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Post by Rexman on Jan 15, 2024 2:01:57 GMT 11
A wild Ponyta is shuffling in the snow, trying to get down to the grass underneath. ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/ponyta.png) Level 14 Ponyta Appeared! What will Astrid do? Shiny? BER0RepVp_1-42 1-42
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Post by Tarlar on Jan 18, 2024 6:46:34 GMT 11
"Woah woooah, calm down Girafarig," Oliver called out when they were once again not alone, a ponyta were busy digging the snow away with a hoof and Girafarig clearly didn't like the sight of it. All discussions about tactics and such of course dispersed. "I'm sorry! He hasn't had very good experiences with ponyta's," Oliver huffed as he fought with his pokemon, who had laid down its ears and seemingly wanted to charge straight at the flaming horse. "Oh my goodness, what have happened?" Astrid asked as she grabbed hold of the sleight, it was shaking quite wildly with the puller bouncing around. Oliver didn't answer as he needed all his strength to keep his pokemon under control. "Girafarig! Please! You are tied to the sleight! You cannot take us with you!" Oliver pleaded and Astrid watched frowningly.
The ponyta raised its head and laid down its ears as well, it stomped agitated and snorted. Not quite ready to attack itself but making it clear it was going to defend itself. It only made Girafarig more agitated and the sleight bumbled over the snow as Oliver fought to keep it back. Sonja slid down from the back, this was her chance! "Cyan! Throw some mud at it, see if we can chase it off so that Girafarig calms down," Astrid requested through gritted teeth, as she was shaken around. "Marsh!" Cyan confirmed and darted past Sonja who stared in dismayed disbelief, and shot some mud at the fire horse. "Go! Or I'll throw more at you!" Cyan shouted at the horse, Sonja rolled her eyes annoyed.
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Post by Caramell 🍬 on Jan 19, 2024 11:56:16 GMT 11
PONYTA DEFEATED!
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/marshtomp.png) Cyan gained 1 level. Cyan increased to Level 23!Cyan grew closer to Astrid. +1 Cyan increased to +7 Happiness!
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Post by Tarlar on Jan 26, 2024 9:17:09 GMT 11
It worked better than Astrid had hoped for, although she couldn't really praise Cyan as he turned to look at her hopefully, she had her hands full staying in her seat. With the ponyta gone though, girafarig soon calmed down and Oliver jumped off the sleight to go and calm it further has he petted it. "Are you alright?" He called to Astrid who chuckled and gave him a thumps up, "had I known you were planning a extreme ride I would have fastened the seatbelt!" He chuckled embarrassed and returned to his spot, gently asking Girafarig to start pulling the sleight again. "I'm sorry," he said and Astrid blew a raspberry, which made him look surprised at her. "What is life without a bit of excitement? Accident happens and we just need to adapt," she said warmly. They continued in silence for a bit as snow fell quietly around them, old memories of a man who knew all about being romantic came sneaking to Astrid and she felt a pang of sorrow and she looked away to hide her contorted face.
"So Reflect and bramblin for miltank is the tactic, what about the clefable?" Astrid asked as she buried the thoughts about Bent as deep as she could. "Hmm, what is its specialty?" Oliver asked and his face dropped at Astrid's answer, "metronome." "Metronome?! Oh man! There is no way you can prepare for that! You never know what it ends out with!" He exclaimed upset and the old woman laughed. "There is one easy way! Have more than one pokemon and hope for good luck!" "But.." "She has two pokemon and you got six! You got this Oliver! Yes, it can be everything but that also means it could be a splash!" she said encouragingly, "and if you should be so unlucky to lose to Metronone, you know you were just unlucky and it will be better next time." Oliver sent her a skeptical look.
Wordcount: 327 (ooc: taking this out of bike mode, I find it hard to find muse to keep it going on my own. Looking for a daytime encounter on route 34)
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Post by Pixel on Jan 30, 2024 6:47:38 GMT 11
As Astrid talked to Oliver about gym strategy, something rolled across the edge of her vision. It was hard to tell exactly what it was. Perhaps a raticate? Those were brown. It certainly wasn't a ponyta. It wasn't on fire. The creature moved again, seemingly bouncing through the grasses as if blown by an errant wind, uncaring of where it ended up. What was it? Why, it was one of those swarming bramblin! Where did they come from? Perhaps they were smuggled in from Paldea and escaped, or perhaps a strong breeze carried them into some ship's cargo. Who was to say? But while rumors of the creatures were becoming more scarce, there was at least one still left roaming this route. And it rolled right in front of Astrid, ignoring her as it went about its merry way. Wild [LV 20] Bramblin rolled on in~ What will you do?
