Jinx
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The Tempest
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Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Feb 20, 2023 11:45:12 GMT 9
This place smelled like... shoes. New shoes, specifically, not the body odor scent from worn ones. Probably a better smell, and one some people might actually like, but to Jinx it just reminded her of working a long summer at a shoe store and having to tell customers again and again that no, they really didn't have that size in the back, "the back" wasn't even that big, it's not like it was some sort of shoe warehouse or...
...or whatever this place was, Jinx supposed. Yeah, this place had "the back" beat to rights right there.
"Okay okay okay, everyone, let's think this through logically, alright?" Not that anybody had suggested doing otherwise, of course. Or suggested anything at all yet, for that matter. But hey, Jinx was excited, she couldn't help it if she came off a little... overeager.
"So, that door." Jinx pointed to the door on the right-hand wall. "That is... a super boring door. That looks like it'll just lead to more of... this. Whatever this even is. But this is just leading up to something, we don't want more of this, right? I mean, more wandering among endless shoes? Yawn. Snoozapalooza right there.
Jinx nodded a little to herself, satisfied with her own speech, before pointing next to the sealed vault directly in front of them.
"Now that. That looks super cool, not gonna lie. But we're too early for that. Maybe later on we'll get some big fancy key, or, or a super-strong Machamp or something, and we'll be able to open it no problem." Like those puzzle games her daughter always played. What were they called? Link of Zelda? Where the main character was named Link, not Zelda, she'd been corrected on that one before... "But we're not there yet. Gotta take things as they come. Which leaves..."
Jinx pointed last to the hole on the left, a smile sneaking onto her face. "The spooky creepy hole over there! It just screams mystery, doesn't it? And that's what we're here for, right? Or, uh, at least I am, I dunno what brought y'all here really..." Jinx laughed a bit and scratched the side of her head nervously.
"But there's got to be something worth checking out in there! And if we're going, we've got to go together. None of this horror movie BS where like, the group says 'hey let's split up', and then one person gets got and someone else hears them screaming and checks it out and then they get got and soon enough it's just one guy wondering what happened to everybody else..." Jinx didn't even like those movies. Her husband did, so she'd seen enough of them to know the formula, but somehow there had always been a disconnect that stopped her from getting all the way into it. She always remembered in the back of her mind that it was just a movie, that whatever happened to the characters was just part of some Hollywood screenwriter's script, that she was safe no matter what.
Which was kind of true here, too... right? Though she'd heard whisperings about the VR failsafes acting up or something in that big world event everybody kept talking about...
"So. Let's all go check out the weird hole in the wall together. Surefire way to find something neat here. What do you guys say, yes or yes?"
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Feb 20, 2023 2:36:55 GMT 9
Jinx still felt like a bit of a newbie in the game, and she spent more time than was probably wise just hanging around the Briarbane settlement, watching what was going around there and waiting for something to happen. She tried to swap out her Pokemon from time to time, and right now she had the Horde out, the Falinks ready to defend her from... whatever might be out there.
Mom's house held no particular interest to Jinx, honestly, but when she saw a few players who clearly weren't as new to the game as she was heading in there, she figured something must be going on, and she wanted to join in whatever it was!
The newly-opened entrance to the basement caught her eye soon upon entering the house, and while the other players chatted, she inched towards the space and tried to get a good view of what was in there... though unfortunately, all she could see from the ground floor was a dark abyss. Promising for an adventure, certainly, but not exactly informative.
Jinx cut to the chase as she turned back towards the other players, the Horde circling her feet with their shields up, ready for battle. "What's going on? Why's the basement open?"
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Feb 14, 2023 11:31:33 GMT 9
"Sharing a brain cell! There we go! I'm glad you understand me." Jinx wouldn't have come up with the metaphor herself, but she recognized it well enough, even if it was as something her daughter might say more than something she'd say in a regular conversation. Good thing this was UNOVR, and all real-life conversation rules were out the window here!
Jinx was also a little disappointed by the Paras' appearance, but after a moment, a thought occurred to her. "Wait, aren't their mushrooms supposed to be valuable or something? Like, they're a special item you go sell off to the merchants?"
