MARCH UPDATE

POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 7:09:42 GMT

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persephone needed to consciously force back a smirk. [break][break]

"you evoke the unnatural now but you won't heed its call when it gives you an explicit instruction?" she questioned @silvia , rhetorical, tone forced to a constructed neutrality. she cocked her head to the side like a quizzical lillipup. there was more she could say - doesn't the arcane prosper over brute force, as illustrated by the most basic of pokemon typing advantages?[break][break]

she never did wait for an answer, turning to where their pokemon were locked in place, the dust cloud settling around them. [break][break]

"stand down," she called out to the lucario, her gaze fixed stubbornly on him as he returned to her side, releasing the bastiodon from his grip. [break][break]

she'd noted their closeness, which was why turning to riley maddox was a calculated move on persephone's part. "your blood. drip some into the repository near the relicanth podium since we're all in agreement now."

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➺ one more bitchy comment and drops the dispute with @silvia[break]
➺ directs riley maddox to use his blood on the relicanth thing[break]

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POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 5:49:18 GMT

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persephone wanted to laugh but inhaled slowly letting a sliver of calm ( prosper's doing, messing around with her feelings? or is it daniel's intervention? ) settle in her voice before speaking again. [break][break]

"the floor was likely plaster, designed to collapse. it's common in these types of ruins, as it is throughout hoenn's caves and the like. when i talk about structural integrity i mean that," she said, nodding her head at the jutting rock over-hangings and the intricate carvings, statuesque and whittled into the walls and parts of the ceiling, watching them, severe and resolute. the light was too dim to see, but she'd seen similar designs, carved to look like pokemon "holding" the floor they'd fallen through. [break][break]

she slowed her speaking intentionally, pretending she was explaining this to a child. "that's nothing to say of the very walls that could collapse inwards at any moment as it is. look at the cracks." persephone held off saying that breaking down a door with a draft pokemon is not the same as several humans falling; that was implicit. [break][break]

intending to continue, persephone bit her tongue, staring down @silvia for several long moments. [break][break]

there was so much she wanted; she wanted to sneer 'poor gym leader', she wanted the walls to collapse around them, bury them all. she wanted to be right. [break][break]

"it's fine," she said even though nothing was fine at all. mulling her words over before continuing, almost wanting to dare silvia to let her pokemon charge ahead, persephone gave a shake of her head and finally turned to DANIEL WALKER. "you're right." [break][break]

'she couldn't have known,' was left unsaid. there were no other words she could conjure that wouldn't be razor-sharp and intended to sting.

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➺ actively tries to not give a lesson on cave formation 101[break]

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POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 4:41:04 GMT

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"the meaning is most likely literal," persephone chimed in with a small smile. no one would expend energy to carve out riddles on the walls. they were typically simplistic directions to hidden entrances and the like. the discussion about the text resumed, and persephone was somewhat relieved that they seemed to have accepted it without doubting her qualifications. [break][break]

when DANIEL WALKER approached her with the makeshift bandage, she smiled quickly, suddenly self-conscious of the fact that blood was matting her arm, having soaked through the small amount of fabric she had tried to cover it with earlier. it probably looked pretty gross honestly. "thank you," she said with a brief, shaky smile as she accepted the cloth. "hurts more when i think about it. the extremespeed was a dumb idea." [break][break]

distracted with wrapping her arm, persephone felt the bastiodon charge forward before she saw it, more sensitive to the vibrations than usual given her collection of bruises. [break][break]

she didn't have to say anything, didn't have the time even if she wanted to. prosper felt her surge of panic and rushed to halt the bastiodon, swirling forward in a quick swords dance and bracing for close combat. he disappeared into the dust and persephone in turn rounded onto the bastiodon's trainer, snarling, her fucked up arm forgotten. she hoped prosper cracked its skull open for that attempt at defilement.[break][break]

"what are you doing?!" persephone hissed, snapping to attention with a clarity that she had been missing up until that point, shaking from anger rather than pain this time. she'd raise her voice, but the cavern still demanded reverence. "at best you're threatening the structural integrity of this place! what do you want? for it to collapse on us?" [break][break]

at worst she was going to ruin a piece of history worth more than all their lives combined. seeing the released kommo-o at their side, persephone sent a sharp glare at Bailey Cooper to give her pause but said no more, turning back to the bastiodon's owner because she wasn't done here. [break][break]

"rustboro's rock-type gym leader," persephone spat mockingly. the league structure was always a farce, and this only served to confirm it. "you should know better."

