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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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[Leaning over, she pulls at Abbey's wings so Kiryu can see her wingspan, demonstrating them.]
Part scorpion, part bat, and heavy as a gargoyle.
[Abbey flaps her wings once when Rin releases them, straightening the muscles out. If Kiryu looks closely, she has big pincers for hands too, another trait like a scorpion. Rin's nose still has marks from where Abbey pinched her earlier.]
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Another creature that doesn't make any sense.
[Still, Kiryu can't deny he's kind of curious]
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[She bops Abbey on the... Well actually, Gligar don't really seem to have noses. In the general face area though! Not that it matters. Good or bad, she doesn't seem to have any opinion of the gesture.]
Anyways, she's still like a scorpion in the ways that matter. If you see any creatures like her, be careful of the tail. Her strike is poisonous.
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[The last thing they need is someone getting poisoned, that's for sure! But yeah, are you okay, Rin?]
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[Which really raises all kinds of questions, but she reaches behind her to pet her Mienfoo on the top of his head. He doesn't react much to it other than to glance on her, eating a berry he must have found.]
Monkey was the one to learn that lesson, but I patched him up quickly.
[Or at least she thinks she did? It's hard to tell when they don't react much either way, sick or well.]
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[Many poisons out there in the wild aren't strong enough to cause a death, but they would cause sickness. Either everyone expects people to toughen up and endure getting poisoned, or it's the possibility Kiryu thought up.
At least that's the explanation he thought when he noticed the lack of medicine for humans]
...Monkey.
[Looks more like a mustelid to him, Rin!]
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[Even though her Magic Crest is missing, that does not sound like a party. She's always been more vulnerable to poisons than most people. Thoughts wandering a bit on that subject, it takes her a moment to realize he's said something else.]
Hm? [She follows Kiryu's gaze the little guy in question and gets it a moment later, blinking. Sorry, she's still slow waking up.] Oh, yes. It's short for Capsule Monkey.
[...like that makes any more sense for why she named a weasel Monkey. Because of course.]
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[Not to doubt your judgment, Rin! But yeah, this is puzzling]
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[A bit of a nerdy one now that she thinks of it, and she can't help but chuckle at herself.]
Are you familiar with Journey to the West? It's a classic Chinese legend.
[One of the oldest stories in the world, actually.]
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[Kiryu's aware the story exists, maybe he heard it a long time ago, but now he doesn't remember much about the contents of the legend]
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It's the story of a Buddhist monk who traveled to India on a mission from the gods. He had three companions; all supernatural deities ordered to protect him along the way, to make up for crimes they committed in the past.
The first of those companions is arguably the most famous character in the story, to the point you'd forget he isn't the protagonist: Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Also know as Son Goku, in Japan... [Trailing off, she laughs.] He has a lot of names, actually. At least ten or so, just within the story itself. It's always changing, or he'd get yet another title.
[Patting the Mienfoo again, she smiles.] The first of his names however, was Stone Monkey, in reference to the way he was born fully formed from a stone.