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POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 20:46:57 GMT
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Harvesting 6/15 Grepa Berries. Yield: 30 PD for Giona. Next harvest will be 6/29.

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POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 15:16:09 GMT
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He was met with Theo requesting coffee, before he trailed off. Giona was familiar enough with the submarine for it to not matter. He dutifully filled a second 16 oz cup, and hit them both with one packet of sugar. Giona felt a twitch between his ears, as if craving a smoke break already. Nonetheless, he walked off towards the training facility.

He slipped into the doorway, handing a paper cup to Theo. He dug around in his pockets, turning them each inside out. 6 pokeballs with kohl-black tops and red undersides clattered to the ground, and he looked aside with an arched brow for approval, before calling Flygon with a red beam. He then quickly gathered the rest into his pockets.

"I’m ready when you are.”
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Prison Rules [m][c]
POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 4:57:59 GMT
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They would leave together. Something warped behind them, as they trudged forward together. Something caused ripples, like an oil painting smudged before it had a chance to dry.

There was an uninvited guest. An owl that walked like a man, drawing a bead on them. It’s first attack is harmlessly batted away by the sword that clung to Chryssa.

She seemed flippant about it. There was a very real risk that they both end up in jail, and he had to commend her for having nerves of steel. Later, when it’d matter less. When she wasn’t slumped over on him.

Giona stopped to lower her. In the corner of his eye, he could see the owl nock another arrow. Drawing a bead on... both of them. Honedge still stood, but even that was a temporary reprieve. He drew a kohl-black pokeball, withdrawing a crested bird.

"I’m gonna risk it all, and stop it here and now."

Giona stepped forward and kneeled, trying to fit his head under Chryssa's shoulder. He then stood up, trying to scoop her up in his arms altogether. That Unfezant he met under the overpass looked utterly terrified, but a cornered prey had no choice but to lash out. The arrow bounced harmlessly off of it.

The crested bird beat its wings, sculpting a shape out of the thin, cool, damp air. The air straight out of the Ancient Greek depiction of hell. The shape drifted through the air, trying to hurt Decidueye, or at the very least draw its fire. Giona curled Honedge’s tassel around his arm so nobody got left behind, and tried to run for the exit made by Shedinja. "--Not now. We're almost there."




TL;DR: Spirit Shackle failed to damage the Unfezant. Unfezant retaliated with Air Cutter.
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fernando vs giona [H✩T]
POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 3:13:29 GMT
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Something was up. He'd finally keyed into the level of sarcasm being slipped in. In retrospect, no adult would feign surprise or amusement at something like this. Giona was a little embarrassed. He downed another 1/5 of his drink, watching Morpeko with anticipation.

"This is... huh. Are you waiting for a friend, or something?"

Giona looked up at him. His only canon height is Taller Than You, but it wasn't hard to tower over the 5'7 paisano. Giona downed a fifth of his drink. It had the salty and sweet aftertaste of any electrolyte drink, but it went down like tap water and a fistful of raspberries. The static field didn't go much further than the sand around Morpeko's feet. May as well dig in. Combusken ran in with a Double Kick, pre-emptively snapping its knees mid-swing and trying to whip its hardened shins at Morpeko's head two times. "Not that it matters. I'm just curious."




TL;DR: It's on!!
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POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 2:58:33 GMT
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"Yeah, it was after Fortree. There was that forest fire, and we had to go our separate ways so you all could evade capture."

Giona pinched the Crush so tightly. He looked like he was scared it'd slip from his grasp. Just blasted himself with a vague medley of mint oils, which blended together into one cool taste. A shoelace-thick line of ash fell off, landing between his shoes. There was a pause.

"And... it's nothing personal. I knew I wouldn't win if she actually fought me, I was just so lightheaded after the air got thin. I got mad when she talked down to us, like we were kids and we didn't know exactly what we were doing."

He dropped a kohl-black ball with a red R printed on it to the floor. It fell with a satisfying 'tink', and a crested bird slipped out. It noticed a window just out of reach towards the back, and made a beeline to it, shoving it open. "There are better ways to pick a lock, sure. It's a fun parlor-trick. I'll stop doing it when it stops getting a pop. Anyways, I'm gonna have Unfezant pull the smell out."

Giona balled up his violet scarf, and passed it to Killian in case he needed to cover his face for a minute. He took as long a drag as he could, as if he were chugging a drink. He pinched his own nostrils, as the crested bird whipped up a cool breeze to carry dust particles out of the warehouse. This'd also put his cigarette out, carrying ribbons of smoke out with it.

