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

[Lord Windos]

"Arial has nothing to do with Sterling, so he stays away from him.  This is a personal matter, after all, and if Archie poses no danger to me, then Arial has no reason to be there. Would you prefer to do business before or after we deal with Sterling, though?"

"I can do business anytime, Reiner, but I would like to do it after the rich bastard is taken care of! Clean up work takes forever, so I prefer having something to do while the Cleaners do their job, rather than them pestering me about all the little unimportant details. Arial, wait here and I'll get back to you, because right now your new friend here has an urgent appointment with Mr. Sterling. This way, ladies and gentlemen...."

With that said, the Merchant quickly departs into the shadows, forcing you, Emily (Who had been silently listening with a somewhat concerned look on their face because of what was mention) and Mew (Who was sliently fuming at her 'nickname' being used again) to follow after them. About 15 mintues and many twists and turns later, they finally lead you to a scrappy looking building that has been isolated by other bigger skyscrapers being built around it. Lilith walks at to the door, knock on it once, pauses, then rapidly knocked out a beat that you can't even begin to keep up with, then paused again. A few seconds later, the door swung out, and they ushered your group in. The sales person leads you up a flight a stairs, past many masked guards holding what looks to be Assault Rifles and Stun Guns, before all of you finally arrive at a door guarded by two ESPECIALLY Burly people of indeterminate gender. The Merchant flashes then a few gestures you don't recognize, and the guards move out of the way of the door.

Nodding their head at them, they turned around to you, and jerked thier thumb back at the door. "He's in their, along with a plethora of surgical instruments that includes a small circular saw, adrenaline shots, shots of medicine design to increase a person's sensitivity and pain, chemicals, salt, alkaline and corrosive solutions if you are a right bastard, water boarding equipment, a bucket of hot coals and stones, and some good old fashion swords and knives. All you need for torture or pleasure, whichever you are looking for. You have as long as you need with him, just knock on the door 3 times when you are done, and I'll send up the Cleaners after you and lead you back to your new friend. Hope you enjoy your quality time with Archie Sterling, Reiner and little miss.."

You open the door and enter the surprisingly spacious room, and it swings behind you, leaving all just you, Emily, Mew, and the guest of honor this time: the afformention Archie Sterling. He was sitting in a simple steel chair, near the table full of equipment that Lilith mention, with his head slumped down towards his lap, the only sign of life in him the small breathing motions of his chest.

....What will do with him, mate?

[Dragonstrike]

Reiner walks towards Archie slowly and purposefully, making sure each step can be heard, before stopping right in front of him.

"Archie, Sterling.  Fancy seeing you again so soon.  My condolences for the loss of your Ninetales." 

Step one: see how he reacts initially.  Reiner was going to enjoy this.

[Lord Windos]

Reiner walks towards Archie slowly and purposefully, making sure each step can be heard, before stopping right in front of him.

"Archie, Sterling.  Fancy seeing you again so soon.  My condolences for the loss of your Ninetales." 

Step one: see how he reacts initially.  Reiner was going to enjoy this.

The former powerful 'gentleman' didn't react to your words at all, but you could clearly detect that he was listening and that he was awaken. Not even the comment about Kyubi managed to make him twitch, as he continued to just stare into his lap, face hidden from your view. Emily was hanging back at the table, examining all the items on display with a disgusted yet ever so slightly fascinated look on her face, testing the feel of each item like the were a brand new toy to play with. Which, metaphorically speaking, they were...of the grimmest variety. Mew was just floating passively above the room, cooly watching this all play out.

[Dragonstrike]

The former powerful 'gentleman' didn't react to your words at all, but you could clearly detect that he was listening and that he was awaken. Not even the comment about Kyubi managed to make him twitch, as he continued to just stare into his lap, face hidden from your view. Emily was hanging back at the table, examining all the items on display with a disgusted yet ever so slightly fascinated look on her face, testing the feel of each item like the were a brand new toy to play with. Which, metaphorically speaking, they were...of the grimmest variety. Mew was just floating passively above the room, cooly watching this all play out.

"No comment?  Hmmm...I was expecting a little more, but I do suppose you just lost a cherished friend, so I'll give you a pass on that.  So, do you know why you're here?"

[Lord Windos]

"No comment?  Hmmm...I was expecting a little more, but I do suppose you just lost a cherished friend, so I'll give you a pass on that.  So, do you know why you're here?"

Archie reacted to that statement of yours. Slowly his head rose up, not with the deliberation you have come to associate with such an action, but with a listlessness that was out of place at the normally egotistical man. His face was finally within your sight, and the first thing you could notice was just how expressionless it was. No firey anger, no cold wrath or indignation, not even the contempt you expected to see. Just a plain neutral expression, with the only indication of emotion being his eyes, which just looked plain dead.

