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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Apr 27, 2023 0:26:20 GMT 11
This woman was becoming a thorn in the Firebreather's side. He rolled his eyes and waved his hand towards her as though he were dismissing her entirely. She just didn't get it. "And how dangerous is it for you to be around all this decay and around my flames? I can't be forced to stop every time someone comes wandering by. And I can't risk anyone seeing our practice routine or stealing our ideas!" Ned snapped. Why was he even wasting any of his breath on her? She was clearly so old she was stuck in her own ways of seeing things and didn't care about anyone else. " Not that you care. Pfft." Ned mumbled underneath his breath, crossing his arms over his chest. "Oh that's great!"[/b] Fireball barked loudly. He lowered his upper half of his body to the ground and pawed in the air towards his opponent. Fireball's tail was wagging a million miles an hour, though it seemed more out of agitation than out of a desire to play. "I like sweet things better than sour things." The tiger striped dog announced proudly. "Fireball use your Ember and quick! We can't let an ornery old lady win!" " Ned snapped firmly. Fireball rushed after Janus, but the electric bug was much faster. Janus created a large ball of energy that zapped through the air and fried the pup as soon as it made contact. Ned's face visibly dropped and he fell to his knees in frustration. " What?! Agh!! No, Fireball, how could they defeat us?! " Ned yelled loudly. He walked over to Astrid and reluctantly handed over a small chump of change. " Man, this sucks! This was our second defeat yet. But fiiineee... We'll go train somewhere else. Ok? " And then the two brothers would run off. Wild Encounter Weather: Clear [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] Fireball LV 29 HP 0% [0/79]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/growlithe.gif) [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"] Janus LV 34 HP 41% [36/88]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani-back/joltik.gif) Janus [Compound Eyes]: Normal [-1 Atk], BurnedFireball [Intimidate]: Normal, Evasion +1 SP59 Janus used Electro Ball! SP48 Fireball fainted
Astrid defeated Firebreather Ned! He hands Astrid £512 and agrees to train with his brother elsewhere. Janus gained 2550 exp. Janus increased to 3973/3571!Janus gained 1 level. Janus increased to Level 35!Janus has 402/3781 remaining to next level!
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Post by Tarlar on Apr 27, 2023 8:18:00 GMT 11
Set in her ways and feeling more knowledgeable than her younger acquaintances? Yes, that was Astrid, mostly since most of the time she was right, from what she knew. And while she did see the arguments of Ned she clearly failed to show him how he was wrong and get the most important point across to him. Had it been something more important than them blocking the area to train for a while, she would have tried harder, or pulled her badge out to set him in his place. "No more dangerous than it is for you," She said calmly, "and if you cannot be at peace here, you must find another place to train, or at least get an official permission to close off the tower when you are here," she pointed out again. "I do care, but I also care about everyone else and that we must follow the law. If it is as dangerous as you say, it would be so too for you and I would not like you and your brother to be hurt either," she began to explain but trailed off when it sounded like it was for deaf ears. Ned shouted to his growlithe to finish off Janus, but the joltik was the fastest, much to Ned's chagrin. Astrid accepted his defeat and the money somberly, she hadn't needed any of them as he could just have let her pass and that would have been it. She didn't think much about his comment about loosing for a second time, if there were other trainers around it wasn't so strange, especially not if he and his brother focused on their firebreathing show instead of training for battles. She gave him an accepting nod, it was up to them if they wanted to leave and felt there were too many around, she didn't force them. "That took some time, did you have any trouble?" Astrid asked Eusine with a smile as he clearly had won his battle against the other brother as well. "I do wonder what they would have done, if one of us had won and the other had lost, would only the winner had been allowed to continue?" she asked theoretically. "You did great Janus, our neighbors will not believe it when I tell them you have singlehandedly won over three opponents in a row, and the last one being a fire type!" Astrid praised her joltik as he came crawling over. He huffed and groaned as his whole body ached and protested, the burn continued to irritate him and he didn't felt like celebrating at all. He settled on Yakul's mane in front of Astrid and jumped when she suddenly sprayed something on his back, but then relaxed as he felt how it helped. "Here Janus, eat. You deserve it," Astrid said gently as she handed him a rawst berry to nibble on. The old woman gestured for Eusine to lead the way to what he wanted to show her, "Where were we?" She asked as she followed him further down into the tower. "Something about rockfall and water, I think?" she said thoughtfully as she tried to remember what advice he had already given her. (ooc: 2550 seems awfully high to me, from what I can see, Janus should have gotten 1450*1,5=2175 exp. He would still juuust get a level but will only have 27exp remaining ^^ I have changed that. Used a Super Potion and a Rawst Berry on Janus, self updated.) I have a link to my former Silver meetings in AStrid's profile, under "Silver Meetings" ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/2475952/images/j4x3M6WbsBpReeVALlIv.png) Only one and a long time ago, so if its useful anymore I don't know. Not certain they can remember each other at all anylonger, hehe
