Silvermoon
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Post by Silvermoon on Apr 7, 2023 4:35:18 GMT 9
Silvermoon woke, jolting a bit as they realized where they were. It was an inn at Briarbane, Silvermoon tucked into bed, Phoenix against their chest. The buizel laid down at the foot of the bed, and the mr. mime- she was standing at the window, staring out over the moonless night. "Huh?" Silvermoon got out, still half asleep. They hadn't... they'd figured that going to bed in the game would either make it morning, or... just log them out. Had... they really been asleep?
They sat up, rubbing at their face a bit. "What are you doing?" They asked, watching the mr. mime, who was entirely motionless. "...hello?"
<We should get going.> She said, finally turning back to look at Silvermoon. <The circus is in town.>
Which was how Silvermoon was outside in the dark, standing before heaps of trash and colorful tents alike. They stared at it, a little curious, but mostly concerned, and a little tired still. "What is all of this?" They asked, eyes wide. Neither the mr. mime, or Phoenix still asleep in their arms, offered an answer. |
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Apr 7, 2023 8:36:47 GMT 9
Taka headbutted Big Bee, knocking him off his feet. "Hey! Careful buddy! You're too big to be headbutting for attention now," he told the Blastoise. "What's the matter, you hungry?"
Taka nodded. Of course he was hungry! But then that horrid little Quaxly whispered in his ear and he slowly, angrily shook his head.
"No? Not hungry?"
Taka moved as is knowingly possessed. With tears in his eyes he held up a colorful flyer. Big Bee took it, excited by the colors, gerunds, and Impact font.
"Whoa! The Mime Circus? I didn't know they were in town! Look, they've got tightrope walking, face painting, a beginners class on juggling, and limited food options!"
A fat tear rolled down Taka's face, but as Toot the Quaxly whispered sweet poison in his ear he nodded. He bent his face into a partial smile and held up a massive hand. Thumb up!
"Well it's decided then! Already getting a bit late though. Do you reckon they're open after dark?"
And that's how Big Bee came to be standing beside Silvermoon, holding Jam the Groudon in one arm and a large stick of cotton candy in the other. Takka was nearby, chewing on a corndog while Toot spoke right into his ear like an evil audiobook.
"It's the circus!" he loudly proclaimed, gesturing at the trash and tents. "I'm Big Bee by the way!" He struggled to offer a hand with both full, and opted for sticking the cotton candy into Jam's mouth for safe keeping. "Nice to meet you! Hey, do you wanna sign up for the juggling class with me?" |
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Silvermoon
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Post by Silvermoon on Apr 9, 2023 4:02:28 GMT 9
Silvermoon glanced over, as someone answered their half-rhetorical question. He was confident, offering a smile and a hand both- once a thick mess of cotton candy was shoved in the mouth of the pokemon he was carrying, a dinosaur thing with bright red scales. "Oh, um, thank you- I'm Silvermoon," They said, shaking the offered hand, and trying to offer the pokemon a smile.
"Nice to meet you too- um- juggling class?" Silvermoon felt like they were constantly behind. "I, uh- I just-" How were they even to explain it? That their pokemon had walked here, and if Silvermoon hadn't followed they would have just come all this way in the dark, alone? "I think- just- she really wanted to come," They offered, somewhat pathetically, gesturing at the mr. mime, who was still staring at the tents as if transfixed. "I don't know anything about it. Or, uh, juggling." They weren't coordinated in real life, so they certainly weren't going to be any more coordinated here...
Silvermoon glanced at their pokemon, to make sure she was okay, and the mr. mime was still... just standing there, staring at the main tent. Silvermoon wasn't even sure if she'd blinked. "Um." This was going to be awful. "Do you... know if she's... okay? She walked all the way here from the inn without saying a word..." |
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Apr 26, 2023 9:54:15 GMT 9
Big Bee waved a hand in front of the Mr. Mime. No reaction. The Pokemon had huge, glazed eyes that didn't register his movement at all. "That's...probably not a good sign. Sometimes Pokemon like to wander, but going silent? Have you tried turning Pokemon speech off and on again?"
