[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

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"Ah yes, quite.  Apologies, Phione, but we all must be on our way to places afar, so I'm afraid we won't be making use of your services today."

"Oh that's okay!  I'll be around here if you need me for anything!  There's also other Phione stationed at each continent, so just give us a shout on the coastline if you need us!"

Sandshrew and Hippopotas wave goodbye to the Adventurers as they make their way back to the rest of the group.  

"Bye everyone!"

"Have fun and eat lots of exotic snacks!"

(...)

Espeon and Umbreon take Team Omega Seekers aside to a patch of open beach and begin laying down cards with strange designs on them in a circular pattern in the sand, explaining what they're doing as they work.

"These Entercards are what allow us to travel long distances in shorter than usual times.  If you arrange them in specific patterns on specific spots, you can open up a portal to a Mystery Dungeon that leads to a completely different place!"

"Finding the correct patterns is the key, and it gets harder to figure out what cards you need to use to get to where you want to go the more remote the location gets.  We're going to a spot we're very familiar with, though, so this isn't going to be hard at all.  I place this card here, move this one slightly to the left, tap this one...okay, stand back everyone!"

Opening the Magnagate!: Magnagate - PMD: Gates to Infinity

The cards begin to glow, and then a mysterious light draws a circular pattern connecting all the cards together!  Then another, and a third!  Once the two ends of every circle meet, the middle then begins to glow, the light starting to swirl and turn a colorful shade of light blue!  The portal creates a pillar of light as the energy swirls, beckoning everyone to jump in.

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"Alright, here we go!  Everyone step into it on the count of three!  One..."

"Two..."

"Three!"
"Three!"

There's a flash of light as the five pokemon step into the portal simultaneously, and then they suddenly find themselves in an entirely different place!

Waterfalls surround the pokemon on three sides, cascading down stone walls that form a straight corridor.  The ground is wet, and the pokemon create small splashes with every step on the submerged ground.  A light current draws the water away from the party and down the corridor, but there's seemingly no end to the downpour.

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Undersea Tunnel: Telluric Path - PMD: Gates to Infinity

"Welcome to the Undersea Tunnel!  This is the Mystery Dungeon Espeon and I had to go through to get to the Sand Continent from the Mist Continent.  Looks a bit straighter than the last time we were here though..."

"Quite a sight, isn't it?  We have some time to kill, so I wouldn't blame you if you want to take a look around.  Magnagate Dungeons are quite unlike anything you'll see on the surface!  I'm sure this is all very exciting for you, so how about you take the lead, Kee?"

(I'm so, SO sorry, Dragonstrike. Life....got busy for me, so I was unable to post until now. Still pretty busy, tbh, but I'm not going to skip out on this game anymore!)

Phoine's Swapping pitch was highly intriguing to the lil' metallic birdy. The ability to switch bodies with somebody you trust? Fascinating! Bit odd too, but mostly fascinating. Being able to fundamentally change who she was, even if only temporarily, opened up so many possibilities for her! Though she'd have to be careful to pick a proper 'swappie' - she couldn't just let anybody waltz around in her esteemed body. And the thought of potentially Swapping hers with a Male was.......well, it filled her with an odd sense of trepidation. Or a Genderless Pokemon, even. Hmm, okay, there was DEFINATELY a lot to ponder over about this service and it's worrying implications.....

(Un)Fortunately, Platina didn't have much of a chance to inquire further about it before her Team self-appointed guides/co-workers shuffled them off to their appointed place of depature, much to her disappointment. Shoot, she submerged herself too deeply in her mind again! That was something she'd really need to work on fixing, if she was going to be a vigilant, productive member of her Team! Oh well, their will other times she can sate her curiosity about Swapping with another Pokemon. 'All good things come with time and patience', as her....parents often said.

She did make sure to wave and bid farewell to Sandshrew and Hippopotas before she left and wished them well, however - it would be rude not to return their own, especially since they saved her and inadvertidly opened a whole new world of possibilities for her to explore!

(...)

"My my, how interesting. How did you even conceive such an idea, let alone find ways to make it reality? You must tell me when we have the time and chance, Lady Espeon and Lord Umbreon...."

That is what the shiny bird had to say as she observed the pair of foxes went to work making the Entracard pattern that would take them to the Mist Continent, looking highly curious and a bit awed the whole time. The power to traverse anywhere, so long as you knew the right pattern and had the know-how......it greatly appeal to her the wanderlust that nestled within her spirit! Oh how it would have been a boon for her and her dear friend.....but that was then, and this is then. Dwelling on the past was fine, but it would not do for her to lament possibilities beyond her then, or in the present too, for that matter.

It also somewhat irked her, much to her chagrin - it made her magnificent ability to fly look poultry by comparison, and that bugged her no matter how silly it was to feel like it. 

The portal's rather Flashy appearance nearly caused her to collapse into a pile of glittering feathers from the shock, but with an extreme amount of decorum she did not, and with that very same energy she boldly  stepped into it with her newfound friends......

.....and the next moment, she was there in the Mystery Dungeon. Her very first trip into one, in fact! An exciting prospect.....where it not for how water logged it was. Even before she had to register her surroundings she grimaced when she felt water lapping at her talons, looking down at them and around with a odd sort of unsurprised disgruntlement.

".....Oh. Of course this place would be predominantly Water in its theme. *Sighs, covering her face with a wing* This will be.....problematic to deal with, but I must carry on none the less."

Kee's enthusiasm did cheer her up a bit and gave her something to focus on, and she easily consented to his Leadership. She was too new to the group to take charge of it, in her opinion, and for now she wanted to focus on getting adjusted to the Adventuring lifestyle than worry about multitasking that and governing a group of Pokemon.

"Lead the way, Star-Eyed Kee. I'll try to keep an eye out for anything suspicious or dangerous too, though I can not guarantee I will do a good job at it. *Looking a bit bashful* Vigilence has.....never quite been my strongest Trait, I must admit."

For now, she's content to follow along with the group on the ground, as she didn't want to exhaust herself too much by flying around. She was a young bird made of Steel, and it was not yet easy for her to keep herself airborne with all that weight!