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is this all there is [past, m, c]
POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 16:43:35 GMT
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She passed but she can’t help but feel like she failed. She wished this guy would have a fucking emotion, or something.

“Thanks,” she said, hiking up her bag, finally turning towards home-- she might stop on the way and buy a nice bottle of bourbon (or just a really large case of beer).

Things were looking up?

⚰︎ recruitment, act I

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M.A.G.M.A STRATAGEMS I
POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 16:41:29 GMT
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Much to Cyg’s surprise, Mairwen had some major giddy-up and go, as the dinosaur hurtled towards the seated simian as fast as her pudgy green legs would allow, launching herself at the last second to land her massive body on top of Oranguru in a chunky-sounding bellyflop.

Likewise, Sinistree’s hex on Runerigus left the disembodied chunks of stone discolored at the edges.

Meanwhile, Runerigus’ Toxic Spikes were slowly poisoning Sinistree-- but not as much as they would have another Pokemon. And Mairwen, as a Poison-type, was immune to poison! Not too shabby, Cygnet.

’s Runerigus lashed out at Sinistree with a purple beam of energy that punched a hole through the Spiritomb’s gaseous body; the aubergine miasma writhed and rolled, her gleaming, jagged face marred by the swirl. The mocking laughter faded then grew.

From under Mairwen’s bulk, Oranguru made a hand signal-- and, upon being instructed, the Runerigus fired off another hex, and this time Sinistree’s keystone shivered on the spot. She sank downwards, billowing around her base, shrinking in size and significantly weakened-- but not quite out, yet, though she wouldn’t last much longer.

Mairwen lowed, having moved off of the Oranguru like a truck shaking a crushed bicycle from under its bumper.

“Mair, take down! Sin, do your thing!”

Mairwen looked directly at Adrian with a tired look on her face-- then bent her legs, and, with great effort, lifted herself onto her hind legs (sort of) and flopped back over onto Oranguru in a great imitation of WWE Raw combat. Sinistree’s keystone glowed purple, firing off another lazer hex beam at the Runerigus.

SPIRITOMB is exerting her PRESSURE!
SPIRITOMB is poisoned! SPIRITOMB is affected by ENCORE (2/3)
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VENUSAUR is affected by TAUNT! (2/3)
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POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 15:21:19 GMT
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Eventually, some day, far in the future, the two of them would, most likely, get into an argument about who was supposed to be protecting who-- and they would both be right, because, in a partnership, you protect each other. But for now, Cyg was, 100%, determined to be the one throwing herself into the line of fire-- literally, figuratively, it didn’t matter.

She listened to Isaac’s explanations of why they weren’t actually in danger in the creepy tomb, and she gave him an are you crazy look because sometimes when you’re scared (and in a buried ruin that already had all the torches lit even though no one’s been in here in literal decades) even the best logic didn’t pan out. But she did relax her grip on his arm, just a bit.

She did still jump when the back of the chair collapsed away-- but Muirne was a disembodied spirit that floated around in a coffin. She didn’t need support to stay upright. She and Halberd just continued their staring contest.

Cyg was about to ask how long Isaac thought they’d have to wait when he tore free from her grasp-- “Isaac!”-- and all but vaulted up the chair to try and hold the ceiling back. Rolling another Pokeball in her hands, Cyg was about to bring out some more firepower, for god knows what reason (hit it really hard) when suddenly, everything stopped.

The lights regulated, and the chair crumbled to dust. Muirne stayed hovering in the air, Halberd perched atop her head.

“You okay?” Cyg asked, looking leerily up at the significantly lowered ceiling. “How’d you get it to stop?”


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time and salt [m, c]
POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 15:11:46 GMT
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Isaac’s tone went just north of mushy-gushy when he talked about his team. Cyg smiled, feeling her own heart warm at his sentiments. “Yeah, I remember those days,” she confessed, having herself spent time in her Mudkip PJs dreaming about challenging the Pokemon League.

But her parents couldn’t afford a Pokemon, let alone to send their kid on a Journey of the region. It was all a pipe dream. Plus, Cyg wasn’t one for strategy-- her best technique was hitting things really hard and, sure, she had a team that worked well for it, but brute force only got you so far in the real world.

