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[tearsofademon]

[Today's brief audio message is brought to you by a 'gear that appears to have accidentally been turned on inside a bag or something. There is the sound of frantic running, and also the sound of lots of flapping of wings and... Zubat cries. At least two dozen of them.

Oh dear.]

Dammit Rose, this is why I told you to leave them alone!

["Clef clefairy!"]

No, you can't just knock them all out with Thunderbolt, and you already know why!

[...well, I wonder what a certain lazy mage is doing in a cave, of all places. And in trouble with a horde of Zubats, by the sound of it.

Then Sion's voice comes up on the recording. This probably doesn't come as much surprise, really.]

Well, we should still do something about this.... Dusk, try to warn them off with Flamethrower!

[and then there is the sound of an Absol breathing fire before the recording ends.]

Comments

[tearsofademon]

[Yup. And no swarms of Zubats in sight. Just the typical number of individual ones.

...Which is admittedly still too many for many people, but hey, it's a cave, what can you do.]

[dreamsofahero]

*no worse than any of the other caves... though in any case doing the usual carefully examining things, marking their path so they can keep track of where they've been, etc...*

[tearsofademon]

[All important things that Ryner is also doing.]

Haaa, it's bigger than I thought it'd be...

[dreamsofahero]

Oh?

[tearsofademon]

It didn't look like this big a cave from the outside.

[dreamsofahero]

They rarely are what they appear, you know.

[tearsofademon]

Oh, I know. I'm just saying.

[dreamsofahero]

And are almost frustratingly hard to tell apart, at times. Or at least, most the local stories tend to fail to be very precise in their information...

[tearsofademon]

Same as everything else around here. Seriously, what are the professors even doing with their time?

[dreamsofahero]

Who knows, really.

[tearsofademon]

Seriously, when the first new piece of information in months was an inconclusive study on Celebi's favorite kind of dango that didn't get anywhere because it didn't show up...

[dreamsofahero]

For as much as people apparently revere these "legendary" pokemon, it's remarkable how little is actually known, given that we do know they're quite real and present in the world.

[tearsofademon]

You'd think they'd want to know everything they can about them. It's a pain in the ass that they don't.

[dreamsofahero]

Or more for us to find out first, I suppose.

*though boy, exploring all these caves is tedious, even if the teams are high-leveled enough to make battling easy. next time maybe they should stock up on Repels first.....*

[tearsofademon]

What a pain...

[you live you learn, I guess, though with the length of this trip that would be a looooot of repel...]

[dreamsofahero]

Though if we don't find anything here, we'll have to actually try some of the more remote areas...

*soooo much repel, yes. but maybe all this trouble will be worth it?*

[tearsofademon]

No guarantee we'll find anything there, either.

[Hopefully.]

[dreamsofahero]

I'm aware, but really there's little to do at this point but exhaust all the options.

*which is what they're doing now. and boy is it exhausting*

[tearsofademon]

After we're done with all of this, we're going to the closest city and resting for at least a week.

[he says while examining some rock closer]

[dreamsofahero]

It would be more efficient to head straight to our next destination.

*checking out some rather interesting-looking formations over here while you do that*

[tearsofademon]

But if we're going back to Azalea, that's really far away...

[nothing over here, moving to the next one...]

[dreamsofahero]

We can be there within a week or so if we fly, you know.

*yeah nothing here, continuing to look a bit further on...*

[tearsofademon]

You mean you want to go another week without a shower? I'm shocked.

[the spot that glistened over here briefly was just some stray water or something, moving on]

[dreamsofahero]

I never said we couldn't stop at inns for the night along the way.

*water, crystal deposits, boy there sure are a lot of false leads in these caves...*

[tearsofademon]

I don't know if one night'd be enough for the birds.

[It'd almost be like they were toying with us, if the chance wasn't so low to begin with.]