New OP Edition
>PREVIOUS THREAD https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2025/6253906/ >What is this? "The Mystery Dungeons 2e" is a text-based role-playing game created to expand on the setting created by the spinoff series, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. This has no story relation to the first quest, and is its own new story. Players still isekai themselves into the world and become Pokémon, going on adventures with their newfound guild mates! SFW ONLY
A deeper explanation of rules, related pages, and whatnot can be found here:
https://rentry.org/tmd2many_rules >I'd like to participate! This current arc is coming to a close. When that happens (and you’ll know when), we may have a spot for another foreigner to join the world of Pokémon…or even for a native to enter the stage and become Something More. Until Then…there are other ways to participate, about which you can learn and do here:
https://matrix.to/#/#the-mystery-dungeons-2nd-edition:matrix.org >Okay, now what? After you've read up and familiarized yourself with the rules and setting, be sure to hop into the Element:
https://matrix.to/#/#the-mystery-dungeons-2nd-edition:matrix.org . Everything that doesn't involve Main Quests occurs here and is helpful for coordination.
Character sheets and the guide to making them can be found here:
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Previous threads and summaries can be found here:
https://rentry.org/tmd2many_days Our LIVE main adventures start on Tuesdays/Saturdays around 6:30PM CST in this thread! Usually.
Namefag as your character, with your item and level!
e.g. Sparks, Lv. 56 Pikachu
e.g. Sparks L.56 (Sneak Scarf/Team Shock)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force) ID:WgzQCKRL Sun 05 Oct 2025 04:26:02 No. 6314713 Report >>6314697 >The illusory body double is dispelled, as Brook finds himself reunited with the rest of Clover. A wave of relief washes over as he lets out a small sigh "Phew am I glad to see you guys, thought everyone got split...up?"
>Upon opening his eyes the scenery before him is replaced with a beautiful blue sea, the sharp rock beneath his paws turned to the wood of a ship as it sails across the ocean on a sunny day >He blinks confused while whipping his head all around, eyes finally settling upon the approaching figure of a mon he wasn't sure he wanted to ever see again so soon "YOU!? What are you doing here, weren't you too busy to come along? And what do you mean heroes?"
>Trying to keep his voice calm, he briefly looks over to the steel bird before returning to the warrior deer "After what happened back in Baram can't imagine you'd be calling US that before we've even done anything."
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales)
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales) ID:UBeG+/vp Sun 05 Oct 2025 04:30:39 No. 6314714 Report Quoted By:
>>6314697 "Sol spill underneath the mist gloom, Akk'r. . a illusion to be mislead off course."
>Sail try to scope out what the foes be despite the dense air? >IQ Skill- Wild Spirit Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover)
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover) ID:2VNwlQz2 Sun 05 Oct 2025 11:41:55 No. 6314814 Report Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6314713 >>6314703 >>6314698 >Ishmael is reunited with his crew! uh, Team! "Everyone doing okay still got that... odd feeling. but I'm used to the swap in abilities now."
>... "I'll try get Evan into shape, cover for me."
>Ishmael pops a substitute... before heading over to the grass snake and trying to diagnose what exactly is wrong first. Matchia, Level 19 Mienfoo (Team Stardust, Feather Bow)
Matchia, Level 19 Mienfoo (Team Stardust, Feather Bow) ID:EoeaEJ6T Sun 05 Oct 2025 18:08:11 No. 6314928 Report >>6314698 She glances back at the Houndoom who had followed, getting knocked out, before paying it no further heed.
"Oh...! Those badges really worked..."
Matchia mutters, still holding onto the statue.
She seems glad that the team managed to reunite.
She looks back at... Sneasel...? What's she doing down here.
She thinks for a second, and places down the statue gently, presenting her badge.
"We're here down here to solve the source of Twilight Syndrome with this statue. ...It has something to do with Empathy and Emotions and the Pokemon who crashed here. ...someone else would better explain it."
She pauses for a moment staring at Sneasel.
"...What are you doing here?"
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover ID:apbS/q0o Sun 05 Oct 2025 22:35:06 No. 6315001 Report Quoted By:
>>6314698 "Woah, did the air just change in here, orrrr..."
>Evan sniffs >>6314814 >>6314713 >>6314703 "Oh, hey, there's some other guys here! Hey, whoever's there, can you stop speaking gobbledygook?"
>Evan's... looking in the wrong direction. He's got that vague Twilight fog in the eyes. Poor bastard, fallen victim to cataracts so young. ...Wait, how old is he, anyway? "So like, are you all cool, or do I-"
>Evan suddenly drops to the floor and covers his head with his hands. "NO, NO, THAT AIN'T RIGHT, WHICH ONE OF YOU IS EVIL!?"
Team Stardust ??? (Skitty, Lv. 20)
Team Stardust ??? (Skitty, Lv. 20) ID:CdQwp+iq Sun 05 Oct 2025 23:56:34 No. 6315030 Report >>6314698 Skitty notes that she'd found her way over to two Baton Pass pings, not three. Her hackles raise a little bit, but her expression is reserved.
