It was midday in Dreamer's Eye and Maree a shiny banette and William a riolu had just finished signing their paperwork for the Researchers Guild and had started to wander around. Maree was so focused that she didn't notice there was a block and smacked into someone, William sighed as they encounter a group of Pokémon blocking the way. Many of them are chatting amicably, but a few in the back can be heard grumbling and snapping irritably, and the cause was revealed to be a somewhat tall Flygon attempting to shove her way through
"Ohhh... Excuse me, pardon me, Leader's Assistant comin' through... C'mon guys, can't you have your little meeting thing somewhere that isn't blocking a hallway? 'scuse me, sorry, jeez..."
When she finally made it out, they saw that her arms were laden with a surprisingly large pile of thick paper scrolls. A large blueprints tube is seen on her back, the strap crossing her chest diagonally and connecting with a metal clasp, while her wrists bore one gleaming armband each; silver worn on the right, and black worn on the left.
Maree and William only had a few seconds to take this in, and collided head-on with the Flygon. This sent scrolls flying across the room, and the Flygon tripped, falling flat on its face.
William quickly ran up to help her up, she thanks them as she got up, Maree was so busy messing with some small item she barely had item to dodge to paperwork so was hit head on. The two help pile all the paper back together and hand them back.
"Oooof, so many papers... There we go," the Flygon mutterd, balancing everything back into a manageable pile before she straightened and breaks out into a cheery smile. "Thanks so much for helping me pick all these up. I swear, that's like the fifth time I've tripped today; I'm such a klutz…" She blinks. "Heeeey, wait a minute. You don't look familiar. Are you visiting the Guild?"
"We're joining" Maree said licking her paper cut,
Upon hearing that the team had just gotten done registering, she breaks out in a warm smile.
"Well no wonder I don't remember you, you're new!" She inclined her long neck in the best bow she could manage without dropping everything all over again. "Welcome to the Researchers Guild! I'm Kali, I'm one of the Guild Leaders' assistants here. Pleased to meet you! And you are…?"
Once again Maree had zoned off looking at something and left William to talk "I'm William and this is Maree" He did a little pose to which Kali laughed a little.
She smiled again. "Nice names! You don't hear many like that around here, but then again Andalusst is kind of a mish-mash of a whole bunch of different kinds of names. It's always nice to hear 'em since Pokémon do tend to come in from all over the place, after all. And speaking of which, did you guys get here from the fog or something?"
"Oh no, Maree wants to be able to invent things so we came here, I'm ensuring she lives past the first day" William looked over and saw Maree walking off in a daze so dragged her back.
"Oh, well it's good to see people coming, even absent minded people like her, What's your team name? And why did you chose it"
"We're Team Aries, cause it was the first constellation we saw together!"
"Hah, that's so much better than the name I used when I signed up, wow. I was kind of, uh, young and silly back then; I guess you could say, so the name I used was... yeeeeaaaaah, pretty bad."
William noticed she didn't say the name she used, but before he can ask about it, the green Dragon-type tosses out another question with a curious tilt of her head.
"So that's the "why" and the "how"; what about the "what"? What do you think made the Guild decide to accept you into the ranks?" She said this with honest curiosity, not a trace of taunt or teasing in her tone, and listend as team lists off their skills.
"Oh well Maree if quite the Inventor, she always invent something or other and even though she acts like that she a good fighter and strategist! Me on the other hand, I'm fast and can get into small spaces easily and I also can pick locks."
"Oh wow, that's pretty cool! You guys are lucky. Y'know sometimes I wish I had a better skill set like that; then maybe I'd be more help to the Guild. Pretty much the only things I do around here are draw and deliver papers everywhere and, well, get stuck helping Archie." She says the last part with sudden venom, and the team got the feeling that she's not entirely fond of the Pokémon in question.
"I mean yeah sure he's one of the Guild Leaders, but he's just so... so... annoying, always bossing people around and taking credit for everything and acting like he's so much smarter than everyone else. And I'm always the one having to put up with him since someone has to help him but everyone else always runs off before they get stuck with him instead!"
Maree had already vanished by this time and William who became worried cut her short "Sorry, I need to go find her" and then in small voice "Let's hope her invention doesn't explode"
He then runs off to find her while Kali continuing talking not noticing their gone.
