C0D13
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Post by C0D13 on May 16, 2022 2:18:57 GMT 9
LOOKING FOR EGGS!
searching...
Hold onto your hats, because egg hunting isn't all walks in the park and sniffing flowers and stuff! When the going gets tough and eggs are out past dinnertime, the breeders at the Rookery send out their crack squad (no pun intended) of Navy Shells (pronounces she-L's).
This rag tag bunch are armed to the teeth (the egg teeth) and are ready to fight off any hatless, egg-sucking Pokemon that might have mistaken this nursery for an all you can eat buffet. Sneasel, Salandit, Rattata, and any of those other hungry little varmits better watch where their front teeth are pointing, or else they're liable to get a boot between the eyes and a one-way ticket to The No Hat Zone!
So kit up, and once sundown hits take to the mountain to claw back those eggs by any means necessary.
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manish
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Post by manish on May 16, 2022 2:50:06 GMT 9
Manish wasn’t totally sure how he found himself in this situation. Which is generally how it went for him, but he really didn’t think he was qualified for a “crack squad” of anything, let alone a team designed to protect eggs. But Ryan saw the signups in The Rookery and, well, next thing Manish knew he was standing in a field facing off with a terrifying troupe of bandits. He was pretty sure one of the Sneasels in the background had a knife.
“Ryan? Are uh, are you sure we should be doing this?”
<Of course! You find the egg, I’ll fight off these guys. It’ll be easy. I mean, look at them. They’re tiny.> Compared to the hulking mass that was Ryan, they were quite tiny. And Manish didn’t really have any arguments against that.
“Oh…okay. I’ll just, uh, start looking? Um, let me know if you need, uh, help? I don’t think I could, well I mean, I guess there’s something…”
<Manish.>
“Right. Yeah, looking. I’m doing that. Have fun.” With that Manish scampered off to see if he could find some eggs to rescue.
Ryan, however, smirked at the slightly nervous looking group of villains in front of him. <Time to learn that it’s rude to try to eat eggs!> Ryan’s vines unwound from his flower and started to smack away the pokemon that chased after Manish.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on May 19, 2022 23:55:00 GMT 9
As Manish searched for eggs to rescue, the closest egg in front of him cracked. Bergamot Gristleborg rose from within, shaking off her eggshell-thin disguise like a triumphant, girl-shaped yolk. "Oh ho ho ho!" she laughed, covering her mouth with the back of one hand. She was smugly pleased with herself. "I assume you assumed I was an egg, when in reality it is I, Bergamot Gristleborg!"She realized she knew the man who'd de-shelled her and put her hands on her hips. "Oh, it's you. Excellent, you can help me. I'm looking for a Larvitar," she said, knowing a potential minion when she saw one, "I heard some other, LOSER people were looking for one, so I naturally must find it first and steal it for myself. Chop chop!"She made chopping hand gestures as she shook the remnants of giant eggshell off her legs and looked around. manish's massive Venusaur was keeping a tide of Pokemon bandits at bay. Her eyes narrowed. She didn't care for secondary antagonists. Not one bit. "Eliminate them," she said, sending out Guillotine the Piplup. "Chop chop!" Morgana made more energetic hand chopping gestures as the Piplup hurried forward to provide backup, opting to buff Ryan instead of actually doing any chopping of her own. |
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Sarah Lee
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Post by Sarah Lee on May 20, 2022 0:13:56 GMT 9
"Steal my Larvitar? We'll see about that," Sarah muttered as she joined the fray. "Oh hey Morgana, been snooping through people's public wishlists again?" she asked. "Not a bad idea. Your team could use an upgrade."
Sarah deliberately looked around for someone else to talk to, instantly mistaking Manish for an NPC. "You're one of the breeders right? I've been watching the battle and noticed something strange." She pulled up the battle map, which had a counter in the corner showing how many eggs were remaining.
"They're massing at this cave mouth here," Sarah said, pinging a location to the North and setting a blinking red flag on the map. "Who's coming with me? I'm sending in both of my best Pokemon," she said loudly, making sure that Bergamot Gristleborg heard.
As Morgana's sworn rival, it was necessary to one-up her at every opportunity, both verbally and literally. |
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Kath Ulu
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Post by Kath Ulu on May 20, 2022 0:27:04 GMT 9
"I heard some other, LOSER people were looking for one, so I naturally must find it first and steal it for myself. Chop chop!" "Make sure you find a *BIG* Larvitar, too," Kath ordered Grookey and Bulby out into the Rookery field.
