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Somewhere in PMD-A

After getting outside of the thornyard and ruffling his plumage, Roc takes a look around, keeping an eye on a very curious Shahinne. To Roc, this looks like the world of last time -- it has to be it.

...But if it is, where are the others?

Roc waves his crest in the direction of some nearby trees. There are other mons living their lives... watching.

Roc: <...Shahinne, we must take off and find the others. This is not good.>

Shahinne: <...Silent? Where did he go?>

Roc unfolded his wings and took a last look around him, no traces of abnormal movement anywhere else but on the thornyard.

Roc: <I'm... not entirely sure. Come on, let's fly a circle. Stay under me.>

Roc takes off with Shahinne following quickly after him. The two fly randomly for a moment before picking a wind current that helps them reach a higher altitude. From there they begin their search, with Roc instructing Shahinne to look for anything that looks like a building... only stranger.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(Sometime after this post)

Lush Prairie

Algira flies around, looking for some recognizable mon. With which she means a mon individual she can recognize. Of which there are none. Because multiverse and all.

Algira: <....Hmph!> -- flashes some confusion -- <...What's taking Silent so long? We should go to a city or... something!>

She takes a couple of looks behind her, where Maekrite can be seen talking to a certain Nidoran.

Algira: <Come on, it can not be that hard to find the others, right? I mean, I could just pick a random mon and ask them their name. Like, let's see, that random Lapras...>

Algira flies down and starts circling the Lapras, sending some patterns to indicate that she is only exploring and can not nom something that big as a Lapras. Oh and also that she is friendly - that's very important news.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Algira parks in mid-air in front of the Lapras.

Algira: <Hello random Lapras! I'm friendly, uh, the name is [Algira]. I was wondering if you know where we are, or how do we get to a city... er, settlement?>

Some distance away, Maekrite is trying to deal with the awkwardness of the situation...

Maekrite: <...Come on, only checking that nothing is wrong.>

He carefully grabs the Nidoran, pushes him on the ground and starts sniffing and brushing the quills in search for wounds.

Silentran♂ -flails: <This is funny!>

Maekrite: <Hush, Silent, this is not funny, this is serious! Mom is gonna kill me...>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Algira flashes a bit of frustration but i quick to overcome it.

Algira: <Oh I guess we can all be lost together then. So we should be looking for a Treasure Town? Hmmm…> -- thinks for a moment -- <I think I should know that name…> -- points to the others -- <So, I could introduce you to the others? We have food...>

Maekrite -lifts Silentran♂ up and checks his back spikes: <...You are OK. Now what is going on?>

Silentran♂: <...You are licking me all over...> -- starts shaking himself up.

Maekrite leaves the Nidorino on the ground and goes for the bag nearby, brings it closer.

Maekrite: <Come on... Silent?> --shows the bag-- <You know this stuff, right? Look, hang on...> -- digs for a potion or something.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Algira notices a Trapinch nearby as well and flags a welcome, then points the Lapras in the direction where the two Nidos can be seen examining a bag.

Algira: <Go, I'll introduce you soon...>

Meanwhile, Maekrite has produced some small items out of the bag, questioning Silentran♂ about them,  however most things do not trigger anything beyond a "bottle!" or a "dunno". Soon the curiosity gets the best of the physically-younger Nido who grabs a vial of Paralyz Heal around to start examining it.

Maekrite: <There has to be something I can use. Ideally a map...> -- digs further.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Maekrite turns to the newcomer, examines him for a moment. Can't shake the feeling he should perhaps know him from somewhere.

Maekrite: <Hello there, I'm er....> -- thinks for a moment, decides what the hraka -- <Maekrite. And this here is...>

There Maekrite's mind drew a blank as he stared down at the little Nidoran who apparently didn't know he was Silent. The critter had climbed to the bag and was now trying to pry the food bag open, which at least meant his sense of smell was working - unfortunately, his new species's extreme persistence was too.

The Nidoran looked up at the Nidorino with big eyes, having heard something about a name, he tilted his head in expectation.

Maekrite -sighs: <...Loirmethant, that's his name. We are foreigners...> -- turns to the Lapras -- <I take it that the Masquerain let you come... are you looking to reach a settlement too?>

Suddenly there's a click sound and the Nidoran, surprised, jumps from the bag and goes to hide behind the Nidorino, from there he growls at the bag. Maekrite turns his head and sees the food box now open.

