Week 4.

[azumods]

WEEK 4 Backtracking may not seem like an ideal situation, especially not given the situation on Sunday morning, but it isn't without reason or merit; after all, Lake Valor is within a reasonable distance, and perhaps more importantly, there's reason to believe that something may be there. Whether it's one of the Guardians you seek or something else entirely has yet to be seen; there's only one way to know for sure, however. So back onto Route 213 it is; you should reach Route 214 by Tuesday afternoon, and the entrance to Lake Valor by Thursday night; you may want to wait to explore the lakefront proper during the morning, however. Who knows what you may run into... You've seen at least some reasons to not give up hope as you left Pastoria; for the time being, let that hope give you strength. CURRENT LOCATION: ROUTE 214 POKEMON AVAILABLE: PLAINS/FOREST / MOUNTAINS/ELEVATED AREAS SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY [OOC: Welcome to week four 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!]

Comments

[semistableman]

Creative punishment.

[I mean a lot of this sounds really fucked up, but hey.]

[eudaimonikos]

[I mean yeah]

Thank you. See, that's what I was saying, it wouldn't have killed us to try new things. Didn't really work out the way I planned, but it's all for the best!

[semistableman]

[Bucky laughs quietly.]

If anything ever works out the way people planned, I'll be shocked.

[eudaimonikos]

Guess we're all alike in that way.

[Michael smiles for a moment. And then we've had just enough of a moment and it is time to deflect.]

...anyway. Glamping. Cars don't seem to be much of a thing around here, but you'd think they'd at least use the Pokeball technology to carry things easier.

[semistableman]

[Bucky shrugs, not really wanting to admit that Pokeballs are kind of creepy to him. Not that it's much of a secret; he has none, and both his Pokemon are always outside of Pokeballs.]

Maybe they like hiking the old fashioned way.

[eudaimonikos]

You'd have to walk across most of the country just to get to a library.

[semistableman]

Sure looks that way. I don't understand it, but I guess their culture is about being on the move.

[eudaimonikos]

There's that, and then there's putting all the books on one end of the country. I looked at a map, you have to take a boat to get there. Think of the children, Bucky.

[semistableman]

Maybe they've got books in their homes? I didn't exactly barge into houses, I wouldn't know.

[eudaimonikos]

They have some. Liam had a lot on doing martial arts with your Pokemon. I was going to take one for the people here who are into that, but...I didn't.

[He'd felt bad or something?]

[semistableman]

...Maybe we should all get some notebooks at our next stop in a town. We'd be able to write information down without worry, that way.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, I don't need to do that. Be kind of a crummy immortal being if I just went around forgetting things.

[semistableman]

I have perfect memory, too, but it is kind of an unusual skill.

I was thinking more for swapping notes with the others.

[eudaimonikos]

That's certainly an idea. I hadn't thought we'd need to back then, but now...any one of us could be the next to vanish.

[semistableman]

Yeah. So far it's been entirely random.

[eudaimonikos]

[uggggggh he hates this]

I don't know how humans cope. I mean, this is just an addition for you, you could all basically die at any time.

[semistableman]

[Bucky nods.]

Yeah, I accepted that when I joined the Army.

[eudaimonikos]

I can't even imagine doing something like that. [.....] Well. Maybe a little bit, but sure as hell not for my people.

[semistableman]

Do demons have massive wars with each other?

[A Catholic upbringing tells him that demons are absolutely the sort, but apparently a lot of that is straight up fiction, so...]

[eudaimonikos]

N-ooo, not as such. Not for a long time, at least. We’re very bureaucratic these days.

That’s not to say that our politics don’t get violent, they definitely do. But we’re very difficult to kill even for each other. Retirement’s always a big public spectacle - literally everyone can hear the screaming.

[semistableman]

"Retirement", huh? Interesting way of putting it.

[eudaimonikos]

Not my term, everybody says that. First your essence is scooped out of your body with a flaming ladle, and then every molecule of your being is placed on the surface of a different sun.

[He actually seems a little uncomfortable talking about it?]

It’s also called “the eternal shriek”. Because of all the screaming.

[semistableman]

[His face falls.]

Sounds horrific.

[What the fuck?? What the fuck.]

[eudaimonikos]

Yeeeeeeah. Big reason I can’t go home ever again.

[He’s suddenly very interested in re-adjusting his tie.]

[semistableman]

[You know, he's fine with changing the subject? Completely fine.]

I bet this world would be all right to stay in, if the people here were... normal. I couldn't stay here, but I'm tempted to drag my friend here, if we fix this. When we fix this.