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Post by lichlord on Dec 5, 2019 8:42:17 GMT
Oh geez, THAT sounds scary.
She nods, makes a mental note to come back for a bug fight before heading back.
Now that I'm done here, I should do a bit more training, especially with my new ones. And then head back toward that weird alternate Ilex. I'm too curious to leave it alone. Jerk woman or not.
She spends the rest of that day and the next training, with some the following morning as well. She also spends whatever money she's got to prep a crap ton of medical supplies, even falling back on what she learned to nurse Liebling back to health when she found her. Once through, she heads back to Ilex, hoping that 'window' will come back up and she can get back in.
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Post by Raven on Dec 5, 2019 9:19:59 GMT
Indeed it does, though with an added notification. It warns that the 'Dungeon' has 'Reset' as Victoria did not fully complete it the last time. Special Events are not reset, but all Encounters are. Vicotria will need to fight her way through again. Just inside the Dungeon proper, Victoria comes across an odd sight. Three little...koala-things sleeping with/gnawing on weird logs. The Pokedex says they are called 'Komala' and are native to Alola.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 5, 2019 9:37:22 GMT
Victoria looks to Leibling on her shoulder before looking back and tilting her head. If they are just sleeping... she could just leave them alone, right?
She tries to tiptoe through the non-window past them.
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Post by Raven on Dec 5, 2019 9:42:15 GMT
As Victoria attempts to sneak past them, the Komala suddenly begin to move, curling up in a defensive position. At first, this seems to indicate they're defensive, but letting her past. Then one of them nearly runs her down with a Rollout. Welp. This is gonna be a thing, innit?
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Post by lichlord on Dec 10, 2019 3:12:25 GMT
After that fight, it's really dangerous for her team to continue at this point. She gathers up everyone and has to retreat back to town for the night. Guess this is a strange thing she won't ever get to the bottom of, if it's this tough.
In the morning she gathers up and leave to Ilex proper rather than the strange alternate Ilex.
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2019 3:21:02 GMT
The blue text box appears once again the following morning, informing you that the Ilex Dungeon has reset. Then, the usual question appears. Tapping the 'No' button allows Victoria to proceed into the "normal" Ilex Forest. Nowhere near as foreboding in here, and pretty much zero hostile Pokemon attacks. There are some curious Pokemon that approach in the periphery of her vision. One even approaches directly. An Illumise.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 10, 2019 4:53:03 GMT
Victoria flinches as the pokemon approaches at first before she has to remember that 'this' Ilex forest is more normal. This one could be actually curious rather than immediately hostile.
"Oh- Hello little one."
She reaches her hand out.
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2019 4:54:29 GMT
It reaches out and "shakes" your hand. "Illumise!" it announces.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 10, 2019 6:39:00 GMT
Victoria giggles and shakes it's hand back.
"Well hello there Illumise, I'm Victoria! What caused you to come up to me? Just curious?"
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2019 7:03:47 GMT
Indeed so. Seems it was curious about the human walking through the forest and wanted to greet you.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 10, 2019 7:50:30 GMT
Victoria giggles again and sits down next to it. Leibling crawls across Victoria's shoulder to inspect the nice bug.
"Look Leibling, it's a pokemon in this forest not trying to kill us!"
As Leibling inspects, Victoria pulls out some food and offers it to the new pokemon.
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2019 7:51:42 GMT
Illumise is briefly confused by the overheard statement, but shrugs it off in favor of trying the proffered food. Hm. Kinda bland, but filling. It's nice. Human is nice.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 10, 2019 8:48:18 GMT
"Hey, would you like to come with us cutie? Bugs are the best and you'd be in good company!"
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2019 18:57:01 GMT
Illumise ponders briefly, then chirps happily and boops the proffered Pokeball.
Illumise is Female, level 20, Gentle, with Tinted Lens and Armoa Veil.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 11, 2019 23:30:11 GMT
Victoria smiles as it's absorbed and then rereleases it to walk alongside them.
"Alright- hmmmm... 'Kafer'. I think that's what we'll call you. Let's go!"
The group continues through Ilex forest.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 15, 2019 21:23:59 GMT
And that causes Grazie to fall, which means that's it, leaving Victoria falling at the final hump.
Sooo close! T_T
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Post by Raven on Dec 16, 2019 4:13:13 GMT
The three siblings congratulate Victoria on doing so well. Most people barely even make it halfway, and that's when they agree to a challenge like this in the first place, which doesn't happen often. They choose to think of it as training for the Elite Four. After all, if you're aiming for the top, your team has to be able to handle five 6v6 fights in a row (E4 + Champion)...Well, not like...immediately one after the other. That's silly. But like.. you don't get much downtime between the fights.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 17, 2019 2:42:42 GMT
Victoria supposes that's true back to them. But doesn't really change how close that was, and if it wasn't for a few misses she would have had that.
She bids the girls farewell and takes her weakened party into Goldenrod.
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Post by lichlord on Dec 21, 2019 4:45:21 GMT
Victoria heads into Goldenrod shortly after, and heads to the center for the night to heal up her party and rest up. As much as she wants to explore Goldenrod in the morning, she's itching to get the gym beat, so she heads there.
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Post by Raven on Dec 21, 2019 5:30:06 GMT
The Goldenrod City Gym is precisely as one expects it to be. It's difficult to see the Gym Trainers, and completely impossible to spot Leader Whitney among all the platforms, but it's likely Victoria'll have to fight her way through at least a couple of others before being able to reach the Leader. That is how Gyms tend to work, after all. The first person in line is Beauty Akemi. She has three Pokemon to fight with.
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