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POSTED ON Mar 29, 2024 3:04:23 GMT

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[attr="class","itemcoltext"]You and your partner travel to The Desert, Route 105, Route 120, New Mauville's lower levels, or Meteor Falls, or other locations known to have an AUTHENTIC POWER SPOT. The Meteor Falls' authentic power spot can be discovered—but it is severely damaged. Broken. Or simply deactivated for one reason or another.[break][break]

These hotspots of dynergy have been created eras ago. It has been hypothesized that Eternatus' visitations to this land have caused them to form—or perhaps, its mere presence in space. Other theories include meteoroid impacts containing dynergy, other extraterrestrial Pokemon, and more.[break][break]

Around you, Poison Tera Crystals, minerals imbued with Dynamax Energy, and more exist for you to mine, harvest, and gather. However, more exists below each power spot. In fact, it is possible to leap into these power spots into dark labyrinthe caves below.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 29, 2024 3:12:13 GMT

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"Thanks for sticking with me, Quinn." Howard put his hand on his hips. "It's a pleasure to work alongside you again."

Of course, Cillian could've simply ordered Howard to come down here with him, but that would've defeated the point. Power tasted best when sweetened by courtesy, and it let the admin pretend that his relationship with the underboss was built on more than sand. If Cillian tripped on a chunk of Dynite Ore and fell into the abyss, Howard would've stuck around to check how far he fell.

"We're mostly scouting out the area before I begin a mining operation in the area. Mauville will not threaten us. I know the Gym Leader. There's too many bad memories associated with this place for him to interrupt our operations."

Josh Devlin and his trauma regarding Rime was a staunch barrier. There was no greater defense in the world than one build on the emotional failings of the assailant.

"Follow my lead, I know the way. I found this place, after all." The admin prepared to leap towards the Power Spot. "Hup!"

Cillian Quinn
LEAP OF FAITH

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"I'm sure you'd rather anyone else."[break][break]

Cillian was like the ghost of Howard's future staring him in the face.[break][break]

Still, so long as Slayte remained a loyal Rocket admin, he was mostly safe from the threat the underboss posed.[break][break]

His nose scrunches at mention of Mauville.[break][break]

"So do I," he says of Josh Devlin. "Cocky brat that thinks he's some kind of hero. Tried to fight Lugia and I head-on."[break][break]

He was brave, Cillian would give him that.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 29, 2024 16:15:49 GMT

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[attr="class","itemcoltext"]Exploration of these power spot dens brings you to rich deposits of dynite ore. It is dark here. Foreboding. Poison oozes from corrupted mosses, and Pokemon made aggressive by dynergy's effects, roam the caves.[break][break]

You may encounter a paranoid Pierce Creighton, one of Hoenn's Scientists, exploring the caves too. Should you approach him, he does not let you come close. The keenest eye may scry blood splatter on his shoes. Despite his haggard appearance, he bestows supplies should you require them. Otherwise, encounter poor bystanders trapped here, like backpackers or even a feral Megalopolan.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 30, 2024 18:20:23 GMT

Howard would've preferred a corpse to Cillian, preferably the underboss's himself. Let his Lugia see that the corpses of Avatars floated just as well as those without.

Kill the future that Cillian represented, and Howard himself would be saved. History was a cycle, but Howard was aware. He could omit it entirely and avoid this fate. He could, because it was needed. Time was a samsara, and it was one he'd rather avoid.

Wishing Stars and Dynite Ore glittered around them. The admin's eye twitched and his fingers jerked, a response to his constant Dynegy exposure. Between Regice and these Power Spots, he was inhaling more than ever. He saw a face.

"Professor Creighton?" His voice was a whisper. When the admin blinked, his old mentor was gone. "..."

A dream.

"Josh is still alive." A statement. "Why?"

Cillian Quinn
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There's a certain familiarity to Howard's whisper, one that Cillian doesn't share.[break][break]

"You knew him?"[break][break]

Cillian knew of Creighton, of course; it was hard to avoid his name in the scientific sphere. But he'd never had cause to run in the same circles as the famous Hoennian.[break][break]

A derisive scoff scrapes up the throat of the underboss.[break][break]

"Fucker's fast." That was kind of Josh Devlin's thing. "Wasn't worth the chase."[break][break]

They travel left, past Creighton's ghost.

