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When we last left our heroes they werehanging by a rope bridge over a pit of physically affectionate tentacool(whoops those were from my notes for future plans... just ignore that >.>) ahem! They were about to answer one of the most important questions of the hour, and perhaps thier young lives!(possibly... not really... but hey one can dream right?... no?... bummer)
Uriel
Chimney frowns, and signs some more. Understood most of that. Did you tell him yes or no?
Old thread
Drew turns around when Uriel walks over to the door and starts talking to the girls. While he has them distracted, Drew looks around for a window or something similar to escape through. Chimney was likely to murder him without giving him a chance to explain that he tripped.
Claire watches the hands moving back and forth slightly confused. It was clear they were communicating with sign language, but she didn't understand it and felt a bit left out. The more she noticed the interaction, the more she started to wonder if Poffins had been right. They'd seemed closer and now here they were capable of communicating privately. Yet at the same time, regardless of how close they had seemed, clearly Uriel was already with this Drew guy. It'd explained the earlier meeting. He'd been out for a walk, they'd declined the ride, and clearly they must have been hoping for privacy then too.
"Good morning. And its fine. You don't have to explain anything, dad taught me to be open minded to people." She says, "I'm sorry for intruding on accident. I didn't realize it was private, I just arrived. I think the meeting is soon? I don't know, again, just arrived. I'll uhh...I'll go check." She says turning to head down the hallway to inquire if the meeting was soon feeling slightly disappointed with how things had turned out.
Uriel winces slightly in embarrassment as he decodes Chimney's message, it seemed he still had a ways to go before he was anywhere near Chimney's level of skill, Explained I had ru-les ag-ainst it, circum-stances made it bad to do. Told him why bad idea. Said he could help with hex later though. He agreed. Was O.K. with, he signed, trying to hide his frustration at his lack of fluidity. THe conversation being a bit more complex than what he was used to with Mani.
Uriel
Chimney's face blushes for a brief instant before she blinks and returns to normal "I get it, but honestly I'm a little mad. Part of the reason I like your idea of becoming a ranger is because I wanted to help people I had to pass by before because I could only afford to care for me and steven. I would have liked an opportunity to help you to... we can talk about this later lets have this meeting and find anne." she signs as she begins to turn away to leave
Drew
There is indeed a window, and this is obviously the ground floor escape through there would be pie if a bit obvious to anyone standing in the doorway, but before you can even step close to it *Attract!*(you are infatuated with Chimney A.k.a. Mary Poffins)
Opal
you hear a distant tingly sound, and get the feeling that love is in the air.
Claire
Viel clearly tried to hold it in but your sore little shuppett ultimately can't help it and lets out as faint a cough as she can manage. unfortunately this tactic of sound suppression means most of the vibration goes into your chest instead making your breasts hop slightly.
Opal tilts her head at the sound, then goes over to one of the entrances to the cat tunnels she had found, sometimes small pokemon got caught in them, last time it was a patrat that had been scared stiff, so, she went over and made as if calling a cat. It had worked with the patrat, so she decided to give it a shot here.
Opal
You get the familiar feeling of a mightyena watching you as you stoop down next to the hole and make noises.
A shiver crawls down Opal's spine, and she gulps slightly, but, her curiosity was peaked, the only things that gave her that feeling usually were houndour, houndoom, and mightyena, poochyena were up there too, though she could deal with them at a distance. Only a poochyena might be able to fit in here. She gives another quick call, though pulling her head out of the entrance so she wasn't in the way of what was in there.
Uriel nods in agreement with Chimney before trying to catch up to Claire; suppressing a pang of guilt as he picked up his pace. He couldn't fault Chimney for wanting to help him, but he had his rules; and they weren't only for his protection. He was only bending them so far with Drew as it was because it seemed like the young man had an open mind, and was the one he hoped might so far the least inconvenience should his fortune go to awry in the evening. The seviiborn man promised himself he'd make it up to her somehow.