Maekrite: <...Hey, one thing you can still help with...> -- narrows his eyes at the Nidoran.

Silentran♂ -ears flatten at the serious stare: <...Food in there...>

Maekrite tilts his head, in that moment an alarm triggers in his mind that he is doing something rrrrrrrrong. Not knowing exactly what he is doing, he pats the Nidoran♂ on the head. That seems to calm both of them down.

Maekrite -to Lapras: <...I guess I can invite you something to eat, because after that we have to sleep...>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this post)

Lush Prairie, PMD-A

~Last night~

Maekrite nods and picks up some food to offer it to the Lapras.

Maekrite: <So at least you know there's a town somewhere around here... that's a bonus.>

Silent meanwhile picks some bread, takes it some distance away and starts nomming. Maekrite pays attention in all directions looking for any possible threat and or hint of the other teammates, he is also worried about Shahinne.

Maekrite -to Lapras: <...Do you think your friends will know to look for you? We could use some help.>

Suddenly there's some noises and some flashes of light. Maekrite frowns as he looks up ahead, a moment later Algira flies back carrying a green Burmy.

Maekrite: <...Algira! Don't attack the locals!> -- sighs.

Algira: <She started it! I was looking for [directions] then she started attacking me and yelling something about rogues!>

Wild Burmy♀ lv11: <@_@>

Maekrite commands the Masquerain to let the Burmy go, which she does reluctantly. After tossing the Burmy somewhere around in the grass, Algira flies back and perches on Lapras's shell.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this post)

Lush Prairie

Algira flashes a sort of smile to the Lapras, then notices a Trapinch and goes talk to it.

Algira -dances around: <H-hello there! I'm [Algira]... Uh, what is a Trapinch doing here? Have you seen a [Volcarona] by any chance?>

Meanwhile Maekrite is talking to Lapras and having some food.

Maekrite: <Uh, we come from...> -- looks around for a moment -- <The east, totally the east!> -- points in a random direction that is most likely not the east.

????, ????

In the middle of the peaceful night ... A portal opens in a random place near a lake.

Ichtacya -emerges from the portal: <...Oooooof~>

Sol: <....Eeeeeee~>

The two Pokémon fall ungracefully to the ground and start aching and complaining about how this is not how the trip was supposed to go about.

Sol: <...Ugh. OK, for the record, Silent, we need to ask Tagg for a better transportation...>

Nothing answers. All that can be heard is crickets, non-demonic spiders, a random crow mon flying above and the water from the lake.

Sol: <...S-silent?> -- gets up and looks around.

Ichtacya: <...Where is everymon? Shahinne???>

The two Pokémon clean themselves up and start inspecting their surroundings. Some sounds can be heard coming from the lake, most probably night creatures living their night lives.

Ichtacya sees something in the distance.

Ichtacya: <...Hey, Sol! There's a [house] near the lake! Perhaps we can go take a look!>

Sol tries to psychically examine her surroundings but she finds something interfering with her powers. She shrugs it off for the moment and wanders around.

Sol: <...It's quite far but yeah, I guess we can go check...>

The two Pokémon walk away, leering at their surroundings.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this and its next post)

Lush Prairie

Algira -to Spectrum: <Well, I have not, that's why I am trying to find him...> -- flashes a pattern of grammar derp -- <Er.... I think I misunderstood... what is an uncastle?>

Maekrite hisses lowly as he has mistaken the direction of the east - he blames that it was night at the time. He points for a moment in the other direction then effs it because really, he0s not going to get too far pulling off random facts about a world he absolutely knows nothing of.

Maekrite: <It was... as fine as usual.> -- shiftly aside glance -- <So... that means Treasure Town is in another direction... we should be getting somewhere we can meet other Pokémon... hey, perhaps the random Trapinch knows wehere Treasure Town is?>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(From here)

Algira -hovers upside down: <...I'm now more confused than before :⌇> -- remembers something -- <Hey, Spectrum, do you happen to know where a place called [Treasure Town] is?>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Algira and Maekrite pretty much beam a smile of happiness. Or whatever the equivalent is in terms of Masquerain buzzing.

Maekrite: <...Oh! That's good news!> -- starts packing up -- <Come on, Sil-er, kit... we have to go.>

Algira -follows Spectrum: <...Why thanks! Unlike the Burmy you are helpful~>

Maekrite starts walking up only to notice a certain kit is not following, he just stands back, pressed against the ground and worried. Making sure he does not lose sight of Lapras and the others, he turns back and goes prod the Nidoran to follow, but the Nidoran just stays there half-curled into a ball.

