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Post by Genesis on Jan 6, 2023 11:05:47 GMT 9
"Let's see what we have here..."
Genesis could sense that a wild Pokemon was near, like something in the air had changed. Now it was just time to search for it. Look high and low, check every nook and cranny around them... not that the Steppes were known for those, of course, but better safe than sorry.
"Ponyta would be nice, of course..." Genesis nodded knowingly at Maxine. "But I'm open to anything we can find here, myself."
Maxine Mayfield
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Post by Genesis on Jan 5, 2023 11:48:39 GMT 9
Classes unlocked: Swimmer Titles unlocked: None Trainer stars: One Beta Tester: Meet COD13 (nope) Steeler: Obtain 2 Steel Pokemon (2/2) Travel North (nope) Train with your Pokemon (nope)
Catcher: Obtain 3 Bug Pokemon (3/3) Bug people for something unnecessary (0/2) Use a net to catch something (0/3)
Trainer Star 2: 5/10
Purchase at least 1 Tier 3 Upgrade Start a Pokemon Refresh and link it in your Mini-Profile Participate in an Egg Hunt: HereTrade 1 Pokemon (to a store or another player): HereHoopster: Complete Running Shoes tutorial (nope) x3 throw something exactly where you need it to be (0/3) x10 censor yourself with "hoop" to replace one word (0/10) Poke Fan: Expand your Storage Box (yes) x5 Mention specific Pokemon merchandise your character wants/owns (0/5) x3 Obtain Fairy Egg Group pokemon (1/3) Lone Wolf: Have exactly one dog Pokemon (yes!) x5 Complete a solo thread (0/5) x2 Say or think "I'm a lone wolf" IC (2/2):
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Post by Genesis on Jan 5, 2023 6:26:13 GMT 9
Honestly, Genesis was having fun just hunting down wild Pokemon now. Did he need them? Probably not. But there was a certain enjoyment to be found just in the hunt, in the chase, in searching for what wanted to stay hidden.
And he was helping somebody else out, somebody else who actually had a specific goal in mind here, so that was nice too, he supposed.
"Maybe this time will do the trick?" Genesis said to Max, trying to sound more optimistic than they actually felt. They had a feeling the Ponyta hunt might take a few more tries... but that was just fine with them.
Maxine Mayfield
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Genesis
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Post by Genesis on Jan 5, 2023 6:14:01 GMT 9
Genesis saw the same thing that Maxine did when he arrived at the shrine, but he didn't say anything about it, though he did watch the sacrifice happen with a curious eye. Truth be told, he wasn't averse to sacrificing Pokemon, and he might well do it himself someday... but given Maxine's reaction, he certainly wasn't about to admit as much.
Instead he just paced around the shrine, walking in aimless circles and whistling softly to himself.
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Post by Genesis on Jan 5, 2023 5:25:10 GMT 9
"Good job!" Genesis threw his own Poke Ball at the fainted Nosepass, almost lazily. "So, are you still after that Ponyta? We might want to hit the nearest Shrine before getting into more wild battles, but I'm fine with continuing to search if you are."
Maxine Mayfield
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Genesis
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Post by Genesis on Jan 5, 2023 2:57:46 GMT 9
Genesis saw Maxine looking over at them and shot her a tight nod as a nonverbal response. The Nosepass was clearly tiring by now, and Genesis wasn't about to hesitate in taking what they hoped would be the final shot.
"One more Water Pulse should do it." The comment was partly to themself and partly to the other Trainer, but Genesis' Froakie also knew to take it as an instruction, and just like his Trainer, Arecibo didn't hesitate in spraying water onto the wild Nosepass.
Maxine Mayfield
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Post by Genesis on Jan 1, 2023 14:26:24 GMT 9
happ new year ver new year
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Post by Genesis on Dec 25, 2022 10:44:00 GMT 9
Did Genesis particularly care about basketball? Not really.
Did Genesis want to get in on this limited time event anyway? Absolutely.
And once the Air Bud reference stuck in their head, they couldn't help but bring Marley along for the ride.
"After all-" Genesis was talking more to themself than to anybody else, even though they were speaking out loud now. "Ain't no rule that says a dog Pokemon can't play basketball, amirite?"
