azume | Week 16.

WEEK 16

The world continues to stagnate.

It's an undeniable truth, one that's more or less a constant in your lives; you can see it in the people and the Pokémon both, even after you arrive in Oreburgh City. The same blank stares and behind-the-eyes deadness that Cyrus' new world brought with it are everywhere, difficult to ignore and impossible to escape. However little the people are interested in you, however, they are still present, and with Darkrai and Cresselia having agreed to help you, that has to count for something; with both dream deities and the Lake Guardians, perhaps hope hasn't faded - perhaps spirit can still be restored to the world, as long as there's a world left to restore it to.

That isn't to say, however, that the city itself holds nothing for you; there's a fair amount to see here, and a few things to explore if you're so inclined to do so; the mines in particular are open to the south, and extends far beneath the region. Take care not get lost, should you venture in.

CURRENT LOCATION: OREBURGH CITY
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES
SURROUNDING ROUTES: MOUNTAINS/ELEVATED AREAS / CAVES

MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week sixteen of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!]

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[Michael giggles.]

Oh man, and she just totally looks and talks the same, too. That's great stuff.

You know... it'd be a great idea for a movie or something, honestly. No one would guess her.

[Michael moves his hand like he's imagining a billboard.]

Pop idol by day, serial killer by night.

Surely that movie has to exist already, though, doesn't it?

Probably. But it'd be a sex thing, everything is with you all. This one is just about Aya being cute and murderous.

...

I hate how right you are. It would definitely be some sort of heinous erotic thriller.

Yeah. You're all gross. 'Course, the grossest ones always do end up with us, so our sample's also kinda tainted.

...

You know... that makes me not envy you at all.

Did you before?

...

Well, the immortality could be worse. That's about it, though....

Yeah, it's alright. [Michael shrugs.] I don't think about it much one way or the other. Just kinda how it is.

...I mean, actually, this part sucks. Hanging out with a bunch of actually alive mortals. It's so stressful!

Yes, that's generally the issue everyone has with the idea of immortality when they think about the practical aspects of it. Everyone around you will inevitably die because they're not immortal, so... hopefully you don't have any worldly attachments.

This was never a problem when I was in the afterlife. Everybody there is either immortal or already dead. Honestly, if we were on my Earth, I wouldn't care at all - I'd be able to just go and get you afterwards.

Yes, that probably helps. I imagine you shuffle people around enough that you don't get horrendously bored with everyone too, right?

Yeah, there's rotations. You'll usually have the same general type of work, but not the same humans. Funny story - [or maybe it isn't but he's already started] - that was actually one of the things I wanted to do differently. I thought it would be fun to stick with the same group for a while, really just dig in there. Figured if I understood exactly how they ticked, I could make the torture worse.

Ah, that doesn't sound too bad. Though... I'd imagine it didn't really work out the way you intended.

Not exactly, no.

There were a few things wrong with it - I didn't actually get humans better than anybody else back then, I just thought I did because I was the only one trying. It's like how you all thought animals were basically organic machines for most of the time you were studying them.

Ah, I see. Honestly, I'm not terribly surprised, given that higher existences have a marked tendency to underestimate lower ones regardless of the truth of the matter.

Yeah, basically. Only reason I ended up talking to them was 'cause all the other demons I knew turned on me and I needed some new co-conspirators.

Well, that's as good a reason as any, I suppose.

Kinda the only one there could've been. You don't start having conversations with roaches just for fun, do you? [shrug] But it worked out.

No, that's understandable. Honestly, I'll admit, I've been going through a less extreme version of that considering I've been spending so much time with people who aren't mages, so...

Does that really make that much of a difference?

...well, I won't say that spending time with an actual demon hasn't put it into perspective a bit, but it's important to us. There's something of an inverse correlation between how many people know about magic and how powerful it is, so it's in our best interests to keep it secret.

And that's a causal relationship?

[Like, more people knowing about it actually literally makes it weaker?]

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