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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK #3
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 20:14:52 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]She slammed the button beside the elevator door to get it to open, but nothing moved. "Broken?" The light inside the elevator was working, so there was certainly some power getting to it. The button array just... wasn't functional. She braced herself with a foot on the wall, sticking her fingers into the grate of the door and pulling hard to get the elevator open. It creaked unhappily but finally gave way, giving them an opportunity to get inside. [break][break]

By the time the door opened enough for them, she heard the sounds of pokemon. Thankfully, it was their own instead of the Tsareena. "Thank goodness," she exhaled as she stepped into the elevator. "We can get down there with our team intact. Whatever's powering the castle - and maybe the entire realm - must be underneath." As Audino neared, Keiko clicked her capture capsule to return Audino to her pokeball. They wanted to have room in the elevator, after all. [break][break]

Once everyone was aboard, she'd hit the down button. [break][break]

And then the elevator sunk like a rock, not in a controlled fall at all but completely unrestrained by any safety cords altogether.

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POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 19:47:40 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]She'd much rather be off the island than opt to just be on it, but the point was moot. She wanted to keep a piece of his easy-going spirit and avoided voicing her dissatisfaction. Pragmatically, they still needed to work towards solutions on the island while they waited, right? [break][break]

She pushed at his shoulder with a scoff. "You're full of yourself," she dismissed, rising to her feet faster than him to prove a point. She reconvened with her pile of clothes and pulled out her hair pins first to reset her buns as best she could. She'd kill for a hairbrush, but she wasn't interesting in scouring the island for pokemon bones. Not yet, anyways. "Pelipper's taking his time," she grumbled as the thought crossed her mind. [break][break]

He should be plenty fast with his tailwind. "You don't think..." Something happened to him, do you? She bit off the sentence before she could voice the full thought aloud. The philosophy of her fellow castaway could only go so far - she couldn't 'just be' forever. The island would drive her crazy first.

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POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 17:36:20 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]She scowled at the Growlithe comparison, flustered but struggling to defend against the comparison. She was perpetually in motion, chasing, and it was hard to stop and smell the roses or whatever when there was so much to do. [break][break]

Banished was a striking choice of words. Maybe the spiraling was self-inflicted punishment. She couldn't evaluate it clearly like this, exposed and vulnerable and far too open. She wasn't expecting him to really see her, and the realization that she let few people see her inner workings and her thoughts like this was humbling. For all their collective faults, Rex was good for her. Good to her, barring the insistence to spare that awful Gogoat. [break][break]

She wanted his thoughts, to even the playing field and feel less like she was under a microscope. "What do we do now?"

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK #3
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 17:30:02 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]What a theory. A central power source for the whole realm? If there was, she suspected it would be beneath the castle. Perhaps, they should go down instead of up... [break][break]

"And away we go!" Audino stood with his Ceruledge and used fireblast at the mechanical Tsareena, helping to cover their escape. She fled up the stairs quickly, which forked into a left and right hallway. "Whatever route, we just need to find our way down without suffering their wrath." She chose left on instinct, breaking into a full sprint at the sound of the Tsareenas' cries. Who knew how many would be here?[break][break]

At the end of the hall was some signage in a language she didn't know. But there was an elevator, filled with brass and gold elements that simultaneously reminded her of mine shafts and of steampunk novels. "Down it is," she murmured. Her Audino hadn't returned to her yet, so the fight of the Tsareenas must be a long one.

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK #3
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 16:03:02 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]She felt sad for the machine in her hands. It had done its job in running for so long that it eventually ran out of juice. "I guess that was the power source?" She wasn't sure what to make of it. She put the pieces of the sphere down gently, feeling sentimental for an item she hadn't known about a minute ago. [break][break]

The entire pocket universe was seeming like a dressed-up graveyard. Broken toys and old, old bodies. She wasn't sure what to make of it. [break][break]

"And not a soul in this castle," she said with a growing suspicion. "And no sign of the creator of these gadgets." She turned to look at Silverio as they continued through the large hallway. "I don't know what to make of it all." They approached a large staircase moving upwards. "Maybe we'll find a bedroom or something." An old-timey painting of a family or the heir seemed to be long overdue in this giant castle. Isn't that the kind of decor they were supposed to have? [break][break]

She was too deep in thought to realize the methodical, mechanical footfalls that approached them from behind.