One of the Gothita umpires came running up to Genesis and whispered something in their ear, their eyes widening as they repeated what they had heard.
"Unless they're a Golden Retriever? Well, that's... oddly specific..."
Seems they weren't the first to think of the Air Bud reference there, huh?
"Good thing you're not a Golden Retriever, right bud? You're a... I dunno, a mutt of some kind? I'm not good at guessing dog breeds..."
Luckily, Marley didn't seem all too bothered by Genesis' apparent enthusiasm, the dog Pokemon running towards the nearest basketball with glee, grabbing it in his mouth, batting it around... and then burning it with the candle on his head, which left a foul stench and clearly put a damper on the Greavard's enthusiasm.
"Ooh... yeah, don't do that, bud."
Marley rolled his eyes at that comment.
"Hey, you gotta learn somehow, right? Just keep the top of your head away from the ball and you should be fine. And hey, once you're a Houndstone, it'll be a nonissue!"
Marley was still slow to resume playing, the dog seeming unconvinced by Genesis' words.
"Maybe, uh..." Genesis rummaged through their bag, revealing an astonishing and frankly geometrically improbable amount of supplies hiding in there before finding a roll of aluminum foil and quickly molding it into a makeshift hat. "Here, wear this and you'll be able to play without fear!"
Marley still didn't look too happy with the situation, but he trotted over to Genesis' side and begrudgingly let his Trainer put on the hat, which covered the candle's flame.
"Yeah, now you're dressed to play ball!"
Marley looked up at Genesis with quite literal puppy dog eyes, still full of sorrow from burning the basketball before, and even Genesis' cold heart wasn't immune to that look. He knew he had to say something to cheer the pup up.
"Don't let that early slip-up get you down. Everybody messes up at some point, yeah? Especially early on, when you're just learning the ropes. What matters is how you react to it. You've just got to learn from your mistakes, and keep putting yourself out there. People like to talk a lot about talent, but from what I've seen, most 'talent' is the result of years and years of practice. So get practicing, and soon enough you'll be better than anybody, you hear me?"
The dog gave a happy bark and waddled over to the nearest basketball before starting to prod it again, pushing it with his paws, bouncing it up and down, holding it in his mouth, spinning it on his nose...
...wait. Spinning it on his nose? Oh, that was cute. Even if it did put Genesis more in mind of a seal than a dog...
"That's pretty cool there, Marley. But just spinning the ball isn't gonna do much for you in a game..."
Marley let out a low growl before launching the ball into the air with a tilt of the head. It looked like a wild throw at first, but the spin on the ball made it go closer and closer to the hoop, eventually hitting the net... and bouncing off of the rim.
"Okay, now that, that's got promise! Just gotta train your aim a little bit more, I think, but remember what I said about practice?"[b/]
Honestly, in their heart of hearts, Genesis had always thought that entering a dog into a basketball game was a ridiculous idea, in real life or in the Pokemon world. Dogs were shorter than people, they didn't have hands to hold the ball in, their four-legged frame didn't easily accommodate dribbling... but as Genesis watched Marley keep playing around with the ball, he thought that maybe the dog's sheer determination would be enough to prove them wrong in the end.
l_luRxNr1-20+2 worldbuilding (golden retrievers can't play basketball) +2 learn from your mistakes (don't set the ball on fire) +2 dress like you're ready to dunk (special anti-flame hat) +3 pep talk +3 secret technique (spin + launch) 1-20
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Genesis
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Post by Genesis on Dec 13, 2022 11:41:29 GMT 9
When fishing for wishes, why not wish... for fish?
...okay, that was goofy, even if it did portray Genesis' train of thought fairly decently.
See, clearly this quest, or scenario, or whatever it was, had some kind of fishing tie-in. Which would work out well enough for Genesis, being a Swimmer as he was... if he actually had a Fishing Rod. Not like he could just shove his Frogadier into the well, see what the Water-type could fish up, and call it a day. (For one thing, that seems like it might damage the well, which looked like it was in pretty bad shape already, and Genesis did not want to be the player known for causing all of UNOVR to lose access to the magic wishing well.)
