Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 20, 2023 15:35:10 GMT 9
“Would you quit struggling?” Kazuki huffs, because how dare this guy resist being robbed? And it wasn’t even a good struggle; he can feel him push against his chest, but it feels more like getting slapped by soggy pasta than anything, those hands clearly made for fountain pens rather than fighting.
He finally manages to pry something out of his pockets. “Seriously? You’ve got like one ball and some lint. Did you just start playing?” Kazuki laughs.
“STOP! YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW!”
“Shit!” He quickly pockets his ill-gotten goods, seeing the stampede of infuriated officers coming this way. The five stars on his screen have become six stars, and he can already see an aerial squadron of braviary eager to claw his head off. “Time to bail. Enjoy the pest, sucker!”
The criminal books it, disappearing down the street of bewildered citizens, one of which stoops down to offer Blackthorne a hand once the danger had passed.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 21:34:19 GMT 9
After a quick foray at the Tower of Cats, Kazuki had obtained a rather unnerving new party member. He recognized the espeon, knew it from seeing the one Verai had, but didn’t particularly care for more cats.
And then it turns out the thing could read his mind, solidifying his resolve to get rid of it—for both his and the cat’s sanities.
The plan is to return to Bethany. Verai had disappeared into thin fucking air after scamming and ditching him at the county jail, so trade options were thin, plus he figured leaving the town alone long enough would let the NPCs forget his crimes and the fact he broke out of prison before his sentence was up.
The moment the words BRIARBANE SETTLEMENT fade out, five stars appear in the corner of his screen.
Next thing he knows, he’s vaulting over wagons and sprinting through oncoming traffic, being pursued by a pack of police riding Mudsdale. The squad is forced to stop as the disrupted traffic turns into a jam, an argument breaking out between them and a furious cabbage merchant whose produce has gone tumbling across the street.
Kazuki runs, grinning at his luck, before remembering his priorities. Looking around, he latches onto the nearest player character sticking out of the crowd.
“YOU! GOTH!” He yells, winding his arm back. “GO LONG!”
A pokeball is sent hurtling towards the unfortunate player at mach speed.
And since he’s already on a roll with these crimes, he takes the ambush opportunity by the horns, lunging for the guy and using the distraction to mug him. It doesn’t really matter what pokemon he gets; the trade system won’t let him just foist shit on people, so if this guy is lucky, he’ll get the psychic cat for a pokemon he doesn’t care for.
And if he's not lucky, well—tough shit.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 11:29:01 GMT 9
One of the Patrat is stopped on his way to the fridge. A scorbunny sneers down at it. The Patrat immediately begins to panic.
<I-I have no idea who you are!>
<Ya think this is funny? A goddamn joke?>
The scorbunny kicks the rat over, who gets knocked onto the floor and starts waving his little hands in front of himself. <Please!>
The cute bunny reaches down, grabbing the rat by one of his chubby cheeks, shaking him as if he were a doll. <I trusted you, rat. We were in the business together. I smuggle you all those lava cakes, fresh from the crater, and ya jus’ leave me high n’ dry on a pick up?>
<I didn’t mean to! I was gonna get the goods, but your trainer was there and->
The scorbunny smacks him.
<That’s my boss now, rat.>
He grins, cutely and menacingly. <And I'm just following orders.>
Prompt 31. [Tower]SA_x_sUP1d50 1d50
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 6:01:55 GMT 9
“I could’ve! I was close,” Kazuki hisses, hands clasping loudly into fists. “The damn sheriff intervened before I could shove it into my inventory.”
He pauses upon having a pokedex shoved in his face. After shooting Verai a sneer, he takes the time to read the text and has to doubletake.
“Your pokemon?” He sounds absolutely scandalized. “I thought we already settled this! The cat’s mine!” He can’t believe this. He’s getting two-timed by a Tamagotchi.
Verai’s ignoring him, of course, instead pulling Sprigatito out, and rummaging through his stuff. Man, what a bitch. His favorite is a bitch- which tracks with his record.
“I was learning. What the hell are you up to?”
