Week 1.

[azumods]

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 MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week one 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. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend! Feel free to investigate the city as you see fit this week; we ask only that you try to stagger investigations and be mindful of what's already been checked. If you wish to investigate, notify the mods in your comment subject for your top-level and we'll get on it as soon as possible!]

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[hyruglyphics]

Is it in a desert?

[ . . . No wait she was asked first uh, ] To answer the question though, Hebra is frigid. Though there are lowlands, most of it is a series of unforgiving peaks near to always topped in snow. No person could go there without a proper snowquill tunic or abundant cold resistant potions.

[semistableman]

I wonder if there are any places like that here. There probably are; this is just one city, after all. Might be worth getting a warm winter coat.

[He pauses before answering her question. It's... weird, being able to discuss this.]

Yeah, Wakanda is mostly desert. There's still a lot of farmable land, but not a lot of rain. There's a mountainous region, too, but I've never been there and don't know a lot about it.

[hyruglyphics]

I've tried to find a travel guide... I did find something earlier with travel tips, many of them talking about hiking. It think the region might have mountainous parts, at least.

[ A beat and ] Wakanda sounds akin to to the homeland of the Gerudo. The desert that they live in can scarcely be farmed but for volt fruits or some specialized work they've done in farming hydromelons. But they also have snowy highlands up in the northern peaks.

[semistableman]

Sounds like mind kind of place!

[He looks cheerful, easy.]

I do my fair share of farmwork, but not with produce. I raise goats.

[hyruglyphics]

Oh! You said as much to Cynthia the other night, didn't you... [ She smiles ] A very well chosen partner for you, then.

[semistableman]

Yeah. She might not be too wild about things right now, but I'm sure we'll find a way to get our partners back to their old selves.

[hyruglyphics]

... Do you - rather, I wonder what their old selves were... are? Are like.

[ Because she isn't sure what to picture. ]

[semistableman]

I wouldn't know.

But goats are feisty, independent. I guess since she's not technically one her personality might be different.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Mmm ] I do not know at all what to expect from... mine.

[ she really needs to work out what to call it. But she glances at the Beldum which has been and continues to float a little behind her all day ] I still can't help but feel it resembles a machine more than anything else.

[semistableman]

Machines can be people. Or animals, in this case, I suppose.

[He's cheerful as he explains it, clearly not bothered.]

Someone I know, she's... close with a man who is an android. He is a person, though. He's just a metal one.

You should give your friend a noble name, I bet they'd like that.

[hyruglyphics]

I know the value of machines, I've... worried with machines for years. I've loved to get to know the quirks and personalities of the Divine Beasts.

[ Actually...

There are some ancient heroes not represented by the Divine Beasts isn't there. she glances at Beldum. A noble name... ]

-- A metal person though! That sounds ... that sounds amazing. I would love to meet them.

[semistableman]

I don't know him very well, but he means a lot to Wanda.

[He smiles.]

What are the Divine Beasts?

[hyruglyphics]

The Divine Beasts are truly massive and powerful weapons the ancient Sheikah made in order to battle the Calamity. All four them were designed to be used by some of the other tribes of Hyrule other than the Hylians, and are suited to them. We excavated them in modern times and put in great efforts to allow them to be piloted by appointed Champions.


[ She sounds proud, really. ]

Wanda is a friend?

[semistableman]

Yeah, she and Vision are a couple.

[....]

Vision's the android.

[He doesn't sound bothered by this at all, because he's had time to get used to the fact that there sure is a sentient robot out there.]

The Divine Beasts sound incredible.

[hyruglyphics]

They are! they are truly amazing machines, such that when I saw Vah Nabooris being excavated from the cliffside, I could scarcely imagine they were made by people, just like you and me. Such titanic beings... when you are in the presence of them, you cannot help but feel you are before some sort of god.

[ Vision.

... What a fun name. ]

[semistableman]

It sounds like "Divine Beasts" are the right name for them.

[He grins.]

I kinda want to see one.

[hyruglyphics]

And I would love to show you them! If we had but one of them here and someone who could pilot it, many of our worries would be over.

[semistableman]

That sounds nice.

Maybe the lake spirits we're supposed to awaken will be like them. Big, impressive beasts.

[hyruglyphics]

I confess, I have been imagining them akin to the great fairies.

[ She says with a little bit of humor ]

[semistableman]

Great fairies?

[That definitely gets his attention, looking curious.]

[hyruglyphics]

Spirits of great power, to whom people make offerings to look after their equipment or their villages. They take the form of beautiful women, and reside with ponds were lesser fairies convene.

[semistableman]

Man. Your world sounds so different from mine. I'd want to visit it, even if there's no way I could stay there.

[hyruglyphics]

Is there not?

[ She ... seems to laugh at something here, an idea the struck her. And she ends up saying, ]

And here I wished more than anything right now that I could speak with Vision, perhaps see what powers him!

[semistableman]

I... have a lot of important things in my world. And Steve could never leave.

[His expression is easygoing, though.]

Vision has a power source in his head, but I don't know a lot about it; just that it functions a lot like a brain.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Who is Steve but more importantly, ]

That must be his core, then! Though now I wonder what sort of core could allow for such a complicated ... design as to make a person who could love like that. Robbie would definitely be fascinated, even more so than myself.