But wishing for something specific, something tangible, seemed like the way to go here. It's not like the powers that be could really grant wishes like "I want to be happy forever", after all. But a new Pokemon, or a Fishing Rod, or something simple but handy like that? That seemed doable. It had to be big enough to not feel like a waste of a wish, though. It was still a wish, after all, and if those could bring about as much as the term seemed to promise, well, it would be wasted on something you could easily get in-game another way.
...like a Fishing Rod, he supposed. That was what Bytes were for, saving and then spending, after all. It wasn't his fault the guy who'd gone wishing before him seemed to be having so much fun fishing in the well's depths, or at least fooling around with his Fishing Rod, at any rate. Even though the sign had clearly said "No Fishing" originally. Part of Genesis wanted to grumble and groan about the lack of rule-following, but that part was outweighed by the part of him that would do the exact same thing in a heartbeat.
Genesis gazed into the well's deep waters, but he couldn't make out much in there, just a few stray sparkles amidst the murky black.
"I wish... I wish for a new teammate that's every bit as amazing as the fish inside this well must be."
A little flattery never hurt, did it?
Genesis didn't have a coin to throw in for good luck--which was probably for the best, given that this well was rumored to have actual living creatures in it, unlike the banal wishing fountains back in the real world--but he absentmindedly traced a circle around the moss that covered much of the well's stone before whimsically throwing a shining pebble in, in place of the coin he didn't have to spare.
Though he waited around for a minute or two after that, Genesis never heard the rock hit the bottom.
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Post by Genesis on Dec 12, 2022 11:48:59 GMT 9
Genesis nodded along upon hearing Finn's plan. He hadn't been exactly pleased to see the eggs both get pummeled by ice, and breaking them out together seemed like as good a plan as any. It seemed like in this game, Genesis was going to learn the value of strength in numbers--the hard way, if he had to.
(Though it hadn't really been that bad yet. He hadn't whited out, at least, and that would be the worst possible outcome, no? Short of that, a few battle missteps or an errant Ice Beam didn't seem especially horrid, particularly if he could continue to keep pulling off successes with his last-minute enrolling of help.)
"Right, that seems... nice. I mean, a good tool to use, anyway." Genesis didn't have anything like that fancy shard to use to break out the ice, and it took Genesis a moment to think of an analogous tool he could break out of his own toolbox...
...before remembering that, right, they had Pokemon at their disposal, and he was in fact the proud owner of a Fire-type now.
Genesis let his Ponyta out on the far edge of the cave. It was risky, letting loose a creature of pure fire here, since that light could wake up the Snomager all by itself. But Potoooooooo was close enough to let loose some flames of his own, at any rate...
"Quick, Potoooooooo, throw all the flames you can right here, on the bit of ice-" Wait, did he meet this Trainer before? Should Genesis know his name? "-that Trainer's targeting with his shard! Maybe if you melt some away, it'll be weak enough to break off and we'll both be able to snag the eggs!"
It was a convoluted plan, to be sure, but maybe it was just crazy enough to work.
(Working together with another player)
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Post by Genesis on Dec 11, 2022 10:16:13 GMT 9
Yeah, so Genesis was a sucker for a limited-time event, what of it? Of course he was going to follow the marker and go check it out, and then use that super suspect rowboat to investigate further.
(Hell, he probably could have tried just jumping straight into the water and seeing how far he could get, but it was freezing out there, and even in a VR game, they weren't gonna test their luck like that. Besides, the rowboat was clearly there for a reason, and Genesis wasn't one to turn down a plot hook like that... though they were the kind to research it thoroughly as they followed through with it, and what they did to examine the rowboat beforehand did not seem promising for its chances of staying upright and intact the whole way.)
The cave was enormous, the Snomager... fascinating. Between its serpentine body and how huge the creature had grown, far beyond even its evolution's usual size... no Snom should be able to reach a shape and size like that, and yet this one did. Under different circumstances, Genesis might have examined the creature in great detail, maybe even gotten into an epic battle to take it down and potentially capture it for his own.