Silentran♂: <I-I don't like them... the colored bug is mean...>

Maekrite: <Yeah she is weird...> -- waves a paw -- <Look, I'm here. And you can not just stay here... look please please walk with me?>

Silentran♂: <B-but I don't even know you...>

Maekrite flinches, he looks down at the half-curled furball, who looks up back and gulps. After a couple of seconds of thinking, the Nidorino picks Silent up.

Maekrite: <Look, I'm a patroller, OK? I can take you with your... family or whoever. Now move, or the friends of the Burmy are going to come along...>

The Nidoran sighs, cleans himself up and decides to walk by the Nidorino's side, looking at every direction. Maekrite picks the bag up, checks that no mon is following them and follows in the direction of the others.

Algira: <Thanks for coming with us, big Lapras. Hey, you don't happen to know of any place business where we can [search] for peoplemons by any chance?> -- points to Maekrite and the bag -- <We can pay you [coins] for the inconvenience...>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Somewhere on the road - PMD-A

Algira: <...Wigglytuff Guild? ...Exploration team?>

Maekrite listened carefully and tried to not let go much of anything. He remembered he was in a mon-only world now and much of what little he knew of it was what came from Tagg's tale back at the Gold Conference. And his focus was somewhere else now anyway.

He looked down to check that the Nidoran was still walking with him. The Nidoran had picked the Lapras's humming, which at least had improved his mood and made him lose some of his initial distrust towards the rest of the team.

Airspace Somwhere - PMD-A

After circling the airspace for a good while, Roc only had one conclusion to reach.

Roc: <Let's go this way, Shahinne...> -- points in a random direction -- <There's a settlement that way.>

Shahinne -has fun flying around and practising some maneuvers: <...Where are the others?>

Roc: <I don't know yet...> -- eyes his surroundings for a last time -- <I think we'll need help to find them.>

The two birds head south flying at a calm pace.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

Algira: <Missions and friends? Sounds like the kind of place I guess Helios would like... let's go!> -- flies ahead dancing.

Silentran♂ -listens to the conversation: <...Poké?>

Maekrite -to Lapras: <Hang on, you say we can get a job there? Hmmm... we could use it.>

Silentran♂ -goes poke Lapras: <...Poké what?>

Maekrite: <Uh?> -- tilts head.

Silentran♂ -pokes more: <Yeah, Pokéwhat? Pokémon? Pokémart? Pokégear?> -- blinks, stands still -- <...Pokégear!>

Maekrite looks at the Nidoran hurriedly rush back to him and cling to the bag, realizes the Nidoran seems to remember something.

Maekrite -stands still for a moment: <...Silent?>

Silentran♂: <Pokégear!> -- digs into the bag trying to pull the Pokégear out.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

En route to Treasure Town

Maekrite: <Wait did I say Silent? I meant Silence! Silence, little Nido!> -- tries to pick Silent up.

Silentran♂: <...Got it!>

The Nidoran is dragged outside of the bag clung to what is obviously a Pokégear. Despite Maekrite's efforts, the young kit manages to turn the device on and activate the radio. Which obviously produces static.

Maekrite: <....>

Silentran♂: <I'm smart! :3> -- sits besides the Pokégear proudly.

Maekrite sighs, there's not much sense in maintaining the charade anylonger.

Algira -to Spectrum while flying up: <...North? What's in the other directions? Do you know if we are too far?>

Maekrite: <Uh...> -- turns to Lapras -- <Yeah, we come from the human world. And thanks for the information...> -- flattens ears -- <This Nidoran here is Silent but something happened to him.>

Silentran♂ meanwhile starts poking the buttons on the Pokégear, which does not do much more than produce more static.

Algira -flashes some patterns: <Hey, Spectrum, have you ever heard of a "J-Team" before?>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this)

To Lapras:

Maekrite: <Oh thank Ho-Oh. I was wondering when would we get to meet some of the others. So then wait... you are the Lapras that Jeff caught in his testing?>

Silentran♂ -fiddles with the Pokégear: <...C-caught? ...Trainer catches Pokémon!> -- gets scared, goes hide under Maekrite's belly -- <Don't want to... M-mom? D-dad?>

Algira -listens to Spectrum's story: <...Oh a desert in Hoenn! We must have been there once! There was this party and Jemma was there...> -- dances around -- <I lived in Hoenn too, until a human caught me. WHat's with your voice anyway?>

The group keeps moving.

