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Post by getsuga on Nov 7, 2016 22:56:01 GMT
Our heroes dealt with Ika, Gurner, and Paradiso, and now they arrived at Hayden City to challenge the next gym (and maybe gamble some). The three find a hotel they can afford to stay in and finally get some shut eye for the next fight. The Solrocks are up and the Pidgeys are out! The time is 10:00am, Jace and Tully are in the bed and Marietta is getting some shuteye on the couch (in her pajamas?).
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Post by Trixander on Nov 8, 2016 0:40:15 GMT
Jace is normally an early riser, but he was up waaaay too late last night (this morning?). He climbs out of bed and finds sees that Ace isn't there. After a brief search he finds Ace still inside of his backpack. Snapping himself awake he pats Ace on the head.
"Wake up slacker." As soon as Ace hinted that he was awake Jace snatched him up from his sleeping place. Jolted awake Jace had him by the scruff of his neck. Jace had the poor thing at eye level. "If you think that what happened yesterday means you get today off you would be mistaken. In fact, I've got something special planned for you." Before Ace could react he was put back in the bag. Jace didn't zip it up, but he did throw it over his shoulder. If Ace was to escape he'd have to jump for it, and in his current condition that wasn't a very good idea. He had no choice but to settle with his horrible fate!
Jace slips out of the apartment, heading for the Pokemon Center. Hopefully his package had arrived already...
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 8, 2016 0:44:45 GMT
"Aaahhhh!!!" Scream of a startled girl pierces the whole room. Last thing she remembered, she was having a soak. Marietta examines her body and finds herself in a set of new pajamas, scaring her more. Marietta frantically looks around the room. "No... nobody touched me... right? Are we kidnapped?"
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Post by getsuga on Nov 8, 2016 4:40:48 GMT
Marietta sees everything in the room exacty how you found it originally. The balcony is unopened and all the doors are closed. You have everyhting laid out matching your daily routine.
Outside of the hotel... The first thing Jace notices is that even though its a dinky hotel, there is no one at the reception desk or out in the lobby. And outside has this eerie, lavender, and cloudy hue to it. The longer you look at it, the more offputting it gets. It's as if someone changed the color wheel a like an old TV tuner. The buildings lined along the road resembled burning logs, cinder creeping from the cracks like the shell of a Torkoal.
Jace enters the Pokemon Center and no one is to be found. No nurse Joy, no trainers, no package.
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Post by madandy on Nov 8, 2016 20:04:08 GMT
Tully wakes up a little later than Jace, the previous day's many exertions having worn him out completely. Seeing the other side of the bed empty, he shrugs and pulls his trousers out from uder his pillow, having stashed them there the previous night after changing into his pajamas. He feels the pocket, making sure the shard is still in there.
Not that he's paranoid, of course. Paranoia implies that his fears are irrational.
Having checked that, he hops out of the bed and strolls over to the window, revelling in actually having a bed and a good roof over his head. An unashamed city kid, Tully would rather spend the worst night in a city than the best night in the wilderness. Smiling to himself, he throws open the room's windows.
His smile fades rapidly.
Looking out over the altered city, the phrase "I don't think we're in Kalos anymore" springs briefly into his mind before being supplanted by the phrase "What the ****?"
"Guys?" He calls out into the main suite. "I think we may have a problem."
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Post by Trixander on Nov 8, 2016 20:11:23 GMT
Jace comes back into the hotel room then. "I think we have a few problems. Nobody is outside. The whole city is empty." Ace was still here, so that was good. Basically, Jace came to a few ideas: Either they were teleported somewhere (which seemed possible with all of this space mumbo-jumbo) or they were all in a dream. It seemed weird that they were all in the same dream together...
Unless none of them were actually real!
Jace got rid of that thought outright. Not that it wasn't possible, but that sort of paranoia wouldn't help him get out. Jace activates his psionic sight (so that the others don't see it). Perhaps he can glean some information that way.
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 8, 2016 23:46:27 GMT
Taking a deep breath, Marietta rises from the couch, checking the balcony and confirms what Jace and Tully saw, a scenery straight from a poor budget horror movie. ""I don't remember having wearing this pyjamas. Someone invaded this room and teleported us into this dream dimension." After Nadar's time space manipulation, this weird landscape doesn't feel so weird now.
Marietta changes into her usual clothes in the bathroom, and thinks about Jace's observation. She assumes there might be a source or exit somewhere. "How about the casino, or the gym leader?"
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Post by getsuga on Nov 8, 2016 23:51:00 GMT
Jace looks at Marietta and sees a hazy pink cord attached to the back of Marietta and Tully's head. If he focuses hard enough, his Iron Mind ability makes him feel like something is picking at his body from far away. The cord isn't reading his thoughts but more like putting images in his head.
"I wouldn't pull that if I were you. That cable is attached to your brain stem; right now your body is in a deep sleep of rapid eye movement and your brain is going through some big firing right now since you three are sharing this dream. Hehehehe" A small man appears on Jace's shoulder. He is wearing a wrinkled, untucked dress shirt and jeans. His sharp eyes shine yellow and his teeth remind you of a goblin.
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Post by Trixander on Nov 9, 2016 1:57:00 GMT
"Yeah? And just who are you?" Jace didn't quite know what to make of his new shoulder-mate. Not nearly as cute as Ace, who remains hidden inside of Jace's backpack.
Jace didn't really care about what this thing was, he was just starting to piece things together. They seemed tethered to their bodies with these cords, so breaking them is a no-go. Jace has some things he wants to try, but he decides to wait and see if this creature will spill some information first.
