azume | Week 1.

WEEK 1.

As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning.

Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim.

It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being.

However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes...

Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good.

CURRENT LOCATION: VEILSTONE CITY
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES

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[r i p noct]

Yeah. It'd be good if we could help the people here on our way out. Feels wrong just to leave 'em like this.

[he's fine this is fine and he's coping]

...I think so as well, but at the same time my own world takes priority for me. If there's a way to repair this past simply dealing with Cyrus, then of course we should see to it. But if time should grow short and we need return to prevent such a thing from spreading, I'm afraid the choice is an obvious one for my part.

That's understandable, and I don't fault you for it. The last thing I want is for something like this to spread to other worlds, but hopefully we'll be able to find a solution to prevent that from happening.

[Choosing between helping this world and saving his own isn't something he really wants to think about.]

Agreed. This isn't...right. If we've the luxury of being able to help, it would be cruel not to.

Yeah. It wouldn't sit right with me just to leave everyone like this. Here's hoping those lake deities will be able to do something to help.

...An odd question, perhaps, but does your world often have dealings with the divine?

Nope. Why, does yours?

It's...been known to happen, on rare occasions.

Well, yeah, I guess it would be pretty strange if you were dealing with the divine all the time. It's not something that I've ever encountered back home, though.

Just thought I might ask. Obviously I doubt this will be the same as the Hexatheon, but it seemed worth asking around in case I was the only one from a world with an active divine presence.

Hexatheon?

[Huh...]

It sounds like we all come from pretty different worlds.

'Six gods', in other words.

[instead of 'pantheon'. language is weird.]

It would seem we do; the differences are already seeming a bit startling.

Well, we've already got three accounted for, so who knows.

[Shrug!]

I've already spoken to some people who are from worlds that don't have monsters everywhere. It's pretty strange to think about.

It does sound as if that would be a far simpler world to live in, doesn't it? If a difficult one to imagine.

It'd be nice not to have to worry about them, but it sounds a bit boring... What would you do if you don't have any tough monsters to look forward to fighting?

[not everyone wants to get punched in the face, yuri]