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Post by Tarlar on Aug 9, 2022 7:23:48 GMT 11
Aglaia listened closely to what the referee told them although she knew it al already. This was not the first time she was here after all, and she had closely read the rules before arrived today, but who knew? Perhaps there would be said something she had missed, or something had been changed for one reason or another. There wasn't and as the bell rang the other trainers as usual rushed out in all directions. Aglaia stayed back for now, as usual and watched the others. She was surprised to see how many were bringing nets for catching, and some had really done a lot about how their clothing were.
"They must be really into bugs and such, knowing what outfit is best," she said under her breath, they looked like they were bugcatchers, even though one had a brown blitzle like pokemon with her instead of a bug.
"Better get to it!" She decided and swallowed before she released the pokemon in front of her, the hippopotas studied her critically and Aglaia kneeled to be at a similar height.
"Hi, I'm Aglaia and your trainer Leilani asked me to bring you here for some training. She said you'd be great for a thing like this and she unfortunately was hindered. Our goal today is to find and catch some bug pokemon, Leilani said there were some she were interested in, and your Yawn would be a great help to catch them," she explained while the hippopotas listened closely.
"I hope we can work together today and make it through successfully," she said with a smile.
"Potas!" Smokey said confidently and gave a nod, which was more a sign that she had made a decision than she was agreeing with Aglaia.
"Hippo!" She called out to her temporary trainer and gestured for the girl to follow her as she trotted past her and towards the entrance to the park. Aglaia stood up slowly with a frown on her face, what was Smokey up to? The pokemon usually hid in the grass not on the wide path the hippopotas was now following, and especially not around the entrance where there were a lot of spectators, rangers and judges.
She followed hesitatntly with a feeling of dejá vu, she had tried something similar with at an earlier contest.
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Aug 9, 2022 9:59:03 GMT 11
The event coordinator stood at the entrance of the door as he placed the last of the decorations up inside of the opening doors to the National Park. They spent several weeks preparing for another successful bug catching contest and had passed out small pamphlets to the surrounding towns to try and attract interest. Every summer and every autumn they had a successful turnout from trainers traveling near and far to participate in the contest. The announcer walked over to the coordinator looking rather nervous as he pulled on his collar. “Are we ready?” With a nod from the coordinator, the announcer welcomed everyone into the room and quickly led each of the contestants to the ‘waiting line’. Like every bug catching contest, he quickly ran down through the rules, including “Once you’ve reached your 5 encounters, used all of your 15 sports balls, have your Pokemon faint, or choose to end early,” the event would end for you, along with only keeping one bug Pokemon that you’ve caught, and a quick breakdown of how grading was done in the events. Then the coordinator held up a small flag with two large Scyther on its front and waved it as the doors to the park opened wide. “Have fun, everyone!” He cheered, beckoning them out into the tall and short grasses that surrounded their huge water fountain in the center of the park. Several of the smaller and faster trainers rushed past, almost pushing, and shoving each other out of their way. They were undoubtedly trying to hunt for the ‘best’ bug Pokemon before anyone else could find it. As Aglaia and Smokey seemed to disagree on which way to wander along their trails, a soft and somber sound would lift up over the tall grasses and play on the wind. It swayed with the wind and caused the grasses to rock back and forth as though their tall green blades were dancing together to the bleak and melancholy sounds. A small Kricketot sat on a small rock hidden by the tallest grasses around the National Park while it sung its heart out with tears welling up inside of its eyes. How many trainers had walked by it with the same old, “It’s just a Kricketot!”? How many had thrown their hands up and shook their heads with “It wouldn’t even win us third place!”? It was destined to be overlooked and under-loved, and so it sang about its sad, sad life. Wild Kricketot is singing!  Level 10. What will Aglaia and Smokey do? Shiny? NCQosjre1-42
Rare? 1-10 1-8 | Uncommon? 1-5 1-3 |Pokemon? 1-10 | Level? 9-181-42·1-10·1-8·1-5·1-3·1-10·7-20
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 10, 2022 8:14:45 GMT 11
"Where are you going Smokey?" Aglaia called and got a snort as answer while the hippopotas picked up speed, which got Aglaia to frown. When it was her own pokemon she had trusted them to show her the way and find the bugs they were searching for but Smokey was unknown to her, was she doing the same or something else?
They got closer to the entrance where people looked curiously at them and Aglaia chose to keep her mouth shut and just follow to not seem too stupid in their eyes. One thing was not being able to control her pokemon but willingly showing it off in front of a lot of strangers? No thank you.
