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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 28, 2023 7:07:13 GMT 9
the ragged snarl tore from him, angry enough to end bone. "i said. fight."
the espurr flinched, flattening a bit. were they not doing a good job? the zubat hadn't gotten up... but- but they could try harder! with a deep breath, they unsheathed their claws, looking at the zubat again. tension flowed through them, and they lashed out-
pawpad papping the fallen bat again, claws too little to even touch it properly. the espurr looked back at their trainer, almost hopefully.
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 28, 2023 6:22:42 GMT 9
it was a bat, laying on the ground. perhaps it was meant to do that. perhaps this world was modeled after the real, and it was terribly ill. rabid. lacrimosa looked at it, blinking slowly. perhaps it needed to be put out of its misery. he reached for his pokeballs, drawing out the espurr. maybe it could redeem itself.
the espurr blinked, startled by the sudden daylight. it stumbled towards the zubat, less out of being unwell and more out of being quite young, gently tapping the zubat with a paw.
their trainer let out a noise, like a growl. "fight it." the espurr looked at him, and then back at the zubat. they patted it again, maybe a bit harder.
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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 28, 2023 5:08:47 GMT 9
lacrimosa stumbled forwards, eyes unfocused and glazed. he walked, boots loud against the cobblestone. the sound jarred, avatar blinking at every sound, but he seemed unaware to anything else. he simply walked, straight, unerring. the sound reverberated through him, clear through the hollowness.
the sprigatito had failed him. the phantump had failed him. what did he have left? the burmy had failed him. the espurr had failed him.
failure, boundless, endless.
he came to a corner, and stopped. the air was still, tepid. but something rustled among the grave-dirt. a sigh escaped him, a post mortem escaping of air, and his eyes flicked to the sound.
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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 25, 2023 21:34:28 GMT 9
BASIC SUBCLASSES
GARDENERGRASS-TYPE🌸 | KINDLERFIRE-TYPE🔥
| SWIMMERWATER-TYPE🌊 |
[tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - visit Beta Island
- encounter 5 game glitches
- meet C0D13 (npc)
]🔒[/tangent] BETA TESTERNORMAL-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - Obtain a Bug Pokemon x3
- Bug people for something unnecessary x2
- Use a net to catch something x3
]🔒[/tangent] CATCHERBUG-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - Obtain a Steel Pokemon x2
- Visit the Giant Shrine x2
- Travel North x1
- Train with your Pokemon x1
]🔒[/tangent] STEELERSTEEL-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - eat otherworldly food
- stand in a fairy circle
- see a shooting star
- thread at the new moon x1
- thread at the full moon x1
]🔒[/tangent] CHARMERFAIRY-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - Physically Battle a Pokemon x3
- Choose a catchphrase
]🔒[/tangent] FIGHTERFIGHTING-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - drink cold drinks x3
- participate in a snowball fight x1
- dive into ice-cold water x1
]🔒[/tangent] FREEZERICE-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - white out x1
- visit the everworld x1
- go ghost hunting x1
]🔒[/tangent] SPECTERGHOST-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - make a new color of paint x7
- make a mess x2
- create a work of art x1
]🔒[/tangent] PAINTERPOISON-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - appraise something's value x1
- reference a precious gem x3
- find something valuable x2
- get a piercing x1
]🔒[/tangent] JEWELERROCK-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - practice echolocation
- sense something coming without seeing it x2
- use the word 'darkness' x5
- attempt a method of fortune-telling x2
]🔒[/tangent] SEERDARK-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - fall asleep in-game x3
- visit the dream kingdom x1
- equip a psychic pokemon at tier 4 x1
]🔒[/tangent] DREAMERPSYCHIC-TYPE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] AVIATORFLYING-TYPE
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] BOLTERELECTRIC-TYPE
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] LOCKEDUNKNOWN | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] LOCKEDUNKNOWN | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have unlocked FIGHTER, BOLTER, IRONSMITH or STARLET. ]🔒[/tangent] PLAYERPLAYER-ONLY
