[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Dragonstrike]

"Oooooooh, sooooo thaaaat's whyyyy I waaaas roooobeeed. Buuuummeeeer, maaaaan. Weeeell, I hoooonestly doooon't reeeemeeeber weeeereee I goooot thaaaat Extra Rare Candy, only thaaaaat I gooot a REEEEAAAALLYYY good buuuzz, aaaand fooound it in my pooockeeet aaaafteeeer I caaaame baaaack toooo Eeeeaaaarth. Wiiieerd, I knoooow, siiiir, buuuut thaaat's hoooow foooound it. My Balm Mushrooms, thooooouuuuugh, I grooooow thooooseeee myyyyseeelf aaaat myyyy haaaang ooouuut iiiiin theeee Saaaafaaaari Zooooone. Breloom aaaand Shiintonic heeeelpeeed teeeeach meeee hoooow aaaaand theeee riiiight plaaaaceeeee toooo cuuuultivaaate theeeem, aaaand hoooow toooo uuuseee theeeeem toooo maaaake myyyyy Herbal Remedies, siiir. Uuusuually keeeep theeem tooo myseeelf, siiiince theeeey aaaareee tooootallyyyy groovy maaaan, buuuut I broooought ooooneee wiiith meee oooon my vaaa-caaayyy tooo Celadon. Toootaaaal buuuuzz kiiiill wheeeen thaaaat thiiieef took iiiit, thoooough, buuuut I haaaave moooreee aaaand caaaan groooow mooore tooo, soooo I gueeess iiiiits noooot toootally a buuuummeeeer."

Reiner makes sure to take note of that.  Though a few more specifics couldn't hurt... 

"Would you mind giving me a few specifics on where that hangout is?  The Safari Zone is a big place, so if we're going to get this thief before he moves on to different targets, I'll have to inform the police about where they can get the bait or where they might be able to expect this thief to strike next."

[Lord Windos]

Reiner makes sure to take note of that.  Though a few more specifics couldn't hurt... 

"Would you mind giving me a few specifics on where that hangout is?  The Safari Zone is a big place, so if we're going to get this thief before he moves on to different targets, I'll have to inform the police about where they can get the bait or where they might be able to expect this thief to strike next."

The former(?) Druggies nods his head at you, his heavily medicated, subconsciously pained and sleepy mind having absolutely no reservation in giving you that information. Even if you and your cop 'friends' raided his location or stole it for themselves, he knew how to grow more somewhere else anyway! He asks for some pen and paper, and writes down surprisingly clean, crisped, and detailed intrustion as to finding his Secret Hangout/Home, as well as a couple of miscellaneous hidden, hard to find, or REALLY off the trail locations that may or may not have goodies in them. You do know that one location is his own private farm, the other his Balm Mushroom farm, and ANOTHER for the rest of his herbal plants and spices. They even drew a fairly detailed and precise map for you on a couple of pages; its compares quite nicely to Emily's own artistic skill! Gregory caps the pen and hands it and your notepad back, with a dopey smile on his face.

"Theeeereeee yoooouuuu gooooo, siiiiir. Yooouuu'll fiiiind myyyy hoooome aaaand stuuuuuff preeeettyyy eeeeaaaassy noooow. Neeeed aaaanythiiing eeeelseee, siiiir?"

[Dragonstrike]

The former(?) Druggies nods his head at you, his heavily medicated, subconsciously pained and sleepy mind having absolutely no reservation in giving you that information. Even if you and your cop 'friends' raided his location or stole it for themselves, he knew how to grow more somewhere else anyway! He asks for some pen and paper, and writes down surprisingly clean, crisped, and detailed intrustion as to finding his Secret Hangout/Home, as well as a couple of miscellaneous hidden, hard to find, or REALLY off the trail locations that may or may not have goodies in them. You do know that one location is his own private farm, the other his Balm Mushroom farm, and ANOTHER for the rest of his herbal plants and spices. They even drew a fairly detailed and precise map for you on a couple of pages; its compares quite nicely to Emily's own artistic skill! Gregory caps the pen and hands it and your notepad back, with a dopey smile on his face.

"Theeeereeee yoooouuuu gooooo, siiiiir. Yooouuu'll fiiiind myyyy hoooome aaaand stuuuuuff preeeettyyy eeeeaaaassy noooow. Neeeed aaaanythiiing eeeelseee, siiiir?"

