high_seas | Opening Game Log

You wake up in an unfamiliar town, surrounded by unfamiliar people. There's some kind of journal clutched in your hand, and as you stare blankly around you, the sky slowly starts to turn a deep, murky green.

Confused?

You should be.

If you're in the town square, you'll also see thick, greenish mist starting to pour out of the fountain. It overflows almost instantly and spreads through the streets, curling around the legs of various townsfolk who don't seem to notice. It's hard to imagine they can't feel that sharp drop in temperature, though.

Don't bother trying to get up to escape these oddities, because suddenly you'll find you can't move.

It's almost as if everything just freezes in place: people abruptly stop walking, the breeze disappears, and there's nothing but silence hanging heavily in the air.

Until a gravelly voice begins to echo inside your head.

...Dribbling cack-handed deck apes — this be the trash I ended up with?

A ghostly figure appears then, large and looming over the town. He's almost skeletal, is wearing a large pirate hat, and looks none too pleased as he makes a disgusted sound.

Aye, these maggots will have to do... There's treasure here for the taking. Ye'd be best off heading for the seas to find it.

Because if ye don't...

The figure grows larger suddenly, and the green mist now surrounding him seems to pulse with a kind of charged energy, like the thump of some far away heartbeat.

Ye'll be regretting it.

He hangs there for a moment longer, gradually looking over the town and slowing turning in midair until...he stops.

And stares straight at you.

Those dark, empty eyes bore into yours for several long seconds—

And then the figure just disappears.

The sky clears, the streets come alive again, and you're left where you were before that whole episode started: on the ground, lost in a new world, with some kind of weird journal in your hands.

The next move is yours~

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A... Center?

[That's not a term Sheba has heard before. It makes her stop in her tracks as she's weaving through the crowds and looking for a familiar face; the man doesn't really look like the babbling type, but she supposes one can never really tell...]

You mean like an inn or something?

[Why hello there, little one. Are you not from around here to? Though the question does leave him wondering how she couldn't know about that when she didn't look THAT young.]

Its short for the Pokemon Center. I'm not from town, so I was wondering where I might heal my team from battle.

[There is a distinct lack of recognition on her face. She's never heard of a Pokemon Center or even of Pokemon, and that much is fairly obvious. Healing from battle? That was what Piers and Felix were for...

(Where are they? is something she wonders when they come to mind.)

She shakes her head and shrugs, palms up.]

A lot of travelers stay at inns when they need to rest up, or if they're badly hurt, they go find a Sanctum. I'm sure there are inns around here somewhere, but I haven't seen any Sanctums yet...

[Sanctum, huh? Can't say he's heard of that. Which means they're both very very lost.]

If we can't find this "Sanctum" then I suppose I'll have to settle for the Inn.

[A pause as he looks around the place. Given his recent misdealings with a certain brat, he's a bit hesitant to ask. At the same time though, something didn't sit right with him about just walking off on the girl when she was trying to be helpful.]

What about you? Where do you plan to go now?

I'll help you look for one. It looks like they're missing a lot of things that most places have... [She frowns. It might be hard to find one - if there's a Sanctum here at all, which she's still not entirely sure of. It's strange to think about. Even the smallest villages she'd ever been to had some form of a Sanctum...

She shrugs at his question and takes a look around. No sign of them... there's a sigh before she answers.]

Before I can go anywhere, I have to find my friends. [It's strange. They were all about to set out on the last leg of their journey together, and now there's a completely new journey for them to go on.] So I guess I'll just wander around for a little bit until I find them.

[That was a probably for the better. He had some searching of his own to do anyway.]

Probably for the best. I will seek out the inn but if you run into with this symbol [he says pointing at his cap] would you let them know Archie is looking for them?

Opening Game Log

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SHEEEEBA! I was going to tag you after work, but you tagged me first!

Eeee! This worked out wonderfully, then!

She is so cute, I can't get over it XD

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