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POSTED ON Mar 31, 2024 18:45:31 GMT

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[attr="class","itemcoltext"]Throughout the den, STONJOURNER can be encountered. Perhaps, they too, are imbued with dynergy, their ability, POWER SPOT, allowing it to empower others. However, the human mind is more fragile. Able to touch upon horrid thoughts of the abstract, mortal cognition brings your trainers closer to madness.[break][break]

Even here, TERA CRYSTALS are present. Like a virus, they've spread across the underground. Due to the concentrated dynergy in this place, encounter hallucinations—or hallucinations that become temporarily real by TERA CRYSTALS.[break][break]

And/or encounter a DYNAMAXED/GIGANTAMAXED POKEMON WITH A DYNAMAX SHIELD that must be downed. Regardless, the Pokemon will perish after its transformation. Investigating its carcass will reveal that it has somehow incorporated Dynite Ore onto its body. Though it is no Regi-titan, one may make macabre parallels.[break][break]

Or, you may continue to simply mine.

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POSTED ON Mar 31, 2024 20:39:26 GMT

"My mentor." The admin admitted, loathe to open up about his personal life, though he supposed it didn't matter. Howard's personal life was easy to find. Connecting the two? Not so much. "When I was going through college, he taught a few lectures. Smartest man I know."

Know, or knew? Why was his ghost haunting this mechanical pit? Howard hadn't seen Creighton in a long time. Had the Tera Crystals leeched memories from Howard's mind to make them a person, or...?

No. Do not think. He could not think. Imagination was death when faced with Tera Crystals. Howard took a deep breath, feeling his eye twitch as Dynergy flowed around them. For a moment, his eye flickered a reddish purple.

"Try not to think about much, lest it bite us in the ass. Lets grab some samples and keep going."

Cillian Quinn
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"Mm." A pause, as that information sinks in. Then, "I hope my mentor is rotting in his grave."[break][break]

It's spoken with a plain sincerity. The same man who'd taught Cillian much of what he knew on fossils and ancient life had been the one to expel him from the university's post-graduate program on 'ethical grounds'. But he'd been all too happy to accept the Quinn's hush money to keep it out of the press. A quiet exile, instead. Cillian had simply chosen to leave, to pursue his scientific goals elsewhere.[break][break]

Of course, dredging up those old, bad memories is hardly conducive to howard slayte's advice not to think.[break][break]

But, luckily for the both of them, Cillian was trained in Kanto's fires. Anything but blind obedience had been a danger to him, then, and so he shuts off his mind upon command with a disturbingly practiced ease.[break][break]

He nods, curt, and MINES.

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POSTED ON Apr 2, 2024 14:15:00 GMT

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[attr="class","itemcoltext"]After dealing with your obstruction, you come away with experience. Knowledge. Heavy burdens of dynite ore. However, retracing your steps may prove to be difficult. If you are not already encumbered, the disorienting effect of dynergy may hinder you and your Pokemon's return.[break][break]

Should you have encountered Professor Creighton or another poor soul that has found themselves down in this den previously, you will find no sign of them as you leave...[break][break]

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POSTED ON Apr 2, 2024 17:38:18 GMT

As they wandered back, Howard checked a map he had been scribbling on the blank side of an Applinbees receipt. He'd have to redraw another one later, but for now, this would suffice as a guide out of New Mauville.

"That so?" Howard finally spoke after intently focusing on his map. He expected nothing from Cillian's response, and yet he found himself disappointed with the bloodlust, as if he could ever understand the circumstance. "Our field is a bunch of carrion eaters. The only way to get anywhere is to fly."

It explained his hatred for the first Admin Fox. The prince had skipped all the work and had been groomed from success before he knew how to shit.

"Drop it here. We'll climb out of the Power Spot and get it later. I'll send a few of the boys in." More likely, he'd go himself. Despite his lack of raw charisma, Howard inspired a modicum of loyalty by asking nothing of someone that he wouldn't do himself. "Come. This will pay for a dozen fossil restoration machines, if I sell it right."

Cillian Quinn
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