"Everyone who wanted to come already is here. So I'll be happy to explain."
Silas smirked a bit and looked at Shaun and Jean, "Yeah, joined the growing chapter of the J-Team called "A Farewell to Arms". Truth be told I'm still in a lot of pain and medication, slushie, Astronaut training, and trying to remain upbeat with some gallows humor are all that is keeping me from totally breaking down."
~I can see his emotions in flow with his aura, honestly they're a mess, and this is a guy that rarely emotes at all so.~
"As for the Guard, I did a raid on a server base for Delta... or it was supposed to be."
He brought out his pDroid and his phone and started to display photos with the hologram projector, showing a more intricate base with labs, and the scientists with the Pokefutures logos on their labcoats, "It became something larger as we set about wiping out the servers."
He showed a few photos of what were civilian spottings of Delta, none of them could get a good picture, "Delta's a member of the Hunter's Guild, which if anyone here has experience with Hunter J... is basically a entire organization of her. She's supposedly their greatest member, with Delta here climbing the ranks due to his style and useful toys. The servers are all over and provide him with the power to use said toys accurately."
He sighed and pulled out his green scarf, "This however, is what I was wearing when I lost the arm."
Hacks took over, ~We had to sneak into the server room and it was the best way to get in, once in we got the others and just before he could revert to human form, the Bisharp darted out of a dark corner and took off with his left arm. Hazard, Snakeye and I pursued but... we lost it... and learned some upsetting things.~
"I used Amber to quickly cauterize the wound when it became clear the arm wouldn't be coming back by switching to human form and finished the job."
Silas took a big slurp from his slushie and looked about, "Enacting revenge. No. Burned the place to the ground, no idea what happened to the Bisharp. Any other questions?"
edited 10th May '18 8:20:24 PM by EchoingSilence
Dunsparce Cloud
-Amanita flips through the notebook-
Amanita: ...Huh. This is somehow worse than a dead body. I guess that's what that Bitter Root was for...it's the same plant, right? Or something like it? Ugh, Lepiota would be better for this...
-she sighs, and stands up-
I guess I want those Magical Leaves for the scales...
-she goes to take some from the deck, uncomfortably stepping around the body-
Hey, Kyler, you doing okay?
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
The Wanderer
Healing World
Patron of Silver... probably referring to Soul of Silver... which could mean it's referring to me if my hunch about this place's true nature is correct.
-Starts looking around to see if there's a way to get to where the mechanical sound came from-
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Meet The New Boss
pain peko
Shaun: "Is there anything we can do?"
Don't say it don't say i-
Shaun: "Can I lend a hand?"
Niles: <Eughh...>
-A lilac-haired, boxom Gardevoir looks down at him.-
Camilla: <You're lucky.>
Niles: <Why, because you didn't kill me? I'm suprised I'm not even tied up, impostor.>
Camilla: <Look in the mirror.>
-Niles does so...and sees a purple amoeba with a :/ face.-
Niles: <Wha->
-All of Camilla's knowledge is forced directly into Niles' mind.-
Niles: <Oh. That's odd.>
Camilla: <Yes. Now that you aren't trying to kill me, your husband is waiting.>
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
The Flamebringer
Fwomph
Basement World
Alright, puzzle time.
-Pent draws his hat down and sets the two notes out carefully-
Alright, so first note is two lists, one of ten entries and one of nine. While it's possible that there's a matchup on the list between the names and what might be meanings, the fact that this is 'Update #9' might be important. The ninth entries of each list are "Hale. Child Reborn" which sounds like a decent password and I remember a mention of a Hale somewhere. Second note has some peculiar sentence structure... "Just remove the in the..." Nope not first word of each line.
-He takes the paper with him as he steps over to the radio-
This is really the only means I can think of to send messages in here, go all breaker-breaker with the CB yaknow? Now, 'another medium'... That either means a very in-dream thing where the medium that the other is 'another' to is this paper and the 'another medium' is radio or it's wanting me to figure out the medium that this place is obviously cribbing story from and then find 'a castle of light and dark' from some media medium that isn't that. Given the propensity for puzzles and fights, I'm assuming we're in something based off a game which means... Ugh, castles of light and shadow in things that aren't vidya games...
-He goes for his phone and kinda hopes that there's a strong enough signal in this purgatory hellscape that he can get google working-
Actually hold on it mentions trainers so it has to be something close to reality which cuts things down a little...
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
Meet The New Boss
-Julius lets out a very audible squee-
-Jared and Bathory plug their ears-
-Jean glares at Shaun-
Jean: I'll have you know our group has standards when it comes to arm puns.
edited 10th May '18 8:37:31 PM by Umbramatic
Contact Me!
The Flamebringer
edited 10th May '18 8:39:30 PM by Izshta
All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.
