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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... POKEMON AVAILABLE: NEAR WATER SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [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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[...Piers was a jackass but Chris deserved it more.]
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He killed one of my parents. My father.
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[Hang on, give him a second, he's kind of bad at this—]
I'm really sorry to hear that, Jake. That's... Man, that's gotta be really hard to handle.
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[He's watching the water a lot more than he is anything else, though.]
It just still kinda bothers me, I guess.
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I think I can get why. Even if he was never in your life, it's still a terrible thing to learn.
[Yuri leans back a bit and glances up at the sky.]
...What about your mom? Did you know her?
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But my mom... Like I said, she was great. Loved her more than anything. She died when I was still a kid, though.
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I was already doing the whole mercenary thing by then, so...
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[But if Karol's been through a lot of guilds and he's only twelve, maybe it's kind of normal for kids from Jake's world to get started with that sort of thing pretty young.
Yuri's quiet for a moment before speaking up again.]
I don't remember my parents. Not really sure what happened to 'em, but I was raised by the adults in the Lower Quarter. Flynn's dad more or less took me in, helped the others raise me.
I never felt like I was missing out on anything; it was a pretty good life, honestly.
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[All things considered.]
If you don't feel like you're missing out on anything, maybe it's better that you don't remember. The stuff I ended up finding out about my father recently was pretty fucked up, and I kind of wonder if it'd be better if I hadn't.
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[Living in the Lower Quarter was just kind of bad in general, but that wasn't any of their faults.]
What sort of stuff did you learn about your dad?
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[...Okay.]
Outside of just generally being a bastard and dicking over everyone he dealt with, he was a scientist who did a lot of experiments with stuff he shouldn't have been messing with. A lot of those experiments were apparently on himself, and by the time he died he was pretty fucked up. B.O.W. fucked up.
The guy I have the issue with is the one that put him down.
[This is so fucking sanitized, it's still fucked up but it's sanitized, but to the best of his knowledge he's not lying to Yuri; he doesn't like the idea of lying to the guy but at the same time, it doesn't feel like something he can just discuss with him, either.]
So he was pretty much goddamn insane. He died a few years ago, so he never really became my problem.
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...I'm sorry. It must've been really tough to hear about that. Even if he was never around in your life and he did all of that... well, he was still your dad.
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Are you gonna be okay?
["My dad became a B.O.W." is pretty heavy stuff, goddamn.]
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[...]
And hey, thanks for telling me.
[He definitely feels like he knows Jake a bit better now.]
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Just don't go telling anyone about that, okay?
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[No comment on the "good guy" thing but he looks pretty pleased anyway, okay.]