As things were, though... well, for one thing, that obviously wasn't the point of this dungeon, but since when had that stopped Genesis before? No, the real reason they didn't get too close to the creature was because a Pokemon of that size had to be powerful, and Genesis was still woefully new to the game, and therefore very unlikely to have any chance of taking on the creature head-first. No, this Snomager was best evaded for now, though perhaps at a later date... well. No use planning for what might be, not when what actually was was perilous enough.
Genesis stayed low to the ground and clung to the edge of the treasure pile, thinking that perhaps they might blend in with the items within the pile, and of course the Snomager wouldn't want to hurt its treasures, would it? It was a decent theory, at least. Only time would tell if it would be borne out.
As for his prize of choice... well, as soon as Genesis saw the eggs, they knew that would be what they went for. Maybe they couldn't capture this Snomager, but if it had children, that would certainly be an equally valid subject of research... and if the eggs were obtained otherwise, that would be an interesting subject as well, especially given their presence in this bitter, frost-covered lair. With a little luck, this dungeon might just provide enough research for them after all...
(for the bonus, subtracting a minute!)
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Post by Genesis on Dec 4, 2022 1:01:43 GMT 9
"As was I." Genesis said with a slight nod as he stared wistfully up into the sky, up at the things that had once been birds. Just as one mystery revealed itself, another seemed likely to be lost to the world forever...
"Do you think that's part of the glitch, their lack of movement forward? They do still seem to be trying to move in the same direction as before..."
Genesis wondered, idly for now, whether simply heading in that direction might reveal the birds' initial destination... but then, not only did he have no way of knowing when they would have stopped, but the birds might have been planning on making any number of turns that were now prevented by their mid-air paralysis. It would probably be little more than a wild goose chase... but then, it wouldn't be the first time Genesis had gone off on one of those...
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Post by Genesis on Dec 1, 2022 23:30:45 GMT 9
Genesis gave an appreciative nod as he saw the woman's Fidough unleash her attack, which did indeed hit pretty hard. Play Rough was well-named, as it turned out, hitting with decent strength even against an opponent with high Defense like Nosepass.
"Another Water Pulse!"
As Arecibo sprayed more water onto the wild Nosepass, Genesis turned back towards the woman, more focused on her questions than his Pokemon's attack.
"It seems like it should work out fine. So far, so good, at least."
As for her other question, Genesis hesitated for a split second... but he did need more Pokemon on his team still, and the idea of having one of each Ponyta form was still a tempting one... and, of course, he hadn't done what he'd teamed up with her to accomplish in the first place, so quitting now would mean it was all for naught...
"We can keep going. Might want to hit the Shrine before another battle, but that shouldn't take too much extra time."
Maxine Mayfield
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Post by Genesis on Dec 1, 2022 11:28:00 GMT 9
It took Genesis a moment to realize why the other man was laughing, but he did connect the dots eventually. He knew that meme, too, though it hadn't been his intention to reference it, and the thought of the unintentional reference was enough to make him smirk amusedly, though he didn't outright laugh at the thought.
At any rate, it was good to know that the strange impossible sight in front of Genesis was not, in fact, his imagination or him going mad, but a mistake on the part of reality instead. Perhaps not the most reassuring thought, to know that the world itself was wrong, but in Genesis' mind, at least, it still beat the alternative. After all, if he couldn't trust his own mind, what could he trust?
Genesis started to spitball half-formed theories out loud, as much for his own benefit as for that of the stranger beside him. "Is it possible that the birds could somehow sense that the area was like that, or that all of them would be subject to its effect? Could they have come here specifically for this purpose? Or is there some other rhyme or reason I still haven't gathered yet for their strange swarming?"
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Post by Genesis on Dec 1, 2022 6:29:53 GMT 9
A Nosepass, huh? That... certainly wasn't a Ponyta, but it would do just fine for Genesis, at least. Those guys had a fun moveset, if he remembered right, which should lead to lots of fun possibilities in here. Plus, how could you beat a Pokemon that was just a living nose?
...well, Genesis would show how to beat it quite literally in this battle, if he had any luck. And thankfully type advantages were on his side here, though he was all too conscious of how Nosepass often had an Electric-type move up its (nonexistent) sleeves for specifically such an occasion...
"Arecibo, throw a Water Pulse at 'em! Show 'em who's boss around here!"
Maxine Mayfield
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