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POSTED ON May 22, 2023 7:56:51 GMT

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Pinched between thumb and forefinger, Angelo studies a piece of simple card.

When it had been delivered, there'd been no real cause for suspicion. Aside from the strangeness of being the recipient of a flower delivery itself. But now the edges lay wrinkled, crumpled, akin to the petals of the withering petals that had accompanied it.

Its a sign that the elegant, swooping ink had been read over and over and over. Canvas crunched. Kept, like a festering grudge.

"Enjoy your sunshine while you can."

Blue pierces into the threat. Where his blood had run cold on the first read now grips frozen, sharpened like a winter snap.

Not if I get you first.

Slipping the note back into his pocket, Angelo acknowledges the cottage that haunts beyond the decaying treeline, where he hides behind one of their gnarled, darkened bones.

Fiorelli Floristry crumbles, swallowed by thorns.

Its like a scene straight out of some fairy tale he may have read to his siblings, many years ago. One of a haggard old witch in the woods, luring children to her cottage so she could feast on their flesh and bone.

He's more than willing to play the role of the huntsman.

When Angelo slips into the cottage to begin his hunt for Elisabeth Fiorelli , he's long been invisible from sight.

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He had been left feeling restless following his meeting with Ranger Rowan Wrynn. The new knowledge weighed heavily upon him— kept him from his work.

"In and out." Doug muttered to himself as he stood before the now rotten, abandoned shack, doing his best not to let the smell of decay twist his face into a disgusted scowl. "... It'll be over quickly."

He just needed to go in, witnessed what was left for himself, and get it out of his system.

Elisabeth Fiorelli was a rocket. Not like Eris Halla, and not like Chu-e Choi. A proper, ride or die rocket. At least, that was what he had been told.

The chances of anything left inside the shack proving otherwise were null.

"... Let's just get this over with."

With perhaps a bit more anger than he realized he held in him, the youth took a single step forward—

And none too subtly, none too stealthily, kicked the rotten door in, tearing it off its hanging hinges and kicking up a large cloud of dust, spores and musky air.

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POSTED ON May 24, 2023 23:11:25 GMT

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angelo vestri would step in to a see a room already thrown into disarray. It looks as if it has been raided by a small army, or perhaps, a bunch of thieves.[break][break]

paxton concordas and PENELOPE LIVY have left precious few stones unturned in this place. Kitchen cabinet doors are open and left bare; no papers are strewn anymore upon the shop counter; many dying and rotting floral arrangements give the room a pungent, unpleasant air. What used to make this cottage charming instead leaves it haunted and foreboding.[break][break]

It's a crime scene, so that's fitting, in a way.[break][break]

The lights won't turn on, making the prospect of bumping into things in the dark a terribly possible one. Particularly when an invisible man is inside, just waiting for a misguided adventurer to walk straight into him.[break][break]

However, Angelo's innate sense of direction would attract his attention to places beyond the obvious. Certainly there is the staircase to the upstairs bedroom, the little reading nook to the side of the staircase, the greenhouse of decaying plants, and the wilting garden outside. These would all seem sensible places for John Sullivan to begin his investigation.[break][break]

But unlike the previous investigators to enter this space, something would specifically attract angelo vestri, the Navigator, to the small closet hidden behind the staircase. Its humble interior suggests a secret.[break][break]

One that others failed to perceive.

What will you investigate?

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POSTED ON May 25, 2023 21:06:05 GMT

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An explosion of noise shakes the foundations of the frail, ransacked cottage. Stirring the dust that had settled over upturned furniture and echoing through a home picked clean, hollow.

Upstairs, Angelo freezes in his investigation.

So far he'd uncovered nothing. Not like he'd held out much hope that Elisabeth Fiorelli would be there to confront, but any trace of her whereabouts appeared to be picked clean.

He very much doubted that was her returning.

And yet, on quiet footsteps, Angelo returns to the landing to cautiously spy the source of the noise. Peering down, he's surprised by the sight of John Sullivan, aggressively kicking his way into the cottage.

Shit, his mouth presses into a tense line. Just what I need.

Investigating while trying to avoid rousing suspicion would be a hassle. Especially if Doug caught on that someone was lurking around.

Better to show himself to an ally now, then try and come up with an excuse for secrecy later, he guessed.

Shedding his invisibility at the top of the stairs, Angelo then descends. On the way down he intentionally steps on a loose floorboard, decaying wood making an alerting squeak to announce his presence in the ravaged cottage.

“Doug?” Angelo frowns, feigning confusion at seeing the teenager on the ground floor. “What're you doin' here?”

