TEST 8.

[azumods]

FLOW. The feeling of pressure in here is immense. It's stronger than it was with Darkrai, something you can feel down to your core, something that you couldn't shake off even if you tried; there's nothing to do but power through it. Saturn, for his part, either isn't feeling it at all or is incapable of reacting in any sort of appropriate way even if he could; he simply continues to regard you from across the room, his words hanging heavy in the room. It's a far cry from his behavior during the first month you were here; he was civil then, willing to do you favors in exchange for the chance to talk to you. It's plain that he will be doing no such thing today; it may be difficult to know where to start, really. Especially when your Pokémon don't seem to be doing well - whatever's happening here, they seem reluctant, even unwilling, to fight anything in this room. Perhaps it's not surprising; the energy in the room is likely familiar to them, and it's the sort associated with someone deciding to take their spirit away last time it was angered. Whatever the reason, you're on your own for now; whatever happens is your choice, and yours alone.

Comments

[ventulus]

I don't know, we need to figure out something to -- break that somehow, maybe.

[ Whatever that Red Chain thing is... if it can be broken. Well, he refuses immediately to believe they can't do something about it! ]

[radiantflame]

If it's possible. But be careful- Saturn is not himself anymore.

[He may not be an emotionless drone like the rest of the world but he's definitely brainwashed to hell right now.]

[ventulus]

...I know he isn't, and well, I refuse to believe that's nothing we can't do about this.

[ It's scary, but this...it's also kind of making him really angry that Saturn's even going through this in the first place. It wasn't right for so many reasons, even independent of Saturn's own. ]

So, we're just going to need to come up with a way.

[niceoppai]

What, like drive a bulldozer in here? What could even be powerful enough? Even if we could catch him off guard...

[ventulus]

I don't think we have anything powerful enough to like overwhelm him or anything...our best bet might just be continuing on talking to him and seeing where that takes us.

[ ... ]

If there's a way to break the control over him, it'll have to be because he'll want it, and we need to help him realize that this really isn't what he wants.

[niceoppai]

Which is great, but it's hard if he can't want anything!

[ventulus]

But the important thing is that it's not impossible! And I'm not leaving him like this!

[niceoppai]

You think if something came at 'im by surprise somehow?