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Post by Robot on Feb 4, 2020 2:11:22 GMT
"You didn't have a choice the first time around. Won't be any better this time. More than a few of us, and you're all too rare and precious to just let wander." She mocked as Thel's blow landed, enduring the hit. It wasn't until the pollen puff burst against her, that she teetered on her feet and tumbled from the walkway into the water below.
Muku wakes, a little itchy but surprisingly no worse for wear. There is no sign of the Magma Admin, or her Pokemon. Muku may make a Perception or Intuition, whichever is better.
Terra feels a distinct lurch in her ride, which seems to be ascending towards the surface again, having left Splash some distance behind to find its own way to the surface or back to its Master. (Escape DC is once again 20).
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 4, 2020 3:23:14 GMT
"Stupid...water...mouth..." Terra's words are not quite audible as she curses and mumbles. She was hating this experience. Especially the sudden shift that had been felt. However she wasn't letting it damper her fire inside. Continue fighting.
No purchase at freeing herself came though. It only increased her frustration and anger. That was building up for when she was released.
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Post by DataNinja on Feb 4, 2020 3:36:53 GMT
There's a moment of frozen silence as Thel doesn't really register what's gone on. Before it sinks in.
"Oh, no... no no no," he says, going up towards the water, and looking within, seeing if there's any sign of the woman. Water is bad bad bad. the light raining water of the 'showers' in the center is nice, and warm... but this looks like cold, deep, inevitable death. "Ohhhh… what do I do, Hope?" he asks, turning towards the Ribombee.
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Post by birdy51 on Feb 5, 2020 0:26:51 GMT
Muku awakens. She wasn't asleep for long. It might be more keen to say that she was simply knocked out and was groggy as he body shook off whatever 'thing' that had inflicted her. Her lungs struggle a second to push out the very last remnants of the acrid, sweet smelling gas that had taken her down. But she hadn't forgotten, and she was on high alert. There was no immediate sign of the Admin, which gave her more pause than it should have. She was just here, wasn't she? In spite of her agitation and strong desire to break back out onto the street, she lingered just a moment to try to ascertain where she might had gone. Perception Check! C4rahumr4d64d6
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Post by Robot on Feb 5, 2020 2:18:43 GMT
Terra gets her opportunity as there is a final lurch and a deep chuff from her kidnapper, a spray of loose water and debris billowing from its lungs and out the hole in its head. The grand maw that imprisoned her opens facing the stern of a craft, men and women in similar uniforms to the woman the girl had only met moments before waiting to greet her with similarly smug, energetic expressions. "Alright alright, that's enough out of you bunch. Tobe has some stink to him so I don't envy the girl." A broad shouldered, well built man with an exposed chest and a pendant resembling the markings of the remainder of the crew presents himself from the back of the crowd. "A fine catch indeed." (Terra is no longer considered Grappled. Splash surfaces 16m away and will beeline for her current location with all due speed.)
Hope considered the fear-stricken look on Thel's face, then the slowly sinking form of the woman, a thin stream of bubbles issuing from her mouth. Drawing up a pollen puff between her tiny hands, she blew it against Thel where it burst into glittering spores, filling him with renewed vitality. A tiny voice in the back of his mind, sounding all too similar to Hope's usual cry replied with a single encouraging word. "Swim."
(Thel recovers 50% of his Hp from Pollen Puff)
The sound of metal shaking overhead draws Muku's eyes upwards, where her assailant was making good time up a fire escape. The lady in red offers her a smile that suggests she is far too confident in her victory, and yet Muku doesn't feel any different? Currently, the admin is 5 meters up a fire escape. (Climb DC 5 for 2 meters in difficult terrain if Muku chooses to pursue)
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Post by DataNinja on Feb 5, 2020 2:32:22 GMT
"Did you..?" Thel asks Hope with a quizzical look, as he hears what might be someone else's voice in his head. But only for a moment, as he takes a deep breath, and awkwardly jumps into the water after the woman, hoping that his body knows what it's doing, because his mind most certainly does not. This is nothing like that pond from earlier...
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Post by birdy51 on Feb 5, 2020 2:58:15 GMT
Muku's eyes burn with hatred for the woman in red. This. This wouldn't stand. "If you're going to fight me, just fight me you coward!" She screams. She steps forward and... Paralysis - U5MwkX851d20 Muku immediately shudders. She could make it, but she wouldn't be able to do much else. Swing a leg, swing an arm. There just wasn't enough strength left to do that consistently. She gives the woman a withering glare. With a flash, she releases her sword, Beak and takes them in her hands. If they were going to do this, she needed to get down here and take it to her! This time she would be ready! 1d20
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 5, 2020 3:12:17 GMT
As soon as the Wailord comes to a rocky stop, Terra's eyes close at the sound of the spray reaches her ears. However she braces herself and focuses her anger to prepare for whatever awaited her when the mouth would open. Muscles tensing up as she readies herself for combat. The group would see a glare of intense hatred and annoyance from red eyes as the mouth opened. A scowl spread across her face, however she didn't move at first, though they could see that she was flexing some in her concentration. Not a word is spoken during this moment from the girl that had been brought here. Terra uses Work Up while giving the most intimidating look she can. +1CS to Atk & SpAtk
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Post by Robot on Feb 5, 2020 12:53:44 GMT
Despite the tide slapping against Goldenrod's seawall and Thel's lack of experience, he dives into the cool water. A shock to the system, the ocean not yet warmed through the summer but not still frigid from the winter prior. The bottom is surprisingly shallow here, and getting under his charge, he pushes off of the bottom and carries her ashore on adrenaline alone.
