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Ice 8.8: The Mountain Pixie The Mountain stretches above you. For weeks you’ve been training near the base to get strong enough to climb. You think you’re there, now. Your ninth tail is even with the others. You can easily beat Madeline when she doesn’t cheat. You can even come close when she...

Skarmory Stymphalia alumen Overview There are a variety of skarmory species across the world, all known for their metal bodies. The gilded skarmory of South America had feathers laden with silver and gold. They were still not the most valuable of their kin. Stymphalia alumen is commonly known...

Ice 8.7: Ultimatums Kekoa August 25, 2020 Smoke hangs in the air on your way to work. It’s frustratingly normal these days. There’s basically no power. No food, either. The people in the city are still finding ways to survive. You hear fewer wingull when you walk near the water. Barely hear a...

Forretress (Pineco) Tineabombae exfoliis Overview Generally speaking, blowing yourself up is not a good strategy for survival. Some pokémon have made it work. Quickly channeling enormous amounts of elemental energy can result in the wielder losing control and an unfocused blast detonating...

Ice 8.6: Stronger Genesis August 14, 2020 Your pokémon are relatively low maintenance. Ferny and Callisto can feed themselves. You aren’t sure that Count Cloudy needs to eat at all. Sometimes he floats into smoke or dust and sits there for a while. A website you read said that might be eating...

Cinccino (Minccino) Ancilla australmontes Overview Alola’s ecosystem has successfully integrated many species without major disruption. A few have threatened it through overgrazing, predation, or physically altering the environment. Then there are the cinccino, which provoked a particularly...

Ice 8.5: Face to Face Danielle(?) August 15, 2020 Sina and Dexio’s lab is air conditioned. You can feel Pixie purring away beneath your hand. This is the first time she’s had it in… weeks? Has it been that long? Longer? Shorter? She leads you over to a seat and you take it. “Thank you for...

Garbodor (Trubbish) Pestisviva urbisnovae Overview Garbodor are incredibly strange creatures. No one seems entirely certain where they came from or what they are. They simply appeared in a landfill outside Castelia in 1967. They were initially believed to be phantoms possessing garbage bags...

There’s a scene that’s a little more graphic than I’m used to writing. Starts with the introduction of Micah the golem. None of it lasts past the next scene break. Ice 8.4: Beyond The Light’s Reach Madeline The first thing you know is the light. The second is agony. Your tentacles recoil in...

Lanturn (Chinchou) Magnalux wilsonii Overview The deep sea is still poorly understood. The vast majority of it remains unmapped. Our glimpses come mostly from a smattering of submersible trips, the occasional washed-up carcass, and migrants who visit us from the depths. Most deep sea residents...

Ice 8.3: The Other Me Cuicatl(?) August 8, 2020 Ula’Ula Meadow is supposed to be very nice to hike through. There’s a boardwalk so the path is flat and there’s a nice breeze. The local pokémon are pretty tame—a lot tamer than on the rest of the island. No psychic-resistant bears. And there are...

Pyukumuku Mendicus quinonardet Overview Pyukumuku are an iconic feature of Central Pacific beaches, even if they are not always a welcome one. These echinoderms live in the tidal zone. At high tide they engage in a mix of filter feeding and scavenging in the surf. When the tides roll out, the...

Ice 8.2: The Witness Kekoa August 1, 2020 You’re no stranger to funerals. First there were your grandparents. You can really only remember one of those. It was a very formal thing. You had to get fitted for an itchy black dress that you hated while you listened to lots of people talk and pray...

[If abstains win or are tied, will there not be a socially condoned murder?]

[As long as we’re killing somebody. It would be a waste to have a sanctioned opportunity to commit murder and then not do it. I could be persuaded to make the ghost die for a second time.]