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POSTED ON May 26, 2023 15:33:18 GMT

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The squeaking sound gets immediate feedback, the youth's gaze snapping in its general direction.

"Don't be a ghost." He said bluntly. Oh, it was angelo vestri. "Oh thank gods, it's just you."

He tipped a brow at the older man. What a silly question.

"... This is one weird ass hangar, dude." He said wryly as he smirked up at the man, raising a hand in salute. "I don't think even you could land somethin' here."

He stepped around the dismantled door, stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"Petalburg woods is the home to many buggies, ya know?" He said, taking a single step onto the stairs. "This shit show is scaring them off. Gotta figure out what's going on'ere. Plus..."

He stared at one of the pictures left behind. He wondered if it had meant anything to Elisabeth Fiorelli.

"One of our club members' gone missing."

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As his feet stride down the stairs, there's a crooked smile on Angelo's face. Bright in contrast to the lurking gloom of the cottage, and yet about as covertly hollow as its pillaged corners.

Casting shrouds had become second nature, long before his patronage. Sharp edges, intentions, sheathed.

“Contrary to popular belief, I do still have two functioning feet.” As if to back up his light-hearted claim, he takes the last few steps with a jump. Landing neatly at the bottom. “Fuel is money, Doug.”

Only paying half attention while Doug talks, Angelo takes another gander around the room at the foot of the staircase. Despite his newfound company, he still intends to find some clue of Elisabeth Fiorelli's whereabouts.

He gives a couple of kitchen cabinets another peek, hand smoothing the underside of the table in search.

“I saw the state of the forest on the way here. Don't expect it'll be long before the rangers tape it off.”

Club members? Oh. Right...

Eventually, footsteps come to a slow stop as he passes an old closet. Its one of the only storage left with the door closed and yet he swears he feels a cool breeze tickling his skin, just so...

“You're here to look for her, then?” He replies on automatic.

How ironic. So was he.

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roots of the jubokko tree

This is one weird ass hangar, angelo vestri

"Shit, really? Why did I clean the old hangar for then?" He asked, though the other didn't seem to be all that focused on him.

Dick.

"Would it matter if we did?" Doug said, yawning into his palm as he stood aside. He wasn't there to uncover anything. He merely sauntered around the shop, looking through abandoned picture frames and dead flowers. "When has that ever stopped hoennian citizens?"

Hoenn's citizens were the world's most reckless lot, and the people who moved in from abroad to live there were even worse.

At Angelo's question, he snorts.

"'Course not, stupid." He says sticking his tongue out at the older man. "Why would she be here? You don't burn down yer whole life just to come back a couple days later and stand in the ashes. That would be idiotic."

Clearly, he needed to get to know Elisabeth Fiorelli a little better. Like a plague doctor needed a pet rat.

"I'm just..." He looked around, brow softening. "Gettin' it outta my system. I guess."

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[attr="class","wownewmain"]There’s an empty space where banter should comfortably nestle, Angelo instead peering over at the soldier from over his shoulder. Searching for answers beyond what lay in the ashes.

"Hang on, you think Elisabeth did this herself?" He asks, gesturing to the building reclaimed by the earth with a chin tilt.

While it was true that she had sent him a threatening letter from seemingly out of the blue, Angelo wasn’t certain if the puzzle piece of her imploding her home, her life as they knew it, fit in the space of the image he was trying to slot together.

Tales of the jubokko tree, uttered in Elisabeth Fiorelli ’s carefully elegant tones, twist through his mind like recognisable wind song. Just as elusive. In light of her letter, thinking on it now feels like a taunt. Whistling between unseen cracks in her home.

Determined, Angelo’s hand reaches out towards the gap in the under the stairs closet, fingers feeling the airflow that slithers through to tickle against his skin.

"Think you can multitask while you’re getting it out of your system?“ Encouraging Doug to join him by the suspicious closet, Angelo reaches for the handle. "I think there’s something behind here."

He half expects it to come across some resistance as he makes to open the door…

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POSTED ON Jun 13, 2023 2:48:51 GMT

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It is, by all accounts, a rather boring closet.[break][break]

Jackets that would never be worn again were hung up, ready to be worn in a winter season that the florist was likely to never return here for. Above it, a shelf with things like folded linens and towels served its mundane purpose.[break][break]

The same wooden floors that had characterized the ground floor of the cottage stretched here as well, seated beneath a small rug.[break][break]

A rug. Hm. Interesting for a closet, that.[break][break]

Should someone decide to lift the rug, they would see slats of wood, no different than any other. Supposedly.[break][break]

But angelo vestri would sense there was something out of place. Something that could be loosened.

Will you pry open the floorboard?