>>6314928 "I'd also like to know... how did you get down here by yourself?" She asks, nonchalantly speaking while trying not to telegraph a movement...
She scrapes the ground below her, intending to catch a few rocks, pebbles, dirt, sand... whatever's loose, to fling at Sneasel and see if she's some kind of illusory projection. "Catch."
Instead, her claws scrape... wooden slats? When did they step onto a deck, of all things?
Either way, with nothing to throw, her body makes something up, instead. Normal energy converges, then converts to Ice; the item the weasel would be catching now would be her own move.
>Skitty used Copycat! >Skitty used Ice Shard! Darius, Level 20 Larvitar (Team Ruckus)
Darius, Level 20 Larvitar (Team Ruckus) ID:bsxWfGj5 Mon 06 Oct 2025 00:11:54 No. 6315034 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 10, 17 = 27 (2d20) >>6314697 There's four possible targets around him, none of which he can identify. There's no time for trying to puzzle it out, either, when they could all four be ferals waiting to attack him for all he knows.
No, he has to attack first. Flailing in the dark is far better than leaving himself subject to the whims of enemies.
Thankfully, his body is far more willing to cooperate than his senses.
Darius used Stone Edge!
(10 + 10 + 3 + 2 = 20, 25, 30?)
(hits on 5+, crits on 18)
(first die picks target, 1-5 Kaz, 6-10 Gardevoir?, 11-15 ?, 16-20 ???)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish) ID:kThlwU+d Mon 06 Oct 2025 01:09:33 No. 6315053 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6314698 It's like walking through a forest in the dark, no moon or stars to navigate with except the dim, distant light of the source's voice. But it wouldn't be as simple as walking forward, there were others in the forest with him- six, maybe seven. The realization sent a bolt of renewed paranoia and panic, but some voice in his head was quick to wrangle his legs to the ground before he bolted.
Seven 'mon- that couldn't his team since there were 14 other 'mon in his team, unless they had split up and where nearby? He couldn't tell, and if they were hostile then that meant they couldn't either.
Just a pack of Houndoom stalking blind.
But at least the message gave him something to focus on beyond mind-shattering panic. We're near. That's good, but what did they mean by 'won't finish you?' 'You'lll never die?' and to stop them. Was it some kind of reassurance? A frustrated comment? Perhaps some recognition of nature... And did it ask to stop him, or the others?
Now was Spike's attempt to reply.
Recognition. An image of the resort and a memory of the message that Spike and the Source sent as if to remind them of their prior contact. Focus. A memory of breaking free from the earth and seeing the morning sun. Hope. Determination. Without thinking, thoughts of frustration and failure to calm. Curiosity. Surroundings? Confusion? Unfamiliarity? Where am I? Where are you? An image of the caves before his perception was robbed from him. A psychic yip. A ping. Ping back?
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll)
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll) ID:2Q1WeU18 Mon 06 Oct 2025 03:21:00 No. 6315080 Report Quoted By:
>>6314698 Espurr takes the appearance of the familiar face at face level, uncaring to the hows and whys surrounding this occasion. They flash their badge, not flinching in response to the blade passing by and nailing the encroaching enemy behind.
It's a wonder they've ended up reunited. Worse fates have befallen them on more fortunate days.
"Black Hat speaks the truth, I suppose."
There's an ache within as Espurr feels the desire to consume, yet food isn't on their mind. Perhaps information and experience would suffice, plucked right from the heads of combative Pokémon. They'll have to make a connection with the next enemy before their allies send the beast to the voidlands. They share this idea with the team
>>6314928 >>6315030 .
"I propose we prioritize incapacitating our opponents should we encounter further resistance. I have formulated a plan which necessitates they remain intact."
>Espurr wants to drain their enemies of their thoughts and emotions before knocking them out. Maybe it will help with navigation. "Will you assist?" they ask the weasel... after Skitty is done with her attempt at killing her.
VoL, Elsewhere
>Orner, Ribbons, Sail, Darius, Evan, Espurr, Spike You feel smothered, like an attack is flooding into and through you. There's a presence everywhere and nowhere at once lying in wait! You're all suddenly hungry again, too? You're at the mercy of these hidden onlookers. Were you to draw meaning from these phantom thoughts, they'd seem to say...
'Where are other [lights]...show me your despair. Spare me some of yourselves to eat...show me your fear.' And with that, your vision Pulses. It feels like violence is in the air-and it threatens to crush you if you don't comply. It wants something from you, or maybe you naturally seek safety from it. Everyone, show your fear, or else.
https://vocaroo.com/1hfw5MMt0jDC VoL, Elsewhere
Rolled 9, 7, 6, 17, 9, 3, 11 = 62 (7d20) >The whims of fate..!
