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I like BW’s storyline (and I’m rather picky when it comes to that). I think you’d enjoy it. I also played Pokémon Gaia and can recommend both it’s story and gameplay
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From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 75
We looked for the exit in a place that had now lost most of its light save for the ones run by backup generators. The magnezone must have been supplying this place with electricity instead of relying on the region’s power plant, perhaps to keep the facade of inactivity to the Reborn management.
As we walked through passages of monitors and miscellaneous machines, I realized that I felt a knot in my stomach that I desperately needed to untangle. In just these couple of hours since we started this mission, there have been too many odd things that I couldn’t just pass as coincidences.
For starters, the trap had worked too well for Team Meteor this time. They had a complete plan to capture us and make us fight each other, and then give us real punishment. On other occasions, my team and I had been able to reach the PULSEs fairly easily, deactivated them and left relatively unscarred. Even that time, when Lin appeared in their Tanzan base, Saphira succeeded in destroying the base without as much trouble as we have endured now.
I know I am not the brightest bulb in the box, but I suspected that Team Meteor must have been informed of our coming. Otherwise, how could they have had grunts awaiting for us in the basement, and, from the looks of the main entrance, ambushed Ame and Adrienn as they entered the building? Their movements were too specific, something they couldn’t have just improvised without the plan being leaked. Yet, who could’ve told them we were coming? The only people who knew of this plan and its details were me, Ame, Arclight, Victoria, Adrienn and Candy. Who out of them could’ve betrayed us? I couldn’t be completely sure, but out of all of them, only one seemed to me more likely than the rest.
At last, we made one last turn and found the exit. Right before it, however, we found our team, save, of course, for Ame. All three were behind a glass window, as though they were mannequins in a fashion shop. Victoria and Arclight were sitting with their backs turned to us, while Adrienn stood there with xyr arms crossed and xyr expression only brightened up when xe saw us coming in. Xe waved at us and signaled us to a button next to xyr window, which we pressed. Their windows opened. Victoria and Arclight slid out of their chambers and spilled onto the floor, while Adrienn just stepped out, stretched xyr upper body and expressed gratefulness for being liberated at last.
“Everything hurts,” said Victoria, without moving a muscle.
Arclight, lying on his stomach next to her, didn’t say anything and almost looked dead. Adrienn and Candy rushed in to check his vital signs, but just turning him over was enough to see that he definitely wasn’t in good shape. She gasped and fell back on the floor.
“Good news is that he’s alive,” Adrienn said. “Bad news is that they tore out his eye.”
Recovering slightly from the initial surprise, Candy sent out her Florges and Leavanny, and treated the wound like she did once when I had been beaten up by the goons in 7th Street.
“Why… How could this happen?” Victoria said. She crawled an inch closer to Arclight but that was all she could muster in her state.
“Well, based on what Lin said to us, I would reason that that was his ‘penalty’,” Adrienn replied. “Goodness, I must’ve gotten lucky. The floor of the cage I was in became super-heated but thanks to the help of my pokemon, I was fine.”
“How convenient,” I said snarkily.
Adrienn caught my tone, but decided to ignore it.
“Has anyone seen Ame?” xe asked.
To this question, Candy shuddered. I replied in her stead.
“She’s dead.”
“She… She is, huh,” Adrienn said, looking distressed. “So it’s up to us, then.”
“I don’t get this. If they want to stop us, why haven’t they done it yet?” Victoria snapped. “Why not just kill us all and be done with it? They captured us. They could’ve done it, had they wanted to.”
Indeed, that was yet another thing that was bugging me. Even before I was aware that Victoria, Adrienn and Arclight were alive, I knew that I was alive, when I could’ve very well been dead. Lin had me locked in a cage. That cage could have had some trick to it. Like Adrienn’s, it could have super-heated, or like Victoria’s, it could have electrocuted me to death. Instead, I got nothing.
“Remember, Lin requested that Vanilla not be harmed,” ZEL’s voice echoed in my mind.
What could be the meaning of that? Was there even meaning, or was I reading too deeply into it?
“They left us alive,” Adrienn said. “And the only reason I could think of is to send a message.”
“A message? What message, Adrienn?” I asked.
“The message of what happens if we interfere with them, of course,” xe said.
“They didn’t give Kiki a message,” Victoria shouted. “She didn’t get a chance to live. Why did I have to be the one whose life was spared!”
She then exclaimed in pain and shivered a little. She had apparently pulled a muscle while talking, and had to lay down completely once more.
“Don’t exert yourself, Victoria,” Candy said. “Arclight isn’t the only one that needs to rest. You too are in very bad shape.”
“I’m just… I’m just furious with Team Meteor for killing her, and myself for not having been able to save her. That is all,” she murmured with her face still plastered on the ground.
Candy petted her hair as though she were petting one of the pokemon from her daycare.
“I cannot pretend to know what your story is, Victoria, but one thing I can tell you is that we can’t blame ourselves in the present for the mistakes we made in the past,” said Adrienn.
“Don’t say that as if that was a fact,” I spat. “We can continue to blame ourselves. Your opinion may be different, but mine is that what’s important is to make a difference so that the mistakes we made and the lives we lost aren’t wasted.”
“I can see that we share a common goal but use a different coping mechanism. You, too, are greatly tied to your past,” xe said. “That is why you still hold animosity toward me, am I wrong? Because you can’t let go of the fact that I treated you like a delinquent back in the subterranean castle, even though many months have passed since, and we all know now that it was all a big misunderstanding.”
