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Post by getsuga on Aug 18, 2017 3:24:52 GMT
After answering Yozora's orders, the three trainers finally find the location of Marietta's parents, but this reunion turned for the worst. Marietta's mother, Brooklyn, was associated with the renegade Paradiso group in order to get revenge for her late husband. Under the assumption that everything would go through peacefully, Jace calls Paradiso members Jeremiah and Roderick to capture Brooklyn. Unfortunately the four men were met with resistance from the mother and child. Marietta forcefully meets her fate at the hands of Tully and Brooklyn is captured by the one who killed Raphael. Jace and Tully are still pretty shaken up by this ordeal but they must continue to march on...
Jace tells Mera, who was doing her best to hold back the tears, everything the renegade group has planned. They agreed to give her the shard Brooklyn used to attack Tully with to fulfill the deal they made with Tatsumaki. Mera pleads them to spend the night resting and promising Jeremiah will fly them to the next possible gym. The room and food was quite nice...
Location: The Skies! Time: Early-noon Jace, Tully, and Jeremiah are sitting down in a basket, being carried by Flygon. Tired of playing cards, Jeremiah asks the two, "Question! How do you swing your fists? Your knives? ...I'm sayin' what sound effect do you think Eevee's body makes when he hits something? The noise Murkrow makes when her beak hits the enemy, ya dig?"
Roll charm or any other social skill to talk your way out of a wrong answer
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Post by Trixander on Aug 18, 2017 14:07:13 GMT
"Hmmm," Jace thought about it. "I don't know about when he hits something, but Ace and I have been working on a new move recently. It definitely makes a FWOOOOOSH noise." That's the only way Jace could describe it, but it was pretty accurate. It was also loud as hell.
Ace pawed the bottom of the basket in agreement. He found the description apt.
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Post by madandy on Aug 18, 2017 15:37:09 GMT
"Can't say I've noticed. When it happens, I've usually got other things on my mind." Tully replies, lying through his teeth, not wanting to let on just how much the sound of his knives slicing through flesh was etched into his mind.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 18, 2017 18:07:23 GMT
Jeremiah grins from ear to ear at the comments. "Ooo la la~ I see." Jeremiah peeks out the basket and looks around before tugging on a few of the ropes attached to Flygon.
"We're mixing things up for today. You two are strong... in fighting. But y'all make me lose sleep at the thought of having you battle with Pokémon. Terribad..."
Flygon makes a deep descend down that shakes the basket. "The leader for the next gym is so full of himself that he won't battle. The other challengers will do it for a badge! Heads have been so high lately!! So to make sure you don't make the Paradiso name wack as hell..."
A view of the mountains enters your vision.
"Time to steel your mind, body, and Pokémon at my old Master's stupid den!"
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Post by Trixander on Aug 18, 2017 21:42:58 GMT
"Wait," Jace wanted to be sure he heard Jeremiah correctly. "So we aren't going straight to the next gym?"
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Post by getsuga on Aug 19, 2017 1:44:09 GMT
"Nope. More training" Jeremiah says as he keeps a look out. "If your information is right, we got four days to pump iron before the final battle. Once they get a hold of Mew they'll knock aside the chessboard like a child and that's BG. Game over, ya dig? So why don'cha spend two over here and the third day at the gym."
"And besides, you lost a lot more than a third of your manpower... Mind the gap."
The basket makes contact with the trees as it descends even more. "Here!" You're dropped at a drab-looking shack connected to a cave inside the nashor mountain...
The ground is made up of small gravel and a small stream divides the face of the mountain and a forest area. Most of the trees are cut down though. You can smell a mix of freshness and iron in the air as you draw closer to the shack. You see a group of Riolus run out with buckets of rocks to throw on the side of the mountain. A Lucario wearing a bandana and holding a scorching hot rod follows them and dips the rod into the water.
" 'Might get more Pokemon off this, he does farm up a lot of steel types... Anything else before I leave you stooges for two days?"
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Post by Trixander on Aug 20, 2017 0:01:19 GMT
"Not really," Jace shook his head. "What kind of training are we going to be doing for only two days?"
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Post by getsuga on Aug 20, 2017 4:13:18 GMT
"~Dunno! Don't care!" Jeremiah says with a shrug. He picks up a decently sized rock and chucks it at the wooden, shattering the wood. He shouts at the top of his lungs, "Come out you dirty geezer!" And runs with all his might in the other direction. Leaving you two alone. As you see the man leave, you turn around and see in only a few seconds, Lucario managed to close the distance. He constructs a bone out of aura and swings across you two. The ground tremors underneath both of you as well! Roll athletics to dodge Bone RushLucario whacks both of you with the staff. The strike rattles you both from head to toe, but Jace's short daze ends as he manages to jump away from the source causing the rumble underneath your feet, Steelix. Tully fails to avoid Steelix and he is lifted in the sir, but luckily falls into the water, taking damage. Initiative: Ace 34 Lucario 17 Jace 14 Steelix 10
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Post by Trixander on Aug 20, 2017 18:59:15 GMT
Jace, lucky enough to get out of the way of Steelix, reeled to the side. "Ace, toast 'em!" He had been hoping to save this move as a surprise, but against these steel types it was too good not to use.