VoL, Elsewhere
>Mohka, Orner, Ribbons, Sail >Darius, Kaz
VoL, Elsewhere
>Wallis, Evan, Brook, Ishmael
VoL, Elsewhere
>Spike, Cress >Espurr, Skitty, Matchia
VoL, Elsewhere
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>>6318187 >The unfortunate few..! >Darius, Ishmael, Evan, and Cofagrigus. >All else misses. VoL, Elsewhere
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>>6318187 (You)>The unfortunate few..! >Darius, Ishmael, Evan, Kaz, and Cofagrigus. >All else misses. Wallis Lv. 23 Marshtomp @ Mending Rune Amulet/Heal Ribbon [Energized Staff](Clover Force)
Wallis Lv. 23 Marshtomp @ Mending Rune Amulet/Heal Ribbon [Energized Staff](Clover Force) ID:iq34Bf3q Tue 14 Oct 2025 05:02:09 No. 6318270 Report Rolled 16 + 3 (1d20 + 3) >>6318190 Wallis looks at the candle flicked her way with disdain, her gaze trailing to the legendary explorer.
"Oh we're not here. How could we be when you went away so hastily? You're just feeling the guilt of turning a blade on Normal-Rank Explorers."
Wallis doesn't feel guilt needling Virizion, that's for sure. Her layer of moisture ripples to life as a battle aura, but it's clear she's not aimed at the incorporeal Explorer.
"We've got company- some buzzing thing and... the statue? Did the Mystery Dungeon do that?"
Focusing on accuracy over damage with her senses, Wallis forms Rock Tomb rocks in her twintails, complete with sparkles. She flings the lucky charms at the assailing Vibrava after seeing the trajectory Ishmael and Evan take from its attacks. Any good follow-up starts with a solid foundation of Trapped to lead the strike where it hits home.
"We've gotta keep the fountain safe!"
>+3 Acumen Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover)
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover) ID:R3q7oUI4 Tue 14 Oct 2025 05:07:26 No. 6318274 Report Rolled 6, 13 = 19 (2d20) >>6318190 >thanks to replaced ability, ish is taking an extra +1 from that, even after eviolite! >15/25 HP, but the Avalanche rod is active! "I'd have to ask the same of ya, last I remember you weren't on the continent."
>>6318270 >! >Ish watches Wallis rock tomb the Vibrava, and understands what needs to be done. "On it!"
>Double avalanche time! Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover)
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover) ID:R3q7oUI4 Tue 14 Oct 2025 05:08:59 No. 6318277 Report Quoted By:
>>6318274 (6 (Lanche) + 6 (SE) + 2 (Type specialist) + 4 (ability replaced by pure power this mission) + 2 (Attack) damage twice, for 40 total before defence!)
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover)
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover) ID:apbS/q0o Tue 14 Oct 2025 21:42:47 No. 6318490 Report Rolled 10 (1d20) >>6318186 "Eat me? I dunno, that might give ya indigestion. I'm not exactly healthy with all this fire and crap around here."
>>6318190 "No, seriously, who the hell's talking with the spooky voice? Brook, was that you? Did you forget to powder yourself, or-"
>Evan gets psycho-tazed, and he jumps up and back (DEF buffs makes him hit the damage floor. (26/27)) "Ow! Dammit, which one of you assholes tazed me!?"
>Evan gets hit by a bug, knocking him over (24/27) "AGH! Motherfucker, this shit again!? I had enough of you exoskeletal cocksuckers always trying to kill me! You're not even doing it right, it just HURTS dammit!
>He stands back up and summons leaves "Fuck it. If anyone important gets hurt, it ain't my fault."
>Leaf Tornado! sent towards whatever Evan thinks just hit him. Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover)
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover) ID:apbS/q0o Tue 14 Oct 2025 21:45:10 No. 6318492 Report Quoted By:
>>6318490 (7BP + 3 SpAtk + 1 buff from Contrary + 2 STAB = 13 DMG before effectiveness/SpDef)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force) ID:WgzQCKRL Tue 14 Oct 2025 22:49:38 No. 6318510 Report Quoted By:
>>6318190 "We haven't done anything yet! More importantly why are you here with us? If everything is okay, shouldn't you be helping with what we all caused back in Baram town?"
>The snarl that had been building up in the back of his throat, is let go in the form of a guilty sigh as he turns his head towards the floor of the boat "I'm sorry that happened, I expected you to go after the scroll when I threw it...not come after me agai-"
>He lifts his head, just in time to catch the tossed candle vanish as it goes straight through the pink arms of Wallis >His gasp escapes, and he immediately takes a crouching position for combat, and glares at the tall deer mon "I knew you couldn't really be her! Just what the heck is going on here? What did you do with everyone else?"
>Taking a cautious step back, he feels his leg make contact with solid stone. Taking a brief look back, and his eyes widen at seeing a familiar statue! "Where'd this come from? I thought it was with Mohka and Matchia!?"
>Returning his focus to the fake deer mon in front, he once again gets low ready to defend the statue should they try to make a move. While the sound of attacks from his team mates rings out all around! Kaz, Lv. 19 Kubfu (Team Ruckus, Wicker Windguard)
Kaz, Lv. 19 Kubfu (Team Ruckus, Wicker Windguard) ID:ABPWPgE2 Wed 15 Oct 2025 02:54:54 No. 6318591 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 7 (1d20) >>6318188 >Kaz has hit a target! >But it is not one weak to Fighting! >What a cruel, cruel world... >Kaz jumps back, trying as he might to perhaps dodge the bug's return attack! "What do ya mean only me? Don't ya see Dare?"
