, and he tilted his head almost as if on cue. She was a face he hadn't seen before -- maybe she was someone Andrea knew? Or maybe she was as lost as the two of them were. (Well, that's the story that they'd offer, he concluded.) Although his eyes were reddened from the way tears threatened to spill over prior to him coming across the other pair, he chose to play it off differently. A slow grin spread itself across his face as he attributed the reddened eyes to a euphoric stupor.

"I'll be deadass, bros, I'm stoned as hell right now," he offered in a slow drawl as he nudged Micah. "Whuh... What are we doing here again, Kappa Mikey?"

It wasn't long until he shifted his feet and seemed to have some difficulty as the one practically stuck to the ground from the weird puddle he'd managed to step in. Slowly but surely, he pulled his shoe loose from the glob.

"Eeewwww..."

tl;dr
- panic
- sees andrea + shalin and strikes up conversation
- crying? nah, he's just stoned
- stepped in poipole/nagandel adhesive

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This new rift was starkly different from the Ultra Desert, which was a good thing, because there was only so much heat Andrea could take. It was still a distinctly alien realm where common sense did not apply, hence the odd sensation of swimming underwater without actually being in water, leading to weird visuals such as her Lapras floating in the air.

Riding on the back of the blue plesiosaurus, the eccentric cosplayer waved at the two familiar faces. "Hello! You were both contest announcers, right? I'm exploring this rift with my friend Shalin Nariya. The last rift we explored had a bunch of Ultra Beasts in it. What about you?" She asked, tilting her dragon-hooded head curiously.

Speaking of Ultra Beasts, a very stoned Danny found himself accidentally stepping into a sticky puddle left behind by a Poipole. The chaotic space gremlin came out into the open, cackling at Danny's misfortune. "Look, we've found one already! It's a Poipole!" The young, costumed woman pointed at the diminutive Ultra Beast.

However, it wasn't the only resident of this cave-like world. Soon, swarms of corrupted Sharpedo and Veluza attempted to hunt them down, scaring off the little Poipole. "We just got here and we're already getting attacked?! Nessie, use Ice Beam!" Andrea ordered her Lapras to fend off those violent fishes, but its Ice Beam alone couldn't deal with all of them.
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The moment Shalin flew through the Dewford island cave's rift, the laws of physics as she knew them seemed to change. The sharp buzz in her ears dulled to be almost inaudible through her earplugs, her Beedrill mount's wingbeats slowing to the point where they were individually visible, but just barely so! She peered over the side of her venomous insect, watching them go like she was watchng the Pokémon under a high speed camera. She also felt like she was floating above the giant wasp's back rather than letting gravity secure her. It was an alien feeling - even more alien than she felt at the desert.

And yet, the ancient script in the Halls of Origin had directed her to come here, the location of the hidden, ninth key to opening the time-frozen space beneath Sootopolis. Trembling briefly, she took her earplugs out. The noise of the buzzing wings wasn't deafening at all in this strange realm; if anything, it pleasantly filled the eerie silence!

"Oh hey, Andrea!" Shalin waved from the back of her Beedrill, Queen Zing, who had to look eerie with her wings beating like those of a small bird rather than the blur of an insect. Her introductions were cut short when a school of vicious-looking, black-eyed Water-types capable of putting on some real speed were chasing down a Poipole. Many of them turned toward the group of offworld adventurers. These Sharpedo were huge, too. Many of them looked like Alphas, but with black eyes instead of the telltale red. What happened to them?

Shalin tried to wheel her Pokémon around to get within stinging range, but they were just too fast. She had been working on controlling her mount's MEGA EVOLUTION, though she still only used it when necessary. This qualified as necessary. She snapped the Beedrill's cocoon saddle around herself and pinched her fingers against the center of her MEGA CIRCLET, the BEEDRILLITE at the end of the poison-type's saddle glowing with purple and pink light.

As fast as the Sharpedo were, there was no way they were outpacing the five-stinged, furiously buzzing Mega Beedrill. Even with the slower wingbeat rate, the vibration felt just as intense as it did when she fought at Littleroot. She let out a shout when the transformed Pokémon pulled a sharp about face, stabbing a Sharpedo with the FELL STINGER that was her rear barb. It was one of the most venomous stings on the planet, capable of killing within minutes if not treated promptly.