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POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 15:38:18 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]The Marill fled from Tinkatink, which only seemed to make the pokemon more antsy for violence. Keiko put some pep in her step to get closer to the pokemon. The fairy, however, saw the approach scurried out of the way faster. Keiko groaned. "Don't make me put you back in your pokeball..." She didn't want to do so since it felt punishing, but the fairy was too aggressive. Keiko felt only letting her out for battle would just reinforce the behavior, but it might be a lost cause altogether.

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK #3
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 15:36:26 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]While it was a haunting sight, she took some solace in the bones being visibly old, like nearing turning to dust. It was possible the threat was long gone. Anything could have happened to these people and pokemon, really. She didn't have the knowledge of bones and forensics to assess anything deeper. [break][break]

They walked deeper into the castle without stumbling into more bones. Eventually, they came across a sphere made of gears. The gears were twitching, not quite in full movement as the device must've been designed to do, but it was still active. [break][break]

She picked it up. "What purpose would this serve?" It didn't seem to be a component of a larger machine because the gears were all self-contained, not edged out to interact with external pieces at all. She turned it over in her hands only for the sphere to suddenly split in two. [break][break]

Something blue-green-white exited it like a gas, dissipating into the air before them. She blinked, processing.

[break][break] | 24 break apart a machine or mechanism (not a pokemon) and witness what appears to be a soul being released. [break]
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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK #3
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 15:30:02 GMT
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24 break apart a machine or mechanism (not a pokemon) and witness what appears to be a soul being released.
29 encounter mechanical tsareena that hunt you aggressively, attempting to fence with their sharp, blade legs.
19 involve an elevator ride that goes horrifically wrong.
32 either by exploring clockwork tunnels underneath the city or the castle, liberate carbink who have been working in other coal engines for eons.
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MECHANICAL KINGDOM EXPEDITIONS
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 15:29:48 GMT
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FAREWELL, MY FREE ADVENTURERS!

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EXPEDITION #: third time for both
SELECTED PROMPT #s:
24 break apart a machine or mechanism (not a pokemon) and witness what appears to be a soul being released.
29 encounter mechanical tsareena that hunt you aggressively, attempting to fence with their sharp, blade legs.
19 involve an elevator ride that goes horrifically wrong.
32 either by exploring clockwork tunnels underneath the city or the castle, liberate carbink who have been working in other coal engines for eons.
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Upon the Kingdom Steps [m]
POSTED ON Sept 4, 2024 17:52:17 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]Souls? Into things? [break][break]

Horror grips at her heart for a few moments before she calms herself. She can't imagine the monster that would try it. The monster that would think it. Disturbing the divine order of things, the creation and lifespan and erosion, by pulling out the core of life and trying to immortalize it into gears or gadgets or what-have-you was the antithesis of her belief system. This place could not, then, be holy. It must be the skeletal remains of something that had scorned Almighty Sinnoh. [break][break]

The question of theology was no unanimous decision. "Almighty Sinnoh is all. She presides over time. In Celestic Town, we are the most vocal followers of Her. That said, most of my region believes Sinnoh to be one-and-the-same, a different form of Her that continues to guide time." She frowned. "This Dialga, I believe, is simply a hand of Hers, an extension or perhaps a puppet."[break][break]

Dialga was not who she prayed to. "There are many schools of thoughts, unfortunately. The biggest divide is about what domain Almighty Sinnoh even commands, but don't let me get into that." She waved her hand dismissively. "Natural consequence to the oldest interactions with the divine being up to humans to record. People make mistakes and want to confirm their current beliefs. But I understand that the divine touch ground here often. It may very well be possible to see Her before long."

