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What The #!@& Is A KPI

POSTED ON Jan 6, 2024 9:54:05 GMT

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There were many things that Xenon excelled at. She was a genius scientist, an brutal fighter, a masterclass Pokemon Trainer, she could read and write in five different dialects, one could go all day if they wanted to list all the things Xenon was good at. At least that's what she claims.
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But if there was one thing she was not good at, it was managing money. Indeed, Xenon Civitas Antheil had no idea how to balance ledgers or even maintain a reasonable personal budget, often blowing through her entire monthly stipend in a matter of days and forcing her to either steal other people's food or procure some money for herself by shaking down a business or two in the name of Rocket.
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This then presents a problem, as she's found herself in the precarious position of owning a nightclub, a nightclub that she had barely pulled out of the red with a great opening night, but a nightclub that she earnestly had no idea how to manage financially.
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Hence why we find ourselves here today within the High Offices of the Rocket Submarine, where a very disgruntled looking Xenon is pacing back and forth outside of Howard Slayte's office debating on whether or not she really wants to go so low as to ask This man for help. She didn't necessarily have anything against him per se, it's just that...
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Well she just didn't respect him.
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Every other higher-up she had had the pleasure of personally meeting at least had strength. Cillian Quinn was the Avatar of a shadowy legend, Tempest Quinn was skilled enough to meet her in hand to hand combat and even force a tie, Shred had fought alongside her against the digital approximation of that damnable phoenix and was key in their victory. But Howard? Howard was a pencil pusher, he was a bureaucrat, he was a rule keeper, a dusty old tome of a man whose head was stuck in the past.
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The woman who's eyes were locked to the future couldn't respect a man who was stuck in the past, especially not one who didn't even have the strength to back up his views. But today she would have no choice as she sighs and knocks on Howard's office door, laptop tucked under arm with all her financial records. This was the only guy who knew how to actually run a business apparently.

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VCT: Xenon Vs Gerald

POSTED ON Jan 6, 2024 9:13:56 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium) | Quark Drive | Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Electric Terrain, Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Hurricane, Hyper Beam

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The match evens out as Rhodium manages to score a few glancing hits against Amabilia, the crowd is going wild at this back and forth while Caesi continues to cheer her beloved Iron Jugulis on with all her heart!
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The Absol is closing the gap quickly, quick calculation from Rhodium determines that this is the worst outcome desirable as it angles its "wings" forwards and blasts the dark beast with a Hurricane force gust to throw it back, followed by another salvo of Flash Cannons to keep up the pressure!
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TO SOW DRAGON'S TEETH (LEFTWARD)

POSTED ON Jan 6, 2024 9:08:29 GMT

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The earth cracks under her feet as the dragon declares its prophecy to the heavens and plunges its claws into the frozen earth, rending the land atwain with divine might. It's no surprise then that Xenon finds herself getting separated from Eris Halla and Aurelie Lefevre as the ground literally splits under them, leaping backwards as a canyon opens underneath her and watching as the girls fall away in a storm of snowy rubble. Yet she hardly looks concerned in the slightest as she simply smiles and waves goodbye, more than confident that the two could take care of themselves while she looked for a more active way to support this battle.
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The screaming ray of energy emanating from the golem of ice seems like a good place to start as Xenon starts making her way towards howard slayte and Kazimir Wynter, approaching right along the same time as Shred coincidentally enough. "Well well, what a fucking squadron of misfits we are~" Xenon trills as her Gengar blasts several icy spears out of the sky with a concentrated salvo of Focus Blasts, keeping them safe for a second longer in the midst of all this chaos.
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In any case, "Dread Threatening" is looking for a plan. And while she might trust Howard to do her fucking taxes or some stupid shit, she did not trust the man to come up with any kind of coherent plan for taking down a god. "The plan is pretty fucking simple all things considered! One of us focuses on making sure we don't get impaled to the ground by the world's sharpest popsicles, and the rest of us fucking blast the bastard dragon with everything we've got! We keep doing that until either we all die or it dies, sound like a good plan?!" Xenon didn't bother to wait around for that answer as the Mega Stone embedded into her prosthetic arm hums with Infinite Energy, an egg of light cocooning Argon and exploding with power as he Mega Evolves. The ivory phantom cackles madly as a torrent of poisonous sludge bubbles from where he stands and slams into the White Kyurem, all the world's venom eating away at the dragon's hide as she adds just one more attack to the salvo to end this bastard where it stood.
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✦ Xenon separates from Eris and Aurelia after the fissure in the earth nearly swallows her whole, regroups with "Dread", Howard, and Kazimir to start fucking whaling on the White Kyurem. Mega Evolves Argon into his shiny white form, hits that bastard Kyurem with a concentrated Sludge Wave...

