Kalos Warehouse
Grandpa Reynard is in the corner. He brought a chocolate fountain and monitor connected to an X-box.
Reynard: Okay, so I asked the people in my old company to lend us a few things. I heard something about needing to distract a game-addicted teenager and wouldn't you know it, Lord Macraul Jr. plays Fortnite.
Reynard turns to Silversmith.
Reynard: Silversmith, you look famished. Dip a few of those snacks in the chocolate fountain.
Meanwhile, a pink-haired cop and a figure clad in a trenchcoat and umbrella enter.
Detective Martel/Thierry: Hello, is anyone here?
Castle Lycanrow
Taipan: Maverick, assist Skadi!
As Helmuth's hand approaches, Maverick divebombed from the absurdly spacious vaulted ceiling and directed a steel wing at his arm.
Edited by MasterJayAM on May 17th 2019 at 11:48:50 PM
Meet The New Boss
Warehouse
Merlin: Hello there! Now, Reynard, you said something about... Anti-fae measures?
Stormchaser, Roy
Aphrodite: Calm down, kid, I just need to ask you a few questions.
Stormchaser, Liz
Julius: The weird dream room and the executions and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Edited by Umbramatic on May 3rd 2019 at 5:54:36 AM
Contact Me!
pain peko
Warehouse
Kaiiseii: "Well, damn. Please tell me they don't have binding circles. Or salt lines."
Stormchaser
Elizabeth: "Oh. That. Yeah that's pretty much normal, I guess. Never wanna see a guillotine again in my life. Or a Magnetite."
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Kalos Warehouse
Reynard: Hey Merl. Grab some chocolate if you'd like; I brought plenty. So far, I was told that the Macrauls were having the place redone for some big event a few months from now. They used a pink mineral of some sort extensively; it's in the brochure.
Reynard leaves a newly published "Visit Scenic Macraul Manor" flyer before Merlin, opened to a page describing the new halite floors
Reynard: It kind of looks like rock salt, especially that hipster stuff that they put in the spas. Nice color, kinda looks like the markings of a goldeen. Very la-di-da. But yeah, notice the pattern. They're geometric. Those are salt lines. I'm pretty sure those dark purplish blue accents are also cast iron.
He turns to the police officer and the cloaked fellow.
Reynard: Oh, come in. Come in.
They enter. The cloaked person was very hesitant to follow Thierry.
Reynard: The nice lady at the Stormchaser also informed me that this police officer had someone who can give us more deets on the rest of the security system, since they had a major upgrade since they've been repeatedly broken into.
Thierry: Good evening sir.
Reynard: Officer. Thank you, on behalf of Ms. Priscilla. Did anyone ever tell you that you look like a male Nurse Joy?
Kalos Warehouse
Blitz: "I'm kinda fuzzy on most of that stuff, but is there a reason we should be worried about anti-fae measures? Besides I imagine that'd take it harder to ghost around the place."
Kalosian warehouse
Silversmith was startled by his apparent failure to be invisible. He muttered many thanks to Reynard and decided to partake of the snacks. He examined the chocolate and briefly considered whether or not it’s poisoned. His hunger won out, and he slinked off to a corner to eat his chocolate, intentionally averting his gaze from the others present.
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Kalos Warehouse
Daydre: "Is that like.. [Himalyan] Pink Salt? Isn't that stuff a scam? The health benefits, anyway, it still functions like normal salt as far as I'm aware."
off the shits
Kalos Warehouse
Witness: Are you kidding? You think they stopped with anti-fae measures? They did a major overhaul of everything, especially in the underground crypts where they keep their hostages. The measures against the fae are just more obvious because Lord Macraul's brother wants it to seem invisible. They're incorporated a lot into the system that you can't even see. Hidden cameras. Sensors. And since they couldn't get aura jammers, they had Lord Macraul's little monster of a child give free rein to his umbreons.
Reynard: Calm down.
Witness: Those Macrauls. They're monsters.
Empathic Kid Hero-in-training
Kalosian Warehouse
Me: Yikes, they have cold iron, Defenses against Psychics and Ghosts and protection against physical raids! What do WE have?! A [CUISINART?!]
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...
Some Rando
Stormchaser
"A-alright?" Roy allowed, relaxing his posture.
Warehouse
"Wow, they've thought of everything," Caliburn observed. "I wouldn't doubt they'd have means by which to dispel your illusions, Colton."
