Adventure Thread - Group A

Tiki blinks for a moment, and checks on the big Arcanine. "Oh my gosh! Grrr!...This place sucks!" Tiki gets up, and looks into the now open doorway.

"Oh what the damn!" That's when Red Child vanishes. The minute he reappears Clay hurries over to check on him as well, trying to figure out where or how badly he's injured.

After a moment he sighs and recalls Red Child. "Okay, weird space-hole booby traps. Can she just set those up, do you think, or does this mean she knows we're here?" The only person he's ever seen do that is D'Mara herself.

He frowns at the plants that fill the room. "I was wondering if she just kept a dangerous plant for decoration because she's weird, but this is definitely on purpose. Wonder if we can burn these or if that would just put poison in the air. Poison plants do that sometimes. Maybe we better just try to work around them."

Clay starts looking around the room for anything useful, peering into cubbyholes and rattling drawers in hopes of finding one with something useful inside. Or just one that's locked, which might mean there's something useful inside.

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Clay discovers several nasty lacerations on Red Child's flanks, like something clawed him up pretty good. Now, he's had experience in looking at wounds caused by things with claws, but this doesn't look like anything he's seen. Mankey claws aren't big enough to do this, and most other mountain-dwelling pokemon are rock types. Maybe a Charmeleon could do this, but that doesn't fit with the theme. Just then, a thought occurs to him. That weird 'disaster Pokemon' that followed Tiki home that one time (whatever happened to it anyway? Did it just leave on its own?). It had nice-looking claws on its feet. It would make sense if D'Mara had one of those herself, though Clay can't recall ever having seen it; or any Pokemon that D'Mara has, come to think of it. Eh, questions for later. In any case, Red Child is cut up pretty bad, but it's nowhere near life-threatening. A trip to the infirmary would probably be enough to fix him right up. Whatever did that to him though, is probably not something Clay would enjoy fighting.

While Clay is examining Red Child's wounds, Tiki examines the room itself; avoiding the poisonous plants obviously. No need for a second head trip, after all. The desk is rather sparse, decorated by one of the smaller variants of the glowy, poisonous plant, with a fine layer of dust sitting atop it. Well, dust covers rather the entire office space. Except the plants. Either they somehow repel dust, or they glow brightly enough for it to be unnoticeable without touching it. Well, that or they're new additions. New additions would indicate that they were placed here more recently, but without disturbing the layer of dust that settled on everything else. Maybe more 'portal' shenanigans? D'Mara seems to like those, after all. All of the drawers are openable, though one has a lock on it. All are empty but for a few scattered office supplies.

The drawer with the lock on it is actually not locked, and opens easily, revealing an empty space. Seems like D'Mara cleaned the place out and doesn't plan on coming back anytime soon.

Neither Clay nor Fan can spot any extraneous footprints in the dust. Aside from their little group, seems nobody has been in here for ages, despite the odd lack of dust on the glowing plants and their pots.

Tiki finds no secret compartments within the drawer. Which seems unusual for such a secretive person at first, but then, 'secret compartment within a drawer' is a fairly obvious trope, and D'Mara seems to be focused on obfuscating as much information about herself and her habits as possible. Thus, she is unlikely to use one of the 'common' tropes in literary works.

Tiki shudders, and steps out. "Ugh. No thanks. You can carry it." Tiki sighs, and scratches her head. "Investigating here was a bust I guess. Anything else in the guild worth investigating?"

For just a moment, it seems as if the plant is infinitely heavier than it really is; but then it isn't. Nothing out of the ordinary about its weight. Heck, it came and went so fast that Clay may not even have noticed it. Either way, he and Tiki continue on and find somebody to direct them to the greenhouse at the back of the building where the Grass Branch hangs out. Poison Branch turns out to be just around the corner from it, not that Clay wants to go back there. It's quite possible that the Bug Branch is nearby as well, but with no real reason to go looking for it, Clay just heads on over to Grass Branch. Thankfully for him and Tiki, someone is actually tending to the plants when they enter and is able to guide them to the part of the Branch where the adventurers actually stay. They are escorted to the Branch Leader's office.

"Welcome to Grass Branch, my friends. My name is Sage, and I am the one in charge of the greenhouse and the Grass Branch in general. I see you have brought a plant for me. Please, set it down here on my desk so I can examine it." When Clay does so, she questions him about his reasons for bringing it here. Bio-luminescence is rare, but not unheard of in plants.