[The dust hasn’t quite settled yet, but it’s clear there’s been a shift in the battle - Rocket Grunts scramble to retreat in the wake of the prom-goers and their mighty Pokemon, and in their haste, the strange, newish door where a basement entrance would be has been left wide open.
Descend the stairs, and you’ll find yourselves in a room that feels like it should be much bigger than it is. The floor tiles have been laid down neatly, and a small room to the left has an ajar door. Piles of pilfered loot - trophies, rare books, tasteful paintings, many of which attendees of past proms might recognize as having once adorned the halls and rooms above - have been left in disarray before a very hastily constructed and shitty dividing wall. That too has a door, a decidedly mechanical one with a card key slot beside it, and beyond it you can hear the distinct, yet faint whirring of mechanics. Something’s on the other side for sure, but until you can get that door open, all you can do is guess.
Hm...knowing Team Rocket, it might be worthwhile to take a look around to see if a Grunt might have left a spare card key around in case theirs was lost.]
[The small room with the ajar door is surprisingly untouched, as rooms in ransacked mansions go. A plush carpet of purplish blue and a Welcome mat embroidered with Dratini welcomes you in. There’s photos on the walls of Lance posing with his various Dragons, and candid pictures of other notable Dragon-Type trainers from across the regions with their teams. Doodles of Dragonites breathing fire and articles on legendary dragon spottings are pinned up on cork boards, and a table stands along the far wall covered in...scrapbook notions? Yep - stickers, patterned cardstock, tape with designs on it, all manner of markers and pens - everything you need to make some really choice scrapbooks lays out in a clutter along the table...save for one very obvious empty spot, just big enough for an open book to lay.
There’s also a pair of black shoes peeking out from underneath the table that scuffle back at the first sound of someone approaching the entrance. Uh...what?]
((OOC: While digging through the items, your character has the chance to pull out one special-fun item that the mods will determine through RNG. Some are cool, some are harmless, and one or two are sure to earn a laugh. What have you got to lose? If you would like a mod rolled item, have your character digging through the pile and put ITEM RNG in your subject line!))
SECRET BASE LEVEL ONE
Descend the stairs, and you’ll find yourselves in a room that feels like it should be much bigger than it is. The floor tiles have been laid down neatly, and a small room to the left has an ajar door. Piles of pilfered loot - trophies, rare books, tasteful paintings, many of which attendees of past proms might recognize as having once adorned the halls and rooms above - have been left in disarray before a very hastily constructed and shitty dividing wall. That too has a door, a decidedly mechanical one with a card key slot beside it, and beyond it you can hear the distinct, yet faint whirring of mechanics. Something’s on the other side for sure, but until you can get that door open, all you can do is guess.
Hm...knowing Team Rocket, it might be worthwhile to take a look around to see if a Grunt might have left a spare card key around in case theirs was lost.]
[The small room with the ajar door is surprisingly untouched, as rooms in ransacked mansions go. A plush carpet of purplish blue and a Welcome mat embroidered with Dratini welcomes you in. There’s photos on the walls of Lance posing with his various Dragons, and candid pictures of other notable Dragon-Type trainers from across the regions with their teams. Doodles of Dragonites breathing fire and articles on legendary dragon spottings are pinned up on cork boards, and a table stands along the far wall covered in...scrapbook notions? Yep - stickers, patterned cardstock, tape with designs on it, all manner of markers and pens - everything you need to make some really choice scrapbooks lays out in a clutter along the table...save for one very obvious empty spot, just big enough for an open book to lay.
There’s also a pair of black shoes peeking out from underneath the table that scuffle back at the first sound of someone approaching the entrance. Uh...what?]
((OOC: While digging through the items, your character has the chance to pull out one special-fun item that the mods will determine through RNG. Some are cool, some are harmless, and one or two are sure to earn a laugh. What have you got to lose? If you would like a mod rolled item, have your character digging through the pile and put ITEM RNG in your subject line!))