"That's not something I want to think about," his trainer said. "Do we have a floor plan or somethin’?"
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
The Flamebringer
Kalos warehouse
Kaze: "Hm."
Cerulean
Luciana: "... Fair enough."
She follows Lucius to the bar.
All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.
Jackal watched in shock, awe, and horror as Gaia just vanished behind the monster, having swung herself into it's "Bloodstream" for lack of a better term. The beast groaned at Vulpecula's burning attacks, and proceeded to swing at her.
Inside the beast itself, Gaia would feel a soft tingling turn into a stinging pain, whatever this thing was made of, it wasn't pleasant, and then came the whispers.
Voices entered Gaia's mind and began to whisper gibberish, saying things about awakening, hyul, constructs, and Helmuth.
Then came another voice, and something deep within Gaia knew who this voice belonged to, "You don't belong here...", it was the beast.
The further in Gaia went, the clearer the voices became, she even saw visions, from the views of numerous parties somehow, was this thing telepathic? She saw it's creation, its body whole, armies of pokemon following a legion of beasts like it, under the command of Helmuth. A army of purple skinned humans leading similarly purple tinted pokemon, to war with some country.
The creation of iron chains, Helmuth's regret, and then the creation of a temple like room, a sickly Helmuth rotting away before her eyes, and then finally, the view of the beast itself.
"I will not be subservient to you any more, I will get out of my prison."
"You were made to serve me beast! The others fell apart, accept your fate!" Helmuth shouted at the creature, "I could not find immortality but I will not let you enjoy yours! Too many have died, this... I should have never done this... my dragons, all gone."
A deep rumbling laugh came from the Beast's mouth, which then slowly took on a higher and more disturbing pitch as the voice changed, "I wasn't talking about the prison of this construct Muthy boy! This deep water prison of mine won't hold me forever, I'll come back and claim the is-" the vision cut off as the beast proceeded to spit a green gas of sorts on Helmuth.
The final vision was of Helmuth being lowered into a coffin in the temple, the person at the console reaching down and pressing the final button, as Helmuth roared and the room was filled with a familiar green flame.
As the visions subsided Gaia's suit would be screaming about integrity slowly dropping... and a rhythmic beat would be heard, Gaia was in the creation's "heart".
Hayon on the outside was pounding away at the Beast's exposed areas with close combat, ~This is insane!~
The sword attacks dug into Helmuth's arm and stuck there, he stared at his right hand, more confused as to why he didn't have Phantom in his grip, then he grunted, "Magister. Spectral. Typical..."
He sighed and looked to his Salamance, staring at the creature finally dead, regret in his eyes, the regret soon turned to anger, and the room started to heat up. Green flames sprouted around everyone as Helmuth soon begun to ignite, "You block my return, kill my companion, and dare taunt me..."
Skadi's sword wasn't looking too good at this point, as Helmuth was engulged in flames, and his sword now a big pillar of green fire, "The laughing madness that made my war beasts taunted me. I will not be stopped in my return now, I will resurrect every dragon I have lost, and you will all bow before me! I am King Helmuth König, my will is eternal! I will return to rule over all I survey!"
It became clear that whatever was keeping him alive was also making him less sane.
Helmuth shot a pillar of fire right at Skadi.
Kalos Warehouse
Witness: The Macrauls cared more about the aesthetics. They're not buying into the health benefits and had the tiles laminated to avoid erosion.
The cloaked witness moved toward the center of the table, trying to fight off the urge to remember the threats sent to them. They looked around, looking for anything out of the ordinary—such as the faint outline of a blaziken.
They unfurled a blueprint of the property at Rue Macraul, which featured an elaborate diagram of the new security system. Highlighted in pink and black are the patterns formed by the lines of salt and cast iron, while three entrances featured large objects—statues made of scrap iron.
Witness: My handiwork had been assimilated deep into the stonework, accesible only through difficult-to-enter locations. May I ask, are you PEFE operatives?
Edited by MasterJayAM on May 3rd 2019 at 8:08:26 PM
Meet The New Boss
Kalos Warehouse
Voyd: So we're gonna need a way to get around... All of that. But what?
Merlin: -to the witness- We're PEFE-adjacent~
Stormchaser, Roy
Aphrodite: Alright. Do you recognize... this individual?
-she sends out a Helioptile-
Heleoptile: <...Hello?>
Stormchaser, Liz
Julius: What are we gonna doooooooo?!
