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The Situation in Glacier

The rescuers have been allowed a night's rest following their arrival on the outskirts of Glacier. Though there is ample evidence of their enemy's presence in the form of burning buildings and ruined settlements, the creature itself appears to have wandered off briefly to wreak havoc in a different corner of the frozen tundra. Or perhaps it was taking a brief siesta following so much exertion - murder and destruction was tiring work. Whatever the case, it seems to be an opportune time to descend into the city and assist those remaining there.

If they are brave, they might even try to take back the city itself. But the primary goal, of course, is to save as many people as possible before the great dragon returned.

The few people of Glacier who had guided them this far point out the less-traveled paths by which it may be possible to enter the city unnoticed. It is determined that they will fan out in groups, both in search of survivors and in search of the companions of the dragon who had so effectively laid waste to the city. Perhaps they might still gain the upper hand.

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[Immediately upon entering Glacier, the group of six is directed towards the western half of the city and told to keep an eye out for some large buildings where some of the less affluent citizens were known to have gathered for shelter when the attackers had first come. It seemed unlikely that anyone would have remained there, but perhaps there were some stragglers left behind.

The area in question is easy to find - a set of large, metal storehouses in what must have once been the commercial district. It's possible to see why this might have been an attractive choice to hide. The storehouses are enormous, made of ostensibly non-flammable materials, with many exits in case of attack.

Unfortunately, it seems as if they hadn't accounted for the severity of the flames. Many of these warehouses have been reduced to smouldering mountains of twisted scrap metal...

Nobody is immediately visible - neither citizens nor assailants. They have time to examine each of the buildings if they wish or if they prefer, they can move on in search of something more likely.]

This is... terrible.

[Mami has her game face on. The Valkyrie sets down near the warehouses, looking over the flames and staring at them for a moment. She walks forward, eyes glancing across the fires and the warehouses, before she stops. She looks back over her shoulder, at the others.]

We should investigate the buildings, but--if they were in those, I feel it unlikely that they survived.

Yeah, there's no way anyone was gunna survive cooking in their own personal oven. Look at that.

[He surveys the destruction, with an intense gaze. He can't believe what he's seeing- this was someone's home, their livelihood, everything. And for it to be so easily destroyed, for what? He can feel anger rising in his chest now that he was here and seeing it first hand.]

...But what if there are people in there.

[Yukiko's brow creases with worry, her glasses fogging just a bit. Removing them and scrubbing them clean, she steps around a broken barrel, eyes squinting ahead.]

Yeah. We should maybe check it out. Or...actually, does anyone have a Psychic type with them that might be able to? We need to cover ground quickly, and find any survivors.

[Replacing her classes, she reached for Snor-Lord's hand, squeezing it tightly.]

It's most important that we find them and get them out.

[As Fuuka looked the area, she could only look with horror at everything. To think that there use to be people here and to meet their death in such a manner?]

How could anyone do such a thing...? [She mumbled to herself before looking at her Espurr and then back at the ground]

Well, I could try to sense if there's anything around while we try to find anything else around?

[And yet, she doesn't sound so confident]

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We have to try. If there's still anyone in there, we have to save them.

[This sort of thing is pretty important to Chie. As a Sword of the Savior, she gave an oath to protect people from harm and save them from danger. There's no way she'd be able to get in there herself as an Ice type, but she does have something else she can try. Pressing a button on her Warp Band, she summons her Kingler.]

Osano-wo, use Brine to douse the flames!

[She'll leave the Psychic stuff up to Fuuka and whoever else has those sorts of talents. Chie's always been better at taking the initiative. And as her Kingler's water collides with the flames, she slowly approaches, trying to see through the smoke.]

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[Brine sweeps forward and successfully douses some of the flames! ...Unfortunately, some of the remaining heaps of metal are so fragile that the pressure of the water causes them to buckle and waver. It seems as if further force might result in collapse. In the meantime, though, it seems as if it might be tentatively safe to enter.

There are four warehouses in total organized in a square. The first was already a collapsed wreck long before Chie's actions, while the second and third quietly smoke now that the flames are out. A few flames still burn on in the fourth, on the furthest side from Chie and Kingler.

Fuuka will sense some extremely weak psychic readings coming from the second and fourth warehouses. If she pans out far enough, she will also sense something or someone approaching from a distance.]