The Paras, for its part, evidently did not like this conversational shift as it tried to scuttle away, but Jinx's Rufflet was there to prevent it from going too far.
"Maybe they're bear food! Something has to make them so valuable, right? Maybe bears like truffles!"
It was a long shot, Jinx knew it even as she was speaking, but who cared, really? She was having fun coming up with these wild theories, and that was all that really mattered in the end.
Cleo
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 31, 2023 12:27:26 GMT 9
Jinx had thought long and hard about it, but now she entered Professor Ash's tent tentatively, cradling her Duraludon's Poke Ball in one hand.
"Hey, Professor?" Her voice was quieter than usual... not that that said much. "I have something for you. I decided I don't really need this Duraludon I caught-" Jinx was proud of herself for just getting the Pokemon species' name right on her first try. Duraludon--what a mouthful! "So uh, you can have it for your research, or whatever."
Part of her still wanted to keep the Duraludon... but she didn't really need the Pokemon, not as much as she needed the Bytes or the extra box space. It would be better served here.
Still, as Jinx set the Poke Ball down and waited for her reward, she gulped, as if waiting for punishment instead of reward.
100 BYTES PROCESSED!
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 31, 2023 12:18:41 GMT 9
"Oh, no, you're fine..." Jinx burst into giggles before adding, "That's exactly what I was doing, too, even before you joined in! Following the wild bear rumors! Guess we're birds of a feather, or peas in a pod, or... shoot, is there a third metaphor like that?"
Jinx paused for a moment to consider whether there was, in fact, another metaphor with which she could continue, before shaking her head.
"So we're on the same wavelength here. And when it comes to a bear hunt, two heads are better than one! Probably true for other kinds of hunt, now that I think of it..."
Jinx heard a rustling nearby and twirled around to face the source of the sound. It looked like an ordinary leaf pile, like so many others in the Birchwild Grove, much too small to contain all but the youngest of bears... but then, looks could be deceiving.
"Ooh, what do we have here?"
Cleo
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 31, 2023 12:14:31 GMT 9
For better or for worse, Jinx was starting to take the majestic beauty of the shrines for granted. They had awed her at first, but after a few visits, they were just a particularly useful bit of scenery to her. Only Cleo's reaction reminded her of how awesome, in the original meaning of the word, this place really was.
It was pretty awesome in the more common modern use of the word, too. Who couldn't use free healing?
Cleo's words, though, reminded Jinx that she had more to do than just stand around gawking at the shrine in front of her. They had bears to hunt! And Cleo was right, the Moltres in front of them definitely wasn't what they were after here... so after a brief, silent word of thanks to the shrine, Jinx nodded and went along her merry way.
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 30, 2023 10:00:58 GMT 9
"Nice to meet you, too!" The words are practically redundant, as Jinx's grin was wide and her eyes were sparkling. What fun, to stumble into a potential new friend who was on the same wavelength as she was! She hadn't even been the one to mention the bear hunting to begin with!
"And yeah, stopping at the shrine's no problem. I mean, we don't know where a bear might be hiding, right? Who knows, maybe one'll be right by the shrine!" Plus, Jinx hadn't seen anybody white out in-game before, and she didn't especially want to change that, either...
It was definitely getting down to the wire now. The Cottonee was definitely slowing down... but Cleo didn't have much in the way of hit points left to spare, either. Thinking out loud, Jinx said, "Maybe one more Wing Attack will do the trick..."
Cleo
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 30, 2023 9:39:27 GMT 9
"Oh good. I didn't wanna be a pest or anything. Good thing at least one of us can get something out of that spawn then, huh?"
Jinx nodded enthusiastically in response to the other Trainer's question. "Yeah, it's the Fire-type base class! I love leaving embers everywhere, they're so pretty! But I didn't actually start with a Fire-type, so I came here to fix that! Though it took a couple tries... but now I've got two of 'em to work with!"