He then bent over and picked up the pokeball, calling Unfezant back with a red ribbon of light. Giona shrugged his shoulders, turning to face Killian. "My older brother did. He works at the power plant now. He also showed me how to open a beer by hitting a table without leaving a pile of broken glass on the ground."

Giona then paused, and grinned a little. He decided to circle back. To ask an open-ended sort of question that a parent would pose to their adult child. "So, what's your new job like?"



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is a half-truth not still a truth? [m][c]
POSTED ON Jun 14, 2021 18:22:53 GMT
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The tavern had its fair share of clamor. Of some watching the game on the small CRT monitor. Of some listening with rapt attention, as he added flavor to arguments that were already flaring up. Like a bouillon cube in a pot of soup.

Nevermind the fact that he was also there. With a Torchic, which he told to use Flame Burst. He sat there in his jumpsuit, sipping on the odd mix, which went down like sparkling water and a cigarette. He hadn't the presence of mind to ask if they had a nice wine cooler.

Hearing a voice chime in, he turned aside. He was met with an impeccably dressed man, with a little pocket square. He was either a business magnate, or someone who never left home trying to flex at the townie bar. Either way, Giona relented. He chose his words carefully, both to avoid implicating himself, and to try to be more charitable. "I know there are good people there. People who fight crimes that even the most libertine among us would object to. But. They heard reports of a poaching in the woods near Fortree. Put together a team with Charizard on it. Now, I'm not saying that poaching isn't worth fighting. But in trying to defend Zarude they almost certainly left behind a trail of dead Oddish, in the ensuing forest fire." He said this, before looking back down at his drink and downing a fifth of it.




TL;DR: It's the mission where a small part of a larger smear campaign starts.
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POSTED ON Jun 14, 2021 16:37:26 GMT
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He was met with Theo whistling. Giona had the general idea down, but it was unrefined. More like siccing an attack dog on someone than a complex command. He downed his coffee quickly, then topped off his cup again. The machine was empty, so he paused to put a new filter in and push the button to brew a fresh pot. Giona needed to tamp down his appetite, even as he got a little more wired.

Theo turned back to him, and asked if he was free. Giona held up a finger, and waited until the coffee kicked in. Until a light in his eyes fought back his fluoride stare. He then pushed off the counter he leaned on with his elbows, standing in line behind him to exit the break room.

"I’m ready when you are, Sir.”
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POSTED ON Jun 14, 2021 5:23:32 GMT
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Giona could feel eyes trained on him, as he camped beside the cooler full of drinks yet again. He grabbed two instead of one this time, and looked them over. Feraligatr-ade. A branded electrolyte drink, one with a cyan hue and the other magenta. The food dyes looked exactly like printer colors. He turned to face the other man, and rolled the plastic bottle across the sand to him.

The waves rolled in. A bead of sweat worked its way from his brow to the 1/16 inch side of his undercut. He stood, and dug around in his jean-shorts for a pokeball. It'd been a while since Honedge had been out for a walk, so he called it out with a red beam. The eyes on the sheath moved around, and it whistled a low note.

"Hey, man. Are you down? I'm waiting for a friend to be here, and there aren't any games on my phone."
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POSTED ON Jun 14, 2021 2:26:11 GMT
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The coffin met him with a toothy grin! Some would balk at the display, but he found it to be cute! And then... a guy popped out. He held a pokeball to Elgyem's head after it was squeezed mercilessly. He had a little bit of envy for the royal.

Honedge found itself irked by a trail left by a pile of sand trying to slip by. It came unsheathed and used Iron Head, clobbering the sand and making the metal on rock scraping sound when it parted the 'body' of this thing and went straight into the floor. Its tip got caught, and was met with Sand Tomb. Its immobilization was immediately met with scorn rather than sympathy, waves of sand scratching it further.

Giona didn't seem to mind, having already claimed his prize. The spitting image of that purple shadow that bedeviled him. He knelt and scooped up the kohl-black ball in one hand. He could hear Remiel speak up, and quickly turned it away to hide the candy-red R. He then heard the sound of the sand scraping against metal, and threw a pokeball in its direction, if only to make the two knock it off. The sand disappeared with a red beam, and the ball fidgeted on the worn tile floor.

Honedge on the other hand was all tuckered out, and Giona withdrew it with an identical red beam. He then turned to face Remiel. "Oh. I didn't see you there when I first walked in. What's up?" He asked, ever the country bumpkin. Couldn't be bothered to look someone up online.



notes: i'm claiming sandygast.

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POSTED ON Jun 13, 2021 22:03:58 GMT
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Giona had to continue his roll. To not let the momentum falter. He stood up and walked over to a 25 lb dumbbell on the rack. He carried it over to a bench closer to Bryan, and laid on it flat on his back. With one hand on one hip and one hand pushing it up, he activated his tricep, pectoral, and obliques in one move. Every 10 to 20 reps, he’d switch sides. The weight would sit on his flat stomach for a minute. Moving it too quickly could damage his wrists or leave gainz on the table.

