[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

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(Busyyy taking notes about new Spritzee and taking in all the new information about it, so please apologize if I shorten up the response on that here!)
(Mika, I've got the response to you in-game message typed up and saved as a draft, but if it's fine I'm saving it for now aka later when I'm done with more Encounter Slots!)


How that smol little Spritzee appears...not just unfazed but truly PLEASED over having a new gauntlet'ed Master and Wielder earns him an tender headpat and endearing look - one that Bernhard feels comfortable enough to express here; given he's all alone, hecking exhausted, semi-magic-locked aka vulnerable, and his mind and emotions being an utter mess because the former run-down with Morgana has been a willlld emotional rollercoaster once more in a bad and good sense. Thankfully though, he's got all the time now to unwind, savour the by now probably cold tea himself, feed Spritzee whatever treats are left on the breakfast table, and integrate their SPE to the Gauntlet - all while acknowleding and appraising them displaying their moves and powers.

How they, however, are utterly fixated and enticed by gems is not missed by Bern, it is in fact curiously noted. "Having an eye and love for the prettiest of stones, haven't you? Well..... Consider yourself quite lucky, blessed if you wish, for I DO have a quite particular one in my posession that might satisfy and capture you..."

Carefully, meaningfully and theatralically so to ensure he's got Spritzee's FULL ATTENTION, Bernhard reaches into the inside-pocket of his fine Sky-Scimitar-robe, and what he pulls out from there to carefully present to Spritzee...

Spoiler

...happens to be the Astral Stone in the shape of a stylus, having obtained right when this story and jouney unfolded.

It is placed down with utter care in front of the smol pink pufball. "Say, wouldn't you...wish to hold onto that for me and in my name? If you are willing to promise me that, whatever may happen and occure, you shall not ever loosen your grip on it, never misplace it, not avert your watchful eyes from it. Keeping a tight hold on this...treasure in my name, ever and ever please you shall, and you are allowed to be its holder - if you wish and desire to be, that is."

(Note: Spritzee didn't came holding an Item, did he? But if he did, we could just swap it.)

You're fairly certain that Morgana specifically choose this Spritzee based on compatibility with you and coached/told it all about you in the most slanted and positive view possible to paint you as the most Ideal Master for him. The witchy fae leaves things to chance often enough, but when it comes to gifts and boons she tends to pull out the red and flower scented carpet! Oh, and it's you we're talking about. Fortune Favors you as much as it loves to be so coy and playfully mean, and the same can be said for Morgana too!

The lil' ball o' 'fume eyes nearly pop out of their fluffball as they gazed upon the Astral Stone; you swear you saw actual stars in his eyes! Once you offered it to him he dang near Fainted in pure ecstacy and delight, quickly floating over to grab and Hold it...!

...Only for it to pass right through his fae feathers!

Shocked, they try over and over to get it, but to no avail - the Astral Stone stays exactly where you placed it. Until you picked it up again, however, which causes a mixed reaction from the Spritzee: a bit of a pout at not getting to touch such a sacred piece of the cosmos, and amazement that you were apparently Special and Strange enough to do so. They got over it quickly, hopping into that hand and on/through the Astral Stone, dancing on/through it as they revealed in it, you, and simple Happiness.

From what little time you spent with him, you felt that overall this guy might be a bit of a handful, but that he is more than worth it. Not only for what he provides, but what he represents as well - Love, and the ever free and fragrant Breeze...

If nothing else is to be done, that'll serve as a nice way to finish your 1st Encounter - now onto your Morning/Encounter 2 Business!

....Which means finding a way to make up with Zephy. Again.

Shoot.
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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.

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'?