Rei - Solo RP & Special Missions

"Good. This way, then." She produces an apricorn ball and presses the button, releasing a dragonfly-like Pokémon. It has a small head with two yellow antennae and green bulging eyes with black oval-shaped pupils. Its mouth has two large white teeth protruding from each side. It has a skinny yellow body, four skinny black legs with slender feet, and four green, rhombus-shaped wings with black edges. There are similarly-colored rhombus shapes at the end of its tail.

"Vibrava, here, will be our forward scout." The Pokemon zips off into the sky ahead of the two of you, checking back every twenty minutes.

Unless you initiate conversation, Maya will lead on in silence, speaking only to give directions or to make sure you're staying hydrated. As the senior branch member among the two of you, she's responsible for your well-being; a task she takes very seriously. Averaging a little over 3 Km/hour in the rocky terrain, it takes you about an hour and a half to reach an outcropping above a small village of makeshift huts. Your instructions from Lady Sorra were clear: observe and take notes only. Do not interact or approach.

Maya sighs heavily, as if she had expected this conversation.

"I'm used to working either alone or with Lady Shields. I'm not great with people, alright? I work with dragons for a living, so I have a tendency to be short with people. Can't afford to be anything but fully aware with dragons. One slip up and they'll take command away from you at best, and kill you outright at worst. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not suggesting I think you'll stab me in the back or anything of the sort."

She shakes her head. "All I'm saying is that you're new. Untested. This is your test. Do well enough, and you might just earn my respect. Until then, we're just working together, so don't expect me to suddenly open up to you and suggest we sit down and start braiding each other's hair or something ridiculous like that."

Maya facepalms a bit, realizing she may have come across as too harsh. "Look, Rei, I'm.. sorry if I offended you, or made you feel like you weren't welcome. I won't make excuses for my behavior. Lady Shields has suggested at times that I act a little too much like a dragon myself. Always on a hair trigger. I prefer to think of it as 'extraordinary discipline', but call it what you like."

At the mention of Sorra recognizing her skills, Maya frowns. "It isn't that she doesn't recognize my talents, far from it, in fact. I wouldn't be her Squire if I wasn't skilled enough. That's part of why she sent you with me instead of someone else. She knows me well, and trusts my judgement on a lot of things. You recall how I mentioned this was a 'test' of sorts for you? I wasn't being metaphorical. This is a literal test to see how well you operate in the field with fellow branch members. I suspect she figures if you can put up with me, you can handle anything. Heh."

Maya nods as Vibrava returns a third time and stays near. You reach your destination about ten minutes later. Maya has you set up camp while she keeps an eye on the village. The main point she stresses is 'no fire', as the smoke and the light would give you away to the villagers, as well as any hungry Wilds in the area.

You will each take turns between keeping watch (on the village during the day, or watching for anything hostile at night) while the other sleeps. The mission is expected to take a total of three days, barring any strange incidents. Maya is up first, and will be on a 12 hour shift. Then you will take her place. Every six hours, you will roll a 1d10 for random encounters. If the result is a 1, it's an encounter. You will also roll perception checks to notice anything going on in the village during your shift. (You can describe anything you want.) Stealth rolls are not needed (mostly because Maya has pathetic stealth ).

At some point during one of their breaks, with Maya's Vibrava keeping watch on the village, something happens. Vibrava suddenly comes zooming back up to to the camp from its patrol route and begins buzzing urgently. In response to whatever its trying to say, Maya grabs the looking-glass the two of you have been using to keep an eye on the village and peers through it, looking at where Vibrava seems to be indicating something is happening. She quickly tosses it to you after a moment as she gathers up her bow and the belt with her apricorn balls on it.

"Something's happening. Vibrava says there is a large group of Wild Pokemon bearing down on the village, though I can't tell what they are. I know we aren't supposed to interfere with stuff, but I can't just sit by and watch a village full of civilians get demolished by riled-up Wilds."

Without another word, she quickly picks her way down a gogoat trail down into the basin, Vibrava easily keeping pace in the air.

As you reach the pass leading up to the village, you and Maya spot a large group of gray and black pokemon charging straight ahead. Maya's Vibrava flies ahead and sends a gust of sand swirling around one of them.

As Rei sees Maya finish off the one that went after her, she walks over and pulls our her Medical kit, hoping to heal her wounds, but before she can even do that, Maya chugs down one of the tonics. Rei frowns, as that's a bit of a waste when she can heal some of Maya's wounds on her own. The tonics were meant for more dire situations. Oh well.

"I was going to say that you didn't need to use the tonic right now, and to save it for yourself for later, but I guess it's a bit moot at this point now."

Regardless, Rei sets her kit down next to Vibrava, and pulls out various items. She at first does minor patch ups on Shinpuru and herself before releasing Hikari and working to get him up to full. Once done, she looks to Maya.

"May I, for your pokemon?"

"Oh don't worry about 'repaying' me or anything! I just don't like to see supplies go to waste, especially when we are out here on our own. My kit doesn't really cost much to replenish, it's almost negilable."

Rei works on Vibrava for a few minutes, and it seems the bug is feeling a lot better.

"There we go! Everyone in fighting form... more or less! They are better at least."

Rei gets up.

"Oh I do apologize for that one that broke off. Shinpuru couldn't seem to hit them, and we really could keep their attention that long. Are you alright?"

"Well that's one way to meet a pokemon companion! I've not thankfully run into a situation like that myself, usually I've been just able to sweet talk them."

Rei looks around, noting the Donphan she tried to push. That 'should' have worked, and she's not quite sure why it didn't.