Tonight's Theme: Betrayal
Let's start our night near Pallet Township, where a strange keening sound has been heard. It had started when dawn first broke this morning, and throughout the beautifully sunny day it had slowly increased in pitch and intensity. By nightfall, it had become a steady droning sound and there was a faint, flickering light from that corner of the forest. Let's investigate.
You know, Bulbasaur had never been the
happiest of the starter Pokemon. Oh, before the apocalypse she had put on a pretty good face... every day, she had pretended that she didn't mind being left alone on cold table, that she was happy waiting for "the one," that it was just
fine with her every time new trainers snuggled their charmanders and squirtles and left her behind. But she had been lying.
Every. single. time. it had grated on her, and she had been almost happy when the whole damn world collapsed. In any case, she had appreciated having to depend on her own means instead of waiting for a trainer. She had even made tentative peace with a couple of the other starter pokemon from the lab, and they had scavenged, foraged and worked together to survive.
But let's fast forward to the last week or so. Bulbasaur had started our adventure as a friend to all the other pokemon, and she had been
so frustrated as all the other Pokemon around her evolved and gained handy abilities
. She, meanwhile, had been stuck as a useless Bulbasaur - and one who kept getting injured to boot. But then one day it finally happened, and as she felt the bloom on her back opening she had felt something else... a twinge of hate. A lust for revenge. The evolution had opened up something really nasty and dark inside her, and she had quietly joined the enemies of Pallet Township.
Her first actions with them had been to brutally slit the throat of her long-time starter friend, Charmeleon, laughing as his blood drained into the ground. The next night, she had followed up by brutally strangulating Haunter, and she had thought that she was done at that point. But then, with the help of a couple rare candies, she had found herself evolving once more, and her rage had further escalated.
So that brings us to today. Today, we find that Venusaur has been quietly charging her solar beam all day, and is now taking aim at someone inside Pallet Township. The someone she was aiming at did give her a twinge of guilt; he was the trainer who had caught her recently, and who had exclaimed that he loved Bulbasaur! But what was done was done, and there was no changing this decision at this point.
A flash of light, a ruined township wall, and Gary Oak and his surroundings were obliterated from the planet.
Dead is @hazelmoo, Gary Oak - a VILLAGER who started the game with poke balls and bait to create a team.
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Our second event of the night occurred due to some
very misplaced trust. Wigglytuff had been on a roll. She was new around these parts, and despite some failures when people didn't appreciate her beautiful music, she'd been pretty good at sniffing out the worst of the worst that they found around Pallet Township. Yesterday she had received a handy dandy shotgun, and being unable to use it herself, had asked a friend who she should send it to. Venusaur had happily suggested Nurse Joy, claiming she trusted her the most of the remaining humans.
Well, Wigglytuff waddled over to Nurse Joy, handed the gun over happily, and then started to go on her merry way. The gun hadn't been used for nights and nights now, maybe they'd finally clear or accuse someone! Then she heard a metallic click, and she turned back around to see what was happening.
Nurse Joy had the shotgun at her shoulder and was looking down the sight straight at Wigglytuff. Wigglytuff laughed - perhaps just a bit nervously - and said, "You know I'm good! What sort of baddie would I be if I gave you a shotgun? Interrogate someone else..."
Nurse Joy laughed a quiet laugh, the smile on her face never quite reaching her eyes. She answered, "Interrogate? I don't think so..."
Before Wigglytuff could respond, Nurse Joy braced the gun more steadily in her thin hands and fired off both shots into Wigglytuff's huge head. Brain and blood spattered everywhere, and her body slowly deflated.
Dead is @BrownSwissCows, Wigglytuff - a VILLAGER who could sing for someone every night, and who could permanently disable an ability once during the game.
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Our last event of the night was a little more difficult to understand. It involved one inhabitant of the Pallet Township that people had never really understood or figured out, but had sort of accepted as one of their own anyway. She didn't say or do much, but every once in a while an extra item would drop from her home, or something completely new would show up, so that seemed helpful!
She was kind of hard to look at. Sometimes MissingNo.'s shifting body almost gave the idea of a particular pokemon, but most of the time she just looked like a mess of swirling air and vague pixels. Anytime someone got too close to her or tried to investigate her closely, th3re started^ to be pr_blems, but nobody had ever seemed to pay that much mind.
Well, tonight someone had decided that it was about time to be done with her. It was good, too - MissingNo. hadn't been the best about making up items, but tonight she had been suddenly industrious and been quietly devising a conversion detection machine. We couldn't have that, could we?
Sudowoodo didn't think so. She had spent a lot of time this last week doing exactly what a Sudowoodo does - sitting quietly in the forest, pretending to be a tree. She had learned a lot of things from listening in on other peoples' conversations, and had generally been trying to use the information for good.
It was only two nights ago that a master ball had caught her and she'd suddenly found herself working with the remnants of Team Rocket, but truth to be told she'd been kind of excited for it. This was her first night sent out on a kill, and she resumed her normal tactic of holding still and silent, waiting just outside MissingNo.'s home.
Her patience was rewarded when, several hours later, the glitchy pokemon floated b_y. Sudowoodo gr4bbed at h;er with her knobbly fingers and caught hold of the strangely shifting mass.
Did you know the original MissingNo. is a bird/normal type pokemon? Needless to say, Sudowoodo's rocky blows were very effective as they smashed her strange body to pieces within moments.
Dead is @DVMDream, MissingNo. - a VILLAGER who would duplicate any items she received OR create an entirely new one, depending on the night.
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Step out of character again. Let's run the math. At the beginning of this night there were nine players remaining, and you just read about three bad guys who killed three good guys. That takes us to six.
This means that despite the villagers having:
- An ability seer (Kadabra)
- An affiliation seer (Growlithe)
- A "role" hint seer (Luxray)
- An ability mimic/human seer (Ditto)
- A EOD ability seer hint (Kangaskhan)
- A tracker (Charmeleon)
- An eavesdropper (Sudowoodo)
- An item that functioned as a role seer (poke balls)
- An item that seered ability/affiliation (shotgun)
- An item maker (MissingNo.)
- Some basic communication with the dead (Haunter)
- And a huge, huge communication network that cleared tons of players from the get-go...
...you have just
barely taken out the original wolves, and every single of their converts remain. Six players.
Three wolves.
THE WOLVES HAVE WON!
Roster:
13. LadyOtheFarm - Gyarados
18. Ashgirl - Venusaur
19. dyachei - Nurse Joy
25. rockatiel - Sudowoodo
27. allieh8607 - Luxray
4. lhmhtd - Slaking
Dead:
7. Devastating - Professor Oak
1. WildZoo - Porygon
33. ResoluteMike - Miltank
24. Teepster87 - Growlithe
9. Zensing - Pikachu
8. thedrjojo - Wobbuffet
21. Lupin21 - Bill
16. kcoughli - Haunter?
14. PrincessButterCup - Kangaskhan
5. Kam325 - Jessie
11. finnickthedog - Chansey
30. Romoret - Charmeleon
26. Stb1473 - Kadabra
10. orca2011 - Wartortle
28. SummerTheLynx - Koffing
20. LetItSnow - Mewtwo
2. Mad Jack - Haunter
12. ketoone - James
29. brightimpressio - Pidgeotto
23. alohacat319 - Ash Ketchum
31. StartingoverVet - Linoone
3. heyyimhayley - Vaporeon
32. Flim Flam Man - Slowpoke
6. Jilary - Persian
22. DVMDream - MissingNo.
17. BrownSwissCows - Wigglytuff
15. hazelmoo - Gary Oak