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VCT: Xenon Vs Gerald

POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 19:19:29 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium) | Quark Drive | Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Electric Terrain, Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Hurricane, Hyper Beam

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The light of Mega Evolution floods the field as the Absol cracks open the egg of possibility and emerges anew with new power, a psychic blade of darkness rushing at the dark beast from below.
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An explosion rocks the arena as Rhodium is knocked from the sky and sent clattering back down to the ground, yet still it holds steady as it quickly fires off a salvo of Flash Cannons to try and maintain distance from the melee fighter, struggling to recalibrate and take back to the skies out of reach of the Mega Evolved beast.
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vct: cian vs xenon

POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 19:12:33 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium) | Quark Drive | Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Electric Terrain, Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Hurricane, Hyper Beam

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Illusionary clones flood the field as the Froakie starts off strong with a straight Hydro Pump, the iron weapon responding with a gout of flame from its three heads to dampen the blow as best it can and create a cloud of steam to cover its actions in the opening round. The blow still lands and makes a solid dent in its carapace, but this is all just set up as Rhodium's Quark Drive hums with energy, a field of electricity pulsing across the arena as an Electric Terrain is set in play for the rounds to follow.
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CYCLIZAR SWARM (DRACONIC DECREES)

POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 3:08:14 GMT

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Her time in the Violet Book simulation drives her passions ever higher, her vision cast even further into the future as she races along the highway at mach speeds atop her Iron Jugulis. Their form is as a Black Shadow speeding through the night, two as one as Xenon clings tightly to the central neck of the futuristic war machine and scans the Cyclizar horde for the perfect specimen. "It's form was similar to this, it had to be a descendant of this. Meaning if I'm to reach the zenith of the species, I need to find the perfect specimen to study, the perfect partner to train. Nothing less than the best, nothing less than the best." Over and over she mutters as Rhodium blasts away lesser creatures with bursts of Hurricane force, each one scattering to the winds and proving their inadequacy. Only the perfect one would do, only the perfect one. She would find that future even if it killed her, nothing less than the best....
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✦ It's an F-Zero GX reference I swear.

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It's So Abomasnover

POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 0:33:38 GMT

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"Well I'm glad you get at least one thing here, I would hate to be wasting my time. You know what else wastes my time? Going all the way back to base camp to get protective gear that you should have grabbed before we came. That's a pretty massive waste of time." Yeah no, there's no way they're going all the way back to base when they were already this high up on the damn mountain. No way no how.
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The rumbling of the mountain grows stronger as Xenon takes off her backpack and roots out for an extendable pole, she needed to get a sample of this lava rock into study and-
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CRACK!
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Xenon's body tenses as she whips around to look at Shred assuming he did something wrong, the reality is worse. The ice under his feet is breaking in slow motion for her as she steps forwards to grab at his collar, a maw in the earth opens wide to swallow him whole. She reaches out and pinches the edge of his coat in between her gloved fingers, entwining them within the cloth and shifting her weight back to catch him. She can already feel her mistake as her feet slide out from under her, what she thought was solid earth was changing into ice as the hole widens, she had done nothing but get herself caught in this mess too.
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"Shit shit SHIT!" The scientist's scream is uncharacteristically girly as she falls into the depths right after the Rocket Beast, her shoulder slams into the ledge followed by her chin catching against the wall of this hole, her vision swims as she goes limp and her brain rattles in her skull.
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By the time she's come to she's lying on the floor in immense pain, at least one rib is broken, neither of her arms thankfully. Ah, that's because she landed right on top of her metal arm. Yeah, that would explain the broken rib. "Ow... Where the fuck are we...?" Xenon moans as she rolls over with a pained gasp, struggling to stand up proper as she-
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Oh. Oh wow, that's a lot of Tera Crystals. The agony of breathing is forgotten for a split second as she finds herself lost in a veritable sea of humming yellow and brown Tera Crystals, pulsing with life and illuminating the cavern they found themselves in with their brilliant lights. This was a good discovery. This was a very good discovery.

