[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Dragonstrike]

Kogeki his head. "Understood. I think I gonna check the Plaza and see if I can any information about Sue. We could have some point of encounter in case we need to meet. The local Guild is a good place for us to meet. See you soon."

If no words is needed to be said, Kogeki will do his side of investigation. He look around the Plaza for information until he found the Victrini Wheel he see ealier. He was curious, and this guy said "free" spins. This could be interesting, and also a chance to get some information. He approach the victory Pokemon.

The Wonderful V-Wheel: V-Wheeeeeel!!! (Piano Remix) - PMD: Gates to Infinity

Kogeki walks over to the stand being run by the weird looking pokemon with the red V on their head.  He's very quickly greeted by the rather loud Victini.

"Ta-daaaaaaa!  Welcome to Victini's V-Wheeeeeeeeel!  Spin the wheel, change your luck!  Tilt the odds in your favor!  Are you treasure hunting and hoping you'll find more loot than usual?  Wishing you could grow a little more quickly?  Having a hard time getting bargains at the Kecleon Shops in Mystery Dungeons?  With my wonderful wheel, you can completely change your luck for an entire day by manipulating the mysterious V-Waves!  One free spin per customer, and better odds for paying ones!"

He holds out two fingers in a V shape and grins.  Seems to be a signature pose of some kind.

"So, how can I help you today, sir?  Were you drawn in by my wonderful V-Wheeeeeeeel, the tool of my trade?"

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

The Wonderful V-Wheel: V-Wheeeeeel!!! (Piano Remix) - PMD: Gates to Infinity

Kogeki walks over to the stand being run by the weird looking pokemon with the red V on their head.  He's very quickly greeted by the rather loud Victini.

"Ta-daaaaaaa!  Welcome to Victini's V-Wheeeeeeeeel!  Spin the wheel, change your luck!  Tilt the odds in your favor!  Are you treasure hunting?  Wishing you could grow a little more quickly?  Having a hard time getting bargains at the Kecleon Shops in Mystery Dungeons?  With my wonderful wheel, you can completely change your luck for an entire day by manipulating the mysterious V-Waves!  One free spin per customer, and better odds for paying ones!"

He holds out two fingers in a V shape and grins.  Seems to be a signature pose of some kind.

"So, how can I help you today, sir?  Were you drawn in by my wonderful V-Wheeeeeeeel, the tool of my trade?"

Pokemon doesnt smile back. He is not the most smiling person among the group. "Not a treasure hunter, more like a ninja. And I do not fully trust luck. I trust in skill and precision." Kogeki then look at the wheel and then Victini. "How this works exatcly? Is just spin the wheel and then what kind of reward I should expect if I luck enough? Also, I looking for a Pokemon called Sue. Know something about it?"

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

(Okay @Lord Windos, I think I've kept you waiting long enough.  Let's jump back into what's been going on with Platina, shall we?)

It was strange.  Platina felt cold after she passed out.

Very cold.  As if something was staring straight at her hard enough to drill holes into her...

She opens her eyes, only to see...

White.

Or more accurately, that's all she could see.  It was hard to make out her surroundings.  It was if she was in the middle of a storm, though it definitely wasn't like the rainstorms and thunderstorms she's used to.

And it's cold.  She couldn't get over that fact, especially with all of her metallic sheened feathers and that lingering sense that she's being watched...

Movement in her peripheral vision distracts her, though the weather doesn't let her see what it is very clearly.  What she can make out though is a constant, rhythmic clicking sound.  Something that hardly sounds natural, especially in the middle of a storm like this.

She loses sight of the shadow, only for a long, slow, loud metallic grind to come from behind her moments later.  She turns around, and sees nothing.  She can continue to hear whirrs and the crunch of snow, though, as if something is moving around in the middle of this blizzard.  Hiding?  Waiting to pounce?

A storm is approaching...as sure as the ticking of a clock, the movements of a machine...

The storm clears as quickly as it arrived after those words fill her head, and she suddenly finds herself in a large room made entirely of glittering ice.  She can see a Raichu talking to a large, bipedal dragon with misshapen wings covered in ice.

The ice covered dragon suddenly looks past the Raichu and at Platina.

Find me in the Glacial Ruins.  We have much to discuss.

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Platina suddenly wakes up on a comfy bed she's unfamiliar with.  The cold, dread filled dream had ended.  When she looks around, she can see Hydreigon watching her carefully, as well as another tall, yellow dragon with two red, axe-like blades sprouting from its black jaw.