"Hey Claire listen," he started as he kept pace astride the kalosian maiden "I was being serious back there, I have rules about that sort of thing. Drew tripped; he and I...weren't..." Uriel trailed off as a most queer sight drew in forth his attention like a yawning black hole, his face contorting slightly in confusion, disbelief and fascination by the unnatural oscillations exhibited by Claire's bosom; which most curiously appeared to sway out of synch with the red haired beauties own movement.
"Uh...d-did t-that, just happen?" questioned dumbly the flustered young man, unsure of what he had just witnessed.
Drew stops suddenly. He was feeling... attracted... to Mary of all the possible people. This wasn't normal. This was really freaking weird. He had just wanted a date with Uriel, right? But why did it feel like Mary was the one that he should be with? Drew walks up behind Uriel and peeks out from behind him, looking at Mary. She was really pretty.
If she notices him looking at her, he blushes and hides behind Uriel.
Opal
There is another distant tingling sound and the feeling of love in the air
Claire
*Attract!*(you are infatuated with uriel)
Drew
Chimney doesn't seem to be paying attention to you, but you soon lose your Uriel shield as he runs ahead to catch up to Claire the pale redhead. As she makes her way down the hall she takes some of her flowing golden hair in her hand and you over hear her mutter to herself "hmm... maybe I should get a haircut."
As Uriel spoke a soft chuckle escaped Claire's lips. She wasn't sure if he was embarrassed and in the closest or telling the truth, but either thought was amusing. Either the young lad had merely been unlucky, as was his curse, and it just looked odd. Or he was ashamed of his sexual preference which was a silly thing to be ashamed of since she wouldn't judge for it. When he eyes glance down, her hand lightly comes up to his chin and lightly pushes up to guide it to his face, not hard enough to force it, but just soft enough to guide it if he didn't resist. "Oh? Rules about what sort of thing?" She asked. "Rules about people tripping into you?" She asked with a small smile. "I'm from Kalos, we don't judge people based on what they like. If it was just a confusion, I apologize for seeming so flustered. If it wasn't, you don't need to lie or feel ashamed. I---" She suddenly stopped and blinked as she looked at Uriel. She felt the touch of his chin as her finger pressed against it, and her finger feeling his body heat and warmth. Her cheeks slightly flushed as her finger turned into her hand as it brushed against his cheek and she looked him in the eyes. The way his skin felt against hers she didn't want to remove her hand. As she stood there, staring into his eyes with her hand against his cheek she couldn't help but feel a tinge of jealousy, "I wouldn't judge or discriminate, but to be honest, I really hope you were honest and it was a mistake though..." She says softly.
Drew sneaks out from around behind Uriel and pushes past him and Claire. "'Scuse me." He walks up behind Mary and taps her on the shoulder. "I, uh, could cut your hair. I-if you want I mean. I'm pretty good at it. I could make it any way you like." He shuffles around on his feet a bit as talks, looking down at his feet.
Opal looks around, that feeling was... odd. She heads to the living room to see if Eugene knew anything about it, as well as trying to figure out what it was on her way.
Uriel let's Claire lift his chin, the boy chuckling from embarrassment from the sudden and blatant faux pa he'd just committed do to his curiosity. All things considered it was going much better than he had expected, after speaking to them both the morning after Uriel had to wonder if perhaps his intuition had been wrong. Had he actually jumped the gun and underestimated how sturdy the pair where despite, or because, of everything that had happened to them? It was starting to seem likely. Yet he couldn't help but feel that something was off as Claire trailed off.
There was a change in the way the maiden held herself, and held him; the look in her eyes spoke volumes to him and her tone set of warning bells in his mind, yet he was unsure of what to make of the sudden change. "It, uh, yeah. I-It was a misunderstanding, just my luck at work I guess," he said as he sharply swallowed and tried to take a slow step back.
