Week 16.

[azumods]

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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MONDAY

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TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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THURSDAY

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FRIDAY

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[gekkaju]

[For once, Atsushi is glad to be away from the water. He's certain seeing it would dredge up some recent memories that he's still trying very hard to not dwell on.

Having since resolved not to let the state of things bother him too much, instead finding optimism in Darkrai and Cresselia's support, Atsushi plans on spending the day exploring Oreburgh once they arrive. But before that, he'd gotten his Pokemon healed up and had headed just past the Pokemon Center for some morning training when something happens...

Chazuke and Natto have been pitted against one another while Mizushi sits with Atsushi nibbling on an oran berry. Atsushi calls out commands to them both, watching as they bounce off of each other. As usual, Chazuke can't do a whole lot other than defend himself and struggle...and after a while this gets on Natto's nerves. So much so that she bites down on the little Wimpod and outright refuses to let go, forcing Atsushi to get up and rush over.]

Natto, you can't- bite like that, let him go!

[Atsushi starts to reach in to pry them apart when out of nowhere a flash of light from the Stunky's mouth startles them both, Atsushi staggering back and Natto dropping Chazuke from her mouth, skittering back towards Mizushi. Atsushi turns his attention to where Chazuke fell, watching as the light warps around and envelops him as his figure begins to change, and he gets bigger...and bigger........

And bigger.

Atsushi falls back onto his rear, staring up at Chazuke now as the light tapers off to reveal a hulking behemoth of a Pokemon that towers over Atsushi, staring down at him with slanted eyes and multiple arms. Atsushi scoots back, his mouth working with no sound escaping as the Pokemon stamps towards him, now distinctly bipedal as it walks.

He opens his mouth and starts to scream when its massive claws sweep down towards him-

-but that is pretty quickly cut off as Chazuke scoops Atsushi right up off the ground, cradling him in his Big Meaty Claws(tm) so he can give him the hug he's always wanted to, chittering happily with his big head pressed against Atsushi's and messing his hair all up.]

I- ...w...wh-

[He wanted to be bridal carried by a 6 foot tall bug today, sure]

[takestheblame]

[Kiryu and Shoga were some distance away, not paying much attention, at least until Shoga noticed the shining light of an evolution. Curious, he hurried to see what was going on, so obviously his trainer followed right behind him.

...ah. It was your turn now to deal with an evolved Pokemon, eh, Atsushi?]

...he's much larger than I thought he'd be.

[And...more threatening-looking, too. That'd be scary to encounter in the wild. But yeah, Chazuke is much larger than Shoga! Even taller than Kiryu! It's amazing]

[enjoymyatelier]

[...oh, wow, that was not quite what he expected from that little thing, uh-]

...

Well, I guess it is a bit like Magikarp, then.

investigation!

[enjoymyatelier]

[You know, Kayneth should really be investigating the Gym or the mines or something... but they've got time. Probably nothing but time. Unless Cyrus shows up and murders them all, but anyway, there's an attraction in Oreburgh that Kayneth is incredibly invested in visiting the second he realizes it exists, and thus he's going to spend the day at the museum. Sure, he wouldn't normally be interested in a plebian subject like coal mining, but hey, between the library in Canalave and a museum in Oreburgh? He's recharging, okay.

For what it's worth, he is paying pretty close attention to all the exhibits in case they'll tell them anything useful about leads on the mythology of the region or useful in general and ask the employees about the operations, but for the most part he's just chilling. So if you felt like paying admission or taking a free tour on Monday, well, you can chat him up.]

[greydients]

[Oreburgh City is definitely an interesting place, but Rey is admittedly not all that interested in continuing her explorations today; if you happen to be near the entrance to the mine, you'll find her....sitting on the ground, as if she's just been knocked backwards by something.

It's hard to blame her, since her Golett has suddenly grown 9ft tall.]

G...

[Rey had never been able to find Golett - her first Pokemon - in any of the books about the Sinnoh region. It's the only Pokemon in her team she knows nothing about, as the rest of them are all natives. She'd just...assumed that it was from a faraway place, an odd little ghost-robot content as it was; even after two of the other Pokemon in her team evolved, it didn't even occur to her that Golett had the potential, let alone....]

...Go..lett?

[Said 9ft giant ghost-robot doesn't seem quite as shocked as its trainer; instead, it flexes its arms and rotates its upper body around, testing out its new capabilities. If anything, it appears quite happy.