Rolling the woman onto her stomach, he slaps her on the back a few times, encouraging her to cough up the water she had inhaled. Choking and gagging involuntarily, she begins to breathe normally but remains still. Hope gently alights cross-legged on Thel's shoulder, a satisfied smile on her face.
"I did, and I got what I wanted." The woman replied without a sense of mirth or playfulness. "Your pidgey-brain just can't comprehend it. Another time." Turning her eyes away from Muku, showing the trainer just how little she meant, the Magma official continued her ascent to the roof and disappeared from view.
"Still a lot of fire and fight in this one, I like it." While many of his compatriots had backed up, giving Terra a nervous berth, the one that seemed to speak for them remained at the fore. "Name's Archie, welcome aboard Team Aqua's mobile base." Tucking himself into a flex, his muscles pronounced themselves more visibly, rippling in the sunlight. "All life once came from the ocean, and someday the world will return to it."
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Post by birdy51 on Feb 5, 2020 14:05:36 GMT
Muku only relaxed once the woman was gone and out of sight. A fight. That’s probably what she meant by what she wanted, right? She began to feel faint and woozy. Beak had wrapped part of themself cozily up her arm, clearly just trying to comfort their trainer. Probably.
She quietly gave the blade a quiet pat before returning them to their Pokeball. As she focused on what to do, her unease and instability subsided. She needed to find Thel. Once she did that then, maybe together they could figure this out. It was too dangerous to be alone like this.
A little scary too. Muku turned to leave, intending on grabbing her bike and retracing some of her steps. She couldn’t really walk well like this anyways...
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Post by DataNinja on Feb 5, 2020 17:43:31 GMT
Thel, still kneeling, starts to shiver, though whether it's from the water, or the fading adrenaline, or the fact that he has no idea what to do now, he isn't sure. Terra's gone. There are people after them. There's this person here. He couldn't do what Em wanted. He couldn't save anybody. Tears roll down his face, mixing with the dripping saltwater.
Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Calm down. You have to do something. Trying to calm down works, to a degree, and he realizes that the woman was trying to stop them from going a specific way. So... that's the way he needs to go. Muku might still be there. He heard her, right?
Standing up, he makes a last glance at the woman who'd tried to take him, who'd successfully taken Terra. He doesn't know exactly what to do with her, and he isn't really strong enough to haul her around on his own, so he just... leaves her. And sets out to where he thinks he'd heard Muku.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 5, 2020 22:40:00 GMT
The rest of the group backing up did get a slightest of grins to start to grow on Terra's lips. At least they were giving her a bit of space. At the introduction, Archie would hear his guest give a snort as she stayed her ground. "Welcome?" she asks before rolling her eyes at the second statement about the ocean. Given her nature, she preferred to keep to her mountains. Nice and high, and dry with plenty of delicious stones to crunch upon. "What's the idea having your pokemon treat me like a chew toy?" she spits out still more than a little bitter about the experience.
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Post by Robot on Feb 6, 2020 1:49:26 GMT
On getting the woman ashore, the water expelled from her lungs, Thel rises to find a gathering crowd in a semi-circle around him, though there are still gaps. A few hold up small square red, blue, and white devices that make clicking sounds, a few shining a bright light at him as they do so. "Did you see, that young woman saved her from the water! So brave!" "A regular town heroine! What's your name Miss?" "Good thing someone was in the area, with the detours up across town she might not have made it!"
Muku sees a very large blue and white Pokemon out on the water next to one of those large metal things humans ride on the water. Blarts? Bloats? Bobbers. Probably Bobbers. There is also a sizeable crowd gathering at the edge of the seawall as she initially mounts her bike.
Archie shrugs, palms up, eyes shut and a big grin on his face before his sharp eyes meet Terra's "Wrestling with a big fish is one of the biggest thrills in life, you should be honored." Pausing, he calls to the upper deck. "How's she making out?" "The other girl did a number on her without Tobe around." "How bad?" "Put her out and in the drink, then fished her up again."
At that, the large man folded his arms across his chest and tipped his head forward, deep in thought. "Your name, kid?"