Xe wasn’t wrong, so I couldn’t counter xyr argument. However, I had one more possible reason at present that might justify my dislike of xem, and I wasted no moment in letting it be known.
“I dislike you since our first meeting, that’s true, but that’s not the end of it. I suspect that you leaked information to Team Meteor so that they could prepare for our coming. If my suspicions are proven to be correct, I won’t just show animosity towards you. Of that you can be certain.”
“Quite shocking you would say that, even if it’s entirely in-character. I am actually at a loss of words. Give me a second to recover,” xe said, acting like a broken-hearted maiden. An act that wasn’t becoming of xem, if I may say so.
“Our plan was known. There’s little doubt in that. You refused to battle Arclight and thus had conscious pokemon to avoid the penalty. If you ask me, you’re the most suspicious out of the group, because Victoria and Arclight both received their punishments.”
“And what about you, Vanilla? And Candy? I’m assuming one of you two received a penalty also, and yet I see neither of you looking particularly pained?”
“Indeed, Vanilla. It does us no good to point fingers at our friends,” Candy said, supporting xem. “From Adrienn’s perspective, we are equally as suspicious as you think xe is.”
“I’ll know what to think, thank you very much.”
“I will not point fingers at anyone,” said Adrienn. “Because I really can’t imagine any of us betraying the group like that. Even you, Vanilla, although you’re so quick to point a finger at me. You’re too honest and impulsive. I doubt you could keep up a hypocrite’s facade for longer than a second. Candy has been helping us restore the city. She’s practically my right-hand woman. Her wish to see the region safe and free from terrorism must be as strong as mine.”
Xe may be right about me not being able to fake allegiances. I wasn’t like Aladdin. However, I didn’t know enough of Adrienn to judge whether xe wasn’t one such phony. Xe certainly looked honest in everything xe said, but was it based on truth or just what xe knew we wanted to hear? That only xe could know.
“You’re welcome to keep yourself tied to the past, dragging it and then allowing it to drag you back. You can keep regarding me as untrustful, and keep thinking I’m plotting stuff against you. I find it counterproductive since it’s nothing but misguided anxiety, but it is your choice, not mine,” xe continued. “I personally have decided not to blame myself for my past mistakes, and thus break free from its chains. I decided not to think of the ‘what ifs’ that were born from falling into a fairy ring. Blaming myself like that will not fix the city, and certainly will not help us move forward. We got sidetracked, Victoria, but that’s where I wanted to reach. You can either do what Vanilla does, or do it my way, but I hope you will lend me your strength to guide this broken region that now lacks a leadership figure.”
Victoria was silent for a moment. She hadn’t said a word all the while Adrienn and I argued, so I reckoned she might have passed out sometime during it, but I was wrong. In time, she propped her head up a little.
“I’m tired of trying to follow in the footsteps of the dead,” she mumbled. “But without Ame among us, I have little say in the matter. We can’t let the region fall into anarchy, after all.”
Adrienn's eyes shone.
“We won’t let that happen, if we work as a team. Together,” xe said to her and then raised xyr gaze to meet mine. “Let’s not give Lin the pleasure of seeing the region truly fall to pieces.”
After that, Adrienn carried Arclight on xyr back, while I did the same for Victoria. The exit was right there, but when we passed through it, we were surprised to find us in the North Obsidia Ward, not in the balcony on the top floor of the Devon building as we had expected.
It went without saying that we were quite puzzled at first; however, we soon concluded that we must have been moved from Devon to the basement of this small building in North Obsidia when they knocked all of us unconscious. Ame and Adrienn had also found themselves gassed, much like I imagined Candy and I had been, and Victoria had received a strong blow in the head.
“I had once again been too weak to prevent their plan,” Victoria said, biting on her thumb in frustration.
“We all were, don’t beat yourself for it,” Candy said, placing a hand on her back.
Victoria looked to her surroundings in silence, and then whispered in a volume that was almost unhearable save for me.
“Now that I think about it, Kiki was also weak. Her body was killing herself, and she couldn’t prevent it. Yet, I’m not sure she ever truly accepted her weakness.”
Then, in a louder voice, she added, “I think I understand how the student becomes the master now.”
“We must accept our weakness. Our vulnerability,” said Candy. “Only then we can try to do small things to become stronger. We have come a long way already, and we can only do better if we keep trying.”
Her speech reminded me of the brief conversation we had had after our battle earlier today. She had said that she had grown selfish and anxious. Perhaps these were the weaknesses she was referring to while she spoke to Victoria.
Yet, what an odd conversation it had been, I thought.
I looked at Candy. Her face was as affable as ever, even though there was a hint of exhaustion in her eyes that were swollen from crying earlier. Yet it was certain that there was nothing of the ill mood that had plagued her just before and immediately after our battle.
However, my thoughts were interrupted when Adrienn started talking about the small building we had come out of being a cover for a Meteor facility all along.
“That’s a lead,” xe said. “Whoever owns this building probably has ties to Team Meteor, and we can find those records in the Grand Hall.”
“We should probably send some people to search both Devon and this building. Even though I assume they cleared their tracings before going away, there may still be some things they left behind that might serve to our advantage,” Victoria added.
“Yeah, good idea. Once we take you and Arclight to medical care, I will take care of that.”
