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Brave New World Mods ([personal profile] bravenewmods) wrote in [community profile] bravenewworld2014-06-18 11:10 pm
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Seekers

"This is Union...?"

They stop outside the gates and exchange a glance. Moments later, the Warp Band network across Union switches on to broadcast a message, displaying two strangers, similar enough to be siblings apart from their stereotypical color schemes. The man in blue speaks first.

"You guys mind opening up? It's been a long trek; we can't all just align with Ponyta and gallop across a desert."

"Though I'll bet Ponyta are less grumpy to travel with than this guy. How about we introduce ourselves? I'm Maeve."

"Ceilto. We're here representing a group called the Seekers, from the branch up in Caldera. You guys hear anything about us yet?"

A short expectant pause before Maeve smiles. "No problem. I'll explain! What we do is seek out information about the old gods. You know, the ones that a lot of people worship or hate depending on who you are and where you're from. The ones who're in the legends, buuut other than that, we don't really know much about them. So! Our Boss wanted us to come here to do some digging."

"Yeah. You'll meet him sooner or later, but the Boss-man wants to start up a new chapter here if he can - heard you guys built your whole city on top of some old ruins."

Both of them look more enthused as the topic shifts to the Old City. "We don't know how deep you guys have gotten or how much you know, but we thought that maybe, just maybe, there might be some information down there. We want to help check it out!"

Ceilto holds up a finger. "We heard those Team Evolution nuts've been around already. If you're worried we're like them at all, don't be. We're interested in learning more about the old gods, not in catching them and rubbing on a Pokéball for three wishes. But you can kick us out anyway if you feel like it - long as you let us borrow your artifacts now and then."

He receives a sock in the shoulder for his troubles. "Arg, don't tell them to just kick us out when we haven't even gotten in! ...But yeah, those Team Evolution guys? Far from what we're here to do."

"We've got a few expeditions you might be interested in, too, since you guys've got some more tricks up your sleeves than the Calderans. Small groups, though - we don't need a hundred of you coming along with us and getting killed when you blunder around and collapse it on your heads."

"Oh good grief. Don't listen to him. We do have some favors to ask, but what we're asking for isn't that dangerous. No one is going to get killed. ...Probably."

The man grins mischievously. "Probably. ...Yep. ...Well, that's about all. We'll be by the gates if you've got any questions. ...As soon as someone lets us in, c'mon already."

"Maybe if you stopped acting like that, they will."

The conversation devolves into meaningless bickering before the Warp Band unceremoniously switches off.

((Respond as you please!  Thread jacking will likely occur.  Don't feel the need to wait for both characters to respond before you do; it will be in and out!))
usedstringshot: (Sooo)

[personal profile] usedstringshot 2014-06-20 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't worry too much about me. I've got a sixth sense for danger.

And I mean that literally.
freelyfalling: (B3)

Re: Video:

[personal profile] freelyfalling 2014-06-20 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a mew and a little pink-and-purple nose pokes its way onto the feed.]

Ah-ah, she wasn't talking about you... And what are you planning on doing with them once you've got them? Now, I'm inclined to let you poke at them all you like, but I've got to know. For the record, you understand.
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-21 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
True. It was a war, like any other war. Both sides had reasons to fight, but wars don't always end with total destruction. Whatever truce was made was made for a reason.

[Ceilto pauses for a moment.]

We have no official opinion one way or the other about those, but I can see how it might come off as a kind of slavery. ...You ever try asking the Pokémon?
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Ceilto Point)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-21 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
I've got working eyes, I'm pretty sure, but that doesn't mean I can avoid everything bad I see.

Not that we're all that worried, but. Just sayin'.
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Ceilto Point)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
...You came from Gigas?

[Eyebrow raise!]

What're you doing in a place like this? ...You one of their spies or something?
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Ceilto Point)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-21 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
How do you tell a truth any other way?

You collect evidence, you make a theory, and you see what can be explained. If your theory doesn't add up, toss it out.
niepokonany: (How did it end up like this?)

[personal profile] niepokonany 2014-06-21 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well, like, we haven't used those things here since the Savior's time. Our Pokémon hadn't actually seen one until Team Evolution turned up, either?

