Dragonstrike Wrote:The cowboy pauses, caught a little off guard by the sudden mental communication.  That was the last voice he would have expected to hear on the embassy grounds!

"Hm?  Oh, Sylvia!  Fancy seein' you here!  I think I should have a moment.  Not long though.  Have a rather important meetin' I need to be gettin' to."

He looks around, seeming to expect to see someone else.  "Hmmm...is Randy not with you right now?  I would have expected him to be sticking close to you.  Unless you purposefully snuck away from him?"

Now why would Sylvia be here of all places?  Maybe...?  He looks at the Espeon curiously, trying to solve this puzzle.

(06-15-2024, 08:02 PM)Iron Wrote: "I've never seen a Dondozo myself. Just legends. I don't think it's very bright, but it's very large, and that's why I'm interested in it."

(06-15-2024, 05:55 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: Oz clearly was scared after such an experience. First things first: She decided to go to the police station first and inform the cops about the experience, the description of “John” appearance and his thugs underlings. After take the necessary information gave, she send a message to everyone:

Hey. Oz here. Got some terrible, terrible encounter with a group of people. A guy called “John” looks like the leader of the group. They are like this (insert description of the guys). I'm gonna go to the Koffee Kafe for a meeting with Bernard. Gonna get some help with the cops before I do something.

My choice of Pokemon for the buff Savior Be Me will be Fortuna. She is gonna be helpful with Flying and Spread Moves.

Oz also requested a cop to accompany her if possible to Kudo Koffee Kudos since she still needs some security. Also she is still frightened with the possibility of meeting John or his underlings again. And decided to wait for Bernard with a cop, since is still scared.

(06-15-2024, 04:09 PM)Pokekitty2 Wrote:

(06-15-2024, 03:33 PM)Lord Windos Wrote:

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The Gargyph pauses at your counter offer, before spreading his wings out.

"Groom My Feathers, Wipe Off Dirt, and Clean Up the Mess Made."

"Leave, and Do Not Bother Me Again."

"If Done, and Berry Given, Apology Will Fully Be Accept."

Better, or more humiliating to be the one having to fix your comrades mistakes in so servile a manner? Will your Pride be able to take the hit to end things amicably...? Or will your Inner Umbreon Genes flair up and show this fossilized pigeon what it means to DARE make such demeaning demands of you...?!

Well, Sylvia won’t be playing at Stylist alone… Sir and Murkrow are both asked (told) to join in (if Gargryph lets them). Sylv’s not one to treat it as a blow to her pride, either - rather, she takes joy in helping Gargryph look as positively stunning as she can. Maybe she'll even try some stylist-y small talk - ask about interesting places to go in town, gossip, and such. And by the end… well. Maybe it’s her inner Umbreon genes, but she does take some pride in the final result…

Edit: stylistic goal: Shiny Tenebris
(Geez, wish I had realized I could backlog and shiny hunt sooner… Shiny Tenebris is *gorgeous*)

(06-15-2024, 06:20 PM)PhantomUnderYourDesk Wrote:

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Huhhh... This...hasn't happened before, and it's noted. Granted though, Bernhard hasn't tried giving that Astral Stone to any of his 'Mon before to hold... Except Zephy for just shortly, when they were up high on the roof of that skyscrapper the day before yesterday, if he recalls correctly. Does that potentially mean she is, just like him, Special and Strange 'enough'? That'd actually make a weird sort of sense now to think about it, and could lowkey explain what other things were felt in that Astral Plane. In one way or the other, this was odd, curious, and extraordinary; and gives a lot of food for thought that he GLALDY dwells on, it's a most-welcome distraction from the mess from earlier this morning.

Very Strange and meaningful indeed...

Means, for a bit of a while Bernhard just dwells there, resting their head on one arm while the other - matchingly the gauntlet'ed one - holds up the Astral Stone to simply observe how the light of the room is refracting on it and how smol Spritzee coos over it.

Soon enough it gets stored away where it's been drawn from again, and their focus is brought back to the present scene. Spritzee - he receives, as a sort of apology, a gentle touch with the back of Bern's hand. "I took as a 'no, do not give away this particular gemstone', quite literally. Apologies, my dear lil' one..." *musters the pink fae bird* "Though there is no need to fret or be sad or enraged, no. Our path is just unfolding, and the possibilities of finding treasure you too are able to admire and find joy in are endless, no doubt."

"For now though, it shall suffice. I do have to...indulge in business again and at last. You may get to you know your fellow partners at a diferent time, if you probably wish to do so." Aaand Spritzee gets recalled into his Friend Ball - what a fitting choice of Pokeball it was too, Bernhard has got to his his most dear fairy maiden ('Stop with the terms of endearment, you fool!', he mentally scolds himself) that much. And with that, our stern and kuudere-until-hitting-the-right-nerves Scimitar does get up and makes his way...

First stop, how's Mr. Gleam himself doing? Still sleeping and snoozing likely? (if he is, Bernhard mentally sighs, but accepts and lets hims catch up on rest.)



