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Post by Robot on Dec 30, 2018 3:16:48 GMT
"I will await your return then. The gym closes for the day in one hour. If you are not prepared in that time, I will be here again at noon, the day after tomorrow. I look forward to it."
The lobby is empty as the trainers make their way back to the Pokemon Center. Nurse Joy from the previous town is here, but she seems to be of a different temperament this time around. More prone to mischief and flightiness. "Oh, I'd wondered when you were going to get here, hehe. My sister sent an alert ahead to the other centers to look after you where we could. Seemed to think you were going to get eaten or something." She stated with a wink. "Your friends have already settled for the night in the commons, is there anything I can do for you?"
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Post by Breakthelevee on Dec 30, 2018 19:29:27 GMT
Omega held forth the balls containing his two pokemon "Heal these two so I can fight the one called Morty please. He said we need to be back in an hour or we can't fight him for more than a day..." He went quiet and started counting on his hands "How long is an hour? Does it take longer than that for you to heal them?"
He looked back at the other two with a grim face "I'm worried we will have to wait. I feel like he was just trying to get us out of there until the day after tomorrow so he can watch us and learn our strength. But I have a better idea. We should learn HIS strength and then use it against him to win." A smug smirk appears on the boys face "He'll never see it coming"
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 30, 2018 21:34:13 GMT
"Is that a risk out there, of being eaten?" Thel asks, with some concern. "I'd not considered that. Do you have any advice on how best to avoid it?" He'd always thought of humans at, well, the top of any food chain. They were able to just come in, take what they wanted, and the most anybody could do is run. Is there really something that would prey on them? It must be truly terrifying, in that case.
"Why are you wanting to do this?" he asks Omega. "I don't know how to be a Trainer, and I doubt that you know any more than I. He told us where we should go. I don't think that this is going to end well, if we pursue it..."
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Post by birdy51 on Dec 30, 2018 23:02:05 GMT
Muku wordlessly passes her Pokémon to the nurse before turning to the nearby window. She was acting so very strangely, but she had more pressing matters on her mind. "Omega, Muku doesn't want to say that Thel is right, but Muku doesn't know if fighting him is a good idea either. Muku will do it, because Muku wants to help Omega, but Morty seems strong and bad, and bad and strong are two things that are really bad if you put them together, and his eyes are creepy, and I'm quietly afraid that he's going to eat us, but the point is that he's stronger and Thel's right because we don't know anything about being trainers other than you throw balls to capture things, and that seems much smaller than the other things we might not know about because we don't have that experience and Muku thinks the only battle she's ever seen was between two small humans with rats and Champion Lance and the bad man, and that's not enough experience to form a quantifiable pool of experience that culminates in Muku having any idea on how this whole battling thing works for Humans."
She frowns, taking in a deep breath in and out. "So. Muku doesn't know if it's a good idea. At least tonight... That's all that was really important that Muku had to say, she thinks."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jan 2, 2019 4:35:19 GMT
"He challenged me. I won't back down from a challenge" Omega says with a stamp of his foot. "The way he looked at me, at us. The way he stood up. I cannot let someone that strong pass me by." His shoulders go back and his teeth clench as he stood taller than normal "This is what I've been needing"
After a breath, he relaxes "But I respect your points. Facing him tonight would be a massacre. He said we can face him in two days at noon. So I propose that we spend the next day learning all we can about being Trainers, and Morty, and these Gyms. And then we face him. Just once. Then I'm fine with leaving" He looks between Thel and Muku "Is that acceptable?"
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 2, 2019 4:49:34 GMT
"I... suppose..." Thel relents. It might be better to give him what he wants, and then he has no room to quarrel when it goes wrong. "Do you really think we could learn enough about being Trainers in one day, though?"
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Post by birdy51 on Jan 2, 2019 19:07:30 GMT
"If Muku can reconcile not being a Starly in one day, Muku can learn to become a trainer in one day." She says confidently. This, was of course, a friendly lie she had just told herself. She had not reconciled herself to being a human. But the alternative meant having to go through yet another existential panic attack and at this late in the night, she was not having it.
Muku smiles. Smiling is all she handle for tonight.
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jan 3, 2019 3:09:21 GMT
"Then we will learn as much as we can in the morning. We can ask Joy about the basics. Maybe we could also get Thel another companion, and use that to learn more about what it is to be a Trainer" Omega theorizes as he walks. He had no doubt that the fight with Morty would be tough. But he also knew he couldn't live with himself if he didn't try. If he just backed down like he did as a Mightyena.
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Post by Robot on Jan 5, 2019 4:19:55 GMT
"Off the trails can be incredibly dangerous, that is where you find less domesticated, and more dangerous forms of Pokemon." Joy hunkered down behind the counter so that just her eyes were on the trio. "You'll be walking through the woods, lost, and your phone is dead. Suddenly, you realize they're behind you, about thirty feet back. It's Lycanroc. They drop to all fours and break into a sprint. They're gaining on you, and you can see that there's blood on their face, there's blood everywhere!"
Joy dramatically surged from behind the counter to her full height, arms extended overhead. "There are very real dangers, yes." She giggled mischievously at their reactions before taking Pokemon to be healed. Kursz had not liked her at all.
