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Post by DataNinja on Oct 9, 2018 4:42:24 GMT
"The difference there," Thel says, heading after the other, "is that you still wanted a pack. It does not. That's clear in how it acts. It wants to be alone." Or maybe he's wrong. Maybe it's just heading home to its own pack right now. But, he just has this feeling.
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Post by Robot on Oct 9, 2018 12:48:47 GMT
"E-Ease up Muku. Wimpod don't fight, the world is too huge and terrifying for that! Even being outdoors like this makes me uncomfortable. I miss my tiny sea cave, and eating garbage... but garbage doesn't taste right anymore. You, Omega, and Thel are lucky... you had other Pokemon to look out for you. Us it was every bug for himself... ksshss..." He slouched with a hissing sigh.
Young as the Absol is, Omega manages to catch up to it after a bend or two in the trail, but at this point he (and possibly Thel if the latter is following) are quite far up the mountainside. The expansive view is forest to the horizon, other mountains and several human structures rising through the green landscape in various points of the region.
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 9, 2018 17:50:18 GMT
Thel keeps up his pursuit of Omega, if only to try and make sure that nobody got unnecessarily hurt. Well, other than him. Because that egg hatched long ago.
The view from up here is really something, though. It's a lot different from back home. Though, that might be in part just because of his perspective change. Both literally and metaphorically. For one thing, not having to be on a constant lookout for predators and prey helps.
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Post by birdy51 on Oct 9, 2018 21:39:18 GMT
"Muku thinks you're being stupid." She replies, arms crossed with annoyance. "If Starly were alone, Starly would die. Starly can't be alone! The Owl would catch you, and scratch you, and carry you away to the dark Owl place! Bad! Very bad! Starly can't be alone, Starly didn't stay together to be strong, we stayed together because we were too weak to do anything else! But now, Muku has no flock, Muku is lost! Lost! Starly isn't meant be alone, but Muku isn't Starly anymore! Muku can't fly! Muku can't even eat Hoppip, which bothers Muku because she's so darn cute and edible looking, but nope, nope, nope- Hoppip are friend, not food, friend, not food and her brain is too big and she thinks too much and everything is new and weird and Muku would prefer it to not be weird and Muku doesn't want to be alone because that is bad, and Kursz should know that Muku isn't ready to consider alternative worldviews! Kiyiyiyiyaaaaah!!!"
A deep breath fills her lungs before Muku hurls herself back first onto the grass below her feet. "Hruhhh… Peep... Muku is still weak and doesn't know what's going on. Big head, lots of thoughts, but Muku is just a bird..."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Oct 10, 2018 1:09:42 GMT
Omega glances over the landscape for a moment before keeping on the trail of the Absol. He had begun to ignore Thel, he would show him his strength when he showed the Absol. Show him why his path is right, at least for him. "I will follow you until you can't run anymore" Omega growls at the solitary Pokemon. His new form might be slower than his Mighteyena body, but he felt like he could go on forever. He breathed deep and continued moving towards the Absol " You've seen my strength, and the strength of my Fang. Be my Blade. Or face my strength" 7 on an Intimidate
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Post by Robot on Oct 13, 2018 20:40:01 GMT
"....Ok." Kursz offers in acceptance of Muku's very long-winded and confusing rant. She just wanted his support, or something. Cause she was weak, and scared, and there were owls somewhere. That made sense. He gave Muku a pat on the head. "Muku does well for her flock..."
The Absol freezes, giving Omega a wide-eyed, startled look. It was already hurt. The way it's legs were splayed it might turn and fight or continue to run, but the threat was received. The predator weighed its options.
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Post by birdy51 on Oct 13, 2018 23:35:13 GMT
"Muku tries." Responds the ex-bird who happened to be called Muku."It's just that Muku gets all worked up and then Muku doesn't know how to get un-worked up. It's like being caught in an updraft and twiwiwiwi- away you go! You're off on a magical wind that takes you far off, much farther than any Starly would want to go, and then you can't get down and you panic at the infinitely small world view that you have been given when you realize this whole world you've been given is so much different from anything else you've ever known, and that's a VERY bad thing because nothing makes sense and when nothing makes sense you're caught by the no wind, and you just go crashing down into the ground where you get crushed like a little Starly speck under the weight of your own meteoric existence."