He just stared at you like that for a minute, before he finally deigned to speak. "Not a cherished friend, sir. She was my cherished lover." He paused for a moment after that, as his expression somehow became even more deadened, his gaze glancing around the room to notice Emily and Mew, hardly reacting to their presence, before looking back at you. "I presume you are here for revenge then for that little girl I killed. I don't know how she's alive right now, but I can say I don't honestly care about that anymore. I don't care much about anything, really. Just do want you wish, and be done with me. The sooner, the better."

[Dragonstrike]

Archie reacted to that statement of yours. Slowly his head rose up, not with the deliberation you have come to associate with such an action, but with a listlessness that was out of place at the normally egotistical man. His face was finally within your sight, and the first thing you could notice was just how expressionless it was. No firey anger, no cold wrath or indignation, not even the contempt you expected to see. Just a plain neutral expression, with the only indication of emotion being his eyes, which just looked plain dead.

He just stared at you like that for a minute, before he finally deigned to speak. "Not a cherished friend, sir. She was my cherished lover." He paused for a moment after that, as his expression somehow became even more deadened, his gaze glancing around the room to notice Emily and Mew, hardly reacting to their presence, before looking back at you. "I presume you are here for revenge then for that little girl I killed. I don't know how she's alive right now, but I can say I don't honestly care about that anymore. I don't care much about anything, really. Just do want you wish, and be done with me. The sooner, the better."

Reiner chuckles.  "I see you know when you've been beaten.  Honestly, my condolences for Kyubi.  It didn't have to come to that, you know.  I wasn't initially planning on having you hunted down, and would have just let you be to find me on your own terms later down the line.  I'm not a difficult man to find, after all, and I have far more pressing concerns than you this week.  The worst you might have suffered by my hand before was simply hurt pride as long as everything stayed reasonably polite."

He sighs.  "But then you had to go and lose your temper, and take it out on someone who had no reason to be involved in any of this.  Someone who had not slighted you in the least, and had done her best to even try and please you.  I can't say I was completely surprised, and I was even a little impressed at just how well you cleaned up most of the things that would have lead back to what you'd done, minus the obvious burn marks and small amount of blood you'd left behind under that tree.  It was just enough for Mew to lead me right to your dirty work.  And just in time for her to bring Emily back to life as well, though it's unfortunate that she wasn't able to do the same for Smeargle by that time.

"Monologuing aside, as you can probably imagine, Emily is not very pleased with you.  Neither am I, really, but I'm not the one who was killed recently.  Nor did I lose a close companion of mine as well.  So, I think it's only fair that Emily gets first dibs.  What do you think?"

[Lord Windos]

" If you call losing your will to live being 'beaten', then by all means do so. Again, its not like I care too much anymore. Forgive me if my words ring a bit too hollow, given that it was your mercenary that ended the life of my love, but I appreciate what little good you have to say to me. Kyubi was my love, my life, my purpose....my everything. She completed me, and I completed her, and we were both the happiest pair in the world. Until you and I crossed paths, and every went so, so wrong. She warned me of your dark malevolence in your souls, how ruthless you could really be, and not to press you for a fight if at all possible. Had I listened more keenly to her advice, we would be sharing a bed together, cuddling while we dozed the morning away....but that is not to be," Archie said, trailing off for a bit as bittersweet possibilities flash before his eyes, before he resumes his dialogue with a small sigh, mirroring your own.

"If it means anything to you or the girl, I honestly regret what I did. Wrath and pride make poor informants to a man's decisions, more so when you lose something precious to you. After you forced me to kill Yggdrisil to prevent him from living a life of crime and tarnish his noble, draconic nature, I felt the irrational, bloody idiotic urge to do unto you what you forced me to do. Kyubi thought opposing in the first place was a poor idea, and thought that course of action was even more stupid, but I pressed on against her better judgement. I wish I had just listen to her, and let this whole matter be swept under the rung, or just had someone else deal with you. Though, given that your association with Mew and possessing several brutal Pokémon, I doubt that course of action would have ended well for us either. I don't know how you managed to befriend the Creator, but congradulations are in order for that achievement, from one man to another."

"For the clean up I conducted, I just had Kyubi dry the blood with Ember, then had my own Toxepex use Scald and Toxic to scour the mess away. Having Mew on your side for tracking, however, make that effort more than worthless, I suppose, so take what I said with a grain of salt. As for the little girl deciding my final fate, I suppose their is a certain sense of 'rightness' to that action. I did take her life once, so its only fair that she gets a shot at taking mine, perhaps literally. Oh, how ironic would that be....." He stops for a moment after that, pausing for just a moment to recall something in his depressed mind, before he spoke once more.

"Though, before we decide how I will inevitably die today, may you humor me for a moment? I'm not trying to weasel out of this, as it should be clearly apparent to you, but their has been a questioning nagging at the back of my mind the moment I saw her again: how did you manage to revive her? I know Mew had to be involved in the process somehow, given her status as 'The Creator of Life', by I want to know exactly how. Call it a last request from a stupid, rich, curious fool. I'll even turn over my account information to you, if you need any proper motivation."

