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victory_road2022-07-04 07:57 pm
blue_ice) wrote in victory_road2022-07-04 07:57 pm
a new rival appears
Who: Kaiba, Kingyoku the Goomy, and you!
Where: Obsidian Fieldlands, Cobalt Coastlands, Alabaster Icelands, Hisui
When: July!
Summary: One of the stranded people in Hisui wasn't in the present with the rest of you. Someone is completely lost and angry at the world. Help him or snap back?
Rating: E10+ for minor instances of anger and small injuries.
Log:
wiggle wiggle:
Among the temporally displaced newcomers to Hisui is a tall teenager with messy brown hair and sharp blue eyes, one most of the others won't recognize. He's growled at the guild members, reluctantly taken their deal for clothing and shelter, and ended up walking away with new blue and grey clothing in an ancient style and a strange red and brown ball in his hand.
Once he finds a relatively calm spot on the river, he releases the hatch on the ball. His eyes widen when some sort of purple slimeball pops out. It makes an odd squishy noise at him, twitches its antenna in the air....and rushes straight at the river to play in the shallows. This thing seems to really like the water. It wobbles and shivers like some kind of dessert jelly....
"Great. So I'm...in a new world some hundred years behind mine, where almost everything's trying to kill me, with this little jelly for protection?"
What a day. Kaiba peels off his new sandals and rolls up his pant legs, opting to sit close to the small creature and watch it play. It splashes about, all smiles: contrasting his trainer, all frowns.
working hard for the money:
Kaiba eventually picks up on the basics of Pokémon training through observation (and maybe a few questions). His little friend Kingyoku knows a few attack and defense abilities that he can use if the two get in trouble, and together they're meant to explore the wild and gather supplies. Fine, he can do that.
They don't stray far from camp (how he hates sleeping next to all these strangers), but they do search high and low for berries and leeks to earn their keep. Kingyoku's especially good at finding leeks, doing a little wobbly dance whenever he finds one. It's...almost cute.
Berries are a different story. Kingyoku isn't really solid enough to ram into trees to knock them down, so that leaves Kaiba to attempt to climb them. He hops onto a tree, hauls himself up the branches....
...and is promptly knocked down by a falling larva-like creature wrapped in leaves. Whoops. Kingyoku bubbles angrily, zooming over to try to scare it off! He hisses and spits a hot stream of bubbles. Kaiba looks up bleary-eyed as he hauls himself to his feet. What the heck?
The little goober is protecting him? He feels a strange surge of emotion in his chest and hops up to his feet, just as the weird leaf-bug surges forward for a bite.
"Attack!"
Kingyoku can't dodge in time, but it's so gelatinous that the bite doesn't seem to have much of an effect. And it's in perfect range for Kingyoku to spit some kind of hot breath, sending the thing flying backward.
Kaiba spares a little smile. Maybe they'll survive after all...is what he thinks until another one of these leaf-cloaked larvae drops out of the next tree, also gearing up to attack.
Help?
night skies
After dusk, when it's too dark to safely travel and unnerving ghostly sounds fill the area, Kaiba reluctantly retreats to the beach where everyone's tents are set up. He seems to hesitate around the outskirts of camp, looking at the gathered people socializing with a frown.
How are so many of them calm about this? Taken from their lives, partnering with strange beings...none of it's normal. He's no delicate flower, he can survive, but the idiot who trapped them here needs to get her mistake fixed ASAP.
He plants himself on a log and frowns up at the sky. The stars are surprisingly bright without the light pollution of the modern world, but...! No. No positives.
Kingyoku bumps into his leg then. Ugh, he's going to get his new clothes all slimy. Kaiba oh-so-carefully picks him up and sets him on the log beside him, but his hands are a mess. He wipes them on what remains of his old turtleneck, which he's decided to keep as a rag.
He feeds Kingyoku a berry absently, and takes a deep breath...and that calms him enough to dare to try to speak to one of the more experienced people passing by.
"...How confident are you that they'll send us back?"
--((prompts for weeks 3-4))--
never quite clean (fieldlands)
The trouble with having a Goomy for a partner is that they're very slimy. And very affectionate. That means his only fully intact outfit is very often slimy.
Kaiba's once again at the river by the dam at dusk, wearing his slightly ripped black leather pants while he washes his clothes *again*. He has a whole setup for laundry with buckets, water heated by a small fire (thanks to the little Ponyta curled up on the sands nearby), and he's rubbing his hands raw with scrubbing. Goomy slime really is stubborn.
Meanwhile the guilty Pokémon plays in the shallows in front of his Trainer, doing his usual dance.
"I'd probably kill for a washing machine right now."
highest heights (coastlands)
Once Kingyoku and his new fiery pony Zephyra are both a little stronger, it's finally time to train against tougher Pokémon! He takes them to the Cobalt Coastlands for some searching, training, and gathering. And an incredible view of the ocean wouldn't hurt, really.
