This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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It wasn't the first time she'd explored the remains of Pax Institute. What happened was a mystery, but it wasn't too mysterious of one. Neo couldn't say for sure how the scourge began, but it was obvious that first there was an experiment and then there was only disaster.
She should hate those scientists more, but Neo didn't have the energy to spare for assigning blame. They were doing their job. Now, she was doing hers. Life goes on--but not for the scientists.
Neo scouted ahead aimlessly, wandering through the Institute as if she expected some miraculous clue to turn up this time when all previous searches had failed. Phoebe trailed behind her--in theory, watching their backs, but Neo knew that Phoebe just liked lingering in places such as this. Neo did too. There's a certain beauty found only in broken things.
<Someone's here,> Phoebe warned, a psychic whisper in her mind.
Neo tensed, about to run towards a place to hide, but she stood in the middle of an open hallway. The closest door was at the far ends by the stairwells. There was nowhere to hide. There was nowhere to run either.
Thalia is no scientist, no scholar that she should be here. She didn't even finish middle school. But her weeks in the hospital left her with nothing to do but read, and read she did. There were few reputable books out on the scourge yet, but there were plenty of articles. And she'd had nothing but time to kill and a tablet.
Which is still not really a good excuse for being here. Alone. She doesn't even have a pokemon out, as if she'd have a chance of whipping out a pokeball before a scourge took off her head. Her thigh twinges. She thinks Decima made her stronger in some ways, and stupider in others. Regardless, when she turns the corner and Neo is there, it's probably more than she deserves.
"You shouldn't be here by yourself," Thalia says, and straight away winces at the hypocrisy. "Sorry. Find anything?" CAEDMON
there is a wall between them but it is thin. yves hears every word, every sound that escapes their lips. but she is cowardly and does not reveal herself, instead ordering hope to do her dirty work. "lure them here." she states simply and quietly, pointing to the door. he slips under it, his entire body sinking into the shadows drawn across the floor. as the sableye stealthily moves through the room, yves trembles in the pitch black stairwell, her greyish eyes adjusting to the light. her fingers clutch the metal rail as she crouches and hugs the ground. her breathing goes extremely soft.
hope's shadow flutters around the room- it flickers the lights, it creates menacing shapes on the walls. and finally exits the way it came, leaving only a small crystal. and now, a voice can be heard from within the dark stairwell. a soft whimpering, a pleading for help.
"help me, please..." her shoes bounce an echo off the metal staircase. "help-p." she begs. "it's come to get me-" her voice almost breaks, sending her into a shrill scream. "help me!" the words ring out in the abandoned institute.
physis had been collecting the papers that had been strewn across an office floor when fantine comes to bring her news. uninvited guests, it seems. she pulls down her helmet visor, and physis becomes little more than another hades agent.
the intruders linger at the northern part of the institute, while the cries for help come from the south. in relation to where she is, anyway. physis has no desire to be ambushed, so she stays near the open office door with a stylus in hand. the froslass stands on the other side of the doorway, ready to ambush approaching enemies with an icy wind
A year ago she might have rushed in blindly, the charging hero, but Thalia's shed enough blood to learn a lesson. She let out her umbreon silently but remained in place, looking over at Neo and shrugging. Go exploring, she told the umbreon. Carefully. He slunk against the wall toward the sound of the cries, padding forward a few yards before stopping, ears twitching, and then advancing again.
Meanwhile, the Lucario waited. He was often waiting these days, but today his promise might actually be fulfilled. hook ¿
"Looks like you and I had the same bad idea then," Neo said with her voice just over a whisper, enough to be heard. She didn't mind the hypocrisy too much. Thalia was right, after all. Neither of them had any business here, not if their business had anything to do with staying alive.
<Something's not right,> Phoebe insisted again, just as they heard a voice crying for help.
"The whole lake's not right," Neo replied. She turned towards the direction of the voice, and yelled back--her voice pitched to a humanitarian level of concern. "Where are you? Hold on!"
No one should be here. Anyone that was a hades agent. Otherwise, they were Neo, Thalia, or 100% doomed. The options weren't mutually exclusive.
"It's a trap," she said to Thalia. It was a completely unnecessary comment. Clearly, Thalia knew it was a trap, as evidenced by the lack of running towards the damsel in distress.
