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Tarlar
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 6, 2023 3:28:47 GMT 11
Even though Astrid was tired and she really needed to get home, she lingered. Letting Yakul enjoy the fresh grass and Rita relax while she herself looked at the stars. The memory of what had happened yesterday playing over and over in her head, it felt like a dream, and it didn't help that she was so tired too. She could have stayed out here all night which wouldn't help her at all, hadn't the weather decided to help her make the right decision. Clouds gathered and the temperature dropped. "Uh oh," Astrid said when she realized what was coming next. "Yakul, come here! Looks like I need my raincoat," she called and began rummaging through the saddlebags when the gogoat complied. The old woman sighed, "time to head back," she said disappointed when she was dressed properly and had mounted Yakul. "Probably for the best," she yawned.
A paras crawled out from the undergrowth and blocked their way back towards the city. It's connection to the other was unknown, and what it wished from them was unclear too but it got Astrid to frown. "Another one?" She said dumbfounded like she had expected there to only ever exist one paras in the whole world. She glanced at her saddlebag where the pokeball containing the one she had caught were resting, she wondered if they were a pair. "Are you looking for your friend?" Astrid asked and the paras started and stared at her, then it began to fill the airs with spores, just as the icy cold rain began to fall from the sky. Rita leaped forward to stop the paras from what it was doing.
Wordcount: 277 (ooc: Rita uses Crunch x3, should it be necessary)
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Missingno.
Grass Dinosaur
Tiki
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Post by Tiki on Aug 6, 2023 23:22:32 GMT 11
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/raticate-alola.png) Rita gained 1250 EXP for winning! (2442/3571) to next level! Paras tried to use Absorb but Rita was too chonk.
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Tarlar
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 7, 2023 18:25:42 GMT 11
"Time to get moving!" Astrid decided as the ice cold rain poured down and they kept running into a paras swarm which clearly didn't want her here. "I do not want to get trapped out here," she mumbled as she pulled the hood of the raincoat closer around her head. Yakul shook violently below her and she grabbed her mane to stay on. "Are you alright Rita?" The old woman asked and the rattata made some annoyed but confirming noises while washing her snout, it tickled as water kept running down from the top of her head and drip from it.
Astrid glanced up at the dark sky above and wondered if it was suicune who tried to get her to go home, then she shook her head. "Are you going to think they are behind every weather or happening from now on, old girl?" She asked herself dryly, "becoming religious on your old days? Even though these are not really gods, gods you cannot meet."
While Astrid didn't like the weather someone else did. The mushroom's on paras back loved the dark and the humidity and even though rain was a bit too much like this, it was better than so much else, so they forced their host to wander out into the open where it was worst to really get soak through so it could last them the whole day when they returned to their undergrown burrows. Rita didn't like the sight of the mushroom carrying bugs anymore and as yet another one appeared she did not give it a chance to show if it was peaceful or not, since all others they had encountered had not wished them well.
Wordcount: 282 (ooc: Rita uses Crunch x3)
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Post by Rexman on Aug 9, 2023 1:30:23 GMT 11
Level 26 Paras appears! Rita wins in two bites! Rita gains 1,300 Exp for her victory, is now at 3,742/3,571 Rita grows to Level 35! EXP is now 171/3781 Tarlar, just so you know you forgot to request the Paras in your post, but the way you wrote it made it obvious. Just wanted to point that out. ^^
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 10, 2023 8:46:03 GMT 11
The paras was taken completely by surprise as they tended to go in their own little worlds, filled up with wishes and urges from the mushrooms on their backs. Many would think it was a sad life but most of the paras didn't know anything else and they were kept cheerful and pleased by their mushrooms so they saw nothing wrong with it. They were blisfully unaware. The paras did not need the fungus on its back to register what was going on and send some sort of reaction to it, as the paras itself was fully capable to see Rita's large fangs as a thread and while the first bite taught it, it really needed to stay away from those, it took another round of struggle before it managed to pull itself loose and run off. Astrid and her pokemon was left in the rain, but not for long as another paras was sent in their direction. This one came from behind as it had caught scent of the one which Astrid had caught, and for some reason wanted to follow, or join, or learn more about or whatever the fungus thought it could be used for. The paras had no clue and no worries as it happily crawled along, going where it was unknowingly sent. It paused when it saw the strange pokemon in front of it, it had four legs but also something protruding from its belly and especially its back. It tilted its head as it very much looked like some kind of head balancing up there, both that and another one further down turned to look at it, and it tilted its head as it wondered what a pokemon would do with two heads. Wordcount: 289 (ooc: whoops! thanks Rex, I must have been tired ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/2475952/images/j4x3M6WbsBpReeVALlIv.png) Requesting a paras!)
