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the chain crumbles before his fist can close. and with it, sloughing towards the ground, is the rest of nagi. [break][break]

his knees crack the ice as he drops. his nails dig into the wet slush beneath his palm, cold dirt biting into his cuticles. skin, muscle, nerves all his own, the simple wonder of his native flesh.[break][break]

(but the hunger — [break][break]

had always been his own to begin with.) [break][break]

he pulls himself to his feet, takes stumbling, lumbering steps towards the ship — and catches a flash of blue at the edge of his vision.[break][break]

how stalwart — how self-sacrificial — [break][break]

how simple would he have been to break?[break][break]

he tries to turn away. makes it a step, and a half of another, and turns around, one foot still an inch in the air, long enough to see a mop of red, a flash of metal.[break][break]

he brings the foot down in the wrong direction. [break][break]

nagi lurches, skidding across the melting remains of his mr. mime's freeze dry. momentum — not willpower — takes him to Aubre McKenna-Settentrione's side, a human battering ram made of guilt, frostbitten, wet knees and split-second decisions. [break][break]

"mime —" [break][break]

it's too late for finesse. as his mr. mime attempts to ALLY SWITCH Noel Parker out of inoculatory range, nagi aims for shins and braces for impact.

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[break]・choice 2 [break]
・ guilt over his actions while toxic chain'd compels him to assist Noel Parker[break]
・ tries to tackle Aubre McKenna-Settentrione('s shins) away, while his galarian mr. mime ALLY SWITCHES noel out of her reach

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[attr="class","unagiw"]a coil of wires undulates over the floor — gnarled whorls of flesh splaying out from nagi’s knuckles, tangling over his fingers, gouging rivets into the dirt.[break][break]

hunger makes nagi a desperate, grasping thing.[break][break]

cold pierces through him as his galarian mr. mime, confused and distressed, FREEZE DRIES his immediate vicinity. like a grotesque chariot, a halftime, half-price circus act: his new, elongated fingers sink, claw-first into the ground; tug like a pack-mule on a cart, sinews stretching and snapping and melding back together; dragging nagi’s corpse-stiff, unmoving body forward in an inexorable, steady advance towards Noel Parker as he dances around Elise Calcifet's barrage of attacks, desperate not to hurt her. [break][break]

how merciful — how brave — how heroic.[break][break]

"run." he cuts his tongue on the syllable, blood tickling the inside of his cheek, down his oesophagus.[break][break]

it's not enough for the thirst. nagi has always been a desperate, grasping thing. [break][break]

when he reaches, he reaches to break.[break][break]

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・TADEEMA HOENN[break] ・TOXIC CHAIN manifests as tentacle-like, clawed appendages extending from his fingers[break]
・nagi wants to be ~~anything other than himself~~A PROTAGONIST[break]
・grabs at Noel Parker, after a monosyllabic warning[break]
・galarian mr. mime uses FREEZE DRY on the surrounding area

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ACTIVITY CHECK (OCT '23)

POSTED ON Oct 20, 2023 0:00:30 GMT

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POSTED ON Oct 19, 2023 13:54:17 GMT

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PURCHASING/REDEEMING

welcome to the poké mart!

1X salac berry (50 PD)

HARVESTING

be sure to visit the pretty petal flower shop near rustboro!

1X salac berry
2X grepa berries (replanting)

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the pirouetting glimmora are a kaleidoscope of motion and colour; another ten-pound straw on the scoliotic camel's back that is nagi's burgeoning migraine. [break][break]

(the poison is a twenty-pound cherry crowning the precarious haystack.)[break][break]

he switches his pokémon out with a hurried flick of his wrist. his galarian mr. mime clicks his icy heels against the floor. the pink mist of a MISTY TERRAIN swirls, eddying among the toxic fumes. [break][break]

magenta glitters in the fog, streaking his vision with contrails of light. like a magpie to a ruby ring — a hook to an open, roving eye — nagi's gaze is tugged, a hapless fish on a whirring reel, towards the glimmora's glowing markings.[break][break]

"that's not usual, is it?" he says aloud, with a look towards Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki.[break][break]

did they grow here — bioluminescence unspurling in their genetic code after generations in the ink-dark of the cave, branching the family tree into a variant stalk?[break][break]

blue skin, workbenches; bodies floating in a swamp, waiting for someone to wander into the murk. [break][break]

— or were they put here?

