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(02-08-2018, 07:41 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 07:20 PM)Iron Wrote: (02-08-2018, 07:04 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 06:57 PM)Iron Wrote: (02-06-2018, 07:47 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: Heart finally feel better after that rest. He decided to not take the rest of the day inside that room. "Well, even if I not fight, I think I going to do other things." Heart decided to make a quick swap in his team. He bring the egg of Beldum, Caesar, Scyther, Clauncher, Koa and Rose. He go to the Shellter to finally work with the disobedient side of Caesar and the Scyther. He will pay the 1800 pokedollars to help the disobedient side of these pokemon in the adventure thing.
"I'm sorry sir, the fee is $1800 per Pokemon. Should we take your Nidorino or your Scyther? Also, some campers like to have their trainers along for the two day experience. Will you be joining us? If not, we can send your Pokemon on to your PC or you can come pick them up."
"That's perfect, sir. That way you can see the techniques we use and try them out for yourself."
They take you and Nidorino to their camp on the southern outskirts of Stair City.
A counselor named Griggs welcomes you. "The key here on the first day, Heart, Nidorino, is to have so much fun that your Pokemon doesn't even mind following orders! Nevertheless, Nido, whenever you follow an order, you will get a treat! So, Nidorino, pick an activity: run the obstacle course? go for a swim with the other Pokemon? or kick down target dummies?"
Nidorino starts heading for the obstacle course. Griggs stops him. "Good job! You followed an order, since I told you to make a choice! So here's a treat!" Nidorino looks surprised, but he eats it and starts doing the obstacle course. Every time he follows the proper course he gets a small treat, though they slowly give him less and less treats. When he disobeys, which is often, they don't scold him - the course is mostly made of tough old tires, which Nidorino bounces right off of.
Griggs even gets in there and shows him the right way to do it, and invites Heart to do the same.
3 Dex + 3 Survival + 0 athletics - 2 disobedience
(4)(4)(5)(1) Nidorino gains 4 total XP.
"Great! Keep it up, Nidorino: that's an order!"
The camp plays with Nidorino all day, slowly shaping his activities into more serious situations like target practice or "calmness contests." They keep pawning him off on different counselors while Griggs takes a break. They go at it all day!
For Heart, there are plenty of refreshing snacks and drinks, and a few antitoxin treatments when things get out of hand. Also some crafts and hikes to be done if so desired.
"Uhhh...I counsel Pokemon, not people. But I dare you to find a more fun place than the Camp for Disobedient Pokemon! And we could try to cajole that Kadabra over there to Teleport you to Cress City with your friends. If it knows the area. If it obeys."
"Our camp is only two days though - could they wait? Are your friends walking, or what? Through Mt. Sentry, or over or under it? You'll need to plan all that out carefully."
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(02-08-2018, 07:27 PM)Iron Wrote: Ventus catches Nathan up on the thread of their conversation and what Dagny said about Genesect. She sits quietly.
"I think it might be time you explained to us what you found in those binders, friend! What say you?"
"Ah."
Well, finally time to pull out the journal and flip to those notes that Nathan took weeks ago...
A History of Modification: Cold Storage/Twist Mountain - Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2
"So...Genesect...they started by detailing the history of Genesect in this region...Team Plasma's attempt at making their own wasn't the first time the world's seen a mechanical bug. There were...four recorded instances of it existing in Creshire previously. The first is obviously its original, prehistoric form. The second was...the first one ever resurrected, by a group known as the First Technical Society...third was...Sarimanok's. I'll get to that in a moment, Ventus. And the fourth was...resurrected by a group called Scavengers, who were trying to imitate Sarimanok's bugs. They didn't quite manage to do it, obviously, but they did successfully make one that was more suited for defense rather than offense."
"...so...Sarimanok's Genesect...he didn't make just one. He made four. The first one resurrected and modified by the FTS was really primitive. Had a spear launcher of sorts instead of the cannons that they usually get, wheels, and Drive like items that were based off of Arceus's Plates. Sarimanok's were...different. They all had cannons, but he modified them all in such clever and unique ways that each one was almost like a completely different species. Not alone though, obviously. His alchemists did most of the heavy lifting in reviving and modifying them, and I'm...not 100% certain on it, but the Lake Trio might have had a hand in it as well, since we don't actually know what they actually helped him with creating...but creating Genesect, or some kind of golem that would help him in the future...if the Lake Trio didn't help him directly with those, they might have given him enough knowledge to do those kinds of things on his own...I'm getting off topic, though..."
"...Sarimanok's Genesect were some of his most powerful soldiers during the war a few hundred years ago. The League had to focus ALL of their attention and call upon the aid of several Legendaries to even stand a chance of fighting them off. They were a walking, hovering, four pokemon army by themselves...even alone, they were fearsome...together, they were nigh unstoppable..."
