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"Get into... organizations?" Soda was being very vague again. Dave narrowed his eyes at him. Yeah, this thing did sound shady as fuck, and naming itself "Peaceful Preventative Measures" didn't help - frankly that sounded like some sort of extremist cult, the same vibe as a dictatorship calling...

There was a jab of something in Dave's gut. "Icarus, huh? We've got that myth." Did he come from home? Or a different but similar world, the way so many of the worlds seemed to be variations on Cibus with slightly different timelines of events? He fiddled with his glass, contemplating what Soda...

Dave scowled at that. “The god of your world. So, Arceus? Different Arceus?”

"Shit," Dave said again. He'd been hoping this chat might illuminate something about the God Squad, about who could be trusted, but it was hard not to just think about where the fuck Diyem was and whether he'd ever get home, with this poor fucker in front of him, an actual human who'd just...

A cold, awful feeling congealed in Dave's stomach. Diyem had promised to return them to the moment he'd taken them, right? Time wasn't supposed to be passing back home while they were here? "Shit. That's... Jesus." How... how did that even work? "Did they say what was supposed to be happening...

Well. "Guessing 'Soda''s not your actual name, huh." Fuck. He was a goddamn human, too. A human who'd never made it home. "So, what, did your Voice of Life not let you go back when you'd fixed things?" Was the Voice of Life Maple? "Or did you choose to stay?"

"Hmmm." Joule was a big old happy optimist, huh. And now he was captured and/or dead. Nice. "Right. So... you're a human? Your partner? Or were you just a couple of Pokémon trying and failing to fix things?"

Dave narrowed his eyes at Soda. "What, Joule? Did he just casually hop on after getting with Maple, then?" His ears perked up. "Wait, hold up. When you say just like Shield did, you mean what exactly? You were from a world like Telum?"

Oh, just thought of one thing that was affecting me this Blitz-- The full extra bonus point for theme per review meant that it was always significantly better to review one chapter of a fic at a time - that meant the theme bonus effectively doubled the number of chapters I read, while doing...

"I don't care that people have emotions. But they should be able to act rationally anyway. The prefrontal cortex can override impulsive behaviours with reason." Dave chuckled through his nose. "Yeah? I don't know, sometimes you do some pretty impulsive shit." "Only if I want to do it." "Yeah...

Hmm, why? It's not very helpful to respond just saying "I don't like this" without elaboration - we can't discuss the issue and figure out something better if we don't know what's bothering you. By explaining your thoughts, we can work out improvements that everyone would be happier with...

"Well, there's plenty to forget." Dave took a chug from his glass. "How about you?" Mia frowned. "Today was pretty important. You shouldn't forget about it."

Apparently the rescue wasn't happening for a while. Dave needed a drink after all that; he headed straight for the X-Eye Cauldron. Mia asked about going and training in the meantime, and he reminded her that they had reason to think there might be people working for Giovanni in Destiny Village...

"She did that fucking intentionally, not just by being near them, and they weren't us, and like I said, she's obviously different from all of you and has been from the start," he snarled. "I'm coming," Mia said, in the same tone as always. "If you're on the mission too then are you going to not...

"Yes, draw out repressed thoughts, that's what I fucking meant," Dave snapped. "There's not a damn thing suggesting shades are getting corrupted by us. Just Sword being corrupted while having an Ultra Stone core, which might I remind you all is fucking different from all of your cores, and she...

The aftermath of the fight was chaos. People made profoundly unreasonable suggestions for dealing with Sword. The Mudkip was talking sense, even while dripping with Shadow influence, which, uh. Was a thing. Maple said she'd give Sword to somebody at random, only to carry her herself, which of...

For this turn: - Radiant Guard at Eterna Darkwhite - Assurance at Eterna Darkwhite x3

Mia looked at the band, intrigued. They didn't seem to know what was going on with it either. Arceus had done something? But they were going to leave, and it didn't sound like Nate knew very much about what Arceus had done either, anyway. That was fine. Maybe somebody else knew more. Nate...

Mia frowned at Nate's speech. She had already said it was for medical research, but sometimes people just didn't listen to what you said and then it was usually no use to bother trying to keep talking to them about it. Rocky was pretending to be in a hurry for some reason and ran out like he...

I think the event went great overall! Love the amount of reviewing that got done and the general enthusiasm, and I think you ran it all very smoothly. It might make sense to at least scale the minimum eligible word count with the length of the fic/chapter to some extent - it does seem a bit...