She frowned as she tried to figure out how she could regain the control of the situation so that she could plan ahead as she preferred. Smokey showed the way along the wide path past the spectators and back towards the fountain in the middle where they had started, Aglaia frowned even more as it didn't seem like the hippopotas knew what she was doing.
Aglaia paused as she heard something to her right, some kind of sound was carried by the wind but Smokey just continued forwards.
"Hey Smokey, wait a bit!" Aglaia called and the hippopotas shot a impatient look over her shoulder, but then her eyes widened and she spun around as the grass parted and revealed a kricketot which was singing.
Aglaia smiled warmly and crouched as she studied it, it looked nice and sweet, "Hello there, you have a wonderful singing voice," she said to the little red bug and pulled out a pokedex to scan it. "I think you are one she doesn't have actually," she said thoughtfully and found a sport ball, "I hope you are ready for a little battle."
It wouldn't win her any place but that wasn't the goal anyway.
She jumped when someone said her name and looked surprised at the other trainer, "oh! Hi Anton, of course I can remember you. You are here too?" Aglaia asked with a smile and then frowned to ask confused, "are you interested in bug pokemon?"
"Hippo!" Smokey called out and charged at the kricketot aiming to knock it off the rock it was sitting on. If she could get it on the ground she could trap it in the sand. Aglaia tensed as she readied throwing the ball at the kricketot.
(ooc: Smokey uses Tackle and Aglaia throws a sport ball)
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Aug 10, 2022 11:53:31 GMT 11
As soon as Smokey jumped into the battle, a large sandstorm brewed around them. Some nearby contestants griped and complained, before quickly moving away. Smokey Tackled the small bug and Kricketot growled as scarily and bravely as it could. It was no match, however, to a craftily tossed Sport Ball. BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Kricketot LV 10
HP 50% [15/30]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"]  [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 12
HP 100% [42/42]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"]  Sport Balls Left: 14 1/5 Encounters Wild Kricketot [Shed Skin]: Normal [-2 HP Sandstorm] Aglaia's Smokey  [Sand Stream]: Normal [-1 Atk] SP16 Smokey used Tackle! A critical hit!
SP13 Kricketot used Growl! Smokey's Attack fell!
Kricketot is buffeted by the Sandstorm!
 Sand Stream gained 2 levels! Cover increased to Level 14! Your code for your new Pokemon:
[img src="https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/kricketot.png"] [img src="https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/itemicons/sport-ball.png"]
[b]Kricketot[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
OT: Aglaia Lund
Moves: Growl, Pound, Struggle Bug
Ability: Shed Skin
Nature/Personality: [choose]
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 11, 2022 1:58:42 GMT 11
Anton didn't really get a chance to converse with Aglaia as a kakuna made its appearance known and demanded his attention.
"A kakuna!" Aglaia exclaimed happily and then slapped her hand over her mouth, worried she had distracted Anton and his mareep. She smiled at the yellow cocoon and had to remind herself that this one wasn't her Wystan although since her beedrill had joined her side she looked much more positive on his evolution line.
The Kricketot had been surprised and had looked hopeful at Aglaia's words, perhaps this trainer actually liked it and didn't just mock it? Neither it nor Aglaia was prepared for the sandstorm when brewed a moment later and Aglaia quickly threw the sport ball to end the battle.
Hippo!" Smokey said as she congratulated herself and turned to look expectantly at Aglaia who frowned, wondering what it was now.
"You did great Smokey!" Aglaia said hesitantly and the hippopotas puffed out her chest swelling with pride. She waited a bit but there didn't come anything else from Aglaia and Smokkey watched her a moment.
"Tas, hippo," she said and spun around and cut straight through the tall grass which was filling the field on the side of the path they had been standing on. The hippopotas had caught the gist of it and that they were looking for the bugs hiding in the grass.
Aglaia blinked surprised, "looks like we're going that way now, you are welcome to join us," Aglaia said with a little laugh and a shrug.
"Smokey! Wait for me! We're supposed to work together!" Aglaia called after her temporary pokemon and ran after it, although they wouldn't get far.
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Post by Lamont on Aug 11, 2022 6:22:14 GMT 11
BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Cutiefly LV 16
HP 100% [43/43]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"]  [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 14
HP 100% [47/47]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] Sport Balls Left: 14 2/5 Encounters Cutiefly: Normal Smokey [Sand Stream]: Normal
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 12, 2022 18:58:03 GMT 11
As Smokey pushed through the grass she chased up a little fly which zoomed around and Smokey jumped after it and snapped after it with her jaws but missed greatly as it moved too swiftly and erratically for her to keep up.
"Hippopotas!" She shouted demandingly at the cutiefly and stomped a foot, but the cutiefly didn't apologize nor did it put itself in the hippopotas mouth to let the other one win easily.
