PTA: Points of Authority (IC)

[MesiDoomstalker]

Bryan and Tarja

As you head off into the city, it takes quite a while to reach the warehouse. You run by the Center, from which you can see the Department Store jutting out above the other buildings, lit up like a christmas tree. Not too long after losing sight of the Center do the streets become more narrow, and much less foot traffic. The souteast part of town seems to be the industrial section that tourist rarely go to.

With a bit of difficulty, the duo find the warehouse, on the extreme edge of the city. It was large, difficult to tell exactly how big. Did they really need that much storage for one store? But before either could get a closer look, Bryan trips over some garbage cans, making a loud racket. A light in a window in the warehouse turns on and a shadow moves across it.

Others

The others head towards the Center along with Tarja and Bryan, splitting off when they reach the center of the city. The Center charged each ^500 for a room. (Speak up now if you want to do something else).

Francis

You quickly remember that the Game Corner is always offering up pokemon in exchange for the prize tokens. Not to mention there are people all around the city willing to give trainer's their first pokemon. As far as wilds, the best bet is looking in dumpsters and back alleys, but no gaurentee on what you'll find. And the Center always have a few trainers looking to trade pokemon.

[Esprit15]

Bryan swears as he trips. "Crap, someone saw us. Can you hear what they're thinking? It a guard?"

[Dragonsage]

Tarja tried to remain calm as she reached out into the mystery person's mind, attempting to identify them by reading their thought. "Give me a moment to focus, be ready to bail."

[Cormag81]

Ashley walks with the group with to the Pokemon center before turning back and heading for the department store in her attempt to find out more information, which will hopefully provide insight on the mission at hand.

[CosmicOccurence]

Francis thanked the receptionist, but politely declined. He didn't have the kind of money to be spending $500/night on a room. Anybody want to come with me to the game center? I remember people saying you could get pokemon there with enough tokens. There are also people in the city who might give or trade pokemon we need. As far as wilds go, we'd best look in the dumpsters, but hwo knows what we'll find there.

[Major]

Kelaeon blinks, "Dumpsters? That sounds...morbid?" He says raising an eyebrow, "Let's see about this game corner as well as the giving away pokemon. We'll check dumpsters as a last resort since I'd suspect poison types and we've got plenty of poison on my end."

[CosmicOccurence]

It should still be open. Anything you want to do before we head over there?

When Kelaeon's ready, Francis heads towards the game corner, hands twitching in response to the city he so dearly despised.

[Major]

"Nothing in particular, let's go." He says following the juggler.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Ashely

It doesn't take long to get to the Department Store, which despite the time has plenty of activity. Heading inside, you are greeted by a woman who either loves her job is is so tired she is slap happy. "Hello! How may I assist you?"

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Ya, your going to need to do something here.

Francis and Kelaeon

As you split off towards the Game Corner, you find it rather easily, due to the large amount of flashing colorful lights. It seems more people are leaving than coming in but it was for sure still open. Upon entering, there is a cheerful man who greets you. "Hello sirs! Have you a Coin Case? The Corner can sell you one with 100 coins, if your interested. Only ^5,000."

Tarna and Bryan

Tarna quickly locates the man's mind.

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Crap, who the hell is that? I was having such a nice nap. No one ever comes here. Probably just a stray Meowth digging through trash. Gah, which key is it? I never remember. I've got way too many keys on this thing. I told them we need to cut down on the number of keys.

A small door, not too far from the ligthed window, begins clanking.

[CosmicOccurence]

Francis smiled at the man, Possibly, what pokemon do you offer as prizes, and how many coins would we need?

[Cormag81]

Ashley looks at the woman gauging that she is probably not high enough up on the sliph co food chain to know anything of value. "Yes actually could you point me in the direction of the medicine, a few friends of mine are going to b taking a trip soon and with all the stuff in the news about the roads being packed with grimer I thought I'd pick up some antidotes and such for them."

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CHA check to charm the receptionist into pointing her in the right direction and then leaving her alone.
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[Dragonsage]

After heading the man's thoughts, Tarja shifted her mental focus to Bryan's mind. 'He hasn't actually seen us yet. He thinks the sound came from a stray meowth.' She then started to back away. 'I think we scouted enough for now. Let's bail before we get caught.'

[Esprit15]

Seconded. Bryan runs off with Tarja to the Center, slowing down as they get further away from the storage. Don't want to look to suspicious, running fro seemingly nothing.

The duo enters the Center. "Rooms for the night, please?"

[Major]

Kelaeon glances around the Game Corner, listening as Francis talks with the man.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Ashely

The woman bows and leads you up one floor. This floor is decked, wall to wall, with various healing items. She guides you to 3 differnet aisles, all containing Antidotes. With another bow she leaves to let you shop. Odd, a receptionist doing her job.

Each antidote seems to be full of different flavors and scents. Did these crazy people seriously need scented and flavored antidotes? A quick look at the active ingredients show they are all chemically the same, with just different additives.

Bryan and Tarja

You quickly scurry away from the man, catching a stray thought of annoyance for the sound being nothing. You reach the Center with no trouble, but its nearly 2 am by then.

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^500 for a room. And congrats! You weren't mugged!

Francis and Kelaeon

"Oh well we have Abras, Vulpix, Eevees, a few Pinsir and Scythers, and even a rare Larvitar and Dratini! Which were you interested in? I'll tell you, the Larvitar and Dratini are pretty pricey, as are the Pinsir and Scyther."

