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

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

Kyubi, hearing/noticing the awakening of 'Looker' quicker than you (That fox hearing comes in mighty hand!), rapidly used True Hypnosis with a *Poof!* of smoke, leaving her in their human guise once more! She still appreciates the heads up from you, though, if that happy look she sent your way was any indication of her feelings besides what your empathy can naturally pick up.

Your SOUL swap mate gives you a firm Look upon you mentioning Blissey's Softboiled Egg and plainly thinks at you: 'You know, you could have told me earlier that you had one of their miraculous healing eggs and saved me some back aches, Reiner, but late first aid is still better than nothing! Now where'd you put it....?' Once they found it and gobbled it down to restore 2 HP and temporarily relieved their Pain , 'he' let out a blissful sigh of relief and followed your advice to the letter. Felicia, upon being summoned, seemed both grateful and a little consternated that her master survived the battle against the Vampire and her minions, and managed to subdue Buzzwole itself after a brutal brawl, but she was less than pleased that the serial killer was still at large and causing a bloody mess of things. Weavile, meanwhile, was even more grumpy at the fact that he didn't even get to make a contribution to your fight against Beautifly before they got the wind knocked out AND into them, but they just let out a long suffering sigh and took their place beside his shiny partner. As a black cat with a sorrid history of bad luck, he knew that fortune was very fickle for him...though that didn't mean he'd have to like it at all!

Rhyxemplar let out grunt at 'your' orders and, in an surprising move of unabashed kindness, plods on over to where Mina Mab lay still unconscious and gently picks them up with both arms, and returns to 'his' side, ready to move out behind them. It appears his knightly/chivirous side was awaken by the now literally fae artist's plight despite contrasting type differences! That, or he doesn't want to leave a critical asset of his lord and their ward attended to only by a Luxelong that failed its original duty in protecting them in the first place, and it could easily shoulder their burden for however long it was necessary. It was hard to tell when it comes to the gruff Pokémon, honestly. The fae dragon, while a little put out and resentful of the kaiju stealing its job right from under them, put up with it for now and floated after them, forming the rear guard with him.

Everyone quickly banded together and headed towards the alleyway with the help of Crobat and the cats, and both you and 'Reiner' were able to find....:

Alertness Roll: Insight (5*) + Survival (3) + Alert (2) = 10D6 Dice
(4)(5)(6)(3)(2)(3)(4)(2)(6)(6) 6 Success

In the shadows of a nearby dumpster, nearly slide completely its lip you (Mew) glimpse the handle of something dark green, and telekinetically get a grip on it to pull the object from its hidey hole. It appeared to be a dark green tazer, with not a scratch on it and what looked to be a spent Cartirage hanging mournfully from it.

You also notice something else significant: a tiny trail of spiders, leading further into the darkness beyond and out of your sight, and signs of foot prints heading along that way as well. You also notice what appears to be a Spent Potion bottle on the ground, and this seems to be were the trail of spiders begins as well.... Looker, judging by the weary just sharp look in his eyes as he takes in the scene, rapidly deciphers the clues laying about but keeps it to himself for now, waiting to see your reaction before he offers his.

Angelica, however, takes out her cellphone and begans snapping pictures of the crime scene for later review/evidence shake, and gives a curious look at the taser 'you' are holding in your grip. Emily and Kybui are hanging in the back with Rhyxemplar currently, both to stay out of the front lines in case of a fight broke out or the main fighting forces were ambushed, and to add an extra layer security to the sleeping princess laying in the metal beast's arms.

(Well, allow me to speed up the process here and answer one question for you, 'Mew'.  THAT is none other than the Bug Cursed Arm, Residuam Culicidae.  Arial was unfortunate enough to have to worry about facing that, but lucky enough to remove it from the Vampire's grasp before he got subdued, it seems...that is a VERY welcome surprise.  Unfortunately, I don't know everything it does yet, but I'm sure we'll learn as soon as we take out the Vampire, no?)

'Well, whoop de doo.  Those spiders are certainly quite the tell, aren't they?'

(Reminds me of a popular movie in our world, actually.  One of the more well known lines from it is 'follow the spiders.'  Seems rather apt right now, no?)

'I'll say...well, it's better than nothing.  'Reiner', better have everyone start buffing themselves.  This one might take a little longer, but that's because I want Weavile and Gengar to be at maximum potential.  Have Rhyxemplar use Rock Polish, I'll use Nasty Plot and Amnesia, and then Weavile can use Snatch on us both.  We can then recast our buffs, and Gengar can use Psych Up to copy all of Weavile's boosted stats.  Felicia can also buff herself with Nasty Plot and Amnesia while we're doing that, and Crobat could use Nasty Plot. We're going to need every buff we can to get through this, I'm sure.'

Actually, better talk with Angelica real quick, too...

'Vampire's weapon of choice, Angelica.  Remember that tazer we were talking about before heading out here?  This is it.  'Reiner' is going to be holding on to it for now.  Better in 'his' hands than the Vampire's, I say.  Oh, and I'm sure it's obvious, but it's better that it doesn't fall into the police's hands either.  Or anyone else's, for that matter.  It's...rather powerful.'