As the Beedrill continued to make short work of the Sharpedo school, the Veluza began to reinforce them. Queen Zing, still in her berserk state, rocketed upward and buzzed her giant wings at full power. Even with the dulling properties of the strange realm, that buzzing was still uncomfortably loud. Her mount's throbbing exoskeleton was really taking its toll on the lithe girl, too. The threatening buzz was enough to cause the Psychic-types to turn tail. An angry-looking Queen Zing greeted Andrea and her compatriots with pointed stings rather than the waving ones her usual self would give.

> 🗺️ utilize mega evolution in a pivotal way.

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Flit Yanmega Good
Sandy Flygon Good
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"come closer and relax, no harm will come your way."[break]
soothing words were said in a soft voice as micah unfurled an arm, pulling danny closer to her side. the haori she was wearing fluttered in the silence, filling it up with the rustling of fabric before something much more sinister made her words become questionable within moments. before the announcer could even respond to anything being said, a swarm of infected pokemon had made themselves known and entered stage right - quickly becoming a threat that andrea spotted and shalin had made quick work of.[break]
"see?" micah said as means to reaffirm danny, pointing out the two girls as they 'swam' down in the open air-based sea around them. [break]
"yeahp, this here is shaggy and i'm scoob to the mystery gang today!" micah announced proudly, pointing between herself and danny as she introduced them both to the group. danny didn't need her speaking for him and she knew it, but given she was sober at that moment ... maybe he did. "shalin and andrea, got it." looking upon the large beedrill, micah couldn't help but feel a sense of awe. mega evolution was so interesting in both a scientific and theological sense. how exactly were certain pokemon capable of something that others weren't? why was it given so much power above normal pokemon who did not resonate with mega stones? such questions would plague micah later, she figured, as she shook her head to relieve herself of such thoughts and just pull on a wide and affable smile.[break]
"we'll be working together today, it seems. i've had a swing through here and let me tell you all, this shit bussin'."[break]
with the brief description, she decided to leave out the fact she almost died four different ways during her last exploration. "so long as we keep all limbs within the vehicle at all times, this ride should be smooth sailing." letting a pokeball roll off of her hand, her yellow altaria made itself known - flapping its wings proudly before folding them inward into its cloud body. this would be her main vehicle of transportation for then and there.[break]
"come follow, i think i can show you all something wicked cool." with a hop onto her altaria, she pushed off into action with her pokemon as it started to fly its way through the ultra deep sea at a slow pace for everyone to follow along. "the intention is to go find other wrecks like the one i found before. wouldn't that make a sick vid?"

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"Haha yeah, ruh roh Raggy."

Little did he realize he was the one meant to be Shaggy. Then who were the other two? He supposed he could see Andrea Vaneau as Velma, but it was one heck of a stretch.

But before he could even register what the fuck was going on, the wild child with the giant bee whom he'd learned just moments prior was named Shalin Nariya managed to tear down the Sharpedo. That left the Veluza for them. As if fumbling around with his bag, he finally managed to pull out the one he assumed to be right. Danny gave it a toss and allowed the pokemon to emerge from it.

"Let's go, Zapp Branniga--! Wait, you're not Zapp," he seemed bewildered as he eyed his Luxray. "Ok Richie! I guess! Let's um..."

The lion eyed its trainer, aware of his mental stupor, and took it upon himself to simply charge at the Veluza with a Thunder Shock. It took a few rounds of attacks, but the Luxray managed to body the Veluza. Once they were in the clear, Danny draped himself over the electric-type lion and baby-talked the creature.

"Who's a good boooy, you aaaare!" he cheesed, before he looked up at his three travel companions. "Well, you heard the lady, let's goooo!"

With that, he lay draped over his Luxray as it trudged forward, following @micah 's lead. It wasn't long until they found themselves before one of the wreckages, the shape of the ship and its condition enough to give Danny an uneasy feeling.

