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ICLY SET AFTER POSTDORMITUM, BEFORE GOODBYE GALAR

MEMBER EVENT - ROCKET PVE

DEADLINE: 11:59PM, JUNE 30

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🎼 Vordt of the Boreal Valley | Dark Souls III | Motoi Sakuraba

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TEAM FATE:[break]GIRATINA

THE SIMULATION BLINKS YOU INTO A WAR-TORN SOOTOPOLIS, and the fury of rebellion alerts you to the constant din of battle all around you as the League and Rocket clamor for control of the besieged city.[break][break]

A fearsome Pokemon that many would recognize -- due to its high-profile League Avatar, and Rocket traitor, Katherine Fairburne -- looms overhead, threatening to stop Rocket's advance: GIRATINA.[break][break]

Your bracelets flash as a voice-over provides you with intelligence before you begin, the brief given in full:
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NOT ALL THREATS CAN BE EASILY DEFEATED. THOUGH IT MAY NOT DEIGN TO USE ITS FULL ABILITIES FOR THE LEAGUE, GIRATINA'S POWERS APPEAR SIMILAR IN SCALE TO CREATURES SUCH AS PALKIA OR DIALGA. CAUTION IS TO BE ADVISED WHEN ENGAGING.[break][break]

YOUR MISSION: YOU MUST NEUTRALIZE/ESCAPE GIRATINA OR BE DEFEATED BY GIRATINA TO LEAVE THIS SIMULATION. WHILE YOUR WOUNDS WILL NOT LEAVE THIS VIRTUAL SPACE WITH YOU, THE PAIN YOU EXPERIENCE WHILE IN THIS SIMULATION WILL FEEL QUITE REAL.[break][break]

THREE EVALUATORS WILL BE OVERSEEING YOUR TRIAL. BE ADVISED EACH SHALL GRADE YOU ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN UNIQUE CRITERIA. THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SUCCEED, BUT ALL WILL REQUIRE COLLABORATION.[break][break]

NOTE THAT DATA PROVIDED FOR THIS SIMULATION WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THIS POKEMON, BUT SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON AS A COMPLETELY ACCURATE RENDITION OF EVENTS. THERE IS MUCH OF LEGENDARY CREATURES WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.[break][break]

YOUR TRIAL BEGINS NOW.

EVALUATORS

bryan delarosa[break] rocket beast[break]
he/him, twenty-nine, pilo1[break][break]
grading criteria: "Strength or instinct."[break][break]

Tempest Quinn[break] former gym leader (spy)[break]
he/him, twenty-nine, yams[break][break]
grading criteria: "Willingness to sacrifice for Rocket. Creative Thinking under Pressure."[break][break]

jayden cross[break] admin[break]
offense & training[break]
he/him, twenty-six, milky[break][break]
grading criteria: "Hand-to-hand combat, knowledge of weaponry, danger level."[break][break]

River Marx Asriel Pryde lykaios athanasia

PVE THREAD RULES

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY to understand the expectations of this event.[break][break]

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Teams of THREE have been set at the mod's (Scarlet) discretion. These cannot change at this moment in time.
If a thread partner has not posted in awhile, please skip them in this event. Momentum is important for engagement.
Since these threads 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 posts.
Please have at least FIVE POSTS PER CHARACTER in your Trinity Trial thread.
AFK behavior and low activity in this PVE may lead to a character's virtual 'death' to the Legendary.
Please provide a TL;DR with each post.
FOLLOW THE PROMPTS BELOW to complete this thread.

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YOUR PROMPTS:

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💀 You are caught on an active battlefield as Sootopolis faces RIOTERS and DEFENDERS in the midst of WAR! You must incorporate the challenge of this war-torn setting in some way!
💀 Giratina will be able to SHADOW FORCE throughout the location, deflecting moves and attacks. Find ways of contending with this obstacle in battle!
💀 After enough time has elapsed, Giratina will seek to grab a TRAINER or POKEMON into another DIMENSION with its escape. Either accept this as a necessary sacrifice for survival, or attempt to prevent this fate.
🚀 Asriel Pryde's difficulty with finding motivation in a seemingly 'futile' mission must be explored in some way.
🚀 River Marx's "apathy" must affect the team dynamic in some way.
🚀 lykaios athanasia's specialty of infiltration and intel must somehow affect your strategic approach towards this mission.
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NOTE: Due to its high threat level, Giratina will NOT be able to be defeated in this simulation. You may ONLY find a way to neutralize it or escape it.

