Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Player Name: Chryssa Glasgow
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 24, 2022 18:34:14 GMT 9
"It liiiiives!"The moment the Magikarp was in the air, Guillotine swooped forward with her beak glowing white, striking it with a brutal PECK attack. Striped with wide lines of white and orange, Bergamot saw the fish fly through the air spectacularly, shining in the dappled sunlight like a piece of artificial bacon. Then it landed near her feet, still conscious. The jungle fish flopped weakly, its tail flattening vines and undergrowth beneath it. "That'll do it," Morgana said smugly, bending down to catch it in a Pokeball. It was certainly tenacious! It wouldn't impress Big Bee in the rarity-catching contest they were definitely having, but she knew such a tenacious fish would be a perfect minion for her evil schemes.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 24, 2022 18:27:02 GMT 9
She had a bite immediately. Ha, she thought, tugging triumphantly at the Fishing Rod as whatever was hiding on the other end tugged back. I knew raw meat would do the trick. Jungle Piranhas were famous for their love of flesh and live prey. She wasn't going to send Guillotine in, but a small piece scavenged from the local catgirl's lunch was no problem to replace.
And was very effective.
Guillotine circled the rippling surface of the water like a vulture honing in on a fresh corpse,, treading "water" midair as she waited for the hidden predator to surface. Bergamot could tell from its strength that it wasn't a Feraligatr, at least. "And a one, and a two!" she cried, and jerked the rod sharply up.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 24, 2022 18:21:40 GMT 9
Jungle fishing. It was different than ocean fishing because instead of fishing from the end of the dock, where all sorts of glitches and nonsense were likely to occur, Bergamot was fishing from the bank of a beautiful Amazon-esque river. And by beautiful she meant brown, with the occasional Feraligatr rising to the surface to peer at her before lazily dipping beneath again. Not as a real threat, she assumed. Just a warning. Fishing was fine, but Morgana shouldn't try to go swimming. But that was fine, because she had no intention of swimming in tropical rivers or any such nonsense. Bergamot simply wanted to obtain rare Magikarp before her fishing rival Big Bee, who was already trawling the ocean practically dry and leaving nothing promising for her. She baited her hook with a piece of fresh meat and tossed it out into the jungle river, settling back to wait.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 24, 2022 15:54:41 GMT 9
After finally catching the gray Magikarp that had spawned after the annoying glitch with the purple one, Bergamot found a comfortable place to make her dramatic last stand against C0D13 and summoned the helpful Porygon from her UI. "Hello, Codie?" she asked with the haughty, distracted air of someone talking while driving. "I had a problem during your new fishing game on the Beta Coastline. My Magikarp suddenly reset at the end of the encounter, so I had to start the entire thing over again. I'd like the first one back, thank you, since I'd been about to catch it before. I'll file the appropriate report with the devs if necessary."While she hadn't thought to take any screenshots of the purple koi before it had suddenly disappeared from existence, there was a clear dispute in her catch log where she'd definitely defeated the Magikarp and it had then re-spawned. Surely its data remained somewhere in the UNOVR logs and could be retrieved by someone in charge.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 24, 2022 15:42:33 GMT 9
"Ohohohoho!"
With a high-pitched, triumphant laugh fit for the return of the reigning villainess, Bergamot took hold of the Fishing Rod with her strength renewed and her spiteful vigor refreshed after their visit to the shrine. Guillotine stood poised for battle at her side, fatigue gone and determination in her eyes. This Magikarp could delete itself and re-spawn as many times as it liked-- she wasn't giving up without a fight!
"Now!"
Morgana switched the fishing rod to Guillotine's flippers, leaving her own hands free to fill with empty Pokeballs. She peppered the water with them like she was seasoning a pot of spaghetti, her Piplup pulling franticly at the rod off to the side.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 22:17:29 GMT 9
Another feeble hit, and Morgana cut her losses. "Time STOP!"
She paused the game.
No, you couldn't normally do that. Chryssa Glasgow accomplished it by suddenly moving her real-life body so erratically that the WorldScreen threw up a warning popup, graying out the rest of the world around her. Bergamot took the option from the QUiCKLOAD screen. With the fishing rod still wedged in a crack in the dock, she and Guillotine spirited themselves away to the High Tide Shrine for the very first time.
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 22:11:59 GMT 9
...Morgana didn't want to start posting one-liners, but the situation wasn't looking great in the interest of writing long, well-developed interactions filled with individualized color coding and dialogue.
Guillotine's Pound lacked its... usual sting. The Piplup was already physically exhausted from towing Morgana around in a way that the game clearly hadn't been intended for, and mentally exhausted from all her mental trickery with the previous (purple) Magikarp. Smacking the gray Magikarp was like a tired businessman coming home from a long day of work and slapping a... well, that was just it. He couldn't even figure out what to slap. Guillotine's flipper bonked off of silvery scales, but who knew how much damage it actually did?
Morgana could guess. And she guessed it wasn't much. And you didn't have to have empathy to look at the Piplup and realize it was not in top shape for a battle with much of anything, even a Magikarp.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 21:58:50 GMT 9
Morgana was not a particularly careful person, but even she seemed wary of the new fish on the line. Was this one going to cooperate and be caught like a normal Magikarp, or was it going to delete itself the moment it was within catching range?
