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PFL Playoffs: Goldenrod @ Hammerlocke [PUB][C/Lars]
POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 12:22:11 GMT
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“Well, see, that’s the thing. You know what happened right at the end of the entire meteor fiasco that went down when we landed near Oldale? You remember that other thing that roared and made the strange location where the macabre living ‘cemetery’ now is?”

He trailed off, letting the words hang in the air for the briefest of moments.

“…I haven’t heard from them ever since that time.”

Which should be alarming in and on itself.

The good thing was that he’d managed to survive this entire year so far—albeit missing a very important companion. Anyway.

He returned his attention to his own order, taking another drink from the Zombie in front of him. (Close, but not quite as compared to his favorite Bramble…)

It was time for more ‘handegg’ rulings…

“Okay, wait… so if they don’t win the challenged call, they lose something, right?” he continued, racking his brains for the information because the version of football he knew did it so differently!

It was either a yellow or a red card, and they were out of the game altogether if the player caught in the violation got slapped with a red card.


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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 12:10:17 GMT
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At least the tomatoes and the cheese didn’t taste all that bad! The lettuce left something to be desired, though, and he missed most of the bacon—because the bacon bits were all with Ro’s half of the sandwich and even the Lucario made a face!

The good thing about this was that they were able to get through the consuming part of the challenge without throwing up or anything like that, so…

“You know,” he mused as he took the nondescript beast-headed badge that she was holding out for him, “…I actually thought you were going to base this off of Chomper’s three heads.”

He then gave her a little knowing smirk.

The Lucario then crossed his arms and rolled his eyes in Lars’s direction, but of course Alpha only meant well.

“Ro took the upset loss a little hard—but I’m pretty sure he’s out for a comeback,” and with that the Lucario nodded her way; confirming his words.

“He’s been training with Alpha non-stop here, and picked up a couple new moves or so. Think they can meet again?”

The offer was there.


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hazards [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 12:04:32 GMT
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“If we let you charge on ahead recklessly back then, you’d either be maimed for life or worse—dead,” he remarked.

“I’m sure even you wouldn’t want that, right?” he followed up a few moments later as he let the silence resolve between them before he spoke up again.

“You were letting your emotions get in the way—you know how disastrous shit can get when someone allows their emotions to get the better of them in heated situations.”

He’d only meant well by their previous exchange as he popped the twin Safari Balls open and watched as the two appeared from within—a Gallade taking the point, and Gardevoir taking up the rearguard.

“Don’t mind if I do, then!”

Everything, everywhere all at once started happening—the Gardevoir then set down the ground with a Psychic Terrain, while the Gallade crossed his blade-arms and powered up via Swords Dance.

There was something brewing on the horizon, but what could it be?



Gallade & Gardevoir are out on the field!

Gardevoir sets up with a Psychic Terrain (1 / 5) while Gallade gets ready with a Swords Dance (+2 to atk!)



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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 10:14:16 GMT
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“I told you I’m the plainest idiot you’ll ever know,” he began once she was done critiquing the sammich sandwich.

Almost right away the Gardevoir and Gallade immediately poofed out of existence via Teleport, leaving Alpha the Lucario squinting at the spot where the two had seemingly disappeared off to.

“Why those two…” he grumbled before the Lucario threw his paws up in mock celebration once again. Yeesh, looks like it was going to be between the two of them, then!

“I swear, Lynette and Gareth aren’t normally like this. They can be little shits, too, he continued, raising his voice with an obvious bite of sarcasm—because he knew the two could hear him despite having ‘ran off’ somewhere.

Sighing, with extreme trepidation the Lucario then sat down beside him and eyed the sandwich with much suspicion.

“I know, Alph… nothing else but to get to it…”

He then sliced the sandwich in half, before passing the other half to Alpha, who wrinkled his snout and glared at Lars—there was no way in hell he was touching this until his idiot human took a bite out of it!

“What? I have to go first?! Come on! he exclaimed, grumbling as he picked up the other half and slowly, hesitantly took a bite out of it…

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ULTRA DEEP SEA: FLAK
POSTED ON Jan 27, 2023 10:07:18 GMT
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For some strange reason, did the shadows—did they stretch out much further than usual? Where… where had Kaida and their other companion gone off to?

“Kai—” he began, before realizing the strange, unusual noise that was thrumming in time with his own heartbeat was getting louder the deeper they proceeded.

They were… for lack of a better term, very much alone.

The fine hairs on his arms were standing up and refusing to relax before he walked straight into the tendrils because he was looking around too much because of the inherent paranoia that was rising and—

The scream that was about to leave his mouth was muffled as said ‘hidden’ Nihilego (well, to the two of them it was just a jellyfish-looking Poké… wait was it a Pokémon?!) dropped down from the unseen ceiling and suddenly trapped him within its jelly-like ‘body’.