He finds such a view on the cliffside to the left, and there's a relatively easy walking path up there. They have to battle their way through a few Pokémon, but once they make it to the top...it's an incredible view of the beach, with a few hidden lakes and lagoons on either side.
Time to let Kingyoku and Zephyra see the view! He lets his two Pokémon out of their balls and takes a seat on the cliff beside them. A little risky? Of course. But the view can't be beat.
He just...gently pulls King back from the ledge before he can attract a nearby bird. "Easy. I don't know how an aerial battle's gonna work when you can't fly."
King seems to pout. He's a dragon, he wants to fly! But that's not gonna happen, buddy.
hot spring field trip (end of month, icelands)
Kaiba is absolutely miserable once they arrive in the Icelands. He has a team of three by now, but his gentle little moth isn't really doing well in the cold. It's Zephyra who takes the lead here, the pony's gentle heat very welcome in this environment. He walks beside her on his travels, and her flames seem to scare off most of the smaller Ice-types. That's a relief.
He's looking for somewhere to stop and double check his supplies when he finds an unexpectedly peaceful place...a hot spring. Zephyra accidentally kicks a rock and the Pokémon in the spring turn to him...but they collectively shrug and turn back. Two that resemble muscular men with reptilian faces approach...but all they do is flex, laugh...and are they waving them over?
"...do we join them?" Kaiba asks, frozen in place. What a bizarre situation.
wildcard:
[ ooc: want a different prompt? feel free to suggest one here! ]
Where: Obsidian Fieldlands, Cobalt Coastlands, Alabaster Icelands, Hisui
When: July!
Summary: One of the stranded people in Hisui wasn't in the present with the rest of you. Someone is completely lost and angry at the world. Help him or snap back?
Rating: E10+ for minor instances of anger and small injuries.
Log:
wiggle wiggle:
Among the temporally displaced newcomers to Hisui is a tall teenager with messy brown hair and sharp blue eyes, one most of the others won't recognize. He's growled at the guild members, reluctantly taken their deal for clothing and shelter, and ended up walking away with new blue and grey clothing in an ancient style and a strange red and brown ball in his hand.
Once he finds a relatively calm spot on the river, he releases the hatch on the ball. His eyes widen when some sort of purple slimeball pops out. It makes an odd squishy noise at him, twitches its antenna in the air....and rushes straight at the river to play in the shallows. This thing seems to really like the water. It wobbles and shivers like some kind of dessert jelly....
"Great. So I'm...in a new world some hundred years behind mine, where almost everything's trying to kill me, with this little jelly for protection?"
What a day. Kaiba peels off his new sandals and rolls up his pant legs, opting to sit close to the small creature and watch it play. It splashes about, all smiles: contrasting his trainer, all frowns.
working hard for the money:
Kaiba eventually picks up on the basics of Pokémon training through observation (and maybe a few questions). His little friend Kingyoku knows a few attack and defense abilities that he can use if the two get in trouble, and together they're meant to explore the wild and gather supplies. Fine, he can do that.
They don't stray far from camp (how he hates sleeping next to all these strangers), but they do search high and low for berries and leeks to earn their keep. Kingyoku's especially good at finding leeks, doing a little wobbly dance whenever he finds one. It's...almost cute.
Berries are a different story. Kingyoku isn't really solid enough to ram into trees to knock them down, so that leaves Kaiba to attempt to climb them. He hops onto a tree, hauls himself up the branches....
...and is promptly knocked down by a falling larva-like creature wrapped in leaves. Whoops. Kingyoku bubbles angrily, zooming over to try to scare it off! He hisses and spits a hot stream of bubbles. Kaiba looks up bleary-eyed as he hauls himself to his feet. What the heck?
The little goober is protecting him? He feels a strange surge of emotion in his chest and hops up to his feet, just as the weird leaf-bug surges forward for a bite.
"Attack!"
Kingyoku can't dodge in time, but it's so gelatinous that the bite doesn't seem to have much of an effect. And it's in perfect range for Kingyoku to spit some kind of hot breath, sending the thing flying backward.
Kaiba spares a little smile. Maybe they'll survive after all...is what he thinks until another one of these leaf-cloaked larvae drops out of the next tree, also gearing up to attack.
Help?
night skies
After dusk, when it's too dark to safely travel and unnerving ghostly sounds fill the area, Kaiba reluctantly retreats to the beach where everyone's tents are set up. He seems to hesitate around the outskirts of camp, looking at the gathered people socializing with a frown.
How are so many of them calm about this? Taken from their lives, partnering with strange beings...none of it's normal. He's no delicate flower, he can survive, but the idiot who trapped them here needs to get her mistake fixed ASAP.