"Y'know, I don't think the um, um, um..." he attempted to think. "Fish? Yeah, fish that were attacking us, aren't done."

tl;dr
- ? ? ?
- he takes on the veluzas with his Luxray
- I'll be honest, he's just a mess

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 10:22:33 GMT

Queen Zing made quick work of the angry fishes. Danny's Luxray helped too. Andrea wanted to pet the Mega Beedrill, but it was so pointy that she didn't know where to pet it. Instead, she gave them a thumbs up. "Nice work, you two!"

Andrea felt a strange familiarity with the name Shaggy, almost as if a version of herself from an alternate universe had a friend with that name.

Anyway, with the Sharpedo and Veluza momentarily gone, the Poipole from earlier got out of its hiding place, warily approaching the humans. Its attention was drawn to the costumed human in particular. So monstrous, so dragon-like... so purple! The tiny Ultra Beast chirped happily and floated around the draconic cosplayer.

"They must think I'm their mother." The young PokéManiac observed, her expertise in cosplaying being pivotal in gaining the Ultra Beast's trust. It was only temporary, of course. Sooner or later, the Poipole would realize that she wasn't a Nagandel.

With their interim party member in tow, the crew debated their next course of action. "I think we should follow Ms. Scoob to the wreckage. It could provide us with shelter in case those feral Pokémon come back." Andrea said, following ~~Micah~~ Scoob's lead.

Soon, they found themselves before the unnerving wreckage of a Megalopolan vessel, named The Quaestor Lucis. It seemed to have crashed on one of the strange mineral formations, its hull punctured by many rocky spires. Those holes also provided a convenient entry point for those brave enough to explore the ship's murky interior.
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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 12:39:26 GMT

Shalin whistled at the golden-hued Altaria's impressive sheen and great strength. "Wow, slick ride!" she complimented Micah, the sight reminding her of her own Altaria she had neglected to buy riding gear for. "The distortions are something else, aren't they, making those really big Pokémon a lot easier to find!" With a nod, she agreed to follow Micah, though Queen Zing in her Mega Evolved state wanted to just race ahead and find more Pokémon to skewer with her five stings. Shalin had to pull back with a lot of tension in her arms to rein the Beedrill in.

Shalin, unfortunately, was not familiar with any of the references Micah was making, but she played along when he didn't seem to call Andrea by her real name. The echo of the underwater-like environment made it a bit difficult for her to understand the others, but she followed along at the mention of a Megalopolan ship. She had to rein her Beedrill out of the way of her companion's Luxray and Altaria multiple times, the wasp really looking to pick a fight with something. Anything. "Come on, Queen Zing. I know you're excited, but those two are not your enemies."

Once they had arrived at the vessel, Queen Zing took out her frustration on Shalin. She panted her legs and foreleg stings in the ground, then buzzed as hard as she could. "Yeow!!" she screamed from the throbbing vibration against her legs and the lower half of her upper body, unable to feel a thing. The alien environment dulled the noise from the wings; if this happened on Hoenn proper, her unprotected ears would have bled from the sound overload.

It seemed Queen Zing still couldn't control herself when she was Mega Evolved. Even her hand stung from how fast it rattled against the Beedrill's cocoon saddle when she reached to undo it. Once she could reach the bug-type's Poké Ball, she withdrew her and collapsed onto a familiar-looking skeleton outside the derelict vessel. "These... they're just like the ones in the desert..." she called out in her likely incomprehensible delirium. "What...even...are they?"

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> 05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.

