A day or two later, Neil found himself, quite literally, on a ferry. A ship, if a very small one. Evidently, it ran between the small town sitting at the fork between Route 121 and 122. A seaside town - honestly just large enough to not be a village, that primarily seemed to be a rest stop for tr...
2025-09-05 17:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostPorygon-2-54374372 (Shepherd to his meatspace friends) hummed as it set up the virtual chatroom for their guests. Creating a real-time link between four separate regions was tricky business, and there was the variable number of clients who might be joining. But Shepherd was a simple creatur...
2025-09-01 23:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post“...Hello there.” Neil greeted belatedly, after a second of rubbing his eyes to make sure that yes, that was a Poochyena sitting in front of his tent staring at him, “One bark for food, two barks for just a spar, three barks for if you want to test me as a potential Trainer.”
Perhap...
2025-08-30 20:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's post of Faller, Noun - Someone Experiencing Interesting Times will be delayed till tomorrow. I am currently wrestling with a heck of a lot of anxiety and other "wonderful" emotions due to some stuff that happened IRL.
Apologies for the delay.
2025-08-29 22:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Y’know, once we get to Mt Pyre I may see about getting buddy buddy with a Ghost Type too. A Snorunt or Froslass if I’m really lucky. I thought I could take the heat, but the lack of sea breeze is turning me into a human slug.” Neil said conversationally as he broke off a few pie...
2025-08-22 17:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostIllya shaded her face against the morning sun, looking out over the brown and greens of the Mirelands stretching out before her. “So you don’t know anything about Lady Ursaluna?” She looked over at their temporary travelling companion, raising one eyebrow.
“Nothing I haven’t alrea...
2025-08-15 23:10:45 +0000 UTC View Post“On a scale of ‘awkward silences’ to ‘get ready to dodge some cutlery’, how much is this going to suck?” Neil asked as he rocked back and forth on his feet, thumbs hooked on his pockets.
“Somewhere between ‘awkward silences’ and ‘screaming match’, I think.” Raiko adm...
2025-08-15 23:08:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Rock Tomb!” Her Trainer called, the wry note of his voice making it crystal clear that he knew how much of a formality it was. After all, her only other ranged move was Fairy Wind, and well.
Skarmory.
Nothing to do but grit her teeth and power through it. This battle had...
2025-08-08 13:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostInternational League conferences were not uncommon affairs; both bureaucratic and combative meetups had been a mainstay of Garde since the League’s founding. That being said, those conferences were typically scheduled well in advance, and were positioned in or near major cities, allowing their ...
2025-08-02 03:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle froze. Neil couldn’t blame them for it, given that from what his on-and-off online research had turned up? You just plain did not see anything like Mega Evolution, Z-Moves or Terastalization outside professional matches or the Gym Circuit. Several people in the crowd were vi...
2025-08-01 17:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt hadn’t taken all that long for the pair of highly competitive trainers to find a referee willing to preside over a battle between two professional trainers. Not when the group of individuals were hanging out at the Contest Hall, a place where trainers congregated to begin with. Heck, they ha...
2025-07-25 21:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostHe and Raiko had parted ways after that. She’d gone white after seeing a message on her phone, babbled something that could generously be considered an excuse, and scrambled off. Thankfully after she’d exchanged contact information with him and he’d extracted a promise from her to meet up a...
2025-07-19 19:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostTohsaka Rin was proud of her heritage. Less proud than she’d once been, to be honest, but there was much to be proud of. Wealth, power gained through effort, accumulated wisdom and a heritage which unlocked the secrets of the universe, or at least the barest vestiges. That pride had sunk into R...
2025-07-15 23:16:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Right, so.” Raiko began, swiftly leading Neil through the unfamiliar streets of the downtown area. They had left the more ‘traditional’ markets behind a while ago for the more blatantly modern areas of the city, “Smartphones. I assume they exist in your world?”
“Where do you ...
2025-07-11 19:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostNot long after they had finished battling and hugging things out, the intrepid quartet of partners made their way back to the Pokemon Center. Raiko swore by always swinging by the Center after a battle if at all possible, even if there were no visible injuries. She then blushed very cute...