COMPLETION DEADLINE: June 30, 11:59PM EST.

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There are many ways he can interpret their team name, but he's not here to submit a literary analysis. He's here to focus on what needs to be done, like taking care of Giratina in this godforsaken simulation.[break][break]

The briefing doesn't do much for him, only reiterates the basics of what he's already surmised. The premise, the safety precautions, the objective; Nothing too out of the ordinary for a mission. When he also considers the phrasing used in the briefing - neutralise or escape, not defeat - and compares it to what he knows of the supposed deity, this overall doesn't seem too bad a challenge.[break][break]

Just requires a lot of effort to pull off.[break][break]

As soon as the test starts, he's taking advantage of the chaos and ducking behind cover. Attacking it head-on right off the bat clearly isn't the best solution, especially when he lacks crucial information on how things might proceed.[break][break]

"Fairburne has teleportation. Or something to that effect. Don't get grabbed."[break][break]

He prays that they know that much but just in case, he'll lay that information down.

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OGHAM || LEVITATE - UPROAR, DISCHARGE, SUBSTITUTE, HEX, THUNDER WAVE, SHOCK WAVE

CHIP || ♂ || UNNERVE - BRAVE BIRD, PLUCK, HONE CLAWS, TAUNT, POWER TRIP, DRILL PECK

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[attr="class","char-words"]the war-torn streets of sootopolis buzzes around him with the irritation of hovering insects. he looks down at his hand, expressing only the faintest hints of curiosity, before it falls flatly against his side once more.
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the man to his left — lykaios athanasia, he remembers — takes cover immediately. a sound tactic considering the specter of death that looms above.
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river joins him with a dull thud as his back hits the same cover.
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"good to know," he says dryly. "but i don't think she's the target today." he could be wrong, of course, but the threat that loomed like a shadowy monarch seemed the priority.
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a muted flash of light signals a butterfree's entrance. a small gust is picked up, their clothes whipping lightly against the tailwind's pulling current.
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"i'll manipulate the battlefield."

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POSTED ON Jun 16, 2023 22:16:08 GMT

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It happened all so quickly. Asriel didn't have time to prepare himself as the team is quickly transported into a simulation, a chaotic battlefield. Stunned at how realistic everything seemed, he was unable to comprehend reality from the simulation. Asriel is slow to react to a nearby explosion, falsely assuming that he couldn't be injured in a simulation.
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Clearly he was a fool.
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Luckily due to the Tailwind of River's butterfree, Asriel manages to escape the explosion by a hair. Taking a tumble he finds cover inside a nearby building, the infrastructure was crumbling away due to the fierce battlefield but it'd work for the time being. His breathing becomes heavy and his senses are disoriented due to the impact. Quickly realizing that his left leg was shredded by shrapnel from the explosion. Letting out a pained groan his pain intensifies while removing the shrapnel from his injury. The blood flow sharply increasing with it removed. Asriel then acts swiftly ripping off a sleeve of his shirt to wrap tightly around his leg to prevent further blood loss. He sighs uneasily, the pain he felt was very much real. Asriel had no idea that rocket was capable of producing such powerful simulations.
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His attention returns to the mission with the sound of another distant explosion. While this was clearly not a good start, Asriel would not let this hinder him from the teams success. Separated from the team he pulls out his beedrills pokeball, quickly sending it out to the warzone to locate the others.

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The beedrill does so with relative ease and quickly reports back to Asriel. Who decides the best thing to do for the time being was to stay put and wait for the action of his team.

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While River Marx is right that it's ultimately not a game revolving around Katherine Fairburne, it would do them well to remember that avatars derive a fragment of their power from the gods they follow. There's a good chance that Giratina could simply pop out from behind them, or that it might already have grabbed Asriel Pryde while they weren't looking.[break][break]

He'll choose to withhold his silence, a ping from his pockets briefly pulling his attention to the outside as he dares to sneak a peek. Giratina seems occupied with the Rocket forces attempting to siege the land, a Dragon's Breath pouring over the rooftops of abandoned buildings down the streets and driving many out of their hiding spots.[break][break]

Add on the raging war outside, it won't be long till some other League supporters might smell their tracks.[break][break]

"We should probably meet up with Pryde."[break][break]