Hydreigon smiles.  "Ah, you're awake!  I didn't think you'd pass out so suddenly during our conversation!"  His nonchalant demeanor is a stark contrast to the rather intimidating picture that the two dragon pokemon create while in the same room.

"So this is one of the members of that team that's visiting Paradise?"

"Indeed she is!  Platina, let me introduce you to Haxorus, one of the founders of our lovely Paradise."

The axe jaw pokemon nods.  "Pleasure to meet to meet you, and apologies for showing up so suddenly unannounced.  Hydreigon told me you're here on official guild business, so I'll try to keep this brief.  Do you mind answering some questions for me?"

 
(You know, I didn't actually mind the wait, considering you were busy and all, and truth be told I'm busy now with the start of school, but hey, thank you for the plot hook!)

'Suddenly' was the right term, as she made a near Metal Sound level of racket as she awoke, screeching "By the Twins!" and looking halfway between startled and panicked before she noticed her company. A small but awkward amount of silence passed as she stared at the two, now suddenly mortified and very aware of herself, before she meekly *coughed* and looked to the side for a moment, contrite.

".....Apologies. I just had a most......peculiar dream that has left me rather.....rattled. If you could please forgive me of this rudeness and forget about it, that would be very nice."

Foggy headed from her recent awaken and disturbed from her Dream (for it deserve Capitalization) as she was, the three headed drake comment shook her awake as she remember why she passed out and found herself here. Almost immediately she started to become an odd mix of extremely excited at the revelation that her companions were Human, eeeeeee!!!, and absolutely appalled and embarrassed at the scene and inconvenience she made. What would her mother think of her acting so....so utterly debased?! Adventurer as she was and learning to live a new lifestyle, she should hold herself to some standards, by the gods.

Another shiver wracked her metallic being, shocking her out of her self-admonishment and emotional frenzy as she was reminded again of what she Witnessed in her Dream. No, no, the time to worry about appearances and her human friends ('ohmyohmyeeeeeee - STOP IT, you feather brained!!') was NOT now. She needed to tell her companions, Lord Umbreon and Espeon.....the Guardian Hydregion and this Haxorous? (Should she? ....Yes, something is telling her she should) about her Dream NOW.

Only half-way paying attention to what the axe-bladed drake was asking her, Platina hopped up quickly, looking nonchalantly at them and the jovial hydra with sudden seriousness and apprehension.

"My apologies once more, but I must hold off answering you questions to tell you two first this - I had a Dream. Not just any dream, but one that carried a Vision with a Message. Please, humor me as I share it: I was in a cold, cold place. A blizzard was howling. I could hear this......clicking. It was unnatural. Unnerving. Waiting for....something. Then the storm clear, and I was in a icy domain. One belong to a Dragon with wings of Ice and a powerful presence. It was....entreating the company of a Raichu, I believe. Then it looked at me, as spoke thus, at this moment and the one before: A storm is approaching...as sure as the ticking of a clock, the movements of a machine...  Find me in the Glacial Ruins.  We have much to discuss. Then, at last, I was permitted to wake[i].[/i]"

She paused for few seconds and looked down, taking a deep, shuddering breath, before she looked back to her two hosts, worried.

".....Does this mean anything to you two? To my Team's mission? Because somehow.....somehow I don't think it's unrelated to either."

[Dragonstrike]

Pokemon doesnt smile back. He is not the most smiling person among the group. "Not a treasure hunter, more like a ninja. And I do not fully trust luck. I trust in skill and precision." Kogeki then look at the wheel and then Victini. "How this works exatcly? Is just spin the wheel and then what kind of reward I should expect if I luck enough? Also, I looking for a Pokemon called Sue. Know something about it?"

Victini gestures to the wheel behind him and a sign set up next to it. (the Japanese text says 'Free!')




"The rules are quite simple!  You spin the wheel, and if it lands on a picture of me, you win and get to choose the effects of your V-Wave for today by picking any two effects from the following list: You can increase your growth rate, your natural recovery, move accuracy, bargaining power, the amount of Poké and other treasure you find, critical hit rate, and chance to trigger the effects of your attacks! You also get a bonus power increase on your moves regardless of which other two options you choose!  If it lands on any other space, though, you lose and don't get aaaaaaaanything.  It's quite sad.  So that's why I have a way you can boost your odds!  I have four tiers above the free tier, and each one has a cost.  When you pay for a specific tier, I add pictures of me to the wheel until the number matches the tier you paid for.  Pay for the fifth tier, and you're guaranteed to win!  Exciting, right?!  It's the ultimate V for Victooooooory!" *poses*

"*ahem*...oh, Sue?  You mean the Raichu, right?  Yeah, she's one of my best customers.  Last I saw her, she was preparing to go on some kind of solo adventure from what I remember.  Wanted to manipulate her V-Waves badly enough that she paid for the fifth tier to guarantee victooooooory!  From what I remember, she wanted to boost her natural recovery and move accuracy.  Didn't tell me where she was going, though.  Sorry!"