Shiny? hsy_gitLp_1-42Rare? p_1-6 Uncommon? p_1-3 Level? p_14-201-42·1-6·1-3·14-20
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Post by Tarlar on Feb 7, 2024 9:28:07 GMT 11
"..And if that goes wrong I can instead.. what is that?!" Oliver stopped himself and then Girafarig as he looked at something in the distance which quickly got closer. "Hm?" Astrid got to say and narrowed her eyes as she too tried to spot the thing coming closer. "It's another one! My turn!" Oliver exclaimed and Astrid looked confused at him as he rummaged through his bag before he jumped down the sleight with a pokeball in hand. "Another one of what?" "Go Natu! Confuse it and then go for a Peck!" He ordered eagerly and Astrid settled back to watch. It became a very short battle as the bramblin quickly shook off the confusion and knocked the bird out the sky. Oliver looked baffled and then chuckled embarrassed, "that didn't go as planned, can you take over?" He called to Astrid as he recalled his pokemon. Sonja eagerly jumped down the sleight again but Astrid called out Araceli once again and the sandslash grumbled, she was never going to get a proper chance. She didn't want to impress Oliver anymore, he hadn't impressed her at all but she still wanted to get all the battles in she could so she was as strong as she could be when the right trainer arrived to help her reach her absolut best.
"Araceli, can you help us out again darling?" The old trainer asked and the bird soared over to the undead tumbleweed. Where they probably all expected him to dive and peck at the brambling like last time, he stayed in the air above and showed why he could evolve into a dragon: a blue and purple smoke-ish beam shot from his mouth at the part ghost type. "Oh my goodness, when have you learned that Araceli?" Astrid asked surprised. Oliver took place beside her looking ashamed, "yeah, sorry. I hadn't really planned on training today, so I haven't brought any other pokemon with me," he apologized. "Then let it be your lesson to always bring some, should you be in a situation where you need it," Astrid said with a wink and waited for the battle to be ower.
Wordcount: 359 (ooc: Araceli uses Dragon Breath x2)
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Post by Rexman on Feb 11, 2024 0:00:15 GMT 11
Bramblin would have been more than content to just roll away and get away from these people and their Pokemon, but fate had different plans. A new Pokemon was introduced to the battle and when the grass type looked up at the little blue bird in the sky, it braced itself for a dive bomb. That dive never came though, as a blue fire was released from the bird's beak and washed over the undead ball of twigs. It didn't feel like regular fire though, it was more....ancient and mystic. Shaking off the attack, the Bramblin sat in place for a second before it started spinning around in a circle, finally developing enough force to launch itself off the ground and slam Araceli in the chest, almost knocking this bird out of the air too. Bramblin landed on the ground and bounced, before it found itself caught in another wave of dragon fire. This time, though, the noxious breath seemed to short circuit the Bramblin a bit and it found itself possibly being paralyzed. It fought through the paralysis and after a few seconds of lining itself up, fired a series of five seed volleys at the Swablu. Alone, a single volley would have done very little damage, but when a Pokemon is lucky and able to land all five, it can be dangerous and that is what the Swablu discovered, as it felt like the seeds would never end. Both Pokemon were harming each other, and it would just come down to what moves the trainer wanted the blue bird to use in the battle. Wild Encounter Weather: Clear [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] Bramblin LV 20 HP 38% [20/52]
[attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/bramblin.png) [attr="class","qkt-trainer-pkmn"] Araceli LV 23 HP 56% [34/60]
[attr="class","qkt-trainer-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani-back/swablu.gif) Bramblin [Wind Rider]: Paralyzed Araceli [Natural Cure]: Healthy SP35 Araceli used Dragonbreath 16 damage SP35 Bramblin used Rapid Spin 11 damage
SP35: Araceli used Dragonbreath 16 damage Bramblin is paralyzed! Bramblin used Bullet Seed, hit 5 times! 15 damage
Running Shoes exhausted who goes first this round? 5XwxOgqqp_1-2 Dragonbreath crit? p_1-16 Dragonbreath paralyze? p_1-100 Bramblin move: p_1-4
Who goes first this round? p_1-2
Dragonbreath crit? p_1-16 Dragonbreath paralyze? p_1-100
Bramblin paralyse? p_1-100 Bramblin move? p_1-4 Bullet Seed amount: p_2-5
1-2·1-16·1-100·1-4·1-2·1-16·1-100·1-100·1-4·2-5
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Post by Tarlar on Feb 22, 2024 9:28:43 GMT 11
Araceli chirped in response to Astrid's surprise but he kept his focus on his opponent. Bramblin was quick to shake it off and unexpectedly then took to the air to slam into the swablu and sending him spiraling down towards the ground, Araceli eyed his opponent and sent another draconic breath at it which resulted in him getting barraged by seeds. He landed and raised his fluffy wings to take the brunt of them, several of the seeds buried deep into his fluffy feathers and protected him from the harm of them.