The notification pops up, just barely within reach of his captured hands. Kazuki blinks at it, before glaring at Verai. “If I accept this, are you bailing me out?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 5:40:46 GMT 9
At the sound of Verai’s voice, Kazuki raises his head. He looks like death. Bored to death.
“Well, Ver,” he says, raising his hands, which were still being held captive in this wooden prison that he somehow can’t break despite shattering bricks in real life for fun and profit. “Sometimes people need to get their asses beat for overcharging crossbows. Busted shop or not, a million bytes is daylight robbery.”
And then he points a thumb to the bawling feline by his side. “And this one’s here because he wouldn’t quit wailing on another cat.”
<I don’t regret it!> Sprigatito wails, tears and snot dribbling down his face. <It was deserved! That Purrloin was so mean! And they started the fight in the shop anyways!>
“Then why did you make me capture it?” Kazuki raises a brow, though he can’t even stare his pokemon in the eyes since he’s in perpetual T-pose.
Sprigatito sniffs. <They deserve jail too.>
Kazuki looks back at Verai and, unable to shrug, simply wiggles his hands. “So now we’re all in jail.” He seems amused, despite everything. And a little curious. “Even you, for some fucking reason.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 5:01:36 GMT 9
<What’s going on over there?> A mudbray chewing on a few scraps of hay asks, wandering over upon hearing a commotion.
<Some disagreements.> Mudbray looks away from the sight of the two cats rolling around on the dirt to stare at her fellow spectator. <… Are you the sheriff’s?>
The mudbray slowly nods, nudging a nose over to the bag slung over its back, where clipped onto it is a very shiny badge.
Nearby, a wooden statuette comes crashing through what’s left of the display window, allowing the screaming match indoors to come pouring out even louder. She thinks she can hear the sound of a crossbow firing.
Mudbray sighs. <Can you point me to the watering hole? I need a drink.>
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 4:50:39 GMT 9
Not enough time has elapsed for the shop to repair itself. When they return, it’s the same as they’d left it.
“YOU!” The owner screams, spotting Kazuki approaching through the hole in their goddamn display window.
“Me,” Kazuki hums, walking through the open door.
The Purrloin is seen sitting by the entrance, grooming themselves as if nothing had occurred. When they raise their head, they’re greeted by a familiar face.
<You—>
<MRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!>
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 4:31:35 GMT 9
<It’s all my fault!> Sprigatito sobs. This is it. Now his trainer is going to be mad, and say a bunch of bad words, and then he’ll replace him with a fire type who he is sure is the man’s favorite type which is just silly because obviously grass types smell better and—
“Well yeah, it was, but chill.”
It stumps him hard enough that he freezes in the middle of a sniffle. Even Mudbray sitting beside him seems bewildered at the fact their trainer, who has a solid record for getting pissed at even the slightest inconvenience, is letting him off with a pass. After losing a battle and wrecking an antique shop.
Kazuki snorts. “We’re going to go back. You can deal with the cat then, so stop crying and get up.”
The man is already walking off. Sprigatito scrambles to his feet, tears still drying on his fluffy cheeks. <W-why?! I don’t get it! Why are we going back?>
Kazuki doesn’t stop, though his leisurely pace means his pokemon do catch up with him once they pick their jaws off the floor. “I want a crossbow.” He squints. "And I am getting a crossbow." And he will destroy every antique shop in the settlement if that's what it takes.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 4:19:45 GMT 9
Sprigatito steps across the ruined battlefield. A broken gnome head smiles at him serenely from the floor, lying among its fallen brethren. It’s a devastating sight. The casualties: innumerable.
Also, they’ve broken the display window.
Mudbray groans, her front half now sticking out to the front of the shop, only vaguely aware of the ear-piercing shriek the owner lets out.
On her back, triumphant, the Purrloin grins smugly down to where Sprigatito stands, the sunlight peeking out from the window bathing the enemy in holy light.
Vengeance takes hold. Sprigatito is injured, tired, and determined.
Kazuki blinks over his shoulder to see both of his pokemon already on the edge of defeat. “… Well, shit.”
The final clash.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 4:07:43 GMT 9
“What, seriously?” Kazuki continues on with the negotiations, ignoring the color draining out of the owner’s face as they watch their store get obliterated before their eyes. “Bring it down a bit, I don’t think I can even use this in battle.”
