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Entry tags:
- a3!: itaru chigasaki,
- amatsuki: tokidoki rikugou,
- baten kaitos: sagi,
- blue lock: yoichi isagi,
- final fantasy: hythlodaeus,
- final fantasy: joscelaint grimpevers,
- final fantasy: rhel fashonti,
- lieat: efina,
- love live!: nozomi toujou,
- omniscient reader: dokja kim,
- omniscient reader: joonghyuk yoo,
- omniscient reader: sooyoung han,
- original: ala,
- original: chloe,
- original: hien callias,
- tsubasa reservoir chronicle: fai d. flou
NOVEMBER EVENT LOG
NOVEMBER LOG
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In the aftermath of the rampage, the city of Mango starts to put itself back together, mourning losses of its citizens and Pokemon which would have been much heavier if the calamity hadn't suddenly and mysteriously stopped. The static in the air, which the citizens had gotten so used to to the point of no longer noticing it, is now gone and the silence is almost palpable, so obvious in comparison. Even the sandstorm to the west has started to die down, so that every crunch of heel on gravel can be heard as relief pours from Toran to Mango City, volunteers empathetic and eager to return the favor, however unfortunate that the opportunity had to be this soon.The ghost Pokemon linger for a while, helping to guide the souls of the dead to the afterlife before they disperse back into the forest, while the cemetery stands still and silent save for those working on restoring the graves and fixing structural damages. Both towers remain closed to the public, the cemetery out of respect and the radio tower due to police investigation, with the staff called in for questioning but each denying knowledge of the radio signals having an adverse effect on the Pokemon. If there is anybody with that knowledge, it would be the company president, who is currently on leave elsewhere in the region and cannot be reached due to the storms and a conspicuously missing radio antenna preventing physical and electronic communication respectively. Maybe you guys will come across him later, maybe not. Maybe he got caught up in that volcano explosion you let happen. Who knows? haha!
Either way... people are welcome to remain in Mango as long as they want, and Toran seems to be fully up and running as well. Those who make the trip back to check up on how things are going will find the island to be warm and sunny, townspeople hard at work sowing the berry gardens and expanding the daycare center, where extra Pokemon will be sent to once the maximum limit of six Pokemon in a team has been met. Several missing children posters remain hung up around the daycare, but the island feels fuller, happier, with sounds of children laughing and yelling as they rush to the game corner to pool their tokens to win the new month's prize Pokemon: Swinub which know the move Rock Smash.
But for those who have decided to push forward, the only way forward is to the west, into the sandstorm towards Melona.
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Even without raging sandstorms, the desert is rough travel and there is no reliable map to get from one place to another, especially with the way the wind naturally and occasionally picks up to start sandstorms, and it's so easy to get turned around by the wind and the cliffs and the way everything is sand for miles and miles and miles around. Little Gale King is eager to go home, looking around for somebody who will act as her guardian so they can travel with a guide straight to Melona. While taking a guide can be a bit expensive, groups up to six people can travel together for the same group price and they are guaranteed safe passage, provided with thick capes to keep the sand from buffeting them, goggles to help them see, and rental Numel to ride upon so they don't have to make the trek on foot.The trip from Mango to Melona takes several hours, with occasional pit stops during which the guide pitches a large tent for everybody to rest in or to wait out a particularly heavy sandstorm before continuing on, but if they leave early enough in the day, they will eventually come across a huge stone dome in the middle of the desert, spanning several miles in diameter. Around the perimeter of the dome are several gates that can be opened from either side via hand cranks that require two people to operate, the thick stone walls of the dome protecting the desert town from the sun and the sand. At the apex of the dome is an open oculus that allows sunlight to shine down upon the town, and during the day, a constant beam of light illuminates the boba shop located at the very center of Melona. This shop's specialty flavor is Cacnea flower tea and its collectible stamp is a yellow Sandshrew! The boba shop is where the guides make a beeline to once everybody has been dropped off, the employees at the shop glad to hear the news that the sandstorm isn't as bad as it was in the recent month or two, but they also don't seem all that concerned about the outside world, nor were they aware of how bad things really were, with how isolated they are within this dome in the middle of the desert. Tsunamis? Volcanoes? Rampaging Pokemon? The citizens are pretty horrified, actually, and promise to send help to both Mango and Toran when the guides have rested up and are able to make the return journey.
