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

[azumods]

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

[eudaimonikos]

He's fun, isn't he?

[Sigh. Oh, Saturn.]

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

[azumods]

[No.]

[eudaimonikos]

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.

[azumods]

[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.]

[eudaimonikos]

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

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

[azumods]

[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.]

[eudaimonikos]

[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?

[azumods]

[Yes.

...that is not an answer??]

[eudaimonikos]

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

[azumods]

[Yes.

And then, in Morse code: YES.]

[eudaimonikos]

[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?

[azumods]

[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.]

[eudaimonikos]

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

[kinda rude bro]

[azumods]

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

[eudaimonikos]

[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!]

[azumods]

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

[eudaimonikos]

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

[azumods]

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

[eudaimonikos]

[You guys know Morse code, why not use it...]

Well. I’m sorry to hear that. They are dirtbags. Dragged us all in here just to see if they could wipe out other worlds like they did theirs.

[azumods]

[Because they're Spiritombs, they do what they want.

Anyway, that gets a yes, though it's probably more in agreement to calling them dirtbags than anything else.]

[eudaimonikos]

Always did say humans could torture each other just fine...

[See, he was right, it was a good idea! Now it's just not for other reasons.]

Do you know if they were trying to capture the god? Like, in a ball or something, can that happen with god Pokemon?

[azumods]

[It's more of an answer to the first question than the second, but yes.]

[eudaimonikos]

Not gonna lie, kinda love hearing that they failed at something.

[It’s satisfying.]

Saturn had a Toxicroak...the god isn’t poisoned, is it?

[azumods]

[No.]