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 9, 2016 2:30:55 GMT
Marietta notices Jace's shoulder size creature, peeking her curiosity. Inquisitive about what she assumes to be a new Pokemon, the juggler points the goblin like creature with her Pokedex, preparing her Pokeballs just in case of possible attack.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 9, 2016 2:42:46 GMT
Marietta's pokedex shows no information on this new creature.
The creature pulls out a brush and starts grooming his hair. He jumps off of Jace's shoulder and grows to human sized in front of the three. "*Hahaha* I'm just one imagination of Travest, the gym leader of Hayden City. I was expecting you to come around this time so I told every hotel in the city to keep track of three young trainers checking in. The name of this gym challenge is Travest's Full Course Lecture. Here, you will need to make it to the casino and beat the us Travests three different times. Just find a way out of here before I leave you all to rot; I'm a busy man. You think I want to be tending to your bodies all day?"
And with that the goblin like man jumps and dissapears into smoke.
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Post by Trixander on Nov 9, 2016 3:11:58 GMT
A gym leader? Perfect. Jace was afraid that this was some sort of assault... wait.
WHAT'S WITH THESE GYM LEADERS?
Jace had no time to prepare, no time to rest. He didn't even get a chance to try his new training with Ace. Nothing. Back to back gym battles one after the other. It was madness! Was it like this for every trainer?
This was all going on in his head, but instead he said: "Easy. I was already able to leave once."
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 9, 2016 3:20:17 GMT
Marietta listens to Travest threat with amusement, then cracks her knuckles. Her face expression is hard to tell, a mixture of disgust, excitement and the will to win. "We got into a gym challenge without realising it, this must be the work of Paradiso." Marietta picks up her bag and looks at others. "What are we waiting for? Let's get to the casino." She feels like unloading some slap on Travest for intruding a girl's privacy.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 11, 2016 2:39:40 GMT
The group travels to the casino. Along their path they crossed a bridge over a body of water to get to the entrance. The closer they approached the vivid building, the more it resembled a castle with the bricks transforming into cobblestone and including the moat and drawbridge design. You and stop at the main entrance notice that it's barred shut with chains and boards. Dusk is arriving soon with the sun setting at your backs.
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Post by Trixander on Nov 11, 2016 22:01:53 GMT
Jace looks back at the setting sun. "Day, night, day, night. Why don't gym leaders like fighting in broad daylight?" Jokes aside, it looked like they had to find another way in. Or bust their way in. Jace considered Shroomish's Pokeball. What he'd like to do is let Shroomish run this show, but Jace didn't know what would happen if he called him out.
Figuring it was worth a shot, he activated the Pokeball. If this worked, maybe Tully's Pokemon could find a way in.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 11, 2016 23:16:44 GMT
Shroomish pops out of his pokeball while surrounded by a pink mist for a few seconds. He looks and acts excatly like the real thing.
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 12, 2016 3:20:46 GMT
"Day or night, makes no difference. Maybe Nexus gym leaders loves the romantic scenery of the night." Marietta places her hands behind her head, braving her smile at the iron gate barring access. There will always be a spot where she can get into the castle, or switches they need to activate to gain access to the castle. "I'm going to look around for alternate entrance. If this gym is set like an RPG game, there should be opponents or switches to open the castle gate, keep your walkie-talkie on."
Marietta starts looking from the left side, looking for holes or vents to sneak into the "castle".
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Post by getsuga on Nov 12, 2016 4:11:36 GMT
While searching, Marietta notices that most of the building's cobblestone is full of cracks and they probably could come down easily with enough force. She hears the sound of bells coming from the top of the castle. At the main entrance, Jace and Tully see somone closing in on them from the bridge.
With the sun in their eyes, it is impossible to make out facial features, but it seems to be a big, burly man who is riding a bike a bit too small for his size. He is dragging a metal pipe along the bridge. Nothing can be heard within the city except the sound of grinding metal traveling along the ground. Still relatively far, he shouts "First lesson! Misfortune always comes in threes!". The figure picks up speed and raises his mighty battle pipe to do a drive-by, swinging at Tully.
Acrobatics!
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Post by getsuga on Nov 12, 2016 21:03:21 GMT
The bicyclist attack whiffs the air as Tully manages to evade the hit. He runs around them and stops at the exit to the bridge. The man gets off the bike and takes out two pokeballs. "If you want to proceed, then you'll have the misfortune of fighting me..." His slow speech gives off the idea he isn't that bright(Imagine Sloth from FMA:B!) He brings out Slowpoke and Inkay. And so the first round begins! Slowpoke: 2 Inkay: 12 Propane Nightmares (I didnt forget this time)
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 12, 2016 22:38:56 GMT
"Heheh." Marietta turns her hat behind, mimicking Ash's battle pose. Even with the meaningless pose, Marietta prepares Joe's pokeball and slams it straight at the crack nearest to her. Upon impact, Joe's Pokeball releases him. Joe growls for a moment, touching his belly, the looks at the ecstatic Marietta with disinterest.
"Okay Joe, Quick Attack, bring down this wall!" Even with the tone of excitement, Marietta commands Joe with the ruthlessness of a prey, pointing at the damage she did on the cracked wall. Joe gets the meaning, sees the weakness of the wall and, with the swiftness of pursuing Pidgeot, punches the wall.
Marietta prepares herself for the second bell, and leaves the first battle to Jace and Tully. She believes the guys can handle it well.
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