A day or two later, Neil found himself, quite literally, on a ferry. A ship, if a very small one. Evidently, it ran between the small town sitting at the fork between Route 121 and 122. A seaside t...
2025-09-05 17:06:19 +0000 UTC
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Porygon-2-54374372 (Shepherd to his meatspace friends) hummed as it set up the virtual chatroom for their guests. Creating a real-time link between four separate regions was tricky business, ...
2025-09-01 23:02:32 +0000 UTC
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“...Hello there.” Neil greeted belatedly, after a second of rubbing his eyes to make sure that yes, that was a Poochyena sitting in front of his tent staring at him, “One bark for food, two b...
2025-08-30 20:06:37 +0000 UTC
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This week's post of Faller, Noun - Someone Experiencing Interesting Times will be delayed till tomorrow. I am currently wrestling with a heck of a lot of anxiety and other "wonderful" emotions due ...
2025-08-29 22:55:13 +0000 UTC
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“Y’know, once we get to Mt Pyre I may see about getting buddy buddy with a Ghost Type too. A Snorunt or Froslass if I’m really lucky. I thought I could take the heat, but the lack of...
2025-08-22 17:20:23 +0000 UTC
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Illya shaded her face against the morning sun, looking out over the brown and greens of the Mirelands stretching out before her. “So you don’t know anything about Lady Ursaluna?” She looked o...
2025-08-15 23:10:45 +0000 UTC
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“On a scale of ‘awkward silences’ to ‘get ready to dodge some cutlery’, how much is this going to suck?” Neil asked as he rocked back and forth on his feet, thumbs hooked on his pockets...
2025-08-15 23:08:03 +0000 UTC
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“Rock Tomb!” Her Trainer called, the wry note of his voice making it crystal clear that he knew how much of a formality it was. After all, her only other ranged move was Fairy Wind, and well.
2025-08-08 13:36:33 +0000 UTC
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International League conferences were not uncommon affairs; both bureaucratic and combative meetups had been a mainstay of Garde since the League’s founding. That being said, those conferences we...
2025-08-02 03:45:21 +0000 UTC
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The battle froze. Neil couldn’t blame them for it, given that from what his on-and-off online research had turned up? You just plain did not see anything like Mega Evolution, Z-Moves or ...
2025-08-01 17:52:38 +0000 UTC
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It hadn’t taken all that long for the pair of highly competitive trainers to find a referee willing to preside over a battle between two professional trainers. Not when the group of individuals w...
2025-07-25 21:57:27 +0000 UTC
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He and Raiko had parted ways after that. She’d gone white after seeing a message on her phone, babbled something that could generously be considered an excuse, and scrambled off. Thankfully after...
2025-07-19 19:04:58 +0000 UTC
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Tohsaka Rin was proud of her heritage. Less proud than she’d once been, to be honest, but there was much to be proud of. Wealth, power gained through effort, accumulated wisdom and a heritage whi...
2025-07-15 23:16:14 +0000 UTC
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“Right, so.” Raiko began, swiftly leading Neil through the unfamiliar streets of the downtown area. They had left the more ‘traditional’ markets behind a while ago for the more blatantly mo...
2025-07-11 19:12:49 +0000 UTC
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Not long after they had finished battling and hugging things out, the intrepid quartet of partners made their way back to the Pokemon Center. Raiko swore by always swinging by the Center a...
2025-07-04 15:19:43 +0000 UTC
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Rin’s head was on a swivel as she and her sister walked around Nimbasa City. Despite learning to use modern technology at a nearly unheard of level for a traditional magus family member, she stil...
2025-07-02 00:02:07 +0000 UTC
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The brief silence had turned into a longer one when their food had arrived, placed before the four individuals who sat around the table; though the nonhuman pair of the two remained more on the ‘...
2025-06-27 17:03:20 +0000 UTC
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After spending so much time in Evergrande and Anna’s Threads, the quartet had agreed to conclude their shopping for the day and head towards a restaurant recommended heavily by Raiko. A rather hu...
2025-06-20 13:51:19 +0000 UTC
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The interior of Evergrande was… homely. There was a certain sense of peace that came with looking at a place that someone had lived in and enjoyed living in. Art and photographs lined the walls o...
2025-06-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Right, since Mawile and Eevee want their turn next, we’re headed a little further than usual.” Raiko commented, her Eevee plodding ahead of her for once instead of behind her. The fox was de...
2025-06-06 16:12:56 +0000 UTC
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“So, what sort of essentials require a legal identity to get?” Neil asked conversationally, one hand thoughtlessly petting the steel fur of the little lady perched on his shoulder. They had bee...
2025-05-30 20:10:27 +0000 UTC
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“You should go out and explore Lilycove, Mr. Lee.” The nurse on duty had told him after a very late breakfast on his part. Regigigas wasn’t the only one with one hell of a Slow Start. She’d...
2025-05-23 16:39:47 +0000 UTC
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Perhaps it should not have surprised Neil that he had spent a good two hours rambling about the finer details of Italian theatre to his starter, especially when she had been both a willing recipien...
2025-05-16 17:16:48 +0000 UTC
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On the matter of Fallers
by Professor Burnet
Fallers. A term coined in Alola to refer to those that fell out of Ultra Wormholes, then later u...
2025-05-09 18:27:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Miho here. Sorry for being absent for essentially the entire month of April. I was experiencing a combination of creative burnout and depression, which for personal reasons I will n...
2025-05-02 21:56:09 +0000 UTC
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“How big is that family, anyways? Other than ‘very’.” Neil asked idly, meandering towards the iconic blue sliding doors.
As they stepped into the lobby and began walking towards the c...
2025-05-02 21:48:54 +0000 UTC
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“Begin!” The call from the ref snapped everyone’s attention right back towards the battle, the sight of both a Grovyle and Flygon making Neil’s eyebrows tickle his hairline. It wasn’t lik...
2025-05-02 21:47:00 +0000 UTC
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One did not often wake up in an unfamiliar alleyway with no clue how they got there. At least, not without a splitting headache and the aftertaste of one’s poison of choice, or enjoying themselve...
2025-05-02 21:44:49 +0000 UTC
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Lance shook Kiritsugu’s hand, a tired smile on his face. “Thank you for your time, Mr. Kiritsugu. I don’t think I’ll be able to repay the favor anytime soon, but if you ever need anything h...
2025-04-01 23:57:10 +0000 UTC
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Kiritsugu looked over his coffee, eyeing Elle with some trepidation as she stepped in from outside. “Who was that you were talking to?” He asked.
Elle sighed. “My mother. The news of wh...
2025-03-16 00:21:22 +0000 UTC
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