>Kaz points to Darius who he hasn't realized just tried to kill their informant "Anyway, if you can gimme a boost against this Bug, that'd be great!"
"As for how I'm here, I dunno. Last thing I remember was gettin' separated in a bunch a balls a light!"
"Wait...you have power over life? Can ya..."
>Kaz thumbs to their opponent "Knock him out or somethin? Oh! Or heal me?"
>Speak of the devil >Kaz is struck from behind! >A nasty sharp wind smacks into him! HP:10/24
"Yeow!"
"Healing, healing please!"
>But just as Kaz is about to counter-counter attack the bug, he hears Gardevoir's last few sentences. "Hey, hey, hey! You got us here, you're gonna get us back home! Now 'nough crazy talk, time ta stick it to the man! ...or Bug!"
>Kaz clenches his fist, and icicles form along his knuckles! >Kaz crouches down, tightening his leg muscles, and launches to deliver an Ice Punch at the Scyther! Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish) ID:kThlwU+d Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:42:01 No. 6318628 Report >>6318191 The emotions and thoughts echo in Spike's mind as he receives them. They remind him of the thoughts of someone fallen into despair, and a tinge of sympathy flutters in his chest before the last request.
'Feed me your fear'.
His brow and heart immediately hardened at the notion. Perhaps they were something like a Misdreavus or Shuppet that fed on these kind of feelings, but his pride refused to submit his vulnerability as substance. Was it even asking? He sensed the malice in the air, he could feel the inky ichor in his veins bubbling with how thick it was in the air around them. Perhaps this infection wasn't a misunderstanding after all.
'No.' Spike replied, his thoughts tinged with aggression at the audacity.
Then something strange happened- one of the seven figures he could make out disappeared. That was. . . worrying. Everything was worrying at the moment, logical thought barely strung together but sheer determination, wide eyes and slow breathing trying to ignore every instinct telling him to lash out in violence. The disappearance meant something- perhaps a member of that group fainted? Did they take care of a feral? Or did one of his teammates collapse? It couldn't be one of his teammates right? Why would he seam them? There were 13 others with him, not 7- unless they did something? This blasted infection was an information game, like a game of poker but you weren't allowed to see the community cards. How was he supposed to make a move like this?
Oh- he was trapped. At least, Spike thought he was trapped. A move was used on him, he could tell that much, so someone attacked him. Was it Wallis? She knew Rock Tomb and that could trap targets. He didn't feel hurt, so no damage. Was there even a move that could trap someone without damaging them?
Spike growls. He's blind and under attack, with no way of defending himself without accidentally hurting his teammates. Blast it all. He tries to take a deep breath to calm himself, recollect his thought. He knows that he's just been attacked by someone, and judging by what little effects he could recognize, it was a move that none of his teammates knew, so it must be one of the infected here. He knew that there 7 figures he could see, and that one of them disappeared. Who they were was a mystery to him, but one of them did disappear, so they either disappeared or fainted, which meant a battle was already underway. So there was a battle going on around him, and one of the infected had attacked him with a trapping move.
That still didn't help him in actually targeting the infected- how could he when the overwhelming panic and confusion literally robbed him of the ability to recognizing the floor beneath him. Well- what could he recognize? He recognize the Source and it's emotions- Oh. He could still recognize emotions, even if he couldn't attack them to someone. That was a start, there must be a way to recognize the emotions of his teammates, at least some of them.
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish) ID:kThlwU+d Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:51:54 No. 6318631 Report Rolled 8, 6, 16 = 30 (3d20) >>6318628 Spike's rears his neck and lets his jaw hang before he letting out a psychic shriek- thoughts of being trapped in pitch-black cellars, whispering behind one's back, drowning in the open sea, and being set on fire flash with the telepathic yell.
These where the things that Spike knew his teammates were afraid of, the things he knew they couldn't help but feeling fear in response to- and all he needed to do to find a suitable target was to target anything but the fear.
He hopes this works. The only trapping moves he knows were rock and fire type moves, so he whips the ambient malice in the air around the nearest the *lack* of fear.
>Spike uses IQ Skill: Telepath to try and scare Cress, Wallis, Ishmael, Darius, and Evan. >Spike uses IQ Skill: Empath to sense fear. >Spike uses Bitter Malice on the nearest target lacking fear. Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish) ID:kThlwU+d Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:56:22 No. 6318633 Report Quoted By:
>>6318631 (Forgot to include damage)
>Spike has Empath (+2 to damage) >Bitter Malice should do 16 Special damage. (20 if he hits Cofegrigus or Cress.) Darius, Level 20 Larvitar (Team Ruckus)
Darius, Level 20 Larvitar (Team Ruckus) ID:mA0QZuXW Wed 15 Oct 2025 05:18:24 No. 6318639 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 3 (1d20) >>6318186 >>6318188 Between the sand billowing around him and the nauseating slurry his senses have devolved into, the Silver Wind blowing against his hide is barely even felt.