"A-Are you feeling okay Claire?" he inquired nervously
Drew
Chimney seems confused by your sudden decision to talk to her. For some reason she decides to keep the conversation on track despite you two's history. "Well the thing is I'm not sure. The past couple of year's I've been avoiding barbers and hair stylists. So I've let it get long on me, but its not like I've needed one no matter how much I neglect it it seems like it never gets frizzy, tangled, or overly dirty. I suppose I could blame my moms genes for that. Anyway since I don't have to worry about anyone in a salon ratting me out to my mom anymore I thought maybe I'd like something that looks more masculine or at least tomboy-ish basically not like some damsel that needs sheltering... but you know how it is hair grows slower than you can cut it so yeah big decision if I want to cut it... so why you eavesdropping? were you expecting to overhear me plot your untimely demise or something?" she says leaning to look up at you floor pointing face.
Opal
fairy type pokemon and techniques are often associated with feelings of love. the obvious possibilities are...
- a pokemon is using fairy type techniques within earshot.
- there are fairy type pokemon out and about nearby
- something romantic is happening and its attracting fairy type pokemon and possibly other empathic species.
You find Eugene in the living room on his phone "A man was stabbed at the fitness center?... Well I'd check it out as soon as I could but I'm busy where I am now especially since Skull wanted to know what others were doing to find anne... him again? he probably just had an allergic reaction and stab himself like last time... surveillance tapes were destroyed eh?..." he seems to be preoccupied.
"Well, at least good things happen to you, not just bad, right? And you've got Wisp looking into your curse now, so hopefully that will help. So to clarify, you do like girls then?" Claire asks with a smile as her hand starts to brush his cheek. "I'm feeling fine. Great actually. Why would I not be?" She asked moving closer to him so that her body was just shy of touching his. "Are you fine? Are you bothered by me?" She asks with a soft frown.
"Girl's are nice," Uriel chuckled awkwardly at first as Claire moves in, hairs breath from attempting to squirm away; yet a single phrase brings his mind to sobering focus once more. The young man stands straighter as he locks a firm gaze on Claire, seemingly oblivious to how close the pair where at the moment.
"How do you know about that? That, Wisp's looking into my case" he asks in a carefully neutral tone, standing more confidently in Claire's presence.
"Girls in general?" She asks as she moves closer and moves her hand from his cheek to put both arms around his neck. "How do you feel about me?" She whispered into his ear. "As for how I know...That's a secret silly." She said moving her arms from being locked around his neck to rest one hand on his lips, "Shhhhhh..." She said before putting her hand back around his neck.
Drew frowns, wincing at the accusation. "I just have good ears, I guess. It wasn't on purpose." He doesn't step back when she leans in, much to his own surprise. "I thought it'd be a good way to apologize for last night. I might have over-reacted a little. Not like it was the first time I've been thrown to the ground, after all. Not even the first time by a girl." He grins at that, a little more like his normal self.
Drew
Chimney gives a smirk "Heh sounds like you have a few crazy stories under your belt. Anyway considering I totally over reacted at first who can blame you for over reacting only a little. That be said don't try rejecting a hand up in a dojo its a good way to find yourself tasting the ceiling instead of the floor, but sure I'll let you try some things on my hair follicles when we are both free. Opal seems to think hanging around you would help me get over my tendency to throw coordinators into things so this is as good an excuse as any I guess." She seems like she's had a weight taken off her as she returns to her normal posture and you both enter the living room where opal and ledianman are.
Uriel's expression hardened in time with the knot of worry that formed in his gut as Claire pressed her body against him, the lad maintaining his ramrod posture despite the quickening beat of his heart. Any doubt he might have had that something was awry vanished as the maiden wrapped her hands around him, unable to deny how out of character the Claire seemed in the absence of her usual timidness towards intimate physical contact.
"Claire," he began in a warning tone while staring down at the woman pressing against him with a fierce burrowing gaze while his arms suddenly her sides, jerking her slightly in the process, "You're stronger than this. So stop screwing around, and wake up!" he ordered, the young man trying to maintain his focus on something other than his furiously beating and the excessive contact between the two.
