Ignia: Town of Lightgrasp: Age of Entei: Year 1: 5th of First Month
Rudo's Squad Total Funds: 12,000P(3,000P per pokemon)
Conlan's Squad Total Funds: 33,000P(4,125P per pokemon)
Ornia's Squad Total Funds: 15,000P(3,000P per pokemon)
"Is everyone all packed and ready?" Conlan asked his squad, consisting of Bravero the blaziken, Charlie the charmeleon, Xialyn the weavile, James the haunter, Ken the kirlia, Magdalene the vulpix, and Semora the sceptile.
"Heading to Lliirasune…" Ken sighed as he stood near James. "Birthplace of pretty platitudes and petty principles."
"Aw, it can't be that bad!" James remained optimistic. "I hear they have a great entertainment industry."
"Well, I suppose they do have that going for them" Ken agreed. "King Paulo himself started out nothing more than a street performer in a troupe after all."
"That explains the lack of haughtiness in his letter then" Conlan realized.
"What about my group?" Rudo turned to look at Aaron the aggron, Hex the haxorus, and Wesley, another weavile. "Are we ready to head to Noironia?"
"Oh, I can't wait to show you guys around my home country!" Wesley exclaimed to Aaron and Hex. "There'll be darkness, dangerous cliff faces, a bunch of organized crime, a bunch of unorganized crime, there'll be-"
"That's...enough." Aaron held out a hand.
"And about that…" Hex turned to Rudo. "How are we heading there?"
"The path with the least geographic resistance would take us into Tawazun first, and then we'd head north from there." Rudo nodded as she gave her answer.
"Into the former ground province? The one run by The Obsidian Legion now?" Hex rose a brow.
"That's not a problem is it?" Rudo asked. "I say we head through, and if we're attacked, we attack right back! We'll be liberators then, y'know?"
"I don't have a problem with that at all" Hex grinned. "I might actually prefer this route over fighting rough terrain as the crow flies."
"Well if my own squad is done getting ready, perhaps we should be off towards Wildeburn." Ornia, a carbink, looked over her squad of Ultima, a mega gyarados anomaly, Mandy, a mawile, Gina, a glaceon, and Verden, a breloom. "It would be terribly rude of us to keep the queen waiting any longer than necessary."
"Oh, that reminds me, Ornia!" Rudo turned to face her. "My squad will be heading into Wildeburn first as well! If you want, we could travel together!"
"No." Ornia shook her head. "You need to get to Drudezdag as quickly as possible. It's one thing to keep the queen of your own province waiting, but to keep the ruler of a different province waiting is far worse. My squad will trudge through the lands first, and you shall be a few hours behind us, so that we may clear you a path of minimal resistance."
Rudo was unsure whether to be mad at Ornia's scolding, or thankful for the help she offered. She decided to be thankful.
"We'd appreciate that, thank you Ornia."
"Then I guess we'll be heading south through the Ember Wilds now." Conlan noticed that everyone in his squad was ready to go.
"Good luck, have fun on your journey!" Rudo planted a goodbye kiss on Conlan's cheek. "Be sure to write us when you make it to Lliirasune so I know you're safe!"
"Yes, yes, we'll all write each other during our travels" Ornia was getting increasingly impatient. "Now before we waste any more of the life Tapu Lele has blessed us with, we should finally get going!"
Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon) Entrance: Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: A Different Kind of Guild, Part 1
Moonbrand Present: Gina, Mandy, Ornia, Ultima, Verden
"Thankfully, since we are no longer bound by UGM limitations, we needn't split our party of five up to explore a mystery dungeon" Ornia noted as the group went over their game plan outside of the Ignus Scrublands near the kangaskhan statue. "Remember, our goal is to head to Wildeburn as quickly as possible, but also to clear this area of vermin so that our comrades heading to Drudezdag have less of a hassle once they arrive here as well."
The Ignus Scrublands, once a peaceful halfway point between the Blaze Desert and the Ember Wilds, now found themselves overrun with all manner of nasty pokemon. The small area made for wonderful bandit camps over the years, with clan after clan claiming the dungeon as their home, and modifying the soft soil and hard sand as they saw fit. While many stories of the Sapien Triage scared most pokemon away from the Ember Wilds, even the Triage themselves avoided the Ignus Scrublands, even more so when the most recent bandit clan to take control took over.
The scrublands had always been a dangerous mystery dungeon, but under the control of its current dominant inhabitants, the Ignus Scrublands had become a bona fide deathtrap. A deathtrap that Moonbrand now had a duty to enter.