Contact Me!
pain peko
Lycanrow - Dig Site
-Vulpecula goes flying into a wall and lands in a pile of rubble, shaking her head comically.-
Vulpecula: "Hey! You scratched my paint!"
Lycanrow - Tomb
Phantom: "Things have changed in the last 600 yeats, false king."
-He unleashes a barrage of attacks, repeatedly flinging his thin and round blades at Helmuth with impressive speed.-
-Spectre tries to cool the room down with a Blizzard.-
Stormchaser
Elizabeth: "I 'unno. Fight shadows, steal hearts. Try not to get killed."
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Not A Lawyer
Castle Lycanrow, Dig Site Tunnels - Day 2
-Foxglove blinks as Gaia disappears inside one of the Beast's open wounds.-
Foxglove: <...Wait, where did she go?>
-Meanwhile, Gaia screws her eyes shut and balls her hands into fists as the pain and sensory overload builds and the visions flood her mind.-
Gaia: Get... out... of my... head...
You came here uninvited. You brought th̕i͡s s̷uffe̸ŕ̷i̧ng o̵̡n͏ ̧҉y̶͏ǫ̶́ ̴̸̛ŗ̴̛s̶̀͠e̡̨l
-She lets out something between a yell and a scream, slashing urgently at her surroundings with her Vine Whip even as her suit's systems fail or go critical one by one.-
Empathic Kid Hero-in-training
Kalosian Warehouse
-I raise my hand-
Me: I may have an idea that could help us deal with the hidden cameras and the Umbreons in one fell swoop.
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...
Kalos Warehouse
Witness: The walls themselves have their limits. That pompous viscount had it coated with a foul-smelling plaster of his own creation, which has kept even ghosts in line. It has its limits—he can carve those things into statues somehow—but I've yet to figure out how to smash it. It isn't stronger than diamond, though.
Reynard: I understand that a salt line is a salt line but is there a way to block the sodium intolerance?
Witness: Again, umbreon. Lord Macraul's brat has eight of them roaming around the chateau. Unless you have a way to distract that demented little gremlin and his multicolored hellhounds.
Reynard: We're actually working on that now! But first, is Gaspard more of a griefer or a munchkin?
Witness: How should I know? I don't play [Fortnite].
Reynard: General gaming question, but thanks for answering. That said, do we have a chance at disabling the physical security system?
Witness: Well...
Reynard: Oh, brilliant, let's hear it.
Castle Lycanrow, Past
Maverick comes between Skadi and the flames. Or at least he thought he did, if it weren't for the fact that Jackie got there first.
Jackie: <Don't be a martyr, Mav.>
Edited by MasterJayAM on Jul 28th 2019 at 9:04:28 PM
Empathic Kid Hero-in-training
Kalosian Warehouse
Me: How many of the trainers here have a Pokémon that knows a move like Mist, SmokeScreen or Haze?
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...
Dunsparce Cloud
Celadon Dpt. Store Roof
Ever: ...Nah.
Yevalith: Excuse ME?
Ever: Not feeling it. Sounds like one of those things from Caverns and Charizards.
Brie: No, that's a yugoloth. You're thinking of the Gnostic demiurge.
Ever: That'd be Yaldabaoth, Brie, gosh. It's the native Unovan Rock-type.
Brie: That's Gigalith. A Yevalith is that thing on the Moon in 2001—
Yevalith: It's a work in progress, I suppose.
Ever: I should hope.
Yevalith: Are you normally this flippant around people pointing weapons at you?
Brie: This is remarkably restrained for them, as it happens.
Ever: Pretty much! See, honestly, once you've stared down Glitches and legendaries and whatnot, you kind of get a little perspective about pieces of metal that shoot faster pieces of metal. Guns...I mean, scary shit, but more for the surprise value than anything. You pointing that at me doesn't really do it.
Yevalith: Hmmm. Fool #2, do you feel similarly?
-she points the gun at Brie, who winces-
Brie: Uh...yeah, pretty much honestly. And you're holding it sideways, which is really just embarrassing.
Ever: -points at Brie in agreement-
-Yevalith nods a few times-
Yevalith: Ah. Well, yes, I could see why a gun might not have the same effect on someone with experience in life-or-death situations. I suppose I'll have to get something better for MY targeting system.