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Seabound [M]
POSTED ON Sept 4, 2024 17:44:43 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]Afterglow left her blissfully thoughtless, a rare occurrence that let her just be, without the analyzing and worrying and planning. She felt unburdened, pressed against him and enjoying the warmth of day before the moon chased it away. [break][break]

But his comment jolted her back to reality. She would never admit it, but she'd lost track, too. Her internal clock was never wrong, yet she had seemingly stepped out of her body in trying to teach Rex a lesson. She felt a gnawing of guilt from her own carelessness. But while they touched, it was hard to think that any of it was wrong at all. [break][break]

She would have to assess all of it in the clear light of day - in other words, when she was off the island and able to think clearer. [break][break]

It felt unfair to keep these thoughts all to herself, but she couldn't make heads or tails of it, so what would Rex do with it? Instead, she stuck with a smaller truth. "You surprised me." She reached at his hand to hold it, to rub her thumb against it. "I keep spiraling, but you keep bringing me back down to earth."

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Upon the Kingdom Steps [m]
POSTED ON Sept 4, 2024 15:16:20 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]Eris' questions were good guesses, but she supposed it was a little of both. This place was accessible through a spatial rift and time might operate differently here. Minimally, time was the focus, like it was sacred (which it was), and that wasn't a kind of worship she saw often outside of Sinnoh. Celestic Town, her home, had been especially fervent, but she hadn't seen a lick of her faith in Hoenn. [break][break]

Until this place. She was certain this was related to Almighty Sinnoh, but it might be more complicated than the overwhelming motif of time. "It's complicated," she said after thinking it through. She wasn't sure how to vocalize her thoughts. [break][break]

She waved at Isolde the Magearna. "Very cool. The gears must indicate that this place had a thoughtful architect, right? Gears require an understanding of complicated mechanics," she thought aloud as they walked through the twisting alleys, "though things become simple and automatic once it's all working. It must have been made by someone who wanted things to work perpetually." Eternally, if the gears never wore out - which would take a very long time in the first place.

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POSTED ON Sept 4, 2024 15:09:50 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]Tinkatink swept her hammer over her shoulder and charged forward with a mighty battle cry. Oh, goodness, she was going to have to watch Tinkatink smash this Marill to bits. [break][break]

"Watch out"! She shouted. Marill perked up and saw the bloodthirsty Tinkatink. Wisdom dawned on the water type and it turned tail and fled.

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK#2
POSTED ON Sept 3, 2024 23:39:09 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]His theory offered no comfort. What could the guard be protecting the castle? Just the property itself? Or was there something sinister inside? [break][break]

Something time-related must be stored inside. The nonstop time motif and frequent occurrence of clocks and gears made her think there was something inside the castle that supported the land. [break][break]

"If you're right," she said slowly, "we're lucky to have escaped that first Volcanion we saw. And if there's more than one... who knows how many are here?" It went without saying that they needed to explore the castle, still. They were here to investigate. They couldn't just turn tail and leave when faced with a daunting mystery.

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: SK#2
POSTED ON Sept 3, 2024 22:32:34 GMT
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[attr="class","rosepost"]She flinched as the Volcanion stepped closer, then perished before their very eyes. She looked at Silverio suspiciously for a moment, as if he'd had telekinetic powers and used them on the sentinel pokemon. But she quickly shook the thought. Clearly, this fella had been on his last legs already. [break][break]

She tried not to think about how it had defended the castle with its dying breath. "Right. Moving forward." She followed him with stiffer movements, feeling a little emotional about the pokemon despite her resolve to not think about it. [break][break]

And then she saw it: the large, expansive ballroom was filled with a sea of skeletons. She held a hand to her mouth to keep from screaming, taking labored breaths at the sight and stepping closer to Silverio without intending to. Horror turned her blood to ice. Had these been people who followed Almighty Sinnoh and died to some other cause? Had these been people attacking this holy place? She was so positive her god had reign over this domain specifically, and yet, she had not imagined the expanse of death she saw here. [break][break]

had had doubts of Almighty Sinnoh's intentions, of Her divine power and knowledge... but his experiences had been abstract. Seeing it up close, the kind of damage that had occurred - that she believed to be a result of Almighty Sinnoh - made her shiver.

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