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・rolling with disadvantage[break]
・galarian mr. mime uses misty terrain to attempt to neutralise the fumes[break]
・looking at the markings with an expression like :0[break]
・wonders if the glimmora are native to the cave — or if they were put here[break]
・using 1 salac

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maybe its his worsening myopia, or his newly-acquired concussion has conveniently unlocked some unholy manner of divine farsight, or maybe its maybelline. nagi sees four paths wavering above the ground ahead of him instead of two. [break][break]

he blinks, squints. brushes a knuckle over his temple, where a timely HEAL PULSE from DESIREE BLOOMS's hatterene had halted the evolution of the welt — enshrining it unto eternity on nagi’s sweat-stained, mudstreaked forehead as a thumb-sized grape instead of the golf ball it was destined to become. [break][break]

wait, no, five paths. cool. [break][break]

“smaug,” he says, with the earnest, indulgent tone of a lillipup owner about to take their beloved puppy out for a run at the dog park, if the dog park was in hell, and also on fire. “you pick.” [break][break]

smaug’s sweet dragonite face — pleasant, round, the cartoon picture beside the word “friend” in a children’s dictionary — settles with infinite semantic precision into an expression that can be read only as saying, i would rather stand in the way of a second murder roulette. [break][break]

no bullets are forthcoming. [break][break]

smaug grabs nagi by the scruff of his hood, and sets him in front of the third path — which, judging by the muttered conversation he can hear around him, should actually be the second. [break][break]

job done, smaug returns himself to his pokéball. in his place, an illumina eevee trots in front of nagi, lighting up the darkened path with a SPOTLIGHT.[break][break]

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・really sorry for the late post !! overtime kicking my butt :sob: [break]
・nagi head hurty. taking disadvantage [break]
・heading down path 2, using eevee’s SPOTLIGHT to light the way ahead

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he doesn’t scream. up to his ankles in the mud, toes numb in the brackish water, nagi watches slack-jawed as @elliot is dragged into the deep by what should have been dead, should have been still; and a whistle crackles out from his throat, high and reedy, a petulant child’s whine. garbled, unintelligible white noise.[break][break]

conscious thought straps on a seatbelt, settling in for a ride in the backseat as his subconscious takes the wheel. autopilot plunges him the rest of the way into the water towards the ursuluna, tailing the remnants of their search party (now more search than party) in their plodding hell-ride towards —[break][break]

where is this?[break][break]

a headshot from Shred Zeppelin and howard slayte’s murder roulette rattles his skull, wrenching his synapses into place with a metallic ping and a red welt the size of a thumbprint over his temple. the world snaps back into focus — like plummetting head-first into ice, cold sharp in his skull, a bombardment of overwhelming sensation he has to struggle to sort through. [break][break]

he recognises the tell-tale glow of the tera crystals. he doesn’t recognise the make of the workbenches. and the blue-tinted pallor of the once-dead, newly-arisen — he’s seen, only in pictures.[break][break]

they were not good pictures. [break][break]

nagi does what he does best in times of uncertainty — which is to do what he's told. aaron faust’s cry for help is close enough.[break][break]

“help,” he parrots. his head smarts. it was so much easier to astral project.[break][break]

smaug’s dragon tail cracks like a whip over the nihilegos.[break][break]

[attr="class","unagitag"]BLOOD, MUD & IRON

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[break]・dissociates. [break]・is a victim of friendly fire.[break]・dragonite uses dragon tail on nihilego to help free captives[break]

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ZABAGLIONE AND WATSON'S GRAND ADVENTURE [m]

POSTED ON Sept 30, 2023 13:48:29 GMT

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naggy says, "be good."[break][break]

watson is always good! and he is best today, because naggy has his clumpy shoes on, the ones that mean he is going for a longer walk, the kind where watson gets to run as far and as long as he wants, and naggy chases, which is the best part. [break][break]

there's a path in front of them. pebbly, but the small kind, that means a lot of people have stomped or jogged or hopped all over them, so that the big pebbles became small pebbles, and the small pebbles were pressed into the ground. the best for running over![break][break]

(watson has a lot of bests.)[break][break]

naggy stands up, so watson stands too. jumps high enough to see another head, bobbing closer at the end of the path. smells a pokémon.[break][break]

another best! friend?

