Event: The Reveal Glass

[indigo_league]

Across the Pokémon world, characters may have spotted a falling star last night. Or at least, one would think that's what it was: a naturally occurring phenomenon, rather than a legendary artifact. Specifically, the Reveal Glass fell to earth during a fight among a group of legendaries started by the return of a long-lost family member. But it's probably best to leave them to handle all that themselves, while your characters deal with other consequences.

The Reveal Glass shattered upon impact, and the shards scattered throughout Kanto, Johto, and the Sevii Islands… And made their way into the hearts of your characters. But bleeding isn't the concern here. Instead, the impact will hit when a character first looks into any reflective service. An eerie feeling hits them as they're transported to the Mirror Dimension.

While this realm can be many different things for different characters, one thing is always true: It is a place of honesty, where true selves are revealed. Those struck by a shard will find themselves facing truths they are no longer able to hide, and now must accept. Fortunately enough, even those who haven't been struck will be able to enter the Mirror Dimension during this event via a reflective surface to offer help. By the end of the 29th, things will return to normal. Characters will be back in the usual Pokémon world and their hearts will be rid of the shards, but time is strange in the Mirror Dimension, and the experience may feel like it goes on far longer than a day. Or, maybe that's just the emotional exhaustion.

The Reveal Glass plot is here. You can swing by the event info post for additional details and FAQ, and play out your characters’ enforced therapy on this post. As with most VR events, this plot is entirely optional and your characters don't need to take part at all.

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[tempredmental]

Once Keldor was close enough for Keith's peripheral vision to catch the movement, he shifted his gaze to notice him.

"Oh, hey." He got up off the chair. It looked like an old wooden kitchen chair from a long defunct dining set. He stepped up to the porch rail. "You uh..." Keith was confused, though. He didn't know what this place was, either. "Welcome? I guess?"

[behindblueskin]

Old. Worn. Wooden. Rustic.

The exact opposite of fine palatial furnishings.

Keldor might have cared about such things. Once. Long ago. Way back from before the wars that gripped Eternia for years began.

"Greetings, Keith...," he begins, not exactly sure what he should add to that.

'Nice home'?

'Is this your world'?

He can do better than that.

"Do... Do you mind if I join you?"

He can stand, if there are no other old, worn, wooden, rustic chairs to sit on.

[tempredmental]

"Uh, no. I don't mind at all," he said. There wasn't another chair there, but Keith didn't move to sit back down on it. Instead, he leaned against the porchrail. There wasn't much around to poke at outside. Through the window, though, Keldor would see a bulletin board on the back wall.

[behindblueskin]

Not quite wanting to impose himself upon Keith or his hospitality, Keldor doesn't immediately take the now-vacant seat. Instead, he chooses to stand; taking note of his surroundings in this odd place he's found himself back in and the first trip in was rough, to say the least in such a way as to not make it too obvious he's a gawking stranger here. In this way he can properly study just how bizarre this place really is.

While he still has nothing to compare it to, what he'd originally thought was the sky now looks ... more artificial-looking than it had seemed at first glace. Like it's an artifice, but what sort, he can't say.

Of course, Evelyn would've noticed it right away—she's much more in tune with the natural world than he is, but he notices it all the same, and after a time, he finds he doesn't like to look at it for too long. It doesn't hurt or unsettle him to do so; it's just its overall ... oddness he'd rather not take in.

It gives him a reason to look at other things.

Of all the things he might expect to see in such an unassuming home like this, a bulletin board was not one of them. But, as unexpected as it might be, Keldor's cerebral instincts don't take long to assert themselves, and before he realises it he's puzzling over it to figure out what it is/was the person who'd set it up was trying to analyse before he'd got here.

[tempredmental]

Keith caught him staring through the window. The bulletin board was covered with a lot of things. Some were things that Keldor wouldn't recognize because they were from Keith's home, but, upon a closer look, he'd notice some Pokémon related things, too. It was as if the board changed to include things that were more familiar between them. It wasn't exactly what Keith had left it as when he'd left home that day to show the others where he'd found the cave carvings...

The carvings looked primitive, yet still like a bunch of figures guiding a robot lion. There was a map of what looked like a large canyon area (Keldor probably wouldn't recognize the Grand Canyon), and some photos. Though, the photos seemed a bit out of place. There was a photo of Keith and Shiro, both much younger and neither with scars or whitened hair. They were posed by an orange and grey machine that hand handlebars and a seat like a bicycle, but that was where any resemblance ended. There was another photo of Keith, aged somewhere between what Keldor knew and the younger Keith in the previous photo, in white and red armor with a massive red robotic Lion. Another showed Keith in dark armor, a hood over his head. The last showed Keith, with the longer hair and the scar on his right cheek, in a red and white uniform jacket on the bridge of what was likely a spaceship. With him were Shiro, though with a different robotic right arm, and Allura, her hair in a bun, along with three others that Keldor may or may not know. They all wore jackets like Keith's, but in different colors... Shiro in black, Allura in pink... the other three... the smallest with glasses in green, a person about Keith's size in blue, or and the largest, a hulky fellow, in yellow.

Other photos showed various Pokemon that Keith had... a Toracat, a shiny midday Lycanroc, a Talonflame, a Wailord, a massive Wyrdeer, an Arcanine... among many others at various points in their evolutions. Keldor would likely recognize a few. The Toracat and the Lycanroc were with Keith the most often.

A breeze came through, shifting the canyon map to show another underneath... the map underneath was Kanto, Johto, and the Sevii Islands...