Oct 09 18:41:54 <DamienLunas>	Saru, you awaken in a daze on the sandy shores of mirage island. You can hear the calls of whatever those birdies with the wings and the beaks but look kind of white but aren't big and fat like those other big white ones with yellow beaks.
Oct 09 18:41:59 <DamienLunas>	Hope would probably know they're wingulls.
Oct 09 18:42:07 <DamienLunas>	Hope's not here. None of your friends except for your pokemon are.
Oct 09 18:42:12 <DamienLunas>	Jigoro seems to have made it okay.
Oct 09 18:42:38 	Saru rolls over and picks himself up, looking around.
Oct 09 18:43:53 <DamienLunas>	there's some lush tropical forestry towards the center of the island, and the beach continues around it for as far as you can see.
Oct 09 18:44:03 <DamienLunas>	1d100
Oct 09 18:44:04 <DiceMaid-9001>	DamienLunas, 1d100: 28 [1d100=28]
Oct 09 18:44:40 	Saru puts his hands up to his mouth. "Hope! Mira! Klark! Anyone hear me?"
Oct 09 18:44:50 <Saru>	"Arthur! Six!"
Oct 09 18:45:55 <DamienLunas>	there's no response from any of them. and six didn't come.
Oct 09 18:46:01 <Saru>	(oh right)
Oct 09 18:46:03 <DamienLunas>	but hey, worth a try you suppose.
Oct 09 18:46:13 <Saru>	"Well, it was worth a shot."
Oct 09 18:46:18 <DamienLunas>	There's some spiky looking things hanging from the trees and some big green things hanging from them.
Oct 09 18:46:35 	Saru goes back and hauls Jigoro up. "Come on, buddy. We need to go find the others. They might need to be rescued."
Oct 09 18:47:42 <DamienLunas>	"Bear bear."
Oct 09 18:48:35 <Saru>	"Hm..."
Oct 09 18:48:42 <DamienLunas>	Which way do you go?
Oct 09 18:49:13 <Saru>	"Let's check out the beach a bit." Saru heads left because he remembers Mira saying somehing about always going left.
Oct 09 18:49:57 <DamienLunas>	Saru goes left, ignoring that if everyone is going left, they'll never find eachother. He never was the sharpest bulb in the box.
Oct 09 18:50:23 <DamienLunas>	there's some oshawott along the beach tapping rocks on the shells on their chest
Oct 09 18:50:34 <DamienLunas>	and a few bonsly stuck in the sand
Oct 09 18:50:41 	Saru keeps his eyes out for any stuff from the ship too.
Oct 09 18:50:45 <DamienLunas>	1d100
Oct 09 18:50:45 <DiceMaid-9001>	DamienLunas, 1d100: 9 [1d100=9]
Oct 09 18:51:58 <DamienLunas>	You see an excadrill burrow its way out of the sand
Oct 09 18:52:11 <DamienLunas>	it looks over at you, and waves a claw as if to say hello
Oct 09 18:52:36 	Saru waves back.
Oct 09 18:53:33 <DamienLunas>	it gives a little nod of acknowledgement and walks away if you don't pursue further.
Oct 09 18:53:44 <DamienLunas>	meanwhile, some krabby scuttle by with cookies.
Oct 09 18:54:20 <Saru>	"Wait, cookies?"
Oct 09 18:54:27 <DamienLunas>	"COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE"
Oct 09 18:54:51 <Saru>	"Hey! Where did you get those?"
Oct 09 18:54:59 <DamienLunas>	They scuttle past you quickly!
Oct 09 18:55:15 <Saru>	1d20+10 No Restraint
Oct 09 18:55:16 <DiceMaid-9001>	Saru, No Restraint: 22 [1d20=12]
Oct 09 18:55:16 <DamienLunas>	"COOKIECOOKIECOOKIECOOKIE"
Oct 09 18:55:27 <Saru>	"Show me where you got those!"
Oct 09 18:56:19 <DamienLunas>	The little krabby looks up at you and waves a tiny pincer, signalling you to follow him further down the beach
Oct 09 18:56:36 <Saru>	"Let's go, Jigoro!"
