7th book; an update {Video/Action for Goldenrod}

[bamfsecretary]

//Video; unfiltered

{Nanao's seated at a table, two rather massive books open in front of her.}

I have been doing some research into what caused those... extreme weather conditions, and I believe I have found out what - or more accurately, who caused it. {She picks up a sheet of paper - three large dog-like creatures are shown running.}

This is an artist's impression of the three Legendary Beasts: Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. Each is said to hold mastery over an element, and I believe that Suicune's affinity for water, specifically, its rumoured ability to be able to cleanse the most polluted of water, is why the towns and cities of Johto and Kanto were filled with rubbish. Someone - and I suspect Team Rocket - did it to lure out Suicune. It worked. {The paper is lowered.} Again, this is only a rumour, but it is said that the three have an intrinsic link, a psychic connection of some kind, which would then explain why the other two Beasts awoke.

{She breathes in deeply, hands flattening against the table's surface.} I say the other two awoke, because Raikou decided to look in through one of the windows of my house during the storm. There have also been reports from Kanto that Cinnabar's volcano began erupting again, which can be linked to Entei. According to legend, each time Entei howls, a volcano erupts. I do not know why Team Rocket chose to antagonise such amazingly powerful creatures, but I have to say that it would be incredibly foolish for them to try it again.

{She lays a hand over the top of the slightly smaller book on the table, and addresses the feed again.} I have amassed quite a bit of information pertaining to those Beasts, and towards some of the other Legendaries, so if you have a question, I will do my best to answer.

//action, late afternoon (goldenrod)

{You might see a Blaziken walking through the streets with a Nanao on her back in the afternoon.}

{Follow her, and you'll see them trace a path down towards Route 34, but take a sharp right just before the route proper begins. Flood debris litters the path, including an upright piano lodged upside down in a tree, a hole punched through it.}

{She pauses for a moment to stare at one of her most treasured possession, before nudging Charmeuse on to regard the wreckage of her home. None of the windows have glass in them - indeed, most of the walls are actually missing, with just the rickety-looking studwork holding up the top floor, which sags out alarmingly. A few sad little tulips poke through the piles of junk and sand left by the retreating floodwaters.}

Goddamn it.

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[freezetheskies]

[He wasn't supposed to still be in town, but the floodwaters had kept him longer than expected. He'd intended to say goodbye this time and had set out from the hotel to find Nanao, but had instead just caught sight of her and Charmeuse leaving the city. It wasn't hard to guess where they'd go, so he followed and sure enough, there they were. He stood at a distance, just observing for a moment while Hina sniffs around and paws at the junk left behind.

The second floor had held while he'd been there, sitting on the stairs while waiting for Mizumaru to return, but now...now it looks like all it'll take to blow it over is a stiff wind. What a mess...she can't think it's safe to stay here, can she?]

I don't suggest staying here long, Ise. Who knows when it's going to come down.

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[bamfsecretary]

{She looks over her shoulder wearily.} I knew it was going to be bad, but I didn't know it was going to be this bad.

[friendyousohard]

Thank you for sharing your results with the populace at large, miss. [Seeing as she kept the bulk of hers to the TGC. She had her reasons, but she still thinks this is the sort of knowledge that should be publicly available.]

Can you tell me about your encounter with Raikou? I've been researching the Beasts and the meetings people have had with them during the storm. It's all quite fascinating.

[bamfsecretary]

You're quite welcome. I find it's better to share information than to keep it to oneself.

{There's a pause before she talks about Raikou, however.} It was... frightening. They are massive Pokemon, and it happened right in the middle of the storm.

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[empireofmymind]

Team Rocket again?!

[He'd had every intention of having a nerdy discussion, since so many other people have been researching as best they can. But this -

Sorry about this, you probably didn't need an eleven-year-old glaring at nothing across your feed.]

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[bamfsecretary]

Indeed - they're the only people who could pull this kind of stunt off on such a massive scale.

{Hey, she deals with Hitsugaya all the time. Actual eleven year olds? Not so terrifying.}

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[returntospring]

... So they're trying to provoke the gods of this place? [She's not sure if they really are gods or not, but their powers, coupled with the "legendary" status, certainly makes it sound like they are.]

