Week 2.

[trustfelling]

WEEK 2 With the deaths of Sayaka Maizono and Mallick Scott the first week draws to a close. While you all have varying opinions on what happened and who was to blame, one thing's for sure: the Adjudicator isn't messing around. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... However, those weird dreams aren't the only new thing around here; those massive double doors on the southern wall of the foyer have opened up, leading down another hallway and ending in what looks like another corridor to the west. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done. Or perhaps for just playing the game. COMPETITORS REMAINING: 28

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Don't forget to save your threads for coins and the activity check, and don't forget to submit this week's activity check and memory regains!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Adjudicator, you can do so here!]

Comments

[cilantro]

Well, a gym battle can often help improve upon the taste of one's skills, whether it be the trainer learning how to read an opponent's moves and come up with better strategies, or a Pokemon gaining better coordination and faster reaction timing to something occurring.

Even if one loses the battle, it's not something to despair about, I think. What should matter is whether or not you and your Pokemon had fun, and if bond with them has ripened and produced a much stronger flavor due to your teamwork with one another. Plus, my brothers and I will always welcome rematches, so a trainer and their Pokemon are free to come back anytime they wish until they have gotten their gym badge.

[So no, no Pokemon death. It's just friendly sparring, or at least that's how it's supposed to be treated as. Team Rocket sucks and they need to jump off a bridge.]

[flagitate]

[ Well. That makes a lot more sense. Katniss is visibly relieved. ]

You must really like that stuff. It sounds pretty cool.

[cilantro]

Indeed! I'm quite proud to be a Gym Leader, really: not only are we able to help further the development of the bonds between trainers and their Pokemon, but Gym Leaders are also considered to be the representatives of the strongest trainers of our city. It's quite an honor to be considered as such alongside my brothers, after the many years the three of us spent training ourselves in order to earn that title...

[Oh hey, we're here at the dorms. Before we can go back to the kitchen and make caramel pancakes, Cilan just needs to drop off some more vending machine junk to go along with what he's already accumulated thus far, which if Katniss wants to glance in, appears to be a lot of random objects: two different pairs of shoes, a tumbleweed, some stuff sitting right by the door like weird jerky, a pin with some kind of bird on it, a pair of hair scissors, etc.]

[flagitate]

[ That definitely sounds a lot more appealing than the Hunger Games. She kind of feels a little jealous, because something like that... it seems like a crazy dream.

She does glance in, mostly because she's just curious, and her gaze falls on that pin. She'd been wearing it in her dream, so... maybe... ]

... Hey. Where'd you get that pin?

[cilantro]

Oh, this? It came out of the vending machine the other day when I decided to first try it.

[And then Cilan turns and frowns a little at the pin.]

Although, I must admit that I'm not familiar with any Flying-type Pokemon that look like this, so I assumed that it must be based on a bird from someone else's region...

[I mean it kind of reminded him of Fearow as far as the beak goes, but... yeah, otherwise he didn't recognize the bird very well.]

[flagitate]

[ ... Okay, she's walking right in and gently touching the little pin. It looks so delicate, but... yeah, it's definitely hers. It just feels... familiar. ]

I think it's mine.

[cilantro]

Really? [Well in that case--] Then by all means, please go ahead and take it: after all, it would be better suited in the hands of it's owner, right?

[flagitate]

You sure?

[ ... Yeah, she'll go ahead and take that, and place it in her pocket. ]

That vending machine is bizarre. Like it gave me this red and white ball that had a weird fish... thing... [ ??? ] inside.

[cilantro]

[Well, that's just... wait.]

... Is the ball red on the top and white on the bottom? Has a button on it that when pushed it caused this fish thing to appear from it?

[He doesn't want to get his hopes too high here but we gotta be sure!!]

[flagitate]

... Yeah. You know what it is?

[cilantro]

Yes! From the sound of it, I think you may have found a poke ball with a Pokemon inside it!!

[And now he's near vibrating with energy here just at the mere thought of it. What kind of Pokemon is it? What kind of taste does it have??]

Please, can you show it to me? I want to see what it looks like!

[flagitate]

[ cilan don't lick the pokemon ]

Sure. [ He's even more excited about this than food--?! ] I can go get it. [ ... ] Or you can come with me. I guess.

[cilantro]

Excellent! Please, by all means, lead the way!

[After he locks up his room, that is, so that other people don't steal his stuff, but--yes, take us to the Pokemon, please and thank you.]

[flagitate]

[ And she leads him to her room. She unlocks the door and goes right on over to her trunk, opens it, and pulls out the ball. ]

This is it. [ Katniss holds it out for him. ]

[cilantro]

[aaaahhhh oh my gosh, it really is a poke ball... when Cilan takes it from her, he's nearly spinning around with joy here]

What a wonderful taste! Now that there's a Pokemon here, our lives will surely improve significantly!

[Namely of the "we might be able to bust out of here depending on what's inside it" variety, or at the very least introduce people to the wonder of Pokemon now. Still, he steps back a ways to open it just in case this Pokemon turns out to be particularly big (or god forbid, Archie's Sharpedo) and with a flash of light, the fish thing appears on the floor here.]

... Ah, this is a Stunfisk! This is a Pokemon that's commonly found in Unova, and is considered to have an amazing flavor of stealth to it in comparison to other Pokemon, due to it's ability to camouflage itself when lying on the ground or against the bottom of a lake or river... and this one appears to have been well-taken care of from what I can see of it: healthy in size, no discoloration that I can see...

[The Pokemon, who at first had probably given Katniss a brief "oh hey we remember you, you let us out for like five seconds only to put us back in again" look, it's expression almost seems happy for a second when it then lays eyes on Cilan... only for it to very slowly fall into an expression of confusion the more it listens to Cilan talk. Why is our trainer acting like he doesn't recognize us...]

[flagitate]

[ ... He's excited about a fish thing. Okay. There are probably weirder things that people could be excited about.

At least she's made someone happy, wow. ]

So how's this fish th-- Stunfisk going to improve our lives here? [ ... ] It just looks like a fish, and no fish like I've ever seen.

[cilantro]

Well, Pokemon have fantastic abilities: take Stunfisk here, for example! This Pokemon has both Ground and Electric flavor in typing, which means that it likely has skills in both areas. If we could find out what moves it has, there's a possibility that we could use them in order to engineer an escape plan for all of us here!

[So yes, this is why Cilan thinks it's a good thing that we found this Pokemon.]

[flagitate]

So Pokemon can use their moves against stuff other than other Pokemon? Huh.