In the meanwhile, Melona is a pretty quiet town, with everything quite scattered and far apart, less streets and more individual buildings with packed dirt paths connecting them. Next to the boba shop near the center of town is the Pokemon center which features a clinic space for people in lieu of an actual hospital, and flanking the Pokemon center on either side is the contest hall and psychic-type Pokemon gym, although the gym leader is currently absent and thus the gym is closed. Apparently it's not uncommon for him to wander off sometimes, but he has never been gone for weeks at a time and the people are getting worried. Is he lost? The last anybody heard, he had set out to find a mythical Pokemon rumored to be in the area, investigating a possible link to the abnormally long and harsh sandstorms that picked up recently, but for as competent a trainer as he is the storm was no joke and the town has never seen anything like it before. The same worry is echoed at the Pokemon school, which takes students of all ages to teach them more about Pokemon, their relationships with humans, and everybody's place in the world; several field trip groups had departed weeks ago but must have gotten caught in the sandstorms as well because they haven't yet returned. Gale is immediately concerned, and, asking around, learns that her little brother Jordan had gone on one of those field trips, and both their parents had gone with him as chaperones.
Hopefully good news will come in time, and the townspeople are patient, going about their daily business with a certain calm. For those who wish to earn some money, there is an abundance of odd jobs hiring both people and Pokemon, especially asking for Pokemon suited to specific tasks such as fire Pokemon to help cook and keep fires going at night for warmth and light, water Pokemon to water the fields and ground Pokemon to help till, flying Pokemon to check the dome for cracks to repair, fast Pokemon to make mail deliveries around town, hardy Pokemon to weather the sandstorms and keep a lookout for anybody approaching, for example. For those who looked at October and went "That was not a break month, what the heck," other places of interest include the museum containing many specimens of ancient Pokemon preserved in fossils and amber found right in the surrounding desert, offering rare items in exchange for more specimens, and... that's it, really. It's a quiet, sleepy town.
The days are hot and the nights are long, but when the sun goes down and the electricity is shut off overnight, the view above is spectacular. Thousands upon thousands of stars can be seen overhead, sparkling like diamonds in the pitch black of the oculus, while candle lit rock salt lamps line the street sides to provide a soft, temptingly lickable, warm glow below.
→ ICHI WRITES ALL THESE HEADERS
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But perhaps you're not the sort to just sit around and wait for things to happen. Perhaps you're the sort to dive headfirst into trouble despite the multiple danger warnings. Perhaps you were just foolhardy enough to have ventured into the desert from Mango without a guide, thinking that you could save a few bucks and make an adventure out of finding Melona all on your own. Those leaving Melona may be stopped by townspeople on the outskirts offering to sell them escape ropes, which will allow them to escape the ruins and appear right in front of them again if they're ever caught in a sticky situation, along with other food, water, and camping supplies. One man in particular suggests catching an Abra to teleport you right back to Melona— or if you prefer, he is also offering to trade one of his own.Those leaving Mango are out of luck.
Either way, even if it takes days (and if you're wandering blindly, it's going to take days), you will eventually come across one of the ruins scattered throughout the desert. Hopefully you came prepared, not only for the travel, but for whatever awaits inside the ruins! The ruins look like this, aka the first thing that pops up in Google Images, but while some of the pillars still stand, most have collapsed and lay buried in the sand, presumably due to the massive sandstorm that raged the entire month prior. The sand is soft and hard to walk on, constantly shifting over uneven ground and quite a bit of digging might be required to locate hidden underground entrances or other secrets. The ancient ruins seem to be a bit unstable, with evidence of cave-ins here and there, the potential for further cave-ins the deeper inside the ruins one ventures, and with the lack of light and constantly branching halls, one could be stuck down here forever exploring the labyrinths underneath the ruins. Maybe you'll never escape. Maybe you'll live and die here, and get to do just that (:
No wild Pokemon can be found without thirty feet of any of the surface ruins. Every few hours, a slight tremor can briefly be felt underfoot, barely noticeable at the start of the month and becoming somewhat concerning as the month progresses. Everything is fine.
→ MOD NOTES
⬥ It's November!! Somehow! When I'm at work and am writing dates, sometimes I autopilot 2010 and sometimes it's 2021 and ig I just want everything to be over.