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Apr 30, 2023 9:08:49 GMT 11
Eusine walked over to Astrid and dusted himself off as he watched the two fire brothers walk through the old tower towards the exit. He’d tried to tell the older brother that they only needed to let the two pass and they could have continued their displays, but only a battle was enough for them to see that they couldn’t control others. It was a true shame. It was probably best, however, that the two brothers were choosing somewhere else to practice so that they wouldn’t accidentally burn down the ancient tower during their practice. “Not much trouble…no. Although the older brother was pretty stubborn.” He added with a soft smile. “Did you have any trouble?”Eusine nodded for Astrid to follow along and began walking through the ancient ruin towards the pathway he was sure that the legends were supposed to be lurking near. He listened carefully to the surrounding area and kept his eyes peeled as he searched through the darkness, observing the rubble all around them. “I suppose we might have have to rebattle then…hmm…it’s a good thought.” Eusine nodded, scratching the bottom of his chin thoughtfully. Would they have had the strength and stamina to battle once more, just to prove themselves all over again because only one of them had won their fight? Maybe it was a good thing they didn’t need to find out… Someone else’s voice boomed off the walls of the ramshackle building. “Bayleef!” A red-headed and hotheaded snapped at a large sauropod who lowered her long neck so that her head rested between her feet and cowered before her trainer. “Are you listening to me?! I said make a STRONG rope across this large hole so I can climb across! The legendary beast HAVE to be on the other side!” The Bayleef cried and shivered as two long vines shot out of her neck, across a large gape in the floor, and wrapped around a large boulder on the other side. However, as soon as Silver tried to climb onto her vines Bayleef would lose her grip, nearly causing her trainer to fall into the hole, though Silver jumped back to the side safely. “An old hag and some strange man?” Silver raised his eyebrows at Astrid’s and Eusine’s approach. He raised one hand up and waved them off without much of a thought. He fought several elderly trainers in his time. One woman who had a darkly colored Rattata and thought of him as being too arrogant. She was probably one of the fewest grandmothers who had managed to best him in a fight. “Listen, the legendary beasts down here are mine. I’/ going to capture them. So why don’t you both run along and go check on your grandkids or something. You’ll be more useful there.” Silver tried to wave them off. Silver suggests Astrid leaves the area! He'll send out his Level 28 Magnemite if she refuses to leave. What will Astrid do?
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Post by Tarlar on May 6, 2023 9:01:31 GMT 11
"Not much I would say, Janus handled it all by himself with just a little bit of help from me," Astrid said proudly, "who would have thought that? I found him as an even tinier one than now, eating static electricity of my old television! We lived together for years before he came along when I started my journey." The old woman smiled at the thought. She had found her retirement boring and without purpose but Janus had always been a delight to have around.
Astrid nudged Yakul forward and the gogoat carried her calmly as they followed Eusine, filling the air with the sound of her hooves on the floorboards. It probably made it harder for Eusine to hear whatever he was listening for, but he didn't ask her to walk and recall the mount. The old woman didn't get any more other answers to her questions and she reluctantly settled for waiting until Eusine hopefully would be able to continue their conversation. She still had a lot of questions and wanted to be absolutely sure she wasn't missing something that could give her troubles whenever she ventured into the Dark Cave in search of Lance.
"Rebattle? Why? What? Are the brothers coming back?" Astrid asked confused and looked over her shoulder to see if the fire breathers were returning. Voices ahead made it clear Eusine were talking about something else. "Hey! Young man, calm down. You can find another solution and a way out if this, it is not going to help shouting and your poor pokemon, it is doing the best it can!" Astrid called out sternly. Some trainers just lost their hed when they get frustrated, but that didn't excused the behavior.
Astrid looked shocked and then frowned at the 'greeting' the kid had, this might be more than just a desperate trainer who had lost his head in the heat of things. She glanced at Eusine when the red head declared he was going to catch a legendary pokemon, seemed like Eusine was not the only one having heard the rumors, or whatever it was. "I am not here to catch anything, and my apologises but I doubt you are either. They are called legendary for a reason, either they are too powerful or they do not exist," Astrid said as a matter of fact. The old woman looked at Eusine, "I assume you still wants to press on?" She asked, it was the legendary that was his goal as well after all. When having it confirmed she dismounted and pulled saddlebags and Janus off Yakul, and gave the goat a few pats. "This battle is all yours, my dear. Teach this young man a lesson, will you?" She asked and Yakul snorted. Astrid expected the bayleaf to be the first chosen pokemon, since it was already out so another grass type should handle it just fine. A magnemite was sent out in its place though and Yakul snorted and stomped her feet warningly, it could either step aside or take the brunt force which was her.