Oct 09 18:57:01 <DamienLunas>	Jigoro skates along after you following the krabby
Oct 09 18:57:23 <DamienLunas>	He starts scaling a little rock wall. It's easy for the small krabby, but might be a bit more difficult for you and jigoro.
Oct 09 18:57:52 <Saru>	"Hm..."
Oct 09 18:58:14 	Saru grabs a pokeball. "Hey, Palnatoki, time for you to show us what you go!"
Oct 09 18:58:28 <Saru>	(this is the stratagem)
Oct 09 18:58:38 <DamienLunas>	"Stratastrata"
Oct 09 18:58:43 <Saru>	"Can you make something to climb up? Like a ramp or something?"
Oct 09 18:59:01 <DamienLunas>	"Geeeemmmm..."
Oct 09 18:59:10 <DamienLunas>	its little diamond eyes glow
Oct 09 18:59:35 <DamienLunas>	and it pushes out the rock wall a bit, staggering it to make some manageable steps.
Oct 09 18:59:44 <Saru>	"Thanks! Let's go."
Oct 09 18:59:53 <DamienLunas>	Not as clearly shaped as klark would do, but you'll take what you can get.
Oct 09 19:00:25 <DamienLunas>	There's a man at the top of the rock giving a stern talking to a big blue kingler.
Oct 09 19:01:10 <DamienLunas>	he has slightly long black hair, and a familiar jacket with the symbol of the grand masters on it.
Oct 09 19:01:40 <DamienLunas>	There's a serperior coiled up by him, looking at the kingler daring it to try something.
Oct 09 19:01:57 	Saru stops dead in his tracks.
Oct 09 19:02:09 <DamienLunas>	"So you can't just go around hoarding everything like that, it's not fair to the rest of them!"
Oct 09 19:02:30 <Saru>	"No way."
Oct 09 19:02:49 <DamienLunas>	The man stops talking as his serperior turns its head and flicks out its tongue at you.
Oct 09 19:03:02 <DamienLunas>	Satoshi turns his head and grins at you. "Long time no see, lil' bro."
Oct 09 19:03:12 <Saru>	"Big brother!"
Oct 09 19:03:16 	Saru runs over.
Oct 09 19:03:42 <DamienLunas>	he pulls you into a big manly hug.
Oct 09 19:03:59 <DamienLunas>	He looks maybe slightly older than you remember him, but you wouldn't forget his face.
Oct 09 19:04:17 <Saru>	"How - what -"
Oct 09 19:05:22 <DamienLunas>	"Didn't I tell you enough? Don't let yourself die, even if they kill you."
Oct 09 19:05:41 	Saru laughs. "Yeah, I remember something like that!"
Oct 09 19:06:38 <Saru>	"But, what are you doing bere, bro?"
Oct 09 19:08:00 <DamienLunas>	"Well this cookie monster here was bullying a bunch of little guys to bring him cookies for his hoard. So I made him give them all a share for working hard for them. Talked a bit of sense into him with my fists." he says flexing a muscle.
Oct 09 19:08:59 	Saru laughs. "Yeah, sounds about right!" He looks at the kingler. "You shouldn't be makin' people do stuff just because you're bigger than them."
Oct 09 19:10:02 <DamienLunas>	"Sounds like you turned out pretty good yourself, lil' bro."
Oct 09 19:10:17 	Saru rubs the back of his head. "I had a good example to follow."
Oct 09 19:10:20 <DamienLunas>	"Come on, it's going to be dark soon and we should get back to the camp."
Oct 09 19:10:25 <Saru>	"Okay."
Oct 09 19:11:21 <Saru>	"Oh man, I have to tell you! We did, bro! We managed to unite the whole city, but then we met this old guy, Willow, and it turns out that the rest of the world was workin' on getting back on its feat, but someone had to get things together in Ribbonwood..."
Oct 09 19:11:22 <DamienLunas>	He leads you deeper into the jungle, nothing really seeming to want to trouble him.
Oct 09 19:11:47 <DamienLunas>	"Slow down, man! You're going to need to breathe some time."
Oct 09 19:11:49 <Saru>	"... before they could help. But then it turns out the thing that caused the Cataclysm is still around, so we're helpin' to take care of that now!"