Honestly, she knew fishing was a new feature, but she'd gone through the game so far blissfully free from the other glitches more "Beta" beta players had experienced.
Morgana was the one who stole Pokémon just as another trainer was about to catch them. She didn't like the game getting turned around on her so easily, especially when she didn't even have anyone to take it out on. Yet.
Guillotine popped her round head out of the water, looking puzzled. Bergamot scoffed, trying to hake off her uncertainty. "Pound, I suppose," she said, gesturing at the new, gray-scaled Magikarp.
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 13:14:23 GMT 9
As Morgana reeled in her glamorous purple Magikarp and prepared to throw a Pokeball at the helpless fish, the flopping Pokémon suddenly froze. Not as in "it just stopped moving." Like, really froze. It froze with its body bent mid-flop, its whiskers like perfectly sculpted spaghetti noodles halfway through a wiggle.
"What?!"
...Then it vanished.
"What?"
Morgana felt a sharp tug on her fishing line and turned to see a gray Magikarp now on the line, clearly a completely different fish from the one before. Bergamot tugged at it indignantly, feeling it tug back. The new fish was clearly at full health, and now they were right back where they started.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 13:03:20 GMT 9
Guillotine saw her chance as, torn between caution and competition, the Magikarp finally swam at Morgana's hook and bit down. The Piplup attacked simultaneously, releasing a blast of brightly-colored bubbles that pelted the poor purple Magikarp like machine gun fire. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba!
Rocked by the Bubblebeam, the Magikarp emerged from the surface on the end of Morgana's line. It fought back, weakly, but Morgana had cleverly wedged her high heels into a crack in the dock and was utterly immovable. The Magikarp had no chance of throwing off her balance-- it was like being tied to a semi truck.
"You're mine!" the woman cried jubilantly, pulling back on the rod, and the Magikarp flew up and onto the dock. It flopped on its side in a puddle of saltwater, a grape-colored trophy of the seas.
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 20, 2022 12:46:14 GMT 9
She felt her line jiggle a little as the Magikarp below (assumedly) began to nibble at the bait. While Morgana longed to crack the fishing Rod like a whip and bring her new catch to the surface in a single motion, the Swimmer forced herself to wait. Like a mountain lion stalking its prey. Waiting... waiting...
There was a burst of spray and salt as the Magikarp finally bit and was immediately hooked. Laughing triumphantly, Bergamot cranked the reel like a rotary phone dial, delighting in her apparent success.
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 19, 2022 22:27:32 GMT 9
<Why would I let you have it?> Guillotine asked, swimming in a tight circle around the uncertain purple fish. <Just because you got here first? Uh-uh, that's not the law of the seas I know.>
Morgana scoffed at the text bubbles with emoticons that were drifting up from the encounter below. Why were the Pokémon talking? Without her, even? Wasn't this game supposed to be customized to the player experience?
What was even the point of anything if it didn't revolve around her?
But then again, she had to admit it was impressive. She'd make a grudging note of it in her review of UNOVR on her blog later.
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 19, 2022 22:21:20 GMT 9
Guillotine Flatflipper (yes, she had two names) kicked her webbed feet, jetting through the water and feeling blissfully unencumbered.
There was a Magikarp investigating Morgana's hook, but it hadn't taken a bite yet. It seemed suspicious, as if the grape gummy Morgana had baited the hook with wasn't quite the typical fisherman's fare. Guillotine decided to play her hand at deception before she got into a fistfight.
<Hey girl,> Guillotine called out as she swam close, startling the purple karp as she called out. <You gonna eat that? I will if you don't.>
<Now hold on one second,> the Magikarp objected, swimming quickly around to protect the dangling bait with the side of her body. <I'm still thinking about it. I don't usually try new things, but there's something about this one I'm just really vibing with, you know.>
From her vantage point above, Bergamot was waiting, tapping her foot on the dock.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 19, 2022 22:07:06 GMT 9
Ha ha! Already she was reaping the spoils of hard work and superiority!
Something the color of fine French wine and grape-flavored gummies swam back and forth beneath the surface of the water. Bergamot craved it like she craved Welch's grape juice. Unfortunately, this fish was much more lively than the one she'd cleverly stolen from Big Bee.
"Guillotine! Prepare for battle!"
Guillotine had recovered for the most part from the flight across the ocean, and the Piplup seemed relieved to be swimming in real water for once. The baby penguin toddled to the end of the dock before diving in with a splash.
Morgana peered over the pier, narrowing her eyes as the blue shape below neared the purple one.
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Bergamot Gristleborg
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Muddy Girl
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Post by Bergamot Gristleborg on Jan 19, 2022 21:56:54 GMT 9
"Daaa da da..."Morgana hummed to herself as she stood on the end of the pier. Not the same pier Big Bee was fishing from, that would have been too obvious.No, Bergamot was standing just within eyeshot (was that a word?) of the hilariously tall fish-lover. The end of the jetty was a fine fishing hole for the next great villain of the Pokémon World, and assuming no new players pulled up on the Beta Ferry, Bergamot expected to be relatively uninterrupted for the next hour or so. She assumed that was how long it would take to catch an Extremely Rare and Attractive Magikarp that she could flaunt in front of her enemies. "Ready, get set..."Plonk! Morgana dropped the line into the water, smugly confident that the boat would pretty much drive itself at this point.
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