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 5, 2019 4:56:41 GMT
"Ah." Thel says, quiet, and deadly serious. "I see. So... how do you suggest that we avoid that? Especially since they can apparently kill without you knowing that they're there, if whoever Phone was died so quickly." These new dangers, all this uncertainty, it is worrying. "I'm sorry for your loss," he adds. It seemed like the right thing to do.
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Post by birdy51 on Jan 5, 2019 12:28:46 GMT
"I'm sure Phone was a good human..." Muku says quietly, before turning to face the wall. The wall. Nothing else. "Maybe tomorrow we can find a place to watch other trainers train. That would be better than going outside in the wilds, and losing a dear friend you've known for years to a predator, Muku thinks. But Muku also needs to sleep, and she isn't prepared to think about the other connotations of death in the woods like gnawing through your leg quietly and body-slamming Lycanrocs and oh, Muku really is tired..."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jan 6, 2019 18:17:49 GMT
Omega just glares at the Joy before shaking his head at the others "You act surprised, as if you weren't the predators like the Lycanroc in the story. Did you never stalk a human who came too close to your dens?" He began to walk towards the back "This Phone made the mistake of travelling off on their own." The irony on how often he goes off on his own is entirely lost on the boy.
"I'll see you all when the sun rises again. Then we will become Trainers" This would go terribly, but there was no talking him out of it.
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 6, 2019 19:56:35 GMT
"No, never," Thel says. "People were dangerous, to be avoided. You hid, you maybe watched, but if you were caught, you would never be seen again."
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Post by Robot on Jan 7, 2019 23:23:43 GMT
"It's not hard, just don't stray too far from the trails. Don't travel at night, or across the wilds if you can avoid it~" Joy soothed in a singsong voice, before her face took on a creepy expression. "And don't go near the Burned Tower at night." It was back to normal a blink of an eye later. "I'd recommend visiting the Ecruteak Dance Theatre if you want to see trainers in action tomorrow. I'll take care of your Pokemon tonight, see you tomorrow!"
(Fully heal your Pokemon, removing three injuries apiece. You may apply Training in the morning. I will need a party direction as well, be it Route 37, Route 38, the Dance Theatre, Bell, or Burned Towers.)
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 7, 2019 23:26:41 GMT
"Um, alright," Thel says, a little unnerved. "Well, thank you for the advice. I'll do my best to not die." He turns to the others. "What do you think? The Dance Theater sound good, in that case?" It would probably be good to watch actual Trainers in action.
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Post by birdy51 on Jan 8, 2019 0:31:31 GMT
"Muku needs to sleep, Muku doesn't care!" Cries out the bird, puffing her cheeks in anger as she cries aloud. With a flash, she's in the nest room as she throws herself into a bed. In the morning, she would be better.
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...And in the morning, she was better, having pulled what would seem to be a mood 180 overnight. "Oh Thel, Thel! Muku would be fine with dancing! Muku doesn't know what that it is, but it sounds different and Muku might see if it's not as terrible as the Gym, which was terrifying, and going out at night, which was also terrifying, and Towers that have burned to the ground, which Muku had nightmares about, but how is Thel doing this morning?"
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 8, 2019 3:59:07 GMT
Thel's a little surprised at the girl's demeanour change. Granted, he should be used to it. Often many of the ladies back home were volatile, too.
"I'm a little bit tired," he admits. "It's hard for me to sleep isolated like this. Blankets are all well and good... but it's just not the same as the body heat of others. Not having to get up at the crack of dawn to hunt, though, is nice. As is the softness of the bed."
"I'll admit that I don't know what dancing is, either, but I assume that it has something to do with being a Trainer. That's what it sounded like, at least." He shrugs. "I'll probably go outside, enjoy the sunlight, and spend some time with Hope. That seems like it might be a good idea."
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jan 8, 2019 4:23:30 GMT
Omega scratches the back of his head and loudly yawns "If these dancers are Trainers then we should go there. And then tonight we should go to the Burned Tower" He says casually as he stretches "But both of you seem to be forgetting the most important thing"
He walks to the door and looks back with a predatory grin "They give free food here, no hunting required" with that, he was off to breakfast.
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Post by birdy51 on Jan 8, 2019 14:44:11 GMT
Muku lingered for a moment with Thel as Omega walked off, playing with head comb- or, hair rather. "Muku thinks... Omega has really bad ideas sometimes." She beeps. "Maybe you can convince him to go in the evening instead, before night. That way, we can still see it and it won't be dangerous or evil if we leave quickly enough. That would be better, yes, yes?"
She steps toward, grabs a heaping helping of what she knew to be yellow delight, and looks to Thel anxiously for an answer.
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Post by DataNinja on Jan 8, 2019 17:15:51 GMT
"I know that I don't have to hunt," Thel replies to Omega, irritably. "Why else would I have not done it?"
He huffs a little as Omega walks off. He's not sure why the other is so good at getting under his skin at times. Is it a side effect of... being human? He isn't sure.
"I... feel like going to this 'Burned Tower' near dark at all is a bad idea," he replies to Muku. "Midday sounds like the best time, if night is bad. But... fine. I'll go talk to him. He doesn't listen to me, though." He does wander after the once-dog, though a little reluctantly. It probably won't end well. But, he's entrusted with this task, so...
"So, don't you think that it would be better to visit the tower in the day time," Thel asks Omega, "given that Joy's sister said to avoid it at night? That sounds like a way to invite death. And pain."
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