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Week 17.
WEEK 17 There are disturbances in Veilstone. Although perhaps saying that there are disturbances in Veilstone is understating it; the first thing that's going to be immediately noticeable is the fact that there are few to no people outside of their residences. They're still there, they're definitely present in town, and it doesn't look like Team Galactic has done any mass recruitment recently; at the same time, they don't seem inclined to leave their homes unless their task is absolutely necessary. The reasons why will soon become apparent, the longer you remain in the city; soft bursts of force will ripple across the city from time to time, and every time they do something shifts. The edges of buildings will suddenly decay, aging before your eyes into something that seems to have been abandoned for years; sometimes parts of the streets will vanish as you walk, turning into something hard and rocky, seemingly still untouched by human intervention. Occasionally the leaves will turn bright colors and drop off of the trees, only to regrow anew again almost immediately. Perhaps most tellingly is the fact that your concept of the passage of time is no longer entirely halted - you're aware that time is certainly passing, though it's difficult to say in what direction. It's obvious now more than ever that time exists in a sort of fourth dimension, coming at the world from a different angle entirely to the more planar space that you're still not certain you're perceiving correctly; throughout all of this, the Team Galactic base remains sealed. Whatever it is you're going to do about this, you might want to formulate a plan of some sort this week. POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY [OOC: Welcome to week seventeen 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.] |
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Don't tell me, let me guess. Everything's distorted to hell and back.
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[Hey, Ignis, you look like total shit but he's not actually going to say that because at some point during his Character Development Arc with Sherry he figured out basic tact. Does he still think it? Absolutely. But not saying it is improvement!]
You feel the weird waves going on once in a while? Every time that happens something else gets fucked. Time moving forwards or backwards in weird ways.
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I can, yes. Along with the distinct lack of any point of reference as to what time it is, more so than before. Stagnation I can adapt to,but this feels more like the floor getting pulled out from under me every...I'd say 'ten minutes', but who can even tell anymore?
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Yeah, there's a reason I didn't try to give some sort of estimate for how often this is happening. Could be every couple minutes, could be every hour, how the hell am I supposed to know.
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[everything is awful!]
Have you gotten a look at the base? Anyone coming or going at all?
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I haven't seen the man of the hour anywhere, either; whatever Saturn's doing, it looks like he's keeping it to the base for now.
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...I'd rather not break down the door and instantly draw attention to us, least of all when I wager there's a god with dominion over time likely in their basement.
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There's a storage area where Cynthia was fighting Saturn. Saturn had a bunch of guys with him when that happened, they all disappeared pretty quickly and without having to pass us at the entrance, they went toward the other buildings. Unless he's literally keeping 'em in storage crates, I'll bet there's a way into the main building through there. Just because I don't actually see one doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
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That could be a worthwhile method of approach, then. I don't expect any measure of stealth to hold up for long, but it may yet give us even a slight advantage.
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...I don't even know if we're much of one now, honestly.
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You got any tips for going up against gods? In the event that we have to fuckin' subdue this thing. Closest experience I've got was dealing with a thing meant to wipe out humanity and the most I took away from that is "try not to die too much."
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Even outright killing a god doesn't quite manage to do much of anything where we're from. The only way I can think of to defeat one is...well, with another. We needed Shiva to subdue Ifrit, and apart from that our conflicts with the Astrals were no more than tests of our strength and will.
...I don't know that there's anything we can do here if one actually tries to kill us, save for 'pray the guardians or Darkrai and Cresselia intervene'. Or at least hope that if Galactic can subdue them with force, the same holds true for us.
In short, 'attack, because I'm out of ideas.'
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We had guns. Let me tell you, I have never felt so goddamn useless as I did trying to point a pistol at something bigger than this fucking building.
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To be honest, I don't usually plan. I always just kind of figure we'll be okay because we don't have too much of a choice.
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[He took a slow breath, putting his visor back into place.]
Strategy is the only thing I have right now, and for how much it keeps falling through as of late I don't think I'm of much use to any of you. We're likely to be noticed the instant we step foot in the base, if we haven't been already. From there everything's just liable to fall apart immediately.
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Like... Don't get me wrong, Chelsea and Aya and Sena are great. But they're not gonna do much other than "die" in a serious situation.
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[...He likes all these people, he promises. It's just that he's not sure what the fuck we're supposed to do with them if something shows up and decides to try for a TPK.]
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[So there's that.]
They're generally more capable of shit than we are, if it comes down to a fight. I just don't like the idea of sending 'em in unless I know they want to.
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