C0D13
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Bug Maniac
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Player Name: C0D13
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Post by C0D13 on May 9, 2022 23:49:31 GMT 9
THE EVERWORLD Retrieve the forsaken, lest they wander evermoreYou materialize in an endless hall. Vermillion gates form a canopy of beams overhead, and pillars of light hang from this faux-ceiling. Gold-robed statues line the path, and those that are whole wear the masks of Pokemon. Faces of the lost.
Stale air blows from a closing door, and a gray-cloaked figure approaches.
Their body is shapeless, as if spread thin between a thousand possible worlds. As they glide down the hall all the color is sucked from the air, like Oxygen from a vacuum. The red is drained from the gates, and the brilliant yellow lights dim to pale, wan gray.
The lack of color makes their golden mask shine all the brighter.
"You seek a phantom. A visage that wanders my endless halls," says the figure, their mask ringing with their sharp voice. A tooltip over them reads simply SETA. "There is a price to reverse what has been wrought. You will be tested."
They wait a beat, letting the threat hang in the stale air. "Unless you wish to abandon the spirit? After all, there is always room in my palace. And perhaps another, more fitting, trainer will come to claim them."
TO BANISH A PHANTOMShould you wish to abandon your Pokemon, the figure holds out a clawed hand. "Very well. They will wander my vermillion halls until another spirit comes to save them. Goodbye. We will meet again."
- Link to the post where you whited out/sacrificed your Pokemon
- Post below making your choice to banish IC
- The Pokemon will be deleted from your box.
TO BEGIN SETA'S TRIALShould you wish to proceed, the figure slowly nods. "So you wish to bring a spirit back with you. Answer me truthfully: What makes you think your ghost wishes to return after what happened? What will be different this time?"
The lack of eyes bore into you. "Nothing returns from this realm unchanged. You too must change, if you are to win back the lost."
- Link to the post where you whited out/sacrificed your Pokemon
- Post below with your IC answer to the question.
- If Seta finds your answer sufficient, a new thread will be started for you in this board with the details of your character's Trial.
- If your answer is flippant, game-related, or insincere, you will be turned away. Your Pokemon will remain a phantom until you change or choose to banish it.
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Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
Posts: 406
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Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
OOC Username: M00K
Arena Points: 68
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Jun 6, 2022 22:40:22 GMT 9
"Hey, you're like, the gatekeeper guy, right? Seta? I've heard about you!"
Yggy grinned winningly at the gold-masked figure, trying to cover up the unease which crawled up her spine. She put her hands in the pockets of her shorts, hiding her clammy palms.
Yes, she. With Hydance's offer of a free character reset, Kenny had made some alterations to his player character. He'd felt his body unspool like a thread. He'd felt what it was like to be hollow, no more than surface texture and degrading polygons. He'd been deleted.
There was no coming back from that. Not for him. Not without remembering what it had felt like, even with the trauma blockers, even with the pain reduced.
"I heard on the forums you had to change before coming here, so I did! Check it out! I was playing a guy character before, but now I'm a girl. What do you think?"
She was quite pleased with herself. It was a great solution: forget her old avatar, forget the crappy grades she'd gotten on her finals, and forget what had happened in the Recycle Bin. Hydance had. Everyone else had. Why shouldn't she?
Her smile faded a little bit.
She covered it up with a forced laugh and went on, raising a hand to scratch the back of her head sheepishly. "I just mean like, he's my starter Pokemon, so I kinda need him to play the game and fight my Rival and stuff. It's not like I did it on purpose, you know?"
Watson, unzipped into strings of binary before Yggy's eyes, his paws running black as the waters swallowed him up. The image flashed unbidden to her mind and pixels appeared around the tomboy character for a moment, as if the memory had disturbed reality. She took a deep breath.
"Can I get my Dewott back now?"
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C0D13
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Bug Maniac
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Post by C0D13 on Jul 2, 2022 18:43:32 GMT 9
Yggy had changed.
But not in any way that mattered.
Superficial adjustments. A new look. And now pleading with the gatekeeper on the grounds that losing her Dewott would lessen the game experience. Yggy Br00ks had done everything she could do to avoid facing the reality of the situation and the ramifications of her actions.
"You must accept the reality of what happened out there." Seta said, their voice full of calm, eternal patience. "No matter. The soul will wait."
"Return when your grief outweighs your denial."
The hall fades to grey and Yggy Br00ks finds herself back in Asper. Dewott is still greyed out in her menu and the prompt remains:
> ENTER THE EVERWORLD?
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Yggy Br00ks
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Pikachu Fan
Round 2
Posts: 406
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Player Name: Kenneth Garfield
OOC Username: M00K
Arena Points: 68
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Post by Yggy Br00ks on Oct 9, 2022 14:25:21 GMT 9
As the YOU HAVE WHITED OUT! screen faded, red gates seemed to rise from the bottom of her vision. The formless, bodiless feeling that accompanied the loading screen solidified along with the Everworld and the blonde dropped to the ground, barely catching herself.