Jinx thought for a moment before adding, "What was it you were looking for, anyway? Seems like mostly Fire-types around here, like that Slugma... and there's some Koffing around here, too... if that's what you're after, I can help you out there!"
amanita
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 23, 2023 12:04:52 GMT 9
"Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me! No use giving up just 'cause the first thing we find isn't a bear, right? And my name's Jinx!"
The Cottonee was strong, but Pringles was stronger, the Rufflet's attacks against the Grass-type forceful and unrelenting. Their opponent was starting to look a bit worse for wear... though Jinx noted with a start that the same could be said for Cleo.
"Maybe we can stop at the shrine along the way, too. It never hurts to stay healthy, right?" Funny, really, that Jinx was the one saying those words when she came to this game specifically to avoid having to take precautions like that. But she didn't want her companion to risk fainting just because they'd gotten into a rough battle along the way, either.
Cleo
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 22, 2023 11:14:12 GMT 9
"Hoenn Pokemon, eh?"
Jinx had to check the game's database to remember what those even were, but once she did, she grinned.
"Guess both of us are breaking out our starters today, then! Skipper, hit 'em with your strongest Tackle!"
The Mudkip wasn't actually much bigger than the Patrat, and in a proper battle, the hit probably wouldn't have been enough to take it down in one fell swoop... but this wasn't really a proper battle, and so the Patrat collapsed practically the instant the attack made contact.
[Tower]fatC9JVQ1d501d50
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 22, 2023 10:47:02 GMT 9
Jinx winced as the once-promising tree--or rather, the Pokemon within it--launched a volley of sharp leaves in her general direction. She managed to avoid getting nicked, fortunately, but she wasn't sure all her Pokemon could say the same.
"I don't see much of anything, really. Just... lots of leaves..."
Jinx nodded at her Rufflet, and the Flying-type prepared a Wing Attack. It should hit hard, given that whatever was up there seemed to be some sort of Grass-type... but first, Pringles would have to locate his target...
Cleo
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 21, 2023 5:45:06 GMT 9
Jinx heard something up in one of the trees? Was that a wild bear she heard, or some other Pokemon, or just the wind blowing against tree branches? It was hard to be sure, but Jinx followed the sound and stared up into the tree that had been the noise's source, ready to send her Pokemon into battle at the first sign of an opponent.
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 21, 2023 3:50:05 GMT 9
Jinx had heard that there were bears in the Grove, hidden away in the trees but just waiting to be hunted down. Was it true? Jinx wasn't sure, honestly, but there was only one way to find out, and she was glad for any excuse for an adventure!
Now, if she were a bear Pokemon, where would she be... up in the far branches of a tree, or inside of a cave, or... hmm...
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 21, 2023 3:17:01 GMT 9
Jinx had missed out on the Tower of Cats the first time around, but the idea of it still interested her. Endless wild Pokemon to take down? Random prompts to fulfill? Free cat Pokemon for the taking? Sign her up!
So Jinx returned to the Tower after most had abandoned it, her Pokemon team by her side, ready to take down however many Patrats she could handle and snag a few cat Pokemon for her very own.
It was quiet here, after the main challenge had ended, but Jinx would make sure that it didn't remain quiet for long.
NEXT PROMPT: [Tower] Cgrl56rB1-1001-100
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Jinx
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The Tempest
Player Character
Posts: 152
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Sheila Michaels
OOC Username: Haberdasher
Arena Points: 20
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Post by Jinx on Jan 18, 2023 11:25:13 GMT 9
Jinx just nodded along at the other Trainer's words. There was wisdom there, and eloquently worded to boot. Not something she would have expected to find in a children's video game, but hey, she was here too, she couldn't knock it too much! And obviously some players took this whole... thing... more seriously than she did, though that wasn't exactly a high bar to clear...
"So, uh, it has to be getting close to finished now, right?" Jinx thought she saw the wild Duraludon slowing down a bit, but that might have just been wishful thinking. "Throw another Rock Smash in there and see if it sticks, I guess? And then we can both get the Duraludon in the end, simple as that."
Duraludon. Weird name for a Pokemon, wasn't that? Where did it even come from? It wasn't a pun or play on words as far as she could tell, just some weird dinosaur-esque jumble of syllables...
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