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Upon the Kingdom Steps [m]

POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 16:45:22 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Sure, Hoenn has more natural energy and phenomena than any other region, and that made it inherently volatile just in terms of natural disasters, but...

"Hoenn is a region that should not exist."[break][break]

"How can you say that?" The kneejerk offense surprises Keiko herself, but she doubles down on it. "Is - do you think -?" She sputters around the concern she feels. No one should be able to say that, but she says it so easily. Keiko tends to yield to others' understanding of Hoenn because she's so new, but someone so young should not have the conviction to share such a nihilistic thought like talking about the weather. [break][break]

Keiko feels more out of depth in this conversation than in the spatial rift they're walking through. "It does exist. It's - it's part of the world! It's natural. It just, um, has a high concentration of unusual... activity. It could be the fault of the legendary beasts."

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m illuminate | spotlight, spore, flash, moonlight, ingrain, mega drain

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ULTRA DESERT: SK #2

POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 15:31:11 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]With Victreebel felled, the mirage faded. "Geez, who knew all of these space rifts were filled with things trying to hurt you... I see why this isn't a tourist destination." Her heart was pounding. But as the area cleared from the mirage's blurry images, she realized something small and stone was sticking out of the sand ahead of them. [break][break]

"Maybe that illusion was protecting this thing?" She hurried over as if they hadn't just been met with hostile environment. The stone looked hand-carved given that it was a perfect pyramid shape. "An artifact, maybe." She ducked down and brushed some sand off of its sides, and then the earth shook. [break][break]

She backed up instinctively. The stone rose into the air, but the stone was long, long, long. It was an obelisk... [break][break]

It rose above them about twenty feet, floating ominously. Its seals glowed, but there were also notable holes where seals were missing. "What could have made this?" It reminded her of Elgyem.

[break][break]silverio delfino | 07 involve the discovery of ancient obelisks that possess holes for missing seals.[break]

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POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 15:25:29 GMT

07 involve the discovery of ancient obelisks that possess holes for missing seals.
10 involve confagrigus or runerigus in some way.
12 become immobilized by an espathra's psychic eyes.
14 experience a misleading mirage.

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POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 15:25:16 GMT

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EXPEDITION #: 2nd here, 5th overall (for both characters)
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07 involve the discovery of ancient obelisks that possess holes for missing seals.
10 involve confagrigus or runerigus in some way.
12 become immobilized by an espathra's psychic eyes.
14 experience a misleading mirage.

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Upon the Kingdom Steps [m]

POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 15:15:35 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]An interdimensional group... How could anyone control a god? Her understanding of the strange phenomenon where people had close relationships with legendary pokemon was more of a mutualism approach. The very concept of controlling something divine sent a chill down her spine. Why would Almighty Sinnoh allow someone to use Her hand like a tool? [break][break]

She didn't ask further questions. She felt sick to her stomach already. [break][break]

She could understand the approach Eris took to the divine. Many people favored the pantheon since these legendary pokemon had earned their status as legends; many were favored by different civilizations and reigned over different domains (or at least, seemed to), but she was not easily moved from her own faith. "I admit it's strange to think about these pokemon having human-level intelligence, or greater than. I feel uncomfortable thinking about, like, Zapdos being able to comprehend human politics."[break][break]

Worse, it being able to comprehend human politics and form an opinion on them. To act on them. "Hoenn is so different from Sinnoh. But I chose to be here to help with the war effort, so I'm in it for the long haul. We can't... the world can't survive another Kanto."

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POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 15:02:02 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]He knew how to build anticipation, she'd give him that. She wasn't sure what kind of solution she expected him to propose, but the camera wasn't it. [break][break]

"Oh. Oh, that's a good idea!" She patted her hands excitedly against his back and shoulder where they lied. "I can totally do that." She loved all forms of record keeping since archivism was such a reverent task in Celestic Town. A photo journal or album or, hell, blog would be helpful. And if he used to keep track of new memories, it would be a good way to see how much growth he'd had and how much he had to look forward to. [break][break]

She knew he had to give himself permission to move on, but neither of them were at a point to make that happen. The camera was a good step forward. Then, they had the other matter to attend to. "Now... food? Food now?" Being held was cute and all, but that Tatsugiri wasn't going to eat itself.

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 23:57:06 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]She had reached for the proffered water until Silverio's utter of pain. She flinched and looked to him with alarm, but it was his sandslash at work. [break][break]

"Whatcha doing to your trainer, little buddy?" Did he need a timeout? Was he thirsty? [break][break]

She looked back to the Maractus to see that it was no Maractus at all but rather a Victreebel. It loomed over them, angry and - [break][break]

It looked kind of hungry? Oh geez, were they Victreebel food? [break][break]

It used leaf storm, whipping up sharp bladed leaves to slice at them. "Knock him back!" Slowking charged into action, giving the Victreebel a headbutt to push it back.