Thus we started walking towards the closest Pokémon Center. On our way there, Adrienn asked me if I’d have time to help him with some work.
“There was an influx of donations this morning and I believe it’ll cover the cost to restore a new area. For that, I’ll need manpower, and I’d be happy if you could help me look for people who might be interested in volunteering,” xe explained. “Ame had told me you’re doing the League Challenge, was she right? I’d like to get the work over with as soon as possible, so that we can have our gym battle.”
I nodded. I was aware that restoring the city also gave me joy, so I’d have gladly accepted to help even if it weren’t to get a Gym battle. However, I wasn’t going to complain about getting a bonus incentive to get to work.
We dropped Arclight and Victoria off at the Pokémon Center. The nurse scolded us for moving them all the way there, and asked us to call an ambulance if we were ever in a similar situation. Arclight was still unconscious when we left, but Victoria appeared to do better thanks to Candy’s florges’ aromatherapy.
“I’ll go to the Grand Hall to get a search party ready, as we agreed. The faster we get that done with, the better for us. You can meet me in my Gym once you collect, I don’t know, 10 or so volunteers. Thanks, Vanilla. See you later.”
Adrienn said that and hastily ran towards Opal Ward.
“Do you need help finding volunteers?” asked Candy.
“No, I’m good. You should go check on your shop.”
“Alright then. Do call on me if you have trouble finding people,” she said. “I’d actually insist on helping you, if I weren’t worried about the daycare. I left Cookie taking care of this rowdy Pokémon when I left for Agate Circus, so I want to make sure everything is alright with them.”
Candy waved at me with less energy than usual, and walked South.
Once I was left alone again, I sat down on a bench nearby. Victoria wasn’t particularly lightweight, so my back and legs were killing me, but I didn’t want people to see how out-of-shape I was.
“I’ll first find the volunteers,” I told Pikachu. “But I haven’t given up on cracking down who betrayed us in this mission.”
Pikachu just sat on my thighs and tilted his head. A relatable gesture, for Adrienn’s rebuttal had left me without a suspect. I imagined this endeavor would take a lot of time and energy.
VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS
Spoiler- Adrienn (+1): 4/10 Xe seems honestly concerned about the region, and though I don’t get along well with xem, I can stop seeing xem with animosity and more with indifference
- Victoria (+1): Her spirit indeed isn’t easily broken, and I can admire her for that
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[Eliminate] Eviora
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I donut think
SpoilerSpoilerSpoilerSpoilerSpoilerthat's a good idea
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o ya forgot to vote lol
[Eliminate] Astra
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bro Drago why would mafia want to night kill a TP when they hafta eliminate town asap? my existence doesn't affect their wincon (or yours, for that matter), but even if it did, they'd have gone for someone they know is town me thinks.
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I'ma just gonna
tag a lot of frens
real quicc
love y'all
even if I'm a tsun candy
@SilverAngelus @J-Awesome_One @Q-Jei @Mindlack @Corso @cicada @Alistair @EndearingCharacterTrait @CrimsonDragon21 @Bok Choi @LykosHand @NickCrash @Anti_Hero@Dragoknight @GenEric @Newt @Amine @L'Belle @Chickens @Nano4 @Walpurgis @Baumina @Evi Crystal @Azzie @Amethyst @Ceratisa @Wolfox @Yahen @Starry Knight @uberle @Smooth
fml ima forget someone, ain't i?
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tbh I think Smooth is sus too because I doubt any role would make anyone have to speak in code like that for so many day phases. At first I thought it was a thing like curses but now I’m not sure.
ima gonna place a vote on him too so he can explain wtf he meant by the “keywords”.
[Eliminate] Smooth
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Oof almost forgot to post. Personally I think people who aren’t vanilla townie shouldn’t be saying whether they were roleblocked and what not because they might become targets for maf kill. There’s quite a number of vanillas in this game apparently so it’d be better for them to shoot a TP or vanilla than a townie with useful role. My two cents on the matter.
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Klinklang aka discount magnezone
shift gear + gear grind was god combo in factory field.
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henlo, welcome and oof have a
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to sweeten your rough time bruh
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6 hours ago, Evi Crystal said:
Candy's VS Sprite Portrait looks gorgeous. Great job on that
Also I didn't (or did maybe) expect Vanilla to lose against Candy, but I didn't though, that she didn't got her penalty... That's very strange- and kinda unfair for Victoria, Adrienn and Arclight
Yeet even though it’s mostly a recolor haha just the mouth and removing sleeves was necessary.
As for Vanini losing, that’s because Vanini ain’t champion-level yet. And there’s a reason she didn’t get a punishment- it’s actually hidden in plain sight if you read carefully, but it might become apparent sometime in the future anyway.
6 hours ago, Corso said:What almost dead server? Is there something I don't know? There shouldn't be.
Also there's a crucial difference between our runs: yours is actually original and well done. Also it will end eventually.
I turned the Drama Club to a show-your-art-and-other-stuff server but now it’s basically see-Candy-do-shit
I thought yours was fun because it’s a style that doesn’t require reading (I hate reading) and you were using mons I like because they’re pretty (Candy’s Ace is lopunny for a reason).
1 hour ago, SilverAngelus said:Tfw the ultimate antagonist doesn't torture you so you're stuck in a cage playing Rock Paper Scissors with your Pikachu
It do be like that sometimes.