[CosmicOccurence]

Wow, abras and evees, somebody would think I did all my shopping here. Not sure what the other pokemon are though. What types of pokemon are the vulpix and larvitar, and how much are they?

[Esprit15]

Bryan passes out in his bed. Stupid jet lag...

[Dragonsage]

Tarja pays for her room and goes in to fall on the bed, skipping her ritual and drifting off to sleep.

[Cormag81]

Ashley picks out the least strange of the antidotes and gets six of them before strolling around the store seemingly "window shopping" minus the windows but she's really people watching and eavesdropping to see what she can learn that might be relevent to the task at hand.

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It has come to my attention that it was stupid to roll charisma to try and get the receptionist to do her job but I thought I needed to roll something do to Mesi's your going to need to do something comment which I assumed ment roll something so I did. Along that line of reasoning
Wis/perception check to see what I can learn
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[MesiDoomstalker]

Francis and Kelaeon

"Ah, well Vulpix are Fire types, but they have an odd affinity to Ghost and Grass moves with the right coaxing. And Larvitar is a Rock/Ground type but when it evolves fully, its a powerful Rock/Dark type! Vulpix only cost 1000 GC coins, while the Larvitar costs 10,000 GC coins. They are rather rare after all. So are you intersted?" The man grins, rubbing his mitts.

Bryan and Tarja

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Your on pause till everyone else goes to bed, trying to keep both games and intra-party on roughly the same time frame.

Ashely

You find the regular stock Antidotes regular Marts carry at the end of the aisle, taking up as little shelf space as possible. As you start eavesdropping, you quickly find out that the only thing being discussed is the pros and cons of different flavors and scents of healing items on the floor by the customers still shopping this late. Any employee who is talking is assisting a customer in the same manner, nothing important. You do notice security cameras trained on every aisle and a single door with "EMPLOYEES ONLY" plastered on it.

[Major]

Kelaeon wasn't the verbal expert so he allowed Francis to speak. "Eh, I'm not interested. I don't want to pay ^5,000 and then have to buy coins on top of that. It's not worth it. If I spend ^5,000 on a case that's less money I got to gamble." He says with a shrug as he turns to leave. He trusted Francis would get what was best, but he hoped with his comment and his walking it would make the man more willing to try and cut a deal to not lose a sale.

Since this was a gambling establishment most their money was made by the gambling so extorting a coin case was ridiculous and the man probably knew it and was just hoping to net some extra profit in addition to the coin and gambling cost.

[CosmicOccurence]

Francis nodded when Kelaeon spoke. He's right, we don't have that kind of money, sorry, but not thanks. Francis followed Kelaeon out of the casino.

100 coins and a case for $5000 is way too expensive for us. We might be able to get a case off a somebody who lost big, but we don't have time to gamble and expect to get enough coins to buy a pokemon.

Once Jasmine evolves, she'll know some psychic attacks, but we may have to trade or capture for other pokemon that will help us get to Saffron. What do you think?

[Major]

"Or run really fast and try to outrun the wilds, depending on how fast you are." Kelaeon says with a slight bit of dark humor in his tone. "Either way, tonight is probably not a good time to go. The question just comes down to do we strengthen up and try tomorrow, go with a group, catch pokemon, etc." He says rubbing his chin, "How long until your pokemon evolves? Maybe those dumpster pokemon can be used to strengthen us."

[Cormag81]

Ashley curses herself for not thinking about the hour before going on a midnight information gathering run. She still thought it would be a good idea to both see what she could learn about resent Sliph Co. Activities but also about local Rebellion sympathizers who might move to interfere with their plan if they caught wind of it.
She decides that attempting to sneak into the employees only area to learn about Sliph Co was a job better left to their teams Ninja and that anyone who might possibly know about rebellion activity would be in bed by now. Knowing that she would have to try again in the morning, assuming the rest of the nuckleheads that she was with didn't need her to stick around to prevent deaths.
So she picks up 4 potions as well as her 6 antidotes and heads for the center.

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4 potions = 800
6 antidotes = 1200
Total 2000
Leaving me with 8000+ whatever my sheet says.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Kelaeon and Francis

The man waves politley, before approaching another customer.

Ashley

When she goes to check out, she is surprised at the bill. ^3000! One and a half the normal cost!

[Cormag81]

"Stupid inflation whatever here take it." Ashley storms out of the store knowing she was just overcharged for items by the company she was supposed to be destroying but she couldn't have gotten them earlier because she didn't know what the group was going to need. She makes her way to the center mad at herself for being so stupid.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Ashley

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Same as others, ^500 for the night

[CosmicOccurence]

Francis reaches into his bag, and releases Jasmine from her ball onto his shoulder. We've been working together for a long time, and I think we're almost there.

The little pokemon nodded, I sleep less now, and my telekinesis is getting better. I wonder what it's like to have a big tail. She then looked around, taking in its new surroundings.

Battling is hard for her, but it seems necessary for the journey. We'll train at the dumpster tomorrow, unless you'd like to go now.

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time check?

[Cormag81]

Frustrated at the amount of money she is paying on the first night of her journey she pays for a bed and goes to sleep. Leaving a note with the receptinest that if Francis and Kaelon wake up before her to wake her up so she can give them some supplies.

[Major]

"Better to get her trained while you have an ally to assist you than to try and train alone while she isn't a skilled battler." Kelaeon notes, "Eh, I figured training now would be best so that we'd be ready tomorrow. But if you preferred to wait then we can do so."