“Absolutely,” she confirmed, remembering quite vividly the image of Isaac taking a Hydro Pump point blank from his Totodile, “can confirm.”

She listened as he extolled the virtues of his Aggron and her smile couldn’t help but grow.

“It’s amazing, sometimes, how they know what we need,” she said. “I didn’t have my first Pokemon till I graduated trade school, but he’s my best friend.”

Ah, Feldspar. How the time flew. Once a teeny Grookey, now a gigantic Rillaboom, and still just content to sleep the day away.

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People Like Us Do Get This (M)
POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 14:48:12 GMT
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She laughed, because he was right. He was constantly making her smile, in the dumbest ways possible; it was, she had to admit, slightly addicting. “It’s both of us,” she confirmed, standing far enough back so as to keep her eyebrows and facial skin. “It’s definitely both of us.”

He was just-- too damn cute! It wasn’t fair.

“I’ll watch for the fuzz,” she told him, voice carrying slightly on the beach wind. As Isaac prepared to set off the first explosive, she felt her stomach twist with nerves, already picturing 101 different ways it could go wrong and blow up in his face.

It didn’t, and she masked her sigh of relief with a look of delight as he rushed across the sands to stand next to her.

She almost didn’t hear him over the booms and hisses, the fireworks splashing color across their faces; but once the noise had settled, she turned to look at him, at the sweet, dopey expression on his face, and then it was her heart’s turn to do funky things.

“Yeah,” she said, soft and dreamy and feeling right, squeezing his hand in time with her words, “yeah, I think I do, too.”


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You Can't Sip with Us: A Winetastic Girls' Night [Mega/OPEN]
POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 0:25:12 GMT
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Arceus on a hotdog, was every single woman in Hoenn stuck up and hoity toity?

Look, she expected it from , because Elisa was a Kalosian heiress. And Cyg, well, Cyg wasn’t so much a snob as she was an alcoholic-- and wine, in general, wasn’t her favorite poison of choice.

She smiled politely at @nikita and , taking a huge slug of wine to stop from saying anything stupid.

“I think you’re right,” she said to , as she covered a small burp with the back of her hand. “I think it’s going to be just fine.”

The wine, not the painting.

“Do you really think the commish is the type to have a bunch of portraits of her hung up in her office?” she asked no one in particular, frowning at the decidedly mustard color she was using for the commissioner’s hair.


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You Can't Sip with Us: A Winetastic Girls' Night [Mega/OPEN]
POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 23:43:19 GMT
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“It’s fine,” Cyg said, sliding into the chair beside Elisa. She gave her boss a smile and an eyebrow waggle. They hadn’t agreed to meet here, but here was as good as any, and, of course, the promise of alcohol meant Cyg was there-- like a city rat who’d gotten addicted to booze by drinking runoff from a shitty club.

“Is painting one of your many fancy girl talents?” she set a glass of red on the little table next to her and helped herself to a cube of cheese.


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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 23:06:52 GMT
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Isaac had a look on his face like he was trying to say something heavy but couldn’t get the words to come out right. Cygne was very familiar with the expression-- she’d had it a lot in the last few months, up until her departure from GMH, mostly in conversations with the mirror about her future and, you know, life in general.

But he didn’t, and, instead, he went with the classic I want to treat my team thing that every good guy in a regional radius says on first dates in order to sound cool. She didn’t want to call his bluff, so she gave him a knowing smile and a nod, accepted her next beer.

“You guys are like a big family, huh?”


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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 22:43:05 GMT
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Cyg did love a good antique shop, even if she avoided buying anything from them because she was unduly concerned about acquiring cursed or haunted items. Just horror fan things.

Anyway, she was too focused on her boyfriend turning her dumb joke back around on her. “Oh, my god.” She pressed the back of her hand into the bridge of her nose like she had a headache, but she was grinning.