⬥ Ruins investigations are currently capped at two investigations per player to allow your mods space to breathe, but is likely to be lifted as the month progresses and investigations wrap up. As a hint, it would be highly worthwhile to investigate the area and question npcs first, and in particular find the gym leader, before heading into the ruins! If you do decide to run blindly into the ruins, though, we'll have a good time (:
⬥ As a reminder, the gym leader must be located and brought back to the gym before any challenges can take place. The contest hall, on the other hand, is open from the start of the month. For both, please comment on the appropriate toplevel for submissions!
⬥ Please comment to the new Pokemon toplevel for trading with the NPC, making a note of which Pokemon you would like to trade for his Abra. As a reminder, traded Pokemon are able to gain +15 levels a month through bonus activity, and traded Abras are able to evolve into its final evolution, Alakazam.
⬥ As an alternative to the daycare in Toran, Pokemon can also be given jobs around Melona if they aren't in your main party. OOCly, players are allowed to give each of their Pokemon +5 levels (not counting towards the bonus activity level cap) one time only for this month, regardless of the number of jobs the Pokemon takes. ICly, the Pokemon will be unavailable for one week while they're at work, so please be mindful of which Pokemon are available in your threads at what time of month! Please also be aware of the badge/ribbon requirements for higher level Pokemon to continue obeying, applicable to the total number of unique badges/ribbons in the travelling group.
⬥ Ruins investigations are currently capped at two investigations per player to allow your mods space to breathe, but is likely to be lifted as the month progresses and investigations wrap up. As a hint, it would be highly worthwhile to investigate the area and question npcs first, and in particular find the gym leader, before heading into the ruins! If you do decide to run blindly into the ruins, though, we'll have a good time (:
⬥ As a reminder, the gym leader must be located and brought back to the gym before any challenges can take place. The contest hall, on the other hand, is open from the start of the month. For both, please comment on the appropriate toplevel for submissions!
⬥ Please comment to the new Pokemon toplevel for trading with the NPC, making a note of which Pokemon you would like to trade for his Abra. As a reminder, traded Pokemon are able to gain +15 levels a month through bonus activity, and traded Abras are able to evolve into its final evolution, Alakazam.
⬥ As an alternative to the daycare in Toran, Pokemon can also be given jobs around Melona if they aren't in your main party. OOCly, players are allowed to give each of their Pokemon +5 levels (not counting towards the bonus activity level cap) one time only for this month, regardless of the number of jobs the Pokemon takes. ICly, the Pokemon will be unavailable for one week while they're at work, so please be mindful of which Pokemon are available in your threads at what time of month! Please also be aware of the badge/ribbon requirements for higher level Pokemon to continue obeying, applicable to the total number of unique badges/ribbons in the travelling group.
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The questions are as follows:
- who are they
- who were they fighting
- who do they work for
- have they seen the gym leader
It probably doesn't have to be said, but that same Hattrem that just brutal swung him, Joonghyuk looking menacingly with a sword, Sooyoung with a Gabite all look at the two, expecting serious answers from them, or... well... who knows what will happen? :)
Regardless of whether they give useful answers or not, they'll knock them out in the end anyway, set apart, and resume on the destruction trail after that.
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If there's nothing else the group would ask them, the interrogation ends and they're knocked out and left inside the building. Continuing on the destruction trail, they come along, one at a time and several hundred meters apart, a total of four more people in similar uniforms that have been tied up and their possessions taken. They are all in various states of distress, looking at the group fearfully or asking to be untied or one of them outright starts crying for their mother and sobs about wanting to go home. I assume the group just sort of nods and continues on their way.
At the end! of the destruction path! is one last person. They are tied up, left lying on the ground in a still smoking crater, and out of reach is a neat pile of 28 Pokeballs in a shallow hole dug into the ground to keep them from rolling away, four knives laid out in a row next to it, and also a pile of 28 very cute headbands with a little red jewel on the side. The jewels are very shiny, and flash bright red.
The person on the ground looks up at the group warily and asks if they're here to rescue him and his friends.