[Spiritmon]

After the group finally go to the destiny, Arial was face to face with the merchant. He was silenced during all the time waiting the opportunity to talk with the man when Reiner order me to stay here. Who that guy think to boss me around. He almost kick Reiner in the face again but he contain himself. Don't need to cause commotion and screw the mission. Arial then begin to talk.

"About calling my Xenoqueen nuclear bastard. That's not cool man. Humans are more worse then Nucmons."

Then Arial go back to business. He don't argue with that man with a long monologue about humans and Pokemon. He don't have time for this.

"$1500 huh? A little salt price. It's this berries really work or it's legible?" For nature, Arial don't trust anyone. He know that man would never something like "Yeah it's a little but you can use". In business you, some vendedors hide the truth behind they customers about product or service offer. This avoid problems and can sell they products. He ask that because he want to make sure that guy it's not making a fool of him. 

(Perhaps roll a dice to know if the merchant is hiding something? In RPG you can't trust even in the NPC'S)

[Lord Windos]

(The Merchant makes a quick trip back to Arial while Reiner is 'meeting' with Archie!)

The Merchant gave a rather flat, unamused look at Arial from the few words they said, and in a fraction of a second was being half straggled as he was pinned against one of the ally walls, held straight up by the neck as they had a rather bored look in their eyes. You could not move anything at all, as they had found a nerve cluster with their grip and more or less paralyzed you from the neck down.

"You know what," they said, their voice toneless, slightly questioning voice , "If their is one type of customer I dislike, its a misanthrope that doubt my integrity as a businessman and proveyor of goods. I'll offer you a bit of advice, on the house this time: Human are better than Pokémon the vast majority of the time. They were but beasts in the wild before we human, with our technology, organized infrastructure, an actual intelligent, clever work leased them to our will and purpose, and put their power for a much better use: ours. Together, humans and Pokémon achieved so many things that neither could have done alone, but it came at a cost for most. It made us weak, dependent on their power, instead of our own innovative spirit, our indominable strength, and good old imagination. So I bucked the trend and became strong without Pokemon, started a good, reliable living making others empowered like me."

"Its not clean,pretty, very noble, or hardly legal, but I consider it good business. So I dislike it when someone calls me not only dishonest, but also tarnishes the good name of our race. Let me remind you of something: you came to ME because you needed something, not because you were window shopping or on a whim. Perhaps it would be a wise idea to show some respect or tact when dealing for me, for I'm the only chance you got of controlling that infamous Nuclear Pokémon of yours and not ending up a glowing charred corpse in the process, or turning Celadon into a irraditaded hotspot. So here is what I'm going to do: I'm going to take your money, give you these berries you need, and tell you to get the hell out and never show your face to me again. Otherwise, I have a few slugs of buckshot with your name stamped on them. Do you understand me, Arial Copycat?"

[Spiritmon]

(The Merchant makes a quick trip back to Arial while Reiner is 'meeting' with Archie!)

The Merchant gave a rather flat, unamused look at Arial from the few words they said, and in a fraction of a second was being half straggled as he was pinned against one of the ally walls, held straight up by the neck as they had a rather bored look in their eyes. You could not move anything at all, as they had found a nerve cluster with their grip and more or less paralyzed you from the neck down.

"You know what," they said, their voice toneless, slightly questioning voice , "If their is one type of customer I dislike, its a misanthrope that doubt my integrity as a businessman and proveyor of goods. I'll offer you a bit of advice, on the house this time: Human are better than Pokémon the vast majority of the time. They were but beasts in the wild before we human, with our technology, organized infrastructure, an actual intelligent, clever work leased them to our will and purpose, and put their power for a much better use: ours. Together, humans and Pokémon achieved so many things that neither could have done alone, but it came at a cost for most. It made us weak, dependent on their power, instead of our own innovative spirit, our indominable strength, and good old imagination. So I bucked the trend and became strong without Pokemon, started a good, reliable living making others empowered like me."

"Its not clean,pretty, very noble, or hardly legal, but I consider it good business. So I dislike it when someone calls me not only dishonest, but also tarnishes the good name of our race. Let me remind you of something: you came to ME because you needed something, not because you were window shopping or on a whim. Perhaps it would be a wise idea to show some respect or tact when dealing for me, for I'm the only chance you got of controlling that infamous Nuclear Pokémon of yours and not ending up a glowing charred corpse in the process, or turning Celadon into a irraditaded hotspot. So here is what I'm going to do: I'm going to take your money, give you these berries you need, and tell you to get the hell out and never show your face to me again. Otherwise, I have a few slugs of buckshot with your name stamped on them. Do you understand me, Arial Copycat?"

"Haha. Mate, I just joking around. Lets dont make a commotion here okay" Say Arial with smile not showing any trace of fear. He has very calm even with the man grabing his neck."Just making sure its okay undestand? Its dificult to trust something these days so forgive me for what I say before I gess. Besides if reiner believe in your services I have no choice but believe too. But I cant guarantee I wont appear here again. How about we calm down for now and next time I come here I wont cause problems to your person. What you say mate? Peace? And taking the opportunity how you know my name?" Arial then having a sympatic smile in his face.