While he only knew of the other… strange Pokémon-like creatures he’d seen (mostly the buff bug) this one felt strange as the tentacles gnashed around and he tried to break out of it—but why were they so fucking slippery?!

He tried to yell, to scream, but the tentacles continued to hold him in that strange, macabre hentai hold the more he thrashed around.

He didn’t feel the stinging sensation at the base of his neck as the strange jellyfish set to work, digging its ‘stinger’ deep into the spot where it had pretty much stabbed him and tried to take control.

Right then and there the Silvally roared, fins bristling with an almost unseen light as it charged forward in an attempt to repel the strange squid… jellyfish… whatever this was… away from where it was trying to strangle the fucking life out of Lars.

Uh-oh!



• why does it feel like they’re alone here now…?!
• he’s on high alert, extremely paranoid and…
• BAM hell here comes the Nihilego, dropping down straight on top of him and trapping him, trying to squeeze the ever-loving life out of him
• one of the tentacles makes its way to the base of his neck and pierces through his skin before unloading its mind-altering poisons deep into the ‘payload’ (prompt #1)
• UH-OH!!!


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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 18:18:06 GMT
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“What can I say? I’m a very plain guy,” he remarked—although deep inside he was internally screaming because of the comment about him being too safe (or in her words, ‘too vanilla’) about his sandwich… well, clearly the reason why he was like this had already been revealed earlier.

Anyway!

The three Pokémon began looking at each other wondering what he was going to pick out for his last ingredient… but there was something that had already caught his attention.

The Lucario’s eyes bugged out as he realized what Lars was about to grab and was about to ‘yell’ when he reached for the cream cheese and the spoon to ladle it all out followed afterward, thanks to the Gardevoir’s Psychic powers fetching the spoon from where the cutlery had been assembled.

“…well, I know that putting two different cheeses into a BLT is crazy but let’s see how this goes.”

And on the cream cheese was applied.

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CANON ACTIVITY CHECK IV
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 17:35:53 GMT
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VEN’S CANON AC


JANUARY 2023 CANON ACTIVITY CHECK (1 of 2)

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  • player/ooc name: ven
  • character tags: (Alex’s is gonna be in a separate post)
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4 ic posts for canon characters:
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summarize 2 plots that are in-progress and being threaded:
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  • Rangers Rising: Redux[break]
    After the events of Meteno and the meeting between the AQUA initiative members that came out of it, it’s high time for the Rangers to come together to discuss plans moving forward. Seeing as there were several Ranger squads dispersed over the different ‘battlefields’ (Littleroot, Pyre and on the meteor itself) it’s of utmost importance to get everyone caught up as much as possible.[break][break]

    While there are plans already being discussed, fact of the matter is the next Rangers Rising meeting will be an exchange of information—and the discussion of the reports that Moltres has been reborn and had been seen supposedly flying from Mount Pyre to Mount Chimney.[break][break]

    A plan that had originally been hatched by would be discussed in more detail in the next meeting, and another call to action would be raised (at this point I cannae spoil it because it’s a surprise!)
  • Road of Proving[break]
    While it’s been slow going, Lars is picking up more badges, the latest additions to the collection being the Knockout Badge from and the Monster Badge from . At the moment, he’s in the middle of attempting to acquire the Weather Badge from and the Finite Badge from .[break][break]

    While the cards are still in the air if he’s going to take the Champion assessment, fact of the matter is Lars feels like he’s not even ready for the entire thing, because a lot of his badges were obtained in the non-traditional method as his line of work mostly involves a ‘man versus nature’ setup, so it’s going to be a hot interesting take on how he’ll handle ‘man versus man’ (for his traditional badge attempts) along the way.[break][break]

    Of course, he’s also a bit of a completionist as well, as he did discuss with how he’d been on this journey long before he’d been appointed Head Ranger and he’s in way too deep to give up or quit. Man’s a completionist what can I say.
  • Blood really is thicker than Water (ice?)[break]
    Being the oldest Anderson running around the region at the moment, Lars had taken it upon himself to keep tabs on fellow family members that also call Hoenn home. Most of the meetings he had are with (before she became a member of the Council, she was first and foremost a Ranger—once a Ranger, always a Ranger) where they talk about things that they’ve gone through.[break][break]

    He knows better than to constantly stick his nose into their businesses, but after what had happened during the Dawn of the Darkest Day he can’t help but worry even more about them.[break][break]