[attr="class","unagitag"]mint frost[break]mission

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POSTED ON Sept 30, 2023 13:44:29 GMT

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there is a shadow, flickering at the corner of his vision. a waiting specter that vanishes into smoke as soon as nagi turns his head to look. [break][break]

he is trying not to look. [break][break]

he keeps his eyes on PENELOPE LIVY instead. over the folds of skin at the corner of her eyes, the shadow in the crease between her brows and the line of muscle along the curve of her jaw. as if she were a bronze sculpture left to weather in the sun, and he could piece together the differences between past and an unknown, unfamiliar present, reconstruct the change in patina with his eyes alone. [break][break]

the shadow dances. [break][break]

how are you? — what happened? — you're looking fine, or good, or worse, and is that a white hair at the side of your temple, or just a trick of the interdream light? he has a lot of questions. a few months is a long time to leave a place like hoenn.[break][break]

"thanks," he says, a low murmur into the mist swirling around his mouth, "for having me back."[break][break]

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POSTED ON Sept 30, 2023 13:35:49 GMT

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nagi steps past the border into the distortion, and he’s on the ceiling. [break][break]

it feels anticlimatic, almost. he had expected a sense of displacement, a wrenching, something torn out of him and left beyond the membrane of the rift. but this all there is: a flash of light like a camera flare, his ears popping, and he’s standing on the branch of a tree, looking up at the ground. a party trick. [break][break]

or maybe he’s been inured to hoenn’s oddities. still — he knows better than to underestimate the distortion. hoenn is a dirty dealer with a callous hand, hiding cards up its sleeves and knives in its boots. enough reports have circulated to his desk on his way to PENELOPE LIVY 's for him to be well-aware of their dangers — even if entirely secondhand.[break][break]

till now. [break][break]

his camera clatters against his sternum, swaying on its leather strap as he rolls his shoulders back, peering out at the changed landscape and casting a glance askance at the man accompanying him. they’re supposed to take a few pictures, snag a few samples, make another timestamped entry in a chronological record of changes unfolding within the rifts. a simple enough mission: in-and-out reconnaissance, only with the zest of mortal danger. [break][break]

it's a good thing Gunner Graves is here. there'll be someone left to finish the job, and send his condolences to their boss after nagi is launched, spinning like a propeller into an alternate universe after tripping on his shoelaces. [break][break]

he clears his throat.[break][break]

"let's start from there." [break][break]

a sleepless night spent poring over what has been mapped of the distortion so far, all so there's no waver when his index finger points at a shrub-shaded outcropping halfway up (or is it down?) a nearby hill. [break][break]

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POSTED ON Sept 30, 2023 13:28:29 GMT

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nagi has never been to a rave, but he imagines it would be something like this. bright lights; people screaming; an auburn stranger has taken up residence on the (not-)dancefloor. [break][break]

in both hypothetical and actual versions of this tableau, nagi is flat against the wallpaper, fusing with the plaster. [break][break]

a decision he swiftly regrets when the porygon slams into it with a digital PING. dislodged paint flakes off the wall inches above his head, dusting the bridge of his nose like fine snow, and nagi's knees thud hard against the carpet as he joins emerson whitlock on the floor.[break][break]

"idon'tknow,yourmom?"[break][break]

scathing. [break][break]

drawn by the palafin-high frequency of his strangled whisper, the porygon bears down on the sitting ducks from above, glittering with another SIGNAL BEAM. nagi's skull cracks into the desk by his side as he flinches sideways, wrenching a pokéball out of his pocket. [break][break]

