Observe Your Surroundings! [Closed]

[Goni]

The sun was setting behind the hills of Route 30 by the time Sara had made it there. She had just finished the facimile of the Alolan Trials in Johto, run by a sweet couple based in New Bark Town, and was headed back towards Violet City accompanied by a tired looking croagunk. The path was well worn between the two towns, and one that Sara was familiar with- that's why it came as such a suprise to Sara that the previously dilapidated observatory seemed just a little less dilapidated than usual. "Hey, look at that Krobus!" Sara said, pointing to the observatory, "It looks like someone is patching that place up!"

Krobus looked up, and grumbled slightly, kicking a pebble. They had been traveling for the better part of the day, and Sara seemingly hated to travel by themselves and so always had a pokemon walk with them. Today Krobus had drawn the short straw, and with its stubby little legs, it had to keep up with Sara. Normally that wouldn't be so bad, but along this trip they had already stopped at a lake so Sara could reminisce about the time she saw a Magikarp, a strange farmer, and a flying pokemon. Krobus was a newer team member so hadn't seen any of these things firsthand, but almost none of them were interesting enough to keep Krobus's interest.

"Lets go check it out!" Sara said cheerfully, "Let me just get a refill on my coffee." Sara added in, swinging her backpack off and checking inside for a medium sized thermos. Her face dropped as she opened it and turned it upright over her travel mug. Droplets trickled down out of the thermos, and Sara shook her thermos as if it was going to spontaneously generate more coffee the more vigorously she shook it. "Gah! We're almost out of coffee Krobus, we definitely have to check this place out.. Maybe they have a cafe inside!"

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By the time they had reached the observatory the sun had set and the moon had started to rise. The stars slowly appeared in the sky as day gave in to night, and the heat of the summer air cooled slightly. As Sara and Krobus approached the front door of the observatory, the work that had been done to restore it became apparent. "Wow, it looks so much better than the last time I passed by here." Sara whispered to Krobus. "Doesn't look like they list hours anywhere... I hope it's not too late." Sara said, checking her phone for the time but realizing that it had been dead for a while now. Krobus let out a sigh and reached up to pull the doorknob.

As Sara stepped into the observation room, she noticed a paper on the back of the door;

"Looking for help to restore the Observatory. Manual Labor may be necessary. There is a missing item that has been lost somewhere in the Warehouse. For more information please inquire with the owner."

"Huh..." Sara said, looking around the dark room. There were lots of beautiful photos all around the room. "There's a warehouse here?" Sara wondered aloud. Sara slowly meandered around the room, considering each of the paintings and browsing the photos of the stars and sun. "This is a pretty neat place, but it really does look like it needs some love." Sara looked down to Krobus pleadingly. Krobus stared back, and rolled its eyes slightly. "Ya know, I bet we'd be good helpers!" Sara said, to which Krobus responded by turning its back and wandering slightly away. "I think I'll sign us both up, Krobus!" Sara said, gleefully. Krobus let out a sigh before turning back around. "Lets go find the owner!" 

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Sara enters the observatory and starts meandering around! She finds a sign that asks for help, and decides she's going to sign herself and Krobus up!

OOC: Feel free to move Sara around to a different location or assume her answers to questions, I'm flexible with what Sara does/where she goes I can also switch pokemon if the quest is higher level than what I'm using atm, or take out more pokemon around the same level from my PC.

LAIKA OF GANGNAM STYLE

[necroix]

Missing Items Quest

The duo found no lock on the door as they headed inside the newly worked-on Observatory. No hours had been listed because it had been one of the last things to really think about especially since the observatory was mostly supposed to be used during the day and night. Though it did seem rather quiet in the observatory itself, most likely due to not many people knowing that the place had recently been opened once more. It doesn't take long however at the sound of talking for a rather tall young man to find his way to the main hall of the observatory.

It isn't hard to hear in a place like this, especially with how the words seem to echo off the walls. Though the man looks a little disgruntled and maybe a little intimidating it is obvious that he is trying his best to be welcoming. "Welcome to the Stardust Observatory." he says offering a smile that could probably use some work but it at least tried to reach his eyes. The man looks away for only a moment to see what she had been looking at a moment prior. "Oh were your considering helping with my request?" That would be excellent if they had actually been about to do that. He hadn't quite heard the consent just that there had been noise.