    While is living a quiet life down at Oldale (he has no idea that Eli’s visited her but imagine when he finds out that they’ve already met) the first time he’s meeting is at the ’quiet’ family dinner he’d cobbled together. He knows that there’s another cousin out there somewhere () who wouldn’t pass up the mention of free food though, but has no idea of their whereabouts as of late.[break][break]

    Thing is, when he finds out about the little rift between Elinor and Autumn (maybe during the dinner), in true stubborn Anderson fashion he’s going to try and get them to get along. Or at the very least be civil with each other.[break][break]

    (They’re a highly mismatched ‘familial’ unit, but one he cares about all the same.)
  • Ro vs Chomper: Rivals Evermore[break]
    As detailed in the curry entry submitted as Lars, the first chapter of this saga has drawn to a close—but who said that was ending there?![break][break]

    While and Lars are friends, fact of the matter is that her Hydreigon and his Metagross will meet again. Even though the two have been mentioned in passing while Lars tries not to have a breakdown making a frigging sammich for her minor League gym challenge, the intent is there—[break][break]

    Ro has lost to Chomper, but he’s not going to let that get to him! The sandwich breakdown is literally the OVA1 before the next arc unfolds… and boy things are going to get real interesting!
  • any notes/comments: between life-changing diagnoses (multiple actually) and work, thanks for being patient with me (and my armada). Onwards to Year Five (and beyond), Hoenn! (yes I know this is the same from the normal AC. No I am not sorry to admit I just reused it bc what I want to say is already all there.)[break][break]

    P.S.: Moltres we’re coming for you!


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meet the Andersons [s][c]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 17:25:42 GMT
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Alpha was by the door—and the moment he saw the two familiar draconids peeking through the window, he knew who’d arrived first—unsurprisingly it was Lumia.

The Lucario then opened the door for her, and then just shook his head her way—it was clear these two had definitely seen things about the idiot human who was trying not to have a damned-ass meltdown in the kitchen by grating an entire mountain of cheese for the Alto Marean carbonara he was going to make.

“Hi, Lumie,” he began without looking up as he returned his attention to the pot of water—which was already boiling by the time the door opened a second time—although instead of Elinor, someone else had come in…

Wait, didn’t Eli say something about a younger sister?

“Eli’s not here yet… wonder what’s keeping her,” he continued to the greenette who came in with a box. Hopefully Eli would show up soon…

He’d tried contacting , but the little rat was nowhere to be found—he wondered where she’d run off to. Knowing her and her penchant for food… she’d definitely not want to miss this.

The scent of pizza finally made him look up (he was already done draining the pasta and was now mixing the sauce into the noodles before ladling it out) and realize that Eli had finally arrived.

“What happened?” he went on her way, before catching sight and the beginnings of a shit-eating grin flashed on his face.

“Eli, I swear if you ordered nine pizzas again…” he cracked, trailing off and biting back the snort that threatened to escape him before he returned his attention to the one dish he was capable of making without assistance—

“The table’s ready, lemme just finish this up.”

Weather Trio be damned, how awkward was this going to be?!



sammiches on table, pasta coming next round


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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 17:12:48 GMT
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And there it was, the trigger.

“I… have a confession to make.”

He sighed. There was nothing else to it.

“I… I can’t cook. No, really. Outside of Alto Marean carbonara—and yes there is no cream or garlic involved in it, just cheese, guanciale, eggs and noodles—I’m a shit show in the kitchen.”

(Maybe this was why between him and , it was always the other man who would make the food between them. Evan… ouch.)

The moment he said this, the Lucario then threw his paws up in mock celebration. Fucking finally, his idiot human said it!

“…and ironically enough, I can gut a fish but cooking it is just. Well… beyond me.”

He then stared at the half-done sammich sandwich; while the tomato slices looked fine, the lettuce and the bacon bits looked… off, at best. Ah, shit.

Before he could say anything else, the Gardevoir then used her inherent Psychic powers to float over several slices of cheese and layer it atop the… crazed mess they’d managed to cobble together so far.

“Thanks again, Lyn… gah, sorry I’m such a fucked-up idiot who only survives on one kind of pasta dish and then the rest is takeout from the convenience store…”

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round two [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:50:51 GMT
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He wondered where that confidence had come from.

Surely there was more of it hidden away somewhere.

Lars could only guess if Noah knew the entire situation of what happened when Sootopolis was taken and they had to make a run for it because they were overrun… maybe the other would understand. Or maybe not. Either way, that had happened so long ago now.

“If only it was this easy getting a win!” he joked a few moments later as he picked up the badge. Another one to add to his collection—but he was far from over from this entire thing.

There were still other places left to challenge…



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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:43:25 GMT
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Yes, the Lucario was there for moral support—and for another reason.