He plants himself on a log and frowns up at the sky. The stars are surprisingly bright without the light pollution of the modern world, but...! No. No positives.
Kingyoku bumps into his leg then. Ugh, he's going to get his new clothes all slimy. Kaiba oh-so-carefully picks him up and sets him on the log beside him, but his hands are a mess. He wipes them on what remains of his old turtleneck, which he's decided to keep as a rag.
He feeds Kingyoku a berry absently, and takes a deep breath...and that calms him enough to dare to try to speak to one of the more experienced people passing by.
"...How confident are you that they'll send us back?"
--((prompts for weeks 3-4))--
never quite clean (fieldlands)
The trouble with having a Goomy for a partner is that they're very slimy. And very affectionate. That means his only fully intact outfit is very often slimy.
Kaiba's once again at the river by the dam at dusk, wearing his slightly ripped black leather pants while he washes his clothes *again*. He has a whole setup for laundry with buckets, water heated by a small fire (thanks to the little Ponyta curled up on the sands nearby), and he's rubbing his hands raw with scrubbing. Goomy slime really is stubborn.
Meanwhile the guilty Pokémon plays in the shallows in front of his Trainer, doing his usual dance.
"I'd probably kill for a washing machine right now."
highest heights (coastlands)
Once Kingyoku and his new fiery pony Zephyra are both a little stronger, it's finally time to train against tougher Pokémon! He takes them to the Cobalt Coastlands for some searching, training, and gathering. And an incredible view of the ocean wouldn't hurt, really.
He finds such a view on the cliffside to the left, and there's a relatively easy walking path up there. They have to battle their way through a few Pokémon, but once they make it to the top...it's an incredible view of the beach, with a few hidden lakes and lagoons on either side.
Time to let Kingyoku and Zephyra see the view! He lets his two Pokémon out of their balls and takes a seat on the cliff beside them. A little risky? Of course. But the view can't be beat.
He just...gently pulls King back from the ledge before he can attract a nearby bird. "Easy. I don't know how an aerial battle's gonna work when you can't fly."
King seems to pout. He's a dragon, he wants to fly! But that's not gonna happen, buddy.
hot spring field trip (end of month, icelands)
Kaiba is absolutely miserable once they arrive in the Icelands. He has a team of three by now, but his gentle little moth isn't really doing well in the cold. It's Zephyra who takes the lead here, the pony's gentle heat very welcome in this environment. He walks beside her on his travels, and her flames seem to scare off most of the smaller Ice-types. That's a relief.
He's looking for somewhere to stop and double check his supplies when he finds an unexpectedly peaceful place...a hot spring. Zephyra accidentally kicks a rock and the Pokémon in the spring turn to him...but they collectively shrug and turn back. Two that resemble muscular men with reptilian faces approach...but all they do is flex, laugh...and are they waving them over?
"...do we join them?" Kaiba asks, frozen in place. What a bizarre situation.
wildcard:
[ ooc: want a different prompt? feel free to suggest one here! ]
no subject
"Yes, just gathering leeks, but supplementing with gathering firewood and patrolling as well. Care to team up, Seto?"
no subject
"I think that means yes," he says, shaking his head and smirking a little. "Your career before all this probably lent itself to wild life better than mine. Fighting in a boardroom's a lot different from this."
no subject
"Ah, well... yes and no. My home planet had an ecosystem rather similar to this one, but we were also very technologically advanced and skilled martial artists... and I was a princess. Even now I am a military commander, but I still have a roof over my head."
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He notes that the terrain's getting hillier, so he lets Kingyoku go back into his ball. Wouldn't want the little guy to dry out while he struggles. "I was the CEO of a gaming tech company. The game I developed for was based on virtual monster battles, and I loved dominating with strategy and dragons...but it didn't really prepare me for training real ones."
And his Blue Eyes was a much grander dragon than the little guy in his ball. But Kingyoku had cuteness going for him.
no subject
A soft chuckle.
"Most of the others brought here are similarly unprepared." She had a BIT of experience in animal handling with the mice, but a single level-five Pokémon is still very baby. "On the plus since, all of us are in one place, and most of us have been in the present for quite a while. We should be able to aid you and Kingyoko whenever you need it."
And really, after this, regular Pokémon training will likely be a piece of cake.
no subject
"I don't make a habit of asking for help or being in debt...but I don't seem to have much choice," he murmurs softly. He spins Kingyoku's ball in his hand as he thinks.
"So. I don't have my usual assets to offer you, but you do have a favor."
no subject
A light nod.
"I'm sure you'll do fine. And really, it's become custom to help new trainers. Think of it as paying it forward."
Still, she doesn't doubt that Kaiba will be able to help out in his own way. He seems capable and independent already, even if he's still new to everything.
no subject
"And...I guess I'll see you around?