"You got it, man," Bulby sauntered off.
"You want anything else?" Grookey asked banging his sticks together in preparation.
"Nah," Kath said. She looked over at where a gang of Salandits were making to look trouble for manish , Bergamot Gristleborg , and Sarah Lee . "Oh, shit, looks like some fire types. Do not engage, I repeat do not engage. Let any other trainer take care of them first."
"You got it, boss."
"You got it, baby!"
Kath ran up to the trainers who seemed to be massing their forces against the egg-stealing-bandits.
"Hey Sarah! Hey Morgana!" Kath said quickly as she ran straight to Manish. "Hey, hey. Mushroom-head. Have you found any Larvitars?" She got close, as if she were talking about something illegal. "If you do, I'll trade you a Glaceon, an Oshawott, and a Mudkip for one. No records. Cash starters."
She did her best to wink.
Meanwhile, Grookey and Bulby were hard at work.
"I think this is a Dratini egg," Grookey held up a milky-tan egg to the sky.
"Chuck it," said Bulby. "Kath said Livatar only, that means Lavtar only."
"True," said Grookey, and chucked it behind him. It smashed unceremoniously on the ground.
"Can't find any Lavatrines…" Bulby shook his head.
"What about this one?" Grookey held up another egg. This one was black and green.
"Oh, a Zarude egg," said Bulby. "Put it in here."
Grookey put it in Bulby's bag labeled OMELETTES.
"Yum," Grookey smiled.
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manish
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Post by manish on May 20, 2022 0:41:04 GMT 9
Manish let out a very manly screech at Morgana’s appearance before realizing who it was. “Oh! Hi Morgana! That was, uh, wow. You sure um, you sure got me. Haha. Um.” He kicked at a mushroom and looked around. “A uh, a Larvitar? What’s uh, what’s a…” But Manish was cut off by the appearance of another player.
Manish had seen her around, but he couldn’t remember if they actually interacted. Stress mushrooms started to appear at his feet. Bergamot he could handle, she was his best friend. A new person though? That was asking a lot of him. “Oh I’m not, I mean, uh, I don’t work for um…”
<Manish! I wanna fight more stuff!>
“Oh okay, I guess we’ll uh, we’ll go with you? Um, if that’s okay?”
He was settled on just following along with the others when Kath appeared. “Oh geeze,” he muttered to himself. He touched his hair and found that yes, there were a significant number of mushrooms growing in his hair. Is that a nickname? Friends give each other nicknames. Does that mean he was friends with Kath?
“Um, well see, uh, here’s the thing. I…oh geeze. Um, what’s a uh, I thought we were looking for uh. Um, aren’t we looking for eggs? I don’t know what’s uh. What’s a Larvitar? But uh, if you want it? I mean, if I get it I'll be fine with uh, yeah.”
<Hey Manish! Look! Here’s more eggs up here! And more things to fight!> Ryan ran ahead and threw his massive weight directly on a Salandit, crushing it.
Manish crouched down and picked up one of the eggs they were 'protecting' and held it up to the others. "Is this uh, is this right?"
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on May 20, 2022 0:57:46 GMT 9
Morgana raised her Eyebrow of Superiority as if she couldn't understand what about her team of Piplup, Gyarados, and low-tier Magikarp needed revision. "Snooping is just another word for Sleuthing, as Nancy Drew said," she quoted to Sarah Lee, "How else am I supposed to know what's worth stealing?"She turned away, focusing back on her newfound minion. It was more important to keep Manish in the know. He would be no use to her if he didn't even know the Pokemon she was looking for. "A Larvitar," Bergamot breathed, inching closer, "Is a larvae."She didn't have time to finish. Bergamot was distracted as Guillotine went sailing past her, wrestling a flying Salandit. "Guillotine Flatflipper! Get it together!" she exclaimed indignantly, then swiveled back to Manish. "As I was saying..."What was that he was holding? "It can't be," Bergamot breathed as she saw it. Little lights reflected in her eyes, as if staring at a giant disco ball. "Is that..."Manish was holding an egg. A... Larvitar egg?! "Manish, put the egg down," Bergamot said softly, "And back slowly away... before I... snatch it for myself!"Wh-chkkk! The sound of a cracking whip snapped through the air as she flared her skirts, sending a bolt of fabric forward to ensnare the egg and bring it home to her arms in a single fluid movement. Unfortunately, dresses didn't work that way, so she just flapped her dress back and forth a little. |
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Sarah Lee
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Post by Sarah Lee on May 20, 2022 1:08:48 GMT 9
"What? Who has the Larvitar?" she looked at the NPC, unsure if Morgana had actually used his name or if she was just being rude and referring to him as not quite a man. "You there! Man. Give me the egg. I can offer you anything. Just don't give it to Morgana."