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Post by DataNinja on Feb 6, 2020 2:03:36 GMT
"Um... T...Thel," he says, hesitantly. Oh man, there's a lot of people here, and they seem to think he's done something. Something good, it seems? They don't seem to be angry with him, at least. Although, everyone seems to think that he's a Lady, lately... that feels like it's a problem, people thinking he's more important than he is...
Oh, he does remember that they'd had to pick out 'last names' when doing IDs. That was apparently an important thing. "Thel Lucasta," he adds. All this attention is making him nervous. But they seem to be expecting something. Or something like that. He doesn't know...
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Post by birdy51 on Feb 6, 2020 2:12:50 GMT
Muku watches from afar and takes in the sights. The ship at sea. The Bobber. Sure. She didn't REALLY know the name, so Bobber was as good as any. But Thel wasn't on the ship. He was in the city and- Hang on. There was something going down over by the ocean wall of stone. Yes. That was the name! Muku didn't know why the humans needed a wall against the ocean, but sure. They could probably- this was getting distracting. And she was agitated.
And yet.
If it was getting her attention, then maybe it would grab Thel's as well. Like a crash in the forest. Only in reverse. Because only stupid Pidgey's flew to danger. But Muku was smarter than Pidgeys. This in spite of anything that horrid woman thought. Stupid blackbird. Thinking she was Pidgey-brained.
She puts foot to pedal. Muku was a smart Starly- no, Staravia. She would have evolved by now. At any rate, the ocean wall was danger and she was flying towards it because she knew that she needed to, because maybe they needed help and- Muku doesn't know! It was a feeling. A feeling that something was going down there, and that meant she needed to go there. She didn't need another reason. You're stupid! Stupid Pidgey! Grah!
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 6, 2020 4:16:13 GMT
This man was clearly more than a few boulders short of a mountain with that statement about honored. She shakes her head as he calls above them, glancing upwards. Tobe, that was the pokemon's name, so they were talking about the other woman. The mention of 'other girl' she was confused. The only other person that was there was Thel, he wasn't a girl.
With attention back on herself, Terra was silent for a moment. "You'd really like to know, wouldn't you?" the tone showing that so far he hadn't really impressed her with the kidnapping and what she had seen so far. Now crossing her own arms at him.
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Post by Robot on Feb 6, 2020 11:45:45 GMT
Joy pushed through the throngs of people with a gurney bed, checking the prone woman's pulse and breathing. "She's stable, thank goodness." The men she'd come flanked by lower the gurney and ease the aqua admin onto it, before starting back towards the center for triage.
"You're that young man from this morning..." She comments in a soft voice, a knowing, pleasant smile coming to her face. "Thank you, come back to the center when you are free. I would love to talk, but for now I need to look after my patient."
Perching as high as she can on the pedals, Muku can see over heads as she gets moving. The very pink woman from the nesting place was there, and so was Thel!
"Yeah, or I wouldn't have asked. The egg heads on Maxie's end of things figure you're not real people. I haven't had someone give me such a fierce staredown in a long time, feels good." "Authorities on site, City's nurse has Shelly." There is another visible pause, though Archie doesn't change expression much.
"Your friend was just protecting herself, she didn't have to look after my people, but she did. Means a lot." Closing his eyes for a moment, he visibly relaxed his muscles and posturing. "No doubt Magma has eyes on us too, so I can't just let you leave. Name anything else and it's yours."
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Post by birdy51 on Feb 6, 2020 12:06:48 GMT
Muku comes to a screeching halt as she arrives onto the scene. Emphasis on screeching. There were so many people here now, but she could just make out Thel’s dress amongst the horrid mass of humans and their flesh-no-feather reality. It made her angry. Not the fact that there were people, but the fact that she needed to talk to Thel, and here was everyone else in their way like gawking Pidgeys. Eurgh!! Pidgeys!! Her eyes glow red as she dismounts. She’d show them a PIDGEY! “Alright, alright! Clear out! Clear out!” She screams, chinging the ching-ching recklessly and approaching the crowd with an over abundance of righteous anger. She storms up to as many people as possible, trying to take their clickety boops and hurl them into the ocean. She stares each one in the eyes with menace. “I said go home! Kikikikyaaaaah!!” Rolling that best skill, Intimidation. [roll=4d6+2]
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Post by DataNinja on Feb 6, 2020 17:29:01 GMT
Muku! Thel thinks, before realizing "Oh, no, Muku… please don't do that, Muku," he says. "Those are their things, it's fine, they're not hurting me or anything."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 6, 2020 22:47:29 GMT
Terra stayed silent for a while after Archie spoke. A wary and still slightly on edge. Arms staying crossed as she took in his comment about her glare.
Being told that she wouldn't be allowed to leave there was a pretty frustrated sigh that left her lips. "Well leaving was the main thing I wanted." She didn't uncross her arms. "Can I get something to dry off with in that case?" she asks, still sounding rather perturbed.
A moment passes after her request before speaking again. "Terra."
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