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on May 10, 2023 11:38:36 GMT 11
Esuine chuckled at Astrid’s sudden confusion and shook his head. She seemed to misunderstand what he meant, which he supposed was due to his rather simple answer. “Not at all.” He stated, placing a hand on the elderly lady’s shoulders in a comforting manner. “What I meant was if only one of us had won, I’d suppose the brothers would have wanted a rematch. Possibly the brother who won would want to face whoever out of us had won, if that makes sense.” He couldn’t see both of the flame inspired brothers giving up and choosing to leave so easily if only one of them had lost, after all. Silver growled underneath his breath and narrowed his eyes suspiciously on the old hag and her little friend. What else would they be wandering around an old and decrepit building like this tower for, if they weren’t after the legendary beasts? “Yeah right. So you mean to tell me you don’t care about the legends at all, hmm?!” Silver raised one hand pointed at her as he snapped accusingly. He nodded towards the floating electric magnet and added. “Fry that overgrown pile of lettuce, Magnemite. Use your Thundershock and really give it to them!” As electric bolts began to appear in front of Magnemite, Yakul’s powerful Bulldoze would knock it out almost instantly. “Why you miserable witch!” Silver recalled his Pokemon and shuffled around in his pockets for another Poke Ball. In an instant, he pulled out the one containing his friendly ghost and called Haunter out onto the field. A thick cloud of black smoke emanated from the Poke Ball with two glowing eyes that smiled with a strange grin as the ghost Pokemon floated up high above them all. “This is for telling me how to raise my Pokemon, old hag! My Bayleef will do exactly what I tell her when I tell her! Understand!?” He snapped bitterly, preparing for his Pokemon’s next attack. SUCCESS
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/gogoat.png) Yakul gained 1400 EXP. 50*28: 1400 Yakul increased to 1414/3367 EXP!Yakul is as close as she can ever get with Astrid! Silver isn't done yet! He sends out his level 29 Haunter! Will Astrid switch Pokemon?
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Post by Tarlar on May 11, 2023 9:08:51 GMT 11
"Then what do you mean?" Astrid demanded to know and Eusine explained quickly, "oh, of course. That does make sense. I think you are right, they would not have accepted defeat if only one of them had won, but again, would we have accepted it if one of us had lost? Wouldn't the winner of each battle have challenged each other to get a final conclusion?" Astrid mused with a little smile.
Astrid looked dryly at the rude young man. "I am not," she said bluntly, "I am here because Eusine wanted to show me around. I am pretty sure he is interested in the legendary pokemon rumored to live here. Honestly, I find the story hard to believe, what would there be for a legendary pokemon here? A ghost perhaps, if it was locked to the area but otherwise I find it very unlikely that there should be any around." And there were no legendary ghost pokemon, not to Astrid's knowledge at least. She couldn't imagine anything else wanting to be around this place, not if they were free to roam about.
The old 'hag' sighed as Silver continued to spew insults, but she was too old and had been in the police force for too long to care about rude nicknames. She was a lot more worried about how he treated his pokemon. "Do you think there is any way to get him to treat his pokemon better? Any ideas?" She mumbled to Eusine as she stuck his head close to him so he could hear her. Meanwhile Yakul was taking care of the magnemite without any trouble, it was a shame for the floating magnet that it didn't have the ability to.. well float and dodge the incoming attack.
Astrid ignored the redheads namecalling, she was not going to give him the pleasure of a reaction on that. Now Yakul had handled his first pokemon, she had the advantage in that she could see what he called out next, it was a ghost which meant she knew exactly who would have the upper hand here and a big black raticate took the place in front of her. While the 'witch' couldn't care less about what he called her, she could not ignore his treatment of his pokemon, it tore at her heart each time she heard his tone of voice, or saw them covering in front of him. "You know, you are making them worse battlers by that. They will be too fearful to really give 100%, that's why you never see a Champion training like that," she said in what she hoped sounded casually, she fought to keep her boiling anger down. She turned to Eusine, "you know a lot about Legendaries, would you say you could control one by these methods?" She asked as she gestured to Silver. She knew she was spreading it on thickly and she doubted Silver was going to have a change of heart right away, but she hoped that she could plant a thought which could sprout and change his ways later on. The Officer was going to keep a close eye on him, if he stepped over the line she would not hesitate to arrest him right then and here. Trainers could be tough on their pokemon, but they could not be abusive.