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"...that's what the Scimitars and anyone who's done their reading on Genesect knows about them today. The Scimitars suspect there's more information on how Sarimanok created his small army of steel bugs in a library of some kind...I wasn't sure which library they might be referring to, since it certainly wasn't Wineberry's or Telperion's since even this general knowledge on Genesect is rather unknown among most of Creshire's populace...but then I heard about that secret library underneath Mt. Sentry, then they came after Shiva looking for something they think might be a key even though it's a longshot and might be completely unrelated based on what little is known of Relic Stones today..."
"...they're desperate though. They want to get in that library. And use what knowledge they find in there for their own benefit..."
"... they want to create their own Genesect. Make it stronger than even Sarimanok's by figuring out how to repel the Legendaries that had stopped them hundreds of years ago..."
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"...as for how they even know of Genesect in the first place...well, they kinda stole Team Plasma's plans for resurrecting and reconstructing one. Concluded the species has a predisposition for modification. Made replica drives to serve as keys or whatever to improve their base in Wineberry. Yeah, they're hiding out there, Dagny...they built that statue of Genesect three years ago to conceal the construction of their underground hideout. And soon after they finished, the replica Drives they'd also made to function with the statue...mysteriously vanished. Well, not the orange one. Wineberry got to keep that one because it was purely for show. The Burn Drive Replica is a key to their base. They also want to make REAL Drives for Genesect...but they need more gold to do so, apparently."
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"...Ventus, I'm sorry...I...don't actually know if Silverfish is in the region or not...reading that...it threw all certainty out the window...I'm sorry for unnecessarily raising your hopes and/or resurrecting old fears...but...I still stand by what I said...if there's any way I can help...I will..."
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"...we need to find that library before they do...we...can't allow them to perpetuate this cycle any more than it already has been..."
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Nathan stops there, looking serious, sad...
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(02-08-2018, 07:48 PM)Iron Wrote: (02-08-2018, 07:41 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 07:20 PM)Iron Wrote: (02-08-2018, 07:04 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 06:57 PM)Iron Wrote: "I'm sorry sir, the fee is $1800 per Pokemon. Should we take your Nidorino or your Scyther? Also, some campers like to have their trainers along for the two day experience. Will you be joining us? If not, we can send your Pokemon on to your PC or you can come pick them up."
"That's perfect, sir. That way you can see the techniques we use and try them out for yourself."
They take you and Nidorino to their camp on the southern outskirts of Stair City.
A counselor named Griggs welcomes you. "The key here on the first day, Heart, Nidorino, is to have so much fun that your Pokemon doesn't even mind following orders! Nevertheless, Nido, whenever you follow an order, you will get a treat! So, Nidorino, pick an activity: run the obstacle course? go for a swim with the other Pokemon? or kick down target dummies?"
Nidorino starts heading for the obstacle course. Griggs stops him. "Good job! You followed an order, since I told you to make a choice! So here's a treat!" Nidorino looks surprised, but he eats it and starts doing the obstacle course. Every time he follows the proper course he gets a small treat, though they slowly give him less and less treats. When he disobeys, which is often, they don't scold him - the course is mostly made of tough old tires, which Nidorino bounces right off of.
Griggs even gets in there and shows him the right way to do it, and invites Heart to do the same.
3 Dex + 3 Survival + 0 athletics - 2 disobedience
(4)(4)(5)(1) Nidorino gains 4 total XP.
"Great! Keep it up, Nidorino: that's an order!"
The camp plays with Nidorino all day, slowly shaping his activities into more serious situations like target practice or "calmness contests." They keep pawning him off on different counselors while Griggs takes a break. They go at it all day!
For Heart, there are plenty of refreshing snacks and drinks, and a few antitoxin treatments when things get out of hand. Also some crafts and hikes to be done if so desired.
"Uhhh...I counsel Pokemon, not people. But I dare you to find a more fun place than the Camp for Disobedient Pokemon! And we could try to cajole that Kadabra over there to Teleport you to Cress City with your friends. If it knows the area. If it obeys."
"Our camp is only two days though - could they wait? Are your friends walking, or what? Through Mt. Sentry, or over or under it? You'll need to plan all that out carefully."
"We will walk in fact. Hmm I dont know if they will wait since I dont want to delay their plans. Its two days counting today? If is, perhaps they could wait a bit perhaps...I will problably have a little chat with them since I was thinking to make a dinner after I finish here. One friend of mine is going to challenge the Gym once again so I was thinking to make a dinner to make her feel comfortable. Is there anything more I could do here with Nidorino?"
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"We usually put the Pokemon into their balls at night, for safety. But if you wanted to take Nidorino rowing, with a counselor, you could do that real quick. I like to drift about at night, watching the stars."
Yes, just one more day of camp.
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"A history of modification...I like that. Intriguing. Well, the records make extremely few references to anything that could be a secret library - perhaps they were expunged - but reading between the lines it's reasonable to conclude that one truly does exist. Men would pay any price for a repository of Sarimanok's knowledge - men would kill for it."