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With Eugene already distracted, Opal tries to think of it a bit more, if it was a fairy type, she'd probably read about it somewhere, or at least of pokemon that had done this in her therapy classes.
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Opal
Not accounting for the possibility of "shiny variance" the most likely culprit would be spritzee, but those are not common in unova, and you don't smell any characteristic fragrances. The technique attract is also a possibility but it can be learned and passed down through a dizzying number of pokemon. It then occurs to you that if its a fairy type pokemon a rare one that is known for its ability to emit and manipulate feelings has been under your nose this whole time. Chimney's sylveon steven, but of course this does little to explain your recent momentary mightyena feelings.
Opal hums in thought, then looks around, "Edgar, can you help me with something?" she says as she walks down the hall to the door leading to the back yard. Likely passing by at least two of the other people in the house.
Opal
The literate trubbish pops out from behind a painting Ok. Is the meeting not starting yet? he writes reminding you of the present itinerary.
"It seems like everyone's currently distracted, even Ledianman, I'll pull everyone to the living in a minute, I just have a funny feeling about something in the house right now, and I feel like there's a mighyena or houndoom watching me for some reason, can you look around for anything odd in or around the house? No need to be thorough right now, but I feel like something's making like a bell noise and causing a... well, a 'love is in the air' feeling, I guess is the best way to put it," Opal says, "mixed with the mightyena feeling... we'll have to look more closely later, but I think it's harmless for now, only thing I can think it might be is Steven or a spritzee, both of which I highly doubt... I'll have everyone together in about fifteen minutes if there aren't any interruptions along the way."
At his shaking and calling out, Claire's eyes clear up and when she notices where her arms are and her body they quickly go wide. She quickly tries to move backwards, but in her haste she doesn't let go quick enough and her leg gets tangled up. She stumbles backwards, accidentally yanking Uriel with her as she falls and lands on her back yanking Uriel down with her. Her face is flustered as she her brain starts to piece together the events of the last few minutes and she starts to wonder why she had been acting how she had been acting. It wasn't that she wasn't attracted, but it wasn't like her to be that vocal about it. She felt so embarrassed and worried how unladylike she had seemed.
As she started to try and figure out what was going on and why she'd been like that, she frowned. She had been acting similar to how she'd been acting when Terra had done that ability of hers on her. Was Uriel capable of doing that too? Had he tried to charm her with some weird power? She started to get angry, but then realized he was the one who had snapped her out of it so that seemed unlikely. If it wasn't Uriel having a power similar to Terra's power then what was it? Why had she been so flirty?
"I-I-" She stammered, "Um---sorry, I tripped! Are you ok?" She asked her face as red as the pale skin would turn.
Opal
Edgar nods and passes into the back yard to begin his search
"No worries, I'm fine; glad to see you're okay though," he says with a soft smile, ignoring the slight ache in his arms from when he braced them against the fall. The young man wastes little time disentangling himself from Claire, and getting back to his feet; having the good sense to offer his hand to the stunned woman to help her back unto her feet.
"We should get to the others and check on them, I think we might have a guest running around here," he adds with some unease.
Opal heads back to get everyone into the living room, and hears the tail end of Uriel's comment, "Edgar's looking around right now, if he finds anything he'll let us know. Come on, we shouldn't delay the meeting any more than we have already," Opal says as she heads farther down the hall, and mentions the same to Chimney and Drew, regarding the meeting anyway.
Claire takes Uriel's hand and gets up, hesitating for just a second before letting go of it. "Thank you. Uhh sorry for all that. I hope I didn't embarrass you or make a fool out of myself."
Drew follows Chimney into the living room, shaking his head as it clears some. "What's going on?" He mumbles to himself. "So, what are we meeting about anyway? I haven't really been told anything."