And I can't understand what Pokémon say, but like, a lot of Enlightened can, so some of them have probably tried it!
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[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-21 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Ceilto gives a small shrug.]

Eh. There's a lot of reasons to think they're kinda kooky, anyway. They do experiments about Progress and Advancement and Achieving Potential - in capitals, if you can't hear it. If you ask me, evolution isn't evolution if you're just pumping more power into things 'cause you think that's what evolution means.

I guess they mean well in the same sense I mean well when I try to swing a sword.
wildflight: (I'm in Trouble)

[personal profile] wildflight 2014-06-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm kinda more like, uh... a refugee? I guess? I used to be with them, but not so much these days.

[personal profile] yinyangbomb 2014-06-21 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed? Then what are these favors you're asking of the Union people? [And why are they being so secretive about them if they're not that dangerous?]
incousinswithyou: I can see your underwear at this angle (what a farcical allegory)

[personal profile] incousinswithyou 2014-06-21 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
That's impressive, if you can tell all that from an old ruin or two. [at least she actually sounds impressed]

I hardly see the point of it all, however.
niepokonany: (Today I was pompous)

[personal profile] niepokonany 2014-06-21 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, yeah, he totally went on about that! Like, their leader-guy. It was mad sketchy, and kinda boring? I mean, we're all gonna evolve when we evolve!

...Besides the people who don't, I mean.

But the point is, why get all crazy-intense about it?
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Ceilto eyes her warily.]

Invaluable profit for the reclamation of knowledge. 'Who cares' profit materially.

If anyone tries to pawn off anything historical we find, we'll kick drop you into the volcano. But you can keep like, gold or whatever, if that's your thing.
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Then don't help. That's your prerogative. We don't need everyone in the city to follow us.
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[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
You said you and your cousin explored those ruins on your own, is that right? Maeve and I will take a look when we have a chance, then.

...Want to know a secret?
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
'Course, you see humans using stones to evolve their partners all the time, so. It's just a more extreme version of that, in a way.

We've done some studies on Mega Evolution, by which we mean we awkwardly follow Team Evolution on their missions and hide under bushes whenever they turn around. There's actually some historical basis in it - we're pretty ticked they found it before us.
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Ceilto Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
To... help us explore some ruins we know about?

[He arches an eyebrow.]

What did you expect from people who say they explore ruins?
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[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
A Gigas refugee?

These guys shake any info out of you yet, or are you keeping it on the down-low?
wildflight: (Awkward)

[personal profile] wildflight 2014-06-22 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
There were a few questions, but... Gigas didn't tell me much. I was more like a weapon for them, you know?

And most people don't talk to their swords. I guess maybe some people do?

Like crazy people might talk to their swords?
somnambulatory: (Default)

[personal profile] somnambulatory 2014-06-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
What is it?

[Jinxie leans in toward the screen.]
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Default)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
...

Maeve's not actually my sister. She's a stray Gastly Shifter who thinks she's the ghost of a human. I just humor her.

[......She looked so interested Ceilto was obligated to mess with her a little.]

...No, that's not true, I'm pretty sure we're related. Pretty sure.

The secret's that we think the home of these gods... what the people believed to be gods... are somewhere on this continent nearby. ...And we're gonna find it.
bnw_wighty_npcs: (Ceilto Point)

[personal profile] bnw_wighty_npcs 2014-06-22 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
By that analogy, Gigas ought to talk to you pretty often.
wildflight: (Smile)

[personal profile] wildflight 2014-06-22 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it didn't totally work, huh.

Yeah, I'm kinda just... y'know... they didn't feel like they needed to tell me things. It explains a lot.

I didn't actually hear much about these gods til I got here, even!
niepokonany: (We're in space-- how'd she get here?!)

[personal profile] niepokonany 2014-06-22 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, like, what do you know about that?

[So much for not really caring. He doesn't much envy it, but he distrusts it enough to want to know more.]

How do they do it? What's the deal?
somnambulatory: (looking aside)

[personal profile] somnambulatory 2014-06-22 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jinxie would have believed every word of it had he not given himself away so quickly.]

O-oh.

[As it is, she looks a little embarrassed.]

The gods' home...? Do you think they still live there now?

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