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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Juno City was, perhaps, the antithesis of Bacchus. It would be funny if it wasn't so foreign to him; the people seemed honest, the town seemed quiet, and streets were unscathed by the wrath of those hellacious things. The letter he'd received in the mail a week ago ordering him to report to Juno had come as a shock to Kaz. After making calls for other job opportunities, he'd been given a chance to join with the Eos program. They must have been desperate -- he surely wouldn't have accepted the disinterested kid with a single mother and a job as a busser at a restaurant. He shouldn't have been going at all. Not that he really cared.
"Whatever. It's for the best." While his reasoning wasn't exactly right, he sounded like he meant it. He hoped he actually did.
The letter was blemished now, edges curling toward the center as he continuously rolled and unrolled it into a scope. It was occupying his wandering mind as his strides took him toward Cypress Laboratories, where he'd been told to start. Kaz knew that he'd be training Pokemon and fighting the Scourge, but aside from that, his knowledge was limited; who knew where that order would lead him. The uncertainty was another burden, and yet he shouldered it without much thought. Perhaps it was better that way.
Moving into the lab, Kaz was relieved to see that it was open. "Hello?" his voice was calm.
this is cypress labratories, not the ranger union. thus, there was a very good chance that not all was calm within the building. the labs do not disappoint.
it's not that few trainers or researchers have visited cypress in a long time. it's that pokemon only fly off the shelves one at a time. inevitably, the ones that were left behind were suspible to cabin fever. really bad cabin fever, and there wasn't much that cypress could do about it. he was not an outdoorsy sort of man, and there was far too much work to be done for him to take regular walks with the vaccinated pokemon. the gothitelle and alakazam brought a few outside when they were able, but they couldn't keep a good eye on all of them at once.
pokemon scurried about the lab, knocking over stands and the rattata test subjects. "c-calm down, everyone." cypress stammered, to no avail.
the voice of a new visitor, on the other hand, attracted the pokemon's attention. most of them stop scurrying around in order to greet the visitor, who was hopefully a trainer or a researcher to take them out of this dreary building! cypress himself hurries to the doorway in order to meet with the new eos recruit.
"i-i'm very sorry for the mess!" he adjusts his glasses nervously. "y-you're the new recruit, i presume?"
he gets dozens of visitors a week, and all of them were here for a pokemon. so really, there wasn't that much guessing involved.
"p-please feel free to take one of these pokemon off my hands!" cass
The lab itself was something to look at. Kaz had been expecting a pristine display; it would serve as a first impression by the Eos program on its initiates, though most were probably better prepared than he was. Immediately, Pokemon swarmed him, greeting the stranger with calls and noises he hadn't known existed. A grin spread across his face, his eyes leaping up to the professor that approached.
"That's me." he was certain that the professor probably had a lot to do. Kaz wasn't one to rush, but he could tell that Professor Cypress had far too much to handle. At least, it seemed like more than Kaz would want to deal with. A bunch of Pokemon scrambling everywhere, dealing with the Scourge and that virus, and then personal endeavors. Could he even have personal endeavors? Was that what Kaz was signing up for? He returned to the task at hand. "Um," he drew out the word. "It's a tough decision." Professor Cypress surely heard those exact words often, but saying it made things real for Kaz. He swallowed.
"That one." he eyed the Vullaby, who was trying to push passed the Mudkip for his attention. The Pokemon understood, nine of them leaving him, disappointed. The Vullaby remained.
in the back of his head, cypress had been hoping that the man would choose the onix or the tauros, since they were the ones who heatedly destroyed the most valuable equiptment in the lab. how the onix even fit in the building was anyone's guess. he'll just have to ... find their pokeballs somewhere, buried underneath all those papers.
"v-very well." cypress sighs, defeated. at least the recruit seemed eager enough. that itself made his woes a little easier to bear. "i-i'm sure that you two will find great success on your travels." hopefully more success than cypress has had with keeping the pokemon under control. "s-stay safe!"
considering what the eos trainers were in for, that part probably could have gone unsaid. cass
:svullaby: lvl 10 + all level up moves + steel wing