Drew
"We are trying to come up with a plan to try find a mutual friend named Annelise, the kidnappers who took her, and anyone else they may have taken." Says Chimney as she takes a seat on a couch. "All I know is Uriel and Claire ran into and took down two of them yesterday, and nearly got blown to smithereens in the process, and there is still at least a third running around who is likely the ring leader." she adds summarizing some of the story you heard from uriel last night.
"Don't worry about it Claire, I know you didn't want any of that to happen," he says politely as heads to the living room, his earlier conversation with Claire not forgotten.
"That's more or less the gist of it," Uriel begins, catching the tail end of Chimney's explanation, "I got Drew caught up for the most part last night, though I can't be sure of what everyone's been told. So are there any questions or clarifications, or parts of what happened that anyone wants us to expand on before we get the ball rolling?" he inquired as he swept the room with his gaze, his eyes passing over all gathered.
Drew nods. "Do you have anything that belongs to the girl? Barry is pretty good at tracking things... Despite the fact we couldn't manage to find our way back this morning." He grins. "He's helped me find more than a few lost animals back home."
"We do actually. Do you think he might be able to get a good scent from her weapons? We managed to collect several of them yesterday, so her scent should still be just short of a day old. Otherwise I know where she works, so we might be able to find something there if push comes to shove,"
"He should be able to. It'd probably be best to go where you guys last saw her, or where she got kidnapped to find the trail." Drew says before thinking a minute. "Why aren't you guys going to the police about this?"
Drew
"The police are already on this, and have been all over the site where anne, and reportedly two others disappeared. They have been using growlithes and more since yesterday, but the police have an attitude that getting civilians involved would create collateral damage among other things, and generally don't accept help beyond receiving tips. Since they effectively have the right of way what we need to devise is what we can do that the police can't or won't." says the masked man to you as he gets off his phone and joins the conversation.
Drew shakes the last of whatever was making him feel weird off and frowns. "If the police are already on this, then why aren't we just being patient?"He leans up against the wall.
"Well that's not..." Claire starts to reply to Uriel, but stops herself. Instead, she follows him into the room.
"In addition to Anne I have an Aron named Nickle whose trainer was also kidnapped. It was her we were looking for in the sewers when we found Anne's knives. We found out about Anne later." Claire explains. "I'm rather skilled at tracking myself which is how we found the killers." She doesn't comment on the police, however. It wasn't that she lacked plenty of reasons, it was that she honestly preferred that the coordinator boy, Drew, and the little girl, Opal, stayed out of it. Thus if they were content to wait for the police it worked out for the better. Especially since she'd recently learned of Kuro's involvement in the case.
"There's a few reasons beyond just the fact she's our friend, and the little girl was hurt when Nickle last saw her," he starts, giving himself sometime to organize his thoughts before dressing Ledianman's point, "For one thing these guys manage to elude the cops during the individual Amber Alerts and missing person reports. We managed to get them a good lead earlier, but as it stands most of them are a bit too visible; and given the area where these guys seem to operate large search parties are probably going to tip them off. This is all assuming these guys don't have someone or something keeping an eye out for police movements, which is pretty likely given their power sets and track record.
Though that does lead to the fact that they're expecting cops which gives us an advantage, and a way to help. We don't have to take them on directly, but anything we find out on our own can help them out. After all they have to deal with a lot more red tape when it comes to investigations, so every tip helps; and if we happen to get a chance to lend a hand all the better. Now then, there are a few things we can do." he explained as he eyes scanned those gathered, interweaving his hands upon his laps as he noted Edgar's continued absence. The house seemed quite so it was unlikely he'd found their guest yet; their prankster could have likely gotten away by now, but the silence still unsettled him.
