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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]

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.]

[dreamsofahero]

It wouldn't be hard to alternate pairs each day.

*seriously he has like six flyers on his team alone.... and yes, it is quite tedious, isn't it?*

[tearsofademon]

Maybe for you.

[And it's not like there's a handy treasure map or anything even hinting at a possible location.]

[dreamsofahero]

You could borrow some of mine as well, you know. There's enough who know Fly, after all.

*nope, just the notes they've gathered from their research, which mostly just narrowed it to this whole general area....*

[tearsofademon]

I still say we should rest first.

[I suppose "somewhere in these islands" is more helpful than "somewhere in the ocean" or something.]

[dreamsofahero]

First we need to finish our investigation, in any case.

*well, yes, and this one in particular DID seem the most promising, or why else go over it so closely?*

[tearsofademon]

Yeah.

[It's sure not looking promising right now, that's for sure. What with water and crystal formations.]

[dreamsofahero]

*well, they have all day to keep at it, so....*

[tearsofademon]

[All day, and the next day, and the day after that if necessary...]

[dreamsofahero]

*precisely!*

[tearsofademon]

[so tiring... worth it, but so tiring...]

[dreamsofahero]

*nothing for it but to keep searching!*

[tearsofademon]

[Yup. Searching, searching, searching, because every glimmer could be something...]