What was it they had said? Something about teamwork somewhere? A quick shove in and tug out of his pockets lets him pull out a Rotom, the ghost quickly attaching itself to the power lines and disappearing.[break][break]

It won't take long before the signals come back, electricity pulsing through the appliances in the area in a clear pattern: A trail towards Asriel's rough whereabouts, a status update on how he's... hurt? Injured in some way but not dead, at the very least. As for signs of Giratina -[break][break]

There's no silence to flood the streets, but the glaring lack of chaos from some giant dragon is a rather bad sign. With a tailwind to give them that push, he dares that venture out of their hiding spot, following the flickering lights from his Rotom's travels down the streets until he can slip his way into the same building that Asriel occupies.

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✧ Tagging that good ol intel gathering with Rotom[break]
✧ Located Asriel Pryde's position, status injured (?)
✧ Wants to group up[break]
✧ Giratina using SHADOW FORCE to SCHMOVE, location UNKNOWN

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[attr="class","char-words"]"i disagree—" but it didn't matter — lykaios athanasia was on the move.
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river sighs and returns his butterfree. he replaces it just as quickly with another pokemon entirely.
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"when you catch sight of that pokemon — disable it." the pale corsola huffed in affirmation, satisfying her trainer. placing her in his arms river dashes across the street and into the building. he speaks to the fleeting shadow of lykaios athanasia.
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"we paint too big of a target on ourselves in here; giratina can just bring the building down." the situation, while alarming, isn't enough to pull any real inflection into his voice.
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as on cue a figure appears in a warping of shadow just outside the windows. the massive legendary turns its crowned head to face the building right as a disable locks out the shadow force.
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"it won't disable it for long. we need to get out of here while we have the advantage."
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a shadow breathe drowns him out, consuming the building.

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POSTED ON Jul 2, 2023 19:38:32 GMT

Jun 16, 2023 22:16:08 GMT Asriel Pryde said:

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Continuing to monitor the battlefield. The beedrill returns inside the building to its trainer to notify him of the others approaching the building. Quickly understanding the situation Asriel's expression turns grim. It was a poor decision on their part to come to his aide, however, Asriel did have to accept that this entire predicament was due to his error.

It was a struggle but Asriel managed to slowly get back up. After the beedrill confirms the location of his team Asriel cautiously approaches, close enough to hear River's warning he notifies them of his presence by verbally agreeing with River. "While I appreciate the concern, you don't need to trouble yourselves with me. Grunting with pain as he drags his injured foot behind him.

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An ominous presence behind them sends shivers down his back. The presence alone was enough to tell him that giratina had located them, "Quick go!" He shouts at them and swiftly swaps his beedrill for his luxray. Asriel could feel the Shadow Breathe further sap away at his energy.

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With another heavy groan he manages to climb onto the luxray and it also begins to flee from the giratina. Following the others lead.

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A difference in opinions will not sway him, and the way that River Marx simply follows instead of branching off to do his own thing tells him just about enough of this man's will. Perhaps, years of working undercover with rangers has clouded his judgement, making him value the lives of his teammates a little too much. Or perhaps, he'd always been this way, unwilling to leave others in the dust where it could be helped.[break][break]

The whole argument of having a target painted on their back really shouldn't even have come up - As soon as he catches sight of Asriel Pryde and his injuries, he scrunches his nose, looking around the building for alternative exits as he slips his way through the corridors. They understand the concept that they shouldn't be staying in here at least and with that, he raises a hand, making a quick sign as he goes for the back door.[break][break]

Behind them, his Rotom is hard at work, doing its best to absorb as much of the attacks and attention of the legendary with Substitutes. A floating digital clock ringing at full volume, a tv playing the latest Hoenn news, a lawnmower that begins to rev its engines - The ceaseless racket temporarily draws Giratina away from their escape route as a motorbike gets launched at its chest.[break][break]

With one injured, their chances of outrunning this beast grow slim. He has read the maps of this city, scouted every nook and cranny on his rare patrols here. They have to go somewhere, but where? If they try to hide in a normal civilian building, they'd get flushed out. The spire hadn't been accessible that day or perhaps, no one had been able to go in with the shifting of the land.[break][break]

"The gym?" He calls out. If it's built to withstand pokemon battles and has survived the Sootopolis riots, there's a chance they could use that to their advantage.

