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[surasthana]

EVENT: the challenger's path. ( dazzle 'em )

At first, she's not sure what to make of the potted flower-turned-creature at her side. From its beady little eyes, coupled with the springy little grass legs it had grown to properly support itself in walking, Nahida had little time to process fully just why it had been given life in the first place. All she knows is that everyone has seemingly been given similar partners of their own and because of Ofiuco's short explanation of the situation, she has an idea of what to do.

As she stands in the large dressing room, people frantically dressing their spiralemons in different sets of clothing, makeup, and other accessories, Nahida feels a bit lost in the commotion. It's only the familiar face of Liko that grounds her again, who also seems to be having fun dressing up Sprigatito! "Liko, you're here too?" she calls, moving to the girl's side, flower pot in hand. It waves at Liko and Sprigatito, matching Nahida's cheerful tone. "Oh! This is…well, I haven't thought of a name yet. Maybe you could help me?"

"Not just with the name, but with this whole...competition, actually!"

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[isolaradiale]

without a prior reserve i'd like to app liko from pokemon horizons! her app is the third link on the sidebar!

Welcome to chilly Isola Radiale, Liko!

You’ll be staying in CONDO 422!

You will retain your Sprigatito!

Enjoy your stay!

– ⋆ mimosa.

[inablinkgone]

This is the second time Till has heard someone talk enthusiastically about their 'partner' and he thinks he's starting to understand what it means to people. His initial reservations begin to melt away as the girl talks about her world. They were both so optimistic and enthusiastic. Young but passionate.

It was nice to hear that there were worlds where humans lived peacefully with non-humans too. 'Monsters' had to be different than 'aliens,' right?

"That's really awesome. Usually 'partners' in my world sing together." Or they were business partners... but Till has the feeling that doesn't apply here. "Do you two perform together too? You're both very in sync." They were very... cute. It's really the only word applicable.

"Oh, I get it. She's a 'pocket monster' 'cause she's so small she fit can in your pocket!"

◓ Sprigatito aside, Liko didn't think there were any Pokémon out there that ate brains! Wouldn't that be more like a zombie out of a movie than a Pokémon? If one did exist though, she'd have to be careful! She didn't like it when people called Sprigatito her "pet", because that was fundamentally incorrect.

So she was happy when he called them "friends" instead! "Mhm! We're partners!" The cat meowed in agreeance when her trainer pumped up her fist.

"Ah..." She kept forgetting that Pokémon weren't common around here. She couldn't imagine a world without one. "Pokémon is short for "pocket monster". Our world is populated by them and we live in relative harmony. Sometimes humans and Pokémon become partners, usually for life!" Liko didn't really know how to explain it better.

[surasthana]

"A…cat?" The green hue of its coat makes her wonder if that's entirely right. Curious, Nahida bent to eye level, her head tilted as she cautiously held out her hand. Animals usually came to her instantly, but not this time. The two of them were still, watching the other for any sudden movements. After a couple more moments pass, Nahida decides to take a more forward approach.

The hand that had been offered now presses to the grassy patch that they stood on, a small flower sprouting almost instantly. Once it's fully bloomed, Nahida plucks it and offers it to the other. "There! See? I'm a friend,"

"Where's your owner anyway…? Do you have an owner?"

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[teratrends]

"It's a weird dream," she holds up the candy wand, sighing as Quaxly shrugs at her. "Or, well, whatever's going on." It's weird, more than anything, that Quaxly doesn't seem bothered.

And, well, Liko doesn't seemed bothered.

And, well,

Liko is, ah, here. She takes down her hair from her candy hat, feeling a bit more sheepish at that realization.

"We should focus on the quest." Dot redirects, "I figured we have plenty of experiencing tracking Pokemon, and we may as well go for the big one, since there doesn't seem to be any scaling in effect."

@pkmnhorizons -> It Ain’t A Fantasy Without A Dragon

[snackleader]

"That's dumb, if they have time to make 500 million different sauces, they can at least bring things from your home!" They get a bit quieter. "I miss shopping with Dile. She always knew what to do."

◓ "I can kind of relate. Not only are there a lot of brands, I've never even heard of any of them. They also don't sell a lot of products from where I come from. It can be kind of hard to shop sometimes..."

[teratrends]

"In theory, it shouldn't be. Don't worry, I play these type of games all the time." She waves off Liko's concerns, looking down at Quaxly in his dapper candy armor.

Dot might have thought it was weird that Liko was worked up, but Liko tended to be worked up more often than not. Swinging her wand around to test the weight, she shrugs, pushing her hair back with her headband.

"You're a healer, right? I'm a bit of a glass cannon, but I think we can manage if we work together."

◓ Dot could say that they should "focus on the quest" until she was blue in the face, but Liko still looked like she was on the verge of tears. A very confused verge of tears, but the verge of tears nonetheless. The place had changed but it was still Spirale. Dot shouldn't have been there, right? Or she hadn't been before things had changed.