1 hour ago, SilverAngelus said:Mega Amphy has lower speed than Amphy
It do be like that sometimes reprised
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4 hours ago, Corso said:
Awesome episode, but I have several questions:
1) Several times you could have used Aladdin's fake out (e.g. vs Ampahros)
2) LettingSeismitoad take a leaf blade from Leavanny
3) WHY DIDN'T YOU END THE EPISODE BEFORE THE BATTLE AGAINST CANDY THAT WAS THE BEST CLIFFHANGER I WAS ALREADY ABOUT TO EXPRESS MY HYPE FOR THE UPCOMING BATTLE
We've also never had that battle with our teams
Fun fact: the devon arc is the 23rd episode in my run and it came out on 25/02/2018
1) Sometimes I don't use Fake Out against a mega-evolved mon because mega-evolution takes speed changes into account the turn after it occurs, so if I waited a turn I might be outsped for the actual attack (wasn't sure which was faster mega-ampharos or medicham cause both are slow lol)
2) Honestly Candy's team was weaker than Vanilla's and it was kinda hard for her to win unless I actively made stoopid moves
3) I thought about it but felt it'd be another short chapter, and there were a few people who knew the fight would happen (because I hinted it on my Look-at-Candy's-art-almost-ded server) so I figured hecc let it happen yeet But lol at someone actively asking for a cliffhanger xD
It's been so long since your run that it feels surreal somehow. Like where did all that time go. I guess I can say the same for my run since it's been going for like 3 years now and that's insane.
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From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 74
Longass chapter with an awkward ending but it do be like that sometimes.
As planned, Candy, Ame and Adrienn went to the fake Devon Corp’s main entrance while Victoria, Arclight and I headed down the stairs to the railnet, which had a second entrance.
“Arc calling Ame,” Arclight said when we were in our positions.
There was some buzzing sounds but soon we heard Ame’s voice.
“Go ahead,” she said.
“We’re at the entrance. We await your signal.”
“We’re ready as well. Let’s go in now.”
Arc turned off transmission, and we followed him up the stairs and broke the door in front of us. We entered the building’s basement and found New World Orderlies awaiting us. That confirmed it for us that this building indeed was a Team Meteor base hidden under Devon Corp’s facade.
“Oh? Finally someone shows up,” said one orderly.
“Finally?” I whispered, but the Meteor grunts didn’t offer an explanation. Instead they sent out their pokemon to engage us in battle.
The battle wasn’t hard; however, it seemed as though the orderlies were stalling us unnecessarily. There was a metallic gate too, which would have stopped us in our tracks had Victoria’s incineroar not been able to soften it with heat and tear it apart.
We followed through to the next floor, which was a corridor that connected the path we came from with the path Ame and co were supposed to take. I thought they should’ve been waiting for us here, since we took a while to clear the bunch in the basement, but they were nowhere to be seen.
“Maybe they went on ahead,” said Victoria.
“Come in, Ame,” Arclight said to the transceiver. “Do you copy?”
There was no response for a moment, but then we heard Candy’s voice.
“I copy. What’s up?”
“That’s what we’d like to know.”
I clicked my tongue and ran over to the storefront.
“Hey Vanilla,” Arclight called behind me. “Don’t make rash movements.”
The storefront wasn’t empty, but Ame and Adrienn weren’t in it. Only a few Team Meteor grunts were sitting or lying on the floor unconscious. They didn’t appear to have been physically assaulted, but I couldn’t be sure of that with their uniform covering them from head to toe.
“Ame, do you copy?” I heard Arclight’s voice, but this time through a radio transmission.
I looked around the messy storefront and found it. A transceiver I judged to be Ame’s.
“I found Ame’s transceiver,” I said through it. “She isn’t here, though.”
“I’m coming in,” said Candy.
She flung the door open and found me shaking limp bodies.
“Vanilla. Gosh, I told you guys I’d only participate if we weren’t killing people,” she said, shaking her head.
“They aren’t dead,” I said. “They’re unconscious for some reason. Didn’t you hear anything from outside?”
“Not at all, it was really silent. But this room sure is a mess. A fight must’ve gone down here, somehow.”
We went back to regroup with the other two, and I gave Arclight the transceiver I found.
“We have to call it quits,” I said. “They knew we were coming, and set a trap for us. They must’ve also captured Ame and Adrienn already- otherwise, that transceiver wouldn’t be here.”
“Wow Vanilla, you’re sounding like a leader,” Candy commented.
“They bested Ame and Adrienn, who are above me strength-wise,” I said. “I’m not so stupid as to force a battle I know I’ll lose for sure.”
“I agree, let’s return to the Grand Hall and plot a plan to rescue Ame and Adrienn,” Arclight said, and we would’ve done just that, if only a thick gate didn’t fall with a loud thudding noise, blocking the way we’d come from and the storefront simultaneously. Victoria sent out her incineroar to try to break the gate like she did in the basement, but whatever the material was, it did not seem affected by the heat. We tried the brittle-break method I’d used a couple of times in the past as well, but nothing.
“This isn’t looking good,” Arclight said.
“There’s no choice but to go forward,” I said. “We’ll be walking right into their trap now.”
Upstairs, we found a few Team Meteor grunts and orderlies awaiting us. In front of them, was a panel on the floor, which Arclight found had electricity flowing through it through a physical demonstration.