Somewhere in Airspace

As they fly around, Roc distinguishes a weird cloud formation way far ahead (and up).

Roc: <...Shahinne, I hope you are not hungry, because we have to fly a lot.>

Shahinne looks up and puts up a serious face, then nods and follows after her father. Roc, content with the chick's disposition, starts scanning the surroundings for a plot-convenient updrift.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After the events being commented here)

PMD-A Airspace

Roc sees a group of mons apparently standing on the cloud, frowns and then calls up to his chick, who is making a huge effort to keep climbing the winds after her father. Shahinne flaps frantically to gain more lift until a full minute later she catches up.

Roc: <You are doing fine, Shahinne... Now, let's see what is going on up here. Glide after me.>

Roc notices a Gollurk and a Dragonite and flies ahead wings fully spread and a very serious face as an Intimidating warning against any mon who tries to cause problems to him or Shahinne.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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Roc lands on the clouds and looks at Stratus and the others, mildly surprised. Shahinne lands nearby, breathing hard and terribly tired.

Roc: <...I guess we were going to find the others eventually.> -- to Lake -- <Yo~>

Shahinne: <Ngggg...> -- puffs chest, wingslaps a cloud and looks angry -- <Nuts! And not exactly the food ones!>

She starts hopping around until she sees Mata Nui, then she tilts her head. As if to confirm something, she turns to see Stratus.

Shahinne: <...Friends!> -- trills a happy but tired note -- <...Where is Trainer?>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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( After this)

A very tired Shahinne falls to the ground and decides to rest there for a moment.

Shahinne: <...zZz~...>

Roc haves his crest at Stratus's random freakout, yawns.

Roc: <Don't worry, Woolly is fine; and Treeo and Comet will surely be OK on their own.>  -- turns to Igneous -- <Yo~ I'm Roc, this is Shahinne... she's still young, see.>

After a brief introduction to Ignous and the rest of the group Roc hops around for a moment and goes settle by Shahinne's side.

Roc: <Uh, we came with Silent, about one day ago. But when the portal opened and we crossed through, pretty much all of us were sent to different places.> -- narrows his eyes at Lake -- <I'm not worried for Maekrite, nor for Silent if they are together, but the annoying cat and dog might be quite hard to find.>

Roc notices something weird and after quick aside glances, stares oddly for a moment to Lake's bag. He says nothing though.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this post)

Cloudspace

Roc starts ruffling his feathers, then does the same with Shahinne carefully. For a moment he just ignores the others's questions, then turns around and after glancing at Mata Nui and Stratus turns to Lake. He starts explaining that shortly before the trip to the PMD verse, Silent got a new teammember...

Roc: <...one of yours, actually. That bookworm cat, Sol?> -- looks away -- <They don't get along too well...>

The Staraptor covers Shahinne with a wing and looks around.

Roc: <What are you doing here anyway? Looks like you landed a guild job...>

Treasure Town

Maekrite and Algira take a look around as they arrive to the place. Algira buzzes what would be basically a human whistling and then goes to perch on Lapras.

Algira: <This is the place? It looks so... so...>

Maekrite: <...monly?> -- sniffs around.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this and this)

Up in the Sky~

Roc blinks, seems to think for a moment, looks like he would facepalm if he cared that much.

Roc: <...Team Gelato? Let's see...> --lands a very cold stare at Stratus -- <where would that name have come from?> -- the stare goes away after a moment -- <So, that means we could hire somemon to find Silent and the others... if we make some money first.>

He looks down, decides that Shahinne is still too young to start working for hire.

Treasure Town

Algira -to Spectrum: <You are [right]! And this is so awesome! Though...> -- looks around, only seeing random mons -- <this will make things kinda hard.>

Silentran♂ looks around hesitantly, then Leers at a random Rattata passing thru.

Maekrite -paws Silentran♂: <...We better look for a place to spend the night...> -- to Spectrum -- <Thanks for your help, by the way. Sorry if I had forgotten thanking you up until now...>

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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Treasure Town

Maekrite looks around, realizing he doesn't really know anymon around. He notices some Pokémon give him odd stares when they walk around, probably because of his markings.