1F
As the Ignia squad of Moonbrand made their way into the first floor of the large, open dungeon, they noticed it...a pendulum-like boulder swinging around and around the area they'd entered, while a darumaka, a snover, a miltank, an aron, and a lapras all argued with each other while avoiding being hit by the large swinging rock.
"Oh, you see!" The snover pointed back towards Moonbrand. "I told you we weren't the only ones looking to take this place over! It's too popular. We need a better spot to set up-"
"You be quiet, pine tree!" The lapras snapped before sizing Moonbrand up.
"You five, you here to set up your own camp? Turn around and go back the way you came. We got here first, and I'm not about to go tell our leaders that you-whoa!"
She craned her neck to avoid being hit by the pendulum rock. "Our leaders like this spot, so if we have to kill you over this so be it!"
The tiny aron snickered as it fired a Rock Tomb at the pendulum, sending the rock towards the Moonbrand members. Gina, Ornia, and of all pokemon, Ultima, were able to finesse their way around the attack to avoid being bludgeoned by the pendulum, but Verden and Mandy were not quite as lucky, and as it contacted both of them, they realized the true danger of the sinister device. At one time or another, some pokemon had set up a pendulum with a Rock Wrecker attack at the end of it.
As Verden and Mandy found themselves thrown into the dungeon wall, Ornia, Gina, and Ultima got ready to flank their five pokemon foes from the other side.
It seemed there would be little time to rest in this dungeon.
Ignia: Ember Wilds(B5F Mystery Dungeon(because they're going the other way this time)): B1F: Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: Revenant, Part 1
Moonbrand Present: Bravero, Charlie, Conlan, James, Ken, Magdalene, Semora, Xialyn
"This place again…" Conlan shuddered as his own squad of eight made their way into the Ember Wilds. "I don't like to think about what horrors took place in these sands."
"I've read about this area" Ken looked around as they continued through the sand. "It's a favorite for the fire branch of the Sapien Triage, right?"
"Yeah, and it was pretty much my first exposure to this world's mystery dungeons. That was not a fun night at all."
The Ember Wilds had, since Conlan had last visited the dungeon, changed significantly, but not quite drastically enough that he couldn't recognize where certain events once transpired, and while one branch of the Sapien Triage had fallen here at the hands of those who would later form Moonbrand, it was all too apparent that a new branch of the same had taken their place.
"Multiply like bunnelby, these freaks do." Charlie mumbled in disgust as she stuck close to Magdalene, the youngest female present. "No reasoning with them either."
"That's why we kill them if we see them" Conlan commanded. "No mercy."
B1F
After a couple minutes of walking, Bravero and Semora, who were scouting slightly ahead, stopped the party from moving forwards.
"This area is suspicious." Semora warned as everyone looked inside.
The area seemed to be an incredibly well-kept armory. Swords that looked as though they could deal as much damage as a Slash attack, armor that seemed as though it could provide the benefits of an Iron Defense, even some light siege weapons like ballistas could be found in the area.
"The Sapien Triage doesn't use weapons or armor though." Conlan thought back to the tribe he'd fought.
"Yeah, aren't they just a bunch of naked savages that only use atrafialpide to tie up victims?" James questioned, correctly.
"Heh." A greninja appeared from the shadows, as a cacturne, and three quite hungry looking pansear walked in from the opposite direction.
"Good eyes. Yes, the tribe of pansear and simisear that has taken up residence in this dungeon is not alone. They have us, and our fearless leader, to thank for their new weapons and gear. Now, we'll be killing the lot of you, eating the men, and presenting the women to Chiefs Blind, Deaf, and Mute as toy corpses."
"Well, at least none of us have to be surprised by this development" Xialyn smiled as all of Moonbrand readied to fight.
Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): 1F: Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: Redclaw, Part 1
Moonbrand Present: Aaron, Hex, Rudo, Wesley
1F
"Ignus Scrublands, eh?" Aaron mused as the party walked into an area with a large ditch, where a bagon, a flygon, and a sliggoo were all involved in various games that they had created with rocky rubble from around the ditch.
Wesley's eyes were immediately drawn to the pot of poke in the center of the ditch. Clearly, it was used as a betting pot.
"Hm…" He grinned.
"We don't have time to gamble, we need to get to Noironia, and Drudezdag." Rudo impatiently began to walk forwards.