“Dumbasses. The panel is a puzzle,” said one of the grunts. “See that display over there? You can control the tiles from there. If you figure out the timing on which to switch the tiles, you won’t need to get electrocuted. There are more of these in the next floors too.”
The puzzle, indeed, required one of us to remain on this floor to control it. Arclight volunteered to stay, and gave me Ame’s transceiver.
“I don’t have one for you, Victoria, but you should be able to do with two among the three of you,” he said. “Copy me when you need the tiles shifted.”
We battled the enemy on every floor while carefully orchestrating the tiles.
The enemy knew about us. I mean, every one of us. They knew Candy was a Pokemon caretaker and breeder in Obsidia, who was once Hoenn League champion. They knew Victoria was a graduate of Apophyll Academy and even that she was hurting from the loss of her mentor. Sometimes they made fun of her for it, and she repaid them with a punch or kick to the face. Oh, and they also knew who I was, but that wasn’t all that surprising since I also remembered some of these people by face. However, this all made it even more clear that somehow Team Meteor had found we were going to invade their base, and what our every move was going to be. I was starting to get suspicions that I wasn’t proud of having, but I couldn’t help but draw parallels between this event and the one that happened in my hometown many months ago.
My mind was thus engaged in deep thought when we entered a small room, which closed its door shut behind us as soon as we entered it.
“It’s no use. It’s the same as the gates below. Nothing can penetrate these,” Victoria said, knocking on the metal.
However, shutting our means of escaping wasn’t all this time. The walls started closing in on us, threatening to make us a human sandwich. Victoria’s incineroar bought us some time as Candy and I followed to the next room.
“She found me,” I heard Arclight’s voice through the transceiver.
“What’s happening? Arclight! Answer me,” I shouted, but the transceiver only transmitted one last cracking sound and went silent.
“Tsk. He’s gone.”
“Without him we can’t change the tiles. We’ll get electrocuted.”
We didn’t get electrocuted, but also that was the last thing I heard before my eyesight suddenly started blacking out and my legs gave in on me.
Pikachu was patting my cheek when I woke up.
We were all alone in a tiny room that was filled with boxes but also a computer with which I could change up my party pokemon and a healing machine.
“Do you know what happened?” I asked Pikachu, but he shook his head sideways.
I tried standing up, but the whole front side of my body hurt so much I could pass out from it. I couldn’t quite remember, but perhaps I fainted and fell on the floor. Otherwise I couldn’t explain this localized pain.
I used the wall to prop myself up and tossed my body towards the computer. I checked my pokemon party and I switched Golden Key (klefki) and Gretel (slurpuff) for Bambi (sawsbuck) and Aladdin (medicham). I was expecting to fight a Team Meteor admin or Solaris, or at worst Lin, on a Factory Field, so I judged pokemon that could withstand electric and steel type attacks would give me an advantage.
Then, I exited the small room. Outside of it was a pokemon battle field, and a cage in which I probably had to enter. I obliged, since I saw no choice but to fight.
I waited a little while, but the person that came in from the other side wasn’t whom I was expecting to fight.
“Vanilla,” Victoria exclaimed when she saw me in a cage.
She also entered hers, and was surprised when it trapped her inside.
The large monitor on the left side of the field turned on, and Lin’s face was broadcasted through it. A microphone’s unpleasant screech filled the room and when it was gone, Lin started speaking.
“I understand you and your petty shambles of acquaintances have come here to stop me,” she said. “How funny. You thought you were strong together, and yet, here you are now.”
“What do you want?” I asked.
“What do I want? Many things, but for now, to teach you a lesson,” she said. “Numbers do not help. Friends do not help. Spirit does not help.”
“What does someone like her know about spirit,” Victoria mumbled.
“In the end, you are still powerless. You are still a victim. You always will be, won’t you?”
The last question seemed to be more directed towards Victoria than to me.
“Now we will play a game,” Lin carried on. “In order to reunite with your so-called friends, you must fight them. The winner may proceed. The loser will suffer a penalty. There are no rules. Begin.”
The monitor then shut off without warning.
“That b*tch,” I said, cracking my knuckles. “She has such a punchable face that it makes Jasmin’s look kissable. I can’t wait to be in the same room as her.”
“Not so fast,” Victoria said. “We have to fight so that one of us can leave this cage. Otherwise, I’m assuming we’ll be stuck here indefinitely.”
“Yeah, I think these cages’ bars are made of that same material we encountered earlier,” I said, examining them. “We’ll have to fight. Let the stronger trainer punch Lin’s face in.”
“I couldn’t have said it better.”
SpoilerFortunately for me, I was the stronger trainer. Victoria pulled a good fight, but it was clear she had been rusty in pokemon battling, presumably because she had been busy with the city renovations.
When we were done battling, my cage’s door opened and Victoria screamed in pain. She started trembling uncontrollably, and I wasn’t sure what was going on until I touched one of the bars of her cage for a brief moment and felt the electricity.
“So this is the penalty she was talking about,” I said. “Hang in there, Victoria. Don’t die on me.”
“A-as Kiki’s s-successor,” she said while barely able to command her mouth. “It’s g-gonna take a l-lot m-more than th-this to break my s-s-spirit.”
I rushed out of that floor and encountered a new puzzle upstairs. This one was also a tile puzzle, but a little more complicated- from what I could figure out, there were also moving tiles that I had to change the course of in order to make it to the next area.