Next stop going upstairs. Where Myra, Nirix, Saph, that Saphire Pendant and - yes indeed - Zephy await. Bernhard will enter the room and greet both Myra and Nirix - who thankfully didn't catch anything of what occured downstairs, lucky! - and his artistic birdmouse all usually and like he normally does, quite literally like nothing has happened downstairs at all  and like a certain fairy lady didn't accompany their breakfast. If Zephy DARES to start about Morgana again, Bern would immediately halt her with - every emphasis possible, mind you! - by placing one or wo fingers onto her mouth, a manner of stopping her right here and right now. An unimpressed look accompanies this gesture, and stern words of "Hush. Enough of THAT. Not now please. Back to business and more...important matters. Our focus right now... *gestures owards Saph* ...it shall lay on her and the curse pestering her, as it should be now."
Speaking of her - how is she doing, and change to be noticable? How does the Saphire Pendant 'react' if we'll take it into the Gauntlet hand, in a manner of 'the time has come at last'?

(06-15-2024, 06:08 PM)Lord Windos Wrote: Oh, you're joing too during the Survival Center Tour? Well you get the same Speech at the same time as Vernon and Seddi, though the guide does momentarily blush when she gets a good, long look at you. Oh my, someone's interested ~

If Lani is out and in your bag the Guide gets even more excited, thrilled to see yet another Pseudo Trainer particpate in the Tour, and such a lovely looking lil Dragon at that. Your sparkling Fighter tries to play at disinterest, but the fawning does stroke her ego the right way enough for a smirk to slip through every now and again.

(06-15-2024, 09:46 PM)Pokekitty2 Wrote:

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>>Randy was to escort me here safely, and to help set up my status as an independant pokemon. Of those objectives, the first is complete and the second postponed. I'm exploring on my own today.
>>If time is of a concern, I can take an answer succinct, or even at another time. But I'm curious, and Professor Sada said you were the one to ask - I'd like an explanation of Paradoxes.
>>Additionally, if at all possible, I'd like to meet your telepathic partner.

(06-16-2024, 02:22 AM)Lord Windos Wrote: (...) Mr. Gleam is still Asleep, but this has an explanation - Morgana told you she specifically put him in a 'Healing Slumber, most needed dire' , since there turned out to be a LOT of compounding health issues that have been piling up and worsened by his tireless and extremely stress work and getting his daughter the help she desperately needed. She didn't really care about the fate of the man, but figured that since you went through all the effort to help his daughter you probably wouldn't want the guy having his own medical crisis either. Or worse, dying and becoming responsible for a child - though that tangent piqued the Fae Lady's fancies until you managed to distract her. NOPE, you are not ready for children yet, nuh uh! Taking care of your Mons and Morgana is hard enough as is, seesh!

Zephy, unsurprisingly, continue to ignore you, something you are frustrated by but grateful for in this instance. They still shoot you the stink eye every now and again, much to Nirix's worry. They'll settle down once treatment of Saph begins, however - they're not THAT petty to let wounded feelings jeopardize the health and recovery of someone like her!

Saph...her breathing has appeared to become ever so slightly more stable, and you could see the tell-tell signs she was getting close to Wakefulness. As it stand you could wait for her to Awaken, or simply pipe in the Pancea and do what little Curse Breaking you can with or without help.

The Pendant lit up like a flare, feelings of 'anticipation' , 'relief' , and 'urgency' welling up through your contact with it. You have a strong feeling this Pendant would prove to be useful yet again during this - hopefully - last check up and treatment of the lil' ill lass.

How are you going about Curing Saph from her Curse?

(06-16-2024, 07:27 AM)Dragonstrike Wrote:

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Seddi will look at his watch before giving the Espeon a long, hard stare.

"Well now, who'd ya pick that word up from?"

He relaxes physically, though he's being extremely careful with his thoughts again.  "Well, no matter.  Paradox Pokemon aren't a big secret 'round these parts anyways.  You won't hear locals callin' them that, though.  It's just what us folks from Paldea call the critters.  The short explanation is that they're pokemon that defy modern understandin'.  Primal beasts that look like they could have jumped out of ancient history books or robots with advanced sentient AIs beyond any modern inventor's skills.  Far as Paldea's scientific community knows, they shouldn't exist, and yet they do.  That is why we call them Paradoxes."

After pausing to let that sink in, Seddi continues by responding to the latter request.

"You want to know more, I'm goin' to need a little more info on where you're from and what you're doin' here.  You and Randy may be nice folk at first glance, but everyone workin' with the Professor and I needs to go through a simple background check first.  Our research on Paradox Pokemon is highly sensitive."

And Seddi very purposefully communicates this last part mentally instead of our loud.

[Especially if ya want to properly meet my top secret partner.  Can't have her make an appearance without good reason.]

Well...he's open to the idea of filling Sylvia in, provided his conditions are met.  This is a far cry from how friendly he was yesterday, though.  He's more obviously on guard, even more particular with his words.

With international comms down, an actual background check could take awhile to verify though.  If Sylvia has some credentials that Seddi would recognize and could verify, however...