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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2023 15:37:23 GMT

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DEIMOS (F) LEVITATE ; HEX, POWER GEM, GRUDGE, PSYWAVE

PHOBOS (F) AFTERMATH ; STOCKPILE, DESTINY BOND, SPIT UP, CONSTRICT

HAWKMOON (M) TELEPATHY ; DOUBLE TEAM, RAZOR WIND, SUPERSONIC, TACKLE

Kepler’s head hurts and he blinks against delayed pain. “Th-those two things are not mutually exclusive. I still can’t believe they did that. Next time I’m telling them to get a fucking exorcist.”

Luckily Ruby had the correct idea and Kepler waved his hand dismissively. “That seems solidly in your wheelhouse. I postulate--,” he grits his teeth against every ‘T’ in the word, “--once we do get it out of here, the unusual activity will cease.”

Ruby’s curse made Kepler jump, and he recoiled, curling into a little huddle. He’d thought the shadowy blurs in his vision were part of his lingering concussive protocols, but then the flash of Pokeball light made him squeeze his eyes shut.

Just when things seemed to calm down something else happened and this time Kepler did scream, nerves raw and head sore and mildly concussed.

“I hate this game I hate this game!”

Deimos cackled excitedly and tore off in the same direction as Cerberus and whatever was causing all the bedlam now.

“This is such bullshit,” Kepler spat. His heart was doing funny things in his chest, rate bordering on tachycardia. He needed to calm down or he’d have an episode. He put his hands on his knees and bent double, squatting to try and get his heart to seek a normal equilibrium.

“I guess let's go see what the fuck this noise is,” he said, miserably.

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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2023 15:29:28 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler nodded at the repeated yet because he was definitely on board and a part of that project.

He knelt down to peer at the crystal where it met the earth.

“We should bring a ground penetrating radar out here, see how far down it goes. Maybe we could excavate it?”

He hummed an agreeable note at her comment that the League couldn’t be trusted and took a few steps around the circumference of the crystal.

“The notes from Paldea say these result in caves, right?” He said, his tone going a bit dreamy to signify his thinking. He pressed one fist into his cheek, frowning. “If they were smaller we could just… fill the cavern. Everything gives to pressure, eventually. Even light.”

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POSTED ON Feb 6, 2023 17:47:39 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler has very little time to think about stuff and things before Temp throws him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. “Whoof,” he twists his neck to avoid his face slamming into the man's mid back, amazed at just how broad and tall and strong--

“Th-thanks,” he says weakly, fishing for his Pokeballs with arms that felt like limp noodles and recalling Pluto, slumped in an exhausted heap.

Don’t worry, Isaac, I’m a lot tougher than I look, he wanted to say, but it would have honestly been a lie up until today, right now, at this very moment. Instead, he offered his friend a grin and a laugh. “T-too soon,” he joked, nose crinkling with snickers.

Ash wants to draw straws for the chance to investigate and Kepler whines about it. “H-Hey, that’s not fair. I want to see, too.” He reaches up to pat Temps other shoulder with mock-affection. “I have my trusty steed. I’ll be okay.” He cranes his neck to see the tree in question, fog wreathing around it like ominous fat fruit.

Squinting through the haze, he asks, “Is-- is there something… glowing in it, or am I having hypoxemia hallucinations?”

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 22:36:36 GMT

Kepler thinks on this.

“When you guys went through the whirlpool, did it feel like water at all?” He was concerned that the whirlpool was less of a real thing and more one of those… metaphysical doorways that were less for purpose and more for show. Maybe the whirlpool didn’t matter at all?

“I think somewhere in the reports it has the coordinates of where the whirlpools were. We could start there, crack off some EMPs, throw around some moves.”

Phobos and Deimos have found a Gallade. They spin around it, giggling gleefully, until it stumbles and falls, dizzy. Kepler throws a Pokeball.

“If only it was something easy. The door, I mean. Like a math problem.”

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 22:24:03 GMT

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Oh. Right.

She doesn’t even have the grace to be embarrassed as she sluices down through the floor and disappears. She finds Kepler not too long after, with Phobos hovering over him, Drifloon-cooing a greeting. Ruby joins their little party in good time.

Her palm slaps against Kepler’s cheek-- not as hard as it could have, mind-- and his eyes flicker open. The memory of running for his life slams into him a moment later and he sits straight up with a gasp. The following seconds bring the delayed pain response of a head injury, and he palms at the back of his head with a hissing inhale. “Ouch. Fuck.” There’s no blood but he’s going to have one hell of a Zangoose egg there later.

“Ghosts are scary and I hate them,” he growled, glaring daggers up at Phobos, who made a little balloon-noise in innocence. “Did you find anything fun? Pho, help me up, you ass.”

Phobos offered a tendril and Kepler used it to jerk himself to standing, only a little wobbly on his feet.

“Can we get out of here now?”

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 22:07:05 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler frowned. Pluto didn’t seem to return anything of use, as she turned to him with a faint shrug.

“Maybe…” he ventured, when Lulu suggested they might be coordinates from the origin of METENO. “Don’t know what good it does us. We don’t exactly have deep deep space capability, right now. Yet.”

Lulu gave warning that she was about to try something dangerous and then did it. Kepler had barely enough time to step back. Luckily, Pluto threw up a protect around them both, and the ricocheted attack struck harmlessly against it.