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➺ makes a comment about braille interpretation[break]
➺ accepts help from DANIEL WALKER 'cause he's sweet like that[break]
➺ @silvia and Bailey Cooper , but mostly silvia, bout to get it. gun emoji x100[break]
➺ lucario attacks bastiodon with swords dance and close combat[break]

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phosphene [wild, solo]

POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 3:07:33 GMT

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she sees the scuttling out of the corner of her eye, a pink streak - paintbrush stroke superimposed into her vision - darting into the nearby grass and mumbling its own name to itself.

persephone blinks slowly, but she could still hear her rustling and decided firmly that she wasn't hallucinating.

was that... mrs wigglesworth from the saturday morning children's cartoon; adventures of mrs wigglesworth, chiko, cyndy and toto...? releasing the contents of the first pokeball she got her hands on, persephone was glad it was the manectric.

"check that out for me?" she suggested distantly. lightning crackled at his feet as he leapt into the grass with a pre-emptive charge, snout to the ground in an odor sleuth searching for the wigglytuff with the thirst of a predator. "don't fucking kill it!" perse cautioned after the pokemon, receiving an acknowledging grunt in return.

quick as a heartbeat, persephone watched the blades of grass shudder as cerza - most likely - found his mark and pounced with a powered up wild charge. he trotted out proudly moments later holding a paralysed wigglytuff in his jaw.

"oh," she said dumbly. "i'm sorry, i didn't think he'd..." the wigglytuff muttered her species name, and seeing its battered body was so uncomfortable ( memories of mrs wigglesworth! ) that perse took out an empty pokeball and tossed it at her, wincing as it bonked her on the head before she dematerialised inside.

& caught the poor girl.

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persephone's gachapon

POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 0:48:13 GMT

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i'd almost take rattata for the meme but like........

gonna grab manectric instead <3

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phosphene [wild, solo]

POSTED ON Oct 8, 2018 14:25:45 GMT

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a trick of the light.

blurring of the eyes, singing in the veins, a needle balanced between violinist's fingers.

she just doesn't want to be tired any more, persephone reasons. even still she has to justify it, unable to pierce the skin without residual guilt, a sharp twist in her stomach.

cross-legged, atop a rock near one of the pockmark entrances to meteor, she slows her breathing to match the waves, warms her joints in the sun's last rays as it sets beyond the horizon, casting the sky in streaks of ochre and carmine.

the caves still call to her, coaxing, her soft-voiced tomb.

persephone closes her eyes until she sees black.

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diagram the light [mission]

POSTED ON Oct 8, 2018 13:26:43 GMT

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a thought is brought to its knees

like a mirror indiscernible
through the blossoms of gasoline

It had been so long since Persephone had taken on a League mission that they started sending her first reminders, and then eventually, threats that if she didn't do one in a timely manner her membership benefits would get cut.

It's not that she didn't want to do them - not strictly speaking. She took the concept of her civic duty very highly, it's just the ones that she'd be offered ( alerts on social media dependent on what area of the region the user was located in ), were typically beyond asinine. Locating lost skitties and the like.

She decided to remedy the issue in one fell swoop; take a simple Slateport-Mauville delivery assignment, arrive in Mauville and see if anything else came up so she could rack up the requisite "mission credits" or whatever.

In truth, she accepted this next one after a few shots at the hotel bar firstly because it sounded funny at the time, and secondly because she actually qualified by virtue of owning a Pokemon that can read auras and she was a sucker for that feeling of pseudo-exclusivity.