While Astrid didn't remember Silver from their last encounter, Rita did and she froze up just like last time. A quick glance around to find the escape route, which the tower offered plenty of and then she lunged at the ghost with her sharp fangs shining in the dim light.
(ooc: Rita uses Crunch, 2 if necessary. If the battle ends, I'd like to use my bar on Rita.)
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on May 15, 2023 0:49:14 GMT 11
Silver crossed his hands over his chest and rolled his eyes. He didn’t expect a grandma to easily believe in the myths and legends. Older people tended to be too set in their ways. Every myth was just a shadow in the dark, every legend just and overblown story that had exaggerated features. They lost their mystical wonder for life and stopped chasing the stories long ago. “Isn’t that rather stupid?” Silver asked, snapping his voice as he questioned her harshly. “Why are you helping him if you think he’s being delusional about these legends?” Silver demanded to know. Haunted reached his arms out that floated detached from his body at his side towards the strange dark grey mouse that appeared. Though, as he grappled after his opponent, Haunter’s form would only sink through Rita as though she didn’t even exist at all. Haunter’s face fell, and he stared perplexed at her as he tried to come to terms to why the apparition couldn’t seem to touch the normal-and-dark type mouse. “Quit playin’ around, Haunter, and use Hypnosis! Put that rat to sleep for good!” Silver growled angrily and snapped his fingers. Haunter’s eyes spun around in his socket and two strange spiraling rays slammed into the small mouse, making her eyes droop as she yawned loudly. She quickly stuffed her Lum Berry down her throat and cleared the sleepiness from her form, which helped her to wake up. Shaking herself fully and fluffing up her fur, Rita chattered loudly and rushed towards Haunter. Silver had to hope she would miss, though, so that he could switch his Pokemon around. When the Crunch sunk through Haunter’s form, causing his Pokemon to cry out loudly in pain before fainting, he only grimaced angrily. “Ah, return Haunter! This hag is really getting under my skin!” Silver muttered the last part to himself. Eusine frowned and shook his head as he watched the young man and listened to his snappy retorts. “I’m afraid not. You don’t think he’s being cruel to them and abusing them, though? I suspect that could warrant a more formal investigation.” Eusine asked Astrid, keeping his voice just low enough to be sure that Silver wouldn’t keep up with what he was saying. “And what do you know about my battling style?! I push them to give their 110%, so you just need to mind your own business! It’s no business of yours how I’d treat my future Legendary Beasts!” Silver snapped, pulling out another Poke Ball and calling out his angelic bat. “Golbat, I’m counting on you to put this senile old lady in her place!” He called out harshly to his newest Pokemon. ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/raticate-alola.png) Rita gained 1450 EXP. 50*29: 1450 Rita increased to 2928/2977 EXP!Rita grew closer to Astrid. +1 Rita maxed out her happiness to +15! Silver isn't done yet! He sends out his level 30 Golbat! Will Astrid switch Pokemon? -1 Lum Berry removed from Rita for use.
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Post by Tarlar on May 17, 2023 4:39:10 GMT 11
Astrid rose an eyebrow, "stupid? How so?" She asked and the red head answered her quickly, airing his thoughts about her helping Eusine. "It makes great sense, Eusine wanted to show me the tower and potential the legendary pokemon, if they should be around," which Astrid doubted, even though everyone else was certain about it. "I am helping Eusine because he is helping me, I need information for a future trip which he can give me. So it is more a trade." That must be a thing this one track minded trainer could understand. The old woman ignored the boy's attempts to offend her, she was not going to let him make her loose her mind, she might lose the battle due to that. She studied him solemnly while leaning to her cane, he clearly didn't seem like he was ready to listen to anything, so perhaps she could show him his wrong doings? Or perhaps she just risked him letting his anger and frustration out on his pokemon. She sighed, she was not a psychologist, how did you get someone as angry and stubborn like him change his mind? Perhaps by turning the attention to something else? "You are both stating that there are legendary pokemon here today, what makes you both so certain? What are the signs? why here? Why today? Why not on top of Mt. Silver? Or in the depths of Ilex Forest?" She asked curiously and looked between them both. Silver kept stating that it was dumb of her, not believing there should be legendary pokemon hiding somewhere in the old burned down tower, but why would they be here in all places? What attraction could it have for something like that? Eusine and Silver must have some kind of reasoning to be here now.
