10-19-2018, 10:33 AM
LURCH
The timeskip completes and everything stabilizes. You find yourself on a sandy scrubland, standing directly on the turf (no road). Your first thought might be that you have traveled in space now - but then you recognize the horizon line of the ancient Great Divide. Your second thought might be that you've arrived in nighttime again, but then you'd realize the sky is simply blotted out by ashes from the great volcanoes now spotting the Great Divide. They're grumbling and spitting fitfully.
To the east, you can see Mt. Sentry. It's entirely encased in ice and snow, and it seems like the lands east of Mt. Molten are lightly dusted with it. You can see a vast plume of smoke where Mt. Molten is active in the distance. Even here near the volcanoes there is a certain chill to the air.
To the south, there's a mild valley with a bit of snow between occasional blades of grass. Inhabiting it, a boundless pack of wolf Pokemon waits, sitting and sniffing the cold air. There are THOUSANDS of Mightyena, occupying several acres of taiga, and their little cubs gambol about between their legs. Despite their numbers, they look well-fed and healthy, with sleek coats and lots of variation between them. You can see several are chewing on massive bones that can only belong to Mamoswine. Even the nearest Mightyena is still about a half mile away. It's an awe-inspiring sight to see them stretched over so much territory.
A smaller, lighter pack occupies one of the volcanoes above you that has already gone dormant and received a coating of snow and wiry grass.
Calam lets himself out of his Pokeball. He and Dizzy are on extremely high alert, the most worried you've ever seen him. They're growling, and Calam even goes so far as to paw at Nathan. But they aren't looking at the wolf pack; they're gazing more southwest in the direction of Teazel Valley. Calam gives Dizzy a worried nudge.
Suddenly, the whitest wolves break away from the northern pack, and come streaming down the mountain. With white coats and black faces, you realize they are not Mightyena at all, but early Absol leaving a Mightyena pack. Seeing such a number of the Disaster Pokemon makes you shiver, and it has nothing to do with the cold. They reach the foothills in a few bounds, shake the ashes from their coats, and disappear in the direction Dizzy is gazing.
The sensitive Pokemon in your parties have all appeared as well. Delphox struggles to decipher the strange Earthpower of this time. Gallade has a worried hand on Calam. And Gothitelle has appeared - hugging Shiva tightly, a vision begins for her. The ash-filled sky parts to reveal space, stars in the unfamiliar positions of long, long ago. It's a brief vision, but Shiva experiences it along with Gothitelle and can feel the main message: something is coming from space into this time.
Gallade nods with determination. This matches visions he's had as a Kirlia, somehow.
Nathan and Shiva, you both have knowledge that can help you pin down what time period you've found yourself in. This is clearly before human settlement, so it's at least a few thousand years. Depending on when, exactly, it may be that the Mamo have landed on eastern Creshire and colonized what will one day become the swamp.
Judging by the Pokemon, geology, and climatology, this is nearing the end of an Ice Age. That puts it about 10,000 years ago - the Mamoswine will go entirely extinct as a natural evolution in 6000 more years, a long and painful decline for them. For now, they are plentiful, and the predator Pokemon can feast and thrive. Early modern humans will find they can do the same, and come to consider the Mamoswine a sacred animal who saved them from starvation.
Non-modern humans may be hidden away in the secret places of the earth. There's some debate about this among historians, but it's possible the First Technical Society is colonizing the depths of Mt. Sentry while the mammoth and wolves rule the outside.
Over the next few thousand years, the volcanoes will go dormant and solidify, starting the long process of Teazel Valley becoming a plains instead of a desert.
The timeskip completes and everything stabilizes. You find yourself on a sandy scrubland, standing directly on the turf (no road). Your first thought might be that you have traveled in space now - but then you recognize the horizon line of the ancient Great Divide. Your second thought might be that you've arrived in nighttime again, but then you'd realize the sky is simply blotted out by ashes from the great volcanoes now spotting the Great Divide. They're grumbling and spitting fitfully.
To the east, you can see Mt. Sentry. It's entirely encased in ice and snow, and it seems like the lands east of Mt. Molten are lightly dusted with it. You can see a vast plume of smoke where Mt. Molten is active in the distance. Even here near the volcanoes there is a certain chill to the air.
To the south, there's a mild valley with a bit of snow between occasional blades of grass. Inhabiting it, a boundless pack of wolf Pokemon waits, sitting and sniffing the cold air. There are THOUSANDS of Mightyena, occupying several acres of taiga, and their little cubs gambol about between their legs. Despite their numbers, they look well-fed and healthy, with sleek coats and lots of variation between them. You can see several are chewing on massive bones that can only belong to Mamoswine. Even the nearest Mightyena is still about a half mile away. It's an awe-inspiring sight to see them stretched over so much territory.
A smaller, lighter pack occupies one of the volcanoes above you that has already gone dormant and received a coating of snow and wiry grass.
Calam lets himself out of his Pokeball. He and Dizzy are on extremely high alert, the most worried you've ever seen him. They're growling, and Calam even goes so far as to paw at Nathan. But they aren't looking at the wolf pack; they're gazing more southwest in the direction of Teazel Valley. Calam gives Dizzy a worried nudge.
Suddenly, the whitest wolves break away from the northern pack, and come streaming down the mountain. With white coats and black faces, you realize they are not Mightyena at all, but early Absol leaving a Mightyena pack. Seeing such a number of the Disaster Pokemon makes you shiver, and it has nothing to do with the cold. They reach the foothills in a few bounds, shake the ashes from their coats, and disappear in the direction Dizzy is gazing.
The sensitive Pokemon in your parties have all appeared as well. Delphox struggles to decipher the strange Earthpower of this time. Gallade has a worried hand on Calam. And Gothitelle has appeared - hugging Shiva tightly, a vision begins for her. The ash-filled sky parts to reveal space, stars in the unfamiliar positions of long, long ago. It's a brief vision, but Shiva experiences it along with Gothitelle and can feel the main message: something is coming from space into this time.
Gallade nods with determination. This matches visions he's had as a Kirlia, somehow.
Nathan and Shiva, you both have knowledge that can help you pin down what time period you've found yourself in. This is clearly before human settlement, so it's at least a few thousand years. Depending on when, exactly, it may be that the Mamo have landed on eastern Creshire and colonized what will one day become the swamp.
Judging by the Pokemon, geology, and climatology, this is nearing the end of an Ice Age. That puts it about 10,000 years ago - the Mamoswine will go entirely extinct as a natural evolution in 6000 more years, a long and painful decline for them. For now, they are plentiful, and the predator Pokemon can feast and thrive. Early modern humans will find they can do the same, and come to consider the Mamoswine a sacred animal who saved them from starvation.
Non-modern humans may be hidden away in the secret places of the earth. There's some debate about this among historians, but it's possible the First Technical Society is colonizing the depths of Mt. Sentry while the mammoth and wolves rule the outside.
Over the next few thousand years, the volcanoes will go dormant and solidify, starting the long process of Teazel Valley becoming a plains instead of a desert.
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