[ti]event[/ti] Mile High Club (Pre-Raid Event)

The judges watch eagerly as you swoop, soar, shout, show off, and explode. The air above the stormy field is filled with smoke and sparks and every color imaginable. After each signature move they quickly confer before offering their scores.

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{Group Scores (randomized, just for fun)}

Verai, Kazuki, AND Jinx
179 [3d100 (59 21 99)]
"With some better power management and some spark limiters you might have a real top move there!"
"Careful not to burn up too soon, boys."
"Bros that explosion was siiiiick! What the hell!? Can you do it again?"

Tuesday, starlitlover, AND Saint
144 [3d100 (68 26 50)]
"Wonderful move integration! Well done."
"A little more subtlety is more my style."
"What happened? I was watching those other guys explode, but I'm sure it was awesome."

Yggy Br00ks, Aero, AND @killian
139 [3d100 (53 12 74)]
"There's a Y in Cygnus, so I'll give you partial credit."
Claw yawns. "Bless your hearts for trying."
"Broooo! Those freefall tricks were sick and lit. Pound it!"

Muin, ibis, AND Silvermoon
187 [3d100 (18 70 99)]
"This is flying! Not figure-skating!"
"Well I thought it was beautiful."
Chadick wipes away a tear. "I could really feel the love between you all."

Buzzster Hooperham, Morpheus, AND @kallisto
112 [3d100 (30 29 53)]
"Is a death spiral really a signature move? It's certainly not original, based on my knowledge of aircraft."
"I can't in good conscience give high marks to a blind man riding a bicycle."
"I liked the flowers!"

Sarah Lee, Laguna, AND Bergamot Gristleborg
100 [3d100 (39 16 45)]
"Pandering."
"I was hoping for all three ladies to participate."
"I didn't really get it?"

orioncayge, Big Bee, AND M'Foxy
259 [3d100 (71 89 99)]
"What a fantastic usage of shape and form!"
"Now that is a ratio that I can get behind."
"Bros! Those other 99s were lit and all, but I, like, REALLY mean this one."

Tiernan Oaktread, Fairytale, AND Rose Garden
86 [3d100 (2 14 70)]
"What is a child doing here? Even I have safety standards."
"Seemed a little lacking."
"I feel like I learned a lot from your interplay at the end there. The teamwork was spectacular, and your vernacular meshed together like a, like three people working as one. I especially liked how you have like, an old dude and a little kid. Very diverse."

After everyone is cooled off, extinguished, and exhausted, you find yourselves back on the ground where you started. System Admin:Claw makes her rounds to return your Pokemon, who she claims should now be "able to handle themselves in the air just the same as any of y'all."

Surprisingly, Cygnus makes no move to take back the flying devices he lent you. He is standing impassively, watching the sky.

"You have now completed basic training," the Mythstar Guild Leader finally says when he turns back to the so-called Mile High Club. His gaze is severe, yet his voice rings with conviction.. "And regardless of how 'successful' you were in achieving the tasks set before you, I am certain that you have all gained crucial skills. Skills that are best learned here then on the field of battle. Skills that will serve you very well in the near future."

Thunder rumbles behind him, ominously timed. "I suggest you keep your contraptions close at hand," he says, his coat billowing in a gust of rain-soaked wind. The other two Guild Leaders step up to stand beside him, all three silhouetted against the stormy sky. "The time is fast approaching when you will need every trick and trait at your disposal. If you can't hit harder, hit faster. If you can't escape, you had better be ready to stand your ground. Such are the messages my Training Beam has chiseled into your very DNA! Ha!"

Cygnus checks his watch and then looks out at the thunderstorm crackling in the distance. The intensity in his voice ebbs. When he speaks again, his tone is wistful- or perhaps grim.

"Legends don't pull their punches. They strike like lightning; without warning or hesitation. And when they do, you don't want to be the tallest tree around."

Flight training: Complete!
Mile High Club has concluded

UNLOCKED: NEW TRAINER SUBCLASS

AVIATOR FLYING-TYPE Always willing to leap before they look, these flying-type specialists can be distinguished either by their bird-like wings or the patches of feathers elsewhere on their body. While incapable of true flight, Aviators have the power of double-jump, springing off the air itself to reach new, never-before-seen heights. Aviators' flying-type Pokemon are unusually strong in the air, capable of lifting and carrying massive burdens many times their weight or size! Tier 2 - pkmn +5 Tier 3 - moves +5 Tier 4 - know your enemy Tier 5 - never normal