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-1 time loop tutorial

I've been struggling with VR motivation for a bit, so I'm biting the bullet and taking a break for now. If we still have a thread going I'm happy to keep tagging it for a bit as long as you don't mind me being slow, I've just been having a hard time starting new things... and while I could stay in the game with just AC summaries, that doesn't feel fair/fun for Loop's CR. (Or for me honestly!)

If anyone would like to end up with one of Loop's Pokemon while they're gone, all the ones that aren't eggs are up for it, just let me know on this post! Doesn't necessarily even have to be close CR; we can always say that your character ended up with them during the warp pad mess and there wasn't a chance to reunite yet.

(Cali is taking Alfinse, for now all the others are unclaimed.)

(I will also still be here modding for you and writing your events and silly Pokemon shenanigans! You aren't getting rid of me that easily)

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148th moon [video]

[Cecil is sitting at his Official Gym Desk today, looking... well. Not unkempt, not exactly, but like a man who has been very busy dealing with unplanned complications. This may or may not be related to the occasional Pokémon attack that can be heard distantly. Still, he smiles as he speaks.]

Everyone, should you be having slight... infestation issues at home or at your hotel, feel to come stay at the Lunar Gym. Exceptionally, our facilities will include additional portable cooking appliances and cots, open at all times to anyone who may need them while this lasts. In addition, Gym challenge hours will not be affected and we will operate as usual. Yes, those mice have started appearing as far as route 7, but we are not nearly affected as Vermilion or Saffron, and have the situation under control.

[A Tandemaus (two Tandemice?) chooses that exact moment to scramble up his chair's back-rest, pieces of cheese clutched between their paws. A growl rumbling off-screen is all the warning Cecil gets before he has to dodge one of his own Luxray as she attempts to recover the goods. Both Pokémon fall off the furniture, and the chase continues through the room.]

...Mostly under control.

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Midgar Exploration

Who: Seifer, Sephiroth (KH)
What: Looking for magic in Midgar
Where: Midgar
Warning: possible violence

( Looking for the invisible is always fun, right? )

Our Way Is Forward

When All Things Young Are Old Again

Eventually the weirdness of adults being children came to an end as it began. Everyone slept at the same time and woke up once more themselves, though perhaps with a new understanding of their fellow islanders. Or perhaps more confused than they began. Either way, it was time to face the music and the others on the Isle.

Get Ready, Aim, FIRE!!!!!

Just a few hours after everyone awoke as themselves again there was a roiling stench of smoke coming up from the basements. Those going to investigate might notice a slightly singed programer on loan from Auradon rushing up the stairs, shirt over their mouth, coughing.

"Well...." Ian said, "Clearly that was not a grounded outlet after all..."

The fire is out, but even those who don't deal with Ian directly will have to deal with the smoke filling the school. But if people gather outside to get some fresher air, well... that's a good place as any to talk about what had just happened, is it not?

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[Video]

[ A strange man appears on the PokeConnect feed, his expression a mixture of fondness and frustration. He holds his Poke'Gear at arm's length to better film himself and on one shoulder a Murkrow with a scarred beak perches and preens. ]

Well hello again, Johto. It's been a while, hasn't it?

[ He lifts a spidery hand to stroke Edgar under her chin. The Murkrow croaks happily and squeezes her eyes shut.]

When I was home, this place was hardly even a dream of a memory. Both times I've been here before. Now that I'm here again, I remember it all along with time passing in Halloween Town. It's strange...but wonderful too. And I have to wonder, is there anyone out there who remembers my name?

[ He's been reading the paper. It's been a long, long time. He's sure many of his old friends are gone, but there's a chance...]

Our Way Is Forward

To Avoid Looking Back, Let's Go Forward

It seemed an age and a half that adults had become children. That they ran around with no memories of their adult worries and traumas. But eventually the spell came to an end and the adults were adults once more. Things returned to the weirdness that was the status quo in Auradon. They awoke as themselves in their dorm beds in their adult clothes. And now people had to face the music, they had to deal with the fall out from things their kid selves said and admitted and showed that their adult selves would never have let slip.

And the Queen would not admit she was one of those. Which is why it was good that she had something to suggest as a distraction. Not a day after people became themselves again they would find hand written proclamations slid under their dorm room doors. It was time to make another push towards clearing out another area, this time their goal were the farms. This wasn't going to be easy, the farms aren't close. The notice also warned that this would be a lot of effort and hard work, and would not be finished soon.

So for those who were willing to help, there was a lot of work to do. Between hauling mess out of the tangle, and finding places to put things out of the way, sorting things to see what could be salvaged, there were plenty of opportunities for people to find tasks. And despite the Queen's intention, those could also lead to opportunities to talk.

Break Time

There might just be a few additional flaws in the Queen's royal panicky plan. For example, one flaw is that people take breaks. Sometimes at the same time as other people! Maybe this plan wasn't all that well thought out after all. Especially when they pulled a large fancy wrought iron table from the mess. It had coiled designs of flowering roses, the metal painted white with the leaves glossed over with green glitter and the buds with pale pink and pale blue glitter. The queen especially seemed to dislike and avoid that table, though there was easily room for a half dozen people around it at any given time. They also managed to find chairs of lots of different designs, most of which were actually intact.

★ There was one that looked like the person in it was sitting on the curved trunk of an elephant, but with cushions
★ There was a chair that looked like a ornate throne of gold with plush pale pink cushions.
★ There was a chair made to look like a high heel shoe of glass. How it isn't broken after all that work to pulls it out, who knows? Must be magic.
★ Three chairs that matched each other that looked like they were made of seashells.
★ Two chairs that looked like they came from the dorms
★ And one chair that was basically a cushion on a wooden frame that looked like it was for small animals, especially as it was tall enough that a mouse standing on it would be able to see the top of the table.

And then of course there was the exhaustion that sent people back to the dorms. The cafeteria wound up as an informal unintentional gathering place, even when there was no food. It was a good place for people tired enough to head back but who found themselves too wound up to actually head to bed once they got back. Also some of them that may have been able to avoid people they didn't want to face might find themselves too tired to leave when those very people they were avoiding came in as well.....

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TEXT - AFTER THE EVENT (ROUGHLY CURRENT DAY)

[It takes a bit, but Emporio is settling back into the swing of things at his Gym. The courses didn't stop for the teleporter fiasco of course, but challengers were just a little more...challenged, when they got to Cherrygrove and other similar half-way stops and found their intended Pokemon missing.

Glad that's over. But anyway, Emporio- in one of his usual Pokemon-matching outfits per the standard of his challenges sounds...confused.]

Well, we're back! Technically I've been home for a few days, but this is the first I've been back to the challenger's arena on the course since those teleporter malfunctions.

(Let's not talk about those here though, okay everyone?)

This is a first though. I've never had someone ask for pictures after finishing the battle.

Especially not multiple times. They said something about posting them to their webpage, so I guess they must be a photographer, but I'm surprised they went through multiple courses to do that.

These things take more than a day after all!