Rita did not like having to face Silver again, she had blissfully forgotten all about him since it had been so long since they had seen each other last time, why had their paths crossed again? Panic rose as she felt drowsy from the hypnosis, what would he do to her if she was defenseless? For a heartbeat she forgot she was not a wild pokemon and risked him catching her, by accident her paw brushed the berry Astrid had given her quite a while back and she remembered and quickly gobbled it up. A breath of relief when it took affect and blew away the tiredness, she sent Astrid a grateful thought as she leaped at the ghost and took care of it with her sharp teeth.
"I am afraid he is, I am keeping an close eye to if he oversteps and I need to go in for an arrest. Until now there is nothing else than he can claim he is just harsh," she mumbled to Eusine, and had wished he had backed up her question to if a legendary would accept such handling, if they were so strong as claimed, she couldn't believe they would accept such a trainer.
"I know what I can see or hear. They are living creatures and fear is clouding their brains just as it will for us, I cannot see how that is a good combination when they need to be clear minded and focused in a battle," she said quietly, she had seen it too many times where criminal's pokemon messed up due to fear for their trainers which of course was a good thing for the police as it meant they could arrest the trainer and help the pokemon. "Would you say that a Legendary Pokemon would accept such treatment?" Astrid asked Eusine once again, hoping he'd have something to say about it this time.
Due to Yakul's great work in the beginning, and the continuation by Rita, Astrid had the upper hand. This was not a frantic all or nothing battle so Silver at least played by the rules, which meant that the old 'hag' could freely switch her pokemon to the one best suited for facing his, and he would have his work cut out for him to turn it around. "You did great Rita, come back please," Astrid called out and leaned against Yakul's warm side as she released another pokemon in Rita's place. Pia raised her huge beak and locked her eyes on the golbat. "You know what to do Pia," Astrid said quietly, "make it quick please." Rita looked sadly over her shoulder at Golbat, "you're still stuck with him? I'm sorry, good luck," she said sympathetically, Pia huffed and looked at the bat coldly, "you better give me all you got anyway."
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on May 20, 2023 9:18:10 GMT 11
Silver narrowed his eyes and scoffed. How had Astrid not heard the legends and myths that surrounded the beasts of the Burned Tower? Many trainers would wander inside of the ancient ruins to try and find them, though very few could actually try to claim they successfully met them. Even then, there was hardly any definitive proof of them. Silver would be different than the rest, though. He would catch them, thus proving that he met them since he would own them for himself! “Three Pokemon died when the towers burned down! Ho-Oh brought them back to life as the legendary beasts. Why else would they be here instead of Mt. Mortar?! Suppose their souls are bound here or something.” He huffed in annoyance. Eusine would nod his head and agree with what Silver stated, even if he didn’t want to agree with such a cruel person. Silver turned to his large bat, who swooped through the burned remains of the towers in a high speed chase with the large and powerful Toucannon. Pia’s beak began to glow with a bright burning light as she aimed for Silver’s Golbat. “Golbat use your Air Cutter and take that bird out of the skies for good!” Astrid proved that she came prepared with the last Pokemon when Rita stuffed her face full of her Lum Berry, and each of his previous Pokemon were knocked out within just a single strike it seemed. He needed to make the most of his advantage. Golbat clapped its large, powerful wings together and unleashed strong blasts of sharp air that cut through Pia’s feathers. She was quite the fighter, though, and managed to keep herself airborne and in hot pursuit through the worst of Golbat’s attack. She retaliated, firing several sharp rocks from her beak that smacked Golbat against his back and head, knocking him down to the ground. Silver growled, recalling his large angelic bat. “ Pfft. Whatever. You’re just getting lucky old hag. Bayleef, your up now.” He nodded towards the large dinosaur-like plant Pokemon he had been caught berating at the beginning of the battle. “Their minds are just fine! You’re just some tree hugging bleeding heart, why should I listen to you? How would you raise the legendary creatures then, hmm?” Silver sneered, demanding to know from Astrid. ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/toucannon.png) Pia gained 1500 EXP. 50*30: 1500 Pia increased to 3708/2791 EXP!Pia gained 1 level. Pia increased to Level 31!Pia grew closer to Astrid. +1 Pai increased to +14 Happiness! Silver isn't done yet! He sends out his level 33 Bayleef! Will Astrid switch Pokemon? Mod Notes: Pia HP 78% [78/100] after level up.
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Post by Tarlar on May 22, 2023 2:55:48 GMT 11
Eusine seemed to have decided to try and stay out of this conversation, and though Astrid had hoped he could back her up she had to accept that he preferred it to be so and live with whatever answer Silver threw at her. "but they are not ghosts, correct? I know the story about it burning down and all that, but I cannot see why they would want to stay here, if they are free to roam why hide down here on your death place? What does this place have to offer a mighty legendary beast?" The old woman asked slightly bemused to why they all was so adamant about them being right here. "If it had been a tourist trap, I would have guessed that was why the rumors keep saying so," she said dryly, but it clearly wasn't as there weren't many people around and the ones who were clearly tried to chase everyone else away.