"You've answered all the questions I had for you that the police hadn't asked you already.  Thank you for your time, sir.  I hope you'll recover soon.  I need to report this information to my employer ASAP.  Oh, and if you didn't notice, it seems someone or something knocked over that lamp over there.  You might want to tread a little carefully.  Well, I wish you a good rest of the day."

Ah, the irony of it all.  The best deceptions are the ones laced with truth, and now the thief himself has the exact information he needed and more.  Time to report this to Proton ASAP back at the Center.

[Lord Windos]

Thursday Dusk

Gregory gives you a sleepy nod and a thumbs up, before he passes out cold in his chair, snoozing away the night once more in complete and total bliss. If you are lucky, by the time he wakes up, the whole conversation he had with you would hazy and immaterial in his mind's eyes. At the very least, he has no reason to cast blame on you, so no worries for this half Encounter regardless!

You end up making it to the Pokémon Center with zero incident or malicious attacks from either the Vampire or Mitchel Malcolm, much to your IMMENSE relief. Perhaps Lady Luck has decided to grant you a small repreave from her sister Miss Fortune, or the both of them have found some other poor soul to torture for the time being. When you enter the Lobby, however, you are astonished to find that an exhausted looking Arial was in here, sitting at one of the various tables scattered around the place and sucking down his favorite revitalizing beverage, while Gasper was curled up in his lap, purring up a store as a Skitty. Looks like the EMT did a bang up job, since while he doesn't look to be battle ready now (Reiner needs to talk with Proton first about this), he did look up for some conversation at the very least!

[Dragonstrike]

Thursday Dusk

You end up making it to the Pokémon Center with zero incident or malicious attacks from either the Vampire or Mitchel Malcolm, much to your IMMENSE relief. Perhaps Lady Luck has decided to grant you a small repreave from her sister Miss Fortune, or the both of them have found some other poor soul to torture for the time being. When you enter the Lobby, however, you are astonished to find that an exhausted looking Arial was in here, sitting at one of the various tables scattered around the place and sucking down his favorite revitalizing beverage, while Gasper was curled up in his lap, purring up a store as a Skitty. Looks like the EMT did a bang up job, since while he doesn't look to be battle ready now (Reiner needs to talk with Proton first about this), he did look up for some conversation at the very least!

"Well, look at what the giant metal cat dragged in.  Or was it the six-eyed one?  Regardless, good to see you're recovering.  However, I still have business to take care of currently, so I'll chat with you about the spoils of our earlier victory in a moment."

Proton first, then Arial.  Let's see how Proton likes hearing some good news for once...

[Lord Windos]

"Well, look at what the giant metal cat dragged in.  Or was it the six-eyed one?  Regardless, good to see you're recovering.  However, I still have business to take care of currently, so I'll chat with you about the spoils of our earlier victory in a moment."

Proton first, then Arial.  Let's see how Proton likes hearing some good news for once...

You make your way to the private teleconference room, leaving your poor bodyguard to while away the time and try to fully get back on his feet while you took care of business. It was not your job to sit around and babysat him while he got better; quite the opposite, as a matter of fact! When you take a seat and dial up Protons office number, you wait for around 15 minutes or so, and unusually long time for prompt and stern taskmaster, before the holoscreen pops up. Instead of Proton, however, it turned out to be Rocket Executive Petrel himself, looking rather chirper and happy despite the time of night!

Out of the 4 (Current) Exectutives, he was the one you got along the most by a fair margin, and the feeling was quite mutual on his end, as he seemed to derive no end of amusement from giving his stuffy, stick in the mud, arrogant, and prissy co-workers a hard time! The fashion conscious Rocket also delighted in you company in general, and would take the opportunity to hang out with you and chat away about each other's respective lives and exciting events/missions when time and his busy sceduale allowed it. He was also the one who scouted you out in the first place and vouched for your skill and potential to Giovanni himself, so you have more than sufficient reason to be grateful for his presence in your life. The only reason that he isn't your direct superior was that Giovanni didn't want one of his top ranking officer to blatantly play favorites with one of his Grunts (That was his privilege), and so assigned you under Proton's command, much to everyone's disappointment as it turned out. Its been a couple weeks since you last sat down and chewed the fat with them, so this was a pleasant surprise!