He felt a pang of relief when Bryan gave the two of them something to focus on, instead of talking past eachother. He had a weak grin on his face. "I run a safehouse in Mauville. Across the street is this place that does tattoos." Now, to follow up. "When you go in, you do what’s called a Consultation. You sit down with an artist in the shop and figure out the where and the what, and agree on when you’ll get it. If that’s still intimidating, I can go with you." He said, with a slight chuckle. Okay, now he was leaning into it.
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POSTED ON Jun 13, 2021 19:37:24 GMT
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It’s almost impressive. Almost. He was informed that training could bring him to that next level. He winced, thinking about how he only made it out of Fortree alive out of the mercy of that Ms. Llewelyn. Who could’ve just strangled him, right then and there, and Killian too. His eyes lit up when this was presented to him. He flashed a weak grin, that didn’t reach the skin around his eyes.

"I’d jump at the chance to train with you. To be strong enough to repay my debts to the Rockets. The people who caught me when everyone else let me fall.”
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POSTED ON Jun 13, 2021 17:31:55 GMT
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Giona stood opposite to Adrian in their square formation, trying his hardest to keep water and any silt it carried out of his thick rubber boots. And aside from those boots, he was dressed in a button-up and slacks, with a tight undercut. He looked like an overgrown schoolboy.

The waves rolled in. About a hundred feet away from all of them was a cooler full of branded electrolyte drinks and energy drinks. The restless Flygon bounced its thick tail off the sand like a dog, then immediately lunged at Orbeetle, gnashing its jaws in a way reminiscent of its old habit of 'talking'. It tried to get in close and use Crunch, bringing those jaws down like the two halves of a can-opener.

"I think I'm closest to the cooler, so just holler if you need a Feraligatr-ade."




Notes: Flygon used Crunch on Orbeetle. For Ambiance
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POSTED ON Jun 13, 2021 16:41:15 GMT
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It’s almost impressive. Almost. When he served with a landscaping company that paid dues to Rocket, he picked up a Trapinch and Electrike to stop them from interfering with work, or being put down. That was two years ago.

Now came the moment where a bead of sweat ran from his forehead to the side of his fresh undercut. 1.5 millimeter long hairs, and they could still stand on end. He was about to deflate his mystique. To make himself a mere rodeo clown, like he did infront of Lulu. He raised a brow.

"I’m capable of raising strong pokemon. I know that for a fact. I just don’t have the it factor of a truly great battler like Gavin. Why do you ask?”
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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2021 22:01:17 GMT
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The rain seemed to cling to his plum-skin colored scarf. He saw a big bulky coffin charge from one room to the next, causing him to flinch, then nearly faint. Honedge tried its best to catch him. Were it unsheathed, he'd have been hoist by his own petard already. Cutting decades of going to jail, getting out, and getting talked down to short.

He took a deep breath to regain his composure, hair from his fresh undercut standing on end despite being a 16th of an inch long. Giona then charged in after Cofagrigus. "You!!" He said, before coming to a stop. The still-damp soles of his boots squeaked as he adjusted his feet.

There sat Gastly. The little ball with the same face as that Haunter that nearly punched a hole in his head. He whistled for Honedge, and sicced the sword on it. He then turned to Cofagrigus and bowed his head. "Thank you." He said, still a little shaken. After a brief exchange of Night Shade and Iron Head, he threw a Rocket patterned red and kohl-black pokeball at Gastly.



notes: i'm comin' for that gastly!!

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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2021 21:33:40 GMT
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Giona stuffed the cigarette into his pocket alongside the lighter, out of respect. He pinched the sides of the Crush he was smoking, to put a slight mintiness in there. This was the admin that he'd trusted to take the lead on a potentially life-ruining mission. It certainly took its toll on their mysterious radio contact, Chryssa.

"Well, I did a stint in jail, didn't name names. Got sprung out, and I saw the inside of the tunnel made by Phantom Force. It was... beautiful and hard to look at all at once. Like an oil painting of a man crying. So... What have you been up to?"

He'd followed Killian up to the door, and jiggled the handle. The door swung open, and he looked down at his wrapped left hand. Inside was the smell of a tiled room that hadn't been touched in too long. 3 months, maybe? The sub-flooring would be fine, but every inch of it looked dusty. "I didn't have a hard time with the door this time. A couple days ago, I did the lighter trick to get it open, and lost the fingerprints on my left hand. They'll grow back, eventually!"




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