Oct 09 19:12:26 <DamienLunas>	There's a few chimchars and mankeys swinging around in the treetops, but that's about it until you get back to his camp.
Oct 09 19:13:15 <DamienLunas>	There's a little bed of grass, and what looks like a campfire. He has some fruits hidden under a scrap of cloth, that he cuts open with his serperior's tail blade.
Oct 09 19:14:05 <DamienLunas>	"Here, have some of this." he says, handing you one half of a spiky looking fruit that smells kind of like dirty socks.
Oct 09 19:14:12 <Saru>	"Sure."
Oct 09 19:14:26 <Saru>	"How long have you been here?"
Oct 09 19:14:53 <DamienLunas>	Despite the stench, it's fairly sweet and  has a bit of an odd aftertaste that leaves you wanting more.
Oct 09 19:15:09 <DamienLunas>	"Not really sure, to be honest. After a while the days just sort of blend together."
Oct 09 19:15:28 <DamienLunas>	He gets started on a fire, rubbing some sticks together to start it.
Oct 09 19:17:57 <Saru>	"Hold on, we can get that going easier. Besides, I want you to meet this guy. Zhu, come on out."
Oct 09 19:18:01 	Saru calls out his emboar.
Oct 09 19:18:22 <DamienLunas>	"Oh? Nice to meet you Zhu."
Oct 09 19:19:01 <DamienLunas>	"Although, never hurts to know how to do it the old fashioned way."
Oct 09 19:19:10 <Saru>	"Course not!"
Oct 09 19:19:43 <DamienLunas>	"You know how, don't you, Saru?"
Oct 09 19:20:08 <Saru>	"I'm probably not as good at it as you are. But I can give it a shot if you want."
Oct 09 19:23:38 <DamienLunas>	(one sec ow a blister popped and it really hurts)
Oct 09 19:24:41 <Saru>	(haha, okay)
Oct 09 19:24:52 <Saru>	(also i probably should crash in about an hour)
Oct 09 19:29:20 <DamienLunas>	(okay back)
Oct 09 19:29:26 <DamienLunas>	"Sure, let's see how you do."
Oct 09 19:29:59 <DamienLunas>	It takes a bit of time, but you manage to get the flames to ignite, giving you some light in the night.
Oct 09 19:30:22 <DamienLunas>	"Here we go... we can rest here for a while."
Oct 09 19:30:44 <DamienLunas>	"So what have you been getting into while I've been gone?"
Oct 09 19:31:44 <Saru>	"Well, like I was saying, after you... disappeared I guess."
Oct 09 19:32:49 <Saru>	"I decided I was going to try and make your dream come true. So I started training, figured out how to fight, and learned some tricks from some of the old rangers who were still around then."
Oct 09 19:33:56 <DamienLunas>	"and it sounds like you made it."
Oct 09 19:33:57 <Saru>	(what was the name of the kid? Timmy?)
Oct 09 19:34:29 <DamienLunas>	(yeah)
Oct 09 19:35:07 	Saru nods. "Me and a friend of mine, Six, we tossed out the guys who'd taken over the place down near the beach, and put together our own gang. Us, and Hope, Mira, Klark, and at first this kid named Timmy. Later Timmy went to do his own thing, and we picked up Arthur."
Oct 09 19:35:28 <Saru>	"The Ribbonwood Immortals."
Oct 09 19:35:39 <DamienLunas>	"Sounds like a nice bunch. Tell me about 'em."
Oct 09 19:36:00 <Saru>	"Well, I should probably tell you about Hope first."
Oct 09 19:36:55 <Saru>	"Her real names Elena Underwood, but I've always known her as Hope. She's real good with breeding pokemon, and she learned how to patch us up when we needed it. And, uh, I kind of fell in love with her. She and I are going to have a kid!"
Oct 09 19:37:25 <DamienLunas>	"That's great! Any thoughts on what you're gonna name it?"
Oct 09 19:37:40 <Saru>	"Well... if it was a boy, I wanted to name him after you."
Oct 09 19:38:48 <DamienLunas>	"Heh, in loving memory or something?"
