Tamara
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 22:52:51 GMT 9
It didn’t take long for someone to accept the trade request. She was scrolling through the Codex when the child approached, and she straightened. She looked a little like a younger version of herself – the same colour hair, if a different shade. Although in this game you could never be sure that the avatar you were speaking to was the same age as the player behind the screen, so it was best not to assume.
She nodded in response to the question, taking a step away from the fence. “Aye, I have a Petilil – did you want to trade for a Cottonee?"
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 22:13:23 GMT 9
“Hello Professor!” The teen hollered as she skipped into the tent with the Beautifly perched atop it. “How are you? Nice setup you’ve got here!” Finding Ash seated behind her desk, she sidled up to it, hands pushed into the pockets of her hoodie. The earth outside the tent was well worn by this point – looks like the professor has had plenty of visitors since setting up here!
Before she could go on, a rumble of thunder shook the air outside, and the teen shot a glance over her shoulder. Great, it was raining. Again. “What's with the weather here, anyway?” She grouched. “It always seems to be storming.”
A moment passed. “Oh!” She gasped as she remembered why she was even here in the first place. “I have some steel types for you.” Stepping closer to the desk, she placed three pokeballs on the surface. “These any use to you?”
Tamara offers 2 x Duraludon and 1 x Magnemite
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Tamara
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 21:39:23 GMT 9
No, that would be cruel. The Audino might be a batch of coded personality rather than a living, breathing entity, but the Pokemon here demonstrated a level of sentience that made testing out theories on them feel unethical. Instead, she rolled out a shrug, smiling down at Decibelle.
“There’s tons of things I don’t remember learning about, when I was a kid,” she stated breezily. “You probably learned it all when you were really young, so you don’t remember back that far.” spawn reset
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 21:35:44 GMT 9
The question seemed to puzzle Decibelle. <I, uh…> She trailed off and hummed absently. <I suppose I must have learned it,> she answered after a moment. <But now that you ask, I don’t actually remember…>
Tam watched the cognitive dissonance take place with fascination. “You don’t remember learning it?” She prompted, doing her best to avoid making it obvious how interested she was in the whole conversation.
Hmm, I wonder what would happen if…
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 7:43:09 GMT 9
“Oh yeah, sure!” Tamara agreed easily enough, quite content to help. Again, it wasn’t as though she’d had any particular plans for the day and she liked to be useful where she could! Besides, she might want to unlock the class herself one day, and it’d be good to see how it’s done.
Cinder stepped up smoothly. <What do you need me to do?> She asked, standing ready. Obviously it would involve producing fire, but specifics were important when it came to flame!
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 7:29:54 GMT 9
Tam nods, following suit and withdrawing her own (sadly non-golden; she really must work out how to get that) pokeball and tossing it at the steel-type with more aplomb than Taylor had.
“You say that as though that wasn’t the plan all along,” she pointed out, stepping out from under the Black Belt’s arm and moving to check on her team. “What were you doing out here, if not looking for them?” This last is accompanied by a casual jerk of the head in the Duraladon’s direction.
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 7:22:50 GMT 9
As though her words had been predictive, the kick from the Black Belt was the last straw, and with an almighty creaking, squealing sound, the metal beast fell. The thud it made as it impacted with the ground made her wince, shaking the floor beneath her very feet. As though in punctuation, a small scattering of rocks dislodged from the cliff face nearby and skittered to the ground.
“Yes!” She shouted, jumping on the spot and punching the air. “We did it!”
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 7:09:19 GMT 9
As she re-entered the fight, she found quite the dramatic disaster! Clearly sick and tired of his vision being compromised, the wild Duraludon hurled himself to the ground, slamming his body down atop the other trainer. After a moment of flickering, Taylor’s avatar flickered out of sight as she whited out and was returned to the shrine.
“Aww, shit,” Tam breathed, rapidly sending out more of her Pokemon this time than she had previously. They were very clearly going to be needed…
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 7:01:17 GMT 9
It was quickly becoming apparent that they’d been exceedingly lucky in the first Duraludon battle to not need any healing mid-fight. If there’d been anyone still hanging around at Noonlight Shrine, they might be surprised to see Tamara return so quickly. Then again, she had left with someone shouting about a Duraludon battle, so perhaps not!
Regardless, she was clearly in a rush, so dashed over to the tree and laid her palm against its bark, glancing up at the huge Moltres in the branches. After a beat, she her lids fell shut. With closed eyes and a quick prayer for strength, she waited.
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 6:57:03 GMT 9
“We need to heal!” Tamara hollered as Cinder didn’t get out of the way quickly enough and took a blow almost as hard as the one Belle had taken. The Audino dashed over to the Combusken and with a well-timed Helping Hand, had the fire-type back on his feet in just a few seconds.
“I’ll be back!” She added once she saw Taylor's nod of agreement. Withdrawing her pair of Pokemon, she made to dash to the Shrine.
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 6:01:56 GMT 9
It took a moment for Tamara to be able to respond. Once she had the Audino back on her feet, she nodded. “I think so, yeah!” Belle certainly seemed determined to head back into the fight, and she crouched down to make sure they were on the same eye level.
“You’re sure?” The teen checked, tone serious.
<Yes,> Belle replied immediately. <I will withdraw if need be.> She was being honest, but it didn’t do much to reassure the Dancer.
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 5:51:23 GMT 9
The battle proper began, and Cinder and Belle threw themselves into it with aplomb. The Combusken was on the opponent as fast as thought, using Sand Attack to blind the giant metal bugger. The Audino quickly made use of the opening this presented to charge into the foe with a Zen Headbutt!
Unfortunately that brought her within range of his claws, and the normal-type took a hard blow from one of them. “Belle!” The blue-haired teen called out in distress, dashing over to her and helping her back to her feet. “You okay?”
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 5:26:20 GMT 9
“Yeah, I can help!”
That had been Tam’s response as she followed a racing Taylor away from the Shrine. Arriving in the Steppes now, she honestly wondered if the other trainer was going to even need the help. Although there was an angry Duraludon staring her down, it seemed damn near all of her pokemon were out and ready to fight!
Tamara gave a mental shrug and sent out a couple of her own fighters. Cinder and Decibelle were sent out to fight, and quickly got into position. She would have sent out Maestro too, but she was a little afraid he’d get squished, if he got involved in this sort of fight before evolving!
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 4:58:20 GMT 9
Tamara was in no rush. She had no particular goal in mind for today, and no particular plans. So it was that she found herself exploring the shrine she’d seen less of, so far. She’d needed to come here, anyway – her encounter with the nightmares that inhabited the Mistra Corruption Zone had left her with gashes on both arms that just wouldn’t heal.
Those had been dealt with now though – coming to the shrine and praying had had them quickly closing up. Not a lick of pain was left now, and the teen was content to linger by the tree, watching other players come and go.
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Post by Tamara on May 21, 2023 4:46:33 GMT 9
<I suppose some of it is,> Belle allowed. <But it’s much more efficient if we understand precisely what we’re healing. It’s less of a strain, that way.>
The teen nodded again. “Yeah, that makes sense.” She cocked her head consideringly as something else occurred to her. “So wait, do you learn all of that as you grow up then? Like, do you have to be taught it, or is it an innate knowledge that you just already know?”
Realistically, it was probably just coded in understanding, but it was very interesting to hear the Pokemon’s perspective on the something like this. spawn reset
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