What could a burned out tower have of meaning for a legendary pokemon? Still neither Silver not Eusine had given her any proofs or clues to why they should be here, of all places, the chances of them coming here just to meet up randomly and then it just happened to be when they were all here searching them out, was simply too slim and far out. The old woman sighed, neither of the two others probably knew, which was why they didn't give her any proof. Silver she could understand, he clearly refused to listen to anyone else than himself and she could see how the idea of having a powerful legendary on his team would please him. She was sure that was why people were fascinated by the ideas of legendary pokemon, because they were powerful and they would love having such power at their command and to show off to everyone else, getting fame and recognition for it. To Astrid it wasn't even certain the legendary pokemon existed, they were stuff of legends and she was pretty sure that the stories were exaggerated, if they existed they were surely not as impressive as the stories told.
As Astrid had expected, Pia handled the golbat without much trouble even though she did take a lot of damage as she chose to dive straight through the bat's cutting attack to get close and shoot off her rocks. Astrid winced at the sight as Pia's attack hadn't really needed the toucannon to get close, it had to be that her bird wanted to toughen up and show her strength to the other flier. Pia stayed airborne and was ready to take another round, although she plucked out a few damaged feathers which annoyed her by their tickling. Nothing should distract her now. "Pia, please come back and take a little rest," Astrid called out gently, the toucannon snorted annoyed and stayed where she was. "Pia, I mean it. I need you for other battles," the old trainer said sternly and Pia deflated and swooped down to land beside her human. Yakul snorted and stomped impatiently and Astrid put a reassuring hand on her side. "Rita? Are you ready for another go? It looks tough so you better prepare," Astrid adviced as the Raticate looked hesitantly at the Bayleaf but then moved forward as she focused on on the grass type and looked for any weak points. The black raticate would look around, pinpointing her escape routes before she lunged at the bayleaf.
Astrid ignored Silver's name calling and looked thoughtful as she tried to imagine how she would train a pokemon which was beyond her imagination. "That is a very good question, I am not sure," she said honestly, "if they are so powerful as you say, then it would be with respect and trying to get a good team work up running with them on equal parts," she decided and chuckled, "I would not dare anything else if it could squash me with a single blow, if it did not like how I treated it."
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Post by Tiki on May 25, 2023 12:34:43 GMT 11
Silver chuckled a little. "Use your head, or is it getting weak already? This tower is important to them, so that's why they stayed. They're not like... migratory Pokemon who can just fly north and south when they want with no regard. Tourist Trap? It's disgraceful and unethical to set up businesses where tragedy happened. Unless you're like, a psycho."He watched as the trainer was slowly switching out her Pokemon. "I'm surprise you made it this far as a trainer. It's a miracle your Pokemon still listens to you, when they disagree with you like that." He laughed a little again. "You can't even get that pea-brained rainbow bird to listen to you, and you want to raise a legendary? It will squish you for sure! Do you have any last words? I can record it for your loved ones before that happened.""Alright, I'm done talking, Bayleef, Poison Powder on that pest!" The young man called out his first move. The grass type cried its call, and began dashing toward the Raticate to narrow its range. However, the Raticate was doing something else. The rodent exhaled and huffed and closed her eyes, as her body glowed blue a little bit. Then, she darted away as the Bayleef closed in with purple clouds of sleepy spores. Rita's quick movement disturbed the wind enough that she did not breathe in any poison powder. "Tch, useless! Do something useful, and go for a Razor Leaf!" The redhead shook and scoffed in disgust. After the powder settled on the ground, she turned around and ran toward the Bayleef for a bite. The grass dinosaur yelped in pain, and shook off the Raticate by slamming onto a column. As the Raticate was briefly stunned, it turned aroun and used a Razor Leaf. Thankfully, before the slicing leaves got into any critical parts of the rodent's body, she jerked away and dashed away. Wild Encounter Weather: Clear [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] Bayleef LV 33 HP 50% [46/92]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/bayleef.gif) [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"] Rita LV 32 HP 78% [77/99]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani-back/raticate-alola.gif) Bayleef [Overgrow]: Status Rita [Hustle]: Status, Focused (+2) SP64 Rita used Focus Energy! SP54 Bayleef used Poison Powder! It missed!
SP64 Rita used Hyper Fang! SP54 Bayleef used Razor Leaf!