Oct 09 19:39:03 <Saru>	"Well, yeah... You know."
Oct 09 19:39:33 <DamienLunas>	"It's fine. Just glad you found someone special, you lucky dog."
Oct 09 19:40:08 <Saru>	"I am too. I think... when this is over, I'm gonna ask her to get married. I mean, with the whole gang war thing it wasn't something we could do, but now..."
Oct 09 19:40:35 <DamienLunas>	"Is that what the ring's for?"
Oct 09 19:41:21 <Saru>	"Sorta. Friends of ours got them for us, on Hope's birthday."
Oct 09 19:41:40 <DamienLunas>	"Not the most conventional way, but hey. You gotta make due."
Oct 09 19:41:49 <Saru>	"Yeah."
Oct 09 19:42:00 <DamienLunas>	"So where are they now?"
Oct 09 19:42:26 	Saru frowns. "I don't know. We were on a ship, and there was a really awful storm. I got washed up here."
Oct 09 19:42:47 <DamienLunas>	"Well... if they are on this island, they'll probably be drawn by the smoke."
Oct 09 19:42:53 <DamienLunas>	"All we have to do is just wait here."
Oct 09 19:42:56 	Saru nods. "Yeah."
Oct 09 19:43:13 <Saru>	"Don't like just waiting around though, you know?"
Oct 09 19:43:26 <DamienLunas>	"Why don't you get some sleep, Saru? You've done all you can for now."
Oct 09 19:43:43 <Saru>	"Okay. In the morning I'll figute out what else I can try."
Oct 09 19:43:56 <Saru>	"Bro - Satoshi... It's good to see you again. I've missed you."
Oct 09 19:44:05 <DamienLunas>	"Missed you too, Saru."
Oct 09 19:44:23 <DamienLunas>	roll wisdom
Oct 09 19:44:36 <Saru>	(i figured that out, do i need to roll Wis? :B)
Oct 09 19:44:59 <DamienLunas>	(Well if you've figured it out...)
Oct 09 19:45:05 <DamienLunas>	(go ahead and call it out)
Oct 09 19:45:32 	Saru starts to get up, then looks back, frowning. "How do you know to call me Saru? I was Mouse... I didn't pick this name up til after the Grand Masters broke up."
Oct 09 19:45:57 <DamienLunas>	He looks a bit crestfallen at your realization.
Oct 09 19:46:13 <Saru>	"Who are you?"
Oct 09 19:46:20 <DamienLunas>	"Looks like you've gotten a little bit smarter since I last saw you too."
Oct 09 19:46:34 <DamienLunas>	"Well... I am Satoshi."
Oct 09 19:46:55 <DamienLunas>	"For all intents and purposes anyway."
Oct 09 19:47:41 <Saru>	"What do you mean by that?"
Oct 09 19:48:17 <DamienLunas>	"I have all the memories... even my personality is the same. I... AM your brother. Just a little bit more than that."
Oct 09 19:48:38 	Saru shakes his head. "I don't understand."
Oct 09 19:48:50 <DamienLunas>	"Come on, lil' bro. You can do it."
Oct 09 19:50:30 <Saru>	(one sec, sorry)
Oct 09 19:52:24 <Saru>	(back. also hrgh not getting it)
Oct 09 19:53:06 <DamienLunas>	"This is a place... where you and me can be together again, bro."
Oct 09 19:53:22 <Saru>	"Did I... drown or something?"
Oct 09 19:53:55 <DamienLunas>	"Come on, you wouldn't let yourself die that easily after everything I've taught you, would you?"
Oct 09 19:54:45 <Saru>	"This place is... some of kind of miracle or something?"
Oct 09 19:55:30 <DamienLunas>	"Well... not exactly."
Oct 09 19:58:12 <DamienLunas>	"It's a place where you and me can be together. However, your friends can't."
Oct 09 19:58:26 <DamienLunas>	"They're all in their own place. Happy."
Oct 09 19:58:41 <Saru>	"How can that be?"
Oct 09 19:58:55 <DamienLunas>	"The same way it is for you and me."
Oct 09 19:59:22 	Saru paces around.
Oct 09 19:59:46 <DamienLunas>	"If you leave... you won't be able to see me again."