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ADVANCED SUBCLASSES
classes with unique traits and abilities. limit: 2
[tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - fall victim to your own greed
- reflect on the nature of gold
- collect poison samples from 5 different pokemon
- perform an experiment that goes wrong
]🔒[/tangent] ALCHEMISTSUPPORT SPECIALIST | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - hunt something innocent for your own gain
- sacrifice a Pokemon, but keep its eye
- use or be the recipient of a Curse attack
]🔒[/tangent] BASILISKTANK SPECIALIST
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - Obtain x1 fire and x1 steel pkmn
- Harvest iron ore x1
- Craft imperfect armor x1
- Fight a Pokemon using that armor x1
]🔒[/tangent] IRONSMITHARMOR & WEAPONS | [tangent= To simultaneously unlock this subclass, two players must have completed the following requirements: - interact in x5 threads together
- have at least x1 thread one on one
- share a kiss or explicitly verbal/written expression of love
]🔒[/tangent] COUPLEPAIR BONUSES | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - use a dancing move x3
- move your body to the music x3
- perform with a partner x1
]🔒[/tangent] STARLETSUPPORT SPECIALIST
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: - meet NPC: Cygnus
- acquire germanium, americium, and ytterbium
- x2 fight a source of Corruption
- x1 find what's at the end of a rainbow
]🔒[/tangent] CATALYSTEXPLODING DICE | [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] PARASITECORRUPTION
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] LOCKEDUNKNOWN
| [tangent= To unlock this subclass, a player must have completed the following requirements: ]🔒[/tangent] LOCKEDUNKNOWN
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 25, 2023 13:14:41 GMT 9
TRAINER STARS
Trainer Star 1 | Obtain Running Shoes | | Complete the Catching Tutorial | | Battle [NPC] Your Rival | | Deliver the Package from Professor Ash | | Equip a pokemon in each skill tree | | Catch 3 Wild Pokemon [1], [2], [3] | | Start 2 Open Threads [1], [2] | | Post in the Challenge Towers 3 times [1], [2], [3] | | Visit a Shrine | | Upgrade your Tall Grass HP | | Link your Application in your Mini-Profile | | Link your Inventory in your Mini-Profile | | Link your Journal in your Mini-Profile | | Participate in a Story Quest |
Trainer Star 2 | Purchase a Tier 3 Upgrade
| | Hit over 100 in a Single Attack
| | Unlock a Special Ability
| | Trade a Pokemon
| | Defeat a Colossal Pokemon
| | Participate in an Egg Hunt
| | Encounter a Rare Pokemon in the Wild
| | Form Change a Pokemon
| | Start 3 Route Exploration Threads [1], [2], [3]
| | Unlock 3 Trainer Titles
| | Obtain a Fishing Rod and 3 Fish [1], [2], [3]
| | Change Trainer Subclass
| | Link your Refresh in your Mini-Profile | | Use the rolling thread for a mechanical battle
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Trainer Star 3 | Meet 8 Major NPCs [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]
| | Participate in a Raid
| | Encounter a Corrupted Pokemon
| | Give a Pokemon to a Professor
| | Exalt or Sacrifice a Pokemon
| | Meet 10 Player Characters [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
| | White Out in Battle
| | Visit the Everworld
| | Run a Scenario
| | Help Develop a Settlement
| | Obtain a Strand of Legendary DNA
| | Join a Guild
| | Complete a Story Questline | | Meet up Offline with Another Player
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Aug 25, 2023 2:19:04 GMT 9
he moved on autopilot. the settlement was a veritable ghost town, in more ways than one. it seemed the raid had been successful, of a sort- no one had managed to kill the bird. but. mistra was still there, uncleaned. waiting.
waiting for an oath to be fulfilled.
“There will come the day that your eyes will open to what you had reached for.”
“To Know, after all, is an act of consequence.”
he walked through the streets, movements odd an inhumane, like a novice puppeteer. he needed healthy pokemon to enter mistra- a commodity he was running low on.
he would take the moment of quiet- the respite he was given- to find something new to claim.
oblatio.
an offering. ENTERING THE TALL GRASS!
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jul 18, 2023 12:26:22 GMT 9
Huic ergo parce, Deus:
Sarthor let out a wordless, feral scream. "You can not deny me!" He howled, grabbing at Theron in the darkness, even as old wounds split and caught- broken and shattered bone, burnt and rent flesh. Old wounds that healed, but never forgot the wounds that were made in them.
Theron did not react, lamplight eyes narrowing not in anger, but in distaste.