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(02-08-2018, 08:31 PM)Iron Wrote: "We usually put the Pokemon into their balls at night, for safety. But if you wanted to take Nidorino rowing, with a counselor, you could do that real quick. I like to drift about at night, watching the stars."
Yes, just one more day of camp.
"In this case I let Nidorino here." Then Heart talk a bit with Nidorino. "Hey Caesar, are you okay? Listen, I let you stay with this guy a bit okay? Just a while. I promise I will be back tomorrow to meet you again. Its just for a while. You can count with me whatever you need." Then Heart talk with the guy. "I let Nidorino stay here for tonight. I will come back here tomorrow to take of him again."
(Any progress with Nidorino disobedient side @ Iron?)
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(02-08-2018, 08:33 PM)Iron Wrote: "A history of modification...I like that. Intriguing. Well, the records make extremely few references to anything that could be a secret library - perhaps they were expunged - but reading between the lines it's reasonable to conclude that one truly does exist. Men would pay any price for a repository of Sarimanok's knowledge - men would kill for it."
"...if you ask me...yes, it's intriguing that so many get the bright idea to do that to the bug...but...it's...horrible to think about...no Genesect has ever gotten to be what it wishes to be...it's always what those who revive it want to be, and it's usually a weapon of some kind..."
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"...I've read of too many accounts of people creating artificial pokemon for those kinds of purposes...I know it probably won't stop any time soon, but...I wish it would...no good has ever come of creating and training pokemon for the sole purpose of being weapons...nobody ever seems to learn..."
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"...many would go to any lengths to make or obtain the ultimate pokemon...one that tears down all that stand against it without question..."
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"...and in the end, they all end up disappointed when their plans fail. At the end of the day...they're all still pokemon. The only one who actually succeeded in creating the ultimate killing machine was King AZ of Kalos, 3000 years ago, when he created the Ultimate Weapon, the only attempt at mass destruction that wasn't through the medium of using pokemon in battle...and the power it granted him, and the cost it required...it was horrific..."
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"...3000 years...three millennia of searching for power...I wonder when humanity will learn that the cycle needs to end...?"
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"...and yet I have to continue to believe we won't, and that someone has to find and safeguard that knowledge before it can be abused...it won't remain hidden forever when there are those zealously searching for it..."
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"...it's times like these where I wonder if Arceus, Aotius, and Mutios might eventually have good reason to forsake humanity, separate people from pokemon permanently so we can't abuse them and their power...honestly, we're fortunate that they haven't yet, with all the crazy stuff that's happened in the last 10 years..."
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(02-08-2018, 08:41 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 08:31 PM)Iron Wrote: "We usually put the Pokemon into their balls at night, for safety. But if you wanted to take Nidorino rowing, with a counselor, you could do that real quick. I like to drift about at night, watching the stars."
Yes, just one more day of camp.
(Any progress with Nidorino disobedient side @Iron?)
Mechanically, the progress will happen tomorrow. But he's definitely seeming incentivized to obey! Whenever he follows an order he comes over for a treat, but he still gets mad if he doesn't get one. Griggs thinks that will go away by tomorrow.
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"We have records of humans abusing power going far further back than that, as I'm sure you know. Perhaps not on that scale. Humans need to learn to use their tools more effectively. What progress is there in evil? What productivity? Astonishingly little, for people who are so uninhibited."
"But the Pokemon of Creshire, who very much have the power to separate humans from nature, have never done so."
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(02-08-2018, 09:03 PM)Iron Wrote: (02-08-2018, 08:41 PM)Spiritmon Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 08:31 PM)Iron Wrote: "We usually put the Pokemon into their balls at night, for safety. But if you wanted to take Nidorino rowing, with a counselor, you could do that real quick. I like to drift about at night, watching the stars."
Yes, just one more day of camp.
(Any progress with Nidorino disobedient side @Iron?)
Mechanically, the progress will happen tomorrow. But he's definitely seeming incentivized to obey! Whenever he follows an order he comes over for a treat, but he still gets mad if he doesn't get one. Griggs thinks that will go away by tomorrow.
With a satisfied smile Heart decided to let go Nidorino for tonigh.
Some time later...
Heart decided to walk for a while around Star City. "Heh, this place looks beautiful. I will kinda miss this place we go to Cress City. I think I should make a dinner for everyone. The biggest and best dinner I ever made! To commemorate our depart from this City. I must go buy the ingredients but before that..." Then Heart take his phone and send a message to everyone of his members of the party: Ventus, Shiva, Nathan and Valder."
"Hey people, since we going to have one last day here in Star City, how about we have a dinner together everyone? The best, biggest and delicious dinner ever made? We need all energy and positive feelings when we depart from the City! And to to Shiva have the mood in the hightest place in her future battle! It will be awesome^^ With care: ArcHeart (aka your cooker Heart)"
Then Heart send the message and wait a bit to hear the response from everyone. And buy the ingredients.
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