Oct 09 19:59:58 	Saru puts his hands on his head.
Oct 09 20:00:01 <DamienLunas>	"You may not even see your friends."
Oct 09 20:00:08 <Saru>	"I know... but... I can't give up on them."
Oct 09 20:00:18 <DamienLunas>	"They might have chosen to stay with their happiness."
Oct 09 20:00:35 <DamienLunas>	"If they do, then you'll be leaving alone. You won't even have me."
Oct 09 20:00:42 <Saru>	"You don't know them. We're the Immortals. Nothing can hold us back."
Oct 09 20:01:13 <DamienLunas>	"We could stay here together forever. You really could be immortal."
Oct 09 20:01:17 	Saru turns back to look at him. "And if you really have my brother's memories, his personality... You know what he'd tell me to do."
Oct 09 20:02:00 <DamienLunas>	He smiles, "Yeah, I do."
Oct 09 20:02:21 <DamienLunas>	"And so do you."
Oct 09 20:02:45 <DamienLunas>	he puts his arm around you and thumps your back with his fist.
Oct 09 20:02:51 <DamienLunas>	"I'm proud of you, lil' bro."
Oct 09 20:03:17 	Saru hugs him back. "Thanks, big bro." He grins. "Always tried to make it so you would be."
Oct 09 20:03:51 <DamienLunas>	"If you really want to go... all you have to do is head for the center of the island. And don't look back."
Oct 09 20:04:27 	Saru grins. "Never have."
Oct 09 20:04:37 <Saru>	"But I won't forget you. Never have."
Oct 09 20:05:14 <DamienLunas>	"I know you won't. That's why I always say, even if you're killed, don't die."
Oct 09 20:05:26 <Saru>	"Haven't you heard? Immortals never die."
Oct 09 20:05:49 <DamienLunas>	"I may have been killed 12 years ago. But in your heart, I live on."
Oct 09 20:05:58 <Saru>	"Always."
Oct 09 20:06:49 <DamienLunas>	He lets go of you and smiles, his Serperior coiled up next to him faithfully.
Oct 09 20:07:11 <DamienLunas>	"You take care of Hope. She's a good girl."
Oct 09 20:08:05 <Saru>	"I will. I'll catch up with you one day, bro." He grins. "Not for a while."
Oct 09 20:08:45 <DamienLunas>	He socks you across the jaw.
Oct 09 20:08:50 <DamienLunas>	"You dumbass."
Oct 09 20:08:59 <DamienLunas>	"Quit trying to stand in my shadow."
Oct 09 20:09:04 <DamienLunas>	"You've already surpassed me."
Oct 09 20:09:12 <DamienLunas>	(oh wait. I think I misinterpreted that)
Oct 09 20:09:18 <DamienLunas>	(OH WELL TOO LATE NOW :D)
Oct 09 20:10:23 	Saru rubs his jaw and grins. "Maybe I have. But now I've got to catch up with myuself."
Oct 09 20:10:41 <Saru>	(aren't cha gonna do the height thing? ;3)
Oct 09 20:11:19 <DamienLunas>	(height change thing...)
Oct 09 20:11:31 <Saru>	(from TTGL)
Oct 09 20:11:32 <DamienLunas>	(I think I forgot that part of it)
Oct 09 20:12:45 <DamienLunas>	(also while you all were gone, Ribbon turned into this. http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/613745/breasts-cleavage-dress-duplicate-harpy-ho-oh-kanta )
Oct 09 20:13:10 <Saru>	(haha nice)
Oct 09 20:13:14 <DamienLunas>	"Go on, bro. Your friends are waiting for you."
Oct 09 20:14:59 <Saru>	( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cPIf3YVoOaY#t=172s )
Oct 09 20:15:18 <Saru>	"I'll be off than, bro."
Oct 09 20:15:55 <DamienLunas>	He nods silently and smiles.
Oct 09 20:16:38 	Saru smiles, then turns with a swish of his jacket and walks steadily for the center of the island.
Oct 09 20:16:53 <DamienLunas>	and the adventure of life goes on.
Oct 09 20:16:57 <DamienLunas>	[/mini]