He moved over behind the catatonic creature, lining up his head to he could figure out what she was looking at. "I think she's looking over there," Bee said, pointing at a sagging building with a flickering neon sign above the entrance that read WAX MUSEUM. "Let's check it out, yeah?" he said to Silvermoon.
"I wonder if they have wax Pokemon, or if they do celebrities too!" Bee said, making his way down the trash-strewn main street of the carnival. "If they have a gift shop I could get a little figure of the professor for orioncayge."
"Come on Taka! But no eating the statues, okay?" He laughed. Already absorbed in his wholesome fantasy, Big Bee paid no notice to his surroundings as he disappeared into the entrance.
Above him, the neon sign flickered, and the W went out. |
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Post by Silvermoon on May 17, 2023 11:26:22 GMT 9
Silvermoon blinked. "Oh. Um. No." Right this was... still a video game. It was easy to forget, sometimes... Quickly, they pulled up the menu, flipping through the options. Off. Wait five seconds. Back on. Maybe that... would fix it. They glanced at Big Bee, who was levelling an arm at a... "Wax Museum?" Silvermoon asked, looking up-
But Big Bee had already started walking, and Silvermoon- a bit panicked, a bit not wanting to offend, a bit not sure what else to do- scampered after him. "Like... pokemon celebrities?" They asked, looking up at the failing sign. Who was a celebrity here, anyway? It wasn't anywhere that had gyms, or champions. Was the professor considered a celebrity?
Silvermoon blinked a bit as the lights seemed to drop off as they went inside- but nothing seemed too amiss. Aside, of course, from the fact that their mr. mime had just... manifested in beside them. Still wordlessly. Silvermoon shifted a bit closer to their new, uh, friend. Guy who wasn't afraid of the ominous mime.
"I guess we need tickets?" Silvermoon asked, as if he would know, heading up to what was clearly the counter... but no one was there. The screen was up, the lights were on, the computer was on, but... "Hello?" Pushing themselves up a bit, they leaned over the counter, trying to get a look. "Umm... I don't see anyone- should we? Go outside and get someone?" Was there anyone outside to get? Surely Big Bee had gotten cotton candy from... a person.
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on May 23, 2023 19:26:37 GMT 9
"Hellooo!?" Big Bee said, knocking loudly on the glass of the ticket booth. "Anyone manning the counter?" He laughed, and gave Silvermoon a 'you know how it is with Haunted(?) Mime Circuses' look. He turned back to the booth and jerked back, as an attendant had suddenly appeared. It was a Banette wearing a little ticketer's cap.
"Uh. Two tickets for the Wax Museum. Unless you count Pokemon, in which case...five?" The Banette wasn't fazed by the technicalities, and as the BYTES were deducted from Big Bee's account a string of tickets chugged out from the Pokemon's slack mouth. It tore them off and passed them under the glass. Big Bee passed them out to the group. "Here you go!" he said, passing two tickets to Silvermoon. |
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Post by Silvermoon on May 29, 2023 5:33:51 GMT 9
Silvermoon jumped when the Banette appeared, skirting a bit further behind Big Bee. Their Mr. Mime still had not reacted at all... Silvermoon was really, really starting to regret coming out here in the dark. But... they were all here now, in this Wax Museum. "Oh- thank you," They said, taking the tickets from Big Bee. They glanced back towards their Mr. Mime, tentatively offering her the ticket... and slowly withdrew their hand again. They would just, um, hold onto it for the moment.
Near the door into the museum proper, there was a statue of a kecleon, with a little jacket and hat on. There was a little wooden box next to him, with TICKETS in neat paint on the side, and a little slit in the top. "Oh... this is kind of cute..." Silvermoon said, looking at the little ticketmaster. They reached forward- hesitating an instant before putting the tickets in, and drew back when nothing happened. "It looks so realistic... are they all like this?"