Which reminds him he needs to examine Silent's bag later.

Maekrite -to Spectrum: <...Yeah, why not. We should know what we are going to face in the next few days. Come on, kit...>

Silentran♂ follows after Maekrite. Algira stays behind for a while, flashing some signals.

Algira's flash patterns: «S.O.S. If you have seen a Volcarona named "Helios", please chime in.»

Sky

Shahinne is half-asleep and doesn't notice Mata Nui in the beginning, but before Roc can give the other Pokémon a cold glare, she looks up and chirps happily.

Shahinne -yawns: <...Friend! With the Lampent and the silly mons!> -- chirps happily. Then she looks at Gilgamesh and puts a ._. face.

Roc sighs, decides to walk up to Stratus and the others and ask for a brief of recent events. He warns Lake to not open the bag though.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this post and others)

Shahinne does not look very happy when she sees Gilgamesh. Instead, she keeps staring at him and hops around trying to reach her dad, who has just given an extra Intimidate glare to Lake. Then he looks at the shard from various angles.

Roc: <...So a shard... From its particular size and the roughness of the edges, I'd say the whatever thing that composed the whole held an enormous amount of power and was broken pretty much accidentally, not much later than our groups started arriving around, actually.> -- starts ruffling feathers then goes grab Shahinne -- <Oh and it was a bit dusty yet no particular markings indicating any attempts to clean it... I'd say in a well aired place but not visited by mons very much or at all.>

Shahinne walks up to her dad to ask about the "rock thing" (Gilgamesh) when suddenly notices the carcass. And she goes ._. more.

Shahinne: <...D-d-dad?>

Roc: <Shhhh, shhh... Shahinne look at me.> -- stares down and waves his crest, calling Shahinne's attention -- <What happened, sweatie?>

Shahinne: <...Rock-type thing!> -- points at Gikgamesh.

Roc hugs Shahinne then cleans her up a little and assures her, like six times, that Gilgamesh is friendly. He adds Gilgamesh is with Mata Nui, and asks Shahinne to focus on something else, like the [shard].

Shahinne looks up at the shard with interest. Perhaps too much interest.

Treasure Town

Algira notices Coulomb and goes dance around him.

Algira: <... Whoa that was fast! Coulomb!!!!!!> -- gives him a soft "peck" -- <I'm glad to see you here! Our trip had a couple of accidents...> -- buzzes annoyed.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(After this and nearby posts)

Treasure Town

Algira likes the Eelektross Dance, tries to imitate it for a moment then points to a nearby Nidorino and a Nidoran♂.

Algira: <They're there with some friends. Maekrite says we have a little situation though.>

Meanwhile Maekrite is inspecting some nearby things, he grabs Silentran♂ and keeps him from going too far. Then notices a Gloom is staring at him oddly.

Maekrite: <...Fashion statement, now get going.> -- Leers the Gloom away.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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Sky, PMD-A

Roc nudges Shahinne, tells her to be nice to the friendly mons who have said hi. A reluctant Shahinne gives a sort of warning chirp, then walks up to Gilgamesh. She looks back at her dad then at Gilgamesh again.

Shahinne: <O-oh hai... I'm Shahinne...>

Roc puffs his chest then tuurns to the other mons.

Roc: <Oh so youve been at PEFE... hope you liked the place... you mean that those shards can move mons across universes then? That's a lot of power...if Sol was here she'd say we have to be Genre Savvy about them...> -- turns to Lake, shakes his head -- <Sorry Lake, if I was "good", I'd know how to reassemble that thing. Hopefully the others can figure something out.>

Meanwhile Shahinne starts losing her fear to Gilgamesh. She also fortunately has forgotten about the Pelipper.

Treasure Town

Algira -to Coulomb: <You'd have to ask Maekrite about it, I wouldn't know what to say. It might take a while though... come in! I'll introduce you to Lapras too!>

Algira dances aroudn guiding Coulomb to the rest of the group.

(Be back in ~1h after noms)

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.

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(In response to this post and others)

Treasure Town

Algira flies up to Lapras.

Algira: <...Oh hai Lapras! See,  this is Coulomb, from our group of friends. So he knows Silent and the others!>

Maekrite meanwhile is trying to figure out where is the hotel or any other sort of accommodation they can use, while restraining Silentran♂ from prying the bag open again and slipping the contents, which might not be a good thing to do in a mon-only verse.

Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.