"Rudo, wait-" Hex attempted to stop her, but it was too late. The ground under the riolu began to give way, and only barely was she able to hang onto the ground to keep her from falling down into the same large ditch.
However, while Rudo did not fall, the rubble from under her did, and caught the attention of the three pokemon that had been playing games.
They looked up at the party, and bared their rabid fangs.
"Savage dragons? This far north?" Hex wondered, perplexed.
"Welp, if' they're dragons and attacking us anyways…" Wesley stretched. "I say we kill them and take that money in the pot as recompense."
"A thought to keep in mind guys…" Aaron announced as he helped Rudo up to her feet and the four of them adopted battle stances "Is that if these pokemon are savage, then who was it who set up these games and the pot?"
"It appears there's a bit more going on here than in the average mystery dungeon." Rudo agreed.
AN1: I know, I know, it's so short, too short, almost unbearably short, for such a long wait, but you have to understand that I've been creating a whole fucking campaign module to follow for you guys, alright? Shit takes tons of time that I quite frankly didn't have. The good news is this: I've successfully transferred to a real Uni, and a whole buttload of extra work is now no longer necessary for me. Another plus to that long wait though...is how quickly I'll be able to get the chapters out to y'all now. Every Saturday for at least the next few months. Possibly taking a break during Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years. Don't quote me on that though. (I'm also the idiot who said Late April though, so don't quote me on anything).
AN2: Anyhow, the big reason it's so short should be obvious, Everyone is about to start combat (and come on, I can't just kill you guys randomly and without fair warning after all these months of silence). So, Everyone! Send in your battle strats for whichever battle your character(s) is(are) participating in!
HOWEVER!
I want to go over a small change in how this works. As you know, TAG!s can be used once, EACH, per MISSION. I'm creating a similar rule for your Alt Moves.
The Rule is this: During your PMs to me, label which four moves are your MAIN 4 for this mission (any combination of Alt and Regular will do), the OTHER TWO moves are in a sort of storage. You can push past your limits and used ONE of these moves ONCE per DUNGEON.
If you have any questions about this, I can explain it more fully in a PM, but basically, you choose your main 4 moves for the mission, then, of the two remaining moves, once per dungeon, you may elect to use one of those moves instead of your main 4 for the mission.
Again, if you're having trouble, I can explain more fully in a PM.
AN3: I've gotten many requests about and responses to certain Support scenes last chapter.
I'd like to, in response, direct attention to an Author's Note I left in Chapter 10 of Book 1:
Past Me: This is just an announcement: I'm stopping with the warnings before the chapters. If you're reading the story, then surely you know perfectly well by now that it can be very dark, so I see no reason for any further warnings. (and for those of you that a curious, no, I won't be announcing where the weirdly kinky stuff happens anymore either. You'll have to find it by yourselves.)
My feelings on this matter are this: As an author, I don't enjoy when parts or chapters of my story are skipped over, whether it's because they're too lewd or not lewd enough, I've experienced it happen both ways. Allow to extend to you this warning now, perhaps a bit late, that everything I warned you about at the very beginning of book 1 WILL be in book 2, and not just in passing. Entire dungeons or missions may revolve around uncomfortable or otherwise mature themes. Characters(Not any objecting OCs, don't worry) will figuratively go through every circle of Hell. Make no mistake, this story is rated M with good reason, reason which will become ever more apparent as the main plot finally begins to progress. If you truly believe yourself unable to handle even the consensual relations in such a story, then this, unfortunately, is not the story you're looking for.
I HAVE been working recently on a T-rated PMD series, structured quite similarly to this one (Not plot wise, but like, mechanic wise), which I will direct those of you this applies to towards if you would like any OCs you might have to appear there instead. That is all I have to say concerning this matter. For those of you who aren't deterred by this warning though…
AN4: OCs! You know the drill!
OC Name, Sex, Species:
OC Home Province (Where they are from):
OC Role(Teammate Hopeful, Other Team Member, Minor Villain, Commoner, Etc.):
OC Profession(Are they unemployed like Terune, are they a veteran like Concordia, an assassin like Semora, etc.?):
OC Moveset:
Move 1(From Natural Movepool):
Move 2(From Natural Movepool):
Move 3(From Natural Movepool):
Move 4(From Natural Movepool):
Alt Move 1(Can be TM or Egg Move):
Alt Move 2(Can be TM or Egg Move):
OC Personality:
OC Background:
Anything Else Doobop Should Know:
That's all for now! Thanks for reading ^.^!