(18/24)
Barely, however, is not *isn't*, and a hostile response to his blind flailing is really only reinforcement of the idea that he is currently in danger.
And as is well known, Darius's first response to actual danger is to smash it until it stops being a threat.
Darius used Stone Edge!
(10 + 10 + 3 + 2 = 20, 25, 30, 33?)
(crits on 18)
(die picks target, 1-6 Kaz, 6-10 Voice of Light?, 13-20 Scyther?)
"Get away from me! I can't see you, but that won't stop me if you don't leave me alone!"
A perfectly legible threat in his mind is, of course, reduced to gibberish to a more sane listener.
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll)
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll) ID:2Q1WeU18 Sun 19 Oct 2025 20:43:11 No. 6320496 Report >>6318186 The fear of... red lights at the end of a long tunnel, leading to another tunnel, leading to another, like a repeating decimal. A warning.
The fear of excitement, a terrible, terrible emotion. Dozens of bigger, stronger shapes falling overhead, towering and careening past them, leaving them scattered and frayed.
The fear of losing control, then losing track of where they are. They would open their large lavender eyes and swing their head around, believing the worst had come- that no one would be there- but they'd be mistaken:
When their gaze meets their team, relief is what they find. Espurr never wanted it; not from *them.* It's far, FAR worse than they could ever anticipate. How could they?
>>6318191 Espurr appears rigid to their allies, Matchia and Skitty. They feel sour, forgetting whatever mood they were in just seconds ago. The cat has only their allies of varying Felidae proclivities to rely on. Espurr steps forward, standing between the two Stardust members as they glance at one and then the other. "I am currently victim to some unknown presence. I require your..." they stop, hesitating. "...Help."
They've requested assistance before. This time it feels gross. Their head is spinning the other way around inside this time. Damn this reprehensible force and its disregard for personal privacy. The Magic Powder isn't any better than their usual Hell.
Espurr explains the dread filling them, courtesy of the Twilight's source. "Something communicates with me. Its demands grow fiercer by the second. If we do not proceed with haste, I will not survive. I have this foreign instinct, telling me I know it as fact; My life lies with us as a team."
>Espurr wants to work together on this. Their wellbeing depends on it. "Feathered one," Espurr states, addressing Sneasel, "if this anomalous atmosphere is not the effect of renegade space," a mystery dungeon, "it is my educated opinion that a powerful individual must be its source." A reasonable claim- perhaps even obvious. "You claim to work with information. Tell us what potential outlets could cause such distortion." What Moves, Abilities, Pokémon, or combinations of the three could create a situation like this?
"Deception, perhaps, akin to the illusionists of our ranks?" Their first hypothesis is the mental, or even perception-based trickery Zorua can achieve, however... "What I sense now appears far too present to be falsehood, I suppose."
This is probably a lot for Sneasel to digest considering Espurr was mute when she last saw them.
Matchia, Level 19 Mienfoo (Team Stardust, Feather Bow)
Matchia, Level 19 Mienfoo (Team Stardust, Feather Bow) ID:EoeaEJ6T Sun 19 Oct 2025 20:54:58 No. 6320504 Report >>6320496 >>6318191 Matchia blinks as she looks back at the statue she placed down.
"H- What? Where...?"
She looks... mildly panicked.
But this is no time for that.
"...Well, Sneasel seems real..."
She glances at Skitty's Dark Pulse.
"And it's likely that some kind of Pokemon with Dark Pulse is around. But plenty of Pokemon know it..."
She taps a finger against her shoulder in thought.
"But regardless, the source of all this is probably some kind of psychic type. ...Don't worry, Espurr, we're... reasonably equipped to at least escape threats. We would have gotten through this as a team... even without that feeling you got." Her tone is relatively bland, but the words are genuine.
Team Stardust ??? (Skitty, Lv. 20)
Team Stardust ??? (Skitty, Lv. 20) ID:CdQwp+iq Sun 19 Oct 2025 23:48:28 No. 6320623 Report >>6318191 "I... don't know how I did that. I was trying to throw, like, a pebble at you, or something. Sorry..."
The others seem familiar with the technique.
>>6320504 "Uh, so that was a copy? I didn't see any move like that... or know I could do that... so I guess it's out of sight, or... umm... I don't know. We must not be really here, but I'm not sure how we can get out. Do we look normal to you, Sneasel?" She's definitely not Twilighted, right? Something has to be wrong, but she just had a physical effect on Sneasel's office...
>>6320496 "Do you know of any way to shut it out? How long do you... have?" With how much Espurr is suddenly willing to speak, she has a sinking feeling it's not long.
Orner, Lv.22 Seviper (Barbed Cap/Cheesy Flat, Team Gildscales)
Orner, Lv.22 Seviper (Barbed Cap/Cheesy Flat, Team Gildscales) ID:5DX86dtF Mon 20 Oct 2025 00:10:02 No. 6320630 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 1 (1d20) >>6318186 "Tch..." This constant barrage of emotions is getting annoying, and Orner is seriously considering shutting her empathic sense down.