"My goodness Araceli, are you alright?" Astrid called out to her bird, it looked seriously with how he was protecting himself. Oliver watched thoughtfully, Astrid's way of battling was miles apart from his own. Araceli chirped reassuringly but Astrid decided that enough was enough, she began to rummage through her bag once more to find a pokeball. "You want this one too? Or rather, you want one yourself?" Oliver corrected himself as he remembered that she had given him the first one, she shook her head. "Not really no, but I want this battle to end, catching is the fastest and there is a lot of good trainers out there to give them a good home," she said resolutely and Oliver looked very thoughtful after that.
Araceli peeked over his wings to see if the bramblin was done yet, it seemed to be struggling and he readied himself for another round when something white bolted past him. He chirped surprised and called after Sonja who had charged into battle, damn be everything if she was going to be held out of this battle. She needed training. "I'll show you a real battle!" She shouted challengingly and made a horrible sound by sliding her claws against each other.
A pokeball beat her to it, if nothing else by distracting her enough that she would miss any attack she tried to aim at the part grass type. "No.. No! Nonononono!" She protested, if the battle ended with a catch she wouldn't get her battling!
Wordcount: 344 (ooc: Sonja switches in, using a pokeball ~self updated, 6 left)
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Post by Pixel on Feb 24, 2024 3:37:28 GMT 11
The bramblin was startled by the sandslash jumping between it and the swablu it had been battling. However, it wasn't exactly going to be able to roll away quickly at this rate. Not with its whole form to tensed up to properly catch any breezes in hopes to be carried far away. It weakly tried to recover some energy and leech a few drops of energy from its foe, but the absorb was negligible in effect. The bramblin shrank down. Was this where it got beat up by a big, scary pokemon? It quivered in dread, not noticing a ball flying through the air. A moment later, the pokeball smacked into its side and burst open, swallowing it up whole. There was barely a wobble before the ball fell still. By the look it, the tumbleweed was eager to just end the fight, one way or another.
Swablu gained +1 LVs and grew to LV24 Swablu is trying to learn safeguard. Forget a move to learn safeguard? +1 happiness
Sonja gained +2 LVs and grew to LV24 +1 happiness
Catch? (87%) ktRruNvgp_1-100Move? p_1-4Please fill out the form below: [img src="https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/bramblin.png"] [b]Bramblin[/b] Name: [choose] Gender: [choose] Level: 20 OT: Astrid Lindegaard Moves: Absorb, Rapid Spin, Bullet Seed, Infestation Ability: Wind Rider Nature/Personality: [choose] 1-100·1-4
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Post by Tarlar on Feb 26, 2024 10:53:11 GMT 11
Sonja screamed and jabbed her claws deep into the ground around the pokeball precise enough to not damage the wobbling ball. She dug some deep gashed beside the ball with her other hand's claws. "GET OUT AND FIGHT!" She screamed at it and the ball quickly chimed the sound of the capture which made Sonja screech out her frustration. She slashed the ground and whacked the pokeball with the side of her claws which sent it skidding over the snow, right until a shadow fell over her and she spun around only to face Astrid who looked like a thundercloud. "This is stopping right now!" The old woman said in a stern quivering voice and Sonja narrowed her eyes at her. Then the sandslash huffed and looked away, "it was not a proper opponent anyway," she huffed and began walking back to the sleight while Astrid slowly followed. Cyan came trotting over with the pokeball containing the bramblin, he kept his head down and couldn't look at Sonja. "Thank you Cyan," Astrid managed to say somewhat gentle even though she was still furious. She found Sonja's pokeball and recalled the ice type before she put both of the pokeballs back in her pocket and joined a rather quiet Oliver, who kept glancing at her. Cyan crawled up on the sleight and Araceli landed on the railing and chirped cheerfully.
"Everything alright?" Oliver asked tensely and Astrid waved him off wearily, "it is, proud pokemon can just be a handful sometimes," she sent him a weak smile. He glanced at her and then shook the reins to get his girafarig to pull again, which it did, but by turning around and turn the nose towards the city again. "Woah, what?!" Oliver exclaimed and tried to stop his draught pokemon, who just snorted and fought against the reins, "what is it with you?! We're not done yet!" Oliver grumbled out through gritted teeth. Girafarig snorted and turned its head to glare at Oliver, the trainer sat there with open mouth for a bit and then sheepishly looked at Astrid, "I'm afraid I have to cut our trip a bit short, I'm sorry," he apologized and mumbled something about girafarig knew something he didn't. Astrid just nodded, she didn't really feel it anymore.
It was a surprisingly speed the Girafarig set on and as they got closer to Goldenrod it became clear why: the snow was melting, and fast. Some places even had a few sprouting flowers sticking through and the last bit was rather bumpy to where a not very pleased lenter was waiting impatiently for them. Oliver apologized both to the lenter and to Girafarig, while Astrid defended him by declaring the weather hadn't said anything about a heat front this early.
Wordcount: 461 (ooc: Moved Bramblin to Lei's box2, Araceli forgets Sing to learn safeguard, self updated)
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