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Joonghyuk; who are these "friends" (he is not joking around with his sword out and all)
Sooyoung; (if this guy is wearing the same clothes as the others, she will just step on his face and demand to know what the hell he's been doing because a bunch of poke balls gathered like that isn't normal)
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But yeah he is wearing the same clothes as all the other guys and Sooyoung steps on his face and he cannot talk anymore, wow, this has been a great investigation guys
anyways, assuming Sooyoung lets off enough for him to breathe and actually reply to things, they eventually drag out of him under duress that the friends he's referring to are his teammates, but they can't get much more out of him about the team's mission or leadership or anything like that. He's just here under orders, nothing more! He and his friends were to go to the ruins to capture a certain Pokemon, but the gym leader found them first and they somehow got teleported into this crazy hellhole and the leader hunted them down and disarmed them and tied them up and he just wants to go home! He's tied up and at their mercy! You think that pile of Pokeballs was his doing?! If he could reach any of them, he'd release one of his Pokemon to get out of this mess already!
huff puff
At that moment, the space between them seems to waver a little, and then a Claydol teleports into existence with somebody sitting on top of it. He stares at the group for a moment, half sliding off the Claydol's head, and goes "Wh... what are you people doing here?" Chimecho immediately zooms off to his side and chimes happily. Hi. This is Konoha. He looks very confused and asks what's going on.
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Anyway, Fai is not gonna be a part of that and briefly goes over how they got there, that that they found all those people, etc and now they're here.
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He says that it hasn't been weeks... he doesn't think... but a sense of time is hard when you're underground without sun... When Fai mentions the other people, the leader turns to his Claydol and asks it to bring them here— it teleports away, and over the next few seconds, it plops each of the team members down on the ground one by one. They all look terrified at the leader's presence, but he just sort of nods and counts head and says he think this is all of them...? maybe. He admits he doesn't really understand why Fai and all of them are here, but... could Fai maybe ask his friends to stop fighting for a second and hold hands with one another? They can fight when they return home.
With the ropes, the leader ties each of the captured people together, and he holds on to the end of the rope with one hand, and stands next to the Claydol. Please let me know your daisy chain order and who's holding onto the other end of the prisoner rope (so it'll go Claydol, Konoha --prisoners-- everybody else)
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2. konoha
3~???. prisoners
4. hsy (hold on fai's hand reinforced with ditto by something like melding them together into hardened clay)
5. fai
6. dokja
7. yjh and (unconscious) hythlo
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The group of them just stand there. I forgot to say that the Pokeballs have been gathered up and the gym leader has them all now, that's a thing that happened, and then they just sort of stand there and he stares at Claydol which stares back at him. "Uh," he says, eventually, when Claydol fails to teleport them all home. He closes his eyes for a moment, a small frown working its way onto his face, and then he opens his eyes again, looking at Fai, Dokja, and the unconscious Hythlo.
He asks the three of them if they could reach out to Cosmoem with him, which he thinks will help Claydol find a path to the other side. What is the feeling they associate with Cosmoem- the feeling that Cosmoem shared when reaching out to them? They must think of the single most happiest loving moment of their lives and hold it in their thoughts and they don't have to share anything out loud but I'm making you guys dox them for me here or I won't give you any more investigation details bc I'm too impatient to wait for all this to actually get threaded out. What makes you psychic guys the happiest, I need to know. Also somebody please wake Hythlo up
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Fai thinks of sakura, who is pretty much like a daughter to him at this point. He'll think of her smile and how happy it makes him.
Hythlo is similarly mushy and thinks about his boyfriends and how they'd have lazy evenings together.
Dokja would be thinking about the Kim Dokja Company back home aka his group of found family and his three "children". He thinks of them as he looks at both Joonghyuk and Sooyoung.
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but aww
Fai, Dokja, and Hythlo feel the happiness grow in their chests, resonating in waves. A sense of family, deep fondness, the sense of well-being that comes with simply existing around the people that you love. Joonghyuk is surrounded by smiles from all sides and starts to feel a little warm. Sooyoung's hand that's cemented with Fai's starts to feel a little warm. The prisoners all look wildly uncomfortable.
And then, without warning, they are standing on hard ground, in the middle of a dome with Cosmoem in front of them going !!! and even Joonghyuk and Sooyoung can feel the joy coming off of it this time. One of the prisoners tries to lunge for the Pokemon, but Konoha gives the rope a jerk back and restrains them. He pats Cosmoem on the head and turns to the group apologetically, and asks if they can do him a huge favor and turn these guys in to the police? He needs to talk to Cosmoem about something, and then he promises to return to the gym to give them the battles that they spent all this time and effort for.
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Meanwhile, Sooyoung is going to gleefully turn in all the prisoners to the police and add some extra charges onto them because these punks shouldn't deserve to get bailed. Hythlo comes along and disagrees, while showing the Setos his memories of the prisoners and idk if that will freak them out more than the claims themselves, which was basically criminal battery, attempted murder, assault, etc everything violence related, especially done to a legendary pokemon (gasp)
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