Post by Cheshired Kat on Mar 16, 2024 10:58:53 GMT 9
Most players probably would have stepped back from the game after his ordeal - several steps back, all the way back to Asper, if not setting the game down on the shelf for a while - but not Adrien. Oh no, not Adrien.
Adrien just picked himself up, dried himself off - which had been an entire process, getting all the wet out of his tail and ears, in a way he never would have pegged from the avatar - and kept on going. Granted, he took a few days off in-between to stream, but that was different. That was work, not running away.
Which was all to say that, a few days after his inadvertent adventure underwater (read: near-drowning by a siren in a way he'd definitely be reliving for a while in some of his worst nightmares), he was back in Ostellia, this time exploring the edges of the destroyed city, Bubba trundling along after him curiously, the little Phanpy having more than earned the chance to stretch his legs outside of his Pokeball after how helpful he'd been in the last couple of sessions. Now, that didn't mean it was a very successful outing, mind you. He'd been wandering around fairly aimlessly for a while now, without so much as a single wild Pokemon or anything to show for his effor-
<Phanpy!> The chirpy little cry from the Ground-type had him turning, raising an eyebrow as he regarded the little elephant, hands coming to rest on his hips as his tail swished, the piercing jingling behind him.
"Oh come on, Bubba, let's g-" he began, only to cut himself off as the Phanpy scampered over and held up a dirty beige keycard that had obviously been a bright white once. "-o. Huh. What's this?" He took it from the little Ground-type, turning it this way and that, before the Phanpy trumpeted again and scampered back towards a large rusted door that he'd dismissed, writing it off as yet another abandoned building he wasn't able to go into (or worse, that he could and it would just have another boring bit of machine Pokemon inside).
<Phanpy!> he insisted, rearing up and knocking at the door with his front paws, before turning back to look at Adrien with a hopeful expression.
One he was far too soft to ignore, and so it was with a sigh that he stepped forward and examined the thing for a moment before he found the reader. "There's no way this works," he muttered to himself as he swiped it.
Except that it did work - the door shot wide open, revealing a dark, looming loading zone that saw Bubba scooting back towards his legs worriedly even as he stared at it. "Oh come on," he muttered in despair, but with a shake of his head and a check of his belt, he stepped into the darkness, willing to see where this would end up taking him.
Nero Kazuki Silvermoon
ooc: sleepy + spibe, obvs y'all are fully able to pick whichever of your babs you wanna throw in here (or spibe, you can bow out entirely since i'm not sure if you ever saw the pitch for this l-lol), and also, surprise, bet you thought i'd forgotten all about this, well joke's on us in that i didn't-