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Post by Rexman on Aug 11, 2023 1:54:04 GMT 11
Level 23 Shiny Paras fights for the colony! Shiny boi? tjfPePU51-421-42
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 16, 2023 2:07:43 GMT 11
The paras had heard rumors about a paras who looked different and who had talked about being future ruler of the area since it was so special. Most other paras had shrugged and didn't really have a thought about it, their mushrooms kept them from it since how should it help them? Their hosts needed to focus on eating and seeking out damp, dark places so that their parasites could thrive. Why this little paras was so curious was hard to say, perhaps it was simply that it was young and the mushrooms hadn't gotten so much control yet. Both paras and mushroom looked different than the others though, so perhaps that affected how the mushrooms worked and their health? The little paras had at least felt outside when it came to the other of its kind, and it hoped that someone who looked different like itself and had big dreams that would protect them all, would make its own life better.
Right now though it was mostly curious about this strange creature it saw in front of it. It was hard to see it clearly since the rain and the dark was shielding it and erasing the contours, so it crawled closer to get a better look. It soon became clear it was a two headed creature as two pair of eyes turned towards it, and two very different voice was heard. One of clearly from a pokemon, and smelled of grass type, but the other part? It made noises the paras had never heard before! A shadow moved and the smell of wet fur reached the part grass type as a big black shadow moved towards it. The paras tilted its head, and then slowly, slowly something stirred in it, something that warned about dangers and being eaten, and pain. Something white and sharp flashed in the darkness and Para's mind shrieked about birds and tallons.
The strange two-headed creature walked over as the head highest picked up a round thing which was hid in the strange fur of the lower part. The round thing would be thrown at the paras, hopefully it would help end this encounter as fast as possible so that they could get out of here before more paras swarmed them.
Wordcount: 377 (ooc: Rita uses Super Fang, throwing a great Ball, not updated)
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Missingno.
Grass Dinosaur
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Post by Tiki on Aug 16, 2023 23:01:42 GMT 11
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/raticate-alola.png) Rita gained 1150 exp for winning! (1321/3781) to next level! ![](https://www.serebii.net/Shiny/XY/046.png) Shiny Paras was captured! [img src="https://www.serebii.net/Shiny/XY/046.png"] [b]Shiny Paras[/b] Name: [choose] Gender: [choose] Level: 23 OT: Astrid Lindegaard Moves: Spore, Fury Cutter, Absorb, Poison Powder Ability: Effect Spore or Dry Skin Nature/Personality: [choose]
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 17, 2023 8:41:14 GMT 11
They never learned what the paras was trying to do to defend itself, it went so fast, Rita's biting and the flying ball, a flash of red and then silence. The old woman shivered and pulled her cloak closer around her in the rain and glared out at the gloom. Rita looked just as gloomy as she stepped over and handed Astrid the pokeball with the newest catch. "We better get out of here, before more arrives," Astrid said and sniffed, she sighed and pouted, just great. "You two deserve a treat for all your hard work," the woman said as she pulled a few candies out and gave them to her pokemon. She gave them time to chew them, although they did it fast and didn't really seem to enjoy them as much as they could have, and then they set the course back towards town. Back to the warm bed and dry clothes, and a hot meal, if the pokemon center still had anything left at this time of hour. It skittered and shuffled behind them as more double-mushroom carrying pokemon scurried about but they rushed out and managed to not get intercept by any more of them.
Wordcount: 200 (ooc: Giving Rita a Rare Candy, self update. I now have 7 left. Moved Paras to Lei's box2 and deducted the ball)
~thread finished!
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