She titled her head and looked at him, then, as he puzzled through all the pieces, and eventually asked his Rookidee to pop on Muirne’s head. The Cofagrigus’ red eyes swiveled skyward as the little bird did so, but she didn’t move or protest. As expected, the seat began to warm, and the gilded edge of her sarcophagus began to redden as it conducted heat, but nothing happened until--

--the lights went out and Cyg reached out and grabbed Isaac’s forearm, rooting them together. Zenaïs, who, for the most part, had hung back and looked bored, faded from view, form dappling into the darkness and preparing to fight. There was a grinding noise as the cuffs shot out from the throne’s arms, but all of Muirne’s limbs were safely ensconced within her coffin.

The eye continued to lower, sending a cascade of sandstone silt crumbling to the floor. Cyg pulled Isaac closer, putting herself between him and the chair, but she didn’t exactly know where the danger would be coming from.


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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 22:01:27 GMT
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She listens to him list off things and her eyes tick wider with each component.

“You mean we can just…” she steps in a bit closer to examine things (her voice goes a bit dreamy)-- sees a cluster of wires that she reaches for. She doesn’t try to take them, just drags one finger over their path, turning around the Typhlosion loaded with junk.

“This is-- an old vibroverb kit,”
she says, looking for any of the rest of the pieces, “from a Fender amp. And that’s a… set of brake calipers? But from what?”


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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 21:53:47 GMT
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“Yeah, I feel that,” Cyg says, thinking about all the things she has to do and relishing in the fact that none of them keep her locked her on the sub. She just crashes here when she’s preparing for an important Rocket mission and needs to be on standby in case orders change. It doesn’t do to make your superiors go traipsing all over the Hoennian countryside looking for you.

She listens politely as he talks and does giggle a bit when he assures her he’s no longer a test subject; she’s so focused on listening to him that she, too, doesn’t notice the laughter’s stopped-- doesn’t really notice much of anything until Priam pulls up.

“Got it,” she said, standing behind him, ready to barge in behind him, candy bar sword at the ready--

--the door swings open with a menacing screech, opening into an empty gathering room. Long metal tables sit in the middle of the room, with wooden wide tables pressed up against one wall. One of the wooden tables is covered in old coffee stains and has one of those restaurant sugar packet holders on it and a salt shaker.

But it’s completely empty.

Despite her better judgment, Cyg feels a chill run down her spine.

“Maybe we’re… going crazy?” she asks, stepping into the room. For posterities sake, she peeks under the tables.

The salt shaker lifts up and goes flying across the empty room, hitting the wall and shattering. Cyg jumps with an embarrassing squeak-- and then she laughs.

“Oh, that’s gotta be so much bad luck.”


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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 21:28:03 GMT
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Cyg swallows, palms starting to sweat. “Right.” She supposed it didn’t so much matter any more. It wasn’t like she was worried about losing her job, right? Right.

Right.

She spins her ID around one finger as she turns away from Theo and walks back to the employee entrance, forcing her steps to be even and her stomach to not totally rebel and leap out her throat. Just like walking into work, every day for the rest of her life.

She wonders, as she’s letting herself back into the building, if she should have Theo follow her. But she has a plan already, and it really doesn’t involve him.

She takes a right turn away from the union lockerroom and towards the stairs going up to the offices where the engineers and production planners sit. Many of them are salaried and still working, even this late in the evening.

She does a casual half-lap before she finds an empty cubicle, slides into the office chair; she has a USB drive on her keyring shaped like a Furret (the tail comes off) a gift from her mother during tradeschool. Into the USB slot it goes, and onto it she copies the GMH server host program; from there it’s as simple as downloading the user’s saved passwords and login information, and finding out the IP address, which she writes on a sticky note, tears off the pad, before unplugging the USB, clearing the search history, and powering down the computer.

It only really takes about ten minutes but she’s terrified Theo won’t be there when she gets back; he is, though, holy shit, and she hands him the Furret USB concealed in a pack of Benson & Hedges (as an afterthought, because, she’s a spy now?).

“Use a cheap laptop and a VPN from an internet cafe. All the passwords and stuff should be good for another few months until they make us change them for security reasons. This’ll have engineering stuff, line and machine blueprints, order lists, cost estimates… everything in real time. Maybe even some poor sad sack's bank information, depends on how dumb they are with their saved passwords.”