"First off, Opal do you think you might be able to douse or scry for Penny and Anne using Nickle and Anne's weapons? They haven't been apart for all that long so their might be a connection you can use their, 'specially Nickle since he's Penny's starter, promised to get her help, and was the last one who saw her so that should be a pretty damn strong connection if we can use it. I have a few friends that are acquainted with with a local poison elementalist who spends a lot of her time on the streets, and in spots most people rather avoid; though most folks don't notice or pay attention to her normally. With any luck we can check if she's seen or heard anything, or has a good idea where these guys might be hiding down there to narrow down our search.
We also know these guys are packing a lot of dream mist to boot. If they've been using dream mist a lot they either have alot of munna's, a large stock pile of the stuff, and/or have been milking the same ones long enough to leave a mark" he explains as he turns to Ledianman, "Do you know if Wisp's noticed any weird dream stuff or unusual psychic aligned stockpiles and/or disturbances, frequent trafficking of dream mist; or if she might have or know something that might? Or if anyone you know, mask or otherwise, might be able to find out that sort of thing?
By the way, if it can work; do either you know of any other Medium's you trust that might be able to help Opal with the dousing? We know these guys have an Aura Guardian and a Psychic with them, and they at least had a ninja with them so any extra oomph we can get for the dousing would probably be a big help," he suggested, offering up his ideas to see what the other's thought about them; hoping that if nothing else he may have sparked a few ideas in the others.
Opal thinks for a while during Uriel's contemplation, "I might be able to, normally dousing rods are only aligned with the resonance produced by crystal shards," she replies, slowly, her voice actually took on a deeper cadence as she shifted to a scholarly persona, "it would take a little time for me to attune the rods to a person based on the resonant signature left behind on a pokemon or object, and longer to sift through what other signatures are on them, anyone who owned or touched them would leave a small signature themselves, which I'll need to isolate and remove the influence of them," she hums lightly, "It may take me some time to properly attune them."
"Nickel wasn't the only one to see them as well, Edgar brought Anne down there to see someone, so he may know something as well. I promised to help him find Anne, like how you promised to help Nickel find Penny," she comments, her voice returning to normal at the last sentence.
"Okay. Then we can hopefully get a trace off Edgar as well maybe, though its probably going to be pretty faint," he comments with a small frown, "Nickle's probably the strongest link we have, short of going to Annelise's home and asking for permission to look over her things,"
"I can't judge the psychic's power very well, but the Aura Guardian is too much for any of you to take." Claire added simply, not saying much else and just listening.
Drew looks around the room. These people were crazy. "Wait, wait. I thought you said there was only one left? Why are you talking like there's more?" He'd pretty much accepted that they weren't going to be sensible about this, so it was a matter of making sure they weren't walking into something that would get them killed. This was turning out to be a much more interesting vacation than he'd thought it'd be.
"Because there is more than one left. A lot more." Claire comments casually, "A wanted murderer, a powerful psychic, some gas mask guy who is skilled at putting others to sleep, and various others that have been working along side the wanted murderer." She replies, "He has an entire organization working for him, which is why I've insisted repeatedly on certain people staying out of it rather than insisting on playing detective." Claire states.
"I'm going to help regardless, whether it's helping you or Edgar, we're after the same thing, best to work together, and if it's because I look like a kid, I'm eighteen. At most I'm three years younger than you," Opal says, "And I'm a white medium, Ledianman can attest to that, and that I always get into trouble helping people."
Drew sighs. "And I work for her, so if she says we're doing this, I have to too."Murderers, psychics, gas masks, kidnappings?! Sid was going to pay for this when it was all over, oh yes. "So the question is how we go about this without... dying. Or worse."
"By gathering information and staying out the way." Claire says, "This man was capable of killing one of the strongest fighters in Kalos he'll kill you too." She states, "And getting in trouble helping people, wonderful. That's exactly what I want to hear."
She drew her pokegear and opened a picture of Kuro. "You want to help, you see this man, you do not engage and let me know where."
