Adventure Thread - Group B

Riley scrambles back into her t-shirt and jeans (they smell faintly sweet, which disgusts her) and lets all of her pokemon out of their pokeballs, partially to ascertain their presence and partially for comfort. FUCK MIND GAAAAAMES she screams, throwing up her hands to the sky. We're gonna destroy this gym. she vows with a clutched fist. She's a bit manic from exhaustion- mental and physical- but otherwise pretty okay for being held captive all night. 

Pumped with adrenaline, Riley trains her pokemon and heads back toward the gym. She's not quite sure where that is, to be honest, but she just heads toward the biggest buildings in Celadon and that helps. But when she gets there, she's long walked off the stress hormones and is about ready to pass out. So Riley makes a detour to the Pokecenter, grabbing a room to finally get some sleep.

3 hours later, a haggard Riley rises to once again confront the damn gym. She hesitates before walking up those steps again, electing to release Pilgrim from his ball and instructing him to remain invisible so she won't be alone this time. Then, a hidden Pilgrim in tow, she walks up and opens the doors with a scowl.

Riley blushes and looks quickly away from the woman when she realizes she's nude. Not that Riley is surprised, since the people here were so comfortable taking her own clothes off. She figures it'd probably be a good idea to talk to the woman, but not like that! Well, since I'm used to it by now... Riley strips off her shirt and drapes it over the woman's torso like a blanket, mostly just to hide those enormous breasts (I wonder if they're fake? ...never mind). At least, now Riley and the woman are both somewhat clothed. Then, she begins taking her pants off to offer the woman as well, although they might not fit...

Riley straightens up and looks thoughtful for a moment, as if considering the offer. 
I wonder why you didn't lead with this? It probably would've been more effective that way; I would've gotten flustered, maybe even left. But after a night trapped in your basement, it really falls...flat. She says, indicating the woman's breasts. Riley snatches her shirt back. Now, take me to the gym leader.

Riley holds up a pokeball. "Pilgrim, return." She doesn't like it, but what Nalkeya says at least makes some sense. Riley suddenly realizes how exhausted she is by all the antics here. I can't imagine living like this, playing mind games all the time. She kind of feels bad for Nalkeya, in a weird way. "Well, someone told me a while ago that if you blame others for how you act, then you really just don't want to change. We're all responsible for our own lives." It takes a second for Riley to wonder why exactly she's saying these things to a stranger who probably doesn't even care, anyway. "I'm here to battle you, Nalkeya."

Exhausted from her battle (though she herself didn't actually do much!) Jane continued onward to Celadon City. First the pokécenter. And then! Well, probably a nice cosy table in the pokécenter. She needed to sit down a bit to fix a new Gem for Hind and a rainbow one for herself. And take stock and so, before trying the gym. But that will have to wait I think. After three battles, which had been getting closer and closer, she was almost out of tricks - or at least low enough that taking on something like a Gym felt excessive. And I should do some research probably! So while she continued to wander along the route she flipped up her pokédex, accessed internet and typed in "How to beat the Celadon City Gym" in the search bar. Am I feelin' lucky? We'll see!

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"Just use Grass types"?! Jane squinted in suspicion at the dex until she saw what result it was displaying. *Groan* "Dammit not this one too..." She mumbled to herself and moved on to the next link. And the next...

Eventually she found herself in the outskirts of Celadon - not much wiser - and she forced herself to put the dex away so she could look for the pokécenter. And then, once there, a nice cosy corner where she could sit down and tinker a bit after healing her pokémon.

Somewhere else in the city...

"The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round, all the livelong day..." Mutters quietly as the bus soars through the sky on the wings of song.

*KRSSSSSSS*

"Noooo, I don't want to see the Hippopotas... They smell..."

*Nudge. Nudge*

Salena wakes up with bleary eyes. A hiker is saying something incomprehensible and silly like that she arrived at her destination. Wait. No. Yes. Celadon? Oh! Maybe this was Celadon?! AHA! Salena grabs her things in a flash. She's made it! She's finally made it to Celadon City! She's finally made it to- Wait. Her eyes turn back to the bus. In the window, she spots the gaze of a fishy character indeed. Red hat, weird lunchbox thing. Him! Fisherman! What was he doing on the bus still? What was the hiker still doing on the bus!?

As she ponders this, the bus rolled away into the midday sun, taking all of it's secrets with it.

Oh well! Salena whips out her new Pokédex with a flash. Eheheee! It was so shiny now! For now though, she resisted the urge to play around with it and instead shot a message to her partners. Or were they more like strangers? Probably more like strangers. I mean, she did sort of just leave em suddenly after Officer Jameson took her away.

She frowns. Maybe she shouldn't text them? It would be terribly embarrassing to explain the whole situation and- Nope. No. Nope, nope, nope, nope, NOOOPE. That's what got her into trouble in the first place. This time she doesn't hesitate, and brings fingers to keys.



Then, she types out another quick message, sent to someone entirely different.

Riley wakes up to a small ding! and checks her pokedex.


She releases her pokemon to inspect them. They all glow violet with her aura, and she swells with pride. "Great practice run, everybody! We will beat this gym!" Her eyes burn maniacally, then she relaxes for a moment, thoughtful. "I promise I'll heal your wounds when we've defeated Nalkeya. Don't worry, I have full control, okay? For now, use the power I've given you." Then, she returns everybody and takes a deep breath. Riley made a good decision to go easy last time against Atropa, now she has a pretty good idea of the overall level of the gym. Next time, full force! She's gonna need a few things to do that, though...but first, she needs money. Ah! She forgot something.


With that settled, Riley straps on her bag and walks happily out into the afternoon with a grin. Then, she makes her way to the department store- it's a big, grand building in the center of town so not easily missed. She looks around for familiar faces in the lobby.