Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Journey Into the Frontier [RP Thread]

[Keldminrachi91]

Emily the Joltik
Wishcatcher Forest
Moves: Leech Life, Thunder Wave, Cross Poison

As Emily watched the annoyed Eevee talk to the Sandshrew, she decided to come out of the bush because she figured those Pokémon might know what happened. As she hurried along, she noticed how small she was compared to them, and was very careful to not get stepped on.

"Hey! Look down here you two!" she shouted. They didn't seem to notice her.

"LOOK DOWN HERE!" she screamed. It was still no use. Well, I guess there's only one thing to do. Then, with all her little Joltik might, she jumped as high as she could. Surprisingly for her, she went much higher and farther than she expected. She sailed over both the Eevee's and Sandshrew's heads, screaming until she hit the ground again. Apparently, Joltik can jump pretty high. This time, I won't put so much force behind my jump. Emily jumped again, and this time landing exactly where she wanted; the Eevee's soft patch of fur on her head.

[Elysian]

Aaron the Sandshrew
Wishcatcher Forest - The Ship

After recieving an old-looking artifact from Magnemite, Sandshrew suddenly noticed an Eevee lurking behind him. "Hello there, I'm Aaron!" He said cheerfully after Jacques had introduced himself. Eevee seemed to be a lady. The others then noticed Zubat's panic attack outside, and Magnemite floated off to look after it, leaving Aaron with Jaques and the Eevee. Aaron took the time to look at the artifact he had recieved from Magnemite. It ewas an old-looking bracelet of some sort, and it had his initials engraved on it. It was made out of silver, and had small gemstones attached to it. It did seem familiar to him, but at the same time, it didn't. He put it on.

After some small-talk with Eevee, Aaron started to notice an eerie prescence. He could swear he had heard something, but then again, the ship was probably haunted. Suddenly, a small yellow puff of hair jumped up in front of him, scaring the soul out of him! "Aaaah!" He screamed! before noticing the puff was a Pokemon, probably another human. "Oh. My. GOD! Don't ever do that again!" Aaron shrieked, catching his breath. The puff appeared to be a Joltik, a small spider-ish Electric-Type. Aaron found it kinda cute.

[Billy Mays]

Saber the Axew
Wishcatcher Forest, Shipwreck Clearing

Saber was so lost in though that he didn't even realize that one of the Pokemon, an Eevee, was talking to him until she walked away in frustration. "Hey, wait!" Saber chased after the Eevee but was stopped when he heard a loud screech that hurt his ears. He turned around to see it was a Zubat, one of the knocked out Pokemon.

I still don't know what a human is, but I'm sure they probably have eyes, so he probably isn't very used to not having eyes. Poor guy... Saber turned back around and went after the Eevee heading towards the wreckage of the boat.