[Mami frowns and walks forwar, peering into the third one. She takes a good look around -- as do her Pokemon, as she takes a long look. She looks over her shoulder.]

I hope no one's in here. Gods...

[She's doing a quick check, though; she also has manifested a rifle to be in hand, just in case it proves useful.]

Fuuka, did you sense anything?

[With so many people depending on her, she couldn't afford to doubt herself. As she continued to sense if there might be anything worth looking around, she could have sworn...

Was that something over there?]

Yes, I believe so? I think there should be something in the second and fourth warehouses. Although, please do be careful. We don't know what might be in there...

[But as she continued to sense even further, she was picking something else but maybe it was just her imagination]

Woah, seriously? Oh crap! [He exclaims, all of his attention pointed at Fuuka now.] It looks like those other buildings are okay, but that last one is still burning! We gotta get there first before it caves in and collapses or something!

[His hand flies down to his Warp Band, summoning up his Kabutops, which appears at his side.]

Tomo, will you go inside and look? Chie, you think your pokémon can cool off that last building like it did with the others?

[Yeah that's not good. Yukiko looks to Chie with a bit of a worried frown but says nothing. Instead, what she does is step next to Fuuka, giving her shoulder a squeeze. Tapping the band, she calls out her Blissey and Peter.]

Hestia? Could you go in with Tomo? If there are survivors they may need your help.

[The Pokemon nods and starts to follow the Kabutops.]

Peter, you go too, in case something happens.

[For once, the Snorlax doesn't grumble about his name, he just strides along purposefully, waiting to head in when Chie gets the dowsing done.]

The last one?

[Chie glances over at the building still on fire, frowning momentarily at the sight and sound of the damaged metal of the other buildings groaning under the pressure.]

I can try... maybe just a Bubblebeam this time. We don't want to hit it too hard, or the whole thing might collapse.

[She reaches over to pat her Kingler's claw.]

Think you can do it? Just spread it around a little.

[Osano-wo, who had gone back to blowing gross spit bubbles while he waited for another order, clicks his massive claws and nods. And soon enough, there's another - but far gentler - stream of water sprinkling over the fire.]

[The gentle spray isn't enough to douse the flames entirely, given the size of the building in question, but it does keep the structural integrity of the building from weakening further. Another round or so and they might be able to keep it to a low smoulder.

Hestia, Tomo, and Peter are able to enter the building after cracking through the opening - the heat has sealed the door shut, but a minor bit of application of force should fix that. The interior is almost entirely filled with smoke, quickly burning their eyes and making it extremely difficult to breathe. They'll have to get low to the ground or deal with it by some other means. The temperature is a lesser issue - it's hot, but not unbearably so. The bulk of the flames had died somewhat a while ago.

Thankfully, there do not appear to be any bodies scattered across the floor or anything else so gruesome, but it's unlikely that Fuuka could have been mistaken. They'll need to delve further inside - and quickly. The warehouse is stacked high with crates and barrels of something or another. Many of the piles have been destroyed and their contents burned into ash; others teeter precariously on the verge of collapse. It might be worth glancing through these crates in case anyone thought it worth hiding inside. Alternatively, rows of rows of metal shelving lines the far end of the warehouse and an unobtrusive door to the right marks the opening to what appears to be a machine storage, providing ample places to hide.

The second warehouse quietly awaits investigation as well.]

While they dealt with the fourth warehouse, Morgiana and Gultas approached the third. She looked up at the ruined, smoking building, then over at Gultas. After some silent exchange, Morgiana held her ear to the side of the building. She didn't have fancy life sensing psychic powers, but she did have an extraordinarily acute sense of hearing. Maybe she could pick up something Fuuka would miss.

She wanted to be sure before forcing the doors or knocking a wall down. After the first few efforts to secure buildings had collapsed them further, she didn't want to make any mistakes here.

[Mami walks inside of the fourth warehouse, after they force the door open. Her nose wrinkles -- and then she looks back to her team.]

Let's go through these crates and barrels -- and be quick. We don't know how long it will last.

[They start doing that, with Mami's help, while she looks around. She addresses the other Enlightened next.] We need to check the shelving and that door, too.

[In the midst of what's going on, Fuuka and both of her Poekemon could only just mumble to themselves. However, as they continued walking along side with Mami, Fuuka couldn't help but feel extremely uneasy.

As she continued to look through everything, she just couldn't erase this feeling of dread. The problem was that she just couldn't figure out what it is. Maybe it was this whole mission? Perhaps but...]