“The price of the crossbow will be the least of your worries, sir,” says the owner, who upon seeing and hearing the army of gnomes get flattened by the blind, flailing mule, looks ready to take the crossbow themselves.
“Does that come with the bolts and quiver or—?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 4:01:42 GMT 9
What Mudbray doesn’t expect is for the Purrloin to cling to her leg. She growls at it, attempting to stomp it down, but with how slowly she moves, the cat manages to evade the attack entirely and climb up onto her back.
<Mudbray, hold still!> Sprigatito says, loading up on leaves that float around his head as he takes aim.
<No, no, no!> Mudbray hisses, bucking now as she tries to get the pesky feline off her head and get out of Sprigatito’s crosshairs. She hears a sharp whistle in the air, before her face is pelted with leaves sharpened to a shuriken point.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 3:56:29 GMT 9
The Purrloin swipes at him, narrowly grazing his face and instead tearing up the carpeting.
<Get offa me!> Sprigatito cries before headbutting the other cat in his panic.
Mudbray barely manages to stifle a chuckle. Collateral damage aside, the two cats are so small to her that the fight looks more like a playground tussle, but she doesn’t like seeing her teammate in distress. She uses her hoof to shove the Purrloin off him.
“Please get out of my shop!” The owner demands.
Kazuki sighs, turning back to them. “I’ll break them up if you tell me the actual price for the crossbow.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 3:49:50 GMT 9
<Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop!> Sprigatito whines as the porcelain shards nick him. His fur glows as he prepares to defend himself.
Mudbray blinks. <I wouldn’t recommend—>
But leaves fly, shining under the antique lamps as they ricochet off wooden carved statuettes, rusty tubas, and an army of garden gnomes that should by all means have shattered on impact.
The current civil discussion—apparently concerning each other’s mothers—is interrupted as one magical leaf nearly grazes the owner’s head. “What in the world?!”
“For fuck's sake—” Kazuki turns around and sees a pokemon battle taking place in what is at most a coat closet’s worth of real estate. He stopped paying attention for little more than two minutes.
The Purrloin lunges, tackling Sprigatito to the floor.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 3:32:42 GMT 9
Panik mode.
Sprigatito yelps, bracing himself for the barrage of voices—
“The hell do you mean authentic jade?”
“It’s a family antique!” The shop owner sounds aghast.
“I’ve seen more authentic jade molding in the corner of my fucking shower!”
“I am not taking criticism from a man who can’t clean his own home! It’s a beloved heirloom!”
“THEN WHY ARE YOU SELLING IT?”
Arceus has blessed him. The shouting match that ensues stays between the two humans, sparing Sprigatito from the terrible consequences of his actions. He hops down from Mudbray’s back, hurriedly trying to sweep the shards of porcelain under a smiling cat statue with his tail.
<Tut tut. How naughty.>
A voice suddenly appears, causing Sprigatito to jump. The statue he’s using as an emergency rug stares at him with a wide smile, turning its nose up and kicking the shards out from under its feet.
<H-hey!>
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 19, 2023 2:56:46 GMT 9
The trio is admittedly a little aimless. Several NPCs stand around with little markers over their heads, greeting Kazuki as he passes by. He doesn’t pay mind to them; most just offer fetch quests and escort missions anyway. He leads them to the market district. With how little he bothers to visit the settlement, he hasn’t actually been able to explore what’s offered.
Sprigatito stares in amazement at the plethora of goods displayed. They’ve entered an antique shop. The shop owner’s smile tightens at the sight of them.
“Sir, you can’t bring the Mudbray in—”
“How much is that?” He points to the display over the owner’s shoulder. The wall is populated with the store's shiniest and most unusual trinkets, many of them huge, expensive, and clearly dangerous. It’s an excellent diversion as he pushes for more info, forcing the owner into sales mode.
<Mudbray, look at that! It's so pretty!> He says, tiny paw reaching forwards.
Mudbray, despite being his platform, does not stop him. <That’s porcelain. It is very expensive.>
CRASH.
<Or rather, it used to be expensive.>
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