As a rule she didn't generally care for worms. And she didn't care for bugs. But she did care for events. Which meant that she was going to be participating in this... Tower of Worms. Disgusting. Gross. Absolutely bad. Feels terrible. But anyways. Meeting the requirements to clear floors was what mattered right now as she looked at the pop-up. Use a move that dealt over 100 damage? Easy... Well, for her anyways.

"Opal... Be a dear and get rid of some of those birds." But her voice was flat as she knew that the Glimmet only had one move that would be able to do that. It rocked and glowed in the air for a moment before making a loud humming sound, exploding with a self-destruct just to get rid of a simply pidgey. Easy.

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A Kalos Pokemon, eh? Genesis had a couple of those to their name... but they couldn't turn down the opportunity to show off their starter Pokemon in battle.

Not that they especially needed the Weedle, mind. But they liked the whole idea behind these Tower challenges, and they wanted to get closer to their first Trainer star as well. Besides, it couldn't hurt to snag a free Pokemon, could it?

"Arecibo, use..." So many options to choose from... but theoretically they were fighting Pidgey here, so why not use an attack that's super effective against them? Not that it really mattered, of course. "Use Smack Down."

It was an amusing sight, watching the Frogadier launch a large rock at the bird Pokemon. Genesis would have to have Arecibo use that more often, if only to admire the attack animation again...

Peace had not intended to wander into the tree.

Yet here he was, wide eyed and still ignorant that he had two pokemon now! His narcoleptoc Scorbunny was in his arms, asleep as per usual. Peace had no idea what this place was, why it was here, or even what it did! That made it all the more exciting though, didn't it? Approaching a little divot in the bark, he ran his fingers over a thick cluster of vines. This game would never cease to amaze him with all the details. It felt so real.

Pulling his hand back, Peace very narrowly avoided a poison stab right on the palm. Half hidden behind the vines had been a little worm with a very sharp looking horn (and tail! Double trouble!) It was beaten up and shaky, tail raised and cowering as if this might be it's final stand.

"Oh no... what could have happened to you? Poor thing!" Against all better judgement, Peace offered his hand to the very sharp pokemon. "I'll make sure you get all fixed up!" The worm still seemed like it wanted to stab him.... but maybe it was just tired. Maybe it really did believe what Peace was saying. Instead of causing him great pain it crawled onto his hand and up his arm. It ended up curled on the underside of his sleeve and it clung to the white fabric.

This made it an easy target for hungry birds. Now would be Peace's chance to prove his words to the pokemon-!

A Pidgey swooped down, clawing and trying to peck at his arm where the worm was. Peace yelped and curled his arm closer
to himself, protecting the bug, but this instigated an Instance Event. Thrown into battle, it auto assigned his first parry member to the fight. But see. There was that whole "narcoleptic" problem.

The Scorbunny was bugged. Without peeling back the mechanics too much, her sleep states and awake states were swapped.
Though asleep, the game saw her as 'awake', which would provide a cavalcade of funny scenarios for the future. She outsped the Pidgey and the auto-battle system assigned her a move. But, she was asleep. Since she couldn't complete the move, the game counted it as a miss instead of the rabbit just snoozing in Peace's arms...

The Pidgey exploded into feathers, the conditiond having been met.

Peace just stood there, mouth agape, eyes furrowed, as he tried to figure out what the hell just happened.

Because, to him, a bird came over to him just to blow up on his fave.

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Cleo looks to the just-shy-of-100 Pidgeys circling the tree, their formation tight enough that it casts a near-solid shadow beneath. The odd Pidgey breaks from their circle, swooping down for a meal and leaving gaps of light to filter through. And as they draw ever closer to the bugs and their loyal guards – the players – the prompts finally come into view.

She takes her stand near one of the Weedles, an obstacle for the birds to get through before they could have their sweet, wormy meal. Finally, one of the Pidgey sweeps too close to Cleo and her Mudkip, screeching.

<Use a Psychic Move.>

Lucky. She'd just broadened the range of moves he could use, after all. "I didn't level you for nothing! Amnesia!"

The Mudkip shivers, staring intently at the Pidgey.

His eyes go blank, mind disconnecting from the reality of the Pidgey's furious Gusts. They don't phase him, don't unnerve him. He is centered. Balanced. Ready - ready for the Pidgey trying to swoop in on a would-be opening, ready to smash it to the ground.

The Pidgey lets out a dazed squawk on impact, and then nothing else.

"Good job!" she beams down at her Mudkip. She'd been working on that, the whole praising him when he did good, thing. He seemed to need it, the nervous little fella.

He doesn't respond, just as dazed as the bird. When he does eventually snap out of it, he doesn't seem to remember what he's done, or her praise. Oh well.

Mudkip used Amnesia
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So these Pidgey were supposed to be French now? And hate English? That was a strange choice on Hydance's part. Genesis (or rather, Shiloh) wondered, idly, how they would port that over to servers in other areas and other languages...

Whatever. They had a Pokemon that would fit the current prompt--though it was one that they normally wouldn't dare send out against a Pidgey, or a bug for that matter--and Shiloh took French in high school. They got this.

...except that, as Genesis wracked their brain on the proper words for things like "attacking", they realized that that might have been an overstatement.

"Sable!" Oh hey, that was a French word too, wasn't it? Something about sand? "Attaque l'oiseau! Avec... euh... avec les missiles de... les missiles?"

Luckily, Sable understood enough of Genesis' broken French to get the point across--repeatedly, in fact, with Pin Missile--and while the Pidgey definitely eyed Genesis suspiciously, they weren't breaking out into an outright rage.