"Reiner?! It IS you, buddy! I was wondering who was calling Proton right now, since he had to take care of an emergency regarding one of his female subordinate- something about them being murdered on the streets yesterday night or something, ick!- but I guess that mystery is solved for now! I'm covering for him tonight, and I'm caught up on this special mission that the Boss has you on, so feel free to pass along any info to me for the time being! If your not too busy afterwards, we can continue our conversation on how to improve Hydreon's bad public image! Or something else, if you have some burning idea that needs my salving words to put out, he!"

[Dragonstrike]

"Reiner?! It IS you, buddy! I was wondering who was calling Proton right now, since he had to take care of an emergency regarding one of his female subordinate- something about them being murdered on the streets yesterday night or something, ick!- but I guess that mystery is solved for now! I'm covering for him tonight, and I'm caught up on this special mission that the Boss has you on, so feel free to pass along any info to me for the time being! If your not too busy afterwards, we can continue our conversation on how to improve Hydreon's bad public image! Or something else, if you have some burning idea that needs my salving words to put out, he!"

"Well, if it isn't my good buddy Petrel.  Surprised you haven't disguised yourself as Proton to stay in character, to be honest, but eh.  I'm actually calling because I have some VERY good news for Proton which will save him at least one headache, and I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear it as well.  And the boss might be too.  I'm sure you've heard ALL about that deal I struck with Erika.  And what just happened to me and Arial this afternoon.  Well, good news is that the little rodeo I had with Romeo and Juliet lead to finding out where that Druggie was currently located.  And also gaining police permission to go into that building and question the sole survivor of the recent 'Vampire' attacks, which is what Proton's currently looking into, and something I'm probably going to have to deal with myself since I've picked up a companion who's a potential target, which would solve that little issue of very healthy looking women being murdered on the streets at night as long as nothing goes awry.  Anyways...

"To keep it brief, I very, very easily persuaded Mr. Gregory Wasson to tell me all about his precious Balm Mushrooms without raising a fuss in the slightest.  Turns out he grows them himself for his own use.  Where, you might ask?  The Safari Zone.  Where specifically?"

Reiner holds up the VERY detailed maps.

"He drew me some maps that lead to his hangout there, his garden for his herbal concoctions, his Balm Mushroom garden, and a couple other little goodie houses he has scattered around.  I'd say that deal with Erika is VERY viable if we can eventually convince Mr. Wasson to supply us with some of those shrooms on a regular basis.  Wasson also implied he has at least a few more Balm Mushrooms already stored at that location.  Go on.  Tell me you're not impressed with how efficient that little excursion was."

[Lord Windos]

The perfect con-artist shrugs his shoulders with a affable smirk on his face, before he fired back with his own banter. "Well, this WAS on short notice, so its not exactly like I had the time to craft the perfect disguise of our dear friend Proton. Oh what fun I could had have, if I was given even a half an hour's warning in advance...but ces la vie. Besides, I don't think now would be the good time to prank him again, unless we want to watch our back while we sleep, least he comes a stalking to strangle us while our guard is down!"

Petrel then started to tap his chin as you brought up Erika and The Couple to the for front of his mind, before he let out a small sigh and gave you a worried smile for just a moment, before he became completely cheerful once more. "All I have to say is that you are being your usual self, buddy: causing all sort of trouble, stirring up chaos of all kinds, and getting involved with the most interesting people and events. Honestly, I'm not sure whether or not you are curse with good luck or blessed with bad, but it certainly goes a long way to keep your skill sharp and your mind even more so! I'm a bit worried that you are beginning to get a weee bit over your head, though. Valarie, Mitchel, Erika, That Couple, the Cops and now some serial killer staking women in the night...that's a lot of bad, bad people to have hanging on your coat-tails, Reiner. Now I know you are a glutton for punishment, but please don't bite off a bit more than you can chew on this, especially with people with twitchy trigger fingers. You know, I'm willing to break the rules or cash in one of your Favors with the boss for you so that I can help out with this scumbag. I don't want my best friend and his new girlfriend- which you will tell me exactly how you managed to charm such a marvelous beauty *Kyubi turned away from Petrel's stair, a blush forming from his compliment* - getting murked by some criminal with no class or style, so how about it buddy?" 