As he ran up to the Eevee a Joltik came out of nowhere and jumped on her head. "Um, you uh...got a Joltik on your head."

~~~

S.S. Christine
Affected Players: Alex Morgan, and anyone nearby

You begin to hear the scratching noises somewhere in the darkness once again. Suddenly, two glowing red and orange eyes appear in the darkness, staring at you and everyone else. The eyes are bright, like two flashlights pointed directly at you.

[Andydemon]

Lucas the Oshawott
S.S. Christine

Lucas decided to simply leave the other cabins alone and head out with only the picture and scarf in hand. As he was doing so however he heard a strange scratching noise prompting him to look around to see what it was as he nervously called out "H-Hello? Is someone there?"

When he didn't see anything at first Lucas began to feel uneasy. Wanting to get out of there as soon as possible Lucas made his way to the others and saw some of them together in one place.

Lucas was about to head up and join them when all of a sudden he heard the same scratching sound from earlier, only it was louder this time. In fact, it sounded like it was coming from right behind him.

Lucas froze in place for a moment before he slowly turned around to see two glowing red and orange eyes staring at him from the darkness.

Upon seeing this, Lucas screamed out loud "Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Wha-What is that!?" and fell backwards, dropping the scarf and picture in the process.

[Cometstarlight]

Ashton the Eevee
S.S. Christine

Ashton looked over and now saw that the same Cranidos from earlier was down with them as well. He looked at her and addressed her politetly, "My lady, we are on an investigation of the scene here. Human you was? If so, please come with us, and we may find some reasons for our current situation."

"Oh," she nodded her head eagerly, not expecting such a straight answer. "Yeah, ok."

That's when Ashton noticed the Sandshrew had turned around to face her.

"Hello there, I'm Aaron!" he said cheerfully and Ashton couldn't help but smile. He was just so cute! She always had a soft spot for pokemon like Sandshrews...right? It must be that because as soon as she looked at him, the corners of her mouth pulled up into a smile.

"I'm Ashton," she dipped her head. "Very nice to meet you as we all seem to be in the same boat here." She realized the literal and ironic term and kept going. "So what do we expect to find by looking through the boat? I mean if we find something about our presence here, great, but what will it do?"

Suddenly the demeanor in Aaron changed and his face turned to a brief terror as he shrieked louder than she would have thought possible for a Sandshrew. Well....Sandshrews were rodents, come to think of it.

Almost immediately afterward she could feel something land on her head and move around. Her fur stood on end and she gritted her teeth as the chilling feeling of bug legs creeped on her head.

The first thought to come into her head was to swipe it. It's got to be a bug, a tick, a spider- a spider!

"Um, you uh...got a Joltik on your head."

"A Joltik?" she shifted her eyes skyward to see a tuft of yellow at the very top of her vision. She then discovered that the Axew from earlier had come down into the ship as well. "Thank you," she sighed. "I don't suppose you would know what happened here?" She shifted her eyes again. "And you up there, if you want to hang around, by all means, do so. I would like to know the name of my passenger though." she chuckled even as tried to get used to the creepy sensation.

"Same for you, I should probably introduce myself." she smiled awkwardly. "My name is Ashton. You guys can call me that or a shortened version of it." she shrugged, "Whatever works for you." she smiled.

[VampirateMace]

Cindy the Chikorita
Wishcatcher Forest - Ship
Moves: Tackle, Growl, Heal Pulse

Cindy scurried up the stairs. She could hear a commotion from outside the ship. But she wasn’t sure what was being said. She’d reached the lowest of the passenger cabin levels. Magnemite said to meet him on the bridge, so she still had a couple decks to go.

She plodded forward along the hall. She could hear screaming ahead of her. Oh no! Someone’s in trouble. It didn’t sound like Magnemite, but still, time to book it. Cindy charged ahead through the passenger corridors. Whoever you are, I’m coming to help!

She could see some pokemon up ahead. They were turned away form her, and a dark figure with orange eyes loomed up ahead of them.

[Keldminrachi91]

After Emily finally got the attention of the Eevee, who she learned was called Ashton, she introduced herself.

"Well, I'm glad someone finally noticed me, although it's slightly annoying that it took a jump on a head. Anyways, my name is Emily; nice to meet you." She jumped off the Eevee's head and turned towards the Sandshrew.

"Sorry I scared you; I'm still getting used to being a Joltik. Speaking of which, do you guys have any idea what's going on here? All I can seem to remember is that I am-oops-was human and that I was on this ship for some reason. What about you two?" she asked, hoping the other Pokémon had some idea of what happened, however vague or detailed.

[Elysian]

Aaron the Sandshrew
Wishcatcher Forest - The Ship

An Axew had joined Aaron, Eevee, who's name was Ashton and Emily, the blind Passenger Joltik as they stood in the ship regaining his breath after Emily's sudden apperance. Axew did not seem to be in the same situation as Aaron or the other Pokemon he had met outside earlier. Perhaps this Axew could provide them with some answers?

Emily started asking questions about how she turned into a Joltik, and what was going on, but Aaron knew he could not give her any answers he was not looking for himself. "I'm sorry, but I have no clue either. I suppose that is why we are here in this old abandoned ship" he said, looking into the dark depths of the ship. He thought for a moment he heard something in the darkness beyond.

Jaques and Oshawott appeared to have left them behind. Aaron did not like Jacques very much, and had no troubles with him ahead of them. "Perhaps he'll find something out." he said to the others. Perhaps they were responsible for making the weird scratching sound he thought he heard earlier. Suddenly, he heard a scream further in the corridors which sounded like that Oshawott individual, who's name was Lucas. Aaron quickly abandoned the others and rolled further in, getting all wet by doing so. It hurts...
In the distance, he noticed lights, he rolled towards them

[Billy Mays]

S.S. Christine
Affected RPers: Anyone inside the boat

At the sight of Aaron coming close, the figure in the darkness turned aorund and fled deeper into the wreckage. As it ran, you hear the scratching noises from earlier.

~~~

Saber the Axew
S.S. Christine

"Sorry about ingoring you earlier," Saber said to the Eevee, "Although unfortunately I can't really tell you what happened. I was here on a mission to find a missing Pokemon, and I ran into this wreckage on the way. If you can't remember what happened..." Saber paused for a moment and though to himself before continuing. "Then I'm not sure if anyone could know what happened."