"You don't wish to be denied?" He asked, voice calm and still- a question, a threat, one hard to overlook-
Pie Jesu Domine,
Were one not already in a fit of rage and self-importance. "You cannot deny me," He snarled, fingers grabbing into Theron's clothes, like he would rend claws into the fine suitcoat, rip apart the silk beneath. But his fingers failed to find grip- and it was only himself who was rent, each old injury coming to bear.
Every learning mistake with the scalpel, nicks and cuts on his hands. Every slap from a disgraced family member, every burnt tongue and split lip and door slammed over fingers.
Dona eis requiem. Amen.
Theron stepped back, straightening out his clothes. "You're being denied nothing, doctor," He said, something utterly cruel in his voice, eyes a fetid glow. Sarthor looked up at him, and hated.
"You will never be denied, Sarthor Caldwell. Debita persolventur omnia."
All debits, each and every one, would be paid in full.
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Lacrimosa
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Player Name: Sarthor Caldwell
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jul 18, 2023 11:28:45 GMT 9
Lacrimosa dies illa Mistra was not ominous plains, or a darkened route. There were no murky trees, no dark ash and shadow washing around his feet. There was only cool tile, white walls. A chair, an intricate headrest above it.
An operating room- his operating room. Sarthor surveyed the room with cold detachment. When had his avatar shifted? Logically, when the world had. It made sense- twirling horns could never be made sterile. "Is this intent to scare me?" He asked. They were listen- they always were, here. He picked an instrument from the side tray, and dropped it. It clattered, the noise louder than his own voice, echoing against the tile.
Qua resurget ex favilla
He heard the doors pushed open, and turned. Who would he see? An antagonist in his field? His assistant?
He wasn't expecting a young woman, with bright eyes and chaotic dress. "Oops, sorr-yyy!" She sang, sticking her tongue out and fanning her fingers atop her head in some ridiculous pose. "I musta done this wrong- gimme a minute, okay?"
He cared not for her affect- what caught Sarthor's breath in his chest, spikes of impotent rage and envy pinning him to ground, was the rest of her- the ears arrayed on her head, the fox tails spilling behind her.
It was her.
Judicandus homo reus.
She picked her head up to look at him proper, as if realizing what he now knew. "Let's slip into something more comfortable, okay?" She asked, voice sliding into a hiss.
Sarthor said nothing in response. She, too, was chosen by the corruption here. Had been picked where he had not. Despite- everything-
The scalpel was grabbed, and he lunged.
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jul 16, 2023 23:52:15 GMT 9
The corruption sang to him.
He wanted to laugh, to cry. Was this an offer? a Taunting? mockery?
Was it real?
He didn't know. Couldn't know. Did it matter?
Did not the gods divine against him?
The pumpkaboo was ignored, did not register, did not exist. lacrimosa's eyes only slid to the horizon, the source of the sound. The call.
"Have I not prayed?" He asked, voice faint but clearly heard. "Have I not built a pyre in Your name? You told me to accept your blessing, but naught has come- I-"
He gathered himself to his feet, staggering, eyes wild. "I gave you your feast! And still you deny me? What-" The anger drained from him, bloodlet, ripping to try and heal the illness pervasive.
"Do I not deserve a meal, too?"
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jul 6, 2023 1:23:43 GMT 9
Lacrimosa had returned to Mistra. He had no idea how many times he had come before- not for their incountability, but that they were confused, all melding together, dream and reality, minutes and days.
He was sitting in the grass, a strange speck of white amidst the cloying darkness. Something the corruption refused to fully claim.
Your body is teeming with acid and unfit to house me. Your heresy has earned you nothing.
Your porcelain hand slipped through the Veil and grasped what was never meant to be Yours.
Anger sutged theough him, but by the time it slipped his Throat it was an anguished sob. Had he not given enough? Offered enough? Pain wracked his body, the phantom burnings of the Corruption's essence against his neck and skin.
He had given. And he had offered. Led spuls here, to be slaughtered- and it was still not enough? Desire warred with hot pride. This was his goal- but he could not bend knee to some other entity-
Couldn't he? If this was the right means?