“Yeah, I, uh. Used the crystal mass as a shield when METENO Deoxys used a Z-Move and it didn’t do shit. Except kill my Dragapult.”

The flash of Andraste crumbling away before his eyes made him blink.

“How many Legendaries is that for the League, now?” he wondered, slightly off-topic.

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 21:49:02 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]This was only, technically, the second date Kepler had ever been on. And despite the initial overwhelming wave of anxiety, it hadn’t been bad. He just worried. He worried a lot. More for Ash but also for himself.

Still, this is a lot of physical activity for a guy who survives on three meals a day out of an energy drink can. He makes it into Ash’s arms and almost collapses on him, but the soft pause gives him time to take stock. He’s done this first bit okay so maybe it isn’t that hard, after all?

Cloudstrike joins Maple in lazy swirls around them.

“Y-yeah,” Kepler says, cheeks red, trying not to cling to Ashley’s clothes, “yeah, I can do that.” And he can, he realizes, he really can.

For Ash? He can do anything.

So he takes it upon himself to push off-- gently, after all the guy is in a fucking cast-- and he endeavors to actually skate, this time, instead of the weird, push-pull crawl he had been doing. He lifted his foot off the ground and strode (a small stride, but still) in the direction of that promised kiss.

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 21:21:18 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Ashley downs his drink in one go in a way that has Kepler blinking. Wow, that was fast. He looks down at his own glass, still largely full. “Uh.”

So he takes a deep breath (so as not to taste it as much) and tosses it back, swallowing the remainder in three large gulps. He exhales strongly afterwards, wiping his mouth on the back of his hand. “Ah, brain freeze!”

Ash flags down another bartender and they order another round. Kepler squeezes his hand, wondering if he felt any different, yet.

“Love you too.”

He looks out from under his long lashes, realizing he was going into his first year of not being completely alone. It was a terrifying, exhilarating thought. “Do you have any plans for the new year?”

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POSTED ON Jan 28, 2023 21:05:47 GMT

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POSTED ON Jan 25, 2023 18:11:11 GMT

"Not everything," he says, hint of whine worked into it, because he knows this is exactly what Mars knew-- nay, wanted-- him to say.

"But really. How do we go about it?" now that he had the inkling of a challenge, of a new mystery, he wasn't going to let it go. "EMP? Run the numbers? Power up your teleport?"

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POSTED ON Jan 25, 2023 18:05:17 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Things start to go pear shaped but Ash doesn't panic, just resets and moves in front of him, a new hand touches the beacon style-- giving him something to head towards. The gentle touch of snow behind him helps him get his shit in gear, and he realizes that he can sort of dig his skates into the ice to get some grippage and he, one step at a time, gets his knees back together.

"I'm-- okay," he says, doing a gentle reset, achieving T-pose status quo and getting his shit together. "I'm okay." It's more for him than Ash at this point, but hey.

People who don't fall right get hurt!

"Wise words from the man in the cast. Okay. Ass in. Arms out."

He takes the tiniest baby step. It's less of a step, really, and more of a shuffle, but it's forward motion, and he doesn't fall.

"Holy shit." He does it again. It's a side-bodied sashay, really, one foot propelling and one foot inching forward, but-- but it is.

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[attr="class","thadmain"]It's adorable watching Ash sound out the words. In other people's mouths it would look dumb, would make Kepler lose his patience. But his boyfriend was endeavoring to understand something completely foreign to him in an attempt to bring them closer.

"It's fine. It's a very common birth defect. Honestly, I don't even feel it anymore." And they had engaged in more than enough extramarital activities for him to really feel it. If it didn't bother him during their-- proclivities-- it probably wouldn't ever bother him, at all.

God, his stupid giggle. He hid his mouth behind his hand, grinning into his palm, flushing red from his ears all the way down his neck from Ash kissing his hand.

"I trust you." The server brought them their drinks, and Kepler spun his on the spot, peering down into it. "Just... tell me if I start getting obnoxious, okay? This is supposed to be fun for the both of us. I don't want to ruin it because I'm a-- a drunk athlete, or some shit."

And he took a big drink, eyebrows furrowing at the taste.

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POSTED ON Jan 24, 2023 20:59:23 GMT

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Phobos continued to hover over Kepler’s prone form, like a little, balloon shaped grave-marker, innocent and childlike, cooing softly into the silence around them. Incredibly useful to the situation at hand.

Deimos did a little spin on the spot, ethereal tendrils of… hair? Ghost miasma? Whatever-- swept over to one side in a nonchalant head toss.

What, like it’s hard? she seemed to say.

The Dusknoir groaned, a ponderous, tired noise, old and ageless like the creaking fall of an ancient tree.

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POSTED ON Jan 24, 2023 20:54:03 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Pluto saw something ensconced deeply in the heart of some indeterminate shell, like an overgrown, dug-in bramble, pulsing and beating weakly with a pulse antithetical to that which contained it.

It reminded her, a little, of Kepler himself, who always behaved slightly like indigestion: occasionally loud, frequently irritating, but ultimately harmless in the end.

Outwardly, Kepler couldn't shake the feeling that this was going nowhere and he was starting to have the impression that everything he touched was a bust. When was the last time he'd had patience?

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