"That makes sense!" Aglaia called to Anton and noted the idea for herself, why hadn't she thought about using the bcc, the place where you fought tons of different bug types, as a preparation for Bugsy himself? It would give her a great idea of how they fought and what tactic could be used against them even if Bugsy's pokemon certainly would be a lot more trained than these wild ones were.
"It's actually a great idea!" She added, "got any plans on that challenge yet? I just know I want to use Wystan."
"Oh! Smokey," Aglaia called when she reached the hippopotas and the sandstorm which whirled around the frustrated pokemon. The trainer covered her mouth the best she could as she assessed the situation, "try trap it with Sand Tomb," she suggested and the whirling sand slowly began to whirl in a circle around cutiefly.
Smokey narrowed her eyes as she watched the cutiefly closely, when she saw her chance she would rush forward and try tackle it.
(ooc: Smokey uses Sand Tomb and Tackle, running shoes exhausted)
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Aug 13, 2022 12:22:34 GMT 11
BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Cutiefly LV 16
HP 67% [37/43]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 14
HP 100% [47/47]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] Sport Balls Left: 14 2/5 Encounters Cutiefly: Normal Smokey [Sand Stream]: Normal [-4 Eva] SP36 Cutiefly used Sweet Scent! Smokey's evasion fell!
SP18 Smokey used Sand Tomb. Smokey's move failed!
Cutiefly was buffed by the Sandstorm! [-3 HP!]
SP36 Cutiefly used Sweet Scent! Smokey's evasion fell!
SP18 Smokey used Tackle.
Cutiefly was buffed by the Sandstorm! [-3 HP!]
Mod Notes: Running Shoes exhausted!
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 14, 2022 9:01:05 GMT 11
The cutiefly shrieked as Smokey jumped at it and tried to dart away only to be thrown off balance as sand started to whirl around and buffeted its sides. It frantically released a lot of sweet scents and fragrances since that often helped calm agitated and aggressive pokemon and often it helped the little fly get away. It did not work this time, instead the sand began to swirl around it in a tighter circle but it also meant that the air around the cutiefly was more calm and it regained control of its flight.
It shot a quick glance around and then darted forward and straight through the gathering wall of sand and out on the other side, there it was met with the solid wall of Smokey who had leaped at it.
"Why are you doing this!" It shrieked at Smokey accusingly and she lifted her head proudly and shouted "because I'm showing who's the best battler is!"
"Great! Well done Smokey!" Aglaia cheered not at all surprised that not everything had worked, but they had managed to stop it and keep it here. She frowned thoughtfully, what would be best to do now? Should Smokey just keep tackling as that was the safe bet or would it be better to try use the sand tomb again to make sure it didn't ran off?
"Would it be such a big problem if it escaped, I'm not going to catch it," Aglaia said under her breath and took a few steps back to keep at the edge of the sandstorm.
"Hippotas!" Smokey shouted, of course it was important to keep the cutiefly here, how else could she win the battle? She focused on the whirling sand again and once again tried to trap the cutiefly in the middle of it.
(ooc: Smokey used Sand Tomb. Was my Tackle deducted last round? It looks like only 6 damage was deducted from the cutiefly, which fits with the sandstorm damage)
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Aug 14, 2022 10:37:48 GMT 11
BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Cutiefly LV 16
HP 37% [16/43]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 14
HP 81% [38/47]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] Sport Balls Left: 14 2/5 Encounters Cutiefly: Normal [1/5 Turns Tombed -5 HP] [Sandstorm -3 HP] Smokey [Sand Stream]: Normal [-4 Eva] SP36 Cutiefly used Fairy Wind!
SP18 Smokey used Sand Tomb! Cutiefly is trapped in a Tomb!
Cutiefly was buffed by the Sandstorm [-3 HP] and hurt by the Tomb [-5 HP]!
Mod Notes: Running Shoes exhausted!
Fixed the HP for last round's Tackle. I misinterpreted how Evasion works on our site and originally 'rolled' it to fail, but reread and realized it would still strike then forgot to update the HP after updating the move to 'hit' in the notes.
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 15, 2022 1:10:23 GMT 11
"Hippooo!" Smokey shouted victoriously as she managed to trap the cutiefly within her whirling sands and making sure it did not run away. "I got you know! Just give up!" She cackled and the cutiefly looked at her wide eyed, "is that an option?" It asked stammering and Smokey rolled her eyes. "Of course it isn't, otherwise it wouldn't be a real battle. You need to up down your attacks a bit though," Smokey demanded and the cutiefly protested loudly, "but I did attack you with my magic wind!"
