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

[eudaimonikos]

[>Rock.

>You can throw rocks at things and people.

>Michael picks up a rock.]

[azumods]

[>Michael has now pissed off 108 people.
>None of them are members of your party.

The rock he's picked up vibrates violently, the etchings and cracks covering it glowing with an odd green light and emitting a sharp purple haze; the haze condenses around itself, forming a swirling mass of orbs and eyes and something that may or may not be recognizable as pure soul energy, and from the fuckawful noise it's making, it sounds pretty goddamn mad.]

[hyruglyphics]

[ ... She drops whatever thing she had been messing around with???

UUUUUHHH???? ]

[eudaimonikos]

Shit!

[MICHAEL FUCKING THROWS THE ROCK]

Janet, get it! [Cat Janet, uh, uses Pursuit?]

[azumods]

[So, the problem with that.

Janet is more than welcome to go at it, but she's not going to have too much of an effect on it; type matchups are kind of obnoxious like that, for one thing, and for another...well.

The Spiritomb seems to be very high-leveled. Like, absurdly so, especially given the average fighting skills of everything else on the surrounding routes.

Fighting isn't going to have much effect other than pissing it off, and Rin is also going to see a lot of activity from the stone she's picked up as well - in fact, most if not all of the stones in here seem to be alive in some way, there is a literal horde of these things in here for some reason and they are now all seeming very, very awake.]

[eudaimonikos]

...oooo-kay, nevermind, just use Double Team and back off!

[We're gonna try to bring up our evasiveness by a few levels and fucking, um - run away in the dark from the ghost horde? Unlikely to succeed. Release the parrot?]

Do the sleep thing! [He means Sing, use Sing?]

[azumods]

[You actually might get one of them to sleep for a while! ...These things have Pressure and Sing has a 55% success rate, so are you wanting to try your luck here or.]

[eudaimonikos]

[lol probably]

[hyruglyphics]

[ Why is everyone going to fight? Well, fight or flight sure is a thing and honestly, she can't blame everyone for wanting to fight ... I mean Zelda or Miphanus don't? Though actually, Miphanus seems weirdly fearful of the spiritombs! ... Or well, super fearful? it probably depends on if we're working on gen 4 or gen 6 resistances But Zleda uh...

Tries to greet them...? ]

Hello...?

[ Do any of these guys seem willing to communicate? ]

[azumods]

[That depends on whether you consider flashing their, uh. Souls? Orbs. Soul orbs. ...They're kind of flashing at you a bit, but other than that they aren't speaking or anything.]

[hyruglyphics]

[ WELP ]

[enjoymyatelier]

[oh god they’re fucked.

TIME TO SEE IF HE CAN DIPLOMACY THIS SHIT]

Excuse me. I apologize for my idiot companion who thought that picking up a strangely glowing rock in a world with living rocks wasn’t a terrible idea. Would you accept these as an apology.

[he proffers berries. Oh god.]

[eudaimonikos]

She picked one up too!

[Pointing at Rin.]

[azumods]

[They do look tempted by the food, actually, in the way that animals tend to; at the same time, they weirdly don't go after it - the effect is sort of like a dog that's being commanded to wait for a given signal to have at, they obviously want to but for some odd reason won't.]

[heritrix]

[Ughhh, she even tried to put it back gently! Of course that they're just getting more pissed off has Rin backing up stat, and Monkey is already moving just as swiftly.]

Are you serious? When we came in here, I wasn't expecting to find a bunch of knock-off jibakurei!

[radiantflame]

[Time for the dodge tank to do her stuff. Morag shoves her way in between the group at large and these angry clouds of ghosts, Torchic perched on her arm, visibly shaken but determined not to flee.]

Everyone, stand down! We cannot take them all!

[She glances at Zelda and Kayneth. Are they making any headway?]

[niceoppai]

Are we running? Should we run yet? Oh man oh man oh man...

[takestheblame]

Shit...!

[Welp. Just in case, Kiryu returns his Pokemon to their Pokeballs. It's not the wisest move ever, but this is starting to seem dangerous for them. It's possible they may have to run, he doesn't want to risk his Pokemon trailing behind]

[anythingforyou]

[Fucking hell, that's. Discouraging.]

Arion, fall back! We can't take them!

[YEAH HE IS JUST KIND OF GETTING OUT OF HERE, HOLY SHIT? Right back behind the trainer, and holy shit she's not sure what to do--hopefully the sleep tactic can make some headway, but maybe Zelda and Kayneth can too...]

[anythingforyou]

[OH WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK--]

Michael, drop it!

[Okay. Okay, fine, fine, everything's fine, Camilla's reaching for her Poke Ball because fuck that thing looks angry. Arion's kind of popping out unceremoniously, but--]

Arion, Bite!

[HOPEFULLY DOUBLE TEAMING WITH CAT JANET CAN HELP??? But yeah, despite his nerves, he's following orders at least? Hopefully?]

[enjoymyatelier]

You utter twit!

[CHRIST IS THIS A DEITY

MICHAEL YOU'RE BACK ON THE SHITLIST alright how does he deal with this thing-!]

[semistableman]

[Oh what the fuck is that thing?

He moves to protect Flora, who actually steps around him, still kind of blank, but clearly ready to fight the creepy ghost thing.]

[takestheblame]

What?!

[One moment they were walking down a tunnel, now there's an angry vortex of purple energy. The heck, Michael]

Everyone step back, just in case. [No crossfire, hopefully!] Daigo, you're up. Leer!

[Camilla and Michael are attacking, Kiryu may as well give some support by reducing defense]

[thunderwolf]

[Having been standing near the back with Michael, Eustace is pretty close to...this. His ears flatten immediately at this horrific noise and he backs the fuck up.

He also sees people making attempts to fight and it and shouts--]

Don't just blindly attack it, you have no idea what it's capable of!

[He's kind of late there, though. But seriously, this thing is acting far beyond what they've seen from other wild Pokemon. What if this is what they're looking for?]

[radiantflame]

[oh shit]

Torchic! Ember! Now!

[When in doubt just throw everything you've got at it, right?]