Not taking no for an answer, not that he had to, he began to speak about what he needed help with. "There is an abandoned warehouse on the grounds of the Observatory. When I bought this place all the old and damaged telescopes ended up in that building. It's been a hassle setting this place up by myself so I forget where certain things end up. See the thing is I've lost the only hammer I have right now. I'm pretty sure it's in the Warehouse." It wasn't that he was lazy or that he didn't want to go into the Warehouse but well -

"The thing is I'm pretty sure the place is haunted. Not that I'm not scared of ghosts or anything." The way he seemed to defend himself almost immediately said otherwise. "I just... don't have time to search through the building right now with everything else going on." With how much work seemed to still need to be done it wasn't that much of a stretch. "If you wouldn't mind I could really use the help finding that Hammer." It was most likely needed for yet another part of the fix-up that needed to be done but what that was seemed to be unclear at this time.

"To find the Warehouse you should just cross the Starview Fields, the Warehouse will be at the very edge of them. If you have any trouble or need your Pokemon healed just come back and I can help you out." It seemed the man had talked enough for the day and unless she had any questions he would not say anything further.

Raiden has requested help finding the Hammer in the Warehouse!
What will Sara do?

[Goni]

"AHH!" Sara shouts as she hears the voice of another person in the Observatory from behind her. She clutched her chest and turned around to see who the voice belonged to. The piercing golden eyes were the first thing that Sara noticed, but he didn't seem to be looking at her... it almost seemed like he was looking through her. Sara turned to face the man, before quickly offering a bow. "Uh- Thanks for the welcome!" She returned. Even with his welcome, she still felt as though she were intruding.

"Oh, were you considering helping with my request?" He asked. Sara opened her mouth to respond, but before she could even get a word out he continued. "So... you just need me to go to the warehouse to get you a hammer?" Sara asked, quizzically. "Well, I'm happy to help out." Sara said with a smile. Sara looked the man up and down. He didn't really seem the sort to be running an observatory, he was dressed too casually. "Then again..." Sara thought, the observatory was in pretty bad shape, and someone had clearly been doing work on it. If they were just using it as a stash house, they wouldn't have fixed it up to the point that they had... even if they had misplaced their hammer.



Sara looked the man over once more with a questioning look on her face, then nodded, as if satisfied that he were trustworthy enough. "Well, I like to know who I'm working with at the very least. My name is Sara. Sara Flora Zeus. I'm a entrepreneur from Hau'oli in Alola working on a business making tea!" Sara said. She held up a finger "Ohh! I have samples too!" Sara added, quickly slinging her large backpack around pulling out a small canister. She opened it up and revealed the contents. It looked like crushed up leaves with chunks of some orange vegetable and small purple crystals in it. "This blend is dried Treecko leaves with Pumpkaboo pumpkin chunks and as it brews it gains an ethereal flavor from crystalized Sinistea gel!" Sara said proudly.

"I haven't tasted it myself, but it smells a lot more safe-" Sara caught herself before she finished her sentence, "It seems like a healthy blend of flavors and aromas. Feel free to try it!" Sara said happily. "At your own risk, of course!" Sara added with a cheeky wink. Krobus watched the man nervously and took a step back, and from behind Sara's turned back it waved its hands over its neck as if warning against accepting the gift. Sara smiled as she pushed the canister into the mans hands. "I'm sure it will taste good. I hope you try it sometime!"



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Before too long, Sara had started making her way out of the observatory and towards the warehouse. By now the moon had taken a place firmly in the sky, thankfully the bright light of the moon illuminated some of the landscape around her and Krobus, and despite how tired Krobus looked at this point they were on guard against potential pokemon encounters. Sara carelessly walked along, humming a tune to herself as she walked. "Beautiful night, huh Krobus?" Sara said with a smile. Krobus responded by letting out a grumpy croak. "Hrmf." Sara responded, upset that Krobus didn't seem happy.

Sara huffily walked ahead, before her foot caught on some uneven ground and she tripped, falling to the ground. "Gah!" Sara exclaimed as she tumbled to the ground. Krobus quickly hopped to attention, helping Sara up. "Let me get my lantern out." She said, reaching her arm around to the electric lantern strapped onto her backpack, and pressing the small switch on the top of it. The light of the lantern turned on, brightly illuminating Sara in the darkness, but making it much easier for her to see where she was walking. Krobus let out a slight sigh before turning and taking a few steps ahead of Sara. "Wait up!" Sara said as she jogged to catch up.

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Sara gives a sample of her (maybe poisonous) tea to the owner of the Observatory!
Accepting the quest to find the item, she begins making her way across the Starlight Fields.