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VCT: Xenon Vs Gerald

POSTED ON Jan 4, 2024 23:59:43 GMT

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Well well well! Maybe if Caesi had bothered to read through the signups and brackets she might have known just who she'd be fighting today, an old time acquaintance she hadn't seen in quite a few months! Her grin grows just a little brighter as she takes her side of the stage, waving to Gerald's Absol and giving Rhodium a pat on each head before its ready to go.
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And with that the battle begins as the warmachine takes to the field with a burst of speed, zooming out and then up into the sky to hammer Amabilia with a Hurricane from above, each head whipping about wildly as it stirs up a storm to start this battle off with style!
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vct: cian vs xenon

POSTED ON Jan 4, 2024 23:53:48 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium) | Quark Drive | Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Electric Terrain, Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Hurricane, Hyper Beam

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A girl who is very much not Xenon steps out onto the stage with a bright and cheery grin, her mechanical warbeast floating alongside her as they walk out to meet their opponent in battle for another great match in the Vital City Tournament!
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"Woah, I love the confidence! But don't get it twisted, I'm not going down without a fight!" The brunet girl crosses her arms confidently as she steps out onto her side of the field and sends Rhodium out, the floating Paradox soaring out to take the stage and emanating a deep bassy growl.

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POSTED ON Jan 4, 2024 23:40:00 GMT

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Caesi smiles as she recalls her broken and tired Iron Jugulis back into its Pokeball, jaunting out into the center of the field to say farewell to her opponent who fought so hard against her. "I'm glad you had fun, I had a lot of fun too! You really clutched it out to the very last second, I hope you enjoy the rest of the tournament!"

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POSTED ON Jan 4, 2024 0:23:48 GMT

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A true dragon's breath sweeps across the stage, the curtains are drawn on the final act of this grand performance. The iron hydra looks death in the eyes as it draws on the power in its steel bosom. The landscape is that of the future, electricity hums in its veins as it opens it's maw wide. "Alright, we're done playing around now! Hype Beam, go!" The light that burns the sky pierces through the past and splits the clouds, striking the Altaria with one last finishing blow. The deed is done, Rhodium stands proud as the crowd erupts.
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"AND THE WINNER US CAESI AND RHODI!!!"
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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 21:44:31 GMT

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The dragon of the clouds sings it's song, a soothing melody that blurs the weapon's vision as its preparations falter. This is a critical failing as the cloudy beast's body rams into the Iron Jugulis once more, throwing it back down to the ground and leaving only it's primary head functioning as it staggeringly gets back up and begins it's preparations once more. Match point , all or nothing. This was what the crowd came to see as their roars settle into a quiet hush, everyone in the edge of their seats to see just what would transpire at the end of it all.
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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 21:33:59 GMT

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One head hangs limp as the Iron Jugulia floats back to its feet, the other two twitching back to life as L D eyes refocus on its opponent with an increased intensity. Even a machine has it's pride as it floats back up into the air and let's out a screeching roar of byres and bits, another salvo of Flash Cannons piercing through the Moonbeam and making direct contact with the Altaria to finally take it down! "Let's go Rhodi!!!" Caesi screams as the two attacks cancel out, the march onwards continuing as the dragon activates it's core and begins charging up for one final attack...
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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 21:11:36 GMT

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"CAE-SI, CAE-SI, CAE-SI!"
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"DI-A-NA, DI-A-NA, DI-A-NA!"
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The battle reaches a fever pitch as the machine onslaught continues, burning feathers fluttering through the air as ashen snow melts in the wind. The Iron Jugulis and its partner are dominating the match and show no signs of slowing down as it deploys its Electric Terrain into the air, before immediately sucking up all that power as its Quark Drive kicks into gear and a bright burning beam of light fires from its mouth!
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"Let's go Rhodi, Flash Cannon!" Caesi shouts as the sky scorching light of the future slams into the Altaria. But the puffy cloud of cotton is deceiving as it hits the bird off kilter, just slightly knocking the Altaria from its intended target as her body slams into the metal monster and sends it crashing down back to the ground as the bird makes its comeback!
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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 20:45:53 GMT

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Diana stays cool in the face of adversity, but that just leaves room for Caesi to get more fired up as she cheers her Iron Jugulis on, the roar of the crowd synchronizing with the pounding of her heart!
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"Alright then, if that was a warm up than let's cut straight to the main act! Let's go Flash Cannon!" A trio of steel rays erupts from the hydra's maws and smashes into the plume of Dragon Breath, a shockwave of energy sweeps past the two girls and whips their hair back as the ensuing explosion rocks the arena. Rhodium takes to the skies in a burst of upwards motion, aiming down at the Altaria and firing off another round of Flash Cannons while it can.
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