explosivecombat | 019. [Text/Action for Mahogany Town, and one other thing.]

[TEXT]

Does anyone know if the hideous creatures permeating this region of late are deceased humans, deceased Pokémon, or some ungodly combination of both?

It's nothing I had ever given thought to before, nor will your answer affect my thoughts on them. I'm merely curious about what it is that I'm repeatedly destroying, and whether I have something unfortunate to look forward to if this place decides that I'm the lucky person who dies on a permanent level out here.

[ACTION]

[Well, a very brief time after that text hits the network, it seems Kimblee has escaped whatever Ghost-free location he was in before.

Kimblee hasn't taken kindly to the ghosts here; he never has, really, and the fact that they're now in the cities isn't doing anything to help with that little issue. However, he's also never taken kindly to the idea that he simply can't do something, or the knowledge that some things are simply beyond his physical and mental boundaries, and it seems that today he's finally reached something of a breaking point.

He has Dorian out with him today, as well as Ramsay; he's loaded the latter with TMs, taking full advantage of the fact that Absols can learn Damn Near Everything. Kimblee himself seems to have decided that he has absolutely no fucks left to give; people in the general vicinity of Mahogany Town this evening may notice a figure dressed in white wandering through the fog, looking vaguely like one of the undead himself. His motions are tightly controlled, the orders he's giving his Pokémon clipped and tense; he's also trying to act like every time he comes across one of the Ghost-types everywhere he doesn't promptly flail a little and overkill the hell out of the poor level 20s with Fire Blast from a level 100 Fire-type.

He seems...determined (it's just a very skittish sort of determined, okay) to find and destroy every damn ghost in this town, judging from the flames everywhere; the local ghost population likely has no idea what it did to have quite this much hell rained down on it, but there certainly is a lot of hell going on here, goddamn.

...he really doesn't like ghosts, okay. At least they can't be harmed with Explosion, else this would be much, much worse.]

[PRIVATE TEXT TO EMMY ALTAVA]

Miss Altava,

I apologize for the abruptness of the message, but I need to speak to you immediately; get in contact with me, if you can?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[can you even imagine what would happen if he did though]

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but that does seem likely to be the case. With that said, if there's more than one potential origin for ghost Pokemon as a group, it seems as though each individual variety may have its own origin. Isn't there a particular ghost Pokemon that evolves from an ice type?

[...the potential implications of this are going to hit him as soon as he hits "send..."]

[... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...]

...thank you very much for that observation, Lord El-Melloi. I certainly hope the implications of that managed to hit you just as roughly as they hit me.

...they most certainly did, yes. Doesn't your associate have that particular Pokemon? I believe I heard about it from him-if he has one, what did he even do to it?

[ahahaha

haha

ha]

The females of its previous form evolve via Dawn Stone. I know because he didn't do anything to it - I did.

[...oh...]

Well, given that these things seem practically immortal, I suppose that could be considered some sort of accomplishment...

A bit of an awkward one, but that's certainly one way of looking at it, yes...

[And that's...pretty much the entire issue. He killed something and then gave it to his boyfriend. It's not that he feels guilty about it so much as...well, how awkward.]

[...let's just change the topic]

...Well, now that this conversation has entered sufficiently morbid territory, I suppose I should mention that some of these things don't necessarily have to be dead souls despite being spiritual in nature.

[yes, let's]

A fair point; I don't suppose you have theories, outside of what you've already presented?

It appears as though some of these Pokemon resemble everyday objects-candles, balloons, puppets, that sort of thing. In the myths of a particular country in my world, it's said that if an inanimate object manages to exist continuously for one hundred years, it will become animate and self-aware. These beings are generally classified as spirits, so it's entirely possible that the same principle applies here.

I'll admit that this probably seems a bit far fetched-however, given some of the events that have occurred here, it's a positively reasonable origin for some of these things. The region of the world that this particular myth comes from is vaguely similar to the region of this world that we're currently in, so it's not an association I made with no real backing to it.

Well, with that in mind, I'm certainly not faulting you for the association, no - at the same time, it leads me to question whether these century-old objects of yours gain all of the powers that the ghosts here seem to wield, or whether they're closer to something one might consider possessed.

Some are, actually, but others aren't. The line seems to be a bit arbitrary sometimes, so it's a bit difficult to say if it's equally arbitrary here or if they're only spontaneously animate or only possessed.

019. [Text/Action for Mahogany Town, and one other thing.]

[text]

[text]

[text]

Re: [text]

[text]

[text]

[text]

[text]

[text]

[text]

[text]