Neo released a second pokemon, and she started off towards the voice. "Keep talking! I'm trying to find you!"
clunk, there's someone on the stairwell, clunk, there's something on the stairwell.
yves picks up her pace and reaches the bottom floor, whirling around the corner and crouching beneath the stairs. she's hears them shout, she hears their pokemon's footsteps. they're coming.
a silver glint flashes in the darkness. it cuts through her clothes and her flesh. yves only sees red as the blood trickles to the ground. she stares at the wound and a twisted smile appears on her face. "i'm here!" she yells, her voice slightly weaker. she lowers herself to the ground and her pocketknife slides across the floor, into an office room. it leaks small splotches of blood onto all of the papers that are strewn about the floor.
hope lies in waiting on the upper level, his mouth open, his crystalline teeth waiting to sink into a pokemon's flesh.
tag: toska ? words: idk ? ooc: toska, you don't have to address it but yves's pocket knife is in the room with physis.
another agent's trap then, sophia thinks when she sees the knife slide into the room. she frowns when she realizes how many reports have been soiled by the weapon. physis isn't quite sure if any electronic copies were left after all the computers were destroyed in the scourge rampage. the only way to prevent hacking was to host information offline, after all.
the minor annoyance that physis feels towards the agent doesn't really stack up compared to what she feels toward these intruders. being surrounded by the scourge in a city was one thing. rushing into the queen's nest is another. their lives are forefeit even if physis was not here to close the deal.
the froslass sees at least three pokemon approach, and a trainer who was too foolhardy to stay home, kick up her feet, and wait for the end of the world. her loss.
froslass used safeguard froslass used light screen froslass used icy wind at the blaziken/umbreon froslass used blizzard at the blaziken/umbreon froslass used confuse ray at the blaziken
togepi used safeguard togepi used sweet kiss on froslass + acc boost |DGoo4mS < 75 froslass is confused <75 froslass is confused togepi used metronome togepi used light screen
charizard used inferno on froslass + acc boost charizard used heat wave on froslass charizard used smokescreen on froslass
umbreon dodged icy wind umbreon was hit by blizzard umbreon was frozen
She couldn't say the attacks caught her off guard. She could say that attacks were far more and stronger than she expected though. She'd assumed that the strongest hades agents weren't around--it seemed like she'd been mistaken.
blaziken hit by icy wind, blizzard, and confuse ray blaziken dodges mew sign |01SGYlb < 50 for confusion
the trail's run dry. she can hear the wails of the pokemon in the room over. there is someone else here- someone else on her side. good to know. although she can't help but feel slightly bitter knowing that her plan failed. doesn't matter- she pulls herself off the ground and slips on her mask. it's plain and white.
hope joins her as she enters the hallway and finds her place on the battlefield. only shortly thereafter she whips out her capture styler.
yves draws the xerneas sign geomancy is charging
sableye uses detect sableye uses feint attack (always hits) on reuniclus sableye uses fake out on blaziken sableye uses mean look on charizard
froslass wasn't at a good angle to blast the reniculus with blizzard. that, physis can understand. what she can't understand is why an umbreon would be throwing a confuse ray against a safeguard wall. the togepi smooches her scourge partner, but safeguard prevents anything happening beyond pg-13.
being hit by a wall of fire still sucked, though. thank god for light screen.
froslass hit by sweet kiss, to no effect froslass hit by inferno, no burn froslass dodges heat wave froslass dodges smokescreen froslass dodges blaze kick froslass dodges hidden power froslass hit by charm
physis draws a dragon sign - protect so that fantine can actually fuck their shit up next turn
froslass uses icy wind on charizard and togepi froslass - lvl 126 icy wind, light screen, blizzard, omnious wind, safeguard, wake-up slap, destiny bond, taunt, weather ball, confuse ray
she gives a quick glance and a nod of acknowledgement to physis.
geomancy applies to sableye. +speed, spec attack, spec defense. 1/2 yves draws lugia sign lugia sign manifests as aeroblast on blaziken
sableye uses feint attack on reuniclus sableye uses zen headbutt on blaziken (+spec attack) sableye uses mean look on togepi sableye uses night shade (+speed)
Back to the beginning--again.
She couldn't say the attacks caught her off guard. She could say that attacks were far more and stronger than she expected though. She'd assumed that the strongest hades agents weren't around--it seemed like she'd been mistaken.
"A stunning offensive," Neo said, to no one in particular. "Such an aggressive approach will surely put us to rout."