Warning lights and annoying pings filled Sarah's UI. "Shit! They're breaking the eggs!" Sarah shouted, jabbing at the screen with her finger. Torn between a primary and secondary objective she gave up on the frontal assault, forced to split her forces.
"Ron!"
Charmeleon's head whipped around mid-flamethrower, leaving an afterburn in the night air.
"Head for the pinging! They're breaking the eggs!"
Ron growled deep in his throat, a rumble of flame and fury. He lumbered off through the battlefield, batting aside scorched Rattata and punching a Sneasel between the eyes.
Charmeleon heard the crack of wood on shell and leapt over the boulder, landing on the other side just as Bulby pitched a shiny egg to Grookey baseball style. Baby Ruth hit a home run and the egg shattered at Ron's feet. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS?"
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Kath Ulu
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Post by Kath Ulu on May 20, 2022 1:16:53 GMT 9
"Finding out how strong each egg is before they hatch," Bulby explained matter-of-factly to Ron.
Grookey went to hit the last egg with his stick, but a little blue hand smashed out of the egg in the nick of time and caught the stick mid-swing!
The rest of the eggshell fell apart as a Golett emerged. Newborn. Prepared for anything.
"Is that a Larvitar?" Grookey asked, terrified.
"It must be!" yelled Bulby. "Get it!"
Bulby was immediately smacked away, and landed at Ron's feet.
"Beep, boop, assholes," Golett Prime switched on its KILL MODE and grabbed Grookey by the throat.
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Meanwhile, Kath was pre-emptively celebrating her Larvictory.
"Yes!" She cried triumphantly as Manish agreed to trade. "This is a Larvitar lottery, and I just got TWO tickets!"
She looked at him, a pang of guilt shooting through her system. Manish's eyes were big, reflective, and oddly endearing. His inability to even acknowledge the malice and deceit Kath was generally capable of exhibiting made her feel… charmed.
Was this a psychic pokemon? And with the mushrooms… psychic-grass?? No doubt about it.
Kath pulled out a pokeball and threw it at his head.
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manish
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Post by manish on May 20, 2022 1:29:51 GMT 9
Manish couldn’t help but lean in close as Morgana explained what a Larvitar was. “Ohhhhh” he whispered back like she had actually explained anything but he was still just as confused as before.
He held up the egg for Morgana to look at but yelped in shock as she threw out a piece of her outfit. It came nowhere near hitting him, but it was enough to send him skittering backwards a few steps.
At Sarah Lee yelling at him, Manish froze in his retreat and pointed at himself. “Me? Oh I don’t, I mean, uh, I don’t know what it is still. Um, I really uh…”
But his stuttering was cut off when a pokeball smacked into his face. “Ow! What?” he looked over at Kath. She seemed very determined to do…something. He wasn’t sure. Was she trying to catch the egg he found? He was pretty sure that wasn’t how that worked. He didn’t need to catch the last one. “Oh geeze, that’s uh, wow that’s really nice that you tried to catch, I mean, uh, wow. But that’s not. Um.”
Manish realized that all three of the women were staring him down. He never had so much attention on him at one time and he was not totally sure he liked it. “Uhhhh,” he muttered while taking a few steps backwards. “Look, I don’t, I mean, this isn’t a, well it might be Larvitar. But I don’t, uh, oh geeze. There’s only one and I don’t, uh, oh geeze.” Manish took another step backwards but tripped over a mushroom he grew. Everything went slow motion. His arms flew out wildly, the egg went flying through the air, he reached out to catch it, but just missed, brushing the egg with his fingers.
With a crack it landed on the ground and Manish stared on in horror. “Oh no. Oh geeze. Oh no I killed it. I’m a murderer. I killed the Larvitar!” Manish wailed as tears started to appear in his eyes. But after a moment, a purple fuzz started to emerge from the broken shell. A Venonat emerged wearing a little hat.
“Oh my…It’s…it’s so cute! I didn’t know Larvitar were so cute!”