'Report of haunting in Mauville Hills Penthouse Suite 704 after gruesome killing late last year,' the screen read and Persephone could only grimace at the words.

She was meant to meet a "partner" here - a Mauville cop apparently assigned to be an escort, but they were 15 minutes late and Persephone was starting to wonder if she got played.

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PHARAOH LEAP.

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POSTED ON Oct 8, 2018 7:04:01 GMT

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the floor caved beneath them, and the sensation of falling didn't seem as sharp this time. pelted by rocks and dust (plaster? she wondered idly), the group stirred in the kaleidoscope of pink light and cloud from the misty terrain, flickering colours, the glow emitted from pokemon. it didn't seem real, it couldn't be real, even if the pain was - persephone took several long moments to pick herself from the ground, touching her head sheepishly. the inscriptions on the walls, the relicanth pedestal.
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persephone's heart skipped a beat, the cavity of her chest heavy with apprehension. if this cavern held a relicanth, then surely a wailord equivalent should be nearby. the two always go together; part of the esoterica of hoenn's mythos.
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"braille was used as... something akin to a cipher by hoenn's ancient civilisations," persephone said to no one in particular, her attention captured by the carved dots. she could say more about these caverns, their collapsible floors an architectural feat designed to trap, but her tongue felt heavy, her body leaden, and she doubted anyone else would care regardless.
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"give me a minute, i can read it." she moved closer to the door, shaky at first. the dots swam before her eyes at the movement, settling into place a moment later. the text was somewhat archaic, punctuated in an unfamiliar way. she read closely, eyes glancing over the same symbols over and over until their meaning formed, crystallised, hurt like a shard in the throat.
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much like how she never said lucario couldn't sense the explorers when they entered, she didn't want to voice the translation either.
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"we owe all to the pokemon, who lost their lives here. to calm the storms, open the door with willing blood," she gave a shake of her head. this was absurd. she spoke quickly, uneasily. "for beyond it, the titan pokemon awaits. take that as you will."
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persephone didn't turn back to the group immediately, fixing her gaze down at her bleeding arm.
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➺ i had something in mind but wrote this garbage instead wow[break]
➺ translates the braille[break]

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POSTED ON Oct 7, 2018 4:20:52 GMT

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not a passage but a spinning blur. light-headed and unbreathing, she couldn't hear anything but the collapsing rocks underfoot. [break][break]

upon touching down, the momentum threw persephone forward with an unprecedented force. slamming into a rock wall, she would have screamed at the sharp burst of pain in her arm and side but the wind was knocked out of her lungs and she couldn't bring herself to inhale because even that burned. [break][break]

dazed, she blinked away the the static, slowly regaining her other senses. the lucario's concerned gentle nudging in her side felt like nothing, overshadowed by the searing in her right arm; useless and limp below the elbow. hissing in pain, she hastily wrapped part of her jacket around it. she could taste the metallic tang of blood. [break][break]

a distant voice brings persephone into the present, and she smiles at zeke rainey rising shakily to her feet as if the world wasn't still spinning. [break][break]

the echoing sound of a blast in the distance, and persephone saw, for the first time, lights flickering from the tunnel entrance she'd seen part of the group disappear into earlier. how much earlier she couldn't say, the passage of time long since having escaped her. she followed their footsteps forward. [break][break]

bursts of fire, the smell of burning and something acrid stinging the back of her throat. persephone felt a wave of relief threaten to overwhelm her when she saw the figures of the others - people she barely recognised. she stopped somewhere behind them, unsure as to what was going on but unwilling to announce her presence yet. [break][break]

it was all too much. she leaned against the rock wall, the cool of it soothing against the building heat.

