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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"nothing wrong with that!" so the guy was a bit of a soda addict after all. good to know! "um. that's not a soda pop."
she takes the gardevoirite out of her pocket. "this is ... a victory commemoration, i guess? from tellumo ruins. oh man i went through hell and back to get it, i can tell you."
except she 1v1'd that shit so karimi really can't complain. vertigo
bosch was in a very good mood, despite his loss. nothing got his spirits down. he watched karimi take out the mega stone. "ah," he said, displaying recognition of it, "mega stones. there's been an awful lot of them recently."
the growlithe by his side barked excitedly. "shh," he told the creature, "not yet! we're not going treasure-hunting just yet, boy."
the puppy whined.
"in just a moment, buddy. may i see your gardevoir?"
"so that's what it's called, huh." karimi tilts her head slightly. "i don't actually know anyone else who has anything like it!" she just sorta. walked into tellumo based on some vague rumors about becoming a more powerful trainer. karimi had been so desparate that a few old wives' tales were enough to bring her to the place.
"sure thing!" karimi takes out mary's pokeball and lets out the gardevoir with a flash. vertigo
"plenty of people have been here before you. they all had rather outrageous hair colors, with the exception of one person," said bosch. he thought that blue was probably an improvement from pink and green. black was the most natural one of them all.
he surveyed the gardevoir.
"okay," said bosch. "go get 'em, boy."
the growlithe darted off excitedly.
"that growlithe over there will give you an item necessary to make the mega stone work."
karimi's not sure if bosch's opinion about hair counted since he didn't even seem to have hair. or maybe he did? it's kinda hard to tell underneath that helmet.
"huh? who else has been here?"
so. so the pretty rock actually did something. karimi had planned to leave it at her office to use as a paperweight. it's a good thing that she had forgotten about her intentions for awhile.
"...do i follow him?" she looks at the zigzagging growlithe a tad dubiously. "or is he going to come back eventually" vertigo
bosch watched the growlithe's actions amusedly. he didn't know if it was going to come back in a short moment, but he could always whistle and have it return.
"lots of people, like i've said. i have seen a medley of hair colors," said bosch, "-- oh." a little while after, he realized that there were two other people who had been in the tower area -- but he supposed that they didn't count, because they hadn't exactly come bearing mega stones. "look."
the growlithe saved him from having to explain. it came trotting back with something in its mouth.
it was a ...
plhv5x|x 1-20, 81-100 keystone 21-40 soda pop 41-60 key 61-80 tennis ball
bosch wrangled the bottle of chilled soda pop (how even?) from the growlithe's maw, and popped open the cap. he drank. there was a second bottle for karimi, too.
"so uh. do you just have a bunch of soda pops stashed around here or something?"
she's also a little confused when she realizes that the second drink is cold. she doesn't complain, though. she pops the cap and takes a drink herself.
"yep. no electricity here, so we keep the soda pops buried underground. it works to chill it like a cooler. it's pretty amazing ancient technology if you ask me."
the growlithe came back.
nz1EiMO2 1-20, 81-100 keystone 21-40 soda pop 41-60 key 61-80 tennis ball
bosch grinned at the growlithe and ruffled the puppy's fur. "good boy," he said, picking the keystone out of the pokémon's mouth. it was coated in saliva, but it was a perfectly good keystone. the little canine really knew how to buy its way into his heart, bosch thought.
first a soda pop, and then the keystone. "we'll play fetch in a while, okay?" he promised the dog, and turned to karimi.
magically, the keystone had been infused into a pendant on a chain necklace for karimi. he held it out.
"okay, focus on a good, strong memory between you and your gardevoir. it'll trigger the evolution."
bosch buried some soda in the ground and called it amazing ancient technology. suddenly, karimi felt a surge of affection for this suit of armor that may or may not contain a live human being.
karimi didn't really mind the drool. after all, she happened to own an arcanine herself. she puts the pendant on. drool aside, it was pretty.
"huh?" she gives him a confused look. "gardevoir don't evolve."
<karimi. i can sense a strong power coming from the amulet.>
well. this bosch guy was a little strange, but there was no way that karimi didn't trust her gardevoir. "okay!" he wasn't asking for much anyway.
a strong memory, huh. karimi figures that beating up a deoxys in the tellumo ruins would probably do. she closes her eyes and makes a really constipated face.
was it...was it really not enough? or is bosch pulling her leg about the whole thing? her pokemon seemed serious enough.
what about the first time that they fought scourge together? karimi still remembers that day against the scourge camerupt. it had taken out several of her pokemon, but she somehow lasted. they all somehow lasted against that camerupt and... the man who must have been a hades agent.
the growlithe barked as light washed over the gardevoir and triggered its mega evolution.
bosch seemed relatively calm in the face of the light show. he sent the dog to fetch him another soda pop. damn, this heat was really something else.
he waited until the light died down.
kIXn2z9T <50 thinks the memory is acceptable
even if he truly hadn't, the fact that it worked meant that the mega stone, keystone and memory were all in sync. there really wasn't anything to nitpick at, even if it wasn't really his choice of a memory. but at any rate:
"congratulations," said bosch, cheerily popping open two -- no, three bottles of soda pop. (the growlithe had returned quickly enough.) he handed them to the mega gardevoir and the researchers.
"woah! look at you!" she jumps in the air. "so are you like, some kind of super-gardevoir now?" she twirls mary around.
holy shit that's cool. totally worth trekking over to the tellumo ruins and hauling ass over to the tower of janus.
they all have a really merry soda pop party at the tower of janus. karimi thinks that bosch is pretty cool, even if he may or may not have hair. vertigo /end?