Just be careful though, you don't know what might happen...

[The thick smoke is going to be a problem, and Peter doesn't really like that. So, he'll blow step back outside, take a deep breath, and come back in. And then let out a bellow of forceful sound, Outrage that should push some of the haze back and away. Hestia sighs and just starts sweeping the area by staying low to the ground.

Yukiko sticks close to Mami and Fuuka, poking through some of the barrels. There wasn't really a lot else she could do just yet, and she trusted Peter to take care of the other warehouse. So, following orders.]

Right.

[Upon entering the building, Yosuke coughs a few times, getting an unwanted amount of smoke filling his lungs. He hates how it's burning his eyes, and he's thankful that Peter was doing something to get rid of the smoke.]

Here...cough...let me help with that-! [Yosuke himself focuses, and prepares a small Whirlwind to try to push back any remaining haze that Peter doesn't get. His Kabutops stays close, just in case something does collapse. In turn, he also calls out to anyone who may be hiding inside.]

Hey! If anyone's in here, we're here to help you! Can anyone answer me?!

I'll check the other one.

[Not wanting to leave the second building alone just in case something happens, Chie heads in with her Kingler. She's ready at a moment's notice to have her companion put out any more fires that might suddenly ignite, but right now she's concerned with finding whoever might be inside and getting them to safety.]

Hello? Is anyone in here?

[Second Warehouse]
[The second warehouse is in marginally worse shape than the fourth; perhaps it's for the best that only one person has chosen to enter. The smoke is present here as well, but in smaller quantities - being in marginally worse shape, there had been plenty of openings from which the rising smoke could escape.

From time to time, a mass of corrugated steel peels off from the roof and smashes to the ground. These incidences are usually accompanied by small screams from a far corner. There is no direct answer to Chie's question, but so long as the screams continue, she might be able to follow them to their origin. The maze of crates impedes her way at times - depending on how much of a hurry she's in, it may be wiser to simply burst through towards the end and chance the risk of further collapse.]

[Third Warehouse]
[Morgiana's acute sense of hearing will catch the sounds of things... shifting in general. Metal collapsing, crates falling, and so on and so forth. The third warehouse, from an outwards opinion, appears to be in a similar state of decay as the second.]

[Fourth Warehouse]
[The Whirlwind and the Outrage will clear some of that smoke, enough so that it's only exceedingly irritating rather than life-threatening. And hopefully, they had taken a light touch with it so as not to disturb the building much further; the walls shake slightly with the force of the wind, but remain stable. With so many people and Pokemon scouring through the building, though, they can probably cover ground fairly quickly.

Yosuke's shout will not result in any response; Fuuka's psychic sense, however, will likely continue to guide her. There are several signals coming through now - the bulk of them are concentrated behind that metal shelving, though she may wish to pause to point out a particularly large crate to her friends for examination.]

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No time to lose, then, if she wanted to accomplish anything. Morgiana nodded to Gultas, who formed a stirrup with his paws for her to step into, then FLUNG her upwards. She landed neatly by one of the various holes in the building. From there she just hopped in, leaping over piles of debris when she could, or just bashing through them when she couldn't, as she made a fast and efficient search of the building.

Nothing in the crates. Anyone see or sense anything?

[Mami's glancing specifically at Fuuka. Aw yeah psychics.]

[At this point, the only thing Fuuka could do was just to trust her institution. As her Espurr and Aerodactyl continued to look around, she immediately blinked to herself. That's strange, she thought to herself, there wasn't one but two places...?]

I do but I think we might have to split up. I can sense something behind that. [She said before pointing to said metal shelving] And I can also sense something else in that large crate as well.

[Whatever it may be, it didn't stop her from feeling nervous]

Yosuke Hanamura, Mami Tomoe, Yukiko Amagi, Fuuka Yamagishi, Chie Satonaka, and Morgiana

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Yukiko has Snorlax, Blissey, Beartic, Noivern, and Absol

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Hitmonlee, Froslass, Floette, Garchomp, Aegislash, Kingler

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Mami has Florges, Audino, Cradily, Beheeyem, Plusle, and Minun

Fuuka has Espurr and Aerodactyl

Yosuke has Bibarel, Scyther, Noviern and Kabutops

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Morgiana has just her Pangoro partner. Sorry for the delay in actually showing up to this thread

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