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♖ Making our way downtown...[break]
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♖ Suggests the Sootopolis gym as a place to go

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POSTED ON Jul 19, 2023 22:25:05 GMT

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[attr="class","char-words"]A mirror coat reflects much of the legendary's breath attack back at it, but the Cursola is utterly consumed in the effort. She would survive - this was a simulation after all - but would require days of rehabilitation before she could fight again.
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The inconvenience burned at River, who was already showing signs of irritation, but he continued onwards nevertheless.
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"The gym seems solid." It would be designed to take a punishment more than most. "Lock sight with it and keep moving. I'll try and cover our approach."
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From his pocket he removes a coin, holding it between forefinger and thumb.
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"Time for you to earn your keep."
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A face forms on the surface, etched like it'd been there all along. It looked up at River and scowled.
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"Don't care. Whip up a storm."
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He muttered more incomprehensible phrases.
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"Keep it up and I'll scatter your pieces across the region. Time how long it takes for them to roll back."
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The scowl turned into a glare, but after a few seconds of silence, the Pokemon conceded. The face disappears just as a sandstorm whips itself into fruition. Expecting this, River dashes to the Gym.

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lykaios athanasia Asriel Pryde[break] ♂ | good as gold//make it rain, psychic, sandstorm, substitute, dazzling gleam, power gem

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Sootpolis

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Asriel Pryde

River Marx lykaios athanasia

POSTED ON Jul 22, 2023 15:29:22 GMT

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River's and Lykaios's pokemon were keeping the giratina at bay. However, the insufferable roars that the beast emitted was a reminder that it was only a matter of time before it caught up with them. The biggest concern on Asriel's mind was everyone being sucked into the reverse world, figuring the simulation would be over if they were caught in giratina's realm. Failure would be unacceptable, this was a prime opportunity to make a name for himself. To showcase the skills he had been honing to the higher-ups, hoping it could reach his father. They would not fail.

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The decision to relocate to Sootpoolish Gym was quick thinking on Lykaios's part. The luxray sprints faster rushing towards the gym and within moments it was in sight. Despite the chaotic battlefield that they found themselves in Sootpoli gym appeared to be untouched, they were lucky. Asriel steps off from the luxray, the pain from his leg shooting up again but he does his best to suppress it. Forcing the door open he rushes inside, closing them shut once everyone arrives.

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"Smart call on the gym." He directs the small compliment towards Lykaios with heavy breathes. Asriel places his hand on his chest to try and calm his breathing. "We somehow managed to get away from the time being.. but I find it highly unlikely to defeat Giratina. " Asriel admits clearly dissatisfied with his lack of strength once again he meets the gaze of his teammates.

So.. any thoughts or ideas?" Asriel had an idea in mind, but he considered it to be risky. Unless there were no other options he didn't plan on giving them the details.

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lukas alexopoulos

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Making it to their destination is a lot easier with more hands on the job, a low breath drawn as he tries to steady his racing heart. The gym is but a temporary sanctuary for them, and he's glad that they're all acutely aware of it to a certain extent. They aren't going to be able to fell Giratina, but that only leaves two options which neither of them seem rather hopeful.[break][break]

"It's got better things to do than mess with us all day."[break][break]

If the scenario was simply playing out as it had, it would only be a matter of time before Giratina would be called back to it's avatar side in hopes of achieving something else on the battlefield.[break][break]

"We can't outrun it, even if we sacrifice someone. Our best bet is fending it off until it has to leave. Attacking it while it's distracted would be ideal but..." He frowns, briefly looking over the group. Just seconds after, a Rotom zips back towards him, peeled from the lights in the stands as it begins to beep. They don't have much time before the dragon comes crawling under their doorstep.[break][break]

Asriel Pryde is injured but seems to have several heavy hitters on his team... River Marx is capable of manipulating the field conditions to a certain extent. And he himself? Well, he'll do his best to fill whatever role he's needed in.[break][break]

"We need to make sure it stays within our sights. Marx and I are still able to move, so we can juggle its attention away from you." He knows that Asriel has been through some rigorous training and should understand his limits, even if he doesn't quite follow them. "You'll need to hit it hard in the meantime, Pryde."

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♖ There ain't no running, nor will sacrifice help much[break]
♖ Assigning decoy duty to himself and implying River Marx should be one too[break]
♖ Asriel Pryde has to blast it while it's distracted

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