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Flit Yanmega Good
Sandy Flygon Good
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micah was fully invested in getting the party to the wreckage and - quite frankly - seeing what happened. there wasn't much of a plan in place, but both andrea and shalin seemed to be more than capable of holding their own and the portions danny and micah would have to deal with themselves. "thank ya!" she responded to shalin's praise, her altaria having quite the goofy personality itself as it flexed one cloud arm - somehow making it swell and turn strangely faintly gray as if it were about to make it rain. of course, altaria was capable of no such thing and acted as a vessel of transportation happily so, letting out a small chirp in response to andrea's words though it also seemed to glare back at shalin's beedrill time and time again. the hostility from the large insect was more than palpable and altaria did its best to make distance specifically from the bug type specifically, not knowing if it could even tank one hit from one of its stringers.[break]
"hm, what's that?" shalin said something major - of great importance. of course, the momentary scooby doo didn't have the mental capacity to let this important detail sit long in her head before being distracted by the marvel of the wreck before them. the 'sea' around them ebbed, as if coaxing them forward. the skeletons did little to deter micah, already prepared to step off her altaria and see what happens when she steps foot into and onto the vessel. "i do guess this is our first clew of the trip though, gang." dead bodies? yeah, what a good clue. "you guys don't mind if i take a piece, do you?" ever-curious, she approached one of the skeletons in particular and went to pull off a piece of its skeletal fingers for analysis later. "as for exploring - we could split into two or stick together. what do you guys say?" she offered as she went to put the bone she collected into a small plastic bag she had brought for sample collecting. with her eyes sideways swiping at the following poipole, she couldn't help but care to stick together as a group. there had been rumors of the violent and abhorrent nature of the strange pokemon, so she feared a bit for the adorable dragon-hooded girl. "since we're already grouping, maybe it's best to stick together? i don't mean to impose, though."

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FINISHED PROMPTS:

01 explore the unnerving wreckage of a megalopolan vessel, named The Quaestor Lucis.
02 involve the venomous adhesive of a poipole or nagandel.
05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.
07 escape corrupted sharpedo and veluza attempting to hunt you down.
🗺️ utilize mega evolution in a pivotal way.
🗺️ ANDREA VANEAU's expertise in cosplaying must be pivotal in some way.

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A wrecked ship, dead bodies, boy was this like a real life version of 999? Underrated game in his opinion. He slid off of his Luxray like a slug and lay on the pseudo sea floor before he slowly got up. Yep, that was definitely a dead body in front of him. Yikes. As if possessed by an outside force, Danny took the skeletal remain's jacket and slipped it onto his shoulders. Fancy digs even though they were dead. He even took the hat for extra measure -- what were they gonna use them for? They were dead anyway.

"Maybe if I like... Wear their clothes, I can see what's up, y'dig?" he asked his three amigoes. His thoughts were soon interrupted as he looked back at the mega Beedrill that attacked her own trainer. "Sheeeeeeeeesh, you doin' ok, Shalin?"

Shalin Nariya had managed to reign in her Beedrill, but the creature seemed untamed. Perhaps she wanted to recognize a worthy opponent, which Danny could sympathize with. On the other hand, Andrea Vaneau seemed to handle the Poipole that floated around her as if she were the Nagandel that had hatched them. Perhaps her cosplay expertise really did wonders on the infantile ultra beasts. Strange, very strange indeed... He allowed the three behind him, even @micah, to do their own thing. Rather than remain, he decided to scout ahead a bit. Much to his chagrin, the door he tried to open seemed locked, and even when he sent Richie forward, the Luxray simply bounced right off the door.

"C'mon, let's go see if we can find anything...," he mumbled to the Luxray.

Further he ventured. Whether or not the three chose to follow him was up to them. But the father he wandered into the ship's wreckage, the tighter his chest grew. The heavier his gasps of air felt. The more dangerous his thoughts became. What if the same fate that the skeletal remains faced managed to befall them? What if they weren't supposed to be here? What if something violent lurked just beyond the ship? The heartbeat of the sea around them grew louder, thus came his own heartbeat that felt like it had begun to speed up. As he flung the door open, it seemed impossible to not hear his heavy gasps for air. He shouldn't have been able to breathe like this.

"We've gotta get out...," he muttered. "We've gotta get out. Not safe. Not safe. Notsafenotsafenotsafe--"

The string of his own paranoia came in hyperventilations as he gripped the door tight. Nothing remained on the other side of the door other than a ravaged laboratory likely foraged by previous travellers. His knuckles were practically white as he continued to try and level his breathing and steel his nerves. Even he didn't understand the panic he felt, but the heartbeat that came from the sea sounded deafening to him.

tl;dr
- steals the jacket and hat of a megaopolan skeleton
- wanders ahead
- sudden flood of paranoia that he doesn't grasp
- just knows they gotta get out of there and that it isn't safe

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08 the deeper one ventures into the realm, the more you become paranoid.