...Wasn't Dot being a little nonchalant about all this? Did she really think it was a dream?

"G-Go for the big one?" Liko finally snapped out of her near-cry-of-happiness experience when dot posed that suggestion. "D-Dot, don't you think fighting a dragon would be a little bit different than fighting a Pokémon battle? We could end up really hurt..." She was speaking more from experience with Spirale as a whole.

[diamonddomain]

("Their back is a crystal as well?") Diancie said, giving a pretty in-depth look at the photo despite its simplicity. There was a possibility they might've been some sort of relation nobody told the Pokémon but it was doubtful.

("It doesn't ring a bell. If my Carbink partners or even Xerneas was here I think they might've known. But it still seems like I'm the only one here from my region.")

Yet despite that she seemed to be doing well. A couple close encounters but nothing she couldn't handle alone. Really the only thing missing now was having friends like Liko to talk with more often.

("If they did ever show up however I'd love to meet them. Most of my life was only in a small area so perhaps they could be an ancestor?")

◓ Liko knew that her goal would likely be a difficult one in the long run. There were definitely plenty of people out there that had pursued a similar goal, and there were probably people that would challenge her optimism too. But she was still a kid, she was still learning!

Upon being asked what Terapagos looked like, Liko crouched down and began to rummage around in her bag. "One second!" Sprigatito hopped down and watched as her trainer pulled out a notepad and pencil, and within thirty seconds she had produced an amateur sketch of Terapagos.

When she was done, she showed it to Diancie. "They look kind of like this? Like a turtle, but their back is a crystal!" Maybe it was wrong to assume that Diancie would know about it just because they were both crystal related?

[diamonddomain]

("I am a Princess! Or well not here I guess anymore but before arriving here I was.") It was the same exact story Diancie told Liko the first time she met. Although clearly the smaller Pokémon seemed just as intrigued by their appearance and demeanor as their trainer did.

("They do seem a little tired. Unless they are the type to always want to sleep in any second they can.") She couldn't really blame them, especially on a beautiful day like this next to their close friends. Diance sure would've if they could find a comfortable place to lay down as well...

("But if there's enough for all three of then I don't mind waiting till your Sprigatito wakes up. And I don't think Hatenna would either.")

◓ "I've been okay!" A more detailed answer than that would have been wordier since she was grappling a little bit with her memories updating. Waking up remembering events you hadn't the day before was jarring. Sprigatito yawned while curling up into a ball. Apparently snack time was now nap time for her.

Hatenna seemed to be overjoyed, likely catching on that Diancie was also a Fairy-type. "Mii, mii, mii, mii! (Are you a princess?)" And she had questions of her own.

"It's okay! Sprigatito really likes these cookies, so I thought you and Hatenna might as well... But hm..." She glanced over at her sleeping cat. "I'm sure she'll wake up once she smells them!"

[hewillnevervisit]

"That's rather naive. Age has little bearing on most attempts at lives, it has to do with intentions. So, if you were a threat, regardless of age, you would be targeted."

He said this calmly with absolutely no regard for if such words would frighten the girl or not.

"....Your....thing. Is it, perhaps, a 'Pokemon'? I was given a less than gratifying definition the last I'd heard the term."

◓ "Um... Well I wouldn't be able to say for sure if that was it or not..." Wild nature? He did look rather beastly, but if he was able to communicate with her then Liko didn't see him as "wild". "Little skin thing..." Well that was a new name. She wasn't much of a fan of it!

Even though her trainer was conversing with him, Sprigatito didn't appear to calm down at all.

"I guess, but I'd like to hope that there isn't anyone in the city that would try to kill a fourteen year old at first glance..." It was probably naive, but she was still basically a kid!

[railheist]

Maria nods. "Yeah, that's right. They call it the Selene Space Station. Great view up there, if you've never been. It makes you ponder a lot of things..."

"I think we'd notice if the moon was shootin' out folks and suckin' 'em up. Unless it was happenin' faster than the eye could see, or somethin' like that..."

◓ "The moon... There's a space station we can go to behind it, right?" She'd never been because she wasn't sure how her Pokémon would react to being in space. It might be worth a trip someday though!

"But would that mean the moon is shooting us out and sucking us in whenever we come or go!?" Scary!

[einwish]

Rounding a corner, Kyubey finds a well-proportioned tree and scampers up the branches, finding his perch on the tallest one before he peers down with his eyes at his pursuers.

Girl, 1. Cat...also 1? He's yet to meet one so expressively green, however.

Fortunately, speaking telepathically means that he can easily communicate even when the target is still chasing him down the block.