“Team Meteor often has some kind of puzzle in their bases,” I commented to Pikachu. “I always thought it was to stall us and buy them some time. However, now I’m starting to feel as though I was just being toyed with.”
Toyed or not toyed, I had to keep playing the game. Candy had to be in here somewhere, and I had to continue going until I was reunited with her.
On the next floor, there was a battlefield just like the one I battled on with Victoria. My next opponent was Arclight, who was waiting inside his cage already.
“Vanilla,” he said. “I’m glad you’re alive and well.”
“What happened to you? Have you seen the others?”
“I got caught by some orderlies under Lin’s orders,” he explained. “I haven’t seen most of our team, but I was with Adrienn a few moments ago. Xe’s on the floor below.”
“Getting electrocuted? I also won the battle and left Victoria downstairs.”
“No, in xyr case, xe refused to battle me and received the penalty by default. The floor in xyr cage was searing,” he said and hit the bars of his cage.
“I didn’t know forfeiting was an option.”
Right then, our conversation got cut short because the monitor turned on again and Lin was there to speak.
“Do you understand yet? You have no control. You never did, even if your glass-spun egos depend on convincing yourselves otherwise.”
“I’ll judge for myself what my glass-spun ego depends on,” I spat on the ground.
Lin ignored me and continued to talk.
“You are pigs to be herded. You are pigs to be hurt. Sputter, shiver and squeal. It changes nothing.”
Then she again turned off the monitor abruptly, leaving the two of us to battle.
“She’s gonna eat those words when one of us ‘little piggies’ catches up to her,” Arclight said. “Regardless, for all my tough talk, I don’t have a way out of this. It pisses me off, but she’s right. We got cocky, and now we’re trapped.”
“There’s still one way out of this,” I said. “And it’s by winning in a pokemon battle. Let the better trainer out of the two of us escape and be the ‘little piggy’ that catches up to her.”
Arclight looked at me in silence, before nodding and smiling.
“That’s true. It’s still too early to be losing hope.”
SpoilerI thought I would lose this battle when Arclight sent mega-evolved his ampharos. The pokemon kept zapping my pokemon and paralyzing them, so I thought it would finish my whole team one by one in no time. Fortunately for me, its luck ran out and missed two attacks which was enough for my Anna (K-ninetales) to make it faint slowly but steadily.
“Great job, Vanilla. You’re pretty on par with us in the Nightclub. Maybe we’ll see you there soon,” Arclight said when the battle concluded.
However, before I could respond to his comment, the floor beneath him caved in and he fell down while screaming. I hoped, rather than believed, that he would survive the fall. Yet, I must carry on.
While I solved the next puzzle, I wondered who I would encounter next: whether Ame or Candy. From what I had gathered so far, the fights appeared to be in tournament format. Victoria and me, and Adrienn and Arclight were paired, and so it must be the case that Ame and Candy were paired with each other. The winner would be the one to face me, I figured.
The said winner was, surprisingly perhaps, Candy.
“I didn’t think you’d beat the current Reborn champion in battle,” I said. “It seems you’ve still got it in you.”
“Perhaps, or perhaps I got lucky. Ame is a stand-in champion, after all,” she said.
“To be honest, I was looking forward to fighting you when this tournament thing began,” I said. “I want to know how much I’ve grown as a trainer and beating you, who gave me these pokemon in the first place, will prove my team’s strength.”
“Would prove it,” Candy said, but she didn’t seem to be in her best mood. “I’m sorry Vanilla, but I can’t lose this battle.”
Before I could ask her what she meant with that, the infamous monitor turned on and Lin interrupted us.
“If you think family bonds could be stronger than mere friendships, you were wrong. Friends, family, lovers. No bond between two people is stronger than the power of a single independent and efficient individual. Your case is a textbook example of this.”
The monitor turned off.
“Perhaps our bond isn’t strong enough to beat Lin,” Candy said. “But I hope it’s strong enough to keep both of us safe and sound.”
“What do you mean?”
“Send out your pokemon, Vanilla. We’ll test the strength of our bond in battle.”
SpoilerI wasn’t sure what she meant by testing our bond in battle either. All I knew was that when our battle was over, I was on the losing side of things.
“You said you couldn’t lose, and it seems I couldn’t overpower you,” I said.
“I’m sure, and afraid, you will in no time,” she said and exited her cage to approach me. “Your progress is amazing. And I’m not only talking about battling, either. I’m proud of the person you’ve become.”
“Weird thing for you to say when you know I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot the enemy dead.”
“Even if we have our differences, even if we can’t walk the same path, and even if we can’t always agree with each other, I will always be your cousin and your friend.”
She turned her back to me then, and sighed.
“I wish I could be proud of myself too, but age hasn’t made me anymore mature or courageous. On the contrary, it’s made me selfish and anxious.”
“You? Selfish and anxious? Come on now, you can’t be serious.”
“I am, and today is a textbook example of it,” she said and shook her head. “Don’t mind me. I’ll go ahead.”
I saw Candy go up the stairs, and then I was just alone with Pikachu. Yet, it seemed off. In every other instance, the loser received a penalty, yet no matter how long I waited, such a thing didn’t appear to come my way.
“Is my cage broken, or did Lin run out of torture devices?” I asked no one in particular.
Anyway I sat down with Pikachu on my lap, waiting for something to change, or for someone to come to my rescue. I got bored and started playing rock paper scissors with Pikachu, until the cage’s door suddenly swung open.