Silvermoon looked at the kecleon a moment, before finally turning and heading into the first room proper. Slowly, as the clump of trainers and pokemon left, the kecleon's neck stiffly twisted, head following them all.
Silvermoon got only a few steps into the first room when they stopped. Instead of a museum, it looked like they'd stepped into a science lab. Cold floor and walls, and scientists in lab coats and goggles. They were all angled either towards or away from a broken container, a massive white and purple figure suspended in the air. Everyone here... looked real. And the floating pokemon- "Is- what is that?" Silvermoon asked, taking a tentative step closer before turning to look at Big Bee again. "Is that a real pokemon? Not- I mean-" Mr. Mime did not seem concerned by the scientists or the Mewtwo, just focused at a spot on the wall. |
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Post by Big Bee on Jun 4, 2023 20:36:45 GMT 9
"Just a little Easter Egg, I think," Big Bee said, grinning at the faithful recreation of the famous Pokemon Movie scene. "You know what devs are like."
The lab was a freeze-frame of action, with fake flying glass, shocked scientists covering their faces, and the infamous Legendary faithfully recreated in a perfect wax replica. The museum had really gone above and beyond with this one, and Bee was excited to see what else they'd put together.
Taka licked one of the scientists, and pulled a face. "That's wax, buddy. You gotta wait until we get back outside for a snack, okay?"
Footsteps sounded in the corridor to the lab, and Big Bee perked up. Were they about to have a new friend join them on the tour? He peeked back down the hallway, only to find it empty. "You heard that too, right?" he asked Silvermoon. "Must have just been staff or something. Maybe one of those cute little Kecleon."
The lights flickered, and the scene around them changed.
Time jumped forward, and the dynamic action scene became a disaster. The scientists lay dead, crumpled and broken against the walls or distended by Mewtwo's psychic powers. Fire had broken out, and wax flames engulfed the entrance to the room. Mewtwo itself was nowhere to be found, though a tremendous hole had been torn in the wall, leading deeper into the house of wax.
Big Bee backed up and held tight to Taka's chunky arm. "Haha, yeah that's pretty crazy wax effects," he said, voice wavering as he looked around at the sudden carnage. He looked at Silvermoon and nodded at the hole in the wall. "Let's keep moving, huh?" |
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Post by Silvermoon on Jun 20, 2023 11:40:31 GMT 9
Silvermoon cast a glance over at Big Bee. They... had no frame of reference for the Pokemon movies, or what the devs were like. But this was... really ominous. But Big Bee and his pokemon didn't seem concerned... one even tried to... eat some of the wax?
They glanced over, from where they were looking at one of the wax tables. "Huh? Hear what?" They asked, frowning. Between that, their Mr. mime's continued staring, and the... explosion scene... maybe they should just... leave. Would Big Bee think poorly of them for wanting to leave?
The option never came, though- The lights flickered terribly, and when Silvermoon's vision came back- everything was worse. Waxy fire covered every surface, flames and debris engulfing the door out. And the scientists were all fallen to the ground, and looked- wrong. Some were merely burnt or clearly dead, but others- Silvermoon flinched away, covering their face, and retreating towards Big Bee for any sort of security.
"I- I don't know-" Silvermoon tried- but their Mr. Mime had already started towards the ragged hole, vanishing into the dark. With that, and the entrance being obscured- what were they to do?
The hallway melded, shifting from something industrial to earthen, slowly pitching downwards. Dark rock began peeking from the sides, and the tunnel looked almost... carved, as if something had burrowed through. Despite it, though, at the end of the... hall? Tunnel? were a pair of ornate double doors. |
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Jun 26, 2023 16:16:58 GMT 9
Silvermoon's fear didn't go unnoticed. As they stuck closer to Big Bee, clearly freaked out by all the ghostly stuff happening, it amplified Bee's own fear. He felt his gut clench, and sweat dripped down his back as if the flames around them were real. A cold, sick fear gripped him, and he pulled Taka away and down the tunnel.