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jun 30, 2023 8:42:20 GMT 9
surely he didn't understand how much he was revealing with every word he spoke.
lacrimosa took it all in regardless, every secret and statement and implication that passed through uncaring lips. and the conversation was so- predictable. he said what the other trainer wanted him to say, when he even needed to speak at all. when adarsa didn't just plow through the conversation one-sidedly.
he saw the trees, saw how they twisted and curled, looking for inattentive prey. and if he said nothing? if he gave no indication, stepping only delicately from their reach? that wasn't his fault. if adarsa could not watch where he stepped- could not focus on anything other than his mouth- that was not lacrimosa's doing.
so he watched, curious and scientific, watching the branches claim adarsa, dragging him into mistra itself. it would spit him out later, lacrimosa was sure, a wasted mouthful of tar on the sidewalk.
was this enough?
"Tell me what more you need." he breathed, to the mist and the trees. they did not answer. that was well enough.
if the corruption needed more, he would find a way to give it.
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jun 30, 2023 7:22:10 GMT 9
it was easy to slip into mistra after another. despite the warnings, the professor's heeds, people still entered freely. as if they were running out of time. as if their lives depended on it.
how would they know? did they feel it, the way he did?
the man was blind, racing forward without a thought. his clothes were too nice, golden chain and earrings and gems jingling as he went, leaving sarthor feather-silent behind. and that was all before the screaming, the man calling out into the void.
as if asking for trouble.
he stuck to the shadows of the trees, watching with dull red eyes. mistra wasn't outright attacking him- did he not deserve it? had he already endured? how interesting. how exquisite.
the man turned, again, and this time sarthor let himself be seen, raising his hands with a soft whimper. "Please," he said, lacing his words with pain and poison both. "Are you looking for someone here, too?"
his eyes lit up. it was a foolish question. and if the man didn't babble, leaking information all over the floor. his brother, darcy, his older brother whom his boyfriend- ex- had killed, right here in mistra. sarthor listened, and feigned kindness. of course he understood. of course he was empathetic- the boyfriend was in the wrong. that was your brother- you were right to be possessive over him.
so much mindless chatter.
sarthor offered a smile. "We can work together to find him? I'm sure here's still here." he said.
"I can feel it."
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jun 29, 2023 22:40:06 GMT 9
This time, he did not go to Bunya with ill-concealed malice in his heart.
This time, despite the pain, despite the sting of failure, despite the blood that still danced between his teeth- he offered Dr. Bunya a soft smile. "Good evening," He greeted, putting down both a sample- a vial of not inky blackness, but something that looks rather red- and a pokeball down. "I heard you were testing the corruption on our pokemon?"
He regarded the espurr's pokeball only for an instant. But the espurr was not the point. If the corruption saw fit, he would be rewarded. Everything until then was just-
A test of faith.
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jun 29, 2023 22:27:39 GMT 9
He had never touched someone with the Corruption, like this. He had never managed to run into Kazuki again after their first meeting. Lacrimosa could feel it, through Kallisto's clothes, through his skin. The pulse of it, the heat and power.
He took a shaky breath. He needed to express restraint.
"I- I don't know." He breathed, voice shaky, trembling with- something. But it certainly wasn't fear.
Not when the corruption loomed behind them like a wave.
His grip on the corrupted trainer tightened.
regardless of his own capabilities, kallisto would not be able to run
"I give you this offering." he said, but not to the trainer
to the corruption that surged towards them, then, in acceptance, in fury
he twisted
pulled kallisto close
and sunk teeth into whatever he could reach
he would let the corruption feast
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Lacrimosa
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Post by Lacrimosa on Jun 29, 2023 0:37:29 GMT 9
A few heartbeats, and an echoing voice. One that, though tinged with fear and uncertainty, melded with Mistra, became just another part of it.
Something almost natural.
Lacrimosa looked over ar the aplroaching man. He was well aware of how he looked- arm tucked close to his stomach, shirt and jacket burnt and torn and tattered, exhaustion lining his features. It was fine. He had just been attacked, after all. Mauled.
He wasn't a threat.
He glanced up at the other- someone plain, nondescript. Also not worth the gift he carried- and shied back a bit, only pausing at the question.
"Oh, you- yes. Yes, I am, please-" He paused to gather racing thoughts. "I- I don't know. It was so fast... I came in with a friend, and he-" Lacrimosa cut off, looking rather pale and faint. "I... please help me. I- I want to go home."
Somewhere between desperately and tentatively, he moved forward, grabbing Kallisto's arm and leaning into him, like a lifeline.
Like a beacon.
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