LAIKA OF GANGNAM STYLE

[necroix]

Missing Items Quest

It was a fair enough request, though she had been the one to ask about it in the first place. The owner was trying to get help because all this work was more than one person could handle alone, but it at least was keeping him busy in the meantime while finding a place to call home in this new region. Raiden knew that she was suspicious and he couldn't fault her for that. He was suspicious of a lot of people, so he could understand but it didn't seem to go much further. She seemed content enough, to accept that he really did need help - Raiden wasn't in the situation that he needed to beg for assistance and he probably wouldn't if he was honest.

She gave quite the introduction that had the young man raising a brow ever so slightly. "My name is Raiden, I am new to the area as well." he said but didn't quite express from where. The least people knew about him the better considering everything that had happened before. "Thank you for your help Sara." At the very least he could have some manners even if that wasn't his best trait in the world. She was at least willing to help even if he was a bit intimidating for most people. Being a tea maker was something that he didn't expect, but he learned not to expect anything. Yet as she continued and the words joined with the pokemon that told him not to drink it he was left stunned.

Especially as the container was shoved in his hands and he blanked on words at that moment. "Right." he managed after a moment before he watched he head on her way with a shake of his head. What exactly was he getting himself into with this Sara? Hopefully, nothing would happen, but that remained to be seen.

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As the duo made their way out into the night the moon actually cast quite a beautiful glow on the fields that they had to cross to get to the Warehouse. As it cast its light it almost looked like the fields were alight with a glow that couldn't be seen anywhere else. The few flowers that were blooming due to the summer weather seemed to sparkle and sway in the slight breeze of the evening. It was, in fact, quite a beautiful night for the two to be making their way across the property.

The moon however could only do so much when a various tree managed to cast the fields back into darkness. It was at this very moment that Sara managed to trip and fall into the grass. Thankfully there was nothing that could cause any harm in the fields. It was obviously maintained quite well considering it had probably been nothing but wild grass before and this was easy to walk through. Getting more towards the middle it would probably be a nice place to have a secret retreat or to go star viewing in nice weather like tonight.

It did seem however that something had noticed the complete splat that Sara had done. Previously curled up near the trees hidden under the shadow that they cast a single sheep seemed to hear the noise. Curious of what was causing such loud noises at night it edged into the field where the light could hit it. It had only seen one person out here before and it definitely wasn't this one. What exactly were they doing here?

A Wild Mareep [Lv.7] is curious about you!
What will Sara do?

[Goni]

Krobus paused, peering out into the night. It hadn't pulled ahead of Sara because it was mad at her, it just had better vision in the dark than she had. Krobus took a few more slow steps forward... before being completely knocked over by Sara. "Ah! Why did you stop?" Sara said, quickly leaning over, reaching for the croagunk's hand to help it up. The croagunk quickly pulled its hand away, rolling its eyes as it got itself up. Krobus let out a slow but steady croak, each click of the croak filling the night air as its cheeks puffed up, defensively trying to make itself look larger than it was.

Sara tried to follow Krobus' eyes into the darkness, trying to see what had gotten it so defensive. "What do you see out there?" Sara asked curiously. Krobus didn't answer and raised its arms up to the darkness, trying to make itself seem larger than it was. A small glowing orb floated above the grass in the darkness, emanating a gentle yellow glow. "Gh....gh...ghost?" Sara said nervously, her voice shaking as the orb grew closer. "Krobus, what do we do?" Sara whispered to the pokemon as if it would be able to instruct its trainer how to handle this situation. Krobus' croaking sped up rapidly, ending in a powerful popping noise as its inflated cheeks rapidly deflated, its flesh slapping back into its normal shape.

Krobus continued modulating the noises it was making, trying to intimidate the approaching glowing orb. Sara closed her eyes, slapping her cheeks gently. "Its just a dream it's just a dream..." She chanted, but then she looked over to Krobus who was clearly reacting to something. "Okay, okay, no, not a dream..." Sara whispered to herself. Sara gulped audibly before stepping past Krobus, "Alright, whatever's out there, show yourself!" Sara shouted into the darkness. "And you better be nice... I have a hammer!!!"  Sara threatened, then immediately slapped her head as she realized that was one of the few things she definitely -didn't- have.

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Krobus does an intimidating display, warding cowardly foes away, and Sara steps in front, emboldened by the display to call out to whatever is in the darkness!