The tunnel.
It was like the entrance to the burrow of some horrid badger. A warren filled with unknown bones and rank fur.
And yet there was none of that animal smell. Only the high, cutting smells of antiseptic, steel, and...cotton candy?
"Do you smell that?" Big Bee asked, pressing his hand against a patch of dark rock. It slipped and melted under his hand, and he came away with a hand covered in dark chocolate. "Ugh!" He licked it. "Chocolate. Tastes like 70% cocoa. Taka?"
The Blastoise took a bite out of the wall and chewed happily, rivulets of thick chocolate oozing down the sides of his mouth. He seemed very content with this development.
"So is this...like...the chocolate mines?" Big Bee asked, putting a sticky hand against the door and leaving a dark smear. The handprint glowed, and there was a click from inside. "Oh! That sounded like it unlocked. Did the chocolate do that?" He pushed at the door, but something else was clearly needed. "We're missing something..." |
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Silvermoon
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Post by Silvermoon on Jul 24, 2023 5:27:30 GMT 9
Silvermoon followed, trying to be as close as possible- because this had gone from unnerving to frightening very quickly- without being so close the other player was weirded out by them. Which was turning out to be a difficult line to dance around, as the tunnel got lower and lower, the walls tighter and more craggy, the smells strange and offputting. The chemical burning sear of antiseptic, thick and medicinal. The cold, metallic taste-smell of steel, something Silvermoon could almost feel on their hands, and-
The bubblegum-sugar cloying of... cotton candy.
And then Big Bee pulled his hand away, the wall coming with it- and then licked it which was horrifying under normal circumstances-
"Chocolate?" Silvermoon repeated, faintly, like this was in a similar vein to Mewtwo's destruction above, and not simply the strangest thing to happen to them ingame so far. They glanced at the wall, the smudge that Big Bee had left, the way their blastoise was continuing to eat. They... did not reach out to touch the wall, and eat some for themselves. That was- Kasey didn't have words.
The door clicked, and Silvermoon hurried to Big Bee's side. But the door didn't open at a push, even when they tried, or even when they tugged at them a bit. "What- what could we possibly be missing?" This didn't make any sense. This was- was a hallway made of chocolate in a wax museum that changed wax sculptures at the blink of an eye. Kasey hadn't ever been to a wax museum in real life, but they were incredibly confident none of them did that.
<What's THAT?> Phoenix asked, the torchic so awake and sudden it made Silvermoon jolt, a small squeak escaping them before they covered their mouth with their hand. "P-Phoenix! You- How- D-Don't!" Silvermoon finally choked out, the torchic wiggling free of their grasp and tapping over to a part of the chocolate wall-
Not the inky dark brown of the rest of it, but a corner revealed by the munching- Something slightly differently textured, and a creamy buttercream-white. It wasn't sharp edged, or jagged, but smooth. Rounded.
It was a bone.
Silvermoon just stared at it, backing up until they bumped into Big Bee again, breath frozen in their chest. Bone? Bone? What, had- had someone died here? Been encased in the chocolate walls?
But, after a few minutes, nothing happened, and Silvermoon narrowed their eyes at it. "W... wait..." Cautiously- like it might spring free and attack them- Silvermoon padded over, looking at the jutting bone in the wan lighting- and a heavy sigh escaped them. "It- it's not real." They felt dizzy suddenly, and picked Phoenix back up. "Oh, wait- um, I don't know the name, but I had a candy like it once. There was an archaeopteryx skeleton, but it was white chocolate and the rest of the bar was regular. Maybe.." They looked at the bone, and then back at the door- the glowing handprint, which didn't quite match the chocolate smudged on it.
They then looked up at... the big turtle pokemon. "Um, excuse me- Do you think you can... eat around this? And get it out for us?" |
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