Saber looked behind the Eevee, who introduced herself as Ashton, to see eyes staring at him from the darkness. The Sandshrew noticed first and rolled towards it, but it ran away when he got close.

"Something is watching us...?" Saber went forward a few steps to try to see if it was still there but he still couldn't see anything. "Guess we should investigate. Though this may not be the best of ideas..."

Saber walked forward into the darkness after whatever was watching them. He could barely see, but he could at least see well enough to not run into a wall. "Hey, any of you guys gonna come with me?" Saber called out to the other Pokemon. He sure did not want to go into somewhere this dark alone...

(OoC: Anyone who's still active should probably follow Saber into the darkness.)

[Andydemon]

Lucas the Oshawott
S.S. Christine

Lucas slowly inched himself away from the eyes that stared at him from within the darkness until whatever it was turned around and fled.

Soon afterwards the Sandshrew from earlier rolled past Lucas towards where the eyes were. Lucas took this chance to stand up and regain his composure.

The Axew that had woken them all up earlier walked up to where the creature had fled and asked if anyone was coming with him. Lucas backed up a bit fearfully asking "Y-You want to follow it deeper in there!?" before thinking it over for a moment, they didn't know what that creature was or what it could do to them, but on the other hand it could have something to do with what happened to them.

Lucas took the chance to pick the damaged picture and the winter scarf back up. Deciding he had no other way of carrying it he put the scarf back on himself trying his best to make sure it stayed on, that way all he had to carry was the picture.

With that done, Lucas tried to fight off his fear as he faced the direction the creature went and took a deep breath before nervously stating "I....I don't know what will happen, but I....I wanna help anyway I can."

[Elysian]

Aaron the Sandshrew
S.S. Christine

After a while of rolling, Aaron had passed Jacques, and kept going into the darkness after the lights, which appeared to be eyes. But they were retreating.

After rolling in the deep, aaron suddenly found himself in the middle of a huge puddle! The water felt like acid.. kinda. May be his Ground-Typing overreacting, but it hurt as hell! "Well f**k.." Aaron thought, before curling up in pain. the lights and scratching sounds had faded away further into the ship. Speaking of further into the ship, where was he? It was now so dark that he could barely see his hands in front of him. The scratching sounds slowly returned, and Aaron could see glowing eyes further in the ship, but he was too weak to move, and curled himself up even more. "What I can't see, cannot harm me!" he thought to himself before passing out

[Keldminrachi91]

Emily the Joltik
Wishcatcher Forest
Moves: Leech Life, Thunder Wave, Cross Poison

The Axew, who introduced himself as Saber, asked if anyone would follow him into the dark remains of the S. S. Christine. It was pitch black, and she had remembered watching a few other Pokémon go in; but they haven't come out. Emily wasn't thrilled about having to go in, but at least she'd be going in with another Pokémon. Maybe he knows why I'm a Pokémon instead of a human now!

"I'll come! Certainly don't want to be left out of anything, now do I?" Emily said, holding her small head and tail up as high as she could, feeling very prideful. She turned towards the others.

"Well, come on Slowpokes! Let's go find what's in this ship!" she said, waving her paw as she said it. She was glad that someone wanted to go in there, and that if she had to go in, she wouldn't be alone. She kept it a secret, but she didn't like going into dark, spooky places alone. She scurried after Saber, who had wandered into the darkness alone just seconds ago. Already she couldn't see him, and kept walking. After a while, she couldn't find him, and when she turned around to retrace her steps, she could see as little of what was behind her as what was in front. Then, she heard scratching and saw eyes staring at her intently. When she spoke, her voice came out in a nervous stutter.

"Uhh, S-Saber, where, a-a-are y-you?" she squeaked, freaked out by the eyes. The scratching got louder as it seemed to get closer.
"AHHHHHH!!!" she screamed, jumping around in the darkness, not even noticing that as suddenly as the eyes appeared, they had disappeared.

[ApertureScience]

Mason Inca, Duskull
Night Shade, Leer, Memento
Wishcaster Forest - S.S. Christine Darkness

The Duskull had been sitting within his bush for some time now. People had met each other, and slowly, all of them had awoken it had seemed. Mason could only tell by the sound of moving pokémon. His light within his head eventually crackled back to life in order to take a look around. While in the bush, he had come to terms with his death/transformation. Better to hide from people this way, and hopeful he was that his mind wouldn’t change after death.