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POSTED ON Jun 22, 2023 12:28:39 GMT

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roots of the jubokko tree

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"Wasn't planning to, but sure."

He peered over the other man's shoulder as he opened the closet, and...

"Well, that is something." He said wryly, the contents of the closet about what one should expect. "Not sure any o'those are Skyler's style, though."

He paused.

"They suit ya even less, in case yer getting ideas." He said, before tilting his head as he stared down at the...

Closet carpet.

Huh.

Casually, he reached around the older sibling and—

Tug.

Nothing.

"Guess it couldn't be that easy." He huffed, letting go of the carpet, having found nothing more than boards. "Any ideas?"

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POSTED ON Jun 22, 2023 20:50:24 GMT

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[attr="class","wownewmain"]That the contents of the wardrobe are underwhelming doesn’t register with Angelo.

Instead, he’s intrigued that there was something even there in the first place. Given how the rest of the rooms he’d explored had been picked clean, that this nondescript - and frankly, obvious - storage space remained full, was curious of itself.

Angelo slips his hands into coat pockets, rummaging while Doug admires the ensemble.

A snort of amusement, “what, you don't think blush pink and cream fur-lines compliments my eyes?”

Both of them end up squished in front of the cupboard door, frame barely able accommodate them without their shoulders bumping against one another. Brothers on the edge of fighting for prime view in front of the television.

“Hold up. What was that?”

Reaching out towards the rug that Doug had briefly plucked at, Angelo in comparison is far less ginger about it. He whips it back from the cupboard floor entirely. Thrusting the material towards the younger man’s arms.

Those floorboards look odd. Spaces between the planks ever so larger than the rest, square slightly discoloured.

“Sure do. Pay attention, Dougie.”

From his belt a sturdy knife is drawn, digging the tip into the gap.

Prying open the cracks of Elisabeth Fiorelli ’s secrets.

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POSTED ON Jul 3, 2023 22:11:52 GMT

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An old lock, shaped curiously like a golden rosette, rattles as the wooden boards shrouding it pull away. Loose chains hold down a trapdoor, attempting to hide away what is now all-too-clearly a secret that is about to be broken open.[break][break]

And when you do, no matter how you do, a staircase will reveal itself, leading deep, deep into the dark of a room that feels more laboratory than basement.[break][break]

The unmistakable stench of chemicals and rotting flora assaults your olfactory senses, whispering at ill deeds brewed in darkness. In the inky black, this would be a steep and dangerous fall, without the proper lighting.

How will you BREAK THE LOCK to the trapdoor, and ILLUMINATE THE DARKNESS of the stairs below?

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POSTED ON Jul 6, 2023 14:47:06 GMT

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He watched the other man pull out a knife.

"... I'm looking." He said wryly, watching him shove it into the gaps between the planks.

Against all odds, his brother does, indeed, uncover something from within the closet. An elaborate, golden lock.

"... Lucky guess." Doug snorted, reaching over to clamp his hand around the lock. Pulling it up, chains rattle as he holds it up to his face, rolling it around to stare into its insides before reaching into his pocket to produce a swiss— er, Galarian Army knife(?).

A short moment later, the chains rattled to the floor, the open lock getting pocketed along with the multitool in the officer's jacket.

He leaned over to stare down into the dark depths of Elisabeth Fiorelli's secrets, pursing his lips at the smell wafting up from inside.

"I don't like where this is going." He muttered to Angelo as he raised his hand, a pink glow emanating from his fist as he began climbing down the staircase.

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[attr="class","wownewmain"]Standing aside enough for Doug to get his teeth stuck into the lock (the kid had grown like a plant since he’d first met him) Angelo lets him do his thing.

Turns out, knives always win in a plant fight. Both of them brute forcing their way into Elisabeth’s secret cave with knives and insensitive determination to get into her dirty laundry. At their sharp blades and wit, the chain is done away with.

Angelo swings back the trapdoor with a clatter that echoes hauntingly down the staircase.

Its the stench that hits him first and his nose scrunches. Decay with a hint of chemicals. Its what he imagines a hospital morgue might smell like.

“Ugh. Still, not the worst thing I've come across that's violated my sense of smell.”

He should’ve brought his wife. Arceus knows her nose has long lost sense from her egg sandwiches.

At the same time they pull forward their source of light. Pearls of light float in Doug’s palm as an illumina Dreepy wiggles out from the depths of Angelo’s jacket. Both glow pink.

“Whatever it is, we can handle it,” he says evenly, confident as he and Doug descend into the depths.

They both knew that the chances of Elisabeth hiding her out of date tax forms down here was slim to none.

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