"I'm more defensive anyway, light lends itself well to defense rather than offense," Opal says simply, waving off the comment, but already committing the face to memory, "might be hard for us to work together since my abilities seem to hurt you though," she comments to Claire, "though if you can't work around lights that may put you at a disadvantage... we'll have to work on that," she said with a smile aimed at Claire. It promised much pain, sunburn filled pain, with no way of escaping.
"I'll pass. I'd rather avoid getting light thrown at me." Claire comments, "And it just means we won't work well around each other, not with each other." Claire notes, "As I stated, if you are just going to be gathering information it won't be an issue. I'll handle the dangerous work, you can keep doing your detective thing."
Everyone
"I think we might be getting a bit off track. As important as dealing with a larger criminal organization may be we should keep in mind that the thing we all have in common is a desire to recover the people taken, or in Drews case doing what Opal wants, but she's contagious so I'm sure he'll warm up to this eventually." Says Ledian before addressing uriel's questions "I know Skull asked Monitor to try to track down their source of dream mist, but he hasn't found any buying patterns that would suggest it being used in the bulk they would need to. He believes they are some how producing it themselves or they have found a way to use it more efficiently and stretch out their supply though its also possible that fewer people have been kidnapped than we suspect. It's unfortunately very easy for a trainer to go missing without anyone noticing so we have no way to know for sure how many victims there are. As for dowsing I'm afraid my specialty is blessings the only medium I can think of that could have more advanced knowledge on the subject is Siergie Ironwood who lives in the dojo's monastery. I guess you could say spelunking is a hobby of his"
"I'm fairly decent at tracking targets." Claire comments, "Its how we found the kidnappers in the sewer before." She states, "I have a possible lead on Kuro tonight anyways so after I engage him either I'll take him out and then try and backtrack to find where they are sending people or he'll escape again and I'll follow him then. Either way if I find where they operate I should be able to find where his group is putting people."
Everyone
"Ah Monitor said something about that when I was on the phone before... lets just say we still need to pick an appropriate site so the setup for that can't happen until tomorrow actually." says ledianman to claire while choosing his words carefully
"Ah, tomorrow then. That works out better so I can finalize my preparations." Claire says.
"Arceus, you people need to take up less deadly hobbies. I really don't want to die, even to help someone. I like being alive a little too much for that. So I guess we need to go see this Ironwood guy, huh? I hope he's in the mood to be helpful."
"Yeah, we really do," Uriel comments with a tiredly before refocusing.
"In any case Ledianman's right, our priority is tracking down the missing people; anything beyond that can be a boon, but we should avoid any unnecessary risks. I'll likely be heading over to the Dojo, see if I can't kill two birds with one stone while I'm there; and anyone who wants is free to come with. Chimney, any idea what Sergei's like and if we need to do anything special to get a hold of him? Also Claire, mind bringing Nickle out so Opal can see what she has to work with?" he adds falling back into pace as he revised his mental notes to see if he was missing anything.
"That reminds me, if anyone's interested I'd be open to including any and all of our mon in a short training exercise; should go a long way to helping us if anything comes up today, and make our mon familiar with one another," he offers prudently.
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Given that training sessions occur in half an hour segments and Uriel's training Capacity; he can train and buff everyone's Mon in exactly one hour going by raw assuming everyone is interested.
Drew nods. "Sure, Barry could always use a little more exercise." He also thought it'd be a good opportunity to watch him with pokemon. That was a good way to tell a lot about someone. "But for a dojo, I'm gonna have to pass. I'm not really a fighter."
"More reason for you not to engage in direct combat with Kuro." Claire comments at Drew. She wasn't too thrilled with the fact that so many people were getting involved, but at the very least it was more eyes and ears.
"As for the dojo, I won't be able to join you there." Claire says to Uriel, "So as much as I'd enjoy a chance to do some training with you, I'll probably have to pass. I can do some warm-ups and work-outs myself though while you do that and then meet you somewhere if you still plan to do some shopping." She says as she releases Nickle from his pokeball.
"Nickle, these people are going to try and help us find Penny. I wanted you to meet them in case they can help."
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