Re: Sword and Shield Choice Pokéresistance
(Sorry for the delay! Thanks, surprise tedious work stuff.)
Mission 3, Circhester - Proposal 3 (Panini, Chemist1422, Stryke, qva):
Accept: qva, Chemist1422, Stryke, Panini
Reject: Butterfree, Keldeo
Panini, Chemist1422, Stryke and qva proceed to the Circhester Gym Mission!
Snow swirls through the frosty air all over Circhester, and the stadium, the trainers find, offers no respite. Just beyond the referee they can see the stadium's mission fields totally blanketed in white. Down near the end, the third leg of the test is impossible to make out at all for the blizzard howling around it. But what's a little weather to a group of champions-to-be? They've got their winter clothes, their Pokémon are raring to go, and so Trap Detectors in hand they set off for their trial, marching boldly--well, gingerly, on account of the traps and all--into the fields of snow.
The going is slow, as expected, but it doesn't take long for each team to hit their stride. With all of Falinks's troopers fanning out around their trainer, they can sense where the snowy ground starts to feel loose before their partner puts too much weight on it. (The brass might occasionally have admonish the trooper who keeps taking one step too far and tumbling down into the holes as a little crested snowball, but at least
most of them are managing to stay upright.) Sirfetch'd all but ignores her trainer's attempts to find the path with the Trap Detector, taking it upon herself to stab away at the floor and reveal each treacherous trap by her own heroics.
Meowth, well, she's probably not
helping perched up on her trainer's shoulders as she is, but by George if she's not having a great time regardless. The bracing cold! Forging a dangerous path through the uncaring elements, with glorious battle awaiting them at the end! This sort of adventure is what Galarian Meowth are
born for! And as she directs her noble steed onward toward the blizzard and the third stage of the mission, her good mood is certainly infectious.
Meowth's trainer takes one step out into the snow and plummets through the ground immediately.
The other teams look up, nervous, the spectacular crash even managing to catch Ponyta's attention as he bounces playfully in and out of the snowdrifts. A hole right in front of the starting platform? That doesn't seem right...
As meowth's trainer climbs out and the others squeeze awkwardly around the hole blocking their path, their Trap Detectors go off without warning, vibrating so violently that it makes their hands sting, pulling in every direction and then some.
Meowth and her trainer take one step to the left and promptly fall into another hole.
The last stage of any gym mission is meant to be the most challenging, of course, but there's no way any challenger could be expected to cross a field that's 95% holes. 96%, even, as confirmed when a hopelessly confused gym trainer hurries forward to help Sirfetch'd and her trainer out of a pit only to have the snow give way underneath her mid-apology. Gym Leader Melony herself, hurrying out to check on the commotion with her son right behind her, steps out just in time for the whole third tier to collapse in a crashing avalanche of white; Gordie only just manages to grab her hand before she takes a nasty spill of her own.
The Circhester Stadium is forced to close. There's no way around it. Snow needs shoveling, the floor needs extensive shoring up, mysterious diglett and drilbur tunnels that most certainly were not there last night at closing need filling in, the property inspector has to be called, it's a whole thing. It might be days, maybe even weeks before the investigation's over and the challengers can get back to challenging, and the trainers' previously high spirits are falling about as fast as their tumbles through the snow. Why does this sort of misfortune always seem to follow them?
Well, Team Yell's got to make up for lost time somehow, eh? But if these jokers think that was a show, the hidden grunts assure one another, they won't know what hit 'em if they dare set foot in Team Yell's home turf...
Mission 3 Results: SUCCEED, SUCCEED, SUCCEED, FAIL
Mission 3 has failed. Current score: Challengers 1 | Team Yell 2
Team Proposal Phase 4-1 begins now, and will end at
11:59 PM EST (GMT-5) on Monday, January 27th.
Mission 4 requires
three team members to proceed. The current Mission Leader,
Chemist1422, must provide a final list of three player names by the phase deadline.