Poison Powder acc: p3lLEqZd1-100 Hyper Fang acc: 1-100 Critical: 1-100 Razor Leaf crit: 1-100 1-100·1-100·1-100·1-100
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Missingno.
Tarlar
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Post by Tarlar on May 26, 2023 5:38:23 GMT 11
"Are you saying that the legendary pokemon should have stayed here since the tower burned down over a hundred years ago?!" Astrid exclaimed in disbelief. "If so they will have been chased and captured ages ago, then they wouldn't be a myth that they were here still," she said dismissively, that sounded even more unrealistic than if the pokemon should have been out roaming and then by chance should be here today. "We do agree on the tourist trap thing, that is a horrible thing," she said, you could find things to agree with with everybody most of the time.
It took some time to convince Pia to not continue to battle and give the chance to others, Pia was already so strong compared to the others that Astrid needed to make sure the others also got a chance. She looked annoyed at the red haired kid, it was getting almost as old as she was herself, to hear about how horrible she must be as a trainer just because she was elderly. "I am not their master and do not dictate what they do and cannot do," Astrid explained pointedly, "I have gotten this far since I have found a way to get around the challenges there comes with my age, as you probably have noticed I do not give my pokemon orders for each move. I need them independent and to be able to make decisions of their own, we can only do that if we work as a team and that will give disagreements like you just saw." She shook her head resigned, "I have said it already, I am not here to catch any legendary, I have no wish to see them even, I am here because of the deal I have made with Eusine, remember?" Astrid said tiredly and looked at Eusine who was annoyingly quiet through the whole ordeal. But this discussion with the brat had raised some questions she hoped he could answer afterwards. "I am far from dying, so no, I do not have any last words," Astrid said dryly and waited patiently, trusting her pokemon to be able to handle the challenge, or let her know if they needed her help.
It was always risky for Rita to power up, but she knew it could really be useful and give her some extra seconds to escape. Of course that wasn't the goal here but it had worked pretty well in battles too. She opened her eyes after having focused and quickly looked for the grass type's weak spots, the bayleaf came running at her and she had to fight the urge to spin around and race in the other direction. She leaped out of the way in the last second and therefore managed to dodge the spores whirling into the air. Her bite found its mark and she got slammed into a column which was a huge mistake on her part, she should never have clung on for so long and now she paid the price by being dazed. The leaves which cut up her skin pulled her out of it again, and she rolled away to get out of the line of sight. She tried to hide in the deep shadows and hoped to be able to sneak up on bite the grass type again.
Wordcount: 556 (ooc: Rita uses Crunch)
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Missingno.
Grass Dinosaur
Tiki
ZZ voluntary experimenter/ tester/ QA
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Post by Tiki on May 31, 2023 0:03:53 GMT 11
"Why not? They can stay here and cherish their memories, as well as protecting and guarding this place. With the way this tower was crumbled and destroyed, I am sure they can find hiding place to avoid being captured. I am sure they know this place inside and out, and even if someone catch a glimpse of them time to time, they can quickly run away and hide." Silver explained his thought behind the earlier comments. "Ohh, right! You just want to look at the legendary Pokemon. And then you'll forget in two weeks?" He laughed. "I hope that deal with Eusine is worth it. And I can see why you trained your Pokemon to attack on their own, you probably don't even remember your Pokemon's moves!" He taunted menacingly. "Bayleef, use Razor Leaf whenever the bilge rat comes out!" He ordered his next move afterward. The dark furred Raticate seemingly blended into the shadow as she held her breath and movement from making a sound. Then, out of nowhere, Rita took a bite on the Bayleef's scales (hide?), making the grass type roared in pain again. When it had successfully shake the mammal off, the grass dinosaur bent its head down to unleased a flurry of slicing leaves. Its body glowed green from the power of Overgrow, releasing more leaves than usual, making the flurry looked more crowded than the last one. The Raticate could feel the impact of the plant's last fainting breath for survival as the leaves left cuts over her body. Wild Silver Encounter Weather: Clear [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] Bayleef LV 33 HP 3% [3/92]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/bayleef.gif) [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"] Rita LV 32 HP 42% [42/99]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani-back/raticate-alola.gif) Bayleef [Overgrow]: Status Rita [Hustle]: Status, Focused (+2) SP64 Rita used Crunch! SP54 Bayleef used Razor Leaf! Boosted by Overgrow!
Rita Crit roll: oFqdYWoe1-100Rita acc: 1-100Razor Leaf Crit roll: 1-1001-100·1-100·1-100
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Missingno.