[Spiritmon]

"Hmm. Thats okay. She disapeared and her friends asked me and my party to find any clues of her. If you remember something about her disapearance or know someone who could meet her, just tell me and my companions."

"For now I do not have any money with me so I want to try my luck. I want to...increase my growth rate and move accuracy."

[Dragonstrike]

"Hmm. Thats okay. She disapeared and her friends asked me and my party to find any clues of her. If you remember something about her disapearance or know someone who could meet her, just tell me and my companions."

"For now I do not have any money with me so I want to try my luck. I want to...increase my growth rate and move accuracy."

"Alright then Mr. Skill and Precision.  Let's see how lucky you are!  Spin.  The.  V-Wheeeeeeeel!"

Kogeki steps up and spins the V-Wheel with only a single face on it!

Spin.  The.  V-Wheeeeeeeel!: Spin the V-Wheel! - PMD: Gates to Infinity

Around and around and around it goes.  Where it stops, only Victini knows!  For 20 whole seconds, it keeps spinning 'round.  Until at last, its answer is found!

And the result is...

   

A blank.

Failure...: Mission Failure - PMD: Explorers of T/D/S

"Awwww, tough luck.  There's always next time though!  Come visit again tomorrow and try your luck then!  You get one spin every day!  I'll be here, along with my precious V-Wheeeeeeel!"

(Source for the wheel is spinnerwheel.com)

[Spiritmon]

"That's okay. Well, thanks anyway for the information."

After talking with Victini Kogeki follow the path. He begin to hear the song in the forest. He might find something interesting there.

[no one]

Daxter blinks in surprise as he takes the Moomoo Milk. "Ah, thanks. Let's get going, shall we? The longer I put this Thunder Forest business off the more likely I am to just... leave that Braixen girl to fend for herself."

He pauses. "I know, that sounds horrible, but you don't get far without a certain amount of self-preservation now, do you? Either way, I'll go and tell my team, you two should start preparing."

Daxter makes his way back to Rowlet and Snom. "Found our runaway. Looks like we're heading to the Thunder Forest."

He shudders, and then stares at his team resolutely. "Guess we're just gonna have to try and use our area moves as much as possible and just hope I don't get hit. Stay ready, team."

He then meets up with Bunneby and Dedenne. "You two ready to get moving?"

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

...So many nice facilities! Ziggy Kee has a hard time to decide where to check-in firstly, but eventually opts to proove useful and find out more about Sue and Haxorus. An affirmative nod and eager wave towards Espeon and Umbreon later - "Got it ya two, see ya later then! Gonna lurk somewhere in this Paradise, take care!~" - he turns towards Kogeki: "Sooo.... Imma head north to tha mount'ins, meetin' up with an' see Virizion, Emolga and Dunsparce and see whether I can't find out more 'bout Sue an' Haxorus. How 'bout you, K'geki, ya wanna check out some shops or f'cilities 'round here in tha meantime...? Me feels if we split up, we can check out multiple things an' then update each other later on."

Kee heads north to the residential area to find Virizion, Emolga, and Dunsparce, and it doesn't take him very long to find them.  The three of them stand out in a crowd.  Especially the absolutely lovely looking Virizion.  Kee can't help but find himself staring at her.
Emolga notices the weird looking Zigzagoon staring at the three of them first and nudges the other two to draw their attention to the newcomer.  Virizion is the first to speak.
"Oh, hello.  I don't think I've seen you around here before.  Can we help you with anything?"
"You're pretty funny looking for a Zigzagoon.  Definitely not from around here."
"Emolga, isn't that kind of rude?"
Virizion not so subtly kicks Emolga's side with one of her rear legs.  "Don't mind them.  We get a lot of visitors in Paradise, after all."  An additional sideways glance from Virizion gets Emolga to clam up quite quickly.