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[bamfsecretary]

As far as I can tell, yes. I wouldn't say it's the smartest idea, however.

{Think of it as being the Roman Pantheon of Gods - it's easier that way.}

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[kougameleon]

*Saemon is intrigued*

Such creatures exists?! Much like Gods...

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[bamfsecretary]

Very much so; and they seem to be in a separate league to normal Pokemon.

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[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

[Off-center and tilted video feed, gooooo! Randomly checking the PokéGear has turned up something interesting again. The humans here might actually not all be a bunch of nature-wrecking murderous jerkasses. He might have to look at it more often.]

The brown one looks like the real thing. Maybe Suicune is what it was searching for.

Who's Team Rocket?

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[bamfsecretary]

I assume you're talking about Entei - and the Three are meant to have a kind of Psychic link that binds them together, so you're probably right.

Team Rocket is a criminal organisation who we don't know much about, really. They hijacked a train a while back, as well as the Radio Tower. I'm assuming they are behind this, simply because it makes sense.

[dreamsofahero]

So you saw Raikou as well?

[bamfsecretary]

Ah, so it appeared to others too? Intriguing.

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[youngforhisage]

...I see. Yes, that would make the most sense, wouldn't it?

Although... you saw one of them yourself? Interesting.

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[bamfsecretary]

Less interesting, and more terrifying. Let's just say I have a healthy respect for all Legendary creatures, now.

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[foolishwren]

... One of the GODS of this place came to your window?

_{[Apart from having to deal with all the horrible weather, this is the first Heather's really heard of what was ACTUALLY going on.]}

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[bamfsecretary]

It did indeed.

{Shrugging, because what the hell else can she do hbsjdvbdsjv}

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[exeggutorhead]

You actually saw one of those things?

[And the mention of Cinnabar erupting doesn't go unnoticed by him either. Good thing they weren't there when that happened.]

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[bamfsecretary]

Came and smooshed it's face against the glass of one of the windows.

I can vouch for the fact that these things are insanely powerful - they actually remind me of some of the more powerful Hollows, except without the hideously malevolent aura, of course.

{France's screams would have been audible in Goldenrod, quite probably.}

[conduit]

Woo! Go Nanao! That's quite the bit of research you've done there! [ Rangiku's cheerfulness is a tad jarring, but her heart is definitely in the right place. ] It's like the Soul Society all over again! [ She beams with great joy. ] You're still our go to girl for knowledge and research~!

[bamfsecretary]

{Shy-ish glasses adjust sahdvshadhjas}

Thank you, Matsumoto-san. I am glad to help.

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[usedcharm]

[Rinoa has been spending most of her spare time training, because breeder or not she doesn't want to be unprepared if something like this ordeal happened again. She's on her way out to Route 34 when she sees Nanao and her Blaziken (though to be fair she only knows it as a "really big, red pokemon at this point). Watching Nanao go by was curious to say the least, but she'd had no intention of following...until her Jigglypuff, Jules, decided thatshe wanted to follow after the stranger and big pokemon. So naturally her flustered trainer gave chase only to stop short at the sight of all that destruction.]

Did the storm do this?

[She stares up at the piano in the tree, a wistful look crossing her features briefly. The fact that she should be catching her mischevious Jigglypuff forgotten for the moment.]

This is horrible.

[Rinoa knows nothing about Team Rocket really, but she does know that she wants whoever was responsible to pay for their actions.]

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[bamfsecretary]

{Charmeuse just stares at the little pink thing by her feet. What are you doing, little one...}

It did - I'm glad my friends managed to get me out before, well, this happened.

We tend to forget what nature can do, sometimes. And then this happens, and reminds us to be careful.

[video] i am so sorry this is so late! if it's not okay, let me know!

[will_to_burn]

[ Ordinarily, there'd be some kind of greeting or comment to start, but it seems someone's turned on her Gear completely by accident. Or maybe that's the fault of the Cyndaquil peering into the camera whilst waving. He runs off after a moment, leaving a screen full of ceiling in his wake. Someone is in the room, though, if the -- ]

Three Legendary Beasts... [ -- is any indication. Someone is puzzling. ]