He slowly worked up the courage to peek out of his bush. Other pokémon made him jump back… and into the ground. I can stay down here… Mason thought, and phased through the ground into the hull of the ship by luck. Okay, I’m in… now what? He heard a shriek from farther within the ship. He screamed mentally, unable to speak aloud without a mouth. Maybe I can h-help… Mason inched forward, fading out of view to some unknowingly. His abilities as a ghost seemed to be out of his control. He slowly faded into the pitch, his red light going back and forth like a pendulum in the darkness.

[Cometstarlight]

Ashton the Eevee
S.S. Christine

"Hey, any of you guys gonna come with me?"

The greetings were cut off as the Axew known as Saber walked off into the darkness after Aaron. Ashton could then feel and see Emily jump off and crawl off behind him as well.

Ashton didn't like the dark very much, she knew the darkness itself couldn't hurt her, it was the things lurking in the darkness that scared her.
Was my human form afraid of the dark too? she wondered as she grimaced.

Wait- What was that!
Two glowing eyes faded quickly into the dark, sending Ashton's hair on end for the umpteenth time. Her ears perked and she didn't feel the least bit comfortable in the ship anymore.

Ashton pricked her ears for any sound aside from a faint scraping and listened as she slowly, slowly padded her way down the hall. A high pitched squeak grazed her ears.
"Emily?" Ashton's voice rose and her paws seemed to take flight as she charged down the path into the dark.

"Emily! Where are you?" She couldn't have gotten far! Ashton leaped over piles of rubble; two red dots appeared in the dark as if taunting her. She wanted to stop, but what about Emily, Saber, or even Aaron?

Finally after another leap, she could see a small tuff of yellow, which was in fact, Emily.

Ashton quickly ran and stepped around her, to where her body was directly over the small bug pokemon.

"Who's there?" her voice rattled with fear but was edged with adreneline. It was no use though, the eyes had vanished.

Ashton, without looking down, addressed Emily. "Maybe we should stick together. If you really want to, you can ride on me." As much as Ashton felt uncomfortable with a tick latching onto her furry body, she knew that Emily wouldn't do what normal ticks do. She was much more open to the idea since Emily was once human.

"What do you think?" she held her ground, but didn't look down.

[VampirateMace]

Cindy the Chikorita
Wishcatcher Forest - Ship
Moves: Tackle, Growl, Heal Pulse

Cindy wasn’t sure what to do as she stared a orange eyes in the distance. One of the pokemon in front of her balled up and rolled forward, apparently scaring off whatever was emitting the orange lights. It ran off, making horrible scratching noises.

Cindy darted forward. She could make out a Sandshrew, Eevee, Joltik, Oshawott, and Axew. She meant to call out to them so they’d know she was there, but the apple in her mouth kept her from talking.

They were talking about following the mysterious creature. Sandahrew seemed to be suffering from the water, and Cindy felt bad for him, wishing she had a berry instead of an apple. Oshawott and Joltik sounded nervous. Joltik and Eevee had a little run around when Eevee got freaked out and Eevee called into the darkness, “Who’s there?”

Cindy couldn’t answer, but she couldn’t be sure the Eevee was addressing her either. She stuck close to the group as it forged forward, though their mission seemed dubious. She’d been instructed to find the bridge, and they seemed to be heading the same direction.

[Keldminrachi91]

Emily the Joltik
Wishcatcher Forest
Moves: Leech Life, Thunder Wave, Cross Poison
Suddenly, Emily heard footfalls that seemed to be running towards her.

"W-w-who's th-there?" she called out into the darkness.

"Emily? Where are you?" the footsteps called out.

"Ashton! I'm so glad to see you!" Emily said. She looked up at Ashton, who still seemed to be a little nervous around her. Wow, when you become a bug, you notice how many people really aren't that fond of them. When Ashton spoke to Emily, she was still facing the pitch black ahead of her.

"Maybe we should stick together. If you really want to, you can ride on me." Ashton said.

"Sure, that sounds great." Emily hopped on to Ashton's back and thought she cringed, but wasn't sure.

"So, what should we do? We could try to find Saber, or we could explore this darkness and look for those eyes and scratching noises we keep noticing. What do you think?" Secretly, Emily would rather go find Saber and the others, but something compelled her to try and find out what the 'mystery creature' was, and why it was on the ship. She waited for Ashton's answer, trying to not grab on to her fur too tightly.

