azume | Test 1.

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.

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[The lights blink and the Spiritomb continues to study Michael warily.]

Quaver, bring it another berry.

[Quaver accepts the berry and flutters over to drop it near the Spiritomb. Michael leans forward, folding his arms thoughtfully. Okay, apology done, now how does one make friends with a horrible ghost-amalgamate spirit guardian?

...well, he knows how demons get on.]

See now, this is the scariest thing he can do. Quaver, do the laugh. [Quaver does the horrible doll laugh. It's not any better to hear in the darkness.] Can you laugh evilly? I bet it'd help.

[It'll accept the berry, then go back to staring at Michael. It doesn't really react to the laugh or Michael's words but after a moment it makes a sound? It's a terrible sound, sort of like a lot of lost souls shrieking in unison? It's horrible, why did you do this.]

Ooooh, that's good too! Love the wailing.

[You really think Michael is going to be significantly bothered by the shrieking of the damned, this is his natural habitat.]

You're here to protect the lake guardian, yes? [He's been paying attention to the other conversations.] Can you all move, or are you just sort of stuck where you are? Ah - left for mobile, right for not?

[Okay fair point, but no one else deserves this!!

Anyway, the lights on the left blink! They can move, but they're certainly not moving right now.]

[lol, consideration for others]

Ah, good, good. [He'd been thinking of asking if it wanted to be put back, but it's clearly fine then.] Now, I'm afraid flying shrieking in the face of most of your enemies might be a waste, they're all completely forked in the head. But any of them not wearing the stupid green wigs, that'd be fun - speaking of which, have you seen a guy with blue hair like this?

[Mimes Saturn's horn-hair things.]

[Aren't we lucky Saturn's hair is so distinctive? Yes.]

He's fun, isn't he?

[Sigh. Oh, Saturn.]

Did you fight him? Left for yes is fine, like they're doing.

[No.]

Did he get past you? [Michael raises his hands.] No judgement if he did, he's done the same thing to us like three times. Kinda his deal.

[That gets some lights flashing in response, but it's not a yes or no. It's more like they're not sure how to answer that.]

[Hmm. Maybe he should rephrase? Or rethink.]

Was he trying to get past you? To the lake god?

[Once again, no certain answer. Eventually you'll get a yes but it doesn't seem entirely certain, like maybe they're not able to express whatever else is on their minds.]

[Michael looks around to see if anyone else is having more luck.]

...wait, is that one speaking Morse code? How the hell do you know Morse code?

[Yes.

...that is not an answer??]

...do you, specifically, know Morse code? Or is that guy just the human nerd of the group?

[Yes.

And then, in Morse code: YES.]

[Michael giggles.] Man, you're all human nerds! That's fine, I was the human nerd of my office, way back when. Probably not in the same way. They're kinda neat though, aren't they? In a silly, squishy way?

[....we're getting distracted.]

Sorry, this is weird, do you have a name?

[That doesn't get a coherent response. They're all kind of flashing their lights primarily at each other, and the result is just a lot of ??? so uh. Who knows, man.]

Okay, talk amongst yourselves. I'll be here.

[kinda rude bro]

[Yes...? Are they being rude or are they just having difficulties communicating, who knows.]

[Luckily Michael isn’t the most patient immortal out there anyhow.]

Is Team Galactic responsible for hurting your god? [He’s totally paying attention to all that other stuff!]

[This one actually gets a prompt response: yes. The lights blink a little more forcefully than usual too.]

Just recently, or did something happen when they did their whole apocalypse thing a few years back?

[That one's a little harder to answer. You're not getting a yes or a no here, just a lot of flashing lights.]

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