The Executive let out a long whistle after hearing the information you extracted from dear old Gregory, and cheerful and somewhat cock swagger grin stretched out on his face. "Well break my Disguise and call me a Mimikyu, that is some seriously impressive intel you managed to get! Now we have not only a supply of rare drug material and medicinal supplies for Erika herself, but also for our own uses and purposes, which means we can start being a little more stingy with our old price gouging supplies, hehehe... I'll have someone fly over to Fushia with the map details to scope of the locations on your notes/map - don't worry, I can retrieve the info latter from the call itself, so no need to fax me a copy - , and bring back a Balm Mushroom for you to use as another bargenning chip for the lady. Man, she may be hiding steel beneath that prim façade she wears, but its always the one you least suspect that have the weirdest habits, eh?"

[Dragonstrike]

"I'll tell ya how I 'charmed' her: saved her life, that's how.  That's all there really is to it.  She's sticking to me like glue so I can keep her alive, and she can help me stay standing as well, as she's got a few surprises of her own.  Though I won't deny that I do think things have been getting rather intense lately.  Mitchell, I think I can maybe try to reason with, somehow.  If it comes to a battle, I can hopefully win since I've got a couple tricks up my sleeve.  The Vampire, I've got a plan to lure out on my terms.  Probably tonight.  And then there's one other problem to worry about tomorrow, I guess...oh, and those other things...

"Speaking of which, I do have a tiny bit of bad news.  The first is my whole dealeo with Archie and the girl: not quite done with that business yet.  After this call is done and I've made some preparations, I've got one last loose end to tie up, and I have no choice in the matter but to do it tonight, which means I'm probably going to encounter the Vampire either on the way there or on the way back.  The second thing, Mew's not giving me any choice in the matter on.  She's obligating me to get a specific area of downtown Celadon checked out, and preferably cleansed if possible.  Seems there's some sort of problem with Nuclear pokemon getting loose there, and unless we want Legendaries razing the city to the ground, I gotta go check it out once I'm properly geared up for it.  Mew doesn't trust the police and National Guard will be able to handle it given their recent performance.  I've got plenty of time to kill, so I'm not too worried about being unable to get everything done.  Still plenty of time left before the festival's over, after all.

"Now let's see...an offer to help with this serial killer...hmmm...well, let me tell you a little bit about this Vampire first so you know what you'd be getting into.  That survivor had some interesting information for me that she wasn't going to tell the police.  First of all, the Vampire is female. Second, she uses three different pokemon: A Shedinja that spams Heal Block, a Beautifly that spams Whirlwind, and some sort of really big, buff, red mystery pokemon that stands on four legs and can punch really hard.  Third, she uses Potions, and a lot of them, and ambushes targets from the shadows as frequently as possible.  She also only attacks during the dead of night from all the reports I've heard so far.  Fourth, she's got a really powerful tazer-like weapon which I believe is likely similar in nature to the guns that Juliet and I pulled out this afternoon.  Any target she strikes with the weapon seems to get the strength drained right out of them, and then she and her pokemon get stronger from absorbing that energy.  My best guess is she's probably a Bug Type specialist of some kind, so I'd come prepared for that.  Now, if you do decide you'd like to help, I won't say no.  Between, you, me, Arial, and one other person I intend to bring with us to watch my back while I'm tying up that loose end, we can probably take her down.  Preferably bringing her in alive, because that sole survivor is very interested in getting a little payback of her own in before her attacker inevitably dies a very slow, painful death for all the pain she put her victim and her pokemon through."

[Spiritmon]

Arial was sleeping in the tabble snore after the EMP effect then little by little he begin to awake and clean his eyes and look to his surrounds to know where he is. "What the heck is this place? Las thing I remember is get a shoot in my face from Juliet." Then he see Gaspar snoring together with Arial. Arial pating a little in the six-eye Pokemon who awake. He see much happy and jump in Arial face, almost suffoc the poor Arial. "I know! I know! I glad too to see you Gaspar! No get out of my face! I cant breath!"

Arial with hard action could let out Gaspar who still hug Arial and almost hysteric. Arial know Duplicats dont have gender, but he thinks sometimes Gaspar act like a hysteric woman. He sees Reiner talking to one of the high admins, Petrel. Arial was very tempt to kick in the face of Reiner like he did yesterday, but he decide to not do that. He already kick Reiner, and try to scare Reiner and Arial get toast, be kick in the limbs (still hurt a little) and receive a shoot in his face. He simply go in the direction of Kyubi and Reiner and salutes the couple.

"Heya Reiner, heya Kyu. How are you two mates?" Then Arial makes a respect bound to Admin Petrel. "Good morning too High Admin Petrel. Its good to see you sir."