[Andydemon]

Lucas the Oshawott
S.S Christine

Upon deciding to go into the ship alongside Axew, Lucas noticed some of the others were following as well. He was happy to see there were others with him in all this, yet he still felt a loneliness that he couldn't make any sense of prompting him to think "Why do I still feel alone, there are others here, and in the same situation as me no less. So why do I feel this loneliness inside."

Lucas had soon noticed something in the darkness. Out of curiosity he took a closer look to find that it was Sandshrew, who had rolled ahead of the group in pursuit of the eyes they had seen earlier.

Noticing that Sandshrew was passed out, Lucas headed in his direction until he suddenly had the feeling of water at his feet prompting him to look and see that Sandshrew ended up in a large puddle.

Understanding that Ground-Types like Sandshrew were weakened by water, Lucas put the picture he was carrying onto a dry part of the floor and quickly rushed up to Sandshrew saying "We gotta get him outta here!"

Although he was a bit heavy, Lucas had managed to drag Sandshrew out of the puddle to the place where he had left the picture. He then made sure the area around Sandshrew was dry before stating "He's weak from the water. I...I don't know what to do about this."

Unsure of how to help Sandshrew in this situation, all Lucas could think to do was call out worriedly "H-Hey, are you all right? Please wake up!"

[Cometstarlight]

Ashton the Eevee
S.S. Christine

Ashton finally looked down at Emily.

"Ashton! I'm so glad to see you!" Emily said. She looked up at her. Ashton then wondered if it were possible to see a Joltik smiling.

To Ashton's other suggestion, about riding on her back, Emily responded: "Sure, that sounds great." Emily hopped on to Ashton's back. A quick goosebump tingling feeling ensued but quickly faded.

"So, what should we do? We could try to find Saber, or we could explore this darkness and look for those eyes and scratching noises we keep noticing. What do you think?"

"Hmm," Ashton pondered. Saber was probably a little more ahead of them; so was the creature. Perhaps they could kill two birds with one stone and continue to head into the black, but Ashton didn't like the sense of not being able to see anything; there was something in there.

"I'm for going ahead. Saber ran off before we did, and this is a linear path, so it would make sense that he was further ahead." She could feel Emily grasp onto ends of her fur and was about to walk more into the dark when she looked around.

"Grip as much as you need to, I don't want you falling off if we get into trouble." She looked into the dark. "Besides, we'll see Saber before whatever that thing was; there's nothing to worry about."

As much as she wished that were true, saying it out loud didn't affirm her words much, but it was better than standing around and waiting for who knows what else is in here?!

"We'll head where ever you want to go though. If you want me to turn around, just say so."

And with that, Ashton padded quietly off into the dark with Emily fit snuggly on her back.

[Keldminrachi91]

Emily the Joltik
Wishcatcher Forest
Moves: Leech Life, Thunder Wave, Cross Poison

As Ashton trotted along quietly in the darkness, Emily broke the silence.

"Ashton, I'm guessing nobody's ever told you this before, but your fur makes a cozy seat for riding on." she said, trying to un-dampen the mood. Suddenly, the scratching noise started up again. Emily ignored it, but it kept getting louder and louder; closer and closer with every step they took. Her head buzzed with the ideas of the many possibilities it could be. A ghost; it could be a ghost... Wait, then how would it scratch the ship walls? Maybe it's a big scary, hungry, mean... THING?!? She shook her head. Quit thinking about all this nonsense! she ordered herself. Emily shuttered. She didn't like the thought of a big monster trying to eat her; she was bite-size, after all. Emily lightly tapped Ashton's back with her foot.

"Umm, Ashton, you hear the scratching noises too, right? It's not just me?" she waited quietly for a response, listening to the scratching beast become closer every minute.

[VampirateMace]

Cindy the Chikorita
Wishcatcher Forest - Ship
Moves: Tackle, Growl, Heal Pulse

Cindy continued following along after the group. Eevee and Joltik were still chatting about various relevant things, Joltik getting a ride, the scratching sounds, and the spooky eyes. Apparently their names were Ashton and Emily.

Ahead she could hear Oshawott panicking, "We gotta get him outta here! He's weak from the water. - I...I don't know what to do about this. - H-Hey, are you all right? Please wake up!"

She wasn’t 100% sure what he was talking about, but guessed one of the rock/ground types wasn’t going so well with all the water in this place. She felt bad for the critter, and brushed past Eevee and Joltik to see who needed help.

Poor little Sandshrew was curled up in a ball. Cindy felt really bad for him, he was completely drenched and looked so scared. Suddenly she felt a strange warm from inside herself. She didn’t really realize it yet, but she was sending out a Heal Pulse.