Week 8.

[azumods]

WEEK 8 Snowpoint City remains as cold and unforgiving as ever, through no fault of its residents. The city itself doesn't seem to see much change in the passing days; there's something you'll all become rather aware of on Sunday as the day goes on, and after so long with no incidents along those lines it's likely an unpleasant thing to deal with. There's also the fact that the changes to the world seem to be slowing; though the one alteration that's immediately obvious is a major one, it seems that things may be beginning to stagnate again. Will there be a slip back into apathy again, if this continues? Or will the changes you've affected already continue to hold? Only time will tell, really. That doesn't mean that nothing has changed, however - thankfully enough, the slugs seem to be settling. Or...well, more accurately, once in a while they stop huffing at each other long enough to drive up piles of snow with their heads and stare at them like they're trying to work out what they're attempting to create, but at least it's a collaborative effort. Are they attempting diplomacy? It's difficult to tell; after all, they are just slugs. But at least there seems to be a little less open hostility. Improvement...? Perhaps. The local ghost Pokémon also seem to have taken an interest in you lately, though precisely...how is a little mixed. They don't seem overly mischievous or malicious - they seem about as odd as the rest of the wild Pokémon in the region - but they do seem more inherently trusting of you and your traveling group. They've taken to following you from time to time, and taking a general vague interest in what you're doing. So that's...new. CURRENT LOCATION: SNOWPOINT CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY [OOC: Welcome to week eight 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.]

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meeting!

[redbellion]

[ anyone who passes by the pokemon center will see a note posted on the wall. bulletin board. whatever means there are for posting information. keith jots down a note on paper and posts it up where everyone can see it: ]

Meet back here at noon for food + meeting. Some of us went into the temple yesterday, and we have things we need to discuss. -Keith

[ then when everyone's gathered around, with food provided by ignis, keith moves to the front of the group, his shinx perched up on his shoulder.

there's also a glaceon standing at his side, right next to his feet. ]

Michael [ u filthy handlicker ], Ignis and I went to investigate the temple yesterday. At the very bottom, there's a really huge...rock-like...Pokemon. I can't really describe it well--anyway, I don't know what its name is, but...we also found this Glaceon with it. We found out that these two had been trying to seal themselves off from Team Galactic.

[ ...after a bunch of quarreling and ignis being done with michael and keith's shit. ]

The rock Pokemon started making these sculptures to try and communicate with us. One of them was of Jupiter. The other one was of a girl named Candice, who's apparently the leader of the gym in this city. It sounds like something might have happened to Candice. This Glaceon is one of Candice's Pokemon. It wants us to find her, and we should.

[eudaimonikos]

We were going to anyway, of course - Maylene did ask.

[filthy handlicker, present]

But the giant rock monster is very nice. We had a good talk. [You know. Him and it. Despite people yelling about it.] So don’t worry about it, it’s fine down there.

[greydients]

...giant rock monster?

[The very mention of the temple on the note had been enough to get Rey to the meeting, but the free food had also admittedly been nice.]

Was it a Pokemon?

[eudaimonikos]

About as much as Azelf was, I figure.

[greydients]

[...oh. Probably not a Jedi temple, then.

....well, it was a long-shot, anyway.]

And you spoke to it?

[eudaimonikos]

Yes. Well - it didn't talk. But it blinked its lights, and made some very detailed ice sculptures.

[greydients]

[...ice....sculptures........lights??]

Are you sure it wasn't a droid? You know, a machine.

[bloodspent]

[So he's leaning up against the wall, taking all of this in and being very, very determined to escape this Pokémon Center as soon as this meeting is over because he's been cooped up in here for way too long, and he just has one thing to contribute here - ]

So. Important question about this giant-ass rock thing - was it a god, or just really goddamn huge?

[discutio]

I'm almost certain it was some kind of deity. It's...not an easy thing to articulate, but it held a similar sort of presence to Azelf.

[bloodspent]

No, that makes sense.

I kind of wonder if all of them are this reasonable, or if we've just been lucky so far.

[discutio]

I would venture a guess that there's likely to be a few that are less amicable, though the probability of that increases with the number we encounter. In other words: the more there are, the more likely a few of them are to be the sort to start trouble.

[semistableman]

It makes sense that this one was at least willing to hear you guys out-- since it was a temple in town 'n all.

So, that's probably one we can scratch off the list of "what, exactly, did Cyrus capture?"

[takestheblame]

Better check out the gym. There could be some sort of hint in there. [Kiryu mulls something for a moment] Back in Eterna I found a few journals belonging to Gardenia. Unfortunately there was nothing that could be of use right now, but there was one that described how Team Galactic started their activities in that city. Nothing groundbreaking or useful, though.

There could be something similar in Candice's gym.

[niceoppai]

Makes sense. Or at least some clues as to where she went.

[enjoymyatelier]

...and we also might get more of an idea of what happened to her in the first place, all things considered. Things looked fairly messy in Gardenia's gym.

[anythingforyou]

[Mmm.]

...All considered, it likely doesn't bode well for their present state of mind.

[Considering Maylene, to start with.]

[enjoymyatelier]

No, not particularly. Granted, Team Galactic seems loath to consider actual murder, so they're at least likely still alive.

[perfectselfie]

Was the rock Pokemon responsible for that huge explosion on Saturday?

[Aya's expression softens. Poor little Glaceon...]

I can't blame them for trying to seal themselves off. I was terrified of Team Galactic up until the meeting with Saturn.

[She nods.]

We definitely should try and find her.

[niceoppai]

Yeah, no kidding. Now that we know what to look for, we should spend at least some of the time here looking for clues. Since she lived here in the city, there's gotta be something left behind.

[perfectselfie]

Exactly. We have more to work with now.

[Aya thinks.]

We can start by asking around town? I don’t want to just go barging into her house without trying that first.

[niceoppai]

Guess so. Checking the Gym's a good idea, too, or any other empty buildings.

[ventulus]

Do you remember what Candice looked like? I mean...from the sculpture?

[ Long hair, short hair...anything they can gleam from that, which Ventus is assuming might be something substantial (or maybe he is just hoping too much on that.) In order to help with the search. ]

[discutio]

Michael described her as a girl with pigtails.

Re: meeting!

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

So did it...break the ice on the temple because it wanted to talk to us?

[Yeah, something like that?]

[redbellion]

That's what it seems like, yeah. It wanted our help in finding Candice.