“What’s the meaning of this?”
I wasn’t going to complain about not getting my piece of punishment.
Because Candy had solved the puzzle before me, it was quite easy for me to just follow the path she laid for me. I made it to where she was in no time, but when I found her she was sobbing on the floor.
“Candy? What happened?” I stroked her back.
However, she didn’t need to give me a response. A quick look about the area allowed me to find what seemed like Ame’s body lying but 10 meters from where I stood. At the sight of it, I had to hold my mouth lest I might puke right then and there.
“Lin’s hydreigon,” Candy said between hiccups. “It chomped on Ame’s head.”
I took a few deep breaths and composed myself.
“Let’s go Candy. We have to finish what we started.”
I cut a piece of my bubblegum dress and gave it to her so she could wipe her tears, and we slowly walked out of the place. When we passed next to the headless body, I couldn’t help but take a glimpse of it. I wished I could take it with us so that we could give her a proper burial, but that would have to wait. I wasn’t sure what awaited us next, and I doubted I could protect Candy while carrying a body on my other shoulder.
On the next room, we found ZEL. They seemed quite distressed- even more distressed than the last time we met in their Tanzan base, when they were struggling to control PULSE Abra.
“Just what the hell did you mess up so badly?”
“This wasn’t a user error. Some kind of corrupted program must have been injected into the system.”
“So your security system was just shit.”
“Stop blaming her! I don’t see you helping.”
“Shut up Lumi. Can the data be repaired or not?”
We could’ve just interrupted their self-conversation, but I told Candy to stand by. I felt that since they weren’t aware we were standing in the same room, they might spill some vital information that could be of use to us.
“All PULSE2 and Arc-PULSE data has been left unaltered,” they said. “However, the PULSE-Magnezone damage is irreparable.”
It all appeared to be an issue with the PULSE-Magnezone, which was blinking intermittently on one corner of the room. They couldn’t leave the Devon Corp base until it was fixed, or at least made to be in a moveable state, but they hadn’t managed to and that had delayed their stay until now.
“Tch. Lin must’ve known this was coming,” they said. “I bet it has something to do with the hero brigade she had hauled in here.”
Then, they finally noticed us.
“Speaking of the devil, huh? They’ve already come to destroy this PULSE like all the others.”
“So it’s too late already.”
“Well, there’s no way in hell I’m going to let you do that, Vanilla. Prepare yourself.”
“Control your temper, Zero. Remember, Lin requested that Vanilla not be harmed.”
“She what?” I exclaimed unwittingly. “Why could she possibly request that?”
“I don’t know what goes in Lin’s head. If it were up to me, we’d have erased your existence out of this planet already,” they said.
I had to be satisfied with that response, but I honestly couldn’t be. It creepily matched with the earlier happening with my penalty not coming through, and I knew I couldn’t rest until I found out what was Lin’s motives in keeping me “safe” at least temporarily.
“If you insist on destroying the PULSE, we’ll have to counter with a pokemon battle.”
“I didn’t really come to destroy it, but I guess I might as well,” I said. “Take it as a little payback for the pain your leader inflicted on my comrades.”
SpoilerPerhaps due to it being in a state of highwire or perhaps because it wasn’t built to fight off a trainer, the magnezone went down to a single Hi Jump Kick from Aladdin (medicham), concluding the battle.
“Magnezone, magnezone! Please be okay,” they screamed when they saw their PULSE flashing ever more alarmingly.
However, it was pointless. Seconds later, the machine shut down and caused a small earthquake, while a cloud of smoke emerged from it and almost asphyxiated all of us in its perimeter. Perhaps not Candy, though because with all the snot she had in her nose, I doubted she could even breathe in the smoke.
We found ZEL lying on the ground, and I wasn’t sure whether they had survived the mini explosion from a close distance.
However, when Pikachu poked their head, they slowly came back to their senses.
“Hmm. The… PULSE. The PULSE. Hey, we didn’t lose hearing in the explosion, did we?”
“It wasn’t that loud, to be honest,” I said.
“I can hear you,” ZEL said. “But Lumi and Eve. Hey! Say something!”
“I thought you were crazy, but it seems that concussion made it worse.”
“Oh no, the magnezone. It’s gone,” said ZEL, ignoring me and instead knocking his face on the broken machine. “I’m… alone. I’m alone. I’m alone, and… empty.”
I’m not going to pretend that ZEL’s face at that moment wasn’t terrifying. I felt like they might take a knife any minute and kill either me or themselves… or himself, since I presumed the only one left in that body was Zero. Fortunately for me, he didn’t do any of that, and instead quickly left after whispering that he had to get to Agate.
“What was all that?” Candy asked after blowing her nose.
“It’s a long story for another time,” I said. “Since Zero headed for the exit, we mustn’t be that far from it either. Let’s go.”
VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS
Spoiler- Arclight (+1): 5/10 I don't like being bossed around but I have to admit he was working as a good leader
- Lin (-1): -3/10 She's mysterious but everything she says pisses me off for some reason
- ZEL (-1): 2/10 Now that they're just Zero, I don't have any small partiality towards them anymore
TEAM RECAP
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Phewh that was a lot of battling and editing yeet hope it was kinda enjoyable
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I'ma gonna pressure vote someone I think hasn't spoken yeet
[Eliminate] Cherry
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5 hours ago, Dragoknight said:
Similar question goes to @Aldo, random votes generally don't seem to be your thing.