>Fear... It's a familiar feeling. Once upon a time it almost comprised your entire world. When you were barely older than a hatchling and you didn't know your own name. Everything thing was strange, everything was a threat... Just like now. >>6318188 Orner's inner monologue is interrupted by the Haxorus walking through her. "No resistance... Could be a projection."
The snake tilts her head. "Or an illussion. Should we confirm?" Elm just points to the obvious threat. "If we are in your head, what's the point? Look alive."
>At that prompting, Orner sends a Gunk Shot straight to Umbreon. 20 damage if it hits! "Oh hey, Ribbonss. That'ss your coussin or ssomething."
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales)
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales) ID:UBeG+/vp Mon 20 Oct 2025 01:01:05 No. 6320650 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 14 (1d20) >>6318188 "Muster o' the dark o' here crested canine. Cast low at high rock."
>Sail shoot off a Dragon Pulse onto the Umbreon. >If hit, 13 dmg! Mohka (Lvl. 19 Kommo-o @Root Scarf, Team Gildscales)
Mohka (Lvl. 19 Kommo-o @Root Scarf, Team Gildscales) ID:9NkdG8kh Mon 20 Oct 2025 02:47:00 No. 6320682 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 7 (1d20) >>6318188 Mohka joins in on the Umbreon attack. 14 damage if it hits.
Ribbons, lv 17 sylveon (Cover Band, Plague Wand) [Team Guildscales]
Ribbons, lv 17 sylveon (Cover Band, Plague Wand) [Team Guildscales] ID:rDYkrcuO Mon 20 Oct 2025 03:03:46 No. 6320691 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6318186 >Fear >Fear? >Fear is paralyzing, it's overwhelming, it's >Surpress it, all of it >Supress everything, give them no quarter >>6318188 Snapped out of his thoughts by the sudden table flip, Ribbons jumps into action and rushes forward and around, striking their "cousin" from the side as he emerges from under a table with Quick Attack, tackling their dark counterpart.
(4 + 3 + + 3 + 1 = 11 phys dmg) (+1 if surprise attack procs)
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll)
Team Stardust Espurr, Level 20 Feline (Innocuous Scroll) ID:2Q1WeU18 Mon 20 Oct 2025 05:04:03 No. 6320723 Report Quoted By:
>>6320504 >>6320623 "If this location truly is a product of our opponent, escape is hardly an option. We are already caught between its fangs." Is that an analogy from Espurr?
No, it's a metaphor. What an idiot.
Yet... "I am willing to believe your words to be true."
Espurr looks up at Skitty with their one visible eye. "I will remain unscathed as the presence remains satiable. I bear no reason to suspect it has taken interest in I alone."
They glance back at Matchia as they ponder her words and what Skitty seems to have learned from them. Skitty might be the key here with her overwhelmingly-Normal skillset. "Is it within your ability to trace the origin of this power you have recently employed? Even a binary system of searching would advise us of the correct path."
In other words, whether Skitty could 'follow' the energy like a scent trail, or simply triangulate it based on 'yes's and 'no's like some kind of children's game, it might be the key to getting out of here, provided Sneasel doesn't have any pertinent advice surrounding the potential counters to this horrible trap they've all fallen victim to.
VoL, Elsewhere
Rolled 4 (1d20) >Mohka, Orner, Ribbons, Sail
VoL, Elsewhere
>Darius, Kaz
VoL, Elsewhere
>Wallis, Evan, Brook, Ishmael
VoL, Elsewhere
>Spike, Cress
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover)
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover) ID:2VNwlQz2 Mon 03 Nov 2025 21:25:04 No. 6327427 Report Quoted By:
>>6326667 >1/25 HP >Ish is... not okay! he'd be actively bursting into flames if he had blaze up on fact... maybe swapping abilities was a bad idea. "...You'd condemn someone for not being omniscient? I was intending to restore a forest trashed by a volcaic eruption, you know, same one I came from before I met my team. forgive me for wanting my home back."
>admittedly, not the full truth, but... still not entirely incorrect. "As for danger, we're uh... in a volcano right now. don't see anything that could be attacking us but..."
>Ishmael checks his bag, stuffing an Oran berry in his face... >11/25 HP >Before substituting >4/25 HP, 7/7 Sub HP "Usually blaze would be coming out by now..."
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover)
Evan, Level 21 Snivy (Team Clover) ID:kf/2/FK3 Mon 03 Nov 2025 21:39:01 No. 6327434 Report >>6326667 >Evan shudders, overtaken by a feeling not his own. He looks around the hazy blackness, shrugging at the air. "What, all the sudden you're too good for me? The least you could do for such a meal like me is gimme some answers! Hmph."
>Evan starts walking in whatever direction he's facing, grumbling. "Lousy ungrateful spectral son of a..."