Ace's eyes glow blue again as his body is surrounded by similarly blue flames. He leaps up into the air, sucking the flames into his body. At the peak of his jump he releases it into a gout of blue fire. The tiny eevee has a hard time controlling the direction of the flames and ends up missing his mark slightly. However, the flames are intense enough to still reach their target, if only indirectly.
Ace uses his shift action to move slightly to the side and into the air (not very far, but for the sake of anime effects!)
He uses his standard action to perform his Signature Technique: Sol Fire, aka Overheat. It has the Smite keyword, so despite missing, it still deals damage as if the move had been resisted one step further.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 21, 2017 5:07:59 GMT
The smoke and heat from the fire attack engulfs them. As Steelix clears the flames with his tail, you can see them still standing, but a bit singed from the blast radius of the attack.
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Post by madandy on Aug 21, 2017 15:36:26 GMT
Tully yelps as he lands in the water, hitting hard and taking a moment to assess the situation.
Buncha Steels, one a Fighting, 'gainst my Darks. Not good.
After a moment, he throws a knife at the Steelix, not expecting to do much damage, while releasing Xander between him and Steelix.
"Xander, Scorch 'im!"
Xander blinks, surprised at the situation, and goes for a fiery chomp, only to overshoot and miss.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 21, 2017 23:03:34 GMT
Lucario brushes off the fire attack rushes Jace. He puts his palm on Jace's chest and a surge of power rushes through Lucario to the trainer, impaling him with aura.
Steelix gently shifts to the side of Xander, who is open, and forces his head through the air.
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Post by Trixander on Aug 22, 2017 18:06:39 GMT
For once Jace was actually alright with being attacked. The longer they focus on me the more time Ace can tear through them. Both as a way to stall and to protect himself, Jace formed a Barrier around himself.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 23, 2017 4:48:11 GMT
Before Lucario and Steelix have a chance to crush their opponents, an ear-shattering sound comes out the shack's entrance. "What the hell is going on!?" An old, but decently built man runs out the door. A Bisharp, the source of the Metal Sound, follows the man.
"You kids r'lookin for a fight then you came to the wrong place. The pokemon are tired of me getting bullied so I guess they said enough is enough." His voice is raspy, but strong enough to reach Jace and Tully's ears as if they were a few feet away.
He sees both of his pokemon a bit scorched, but generally ok. He takes a minute to notice a knife lodged into Steelix and Lucario doing his best mime impression yet. He calls the Lucario back and Steelix tunnels back into the earth. The Riolu follow suit.
"Now scram before you two lose somthin' more than pride." Though audible, he mutters this under his breath, "Musta been my imagination."
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Post by Trixander on Aug 23, 2017 13:28:26 GMT
"But Jeremiah dropped us off here," Jace explained. "Wherever here is." He looked around and it occurred to him that he had no idea where they were. Getting back to town in time was impossible.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 23, 2017 17:52:15 GMT
"Hmm... So it was that good 'fer nothin Jeremiah!" He stops in his tracks and turns around with the same grin Jeremiah wears. "So lets say you were dropped off. What does Jeremiah want me to do with you kids? Thought it was his job to shoulder the world's problems with his clubhouse"
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Post by Trixander on Aug 23, 2017 18:28:44 GMT
"I think that we are here for training. I assumed that's why your pokemon attacked us." Jace was still confused about that, but he supposed that they did look like trespassers to anyone not expecting them.
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Post by getsuga on Aug 24, 2017 1:36:33 GMT
"Hah! They attacked because you broke my door. Though it was good practice." He says as he points to the shattered wood. He looks to Lucario,"You pushed to the edge yet?" The pokemon shakes its head. "Since he dropped you off I can't really tell ya ta scram in the middle of no where. Both of you look likecity folk with no sense of survival. HaHaHa"
"Come along then, I'll show you both your resting room. While we're on our way why don'tcha tell me your strengths?" You see many routes connected to the entrance of this man's cave/shack. As if a mole made a home.
The main room is filled with fire and steam. The Riolu are taking turns hammering an iron slab. Another pokemon is submerging a piece of iron in fire to the point it is bright red. A Pawniard is polishing a blade almost as big as him. Yep, a typical forge. As you get lower, breathing becomes harder
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Post by madandy on Aug 24, 2017 3:31:49 GMT
"If we had enough strengths to talk 'bout, we wouldn't need trainin'." Tully grumbles, fidgeting within his coat. "What kinda trainin' you do anyways?"
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Post by Trixander on Aug 24, 2017 15:07:53 GMT
"My pokemon," Jace answered without hesitation.
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