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POSTED ON Jan 29, 2023 11:34:40 GMT

"A skeleton?!" Andrea cried in horror at the sight of the skeletal remains. Squinting her eyes, she took a closer look at the familiar, spaceman-like uniform. "A Megalopolan skeleton?!" She appended, Poipole playfully mimicking her bewildered expression.

While Scooby and Shaggy casually looted the dead body for its fingers and clothes respectively, the young PokéManiac had her Lapras use a powerful Water Pulse to expand the hole in the ship's hull, making it large enough for everyone to fit through. Still, she couldn't shake off the explainable feeling that going in there was a mistake...

Once inside the dilapidated vessel, the crew found a locked door impeding their progress, making them debate whether they should split up to look for more clues or stick together. The more they explored, the more they become paranoid, Shaggy being among the first in the group to lose his marbles.

"You're the one who wanted to get in here, and now you wanna get out? Unless... Don't tell me..." Cold sweat filled Andrea's forehead, her mortified gaze glued on the stolen uniform Shaggy was wearing. "You're a Megalopolan spy, aren't you? Is she a Megalopolan spy too? Wait... What if I'm the Megalopolan spy?"

The dragon-hooded girl winced, clutching her own head in agony. "Hnngh... I can feel my memories resurfacing! Get away from me, Shalin! If the sleeper agent in me awakens, I might hurt you!" She warned her friend, speaking utter nonsense at this point. Weirded out by the way the humans were acting, Poipole began to shirk away from them.
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Ecruteak City

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Shaken up by her Beedrill's buzzing, Shalin didn't seem too thrilled with Micah's suggestion to split up, giving her a wide-eyed "Really?" look. She was getting scared the deeper and deeper she went into the vessel, and it took a lot to scare her. This was clearly a place none of them were meant to be. @danny didn't seem to want to continue on. Andrea Vaneau appeared to be having an identity crisis.

It seemed she was one of the only ones to be able to keep a positive, cheerful attitude. "We clearly just need a little pick-me-up!" While she wouldn't get cell reception, her phone did have all local functionality to it, including the ability to play music. She queued up a popular Kantonian song about a group of friends going on a quest and failing in about every possible way, not dissimilar to what was happening within the vessel.

After the first few seconds of the cheerful electronic song started, she began tap dancing to the song. Anyone who was familiar with the BEMANI rhythm game Step Step Revolution could have recognized it as a roughly Expert-level routine from the four-panel dance game. At times, her tapping even sounded like a drumroll. Though she spent much of her time exploring while in the saddle, she clearly had no shortage of agility of her own. She even performed a spin during the jumps of the ending chorus.

"See? Long as we can take two steps forward, taking one step back is okay!" Shalin managed after her heart stopped pounding from the exertion. "Now, let's see if we can make it to the command room. The last one of these vessels I was in had a command room there should be all kinds of hints as to who this belonged to and what its purpose was."

> 🗺️ SHALIN NARIYA's expertise in "step step revolution" must be pivotal in some way.