Tarlar
Cap Queen
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Post by Tarlar on May 31, 2023 9:21:48 GMT 11
"That, does not sound very pokemon like, more like a ghost," Astrid said slowly, "and I would expect someone to have come around and catching them already, unless they are so strong they are uncatchable." she nodded thoughtfully at what Silver said, pleased it was actually possible to have a decent conversation with him. "That might be true," she doubted it highly, but again, she doubted their whole existence, she looked between Silver and Eusine, "so what makes you think that you are able to find them? And today of all options? Both of you?" She asked, she still couldn't see why they thought there should be a bigger chance today than any other day. It sounded like some had spent years looking for them here, and while there certainly would be many hiding spots, the legendaries weren't really at the size of a rattata, and the tower was not that big, there were limited placed for them to hide.
She sighed when he returned to his mocking self, he faintly reminded her of someone, or something but she couldn't really put a finger on it. Perhaps all those criminals she had run into during her travels, they tended to all try mock her to feel powerful themselves and Silver seemed to have the same problem. "I do not have any plans on seeing them no, Eusine does and wants me to show them," Astrid pointed out again, "and should we be so lucky, which I doubt we will, my apologizes Eusine, I will certainly remember it for the rest of my life!" She said with a smile, "it might not be long, but it will be treasured." She winked at Silver and chcukled when he mocked her memory, "that is actually true, and they often know how they work best. It is going so much faster when they do not have to wait to listen for my commands, they can react in a second," the old woman explained and found it strange that no other trainers had found to use that tactic. It slowed them down tremendously when the pokemon had to wait for their trainer to decide what to do next. She had seen a few where the team work were so good that the pokemon threw extra moves in between the ordered ones without it giving them troubles, or knew what their trainer thought so only one order was given and the partner knew the rest of it, but it was rare.
Rita was actually surprised she had managed to hide in the shadows and she drew a breath of relief, and took a well earned break. Then she attempted to take advantage of her dark fur and sneak as close to the chikorita as possible before lunging at it.
Wordcount: 463 (ooc: Rita uses Crunch)
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*insert anime reference here*
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Post by Avalon on Jun 6, 2023 6:12:41 GMT 11
"There's an old legend that the Legendary Pokemon will only appear for a certain type of Trainer," Eusine explained. It was this legend and the myths around it that led to so many of Ecruteak's Trainers to go off in search of strength and renown. It was what had driven Morty to seek out his position as the Gym Leader, and what had driven Eusine to travel across the land in search of legends. It was also what brought so many into the depths of this tower, seeking out the forgotten legends of old. "And that Trainer will be me! I'm going to be the strongest Trainer in the world, and subjugate those Legends into following my will!" Silver declared confidently, smiling a hideous grin as the words came out. He knew it was his destiny to be the strongest, to be the one who could do what his father couldn't. He'd show his strength and make the whole world acknowledge him. If he had those Legends under his thumb, then the world would have no reason not to acknowledge him as the strongest man. "And what, this freak with his cape thinks he might be the legendary Trainer? Or that it might be some woman with one foot in the grave? Don't make me laugh!"Eusine looked at the ground sheepishly, possibly confirming the redheaded bully's claims about what he was hoping for. Eusine shared the boy's confidence in himself, though seeing how nasty Silver had become about it made him feel somewhat ashamed for ever sharing a common goal with the boy. He at least took comfort in the fact that this boy would never be able to earn the attention of the Legendary Pokemon. "Bayleef, give them another Razor Leaf!"But before Bayleef could lose the leaves, the dinosaur was set upon by a surprisingly swift rat. Rita came lunging down on the dinosaur, sinking her teeth into the neck of the giraffe-like plant. Bayleef let out a cry of pain before slumping onto the ground, unconscious. Silver seethed, through gritted teeth returning his Starter into its ball. His grip on the ball was tight, hands shaking through rage alone. "This. Isn't. Over. You want to be humiliated looking for those stupid beasts? Fine, keep going and look like fools, then! Just get out of my way!"Silver stomped past Astrid and Eusine, ascending the stairs and ladders that would take him back to the surface world. On his way out, a small bundle of money was thrown onto the floor for Astrid to pick up. Eusine bent down, retrieving the wad of slightly dirty money and brushing it off before offering it to her. Her winnings for the battle, it seemed. ![](http://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/silver.png) For beating Silver, Astrid earned £1,800! ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/raticate-alola.png) Rita gained 1650 EXP for battling Bayleef! Rita is now Level 33! Current EXP: 1409/3367 MOD Note: For some reason, the EXP on Raticate was never modified when it last leveled up and was still showing the amount needed to get from level 31 to 32 instead of the amount for 32 to 33. Should be fixed now.
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