Smokey laughed, "as I said, you need to do better I barely felt that!"
"You got this Smokey! Give it a tackle," Aglaia called encourgaingly, the hippopotas had taken charge last round but it looked to be working fine. "I wonder how long this battle will last," she mumbled and spit some sand out of her mouth, the cutiefly was really getting buffered by it now.
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Post by Lamont on Aug 15, 2022 3:42:14 GMT 11
BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm (3/5) [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Cutiefly LV 16
HP 12% [5/43]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 14
HP 60% [28/47]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] Sport Balls Left: 14 2/5 Encounters Cutiefly: Normal (2/5 Tomb) Smokey [Sand Stream]: -4 EVA SP36 Cutiefly used Absorb! Healed +5 HP!
SP18 Smokey used Tackle!
Cutiefly was buffed by the Sandstorm [-3 HP] and hurt by Sand Tomb [-5 HP]!
Mod Notes: Running Shoes exhausted!
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 15, 2022 8:49:49 GMT 11
Smokey gasped and one of her front legs collapsed as the absorb hit her, "yeah.. something like that," she panted and grinned to the surprised looking cutiefly who then lifted its tiny head proudly.
"There is more where that came from!" It declared and Smokey chuckled as she pushed herself up standing, liking the challenge.
"But is it enough?" she taunted and pointedly looked around to the sand which flew around them and which clearly didn't bother Smokey one bit. The cutiefly looked unsure again but then narrowed its eyes determined, "I'll just get enough energy to last the longest!"
Smokey smirked and jumped forward to try tackle the cutiefly again.
Aglaia watched the battle and felt a bit useless as Smokey clearly didn't need her orders. She looked over her shoulder to see how Anton was doing and was surprised to see he wasn't battling anyone, she would have to hurry up if she wanted to some company.
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Aug 16, 2022 12:28:36 GMT 11
BCC Encounter
Weather: Sandstorm (3/5) [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"]
Cutiefly LV 16
HP 0% [0/43]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"]
Smokey LV 14
HP 60% [28/47]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] Sport Balls Left: 14 2/5 Encounters Cutiefly: Normal (3/5 Tomb) Smokey [Sand Stream]: -5 EVA SP36 Cutiefly used Sweet Scent!
SP18 Smokey used Tackle!
Cutiefly fainted!
Mod Notes: Running Shoes exhausted!
Smokey gained 3 levels! Smokey increased to Level 17! Smokey wants to learn Dig! Let Smokey learn it? Oh pretty, pretty please? just forget one move!
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 17, 2022 6:36:16 GMT 11
The cutiefly released another sickening wave of scents and Smokey grinned, "That's all you got? You are doomed then!" She narrowed her eyes as she tried to focus the whirling sand but she couldn't get it all to move in one direction or close in more on the cutiefly. She twitched annoyed and then just leaped at the cutiefly sending it flying backwards, as it was now out of the sand it spun around and used the last of its energy to buzz away and try to escape.
Smokey did not follow it, if it was lucky to get somewhere hidden without being noticed of another bug catcher, it would keep its freedom.
The hippopotas turned around and proudly pranced back to Aglaia and looked at her expectantly.
"Well done Smokey! You really have gotten the hand of your sandstorms," Aglaia said and the hippopotas raised her nose to the sky with a pleased smile. She spotted Anton and Clingy and trotted to them with her head held high.
"Hippo!" She said confidently and looked expectantly at Anton for him to praise her work as well, "Did you see how great I was?" She asked Clingy bluntly.
A rustle and a kricketune appeared, Smokey snorted and turned away from it, "I'll leave that one for you and find something more equal to me," she decided and her eyes widened as she saw something rustle in the grasses ahead of them.
Aglaia chuckled when Smokey went straight to Anton and demanded his attention, "I'm not entirely sure but it was very small," Aglaia admitted, "I think its all weather moves all of them, but I think only sandstorm and hail are hurting when in battle," she thought aloud and brushed some sand off her jacket.
She narrowed her eyes at the kricketune which challenged Anton, "that one looks a lot like the one I just caught, I wonder if its the evolution of it?"
As Smokey suddenly went off and disappeared into the grass Aglaia's mouth fell open. "Smokey! Where are you going! Stay here! Smokey!" She shouted after her temporary pokemon, "oh man, she's not going to be happy if I lose her pokemon!" She whined and then shouted for the hippopotas again.
"TAS!" Came the answer far out in the grass, Smokey had found her next opponent!
(ooc: Smokey forgets Tackle for Dig and using a potion on Smokey, self updated. has 6 potions left.)
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