Test 1.

[azumods]

VALOR Your arrival at Lake Valor is met with no fanfare at all, nor are there any obstructions; it seems that Team Galactic has moved on from here, the area devoid of activity and strangely-dressed people for the time being. The area is also largely devoid of water. There's some, in the area that presumably was the lake once; however, it can hardly be called a proper lake now. There's a massive crater in the middle of the clearing that that now-unobstructed path through the woods takes you to; it's refilled some since whatever incident caused it, but the water is only about knee-high at the deepest and generally incapable of impeding you much if you should choose to wade into it. Whatever you choose to do, there's a massive, raised area in the middle of what's left of the lake, a rock formation of some sort; it's capable of being scaled with reasonably little difficulty. An opening is visible in the rock face, large and gaping, leading inwards and downwards into a cavern system of some sort. Your exploration starts now; time to see if there really is nothing worth reporting in the area.

Comments

[bloodspent]

[Jake will just be picking up his Scraggy, because what the hell is this- ]

...Yeah, this is new. These guys usually aren't too big on self-preservation.

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael can't pick up Janet, but he's holding Quaver in his hands to keep the bird's claws from digging into his shoulder.]

Probably not a great sign.

[bloodspent]

Yeah, this sort of thing says either "potentially really good" or "immediately really bad", and I'm leaning toward the latter right now.

[eudaimonikos]

Same.

[He offhandedly returns the bird to its Pokeball to free up his hands. Janet, at least, isn't running away, but the fur on her back is bristling up. Michael's never seen that happen before...he run a hand over her distractedly.]

Almost wish we'd brought one of the townspeople. Just to see. Is everyone still...?

[He turns to scan the group rather than finish his sentence. Yeah, all still here.]

[bloodspent]

[Yeah, Lobanja's hackles are up, that's...]

...I wonder if it did anything to Team Galactic, now that we're mentioning it. If it fucks with the mindwiped people, it would have fucked with them too.

[eudaimonikos]

Would've made it hard to get much done. Maybe that's why they left. Saturn would've had to do the dirty work himself for once.

[.....]

I wonder if he let his Pokemon out around here.

[bloodspent]

[......]

That's depressing either way, I'm pretty sure.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, yeah.

[look he had the thought, now you all get to have it too]