azume | TEST 7.

TIME.

Seeing as it's probably not the best idea to kick down the front doors and immediately announce your presence to the entire base as a whole, a more delicate touch is probably what's needed here when it comes to infiltrating the base; the warehouses near the main building, then, seem to be an acceptable place to start looking for another entrance. It isn't difficult to find - the buildings are largely unlocked for the time being (possibly for ease of access, possibly because no one is capable of caring if they aren't locked right now) and enough exploration and shuffling boxes around will grant you access to a door at the back, leading to an underground passage seeming to lead you in the general direction of the main base.

At the very least it's well-lit, the corridor leading to what seems to be a large basement that's both spacious and completely, unsettlingly devoid of people; there's no security posted down here, though it seems as though there really should be, and at the far side of the basement there's a staircase waiting for you, leading to a set of metal doors at the top that seem designed to slide open as soon as you approach them.

Before you can do so, there's another one of those odd pulses, signaling that another temporal disturbance has occurred; nothing looks different down here, however...

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[And what are we doing with the desk, Zelda? We've got what looks like a computer of some sort going on here, the fancy type that probably kills your damn neck that's all embedded into the top of it.]

[ Uh. Well she was going to go for the drawers, but you know who is going for the computer?

... It's Porygon2. It's Daroh. They are going to try to leap inside of it. ]

[CAT. SLIDING GLASS DOOR.]

[ THIS IS SUCH A RIP OFF but okay.

... Ok.

She giggles, but setting her stolen books down on the desk she goes to check... the computer screen? And what's just on the desk table? ]

[The screen seems to have a fair amount of things pulled up on it; specifically, there are notes about the creation of the universe, as well as something called a Red Chain.]

[ Oh fuck.

...

Let's start with Creation of the Universe. Let's skim it, it might have a weakness about the Creator? ]

[It's a text file, it looks...more like just musing than anything, and unfortunately nothing about any weaknesses of the Creator exactly.

Some say the universe originated from a massive explosion. Similarly, Sinnoh is thought to have been formed by an explosion in ancient times. Needless to say, the explosion came from the power of a Pokémon. The Pokémon must have been the mythical creature considered a deity by the ancients. Our aim is not to capture the mythical Pokémon, but to obtain its power...]

[ Obtain the power...

Huh...

If she keeps reading, is there details on the actions towards that intent? ]

[It doesn't look like it.]

[ Hmmm. Small note, but then it probably connected with one of the books. Maybe even one of the ones she stole? Oh well, for now, let's click open the Red Chain thing. ]

[Actually, this might be more like what you were looking for.

According to myths, the Pokémon created Sinnoh with its power. However, capturing the Pokémon with a Poké Ball prevents it from using its full power... But with the Red Chain, the Pokémon can be shackled, and its power can be used without restraint.

The Pokémon of the three lakes and Mt. Coronet are somehow connected. Capturing the Pokémon of the lakes will free the Pokémon of Mt. Coronet. From the Pokémon of the lakes, crystals can be extracted to create a Red Chain. Using that Red Chain, the mythical Pokémon can be summoned and shackled to do as we command.]

...Oh! ... Oh, this is it! this explains a lot.

[ A red chain, huh...

You can put a god in a pokeball? but it limits them... huh. ]

[You can, in fact, put God in a ball, but God probably won't like it very much. And also the limiting thing, yes.]

[ O... kay!!

... So anything in the drawers of the desk, if it has drawers? Anything else of interest on top of it? ]

[It doesn't seem to have much else of interest going on, unfortunately.]

[ Well.

... Then she does kinda glance around the room, but for now it's time to smuggle the books into her backpack and then if there's nothing else of interest, go back to Rey. ]

[Probably a good idea.]

[Rey is also finished with her investigations; she looks....

...to be honest, she looks tired as hell.]

How are you liking Cyrus' office?

[That was...also very tired. God, this sucks.]

I believe I know why the guardians were injured, and how the power of the Creator was contained. So... that's something.

That does sound useful. I wish I could say I found information we could use too, but...

[...]

...well, actually....

[.....oh, right, that pulse of disturbance-]

I found Cyrus' journal, but I'll tell you about it later. We should probably head back to the others before another one of those pulses hits and we end up in different times.

I should love to see that journal! But yes, we should go.

[ TO the others. Zelda would offer her a hand, but instead just intends to get in step with her, exhaling and hoping she can actually steal all these books. ]

[Speaking of another one of those pulses, a second one will hit not very long after the last.]

[ ... Well shit did something change around them as it hits? Zelda looks around, now mildly alarmed that they might be apart from everyone now? ]

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I wish I could show it to you, but unfortunately I could barely turn the pages, let alone pick it up.

[.....let her know if you need any help carrying those books

hopefully Cyrus won't Judgement them for this......

Anyway, to the others!]

Truly...? I could take some books...

[ Interesting, maybe it's to do with what has to remain there to be interacted with? Daroh couldn't go in the computer... ]