She sucks in a deep breath. "What Starly means to say is, can Starly distract herself from talking so much by helping Kursz catch a new friend he's not so scared of? Muku doesn't like thinking. Muku helps the flock more when she doesn't think."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Oct 15, 2018 4:30:08 GMT
Omega takes a few steps forward, holding the ball out in front of him. With a swift movement he pounced and attempted to strike the Absol with the ball, moving much more deliberately than before. Once the ball connected he looked back at Thel and nodded towards the path " Let's go" 14 against AC 6 for the Pokeball with a 14 on the capture check
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 15, 2018 4:49:39 GMT
Thel purses his lips, and says nothing, only giving a look of pointed disapproval. He gives an internal sigh, and a note of sorrow for the Absol, before following back to the ladies.
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Post by Robot on Oct 26, 2018 12:56:07 GMT
"...I would like a new friend I'm not scared of." Kursz admits, not entirely sure what Muku was on about before that. Meteoric Existence... sounded painful? That involved being a rock and falling really fast or something, probably.
The brutalized Thel and a triumphant looking Omega return from upon the mountain, at which point Em is on the smaller boy with a medical kit. "It'll be alright Thel... we'll put something on that and it'll feel better... which of these bottles..." She frets, pulling one spray container after another out of the little red and white box.
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 26, 2018 16:50:36 GMT
"No, no, don't worry," Thel insists, "It's fine! I'm fine! Don't waste anything on me!" It's really not fine - he hurts - but he doesn't want to show weakness in front of Em or Muku. They shouldn't have to concern themselves with his well being...
"You all are fine here, right?" Hopefully wandering off had not been a mistake.
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Post by Breakthelevee on Oct 27, 2018 7:26:29 GMT
Omega walks up with his chest puffed out especially far, doing his best to keep the difficulties he had had with capturing Blade from being obvious. He nearly sighs with relief when Em begins to fuss over Thel, taking the fear of being found out away. If he was to be an Alpha, he couldn't let it be known how hard it was for him to do something as simple as growing the pack.
Turning his attention towards the rock snake, he cracks his knuckles and points towards it "Alright, once we're all fixed up, that is the next member of our pack, our flock, our...." He stops for a moment to think "Our Plock. Whatever you want to call it. With something like that on our side, I bet we could go wherever we want to without worry. One of us just needs to capture it" Of course if he just made it sound easy it would be....right?
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Post by birdy51 on Oct 27, 2018 19:20:43 GMT
"Muku had great success! Challenged the horned one to battle and defeated it! Now it has to be Muku friend. Kiyiyiyiaaahh!" Muku chirps happily. She practically jumps off of one foot onto the other with great excitement, brandishing her new partner before her. On the rock-snake, she pondered quietly aloud. "Muku thinks... Thel or Em should catch this one! It's too big for Kursz, and I'm going to find Kursz something loveable like Mmip!"
"And maybe that might help Kursz bond with his other little friend too." Muku thinks quietly. Gahhh!!! Thinking! Bad! Bad!!!
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Post by Robot on Oct 27, 2018 19:58:54 GMT
"We're alright, Muku handled herself very well." The green hair girl praised her exciteable friend. "These wounds look really bad..." The way she was touching him caused the same sort of stirrings Thel had heard the older males talk about, when they earned favor. It also hurt, she was very unpracticed at this, but in little time he was at least bandaged, albeit in a ridiculous and haphazard fashion.
AmmHLPQX4d6 Thel regains this much HP plus 4. Em drains 1 AP.
"Mmip seems nice." Kursz admits, a little less nervous at the idea of having his own Mmip. He wanted nothing to do with the big rock snake though, which was still minding it's own business and digging into the mountainside.4d6
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 27, 2018 21:30:57 GMT
"They're not that bad..." he protests, but the way he inhales when she touches the injuries rather undermines his insistence. Her ministrations cause him to feel a lot warmer, too, especially in his face and ears. It's... a weird feeling. Especially more because he'd expect his core to warm first. Preferably indicating his fire returning.
"Uh...thank you," he says, awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. He's not used to this sort of thing. From anyone, let alone a female.