Some Rando
Lumoise Parlour
“Pokéfutures? Whozat? I mean, I know who Hunter J is - I celebrated her incarceration - but I don’t think I’ve heard of Pokéfutures,” Colt admitted.
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
Hae-won and Akravator hear the Houndoom's roar and then see the Houndour's running.
They look at each other.
Hae-won: "...Up for trying something stupid?"
Akravator: <You know it!>
They try and sneak closer to the tower, where the Houndoom's roar is coming from, without being spotted.
Kaisei: "...Heard some of that from Hazard, but it still sounds like a mess."
The person by Kaisei turns around.
Yunwa: "Hey, guy. Silas. Just relax. Eat some of this delicious cold stuff. It'll make you feel better."
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every
like christ, but with more nails
MILD GORE WARNING
Kyler: -wipes a hand down his face- Ugh, yeah... Fuck, I've just never seen a - a murdered person before. -stares at the forest behind the yard- 's like the time Channah and I played a murder mystery at a friend's house. Except. Well. -waves a hand at the body, then recoils and shudders-
-upstairs, where the trading stations would normally be, sit five dead Manspeons spaced equally apart from each other atop white pillars. All of their mouths hang open, but uniquely they appear as follows:-
-one has a dismayed expression and is flaking purple paint-
-one has tiny green dots all over its body and is doing the Espeon equivalent of flexing-
-one's eyes are X'd out and pins are sticking out of it-
-one is growing plants out of bloody holes on its torso-
-one is unblemished, but covers its ears with its paws and sits in a pained crouch-
-dead center in front of them is a box containing several pill bottles, each labeled container claiming it will heal one Pokemon status condition; the box appears to hold cures to every known status condition there is-
-good heavens, just look at the time! It's puzzle-o-clock!-
Arkady: -watches Pent with a sort of miserable bewildered expression, it's clear he doesn't have the mental capacity to think too deeply about any of this at the moment-
Arkady: <... Something's coming.>
-an... Ampharos hobbles out of the darkness toward Pent and Arkady. Or, it's a person who tried permanent surgery as a cosplay method. It's like someone took an Ampharos and a middle-aged woman and just started taking off limbs and reattaching them at random. The head is that of an Ampharos, at least.-
Ampharos: -staaares-
-at the town center lies a single twin bed, glowing red. Atop its dusty covers is the body of a Houndoom, lying on its side and crying out. Five deep holes have been dug into it - specifically, one in its head, three in its abdomen, and one in its leg. A surgical tray table sit nearby, laden with various sharp medical objects as well as something white and very flat, holy shit, what could it be-
edited 10th May '18 10:17:07 PM by Metanoia
There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.
Fwomph
Basement World
Oh hey, another piece of electrical theme. Yo.
-He stands there, ready to fight if need be-
You look like you had a run-in with a mad doc or two if you don't mind me saying 'ma'aaaaaam'.
-He keeps a watchful eye as he ponders the list-
You look like a Stella to me. Could be wrong.
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
The Wanderer
Healing World
-Looking at the Manspeons-
...What kind of Sander Cohen shit is this?
-Looking at the box-
One for a status condition, huh? Time for an experiment-
-Puts an Antidote in the first Manspeon's mouth-
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
like christ, but with more nails
-more Ampharos creatures arrive to stare at him with empty expressions-
Arkady: -moves closer to Pent, then pauses and scoots off to the side-
-half the Ampharoses break their gaze to stare at Arkady, necks turning-
Arkady: -gently so as not to scare them- <...Is it possible to go in that bathroom?> -motions to the bathroom that they keep passing by, across the hallway-
-the Manspeon just sits there with the pill in its mouth; there's no indication that it's right or wrong-
-behind Tagg, there's a loud rock-smacking-concrete sound and a split-second of a yowl-
Blastoise: -fidgets as he wipes the Espeon remains off his tail, leaving the rest of it in a thoroughly smushed pile on the ground- <Ummm, w-w-would y-you like me t-to help with anyth-thing, s-s-sir?>
There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.
Fwomph
Basement World
Yeah, let's get some privacy for a moment.
-He pockets the list of names and heads for the bathroom-
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
The Wanderer
Healing World
-Snaps fingers in irritation-
...Well that's annoying, it could at least have the decency to tell me if I'm wrong or not.