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 23:50:46 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]If that's what he meant... She didn't know what he needed to get out of it. What kind of proof would confirm its worth? Champion rank? [break][break]

She'd never felt this way about something before. [break][break]

"It led you on the path you're on now. It means something for that alone. You wouldn't be doing all this otherwise... so no matter what happens going forward, we know it means something. It changed you, right?" She worried about him, about this line of thought. "Do you need something tangible? Like... a journal?" Writing about it could help. She wrote countless letters to work through her thoughts, and some of them were never delivered. [break][break]

"What can I do?"

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 23:24:46 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Almighty Sinnoh, she never knew what was running through that mind of his.[break][break]

"How could there be nothing?" What was he afraid of, exactly? Holding onto all of those negative emotions for the fear of... forgetting? It could have been something else entirely. She furrowed her brow at him, pensive. "What if you let it go, and you're happier for it? And you're no longer haunted by things you can't change?" [break][break]

She almost broke out of his hold to shake him by the shoulders and try to drill it into him, but she let the urge pass just as quickly as it'd come. She couldn't force him to think as she did, but she hoped he would lessen the weight of the past that he carried with him, always. "When will it be enough? Your mourning of the past?" He couldn't think this was sustainable, surely. She didn't want to watch him continue to throw himself face-first at a wall trying to move it.

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 22:48:08 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Ah, she was starting to figure him out. [break][break]

A helpless romantic, huh? She hadn't expected to be swept into his embrace, leaving her to squeak and quickly loop her arms around his neck. "What's this for?!" She could walk, damn him. But after his lamenting of Gallade's inability to handle things without harming them, she felt he was reacting emotionally, rather than logically, and it would be an uphill battle to fight him in terms of reason. [break][break]

She caressed his face, directed him by the jaw to look at him. "People change. Pokemon, too." For a moment, she thought she was really looking at him. "You get stuck in the past. More than me, I think. Kind of impressive." She wasn't sure what to make of that. "You have to let that stuff go. If it doesn't serve you, you just carry that dead weight forward."

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 22:25:20 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]"Aw, you're right!" She'd totally forgotten about taking pictures. And she wanted to get some good shots of the desert, too. Now, they were at a low point where one couldn't appreciate how massive and sprawling the desert really was. She felt disappointment swell in her chest until Silverio's sandslash was running wild. [break][break]

She thought he was fucking with her. "An oasis? Dude, it's not the time for jokes. We need to fin-" [break][break]

But he was off to the races. Holy 'karp, did he think it was real? She fell in-step behind him. "Wait! It's not - don't!" As she pursued, the mirage seemed to be appear for her, too. She could see its blurry edges as they neared it despite her conscious mind telling her it's fake. They stumbled across some tall Maractus which offered them a coconut full of water. [break][break]

What the hell? This scene had been non-existent a minute ago, and now it'd blurred into existence?

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 21:45:52 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]The sands died down. [break][break]

She took a few breaths without her arm in the way, suddenly more grateful for open air than she'd been before they stepped into the rift. "I certainly hope so," she responded quickly. "I had no idea they could get so big." It was becoming more and more clear why the League forbade people entering these rifts alone. Things were too unpredictable. [break][break]

"Of course, I have no idea where to head to now. I don't see any landmarks." She hoped they could navigate their way back to the rift when it was time to leave. "I was hoping to see an unusual pokemon like those Volcanion we saw, but all we've got is a mega big orthworm."

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 20:27:52 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]His sandshrew got right to work, so Slowking needed to get in the middle of it, too. The orthworm summoned a huge sandstorm around them, the abrasive winds cutting into her skin. She held an arm up to her head to block what wanted to entered her eyes, but she was blind and overwhelmed in her senses. "Shit," she grit out, then found herself having to spit out beads of sand. [break][break]

Slowking used disable to prevent the orthworm from recasting the environmental assault. Then, he launched a water gun at the bastard desert pokemon. [break][break]

Keiko took her free hand to loop around Silverio's arm, tugging him in some direction. If they didn't stick together, it'd be too easy to get lost. If they didn't keep moving, they'd be buried in the sand.

[break][break]silverio delfino | 03 involve dangerous sandstorms or the ability "overcoat".[break]

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 20:23:59 GMT

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Gallade left them to their devices. She bit back the urge to tease Rex for averting his eyes, only because she found it adorable. [break][break]

She stepped into his personal space once she was dressed, putting her hand on his horrid bedhead and tilting his head towards her to see if it could be persuaded to fall in order. "What do you mean by that?" This close, it was hard not to notice the way his eyelashes fell against his cheek. The hair was not agreeable. [break][break]

"Gallades are always stronger than Kirlia, and he seems pretty happy being strong, right?" His cheerful exterior had become subdued as he commented on his pokemon, throwing her off. "He's a good pokemon."

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