"Em should, if she wants," he says, addressing Muku's suggestion. "But..." he wants to say that he doesn't think that they maybe shouldn't go near it, especially if it doesn't want to be caught... it looks a little large, and everything. But he doesn't. He catches himself in time. "Nevermind."
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Post by birdy51 on Oct 28, 2018 10:24:38 GMT
"But what?" Muku asks, sticking her head deep into the pregnant pause that Thel had created. She passes off her living, loveable, therapy ball of plant and joy to Kursz and advances on the former lizard-bro. "It's ok if you want to catch it too! It's big and strong, and challenging it might be a little dangerous, but it's important for reasons that are important that we become stronger trainers!"
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 28, 2018 17:09:27 GMT
"It's not that. I, uh," he swallows. Well... she'd asked... "I'd rather just maybe avoid it. At most, just go up and ask, and be prepared to get away if it doesn't like us being there. I don't want to be one of those Trainers that just comes and snatches away Pokémon from the lives that they had. I don't want to travel with those that don't want to travel. Being a human opens up a whole new world that I never could have imagined, full of places, sights, food... but I don't want to force that world upon anyone."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Oct 30, 2018 1:33:15 GMT
He narrows his eyes as he looks at Thel "You've eaten meat, yes? You've been a hunter?" He knew the answers already so he didn't stop for more than a moment before continuing "Do you think the things you ate wanted that? Do you think they wanted to be killed so that another could have a full belly?" His eyes never left the smaller boys "But still you made it so they could no longer live the lives they wanted to, in order to keep living yours with a content feeling in your stomach. Their life gave you the strength to continue on. And yet now you think yourself too good to learn to use the new strengths you have, in order to not just survive, but to thrive?"
"If you have any respect for the lives you've taken over the years then you would have no hesitation to being 'that type of trainer' because that type of trainer is strong and strength is what will get us to where we need to be. Strength will provide the answers we seek." His arm nearly struck a tree next to him before stopping, not wanting to startle Kursz again "But fine. Be content with being weak and getting by with our strength instead. Cower behind the women you kneel before instead of standing strong in front of them. It makes no difference to me"
The Mightyena walked away, towards the Rocksnake "I don't care which one of us captures this thing. But I'm not leaving here without it in some form"
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 30, 2018 1:46:32 GMT
"Back then, that was what I needed to survive," Thel says. "What my family needed to survive. I do not need to force others into servitude to do that as a human. Hope chose to join me. That showed me that there are those who will make that choice. If I need to be a Trainer to survive, so be it. But I will not be one of the Trainers that we lived in fear of, wondering if they would take our brothers or sisters whenever they stumbled upon our hunting grounds."
"Any who come with me, will do so of their own free will. It is not my place to make that choice for them. While I will gladly give myself for the Ladies Em and Muku, I will not force others to do that. If they do not make the choice to do it, if they do not give their loyalty, then it will just put the Ladies at risk. I will not be the architect of that." He shakes his head at Omega. "You know not my thoughts, and your words will not manipulate me. Your contempt means nothing."
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Post by birdy51 on Oct 30, 2018 3:11:27 GMT
"Muku thinks both Omega and Thel are being stupid." Muku declares suddenly at last. She dashes ahead, in front of Omega and spreads her arms wide in an intimidating manner. "Kiyiyiyaaah! Bickering is silly! Omega and Thel are both fledglings! Muku is also a fledgling! Em, Kursz? Fledglings! Guessing about which way is wrong and which way is right is stupid when we are no nothing babies! Kiyiyyiaaah!"
"Muku doesn't know whether it's better to be strong, or whether it's better to be nice, but Muku knows that she doesn't know anything! So, when, we reach new town, we will ask the Flock Leader Trainer which way is right and which way is wrong, because we don't know any better! Kiyiyiyaaah!"
She throws her hands up in the air and begins to pace furiously ahead towards the Rock Snake. "Strength, loyalty, nice things! Strong Pokémon, weak Pokémon, Pokémon that want you gone, Pokémon that will learn to love you! OOH! Muku doesn't know this, Muku doesn't know that, Muku doesn't know this at all! Muku thinks, Muku thinks, Muku thinks! Muku, Muku, Muku! Kiyiyiyaaah!"
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