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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she takes the card carefully, as if it might burn her. it very well could - it had been sitting in the exact same place where the virus had originated for a year, after all. who knew what could happen.
"that's probably true. but still - there are those that they might have missed. back rooms. bunkers. hidden labs. all of those would have been overlooked, and this card might open them."
he shrugs, turning the card over in his hand again. "well. let's go see." clefairy leads him to the exit of the room, but he waits for ahuda to catch up.
they walk down the dark hallway, pokemon by their sides. the walls are scratched, torn down, and some have suspiciously red-brown marks and stains. broken glass crunches under ahuda's feet, and when they reach a door that has remained stubbornly closed against the scourge, she looks to the elias.
elias walked with ahuda, unsure if they'd see anything restricted. he really doubted it, the scourge were so powerful-- why wouldn't they knock down all of the doors? clefairy, however, agrees with ahuda and walks down the hall with a little skip in her step, excited to explore.
and there it was, a locked, stainless steel door. ok then. elias slipped the key card into the slot and waited for a moment.
miraculously, the door opens, and it seems as if what mechanism was powering the lock and grid was still working. at least that is a relief. "huh." is all ahuda says.
uRTsYNr_ <50 scourge pokemon pop out <50 empty room
there is nothing behind stainless steel doors, and ahuda finds herself raising her eyebrows. "that's interesting," she says, and turns to elias. "wanna try another room?"
empty. deserted. elias honestly didn't expect a locked room to have nothing inside of it-- in that case, why was it even restricted. someone must have already been here. he shrugged as the door closed automatically. "might as well check some more." he started off in a different direction, walking next to ahuda.
"the key works, so why not?"
they don't have to walk long before they arrive at another door. this one is grand and even larger. the steel has skarmories and steelix welded in to it. he slipped the key card in.
elias isn't really bothered by the scourge, but he gives ahuda a look, which has "wtf?" written all over it. "i'm pretty sure this is worse." and his gaze switched, staring at the steelix. there were very few body parts around. he looked down by his feet to see a steelix eye.
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ahuda is rather avidly staring at what she's sure is a fragment of a steelix tail, crouching down and peering at it from a lower point of view. "i wonder what happened to them?" she asks out loud, hand not exactly touching the remains per se, but drifting close to them.
he's not typically intrigued by pokemon carcasses. but he still inspects the steelix a bit just to fit in. ahuda seems a bit more interested. he quickly takes out his c-gear and snaps a picture. sends it out. and the device is put away as quickly as it came. he turns to ahuda.
"they were probably just trapped in here and starved to death." he says apathetically, shrugging. nette
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elias nods his head. "let's check another." man, this is getting really addicting, really fast. he stands up painfully and follows ahuda out. the steel door shuts behind them.
this time the next door is pretty far off. he walks in silence, fiddling with the key card between his fingers. the door looks just like the first they saw-- nothing particularly fancy. still, he attempts to open it. UiLTje4k <50 it opens <50 it leads to another hallway >50 it's a room <50 hallway has more locked doors, >50 the doors are unlocked nette
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this is a game of russian roulette almost, and ahuda finds herself anticipating the results behind the next door. there could be anything behind there, she knows, especially because this is pax institute and who knows what might have been left behind? given, it's been a year, but the scourge remains had lasted this long, hadn't they?
when the next door leads to hallway of yet more doors, she finds her eyebrows rising before she gives a breathy sort of laugh. "how about another two dozen instead?" she calls back to the trainer, before stopping at a steel door marked with a simple hazard sign.
well. no time like the present. she plucks the key card from her treasure-hunter-partner's hands - nobody had ever said she had to be patient in their roulette game - and attempts to open the door.
UW14Z1Ry < 50 nothing inside < 50 scourge < 50 pokemon carcasses > 50 bay of desks
there are more desks. ahuda shouldn't be surprised, but she is. she turns to elias and offers him a choice - "do you want to search the desks or go open some more doors? i don't really mind either."
it was more like the poker table really. except the poker table times 10 because rather than paying cash you were gambling with your life. especially when you fucking opened a door with the hazard sign on it. elias frowned but didn't say a word as ahuda took the lead with the key.
he winces as the door slides open but....there are just some desks. who was the idiot that put a hazard sign on this door. elias looked at ahuda and then to the desks. "we should probably look in the desks." and he starts, opening one.
the poker table analogy makes sense, but the russian roulette is pure chance - which is what they are relying on now, ahuda supposes. but that's not ic, so let's go back to the post.
ahuda didn't... really notice the hazard sign. perhaps it has something to do with the way she is recklessly endangering her life these days? she hums noncommittally as she starts on the opposite side of the row.