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.
swarms
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karimi can hardly breathe through all this noxious gas, and she wonders how someone like p.i. sophia could survive for so long in this place. in karimi's opinion, it's much easier to charge at the scourge instead of avoiding them here. maybe she's a cyborg or something. karimi thinks that she read an article to that effect some years ago. steel pokemon aren't affected by poison, so maybe cyborgs weren't either.
well. at least it's not as bad as decima on a good day. she tries to be optimistic, but that thought is still rather sobering nevertheless.
@mod trying to get a vaccine kit. c'mon it's for the good of kohaku
but moving on. (what does a vaccine kit do? double vaccines?)
lake pax wasn't a challenging place for sofia. things were easily dispatched between her and all her pokémon, and never in her entire time spent in the bog had she seen something particularly treacherous. of course, there was the mysterious rift that had appeared some time ago, but her gardevoir had advised her against doing something along those lines.
so sofia decided to do something else.
she took risk upon her shoulders and went for the kill. literally. she caught scourge like there was no tomorrow, and killed them. then she went back to the bog, and the scourge knew not to follow. if any of them did, she had moriarty finish them off.
karimi starts to suspect that her hair is turning purple, slowly but surely. it might be worth it if she could get her hands on a vaccine kit, which increased the weekly output of a researcher's vaccines by +1 (there u go vert). she had no idea why a private investigator would have an infinate supply of those, but karimi wasn't aboout to look a gift horse in the mouth.
it's not long before she spots a young woman dismembering a scourge pokemon. that seemed to be a good indication that she was safe to approach.
"heeeyyy" her voice echoes through the fumes as she takes out her eelektross. "need some help there?"
very subtle, karimi. sofia continued to ruminate on something, and scribbled down something on the notepad she held. the carcass started to melt, soon becoming one with the bog.
"uh. yeah, apparently you do have things under control." what a strange lady. shit, she probably should have studied that carcass before it became little more than mush. well, too late for regrets now. she's not even sure what pokemon it used to be. "hey, so i see that you're a busy lady and i'm a busy lady so can i justhaveanothervaccinekit? i promise i'll get out of your hair after that! or we could have some tea sometime if that's your thing! c'mon, for the good of the region? i mean i don't think you could possibly synthesize all those vaccines by yourself!" ...except pi sofia didn't seem like the type to do that with random eos researchers who were chasing them for vaccine kits. too bad, she's got karimi to deal with now.
sofia couldn't be assed to do much after the scourge melted into the waters. she stood up from the flat rock she sat upon and regarded karimi with a mildly interested eye. "hm," she commented, "let's go fight some scourge."
"yes ma'am!!" karimi makes a small aslute to pi sofia. she's got about 500 pokedex entries. unless a scourge jirachi appeared out of nowhere or something, karimi can probably tell if it was of a normal coloring.
sophia didn't give a shit if someone had one entry or all of them. all she was concerned for was the scourge and breaking them down into more accessible packets of death. she scanned the area and found that she would rather attack an area of the bog that was less treacherous.
"let's go."
:wailord: scourge wailord appeared!
sofia smirked. holy crap, this was cool. she quickly assessed the scourge pokémon, moriarty popping out of the shadows to take a good look at the creature. she exchanged looks with her pokémon.
"oh, come on."
this was going to be easy for someone who had an electric eel.
karimi just kind of stands there and stares for a second with a small 'o' forming on her lips. this was the sort of beast that every bitty little junior researcher could only dream of back in tiny little decima town. okay, so maybe it was a scourge wailord, but that didn't mean that its girth wasn't impressive as hell. and cool as hell. it's a pity that the wailord was scourge, because karimi would have totally tried to catch it and ride it on the sea beside proserpina.
camus gives her a light prod and karimi remembers the situation. right. scourge wailord. big problem. very big problem. could probably crush them all like joltiks if it wanted to. did it want to? it might be a little harder to eat them in that case.
"alright, we've got this!"
eelektross used coil eelektross used zap cannon + acc
it wanted to steamroll the shit out of everyone and then maybe take a nice swim at the amberwell. that was really what was on her agenda.
to sofia, it seemed like it was another day out in the bog. it wasn't the worst.
though if it swam away, it was probably a bad day for everyone.
wailord struck by zap cannon wailord is paralyzed 6qnXcPKB <50 free from paralysis wailord used heavy slam on eelektross wailord used mist wailord used dive it disappeared.
alia, her pokémon, sofia and moriarty were left staring at an empty space that was once a wailord.
backing up a few seconds, what literally happened was that the wailord did a little happy-jump, and dived into the water. bog-water was sent crashing like mini tidal waves all over everyone, and as it disappeared, a smirk containing too much teeth was seen on its face.
"holy fu--" is all that karimi said before she was nearly drowned by the lake water. she recovers eventually with hacking coughs. "are you shitting me?"
"not the first time this has happened!" there was a manic glint in sofia's eyes. she seemed very much excited to hunt down a scourge of this size and degree; moriarty was no less happy to lurk around until it surfaced.
and then it did.
it was a very wet day for both of them.
sofia took down notes on a miraculously waterproof notepad.
:wailord: wailord used dive on eelektross wailord used water pulse on eelektross 2bnr7wKh <20 confuses wailord used aqua ring wailord used soak on eelektross wailord recovered hp
the wailord was cool as hell, but so was pi sofia. even taking two consecutive showers of mucky pax water didn't seem to get her down. karimi decides to aspire to that level of coolness, even with all the algae in her hair.
and she needs to get herself one of those waterproof notepads.
eelektross used hp boost eelektross became the water type
eelektross used zap cannon (acc buff) eelektross used crunch (atk buff)