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➺ basically thrown into a rock[break]
➺ almost definitely broke a bone or two[break]
➺ turns up to where the rest of the morelull group is 15 minutes late[break]
➺ inhales some of the sleep powder and honestly would rather pass out than deal with this[break]

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the sleep n' plot

POSTED ON Oct 6, 2018 17:34:20 GMT

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Vera Lindt

oh my god, sorry for taking a while to get back to you 🙏

but i love literally everything you said?! vera's such a sweetheart aww. i actually like the idea of her knowing something about persephone's father too! idk how much perse would necessarily care at this point because she's Grown Up now, but maybe she can attempt to weasel that info out of poor vera at some point c': actually, maybe i can grow this into a valid plot point later depending on who the person is..... maybe i'll think of something hmm.

you know, the irony is that if perse gets even an inkling of vera's alcoholism she'd feel as though she has to look out for her, too. i think that kind of caring is, presumably, something they're both lacking and it'd be pretty nice to have someone there to look out for them. incidentally, perse is sending girls to vera too! she's telling her to make a poketinder or whatever lol.

i think maybe a duo wild for some banter in like... the shoal cave to get samples of ice ~~and because i want an ice-type~~ might be nice??

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k8ie's plotter

POSTED ON Oct 6, 2018 17:33:52 GMT

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sorry for taking a while getting back to you! uni has been wrecking me this week but ily ;^; the rse games were my first pokemon games and screwing around with the braille stuff has been probably one of the most unique things in any subsequent game?!

in typical kid fashion, she probably went from being incredibly intimidated by him to being bold and asking dumbass questions and offering unsolicited and blatantly incorrect opinions on like... the dating of a particular deep-sea cave rock or something. in hindsight, it's one of those horrifyingly embarrassing memories that she desperately tries to repress lmao!

and omg please give perse a job!! i imagine she's currently this aimless, semi-recent grad from, idk, slateport university atm so if malcolm would even give her something concrete to work on or even a shred of guidance she'd be incredibly grateful / the most loyal and people-pleasing assistant ever?!

as for what specific TYPE of thread to do... i like the idea of both a flashback sort of thing to uni student malcolm, prof amavi and her obnoxious kid who is getting in the way and a more current one of them catching up with that box that can be used as a springboard for more shit later 👀 ~~and also maybe we can rapidfire both for gacha dollars haaaa~~ I'LL DM YOU ON DISCORD LATER AND WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT!! <333

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POSTED ON Oct 6, 2018 6:54:08 GMT

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she should have just jumped in the water along with everyone else. the pillars underfoot were shuddering slightly and she was too far from the ice slide to actually benefit from it, but to her immense relief, everyone who didn't fall or jump into the water seemed accounted for. [break][break]

persephone waited a few moments, holding her breath, to watch DANIEL WALKER dragon pulse bounce himself with his dragonair with a mixture of horror and amazement. as spectacular as the feat was, she turned to her pokemon with a shake of her head. [break][break]

"we're not doing that," she said, with more confidence than someone who was standing on unsteady ground has any right to have. [break][break]

"let's jump it with your extremespeed?" the pokemon, as accustomed as it was to strange orders and probably also not seeing any other viable options, didn't hesitate to place an arm around its master and leap.

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➺ me trying to act that posting late is ic and perse was just checking that everyone else got across :> [break]
➺ naruto-jumps / extremespeeds (extremesped?) across the pillars with lucario because she has the height and weight of a teenager[break]
➺ for what it's worth, relicanth is chilling and thinks kim cole-essam is a babe[break]

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POSTED ON Oct 4, 2018 10:09:07 GMT

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there's a flicker of something that she couldn't quite describe as light, and next thing persephone saw, blinking rapidly, were the figures of the monk and the pair getting across with psychic pokemon falling. the fact that it was the guy with the volcarona somehow made it sting more. [break][break]

stopping to process it for only a moment, persephone pulled a pokeball from her belt tossed it above the water, catching the sphere as it returned to her. as the relicanth materialised in the current below, she leaned slightly over the edge to peer at it in relation to where the pair landed. she wasn't concerned for her own pokemon - stocky as it was, she'd watched it handle the rapids outside pacifidlog with comfortable ease. and worst comes to worst, its rock-like scales could handle a battering. [break][break]

"can you help the-" she started to call out when she stopped mid-sentence to watch one of the people who hadn't made it across say something about... believing in god? being a god? she didn't quit catch it, but it didn't matter because the mad man jumped. [break][break]

she watched, mouth agape, in awe. kinda jealous that she hadn't thought of it.