She’s sweating. She hopes this is good enough.

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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 20:58:03 GMT
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Cyg likes Zev, she’s decided. If she hadn’t already mentioned that before.

“Well, he came to my place of business and shmoozed my boss,” she admitted, shrugging. “I thought it only fair to repay the favor.” Though she had no intentions of embarrassing Isaac. “You know ? That’s who I work for.”

It was one part casing the joint, one part personal awareness, one part making connections in the organization. Zev would either know who Elisabeth was and that was that; or he would know who Elisabeth was and know Cyg was involved.

“Mostly vice versa,” she said, with a grin. Isaac was a bit like walking chaos. It was one of the things she apprecated about him.

She let her gaze shift to other patrons and the urban-rustic faux industrialized decor. It really was a nice place.

“I’ve lived in Hoenn all my life,” she admitted, raising her glass to her lips, “I guess Slateport is just Slateport, to me.” You take it for granted when it’s been here your whole life.


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M.A.G.M.A STRATAGEMS I
POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 20:49:58 GMT
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Oops!

Oops oops oops oops oops!

Cyg went through all of the stages of grief in a five second timeframe, pulling out her phone and looking up Oranguru on Bulbapedia, trying to make it look as casual as possible. She visibly winced but her smile was huge. What do you do in these situations besides laugh?

“Right,” she said cheerily, sliding the device back into her pocket.

God fucking damn it, this is why her strategy was hit it really hard.

Well, in her defense, had a little bit of time in advance to think about the strategy. She was just going in blind. But she was, also, just an idiot. She had attacked Oranguru because she figured it would be the stronger of the two adversaries but, again, idiot.

Locked into only damage-dealing moves and Hex, Cyg was forced to stare down the double barrel of her hit it really hard strategy. There was very little she could do except hit it really hard.

God damn it.

Oh well. Nothing to it but to do it.

“Mair, double edge on Oranguru; Sin, hex on Runerigus.”

Mairwen, to her credit, heaved a sigh like she was getting too old for this shit; Sinistree just cackled, her mocking laughter echoing from corners of the arena she wasn’t even in.

SPIRITOMB is exerting her PRESSURE!
SPIRITOMB is poisoned! SPIRITOMB is affected by ENCORE (1/3)
SPIRITOMB uses HEX on RUNERIGUS!
VENUSAUR is affected by TAUNT! (1/3)
VENUSAUR uses DOUBLE EDGE on ORANGURU!



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POSTED ON Aug 29, 2022 18:45:47 GMT
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Yeah, finding a subterranean, cursed, ancient Hoenn IKEA that used sandstone in place of pressboard would be par for the course for a region about to be decimated by a meteor and currently trapped in an invisible sea dome.

“Mm, I think the yellow would go well with the decor,” Cyg said, looking back up at the eye in the ceiling. “Maybe not, though. Maybe it needs more foreboding eye motifs to really match up, you know.”

She took a lazy walk around the chair. “Yeah, I had a JumpStart game as a kid with a Braille minigame. Don’t worry, I got until F before I realized it was the alphabet. I was trying to figure out what word started with ABCDE.”

By the time she came around front again, Isaac had taken his place on the throne and Cyg made a mental note to show him more scary movies about cursed objects and tomb exploration. Her lecture was cut off by the fact that something was actually happening. She was about to announce this when Isaac yelped and jumped off the throne.

Reaching forward, she put a hand on his shoulder, face creasing; her concern faded to a barely suppressed giggle because it seemed like Isaac was okay. “Are you sure it’s not just your hot butt?” she asked, managing to pull of the joke before she devolved into laughter.

Once she’d gotten her breath back, she looked up at the eye carving. “It was moving while you were on the chair. Coming out of the ceiling, like a pillar. It’s like the worst Skyrim puzzle, ever. But I don’t know if it was the staring that did it, or the butt in the seat.” She barely resisted smacking his ass and, instead, patted the back of the chair.

“Have a seat, Muirney,” she said, and the Cofagrigus settled her long, sarcophagus body in the throne, leaning against the back, and waited.


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