§ Even if you catch me, I can't give you anything now. §

§ But I can promise you something nice later if you ask! §

◓ "Eh!?" Something dashed by Liko's feet, causing the Sprigatito to give chase down the sidewalk. "S-Sprigatito!? Wait up!" What was her Pokémon's interest in that monster? Was it a Pokémon too? There were a lot she had never seen before, so it was definitely possible.

"Sprigatito! Slow down! Don't hurt it!" She had no choice but to pursue the both of them on foot either way.

[flawlessglass]

cinderella … still wasn't quite sure what to make of this "event". for one … no glass slippers, even the little replica she normally kept by her side was gone. ⁽ which was strange. it wasn't as old tales could use it as a weapon. why was it taken away?? ⁾ in any case, in this scenario, they were little "soldiers" fighting against the "candy witch". this could be a fairy tale, now that she thought about it.

unfortunately, this would be her first battle without familiar weapons, and she had been caught off guard, an enemy had taken a swipe at her arm. thankfully, she was joined by a little helper, one miss riko who had joined her on this quest. and a healer at that!! ❝ thank you. magic really is a wonderful thing. ❞ wounds like this would have taken a while before they were fixed. ❝ thankfully, these … creatures aren't that strong and go down quite easily. ❞

@flawlessglass ◓ sweet sculps resituated

◓ "M-Miss Cinderella? Are you alright?" Liko wasn't really sure how she'd ended up helping a stranger with one of the "trials" the Candy Witch had set upon them. All they had to do was find some missing chocolate sculptures, but they'd already run into danger. It was times like this she wish she'd had her Pokémon, but they'd been sealed in their Pokéballs ever since the city had changed.

But that didn't mean she was poweless!

"Let me take care of that!" She held her cinnamon staff to a wound on the woman's arm and watched as the magic healed the damage. "How does that feel?"

[antoake]

"I've...never heard of them, to be quite honest with you. I would have thought he was some kind of cat-shaped harvest sprite, had you not been so kind as to correct that assumption."

He feels almost childish for admitting that: harvest sprites are typically something little ones, the elderly, or the very religious believe sincerely in, after all. Still, the creature -- Sprigatito, she'd called it -- was certainly interesting. Its kind, gentle stare...the soft, shiny fur (which was a rather vibrant green -- he'd never seen that on an animal, though he'd known of pink or peach colored cows)...truly, a pet someone lavished affection on.

Surely, there must be a lot of interesting animals that've made their way to this place (more cats, hopefully, too). He can only hope they're adjusting so well.

"Is your friend something akin to a cat? I've never seen one such a...earthy hue before."

He refrains from asking to pet the little guy (it would be unbecoming of him, to do so right upon meeting the two of them). That can come later -- he's very curious about just what Sprigatito is now.

It couldn't hurt to ask, surely: it would give him a chance to socialize more (like his sister tried to get him to do so often back home), and acclimate himself to things outside his idea of the norm.

"And...would you care to explain more about pokemon to me? I'm unfamiliar with the term -- it isn't used where I'm originally from, so I'm afraid I've no idea what it means."

@antoake

◓ The level of eye contact between Sprigatito and this man might as well have been off the charts. Liko felt like she was just an accessory in this encounter, and had taken to looking off to the side for a moment as she tried to figure out what to say.

"Um... Are you interested in Sprigatito, by chance? I guess Pokémon aren't very common here, um..." Being brought to this city had opened a whole new can of things to make her anxious about, seemingly.

[lonelyalchemy]

"oya?" rui turns at the feeling of something soft bumping into his leg.

"what are you? a rabbit...?" blink blink. he's already picking up the little creature, cradling it in his arms when he hears the girl calling out for someone. time to return this strange pet to its owner. "this little guy wouldn't happen to be yours, would it?"

◓ "Mii! Mii! Mii mii mii!" At your feet is a small creature that wasn't even as big as a basketball waving the hair on the sides of her head up and down happily.

In the background you can hear a girl yelling "Hatenna!? Where are you!?"

[akazukinemma]

"A costume...?"

Confused, Emma began turning in a circle in place, trying to examine every ruffle and ribbon of her outfit. Everything was in its place from what she could tell. Was her outfit really that stand out compared to everyone else?

"These are just my normal clothes! I didn't know there were performers around. It seems so dreadfully boring here.." They didn't even have Buddyfight on the island last time she had checked.

"Ahem! That is to say; thank you for the compliment. But I'm just Red Riding Hood, Emma. I could try and juggle though, if you wanted."

@akazukinemma

◓ "That's a cute costume! Are you a performer by chance...?" Liko had probably spent a little too long trying to figure out what to say. She liked meeting new people but was a little socially anxious and had a tendency to overthink what she wanted to say. But she hadn't really seen many people close to her age in the city!

She didn't want to squander this chance!

She had no idea if her question was on the mark, though. "I mean... I guess people around here wear some interesting things? Maybe I'm wrong..." The Sprigatito on her shoulder was just blankly staring at the stranger in the meantime.