Should Andrea look over to where Alpha was still facepalming while watching this travesty unfold, there was only one guess as to whomst would be accompanying him when they consumed this… this thing he was making.

Well, the lettuce looked… somewhat okay at least?

“Thanks, Lyn,” he said quietly as he picked up a particularly… neat-looking piece and layered it on top of the tomatoes. Now, the next problem was… where was the cheese the bacon slices? Did he have to fry it?! Or could he use some sliced ham instead?

(But then again that wouldn’t be a BLT would it, if it had ham in it?!)

He was about to stay there, paralyzed on the table when this time, the Lucario realized that Lars was already in the premature stages of a mcfucking meltdown.

Hoping to save the situation, the Lucario approached the table, saw where the bacon was located and this time grabbed it with his paws and walked over, before proceeding to bonk Lars upside the head.

“Ow! What the f—hey, Alph, what the fuck was that for?! he exclaimed, looking over at the Lucario who then gave him an extremely pointed eye roll.

Before he could step in any further, though, the Gallade was at it again, chopping up the bacon on the plate with as much care as he could.

(Well, if he was being honest it was with as much finesse as those blade-arms could do without slicing up the entire table.)

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PROMPOSAL.
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:34:02 GMT
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At the mention of a place where Pokémon could be sent for treatment—there was only one place that sprang to mind, right away—like it was right there, waiting to be utilized (weaponized?) for that specific purpose.

“I dunno how often you come far inland, but there’s a place that kind of already does that. Down at Fortree,” he mentioned, knowing that somewhere—a certain someone would sneeze for no apparent reason at all. Just because.

(The amount of fourth-walling here, I swear.)

“Have you already tried to go over there and check the place out? Unless… you’d want to talk to first because well it’s his boyfriend’s place that I’m thinking of.”

(Haha.)

As for the prospect of another meeting, his brows furrowed.

“I swear, if anyone’s bringing food this time and starting another food fight I’m going to freeze the entire room,” he grumbled with a tiny little sigh. “Speaking of meeting…”

He then had an idea.

“Why not we cobble together our information as well if we’re going to be having this meeting? And how soon would you want it to be called?”


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PFL Playoffs: Goldenrod @ Hammerlocke [PUB][C/Lars]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:25:57 GMT
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About that…

There was a look of pain on Lars’s face as he contemplated the request. While it was simple and innocuous enough, fact of the matter is that… earlier in the evening he’d disclosed to about the current… whereabouts… of the Iceborne Mirage.

(And how he’d been temporarily banned from descending into Shoal Cave for an indeterminate amount of time. Yikes.)

“There’s something… I have to tell you about that request, though,” he began, idly spinning a fry between his fingers before eating it.

“It might take some time before that can happen.”


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HINDSIGHT (mission / Bar Crawl)
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:20:51 GMT
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Lars then released the single longest exhalation he would muster up.

“Let’s just say… after the entire fiasco went down and everyone needed to decompress… I kinda got banished away from Shoal Cave.”

That, in and on itself was rather frightening to say the least.

“It’s been a while since I heard the familiar snarky overtones inside my head, you know. They weren’t there during the post-Meteno meeting, but I didn’t mention it to anyone because. You know. Everyone else going into an uproar for the tiniest reason ever.”

He sighed before knocking back another shot of tequila. Maybe he should order a Negroni next after the bottle had been emptied.


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aura sammich ft. saltbae [gym]
POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 16:11:20 GMT
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“Beginner’s luck,” was all he said as this time he decided to bust out the rest of his entire ‘armada’, which consisted of his Gardevoir and Lucario—the last of which saw the panic and confusion on Lars’s face and brought a paw to his face in classic facepalm pose.

The Gardevoir was just as confused as the Gallade was, but Gareth was nice enough to point out to Lynette that there was food on the table and Lars was now looking for the lettuce this time, because he already had a rather solid plan of what he wanted.

(Was he seeing things or was there no bacon? Eh, he’ll get to that later.)

This time picking up a head of lettuce that looked rather… grimy (was it just freshly-yanked out of the ground?) and this time, the Gallade took a step back and allowed the Gardevoir to come front and center.

“Clearly there’s no running water to wash this… uhh, Lyn, can you help me clean this lettuce please?” he asked the Gardevoir, the look of confusion still evident on his features.

He wondered how the hell this was going to work—but nothing to worry about, since the Gardevoir then proceeded to smatter the head of lettuce with a Life Dewinteresting.

Once that was done, it was the Gallade’s turn once more to help slice up the head of lettuce into manageable pieces so he could continue layering on the sammich sandwich condiments.

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