-...-
Ever: That's not a gun, is i—
-click-
-there's a hum, and a beam of light appears out of nowhere, striking Ever's arm and vaporizing it from shoulder to wrist-
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Fwomph
Reversal Mountain
-Pent is currently just trying to remain safe and ponder things-
... Do we have anyone with Pixilate?
Lycanrow Temple
-Something about mass amounts of green fire kinda set Nightingale off. Not in any useful way no, the way it set her off was that she just kinda froze in place and tried in vain to channel her own obscura into some ability she knew she didn't have...-
Interpol HQ
-The letter inside Shun's envelope is... Entirely the same as what was inside the one Colton opened. It appears that despite the customized outside the four letters have the same enticing advertisement inside-
Kalos Warehouse
-Pent turns up a little late, looking rather distracted-
Uh... Hey.
-He glances at the envelope he's brought with him-
So which house are we raiding precisely?
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
Some Rando
Stormchaser, Aphrodite
"Nope," Roy conceded. "Maybe if they adopted a human form," he considered, reaching around his neck to remove the choker hidden in his shirt, turning him into a Blaziken as he offered the choker to the Helioptile.
Reversal Mountain
"I'd send out Sylveon!" Colton hollered to Pent as he fired Sylveon's Desire at Helmsman. "but I promised Helmsman I'd let him join me when we confront Gudrunn - er, Neo Alovye!" He added. "Sorry!"
Edited by AbsentCoder on May 3rd 2019 at 6:07:11 AM
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
Dunsparce Cloud
Celadon Dpt. Store Roof
Ever: ...U-um.
-despite the fact that it's no longer attached to an arm, their hand has not moved-
-this is because it is still bound to the shoulder by a mist of pink light in the rough shape of an arm-
-it promptly goes limp, hand bouncing off Ever's hip, but it doesn't fall, the pink mist still holding it more or less in place-
Yevalith: Do we all understand where we stand now?
-she points what is evidently not a gun at Brie (still holding it sideways, but given its nature Brie is less inclined to be unimpressed)-
Yevalith: The next time you get on MY nerves, I will execute you. Follow?
Brie: Y-yeah.
Yevalith: So. Let us talk. Obviously, I am profoundly disappointed in your... J-team.
Brie: ...Okay?
Yevalith: I issue an open challenge to meet, and all I get is...you two? Pathetic.
Ever: You say that a—
Yevalith: I will vaporize your innards if you say one more word.
Ever: -lip-zipping motion-
Yevalith: So, here is the deal. I will leave you here, to contemplate your failure and uselessness. And the next time I issue a challenge, I will expect better pickings, or I will send them back in a matchbox. Clear?
-...-
Yevalith: CLEAR?!
Brie: Crystal! What is it with villains and doing...that?
Yevalith: Excellent! Now, count to 100~
-she tips back over the side of the building and drops-
Brie: ...It's probably too much to hope for that she's dead now, right?
Ever: Oh yeah.
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Kalos Warehouse
Reynard: Mine do!
Witness: I'd discourage smoke. We trained the security staff to respond quickly and rapidly to possible sources of fire. They never hire magicians partly for this reason and partly because their brat doesn't trust sorcerers. Little killjoy that creep.
Reynard: Could the cameras be disabled?
Witness: Difficult but yes.
Reynard: Remotely?
Witness: Even more so. I personally found it easier to get in. I'm not getting in there again.
Reynard: We've got all night.
Stormchaser Gym (Past)
-Ian the Pikipek's Xtransceiever beeps, and Ian checks it-
Me: -pirouettes to avoid Raru's Confusion throwing Piku-chan at me- Attention, 'mons! I have BIG NEWS!
Piku-chan: <Oh?>
Me: Yes! The time has come! The Raid is about to begin!
All Pokémon except Totoro and Yuki: <HOORAY!>
Yuki: <Yatta!>
Me: Now, let's go to a warehouse in Kalos, discuss the plan with the J-Team and GET VOYD'S Z-CRYSTAL BACK!!!
-Just then, Totoro rolls over, squashing me flat.-
Me: -flattened- Right after I get Totoro off me...
Outside the Kalosian Warehouse, After I get Totoro off me
Me: This is the place...
Piku-chan: <Indeed it is...>
Me: It's a good thing I called everyone back before I came here.
Piku-chan: <You got that right...>
Me: Now, let's meet up with the rest of the J-Team.
-Piku-chan and I head inside-
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...