2025-07-04 15:19:43 +0000 UTC View PostRin’s head was on a swivel as she and her sister walked around Nimbasa City. Despite learning to use modern technology at a nearly unheard of level for a traditional magus family member, she still found herself a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of lights, theme parks, and attractions lit...
2025-07-02 00:02:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe brief silence had turned into a longer one when their food had arrived, placed before the four individuals who sat around the table; though the nonhuman pair of the two remained more on the ‘floor’ than at the table proper. Our intrepid pair of trainers and their Pokemon had eaten their f...
2025-06-27 17:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending so much time in Evergrande and Anna’s Threads, the quartet had agreed to conclude their shopping for the day and head towards a restaurant recommended heavily by Raiko. A rather humble hole in the wall nestled between two major restaurants, but having twice their customers combin...
2025-06-20 13:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe interior of Evergrande was… homely. There was a certain sense of peace that came with looking at a place that someone had lived in and enjoyed living in. Art and photographs lined the walls of the entryway, complimenting the wares on display all around the place.Handmade (pawmade?) accessor...
2025-06-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Right, since Mawile and Eevee want their turn next, we’re headed a little further than usual.” Raiko commented, her Eevee plodding ahead of her for once instead of behind her. The fox was definitely more excited for this than her trainer had been, “There’s a few options, so I figured I...
2025-06-06 16:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what sort of essentials require a legal identity to get?” Neil asked conversationally, one hand thoughtlessly petting the steel fur of the little lady perched on his shoulder. They had been walking towards the shopping district for a while now and the question had been bugging him for lo...
2025-05-30 20:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post“You should go out and explore Lilycove, Mr. Lee.” The nurse on duty had told him after a very late breakfast on his part. Regigigas wasn’t the only one with one hell of a Slow Start. She’d handed him a rather hefty chunk of change with instructions to spend it on necessary items for hims...
2025-05-23 16:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps it should not have surprised Neil that he had spent a good two hours rambling about the finer details of Italian theatre to his starter, especially when she had been both a willing recipient of said autistic ramble and had spent the entire time making all the right curious chirps...
2025-05-16 17:16:48 +0000 UTC View PostOn the matter of Fallers
by Professor Burnet
Fallers. A term coined in Alola to refer to those that fell out of Ultra Wormholes, then later universally adopted to refer to all of those who have come from a world or dimension that was not our...
2025-05-09 18:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, Miho here. Sorry for being absent for essentially the entire month of April. I was experiencing a combination of creative burnout and depression, which for personal reasons I will not really be sharing the cause of at this exact time.
Regardless, both of the issues have reso...
2025-05-02 21:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post“How big is that family, anyways? Other than ‘very’.” Neil asked idly, meandering towards the iconic blue sliding doors.
As they stepped into the lobby and began walking towards the counter, Mawile walking in lockstep with the intrepid trio, Jeanne replied, “Very. Partially due to...
2025-05-02 21:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Begin!” The call from the ref snapped everyone’s attention right back towards the battle, the sight of both a Grovyle and Flygon making Neil’s eyebrows tickle his hairline. It wasn’t like they’d pulled a Latias or Shaymin, mind you, but those were still way heavier duty Pokemon than ...
2025-05-02 21:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostOne did not often wake up in an unfamiliar alleyway with no clue how they got there. At least, not without a splitting headache and the aftertaste of one’s poison of choice, or enjoying themselves an ice bath and some fresh surgical scars. But here 2025-05-02 21:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Lance shook Kiritsugu’s hand, a tired smile on his face. “Thank you for your time, Mr. Kiritsugu. I don’t think I’ll be able to repay the favor anytime soon, but if you ever need anything here in Indigo, please feel free to reach out to my office.” He paused, tilting his head. “And if...
2025-04-01 23:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostKiritsugu looked over his coffee, eyeing Elle with some trepidation as she stepped in from outside. “Who was that you were talking to?” He asked.
Elle sighed. “My mother. The news of what happened in Dahara finally entered the news cycle back in Orre, and she wanted to check on me.”...
2025-03-16 00:21:22 +0000 UTC View Post