LAIKA OF GANGNAM STYLE

[necroix]

Quite a curious human indeed! The mareep had been interested in what this particular human had been doing, and had been concerned when it heard the spectacular splat that had causedi to wake up from its previous nap. The sheep pokemon tilted its head slightly when the girl seemed quite concerned about their being ghosts out here. There definitely were ghost pokemon at the very least. The sheep had seen them with its own eyes! They weren't that friendly so it quickly seemed to look where the two of them had been looking.

It didn't see anything though, thankfully not even the intimidating display from the pokemon with the human, before looking back. Where was the ghost they were concerned about then? It only took a few moments before the sheep seemed to realize that they were talking about them! They were no ghost! A loud cry seemed to come from the mareep as it tried to identify itself but it seemed to do no good before it moved to finally leave the shadows behind and make its way to the fields under the glow of the moon once more.

See! It wasn't a ghost pokemon, nope, it had almost forgotten the original reason it had woken up was because the human had fallen. Instead now it was trying to prove its innocence of not being a ghost type. A small shiver came from the sheep pokemon at the thought, it didn't want to be a spooky pokemon. It quite liked its own fur and the light at the end of its tail. Yep, it was sure it was perfect just the way it was.

A Wild Mareep [Lv.7] has come out from the shadows!
What will Sara do?

((sorry for the wait!))

[Goni]

Sara watched skeptically as the mareep revealed itself through the grass, bringing itself and its glowing tail into sight. Krobus eyed the mareep skeptically, continuing with its intimidating display of puffing up its cheeks before rapidly releasing them, producing a loud cracking sound as the flesh snapped back into place. Krobus put the tips of its fingers up toward the mareep, waiting to see what it does. Sara held the lantern up higher to cast some light on the situation unfolding before her. It was the middle of the night, Krobus was guiding her, and a strange pokemon she had never seen before slunk out of the shadows. "Keep your guard up, Krobus." Sara said, eyeing the mareep suspiciously despite how innocent it looked.

Krobus paused its cheek inflating, choosing to keep them inflated all the way. Those bright orange sacs on the sides of the croagunks mouth indicating that there was poison inside, ready to be unleashed at a moments notice. It was strange to see Krobus so serious, but perhaps the darkness of night led them to be more careful than they usually would be. The wind whipped by through the tall grass surrounding the moonlit encounter. Sara hardly felt as though she could exhale with the tension that had been built up. Sara eyed the warehouse in the distance. There was the goal, not too far off into the distance. Wild pokemon were just that- wild, and it was hard to tell if this Mareep was going to attack them or simply let them go on their way.

Sara moved her feet slowly, trying to take a step back.

*CRACK*

Something underfoot let out a loud snapping noise, and Krobus reacted. Despite the noise not coming from the Mareep, Krobus quickly whipped its feet forward, its feet seemingly sweeping through the dirt underfoot as if it were nothing before launching the dirt towards the Mareep, letting out a loud call as it did- "CROA!"

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Sara respositions herself slightly, and accidentally steps on a twig!
Krobus reacts to the noise, and starts attacking the Mareep with a Mud-Slap!

No worries about how long it takes ^^ I'm glad you're feeling better! <3

LAIKA OF GANGNAM STYLE

[necroix]

The mareep had no intention of hurting the duo, not really, but it seemed that in its attempt to prove its innocence it had only convicted itself more. The human and her Pokemon seemed to look at it suspiciously. Did the Pokemon look like a ghost? It kind of looked at itself from its fluffy body to the tail that was at the end, nope definitely no ghost here! Though it could try to convince that it was worried speaking at all would unleash the poison that puffed up in the cheeks of the frog-like Pokemon.

A squeak does come when the loud sound of a snapping in the area stirs the Pokemon into action. A huge wave of mud is splashed over the mareep's face causing it to freak out. It couldn't see and in reaction, it rushed forward toward its attacker with an attempted tackle that did not hit. Not feeling it connect with its target instead the mareep tries to wipe off the mud that is clunked to its face. <"I'm blind! I can't see anything."> it cried in anguish and even went as far as to rub its face on the ground to try and remove the muck that had cluttered there.

Wild Encounter

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Weather: Clear

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Mareep LV 7
HP 77% [20/26]

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Krobus LV 6
HP 100% [23/23]

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Mareep [Ability]: Status [-1 accuracy]
Krobus [Dry Skin]: Status

SP12 Krobus used Mud Slap! critical hit!
SP12 Mareep used Tackle!
Mareep missed