PS me thinks Aldo is ded?
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5 hours ago, Dragoknight said:
was there any specific reasoning behind your vote mere minutes away from phase change?
I wanted to avoid penalty for not voting lol Ali had no votes on him so I voted him so he wouldn’t get lynched.
As for a little read, I don’t think Lykos gave bad reasons to why not to lynch him. It’s been a while since I played, but iirc he ain’t the type to pressure vote when he’s mafia. Well he could’ve changed strats since the last time I saw but still.
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To assure you first, I don’t think there was anything in your post that was against the rules. It read perfectly fine, especially since it’s posted in the rant subforum. Since you’re afraid of upsetting people, thought I’d reassure you first.
Now, I’ve had friends on and offline who are on the ASD spectrum. The ones irl had a more severe form so the conversation was more centered around what they wanted to talk about and I only responded to their topic.
However like you say, people online appear to mask their ASD so well that you forget they’re on the spectrum. I’ve wanted to foster inclusivity in the communities I’ve been in, and when there’s someone with ASD, I’ve tried to respond to their excitement whether or not it was appropriate for the time (because I didn’t want them to feel ignored). However, I’m only one person and both the person with ASD and I quickly realized that their comments went largely ignored, whether because it wasn’t appropriate or because of a difference in taste (what we find funny is different for everyone). So I never knew how to foster inclusivity because I can change my behavior to help someone feel part of the community, but I can’t force or expect others to do the same. For the most part we’re adults, so we’re past the age where the school rule of “never exclude everyone and get along with people even if you don’t feel like it” applies.Tl;dr I don’t know how to reconcile a person who wants to get a reaction regardless of time and place and a majority who care about time and place and are selective in what they react to.
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2 hours ago, Smooth said:
真剣に...
それは絶対に必要でしたか？
本当に本当の容疑者がいたときに、後で保存できませんでしたか？それが私の観点からの理由です。これはあなたが都市として合併する本当に良い機会のようです。 エリックは確かに疑った。もし私があなたの立場にあったなら、あなたは少なくとも彼に答えやいくつかの情報を求めます。彼に銃を向けます。 今、彼は死んだが、すべてだ。標準であることは退屈であり、彼がこのたわごとを楽しみのために引き出しているのを見ることができます。しかし、それは彼が注意深く見られるべきではないという意味ではあ.
I can roughly translate lol
Seriously...
Was that really necessary?
Wouldn't it have been more helpful if you (Evi) had saved it for later when we had a real suspect?
That's the reasoning from my perspective. [not sure what second sentence means]. Eric was suspicious. However, if I'd been in your place, I'd have asked him some questions and get some answers that might inform us better. Instead you pointed a gun at him and that's it, he ded. It seems he was just enjoying playfully because the norm is boring. But that just means he wasn't to be seen as someone serious.
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Rando last minute big brain vote
[Eliminate] Alistair
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40 minutes ago, Nano4 said:
Help I’ve run out of James Bond quotes already
you haven't even said "the name is Bond, James Bond"
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45 minutes ago, Eviora said:
Looks like Smooth is our strange D1 poster for this game. But I don't see his name on the player list! Does he often go by another name?
he was Anti-Loser
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Fortunately I know a thing or two about surviving. Being a candy ain't ez when hungery humans roam the Earth.
Coconut trees ain't it chief, plant some candy trees so we can keep a state of sugar high while we wait for rescuers
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10 hours ago, Corso said:
We must not forget that she hasn't won a fist fight in years now (the blind girl's mom mopped the floor with her and Victoria was clearly winning before they were stopped). To be honest I expected the skilled soldier to be able to overpower the housewife so good job again because that time you made me root for Vanilla.
I don't remember if I didn't write it in, but the housewife used to be a student in Apophyll Academy, and in my mind Apophyll Academy martial artists > thug who learned fighting from another thug that learned fighting from trial and error lol Vanini almost won in a 1-on-1 against Aladdin, though, had the peeps in Ametrine not butted in xD
9 hours ago, Mindlack said:I haven't re-read all that you made Saphira do, but I don't remember anything that was like a cold-blooded murder.
I do remember an unambiguous full-blown assault launched against her home by terrorists who had already abducted her sister and are twice as many as there are battlers defending the house. Honestly, I feel that at this level we're mostly talking self-defence.
(Not to say that the needless Meteor deaths weren't sad, but I feel that calling Saphira a murderer for this is a bit too much.
Also, most of the blame lies with Sirius. Had he been a competent squad leader, he'd have made sure his subordinates could swim, and then given them safety vests anyway).
Now I really want to see her go to Aevium. Who wants to bet on how many hours she'd hold before her first kill?
(I admit, that is being cheap)
Yah I'm talking original game Tanzan arc. It can be taken as self-defense but she had zero mercy which might be taken as cold-blooded.
When the kids had been kidnapped in Yureyu building, protagonist and Cain didn't kill anyone unlike Saphira and Tania.
Flannery in Reborn - The Tale of a Firehead [Last defeated: Aster & Eclipse]
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jk donut eat me
It’s cute that Flannery and Julia get along well. Given Flannery is a fire type leader I think she enjoys fireworks which go boom too. Speaking of, wonder how Flannery will react to Charlotte and her backstory.