The Mana-Verse

[Phi]

"Well, first things first. We would need to find out how many guard towers there are, before we enact anything, correct?" Salem stated, "Then we can distribute the clones accordingly."

[Sakura Leic]

"Yes let's see what the Scout reports when she gets back." Calien nodded.

(Let's just say we already sent the Scout.)

[Phi]

Pema, in the meantime, poked the Prof's ears a few times, oddly fascinated by it from this close, "So pointy..." She whispered to herself.

[Sakura Leic]

(.......We need to get Pema some kind of Pokemon to cuddle........)

[Phi]

(That we do.

Though she does pet Epee, sometimes.)

[Sakura Leic]

(Yeah, I think Sakura left Epee, Yin, and Bianca back the the Dwarven city or something.  Yin and Bianca were left behind at least until we come back.)

[Quickman]

((She can cuddle Prof! ))

The Professor's ear flicked a few times with Pema's prodding and he scratched at it.

[Phi]

(Petting Salem would just be degrading and wouldn't feel pleasant for either of them, so yeah, Pema needs Pokemon! )

Pema giggled as the Prof's ears flicked, "That's so cute!"

She leaned on his shoulder as she examined the map some more.

[Blue Valkyrie]

((Going to wait on PB before I post.))

[Sakura Leic]

(I'm still waiting for Fxeni to answer Sakura's question.)

[Phi]

(I'm waiting for Pema to stumble upon a cute Pokemon.)

[Sakura Leic]

(After we get out of the city, anything in particular you like?)

[Fxeni]

"Let's just say I have some... history with this place, and leave it at that," Fxeni replied. "Besides, every town or city we've been to so far hasn't exactly ended up in the best of shape. I'd rather not contribute to that any more than we have to."

[Sakura Leic]

"That's true, hopefully we won't contribute much more, but I don't know how much that White Beard moron gives a damn about this place. Especially if that Albertus fellow and those Masked creeps are here too, and I get the feeling they give less of a damn than him about the lives of others."  Sakura sighed "If they would resort to corrupting innocent animals, bombing Iron Gate, and possessing and killing the Dwarves just to get what they want then I don't have high hopes they would try to minimalize casualties even in their home base. 

So I don't know how much Skull Cove will be unscathed after we're done......I wish we could do more but we don't have enough to get White Beard out of this place at the moment.  We can't even take care of that Breach in the Watch Tower in the Dwarven city without Aya and we can't even help Iron Gate with their promblems either......it's frustrating....."

[Fxeni]

"Well... let's concentrate on what we can do; getting Aya out of here," Fxeni said, looking up at the citadel in the distance.

[Sakura Leic]

"Right...." Sakura nodded.

[Phi]

(After we get out of the city, anything in particular you like?)

[spoiler]I think Pachirisu would fit her quite well

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[Sakura Leic]

[spoiler]Okay, and for added hilarity we'll have it jump on someone's face as an introduction.  Probably Calien's or Riagan's.[/spoiler]

[Phi]

[spoiler]I especially want to see how Riagan reacts to that. [/spoiler]

[Sakura Leic]

[spoiler]Yeah I figured it should be either Riagan for his reaction or Calien since he is the designated Butt Monkey, but yeah Riagan would probably yield the better reaction since Calien would have a more deadpan reaction to it unlike Riagan who would do who knows what.[/spoiler]

[Quickman]

"The town, the town will have to help itself.  Yes, the needs of the m-many... outweigh the needs of the few, but, but, but there are things we cannot do.  We are not all-p-powerfull, much as we like to think we are, and we came here, we came here for one reason; to rescue Aya."

Either not noticing Pema on his shoulder not minding, the Professor looked through his spyglass and consulted his map.  "Now, now, now, our focus, our focus is on the tower.  With sufficient distraction, we should make it unimpeded."

Taking out a compass and a quill, he began to chart a path. "Taking into account recent construction, adding additional blocks, taking a specified route... From here to the tower, if we keep out of sight, we should arrive within..."

Digging through his bag, he produced a small sundial and studied it. "A quarter of the hour."

[Protoman Blues]

"Amazing the wonders your outside world holds!" Riagan stated as he listened to the Professor's plan. "Now then, when shall we begin this plan of yours?"

[Sakura Leic]

"As soon as the Scout comes back and reports on what else they can strike." Calien replied.  "And then we still need to finalize the plan."

"I wish I could say the same thing Riagan, but with the city being enslaved I really can't.  I always wanted to see the sea but I can't enjoy it right now." Sakura sighed "I honestly wish we can find one town that doesn't have something wrong with it."

[Fxeni]

"In my experience, there's always something wrong... we've just been rather unlucky and have hit bigger problems than the usual fare," Fxeni said.

[Sakura Leic]

"I guess that's true, even in the forest we had days when food is scarce, particularly in Winter." Sakura sighed "Lots of animals sleep and lots plants don't grow. There's no Snow, never seen it before myself even, but it's still difficult. But we made due even with those hardships."