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover)
Ishmael (Lvl. 22 Scorbunny, Eviolite/Channeling Rod/Team Clover) ID:2VNwlQz2 Mon 03 Nov 2025 21:43:55 No. 6327439 Report Quoted By:
>>6327434 "ᵈᶦᵈ ᵉᵛᵃn ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵒʷᵈᵉʳˀ"
Wallis Lv. 23 Marshtomp @ Mending Rune Amulet/Heal Ribbon [Energized Staff](Clover Force)
Wallis Lv. 23 Marshtomp @ Mending Rune Amulet/Heal Ribbon [Energized Staff](Clover Force) ID:iq34Bf3q Mon 03 Nov 2025 23:01:46 No. 6327462 Report >>6326667 "I don't know who caused the bloom scroll to turn into the jungle it did, but I've had faith in my teammates before you even stepped on our shores. I know it wasn't them who spent the bloom scroll and I know whatever use they would have had for it if we got a chance to use it would work out for the better. If you want answers so bad, why don't you enlist Turning Trails? He still owes you one for aiding and abetting after all."
Wallis is hinging a lot on their accounts after she split off to handle the criminals, but it's clear she's not backing down.
"We've always faced the consequences, even ones that weren't our own! Every time we've tried to get to a problem besides Twilight Syndrome, it gets in the way after coming back with a vengeance. But sure, forget our problems and let's just send the whole world to the grass continent!"
Wallis snarks back with a sarcastic tone as she throws her arms up.
"You can save your moral high ground for someone who's not buried in the trenches. Since it hasn't sunk in despite your belly aching about Skarmory, let me hammer arm it in: if you want to blame anyone, blame your countrymon for sending an incomplete team. Clearly it wasn't enough."
Wallis points down to Skarmory as proof. Was the swarm of infected pokemon really a job for just two members of her team?
"Either it was important enough to deserve a stronger response or it wasn't and you don't get to give us the third degree. You don't get to have it both ways. We're giving our problems everything our teams have got and then some and your team should do the same. I know if we did it any other way, we'd be on the fast track to a country of those like Skarmory, especially without the fountain we're taking to stop the source. We're not letting anyone else end up like that. Period."
With a decisive throwing out of her arms, Wallis puts up a Wide Guard in response to the environmental hostility.
Kaz, Lv. 19 Kubfu (Team Ruckus, Wicker Windguard)
Kaz, Lv. 19 Kubfu (Team Ruckus, Wicker Windguard) ID:ABPWPgE2 Wed 05 Nov 2025 00:38:23 No. 6327947 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 1 + 3 (1d20 + 3) >>6326665 "Yeah, looks like he didn't take some of that magic dust we get offa that statue we brought. He's got me a bit worried..."
>Kaz chances a glance over to the possibly hallucinating, scratch that, probably hallucinating Darius >And just then, he is smacked by a Stone Edge! (HP:-4/24)
"AACK!"
>Kaz has crumpled! "This...bites..."
>He manages, just keeping to the edge of consciousness >But-but...it's beyond me, Kaz." >"Please, acknowledge the truth. It's the only way out of wherever you are safely. I know it's painful-but your life is more defensible than your dreams! Please!" >Kaz stares at Gardevoir for a moment "So...you can't do it? Fine."
>He shrugs "Far be it from me ta call you a liar. I'll just find another way."
"If I've figured out one thing from this place, its magical. Maybe you ain't got the power ta send us back, but someone does."
"So, I'll just go find them."
"Dare!"
>Kaz calls out to his confused teammate "Hit the bug!"
>Kaz scoops up some sand blown in by Darius' prior move and tosses it at the remaining enemy! >Perhaps this will get him to focus... + 3 Power Pitcher?
Ribbons, lv 16 sylveon (Cover Band, Plague Wand) [Team Guildscales]
Ribbons, lv 16 sylveon (Cover Band, Plague Wand) [Team Guildscales] ID:rDYkrcuO Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:10:37 No. 6327957 Report Quoted By:
>>6326661 >Fear is paralyzing >Sadness is demoralizing >Anger is blinding >Emotions are distracting, they cloud the judgement, manipulate, and poison the rationale of an individual >If only, there was a way to control it >Only then, will he entertain the idea of being "invincible" >This powder, is a good start >It gives him a glimpse, however small, of his ideal >Driven by the desire to keep going, no matter what Ribbons gathers his focus, and forms a Wish.
Light on his feet, he prepares for the next attack (2 ap dodge)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force) ID:WgzQCKRL Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:39:57 No. 6327968 Report >>6326667 >As he stands there listening to the words of both the warrior deer in front of him, and the defiant cries of his team mates from behind, a tiny regretful sigh slips out >Muscles begin to relax, and his eyes that once were glaring now fall to the floor... >>6327462 "It's alright Wallis, I'm sorry I got you and Evan caught up in that, none of that would've happened if I didn't try and take the scroll back."
>his throat feels scratchy as his voice comes out, a low barely audible whisper that gradually begins to pick up in volume as he continues. >>6326667 "Did you hear that? I said I'm sorry I tried to take the scroll back!"
>There's a light tap taping from his claws as he anxiously takes a single step forward "I didn't mean for Baram to turn into a jungle, or to ruin our only chance to keep so many from starving! I tried to give it back but...."