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on May 20, 2022 1:55:28 GMT 9
"You're not a murderer, they're murderers," Morgana said to manish, exasperated, and waved towards the carnage Kath Ulu's grass-type Pokemon were performing nearby. It was lucky Morgana didn't put any particular sanctity in eggs, not until they hatched. If there was an actual moral component she was sure the Everworld would already be knocking. She meant to correct Manish and inform him his hat-wearing Venonat was not the larvae she'd been looking for, but he seemed happy enough. Instead she stooped down to pick up the empty Pokeball, crossing the shell-strewn path. She stopped before Kath Ulu, then extended her hand with the capsule as if to return it.
"I continue to find you fascinating, Kath Ulu," the villainess said softly as the Pokeball left her hand. "Won't you join my Dark Sisterhood? There's a place at my side for those who deal in the underhanded, the underappreciated, the under...croft." She pulled a face and continued. "You don't have to hang out with 'Sarah Lee'... she doesn't understand you like I do. I see the chaos. I see the greed."Morgana's voice dropped to a sultry murmur. She stroked the orange egg Guillotine had just toddled up with. "Isn't that right... Larvitar."The shell cracked, revealing a pair of orange antennae and a baby bonnet. "...The gift of prophecy is not one of my talents," Bergamot continued seamlessly as the baby Corphish waved its claws, "But the gift of people is."She watched Kath Ulu not like a hawk, but like a human, gauging her intent.
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Sarah Lee
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Post by Sarah Lee on May 20, 2022 10:32:17 GMT 9
"Don't listen to her Kath, I doubt she even knows what an undercroft is," Sarah said, one eye on the blaring egg counter and the other on the dark bargain being forged in front of her. "She's just saying stuff to get into your head. Look, I can do it too."
Sarah looked deep into Kath's eyes, and delivered a prophecy:
"In the city of Emerald
Beneath the broken needle
A girl of flame will pass through the Eye
And the new world will stir."
Meanwhile, Ron was caught between a rock and two dumb, egg-smashing Pokemon. "WE HAVE AN OBJECTIVE!" he roared, flames shooting from his mouth at the grass types. "GO DO SOMETHING USEFUL!"
At his feet, something pushed up through the pieces of shattered egg. They were small, hatched before they were ready, and born amidst death and furious flame. The little Pokemon wore a skull on its head, painted with exciting patterns.
Ron picked up the little Cubone, holding her close, and scurried back to Sarah.
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Kath Ulu
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Post by Kath Ulu on May 20, 2022 11:45:54 GMT 9
The Mushroom-headed pokemon had escaped capture. DAMN! And then, suddenly, the shoe was on the other foot.
Morgana came at her first, with the promise of a Dark Sisterhood.
"That sounds pretty great," Kath nodded, mulling it under. "Could Sarah join the Dark Sisterhood too, though? Also, what do I get if I join? Do I get a Larvitar? What does 'gift of people' mean?" She pointed at Mushroom-head. "Do I get him? Hard to catch, so that's a good offer."
Then Sarah joined in the mind games, shooting a completely improvised prophecy Kath's way.
Kath frowned. Two competing theories of what she should do next. Both very tempting.
Was this how Mushroom-head felt all the time?
"You both make very enticing and reasonable offers," Kath had her hands up. "I'm going to go with the small-print on this one."
She nodded curtly to Morgana. "I will join your Dark Sisterhood. However! Although I have the option of not hanging out with Sarah, I still will."
Then she looked to Sarah. "What's an undercroft?"
Grookey twisted his head despite the Golett's grip on it to stare at Sarah Lee. "What did you just say?" A girl of flame? A broken needle?
"I SAID BEEP BOOP LITTLE MONKEY!" Golett Prime closed its grip.
Earlier, Bergamot had offered the empty pokeball back to Kath, but Kath hadn't picked it up. The reason why, is because Bulby, the jovial Ivysaur, had sent a little vine out to grab it instead.
And then he threw it at Golett Prime.
"Got it!" Bulby cheered as the Golett was sucked up into Kath's pokeball. "You alright, man?"
"Yeah, baby, yeah," Grookey massaged his bruised neck. "Did… did you just catch that pokemon?"
"I guess."
"Can you do that?"
"I don't think so," Bulby looked around to make sure no one had seen him do it. "Let's keep this between us, okay?"
"Okay," Grookey nodded. "Yeah, let's get the hell out of here."
And they RAN.
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