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route objective: something massive blocks your path

❝Hey, hey Kimchi, have you heard about secret bases?❞

<Can't say I have. Is that what you're trying to do here?>

❝Sort of? I mean, look at this place!❞ he gestured largely to the many, many different places that one could hide themselves in: caved in rooms, broken windows, derelict vehicles, alleyways that barely saw the light of day - the Cinderace did not see the appeal and honestly found the place extremely unnerving. But as usual, his desire to protect his trainer from getting into deep water triumphed over his uneasiness, and so he was following him into one of the buildings that had plants overrun seemingly every crack in its structural system. Even the entrance had been nature-fied, with a broken, blasted off door, but vines obscuring what was inside.

So far, Comet was trying not to venture too far from the Thunderfall Shrine - not until they got a better idea of what the hell was going on in this place. He couldn't help but be excited by the post-apocalyptic landscape, though, especially since it wasn't overrun by zombies (which was cliche). If it wasn't them, then what caused this? And why had he yet to see a single Pokemon? One thing was for sure though, the plants were absolutely thriving without anything to keep its growth at bay, and the lobby that they had found themselves in was overrun by foliage as far as the eye could see.

Unfortunately, in order to progress anywhere further in what the player guessed to be a hotel or office building, they had to get through a very, very large slab of concrete. If it were anything organic, his fire types could burn through it easily (never mind the risk of bringing down the whole place with him). Since it wasn't, though, they couldn't just use sheer firepower to break it. Or can they? Maybe some Double Kicks would do it? But this didn't look like just one slab, it was more of like five or six piled up over each other. It might be easier if they had like a Machamp who could push the stones aside.

❝Great, is this a dead-end already?❞ and since Comet was not making an effort to keep it down, his voice traveled and echoed across the high-ceiling room, which had partially collapsed, though it was too dark to see what was above them. It wouldn't be difficult to hear him if one passed by, since almost all of the window panes had already shattered.

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