"watson, DISCHARGE." [break][break]

static charges the air, electricity crackling in an arc from his shinx to the porygon. the SIGNAL BEAM fizzles out with a white-noise crackle. [break][break]

the porygon judders in a flurry of distorted bytes. around, multiple computer screens flare to life as it looks for an escape route.[break][break]

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DIVE INTO DISTORTION (5TH ANNI)

POSTED ON Sept 30, 2023 10:06:34 GMT

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POSTED ON Sept 29, 2023 16:59:03 GMT

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indignance is a pinprick in the arch of his heel. [break][break]

a better person would pull the splinter out, shrug off the misunderstanding. nagi harboured no doubts of Eris Halla’s competence, had vouched for her right to misadventure mere moments before. he knew, for a fact, that between them both, he was more likely to die face-down and forgotten after tripping on a tree root in the swamp.[break][break]

but nagi is nagi, so while Oliver Shrakes makes his case to howard slayte for responsible adult stewardship of unattended minors, nagi drives his foot into it. until the spur digs into flesh — lets the sharp sting of irritation buoy him above the churning surf of terror, dull the stench of sulphur lingering in his sinuses — and picks the low road.[break][break]

“if necrophilia is your hobby,” he says. “i’m not one to kinkshame.” [break][break]

the tight-lipped robotic monotone of his retort is drowned out by the man’s shriek. nagi manages not to jump, if only because his foot is stuck fast in the mud, and makes the mistake of looking towards the direction howard scampers, screaming, off into.[break][break]

his gaze skitters: a pale hand, fingers splayed open like the petals of a lotus. a foot, one mud-stained shoe still on. oh, no, he thinks, a single, feverish, desperate wish, as he stares at a putrefied face. into wide, unstaring eyes. i hope it didn’t hurt.[break][break]

he thinks, it did, didn't it?[break][break]

he takes one step, two, cold water sinking into his socks as he wades into mud, exchanging his eevee for his galarian mr. mime. as rescuers like jack wainwright and @elliot attempt to fish the corpses out of the water, a PROTECT shimmers over the bodies, trying — like Grigori Sokolov on the opposing bank — to keep as many as possible intact from the rampaging ursuluna and the elements. [break][break]

to spare them, at least, these last hurts. [break][break]

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notes.

[break]・#area2[break]・kinkshames howard slayte [break]・uses PROTECT to assist rescuers recovering corpses[break]

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petrichor, earth and the metallic, fungal stench of decay. [break][break]

dread is an acrid rock of bile at the back of nagi’s throat. fear knifes, hot through his diaphragm, calves seizing as his body prepares for flight. his hand twitches at his side, yanks at air instead of eris’ shoulder, as he fights the instinctive urge of any responsible adult to not let kids touch corpses. [break][break]

child prodigy, he reminds himself. [break][break]

but also: child prodigy. [break][break]

nagi wears anxiety like a second skin — has splayed it open and studied it like a specimen; knows the cold touch of its frostbitten fingers like a bedfellow. there was panic in every skittish step backwards that Eris Halla had taken.[break][break]

“give her space,” he murmurs, loud enough for howard slayte and Oliver Shrakes to hear over the swirl of noise from the captive audience surrounding the mangled leg. steps back, shards crunching under his feet, to let the girl work.[break][break]

(he keeps one eye on eris, all the same.) [break][break]

rot makes a home in his lungs. he breathes in — a slow, hissed inhale — mud giving easy way to his heel as he digs it in, anchoring himself into the muck. [break][break]

the SPOTLIGHT of his illumina eevee glitters off the scattered shards; throws the lurid web of veins across the leg into stark relief. nagi’s gaze picks its way across the ground, into the clearing ahead, searching for what else could be lurking, buried in the murk.[break][break]

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[break]
・advancing into next part of AREA 2[break]
・attempts to get howard slayte and Oliver Shrakes to give Eris Halla space. can't a girl poke a corpse in PEACE (relative) [break]
・illumina eevee's SPOTLIGHT lights up the surrounding area in an attempt to make it easier to investigate[break][break]

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