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35
july 27
Driftveil City, Unova
pansexual
deputy
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6'5" height
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Montgomery James
Ashes to Ashes | SKIRMISH
POSTED ON Oct 17, 2024 22:20:17 GMT
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[attr="class","monty"]If there was ever a time Montgomery truly despised the man he had been before coming to Hoenn, it was now. His gaze caught two baltoys and the all too familiar claydols slowly approaching him.

Tick. Tick. TiCK. TICK.

There was no time to think or act. The Pokemon he could utilize as a shield had fallen. He looked to Pipsqueak, who gave him a knowing look, before taking off towards one half of the explosion army.

From a Poke ball, his own claydol levitated closer. And when the explosion came...

So did his.

hitmonchan took place, quick guarding her trainer and the spectrier while Pipsqueak fell to the bombs in a desperate attempt to fend them off.

Anger burned in his veins as he galloped closer and closer to Howard. "You can't fuckin' kill me. Even if ya tried. I'll come back and haunt ya for the rest of yer puny life!" he screeched.

And down his chin, blood began to drip.


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50 MP for getting your Pokemon knocked out in your skirmish thread
50 MP have your character attempt to or successfully take revenge in some way
10 MP per IC post in your Skirmish thread
total: 1325 MP
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Admin Fox
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28
May 9th
Rustboro City
Bisexual
Archaeologist
Rocket Admin
An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.
Single
5'9 (with hat) height
5'9 (with hat) height
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howard slayte
Ashes to Ashes | SKIRMISH
POSTED ON Oct 20, 2024 19:17:05 GMT
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The deputy screamed curses at him. An iota of Howard felt a twinge of regret for lowering someone who had risen up from a sinful past, but the rest of him felt nothing but pride. Montgomery James hadn't changed. He had wanted to, he had even tried to, but he was still the same piece of shit from Unova.

From the opposite direction of the explosions, Howard Slayte cut through the snowstorm. Behind him, Regice's pattern glowed red as the Wishing Star within recharged the golem's power supply.

There had once been a time when Howard had practiced with a stray piece of Galarian nobility. When Howard had fought her, Regice had shut down after running out of power. It had guarded its ruin for millennia, and thus it had run low on the power that allowed it to move. Registeel had something in its core, charging it with power. Regirock had a memory of the forefather to guide it.

Regice had held nothing until Dewford had burned. Now, its heart overflowed.

"I was wondering," Howard said, for it was Howard that stared down the deputy as he approached on horseback. "Wondering if you had that disgusting habit of throwing things away to explode for you, just so you could get ahead."

Bits of exploded Baltoy and Claydol littered the floor.

"You taught me that. That it was okay to toss things aside so that the greater whole could survive. That's why I turned Dewford into a glass pit." He could explain that it had been a mistake. That it had been an error that the admin had fixed. Yet Montgomery wouldn't accept that. Why even try? "So haunt away, Montgomery! I have a millennia of ghosts who want my head!"

He smiled as the dots above grew in intensity. Howard spread out his arms in a loving embrace.

"So come and take it."






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cowboy
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35
july 27
Driftveil City, Unova
pansexual
deputy
officer
lovin' you
is a dirty job
6'5" height
6'5" height
ya either lock-n-load, or dig yer own grave
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Montgomery James
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POSTED ON Oct 20, 2024 23:06:00 GMT
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[attr="class","monty"]He'd take it.

Montgomery would hold Howard Slayte's head in his own hands and twist it off. He'd smile as the light faded from this monster's eyes, laugh as he won the battle.

Man, it was so good to feel this lust for blood.

It bubbled in his veins. The water had been still for too long — and Howard was going to pay the ultimate price.

After all... his death would be for the greater good, right? He'd simply be doing his duty to Hoenn by bringing this man down.

"I shoulda killed you in Unova. You were never meant to survive in the first place!"

Behind him regice glowed with energy. Montgomery's steed charged, trying to take down the last barrier and expose its weakness. From spectrier's back, Montgomery leaped off.

And though his movements were fumbled, he clambered to his feet and lunged forward toward Howard, his hand reaching for his throat.

All while blood pooled down his chin and stained his shirt red.

"C'MERE, HOWY!"


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50 MP pace your narrative accordingly by featuring a "back and forth" in terms of advantage and raising the stakes until the climax
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Admin Fox
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May 9th
Rustboro City
Bisexual
Archaeologist
Rocket Admin
An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.
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5'9 (with hat) height
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howard slayte
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POSTED ON Oct 22, 2024 0:28:12 GMT
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Montgomery reached him. It wasn't particularly hard, for a man of his size and stature.