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Queen Zing Beedrill Good
Flit Yanmega Good
Sandy Flygon Good
Starr Espeon** Good
Letheia A!Ninetales Good
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"sleeper agent?!"[break]
suddenly, as if spurred on by her own bout of paranoia, micah pointed accusingly at Andrea Vaneau. her stance was wide now, her legs spread apart as she stood her ground in a form that insinuated she was ready to attack. this was nothing short of a one-sided spiderman pointing meme scene, micah just simply teasing what was going on. this was something much deeper and sinister than she let on with the laugh that came from her shortly after, approaching Andrea Vaneau to give her shoulders each their own simultaneous pat. "we're all in this together like wildcats," came the next obscure reference, the brunette woman looking to and fro over the dragon-hooded girl's shoulders to perceive @danny about to mcfucking lose it. "hey now, don't do that," she commanded gently, basically levitating over to his side as she tried to calm him down as well. both hands on the man's sides, she wrapped him in a loose hug to help ground him in that moment despite the very sea-air-thing that surrounded them was more than willing to have them all floating to their demise.[break]
"as for you!" another accusatory point towards Shalin Nariya - "that was sick as fuck. can't recall the last time i kicked it to those kinda games. makes me want to visit them again. maybe after we're all done here, we can all hang at an arcade." this was a friendly gesture - one inviting the whole group to reconvene, given they were fracturing and splintering mentally at the moment. even micah felt pins prickling on the back of her neck, almost daring to stick a poisonous stinger into the back of her head to implant some wicked and dismal thoughts. the only way to fight this off was to focus on others - to focus on their plight. thus, micah did with a carefree attitude, going to sling an arm over danny's shoulders and the other over andrea's as a mean to join them together with her in the middle.[break]
"come on guys, we're a team! we even have shalin here barding it up." this insinuated she was the appointed bard in their dnd adventure. "i'll play the role of the fronline, so maybe a paladin?" brandishing an imaginary sword, she took the front end of the exploration party now. "let's not split up then. i don't want anyone getting lost or hurting themselves so let's all hold hands, kiddos." this was meant metaphorically, but she held out a hand towards danny as the second link in this chain of adventurers. "as shalin also said, we should head to the control room though i think andrea's right in assuming what the hell inhabited this place to begin with." eyeing the astronaut-like skeletons one more time, micah tried to keep her gaze level and upwards - away from the biologically deceased and towards the wreckage itself. [break]
with a step and a push, she started bounding further into the wreckage with the control room as the target. "call out if we need to stop by for any potty breaks or - you know - see the control room or something important."

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FINISHED PROMPTS:

01 explore the unnerving wreckage of a megalopolan vessel, named The Quaestor Lucis.
02 involve the venomous adhesive of a poipole or nagandel.
05 discover the skeletal remains of long dead megalopolans.
07 escape corrupted sharpedo and veluza attempting to hunt you down.
🗺️ utilize mega evolution in a pivotal way.
🗺️ ANDREA VANEAU's expertise in cosplaying must be pivotal in some way.
🗺️ SHALIN NARIYA's expertise in "step step revolution" must be pivotal in some way.

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"It's not safe, it's not safe, we have to go back, it's not--," Danny repeated to himself, only to be cut off by the way Micah pulled him into a hug to ground him. "...safe..."

And like that, the sound of the sea's heartbeat fell into the back of his mind. Between both Shalin Nariya's impressive steps meant to boost morale, and @micah's attempt to ground him as always, he managed to suck in a breath through his nose, and exhale from the mouth. An attempt to ease his frantic, splintering psyche. His hands carefully rested upon Micah's own to reassure her that he was beginning to calm down. Hands felt ice cold and shaky at first as life slowly came back to him.

"Thank you. Both of you. I... Really needed that," he offered as he flashed a smile.

In that moment, his typical goofball persona seemed to break just momentarily as if his gratitude came from a genuine place. They were right, they all had to continue. It wasn't long until he accepted Micah's hand, and then in turn used his other to give Andrea Vaneau a reassuring touch on the shoulder. His smile still lingered as he eyed the pokemaniac with an almost stern, serious glance.

"Hey bro, c'mon. You're way too cool to be a sleeper agent."

His words were met with a more cheesy charm as though his grasp on reality slowly came back to him. As he made a dramatic turn, the Megalopolan jacket he'd yoinked from the corpse on the way in fluttered a bit in the water-airscape around them. He was glad to take the lead towards the control room, or at very least where he estimated it to be. Given the area they found themselves in and all the varied rooms, he assumed they were towards the lower middle of the ship. There was no way but up from there. And with that knowledge, optimism flashed itself stupidly upon Danny's countenance.

"Solid! If Micah's paladin and Shalin is our bard, I wanna be something solid, like a warlock. Lemme keep hitting them with witch bolt or something! I wanna say we should turn left up here!"

tl;dr
- calms down slowly
- thanks shalin and micah for keeping a cool head
- theorizes they should head left where he assumes the control room to be

prompts completed
02 involve the venomous adhesive of a poipole or nagandel.
08 the deeper one ventures into the realm, the more you become paranoid.

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Fallarbor Town, Hoenn

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