June Catch-All

[hundredeyesoni]

Who: Akira and quest partners
What: Quests, more to be added over the month
When: Throughout June
Warnings: Fog effects and Pokemon battles likely. Will add as needed.

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[guilmon]

[It's not only Lusamine hearing voices. For a fleeting moment, Guilmon hears a voice calling through the fog.]

Takato...?

[But then Lusamine lashes out, snapping him from his daze. His eyes widen, and his body tenses as he tries to figure out what to do.

But Akira steps in, and then Emporio's voice cuts through...]

Not Digimon... This isn't the Digital World. Takato isn't here...

[It's sad, but he needs to be strong. They all do.]

[hundredeyesoni]

[Ahh.. there's the reaction all animals eventually seem to give him... Well, it's not too surprising, at least.

Leaving the Ground type to explain, Akira simply continues to assess their situation. So while contact's enough as he'd thought, it can also be broken! Then, how to navigate. Though he does glance to the trees for a moment, over doesn't seem like an option with anyone's current form. On the other hand, around will keep them from ever reaching their goal.

It does have to be through, after all. If he could just look ahead to see how deep the fog reaches, he could probably throw someone far enough to be free of any danger once they land. But without a way to know where to aim...

... No, Guilmon's voice brings with it a simpler idea.]

Is this Takato your friend?

[Though he doesn't need the answer, it's still asked with the same attentiveness he'd offer any of his own fostered children. Of course the open honesty of a younger mind would help to sort things out the quickest.]

So while their content's changed, they're hallucinations just the same.

It really is fascinating to see these effects adapting firsthand. If it's settled for trying to distract us rather than scare us away, maybe it's getting worn out? As long as we can stay focused on who we're traveling with, it might not be too difficult to carry on after all.

[ibalsamina]

[Lusamine despises the way Akira and Emporio look at her—studying, cautious, as if she's a ticking time bomb. It makes her flesh crawl and keeps her hackles raised. Surely she can't be the one reacting strangely! They are the strange ones, aren't they? Strangers, taking her here, acting as if nothing's wrong...

Still, to her credit, she listens to Emporio's words, straining to understand them.]

Yes... Yes, of course I remember you... Sweet Emporio. But... the woods? Why would I...? [She's still confused and disoriented, as if out of time, but simple, direct sentences seem to slowly but surely calm her. There is a mysterious creature they're looking for, Emporio says, and she wanted to help them. Yes, she thinks; that does sound like something she'd do, doesn't it?] Oh... That's—that's right... I wanted...

[To protect them. After all, they are such small, young-sounding Pokémon—helpless without her.

It's harder for her to detangle Akira and Guilmon's words, but Guilmon's confusion at least takes some attention away from her own, and she manages to grasp the meaning of carry on.]

Yes... We must continue on. We cannot allow that creature to continue running amok.

[Yes—that sounds like something Madam President Lusamine would naturally say, doesn't it?]