...if a....9ft giant ghost-robot can look happy, anyway.

...

...Rey will recover, she just...needs a moment.]

[takestheblame]

[It's museum time, out of curiosity. Kiryu's team better behave. Once he reminds them etiquette is important -- everyone may be spiritless but it'd be rude as heck to possibly break stuff in a museum anyway. No battling! -- they go inside.

Turns out neither Kiryu nor anyone in his team is passionate about the intrincacies of mining.

What does get their attention is the part about fossils. They all stare at the fossils, and Kiryu finds the information about how Pokemon are revived]

...they can revive ancient Pokemon just by using...those? And it's treated like something normal?

How can this world be so advanced?

[Reviving fossils, teleportation, healing machines...science is amazing in the Pokemon world]

[takestheblame]

...everyone is getting big Pokemon lately.

[It's a fact Daigo is jealous about. Why does everyone get to have cool and big evolutions other than him? Skorupi, on the other hand, seems more impressed by the size itself. He jumps off Kiryu's head and skitters to Golurk's foot, trying to see if he can climb up. Yeah, he wants to get all the way up there, to Golurk's head. Can you even climb a ghost robot?]

[gekkaju]

[Chazuke chitters happily to Kiryu and Shoga when they approach, still not yet letting Atsushi go as he's pretty well resigned himself to his fate at this point.]

H-haha...I wasn't expecting this kind of growth spurt either, to be perfectly honest.

[gekkaju]

Doesn't e-even look like the same Pokemon, does he?

[Most of his features are similar, at least? But boy he's...he's a large boy.]

[hyruglyphics]

[ One would assume that Zelda would spend basically all of her time at the museum once they arrived in Oreburgh. ... And honestly, it's that's a fair assumption, she might do just that at a later point this week. But what catches her attention instead is that very soon after they arrive and she sends out Miphanus the Metang...? Well, it's in that moment that a light envelops the creature, as it examines under a particularly amusing looking stone. They evolve.

And in a flash, the floating creature with two arms thuds to the ground as a new, altogether quite large (over five feet tall not even counting all the horizontal bulk) and heavy (... as in over a thousand pounds and four times as heavy as Bosphoramus somehow) new form. And Zelda is--

Ecstatic, of course! She whips out the Sheikah Slate and sends out every other member of her team (Saber the Lickilicky and Bosphoramus the Onix seems interested, Urbin the Alolan Graveler seems mildly agitated, the Mime Jr is blank, and who even knows what Vah Daroh the Porygon2 is thinking) and begins to take photographs ]

Oh wow, wow! Just look at you! Oh, you so resemble a Guardian now it's uncanny, actually!

[eudaimonikos]

Hey, you seen if there's fossils in any of these?

[Michael is coming towards the display cases from the placard about how to revive fossils. At least he's not actively holding a lockpick or anything.]

[discutio]

[Ignis, meanwhile, had to make a concentrated effort not to jump a mile in the air and snap into combat mode; luckily, Zelda not sounding remotely alarmed was enough to make him rethink that.]

Zelda, what was that sound?

[eudaimonikos]

Holy shit!

[Here's Michael, making absolutely no move to help you with this!]

Congrats on the big bug, man, he could really rip a head off!

[eudaimonikos]

They could just be talking about cloning.

[He says like that's normal? Either way it's not super clear from this primer.]

[takestheblame]

[It's not a bad thing to be hugged by a giant bug, Atsushi!]

A lot of people would say you're lucky to have a Pokemon like this one in your team.

[Because having to face one as a foe would be a challenge]

[takestheblame]

That isn't any less advanced, you know.

[Although it sounds kind of better than outright reviving them. That could get confusing for the revived Pokemon]

[hyruglyphics]

[ Miphanus lets out a cry as well, stomping a step or two closer as it works out this whole walking thing. It can still float, but... ]

Miphanus has evolved once more!

[ And it's really big. ]

[discutio]

[what in the name of all that is holy is your behemoth now, zelda]

They...can do that twice?

[hyruglyphics]

Oh yes, they can! Actually, there's a variety of Pokémon I found in my studies who can evolve twice, and I believe that some of our number have actually already done that, like Kazuma's Shoga. [ She smiles. ]

And it appears Miphanus is among that number.

[ Crunch, step. ]

[discutio]

[it's hard to keep track when everyone's got a small army]

...And am I hearing things incorrectly today, or is it almost comically enormous?