[ti]complete[/ti] here kitty kitty...

Tiernan picked his way carefully through the tower, trying to be mindful- Sharp leaves were littered all over the ground, signs of some earlier fought battle. The shuckle sedately following after him didn't seem to notice nor care, continuing to drag themselves along.

The pair stopped at the sight of a patrat, behind a very obvious tripwire and a swinging ball made of leaves and twigs. Tiernan stepped over the wire, and shuckle... simply plowed through it. The ball swung down, right into the shuckle, who continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.

The patrat felt fear.

Paralyzed, it could only watch the shuckle approach, the soft and placid looking creature the lashing out with violence.

SHUCKLE used STRUGGLE BUG

29. [Tower]aSHch4XC1d50

The next floor appears to be one of (surprising) respite. A checkpoint and rec room has been set up for the players here, complete with foosball, vending machines, and bunk beds. Since you're approaching the halfway point, it's time to rest up and chow down!

However, Goldilocks-style, Patrat ruin everything. The chairs have been sat in. The beds have been slept in. The microwave has been used to cook fish. Everything you try to play with has been sabotaged or already claimed by Patrat in some way.

Drive the interlopers from this room!

You have defeated 30 Patrat and unlocked ESPEON (R)!
The next reward will be unlocked at 40 Patrat.

Kazuki Momo Silvermoon Flamberge Verai Jinx Valentine Tiernan Oaktread Genesis
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With the delightfully named Tree of Worms being the featured challenge tower at the moment, this second, older iteration had been something Taylor had initially missed. Fortunately, a kind player had noticed her participation in the first and sent over a nudge in the direction of the Tower of Cats!

Of course, she’d rushed straight there – the swimmer never had been one to turn down or overthink an invitation! This time it seemed an excessive number of Patrat were assaulting a tower of cats.

She’d been rather delighted to find herself just behind a familiar player who she’d recently taken on one of the tutorials with. She entered the room just as he was leaving, the fainted Patrat was out cold from the mere threat of the impending attack.

The next prompt popped up, and Taylor snickered, facing the next Patrat as it stepped up as an opponent, hopping gingerly over its predecessor. “Y’all are really into the electric moves lately, huh?” With that said, she sent out the Dratini that’d recently been added to her team. “Think you could send a Thunder Wave this little friend’s way please, Mushu?”

The serpentine Pokemon listened with a curiously tilted head, before nodding once and obliging easily enough.

NEXT PROMPT (34): [Tower]63hnPFOh1-50

The Tower of Cats always seemed more... subdued, than the Tower of Worms. Maybe it was just the benefit of hindsight, having conquered this Tower once before and therefore knowing what it might throw at them in the future, while the later levels of the Tower of Worms remained a mystery. Maybe Genesis just liked cats and rats more than birds and worms. But Genesis liked the feel of the Tower of Cats better overall, even if it didn't have the same sense of adventure, the same feeling of helping to uncover something new for the first time, that they got in the Tower of Worms.

Either way, though, it was the same sort of prompts and the same ritual of striking down one's opponents with a single shot.

"Arecibo?"

A name, a nod, and the Frogadier acted immediately, tossing rocks onto the enemy Patrat without hesitation. The poor little rats didn't know what was coming to them until it was too late; an instant, and they were crushed beneath the weight of the rocks, disappearing from view.

Valentine's box was filling up fast, but she was finding it hard to care when there were so many cute Pokemon out there to snag! Sure, she had a few cats already, but the ones she didn't have were adorable, too, so how could she pass up the chance at some more? A few Bytes spent on box slots would be well worth the cost if it meant giving her the opportunity to bond with more potential Pokemon friends.

First, though, she had to do the battling side of things... at least that was easy enough here in the Tower of Cats, where she was guaranteed to not need more than one attack to finish off her opponent, so long as she used the right one.

And Valentine knew just what attack to use this time around.

"Nova, hit 'em with your Shadow Sneak!"

In the regular Pokemon games, Shadow Sneak wouldn't even hit an enemy Patrat... but UNOVR wasn't a regular Pokemon game, not by any stretch of the imagination, and here, the attack was enough to knock down the wild Patrat in a single move.

Nova, for her part, flitted around the Tower happily, a few stray feathers falling to the ground as she flew this way and that way, clearly satisfied with her own battling prowess.

It's before he even leaves that the Patrat attempt to attack again. This time, a single one... apparently the only one that's left in this floor of the tower. Naturally, Samodiva is having none of it.

Yuze simply watches, seeing no reason to intervene as the Pumpkaboo stares down at the lone Patrat, giving it a scolding that ends with her spitting out BULLET SEEDS. A bit too aggressive? Not really, considering the Patrat are the ones picking a fight here.

At least they can move on to the next floor soon enough...

"Good work." He tells Samodiva.

KALOS POKÉMON USED: PUMPKABOO