>His voice rises in volume with every step that brings him closer to the warrior standing before them "But it doesn't matter, it was still MY fault it happened! I shouldn't have tried to take it back and I'M SORRY!"
>now at her feet, his head hangs low and his words have returned to a barely audible whisper "I-I wanted to be the hero that used it, and when you took it....I got angry and jealous......if I could take it back I would but...I....can't..."
>A paw lifts to rub one of his eyes, unable to bring himself to look her in the eyes as he sits on the floor "i'ᵐ ˢᵒʳʳʸ"
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish)
Spike Lv. 21 H. Zorua (Team Stylish) ID:kThlwU+d Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:51:40 No. 6327975 Report Quoted By:
>>6326669 The shock of sudden, intense emotions breaks his body free of his own and other willpowers that had kept him in place against the moment desire to run or fight, and he swings his limbs, scrambling to get away- until the foreign assault on his being gives opportunity for him to seize himself.
His jaw clenches tight but whimpers of pain come through, the pain is a hallucination and the real damage is stymied by his thick blood and rigid flesh.
>Spike's HP: 29/32 Once his limited senses return, there's only a shadow above him, and the voice calls to him, demanding he feed or die.
Die? The thought fills him with indignant rage. He has already been exposed to the oblivion of death and returned to continue his mission.
Indignant rage and renewed determination is what he replies to the source with. You are afraid, and that tells me I'm winning.
Spike gets back on his feet, and with limited senses, and in spite of the shadow above him who he can neither tell as friend or foe, marches forwards.
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force)
Brook Lvl. 22 Zorua [Altered Specs] (Clover Force) ID:WgzQCKRL Wed 05 Nov 2025 03:28:27 No. 6328017 Report Quoted By:
>>6326667 >>6327462 (ignore this
>>6327968 )
>>6326667 >A pressure on his back seems to grow with every word spoken from the mon facing them, each word settling in and adding to the growing weight on his shoulders. The entire world seems to fall away, as his eyes fall to the floor. The angry glare that had seemed as though it were glued to his face shatters apart, leaving him to stand there staring at the floor slowly blinking as the memory of the day Baram had turned into what it is now replays in his mind over and over >If he was less aggressive in taking it back, never tried to trick her by using the scroll Ish had given him, running a different direction after he had managed to retake it >Thoughts racing over and over he tries to think of some way anyway things could've been different, a way that didn't end with Baram overtaken by plantlife and so many mons still starving throughout the continent >Growing more and more lost in his search, the world around him as well as the statue they have to protect falls to the wayside in his mind and an anger starts to build up, if Evan didn't go down so easily, if Wallis didn't leave, if Ish was there maybe they could've gotten away, if she just went after the scroll when he threw it she would've had it! It's her fault that it turned out like this! >Just as his eyes would begin to narrow into another glare, and his mouth would curl upwards into a snarl....the words of belief from his team mate Wallis give him pause, instantly breaking through the darkness clouding his thoughts and freeing him of the lies he had tricked himself into. "Guys.....it's okay."
>All the weight on his back seems to flood into his legs, as he slowly curls and uncurl his paws. As if testing if this is all still just a scenario in his mind, before taking a slow heavy step forward. "When I got the scroll I was happy that we could use it to help so many mons, but also....I was thinking it'd be my chance to do something important...to be the hero.."
>The memory of the lillypad mons face as she was rescued, brings out a small sad smile from the zorua "A-and when you took it without even asking I got angry, that you didn't think that we....I was good enough to actually use it."
>He throws his eyes to the floor, unable to continue making eye contact as he pauses to take a shaky breath before continuing "And I guess you were right. I thought that maybe if I could take it back from you. Take you by surprise with something I came up with by training so hard, you'd think I was good enough to keep it...but that didn't happen"
"Instead I got Evan hurt again, made you chase me through town, ruined Baram Town, AND destroyed the only chance we had at stopping the food shortage..."
>He finally collapses at her feet, voice breaking as he raises his head to look her in the eyes and shout "I-IT WAS MY FAULT, I'M SORRY!"
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales)
Sail, Lv.23 H. Sliggoo (Frozen Ribbon, Team Gildscales) ID:UBeG+/vp Wed 05 Nov 2025 03:51:29 No. 6328021 Report Quoted By:
>>6326661 "Hurr gul' under the mist. Sense o' the fe'y hidden neath the mirror or will it be a slab in the dark fer dis one. ."
>Sail brace for any incoming attack. (9 + 4 = 13 Sp. Def for this round)
Darius (Level 20 Larvitar, Team Ruckus)
Darius (Level 20 Larvitar, Team Ruckus) ID:DC4RGYhg Sun 09 Nov 2025 00:52:03 No. 6329793 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 9 (1d20) >>6326669 That warmth is certainly a balm upon his frayed nerves, though it does little to actually calm him down. It's a shame that his partner's words are far from reaching him, though.
There's two shadows left swirling at the edges of his vision, and if he wants any semblance of safety he's going to have to make sure they aren't.
Darius used Stone Edge!
5+, 25 neutral damage?