No sooner did the ground take shape beneath her feet than did it turn to gray. Yggy became conscious of a presence. A person.
"Aw, crap..."
She'd been avoiding this place.
"Uh, haha, h-hey Seta!"
Yggy Brooks hid her hands in her pockets like she'd been caught forgetting to wash them before dinner, whistling innocently. "I guess I died, huh? Man, that sucks..."
No new Pokemon had been taken out of her party, so it looked like UNOVR had some kind of mercy rule in place for those who'd already been gypped once. And she had been, right? She'd been totally kidnapped by Codie and then the game had stolen her Dewott just to add insult to injury. Not like it mattered since she could just train up another Oshawott, but seeing him grayed out in Yggy's storage box made her feel...
Bad, I guess.
"This is kind of an accident," Yggy admitted awkwardly, staring into the gatekeeper's golden mask. She could see her own face reflected back. "I'm kind of in the middle of something... so..."
She didn't have the words to express how she felt. Not yet.
"...But I'll come back later," she ad-libbed quickly, turning at the last moment before she hit the RETURN TO <SHRINE?> option. "I promise!"
...Why did that promise weigh so heavily?
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Tuesday
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Battle Legend
The Creed
Posts: 1,602
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Player Name: Martín 'Mars' Marzán
OOC Username: Stells
Arena Points: 138
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Post by Tuesday on Nov 11, 2023 0:10:58 GMT 9
When steel boots step into the vermillion halls, they do so with unshakable purpose. Into these vermillion halls she has marched time and again; at first with silver tongued persuasion and then with the burning demands of her heart's ache. Through these vermillion halls she gone to war for those who matter to her. And, in these vermillion halls, a single one of those souls remains. Virtual entity. She reminds herself, but what difference does that make? There are AI in this virtual world that have grown to be of importance to her, just like how behind all of the WorldScreen's simulations, there is a much different AI that matters deeply to Mars as well... "I'm sorry." An apology is whispered by the Alchemist knight when facing a statue of gold, and truly, wishes for her words to reach the spirit behind the spiral mask of the statue. Tuesday is not one to apologise easily, words like those rarely leave her rosy lips, and yet here is an apology for a being that she once thought to be no more than a string of code and a collection of pixels. Oh, how wrong she had been. Chariot had become her companion, her comrade-in-arms. Someone who would always defend her. Someone she could rely on and trust. Chariot was the trusted blade that had broken in Tuesday's hands."I failed her, Seta." Sensing the presence of the Gatekeeper, she speaks up, yet she does not look away from the statue — golden eyes boring into golden mask. "I took her to a terrible place and she fell when she tried to protect me from it."When Chariot tried to protect her and Adarsa. When she tried to save them from that fucked up place with its fucked up horrors and monsters. They should have never gone to Mistra. Tuesday should have never told Chariot that she was counting on her, she should have never asked her to help bring Adarsa back. She really had failed her. "...She didn't deserve to be at a place like that, and I don't think I can take her back to a world where something that can bring her so much harm still exists... Especially when I'm not yet strong enough to protect her from it."It's a difficult thing for her prideful self to admit, yet the words leave her lips all the same. Her decision is made, and its when speaking it that Tuesday turns towards the Gatekeeper, her expression solemn: "Would you allow her to roam these halls? I think that she will be much happier here." There's a faint smile there, brought by thoughts of the ever energetic Whirlipede with her innocent and jovial attitude. "...Please look after her for me, Seta."BANISHING WHIRLIPEDE (These are totally not tears... there's dust in my eye... yeah...)
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Jinyu
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Weekend Warrior
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Posts: 58
Player Name: Andrew Yang
OOC Username: Peony
Arena Points: 0
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Post by Jinyu on Nov 16, 2023 22:16:58 GMT 9
❝Hey, Seta!❞ he waved enthusiastically at the tall, dark-cloaked figure without a clear face, only a steady, sun-like glow. Miss Goldie had been out of the Poke Ball, floating/swimming beside him, looking rather nervous about the place because, well, she had been here not very long ago, as one of the masks that remained in the Everworld. A prison that for some, was the most they could ever ask for. Jinyu, on the other hand, was treating the NPC like an old friend, and honestly he didn't seem so bad - he just wanted the best fro the spirits here, didn't he? He wished he could've helped more Magikarp, but maybe they were in a better place now, somewhere, wandering out there, or maybe in Pokemon Heaven, if such a place existed.
❝How've you been? This place feels a lot more empty than it used to.❞ Again, whether that was something better or worse, he really wasn't sure. ❝Actually, I came here to ask for some help. I'm looking for someone, and I feel like they might've passed by here.❞ It seemed more like that the scenario was that they whited out and ended up here, though he supposed Vera would try to get a free Pokemon out of Seta.
