azume | Week 2.

WEEK 2.

The new week begins with new surroundings.

The city you've been growing accustomed to over the past week is now well behind you as you set out on your journey proper; the terrain still seems rocky and steep here as you move downhill and to the south, dotted here and there with small ponds to the east and rocky outcroppings that you can climb on to the west. There are also large expanses of tall grass here, and the entire route is flanked with tall trees leading off into the forest a short ways. You're more than welcome to explore; just don't stray too far from the group - you wouldn't want to be left behind out here, for any reason.

Wild Pokémon are abundant here, as anyone venturing into the tall grass will discover; they aren't inclined to attack you, however, simply watching with dull, dead eyes as you stumble through the area they've come to call home. The trip is difficult, and it's a lot of walking, but it's not unmanageable; fortunately enough, the route you're on should lead you directly to Valor Lakefront, assuming there are no complications along the way.

From Thursday and beyond, the route takes a sharp turn west; in front of you lies what's clearly the ocean, large rocks jutting out just offshore tempering the waves. It's safe to go in the water if you so choose - assuming you can swim, that is - and the forested terrain has given way to a large beach with patches of tall grass here and there.

Interestingly, there's a house located on the beach; whether it's inhabited or not is difficult to tell. Of course, exploring slightly north of the beach will reveal a path. Maybe it leads somewhere important...

CURRENT LOCATION: ROUTE 213
POKEMON AVAILABLE: NEAR WATER

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[OOC: Welcome to week two 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 next weekend!]

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A recorded image, huh...?

[He'll take a look at it, then look back at the plant.]

It really is the same... Wow, that's incredible. Can you use it on anything?

[...we do not have this technology in vesperialand, sorry zelda]

You can! Anything that the eye on the back of it can see!

[ and you can get close enough to to take the picture.

Awesome, right? ]

That's incredible. We don't have anything like that; if you want a picture of something, you'd better hope you have the gald to pay someone to paint it. This sort of thing is fascinating...

It is! This camera rune has always fascinated me, from the moment we were able to render it operational. In truth, Hyrule has nothing else like this, and so to discover that the ancient Sheikah had created something like this was... amazing.

I can imagine. An ancient technology lost in this day and age... It sounds like something out of a fairy tale. Pretty common where I'm from, but it never stops sounding crazy.

Perhaps I am too engrossed in the facts of the efforts to understand the ancient Sheikah. It still is magical to me but... perhaps not so impossible.

[ . . . Fairy tale though? Uh- ]

... Are fairies known for tall tales in your world?

[Huh.]

You haven't heard that before? Fairy tales don't really have anything to do with fairies, they're just... well, they're kind of tall tales, now that I think about it. They've usually got a pretty big focus on magic and happy endings.

Perhaps just not the term! I do know of such stories, of course.

[ Fairies are too concrete a thing... maybe... ]

Huh... Do you have fairies in your world?

Oh, of course.

Maybe that'd be why, then. We don't have fairies where I'm from.

[ Weeeeiiiird but ok. ]

Likely so.

... Yuri, do you have knowledge about forage in your world?

A little bit. We mostly relied on Karol and Judy for that kinda stuff. The old man knew his way around the wilderness too... and Estelle had all the book knowledge we could ever need. So I guess in the end I was the most useless one of us.

[He doesn't sound bothered, though, just amused.]

Oh well... I was hoping for more opinions on some mushrooms I collected. They are not quite identical to the ones Hyrule would have.

Take a few of 'em with you, we can get the others to look them over. I'm sure someone else in the group's got a good idea of what they're looking at.

Hopefully! Or at least we can reach a few opinions to focus the experiments on toxicity.

[ which is the concern, of course. ]

Wouldn't want to have anyone accidentally ingest something that'll knock 'em out for a few days. I'm sure some of us wouldn't mind the wait, but there are a few here who aren't used to travelling like this.

I do worry about that, honestly...

[ Alice... Aya... Emmeryn... ]

[y-yep...]

I don't think it'll be a big deal if we need to slow down for them. It doesn't look like we've been followed, anyway.

No, it does not seem to be the case. I initially had thought there was a need for us to keep speed... and I suppose that risk does still exist, but it does not feel pressing right now.

Exactly. I'm curious about why they didn't follow us, but I'm not going to complain.

There is some part of me that worries they have a faster route, and intend to simply meet us there.

[ she comments, even as she's collecting a sample of that same plant she photographed ]

Hmm... Yeah, that's definitely possible. We don't know this world nearly as well as they do, after all. Still, I can't see Cynthia sending us out like that without warning us of the danger, at least. She really does sound like she wants to help us.

[He's still a little wary, but Cynthia did sound sincere...]

I don't either, but ... well, I do not presume her to be all knowing either.

[ Okay, collected! Let's go on to find some more berries or whatever ]

That's fair. We don't really know all that much about her, do we? She might not know a ton about this place either.

[He'll follow, lead the way!]

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