-To Blastoise-
...Just call me Tagg. Put a Paralyze Heal in the flexing one, Awakening in pins, Burn Heal in plants, and Ice Heal in ears.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
like christ, but with more nails
mood music
, Waverer by Akira Yamaoka in case the link dies
-the door opens smoothly, while the Ampharoi(?) shuffle along to stand just outside. In a word, the bathroom is unsanitary. It's not as bloody, however-
-there is a papier mache head in one of the sinks. It's stark white, has no nose, is making a surprised expression as it stares up at the ceiling, and on the mirror above it is something written in black marker-
c h a n g e
m e
Blastoise: <Yes sir!> -immediately does so, making a mildly comical display of a Rhyperior nurse carefully feeding status-healing pills to his patients, and steps back-
-the pill in the first Manspeon's mouth disappears down its throat, and the whole thing disintegrates, leaving behind a note where the body was-
Her window lets in no darkness, or takes it all
for herself, this selfish soul
-the rest of the pills do nothing but sit there-
There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.
The Wanderer
Healing World
-Taking the other pills out-
...Okay, so not just the common ones. Guess the Poison was a freebie.
-To Blastoise-
Anti-Flinch for flex, Defoliant for plants, Cursebreaker for pins, Anti-Perish Song for ears.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Fwomph
Basement World
Oh hey, a secondary puzzle, probably guarding one of those messages.
-He ponders for a moment before fishing a pen from his bag and giving the paper mache head some angry eyebrows-
Good enough?
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
Silas just grinned ear to ear, with his face it was rather disconcerting how he pulled off the cheshire style grin.
"Oh don't worry Jean, I'll be handling all the arm puns singlehandedly, they may cost me a arm and a leg but never fear, I'm armed for karma and the pits of despair. I could get myself a new prosthetic from the Second Hand store. I'll be fine, I'm all right now."
Hacks groaned and just facepalmed, Silas was chuckling a bit, "Truth be told it wasn't a bad pun Shaun. And I appreciate the effort, just gotta put more elbow grease into them."
Hacks groaned more.
Silas shrugged and turned back to Colton, "Pokefutures is basically what happens when you take the standard ethics of mad scientists, read: none, and give them a job experimenting on Pokémon, they don't even have the é that's how little they care about mons."
Hacks nodded, ~It's messed up. We hope Delta at least has some standards and is dealing with them now.~
Upon Yuma's comment, "Already am," Silas replied taking another big sip from his slushie, "I already am."
Hacks looked over everyone and then asked, ~Does anybody know what happens when someone switches mon form but they have a fake limb like a arm or leg? Cause I do wanna keep up switching roles with Silas from time to time but I'm worried about him being able to use Aura storm with one arm.~
Delta stepped over to the Pokefutures grunt and sighed, "You know... I really don't enjoy this... the interrogation, the torture... just tell me what I want to know... why did you start using my resources to build your underground base... again... and this will be over. No one gets hurt."
The grunt spit in his face.
Delta sighed, "Drac. Zatara. Make him talk."
From the shadows came the Alakazam, followed by the Noivern.
~Any preferences?~
"Let's go for endless nightmare."
Zatara smiled wickedly.
Jimmy looked over the note a few times before looking back up, this? This was something he could at least recognize in motive.
"Okay, so where is the Eye itself?"
His tone was clear, he wanted to go find it.
"We find the eye, we find a solution."
edited 11th May '18 5:41:33 AM by EchoingSilence
Hae-won: "..."
Akravator: <...>
He rushes over to the Houndoom.
<Hey! Who did this to you, any way to...>
Hae-won, meanwhile, takes and looks at the other white flat thing.
Yunwa smiles after eating some more.
Yunwa: "Great! And thanks for showing Fuzzy this place."
Kaisei: "Heh, yeah, this is a pretty good one."
edited 11th May '18 5:52:22 AM by CorvusAtrox
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every
Some Rando
Lumiose Parlour
Lucario materialized and dunked an empty bowl into the trash can. <I’m guessing that’s some move you guys worked on?>
Colt had stayed silent.
Mindscape Del Rever
Otaku was in overdrive, flinging around cards.
“Will this one work? Rrgh, c’mon, gimme something - oh.”
Reality
“Sooo... [Rapture],” Colt compared. “Okay.” He took another bite.
edited 11th May '18 7:40:48 AM by AbsentCoder
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
"Actually no. Though I have used it before, filled in as a mon for Megan during a spar with another trainer, got mega-evolved and in a desperate moment, somehow used that beam move."
Bishop popped out of the pDroid, "Captain I have the footage!"
The pDroid began to play a POV recording of a Mega-Lucario in a box of sorts bringing his paws together and firing a massive beam of aura from them.
~The Kamehameha you called it?~ Hacks commented.
Silas rolled his eyes, "Yeah... Anyway, as it turns out it's a actual move that can be taught via TM at PEFE. So I stopped by there and learned the move."
Silas then gestured to the spot where his left arm was, "Gonna need a prosthetic that can work with aura for my monform if I'm to use it again."
edited 11th May '18 9:23:25 AM by EchoingSilence
-Shaun eyes the cloaked-stranger, taking note of the cloak's design.-
Shaun: "Follow-up question, do you need some help enacting revenge?"
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"