"...!" Howard made no attempt to dodge the attack, simply observing as the deputy closed the gap with remarkable ease. Bloody hands reached around his neck and attempted to squeeze the life from the former disciple's body. "Montgomery...!"

Yet as the deputy squeezed, the admin's throat did not constrict. His eye grew wide in a potent display of frustration, but ultimately the man's neck did not snap nor did it even constrict properly. It was like squeezing stone.

Even his Sygna Suit should have folded under the deputy's manic strength, and it did. That was a testament to Montgomery's power. Yet the flesh below did not give.

It cracked.

"I'm not dying to you, Montgomery." Howard's snarl was low and deep, like mountains cracking. "The only person allowed to kill me is the sheriff, and YOU. ARE. NOT. HIM!"

Overhead, Montgomery's Pokemon got close to the barrier. They were there. They were right there. Montgomery James had been on the cusp of defeating divinity, and yet he had fallen short, for his Pokemon were engulfed in a Dynamax Cannon that emerged from the exposed Wishing Star.

"You haven't changed, you fake piece of shit!"

THUD. He struck Montgomery in the side of the head with a fist carved from stone.

"But I have!"

THUD.

"So either stop me..."

THUD.

"...or die in a pit!"






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cowboy
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35
july 27
Driftveil City, Unova
pansexual
deputy
officer
lovin' you
is a dirty job
6'5" height
6'5" height
ya either lock-n-load, or dig yer own grave
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Montgomery James
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POSTED ON Oct 22, 2024 0:41:44 GMT
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[attr="class","monty"]When his hand reached his neck, Montgomery squeezed. However, his windpipe didn't fold in his grasp. Rather, the harder he tried to choke him, the more his fingers bent and cracked.

"AHHH!"

A roar of fury, blood spitting from his lips and onto Howard, and the sygna suit shattered. And a face appeared from the cracks, revealing a man he didn't recognize.

"Who... are you-"

But punch after punch beat his skull, a sickening crunch audible from his fist. The last thing he recalled seeing was his last Pokemon fainting, knocked out by regice's max cannon.

And his last, lingering thoughts were of .


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50 MP for getting your Pokemon knocked out in your skirmish thread
50 MP have your character earn the respect of another character in some way
10 MP per IC post in your Skirmish thread
150 MP for "losing" or having a "negative" outcome for your character and their Skirmish thread
150 MP for having Rocket and League characters and faction-based conflict in the thread (no NPCs)
total: 1795 MP
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Admin Fox
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28
May 9th
Rustboro City
Bisexual
Archaeologist
Rocket Admin
An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.
Single
5'9 (with hat) height
5'9 (with hat) height
The future will tempt you, the present will indulge you, but the past will shackle you.
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howard slayte
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POSTED ON Oct 22, 2024 1:22:41 GMT
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"Ha... ha..." Howard swallowed, dust coating his throat. Dynergy hissed from his body like gas leaking from a pipe. He would likely be saturated by the outpouring of Dynergy from Regice's core, but it was not a pleasant sensation.

had been right. Dynergy was affecting him, but there wasn't much to do about that anymore. The damage was done, and this form was replaceable.

"I'm human. I'm me." He grunted, removing his broken helmet and taking a deep breath. "Which you never cared about, because I was too weak to stand alongside you. My heart wasn't in those scams we ran in Unova. There's something greater at stake."

He stood, legs trembling.

"So I will give everything to make my dream a reality. Just as you did everything to make my nightmares reality. That is what separates me from you." Howard looked around and all the fainted Pokemon, before turning back to face his frozen construct. Despite every fallen creature, the golem stood proud. And it even had a Dynamax Barrier remainin-

Wait.

"Only one?"

Montgomery had broken seven? Alone? The admin turned back towards Montgomery, eye flickering with interest. He took several steps forward, before a Pokémon appeared at the admin's belt in a flash. A Skarmory chirped at him in a mix of frustration.

"Steelheart... The distant howl of a hero of many battles echoed over hills and oceans, originating from Dewford Town. Two of Navy's Skarmory's chicks had met on the field, and thus it was impossible for one to die. It was not in their place. "He should die. He ruined my life! HE RUINED ME!"

Chirp. Chirp!

Then be better. You build, not destroy.

"Tsk." Howard turned away. "Navy's faith in you is impeccable, Montgomery. Never betray it." He turned away and left the deputy's body in the frozen field. "Because if you betray Navy's memory..."

His steps echoed into infinity. Montgomery would continue to think about , far into the future. That was the blessing that Montgomery James would inherit from Howard Slayte and Michael Navidson.

"I'll kill you."



Total: 1555 MP



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POSTED ON Oct 22, 2024 2:17:23 GMT
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