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➺ releases a relicanth into the water near @arlette , kim cole-essam and @andromeda (feel free to grab onto him if you want!)[break]
➺ thinks @andromeda is a total badass, +50 respect[break]

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POSTED ON Oct 3, 2018 15:17:12 GMT

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lost in her own thoughts and trying to decipher the scene cavernous scene unfolding in front of them, the stirring of argumentative tones barely registered to her ears. nearing the outcropping a few steps behind the front of the group, persephone only just caught sight of a short figure performing some kind of gymnastics to get across, barely visible in the dark. [break][break]

observing him with a mixture of wonder and bemusement, persephone found herself at a loss on how to proceed until DANIEL WALKER released his gross spider pokemon and had it string together a makeshift bridge, but even then thought of letting anyone else cross ahead of her didn't even seem like a viable option. [break][break]

"gentlemanly," she commented with a quirk of her lips, stepping forward just as a volcarona made quick work of strengthening the path. flashing the man who sent it over appreciative smile, persephone set down her flashlight on a nearby rock, adjusting it so that the light illuminated makeshift path as much as possible, the webbing glimmering faintly. shedding her bulky down jacket, she took a series of not-too-cautious deft steps across, pausing at the half-way mark when she heard someone else request to use the "bridge" too. [break][break]

"can you make a safety net or something below too?" she called back, not turning so as to not risk losing her balance. probably should have thought about that before walking but better late than never, but at least if anyone else followed it'll be safer for them. [break][break]

she was sure-footed enough to make it across without much trouble, her pokemon bounding easily over to her side, just as a tremor through the cavern sent stone chips flying to the water below.

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➺ ignores the bickering [break]
➺ offers to test DANIEL WALKER 's bridge first because #herocomplex [break]
➺ thanks kim cole-essam and his pokemon for reinforcing the web [break]
➺ more concerned about leo del río and Bailey Cooper than about herself tbh [break]
➺ makes it across to the first of the "pillars" with lucario

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POSTED ON Oct 2, 2018 17:33:20 GMT

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she had always thought that there were two features intrinsic to cave systems like this; the swallowing dark of the cave's maw, and the crushing silence. given that, the voices from the depths, real or not, were unnatural - a trick of the mind or an intrusion into unsteady ground. at least she had caught sight of council members near the entrance. goode wouldn't send them to their depths. [break][break]

her mounting apprehension was short-lived, attention stolen by the markings on the walls. even surrounded by a sizeable company, persephone had to admit that their presence didn't feel particularly reassuring when half of them were walking around with regular civilian torches. making no attempt to hide her borderline contemptuous expression as she surveyed the group's exploration equipment, persephone hung back as people passed her, shining her torch's bright light on the walls. she was interrupted by prosper nudging her in the side with an outstretched paw, jerking his head incessantly at the front of the group. [break][break]

trying to mask her disappointment (it never did work on him, for obvious reasons) persephone made her way through the group until she saw a familiar face and held back to walk alongside young man and the girl with him. the question wasn't directed at her, but she felt both compelled and qualified to answer it. "they'd be normally fine after only 5 days if they took usual the precautions and stuck together. though i've never seen anything quite like this before," she said, casting an arc of torchlight overhead at the tar-covered wall markings. [break][break]

becoming suddenly self-consciously aware of the unintentional ominousness of her words, she raised a shoulder in a light-hearted shrug. [break][break]

at her side, the lucario's ears drooped half an inch, indicating that he couldn't definitively find the explorers. after a moment of contemplation, she decided to not share that information with the others for now.

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➺ relieved that she'd seen Malcolm Stone and famed league council @yiannis and @alexander earlier [break]
➺ judging your shitty normie supermarket torches [break]
➺ loitering behind to look at the cave carvings [break]
➺ joins Bailey Cooper and DANIEL WALKER [break]
➺ lucario is trying to get an aura read on the lost party but is having trouble for some reason