...Oh, and HOW smoll Ziggy Kee stares at the graceful Virizion!~ The moment his deep-red eyes spot the big gazelle-like Grass type, Kee abruptly stops in his tracks, completely baffled and awestruck by her lovely appearance... He even feels a faint blush developing on his furry face and his tiny heart beating fasther! NEVER BEFORE has he seen such elegance and beauty in a Pokemon, neither as a Pokemon himself nor as a human (at least not in whatever memories remain from his past human life) - well, apart from his dear partnermon Octavia.:*☆, that is, which is a completely different matter. 'Oh thank the heavens and above for letting me become a Pokemon mahself and getting the chance to admire such a noble fellow Pokemon', Kee thinks to himself.

Somewhat muffled Virizion's words of greeting reach Kee, but they're enough to cause him to get startled, become defensive in an instant and, after a second that felt like half an eternity has passed, return to the current planet and place. He shakes his head in order to clear his mind fully, then coughs in embarassement. Not that this reduces his fainnnnt blush and mildly accelerated heartbeat, but now is NOT the time for any sweet talk, nopeeee ! (>0<＃) "Uh...", Kee begins, "Well there, 't is a pleasure t'meet ya three!~" He bows his furry head in a respectful greeting. "And, hehe, no worries, dear-me 's indeed nat from 'round here, ya're completely c'rrect on that, Emolga!~" Another cough, Kee's trying hard to get back into a I-am-buy-with-serious-stuff-and-on-an-important-mission sort of mindset. A friendly yet toothy smile is still displayed by the crittercoon. "And yes, ya can 'ndeed help me with somethin', but lemme introduce mahself firstly, k? K, thanks!~" Kee takes a proud and self-confident posture, regardless how often he has and will need to explain why he's here, he never gets bored of it nor does it descrease his courage! "Ziggy Kee or just Kee is mah name, proud member of Team OS an' Delphox's Guild, we've been coming along with dear Espeon and Umbreon to yar continent on an 'mportant an' special mission, ya see." +100% pride and gleeming confidence for Kee as doesn't matter how often he repeats it, it's still meaning a lot for him to have been picked for this mission by the Guildmaster, hehe.

"...And while we're on it, it came to Team OS's humble ears that here at paradise things aren't as paradisic as they used t'be, 's that whereabouts of Sue are unclear, filling Haxorus with extra-grief an' worry." Kee lets his ears hang for a moment, but almost immediately rears up to radiate positive and comforting vibes. "Cannot and will not let that be, so we vowed t' help y'all bringing her back to where she b'longs, 'specially after hearing how much she has done for y'all and how she gave ya a truckload of hope! Been told by kind Hydreigon that ya three were among the last ones havin' had contact with Sue, so... D'ya have any clue or ideas where she may have gone? Did she...mention anything that may bring us on her tracks? Anything, however small, may be 'mportant!"

[Dragonstrike]

"That's okay. Well, thanks anyway for the information."

After talking with Victini Kogeki follow the path. He begin to hear the song in the forest. He might find something interesting there.

Kogeki makes his way to the forested portion of the forest, the singing he's hearing getting louder and more clear the deeper into the treeline he goes.  Following the sound, he eventually comes to a clearing where many pokemon are milling about, their attention seemingly focused on the source of the music.

On the edge of the clearing is a mechanical object that appears to be some kind of cross between a piano, a xylophone, and an organ.  A thin pokemon with blue eyes and long, flowing green hair decorated with a music staff like pattern is singing a beautiful song.  The sound is very relaxing and somewhat mesmerizing on its own, but halfway through the performance, the pokemon changes!  Their hair is suddenly bundled up in a spiral shape atop their head and has changed to an orange color along with their eyes becoming red.  The performance shifts primarily from singing to dancing, and the audience starts clapping along in time with the pokemon's steps.



Meloetta's Song: Relic Song Remaster by Zame - Pokemon Black and White

With this song
I shall quell
All fear

Tomorrow shall hold
No troubles to behold

Peaceful days are what we know
We have time to learn
And now, grow

To not, repeat
Mistakes of our past
Trust each other

Rest your, eyes now
Get well deserved rest
We will always have hope

The performance ends, and the audience starts clapping and yipping in applause.  The dancer bows before shifting back into the singer to bow in that form as well.

After things have settled down a little and the crowd starts to disperse, the singer walks over to a group with familiar looking pokemon sitting around a tree stump!  It doesn't take long for Espeon and Umbreon to notice Kogeki and call him over.  A horse pokemon with blue fur, an orange mane, and a small horn looks up briefly from the entercards on the stump to see who they're referring to before refocusing on what's in front of him.

"Oh hey Kogeki!  You should come meet our friends!"

"Did you come to see Meloetta's performance?  It's wonderful, isn't it?  We find it helps us relax while we're experimenting with new combinations of entercards.  You should join us.  It's a good chance for proper introductions."