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  1. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Finally, someone smart enough to split them up, but not quite smart enough to split them up entirely. Which can only mean they'll find a way back together somehow... A godforsaken hour that's average for 8-5ers with commutes. And Chi, huh? Well, Team Plasma is a chi/rho symbol and we're in...
  2. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Welp, time to finish catching up I suppose. 34 -Ah, lovely. The implication that apricorns do not have stasis and can be used as a torture method. What a lovely place Varhyde is. :unquag: -Kate's POV on this whole spiel can boil down to "The military sucks." XD -I genuinely hope that this is...
  3. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Now this is podracingV-Wheeling. Lemme see if I remember. When last I left the intrepid "heroes," they'd gone to the library to acquire lore, got the lore, escaped, learned Irune is kinda sorta God™ or whatever the original dragon counts as in this fic's setting. I don't think I can say "part of...
  4. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Wow, this chapter felt... surprisingly shorter than the usual ones. I guess the word count being around 25% smaller will do that, even if it is still a high number by PMD fic standards. There's a certain irony that this fic has now also seen the outgunned protags' luck finally run out...
  5. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    The beginnings of the plot-critical lore™, though it's only some vague stuff. I'd say this is foreshadowing what the final challenge will be... but you keep your power scales low. So, don't think anyone's fighting God in this fic. Certainly not this band of idiots. Though it seems the vague...
  6. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    27 -As a reader, I'm not sure I buy Sophia's claim of Irune caring for the whole team. I could maybe see it with Lyle since they'd had the most time together and it seems like they've mutually comforted one another a couple of times. And I think she maybe had one moment with Dalton? But still...
  7. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    I'm only covering three chapters because [looks at chapter word count] good lord. 24 -The problem with trying to describe things people just inherently know the names of is that it's often done awkwardly. Case in point, it took me a second to realize you were describing the remains of an...
  8. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Hello. Heartache has a challenge and I need the gold to buff up Nova. Batch review means bullet points! 🎉 19 -So, what, was it just "Angle City" beforehand? That's almost as bad as Newangle. Newangle. Newfangle. No wonder this kingdom's in such terrible shape. No creative minds. -ALOLA...
  9. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    I wonder if Newangle City is actually just a refurbished locale from the main line games. Or, like, all of this setting is actually some bizarro region. Perhaps Unova, given the focus on the Tao trio and Irune being a gen V dragon, too. Maybe this is Castelia City. Or since the ending blurb --...
  10. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    All right. You want three chapters? I'll give you three chapters. But it's my blitz style. Aka not what you're used to. 15 -Stains on an inn floor are totally water leaks and definitely not any other kind of fluid, bodily or otherwise. [lenny face] -Lyle, beggars literally cannot be choosers...
  11. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    I know I got assigned this for V-Wheel, yet I don't find myself with all that much to say about the chapter over all. It's not a bad chapter by any means. I just think some of the stuff at the healer's den failed to hold my attention because the fic has, at this point, established a pattern of...
  12. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Huzzah! Forward progress that didn't involve getting into a fight. I think this chapter might've had a longer word count than a couple of the previous ones? Or I'm just seeing things. But it felt brisker in spite of that because the team's able to get through multiple set pieces before shambling...
  13. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Oh, hey, look, they ran into the chief and had a big ol' scuffle because of it after all. Though the, uh, misdeeds alluded to in the previous chapter sound more like cases of miscommunication killing judging from what follows. Which is... always something people will have mixed feelings on...
  14. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    I want to say the stuff overheard between Rampardos and Archeops is setting up for a future conflict with this High Chief -- a tyrantrum, perhaps? Because of the "short-arms" stuff -- but it's hard for me to tell. To be honest, I was more interested in that part than the ensuing skirmish that...
  15. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    Fs out to the poor souls reading this on sites without embeded text stuff. The hightongue bit is suitably fancy and stuff but it does screech the pace to a halt when I have to stop to pull up the embed (or, thinking as someone not reading it on TR, constantly scroll back and forth for the...
  16. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    How to Succeed at Pissing Everyone Off Without Really Trying, by Quilava "Baguette" Lyle Talk about a literal crash course of running into basically everyone the team had pissed off up to this point in the story. Because that's exactly what happened. I don't personally care much for the Team...
  17. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    I find myself with not much to say about chapter 8, here. I expected this to be about them getting what they needed to depart with Hermes and potentially hitting a snag, but I guess seeing you say "longer chapter" in your description led me to falsely assume they'd be departing the city with...
  18. Ambyssin

    Pokémon Once a Thief

    2 So, togedemaru are the nopon of this story. Duly noted. I expect one will end up in the “party,” then. The raid starting with a totter orb brings smoke and flash grenades to mind. Less video gamey and more like police raids. Or the kinds you see on TV, anyway. I do appreciate that...
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