He ruffled through this inventory to pull out a picture that he quickly drew with black and red crayons.
{An artwork} ❝They look like this. Sort of.❞ he smiled sheepishly, but then his expression became one of regret. ❝They're really important to me, and I want to talk to them again. I guess, like what you say, I'm hoping for a change when I talk to them? Even if they don't talk to me back? Oh, I dunno. I guess I'm rambling to the God of Death.❞
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Josh Devlin
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Beginning Trainer
The Creed
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Player Name: Josh Devlin
OOC Username: RaikouRider
Arena Points: 28
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Post by Josh Devlin on Sept 22, 2024 16:41:07 GMT 9
Music: A Land Bringing About Life
Josh had made it out of Hearteater alive, but at what cost? His strongest Pokémon was in Seta's clutches. All the resources he had put into Ares, gone. With Sarah Lee behind enemy lines, he was one of UNOVR's stronger forces, alongside Alicia Westfield and some of the other greats that had been around since Beta. Strong in terms of raw power, but lacking the knowledge that veterans had.
It was that lack of knowledge that led to the Charizard's demise. A similar lack of knowledge, and a pang of stubbornness that he shared with ARAVAN ESCHER, that had caused his rival's Nihilego to meet a similar fate. Both were PHANTOMS that wandered the Everworld indefinitely.
Even the stern oceanographer had been reduced to tears walking through Seta's red-and-gold halls. Josh put a hand on his friendly rival's shoulder as they slowly walked to the chamber's end, Thunder and Storm chirping in the boy's other arm. He squinted as the Galarian Zapdos' talon nearly pierced his skin. "Remember? I promised you that we would come here together and get our Pokémon back. I just wasn't expecting it would be Ares. Ulysses is on death's door right now, with ten maximum hit points. But it's Ares that needs my help now." With a heavy head and arm, he lifted it off Aravan's shoulder and relaxed; his height made him barely able to reach the taller man in the first place. "And remember, if only one of us can get our Pokémon back, it's you. You get priority. It's only fair because it was my Pokémon that--"
"No," the aquatic specialist interrupted him. "We're both getting out of here with our Pokémon. Both of us or neither of us. I haven't forgotten. I've seen you climbing the PVP ladder, too. Once we get our Pokémon back, you owe me a rematch."
"You'll get one," Josh answered. "But not until Ares and Enigma are both in our hands, rather than Phantoms wandering this place. We're doing this. Together."
Reaching the end of the hall where the amorphous Gatekeeper Seta watched over visitors, Josh approached them first. "Keeper of the Everworld, we come to you to request the spirits of Ares and Nihilego back. Ares lost his life inside Hearteater trying to save Kyukon , and wound up being able to save neither of us. Only Ruby made it out alive. When I came to back at the Shrine, he was... gone. Ares' life was taken through no fault of his own. He means... so much to me. I've known him longer than any other Pokémon. I owe a lot of my success to him. We may have just... got in over our heads in there." If Hearteater had a level recommendation associated with it, it felt way above his. With Sarah Lee pulling so much weight in combat, would the boy ever enter another raid or dungeon at anything less than a maxed tree?
He stepped forward to plead his case for Aravan's Pokémon, as well. "My friend and rival's Nihilego, Enigma, has also--"
Aravan raised his hand to Josh's mouth, hushing him. "I can tell them myself what happened," he said as he clicked open the Poké Ball containing his juvenile, half-size Kyogre, who greeted the Zapdos chicks with a crooked smile. "The two of us were trying to get stronger by battling one another on the shores of Ostellia. We didn't realize the lethality of combat there, and I pushed Enigma, my Nihilego, beyond his limits. Since then, Josh has realized how to restrain himself in combat, so that this does not happen again." Finding out about the dedicated PVP mode that kept Pokémon from being reduced below one hit point helped, too. "Just when we were understanding one another, this series of unfortunate events took him from me. I'd like to give her a second chance." The swimmer's KYOGRE silently floated behind him out of respect for Seta.
The boy scout took a step forward. "Please... let us see our Pokémon..." he begged of the Everworld's gatekeeper.
{Party}Ares the Charizard (3/3/4) | Status: DEAD Slider the Rufflet (3/3/3) Ulysses the Dewgong (3/3/3) Ixion the Rapidash (3/3/3) Storm the Zapdos (BABY) Thunder the Galarian Zapdos (BABY)
{Aravan's Party}Enigma the Nihilego (Levels: 2/2/2) | Status: DEAD Pranky the Infernape (Levels: 4/4/4) Ohm the Zebstrika (Levels: 4/4/4) Sterling the Duraludon (Levels: 4/4/4) Clement the Quagsire (Levels: 4/4/4) Poseidon the Kyogre (Juvenile) (Levels: 4/4/4)
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