A Shadow, an Eon, and a Worm (Worm/Pokemon)

[ScottotheUnwise]

"To be far, so're ours."

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far -> fair?

Continue to like this of course. It would be interesting if her connection let her find Wheedles that came over at some time in the distant past (Beedrill) but never evolved here without trainers or the special items --and Eon has one of those items. Something like a Bermuda Triangle effect that only comes to this world.

 

[V01DRei]

Swarm, still holding onto Shadow, slipped back into her back yard, Eon silently dogging her steps and telekinetically closing the gate behind him.

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I feel that 'slipped back' should be 'snuck into' - so that there isn't two 'BACK' used.

"He's ya dad." Shadow yawned, shuffling in her arms. "He'll be fine."

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FTFY
EDIT: Ninja'd...

. None've us'll be annoyed if you don't do much for the first little while, and we'll help you figure stuff out."

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This is a contraction for 'have'...
it should be 'OF'

It's mostly for safety purposes, since the Map will always know where you are and let you find where you are that way."

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I feel like the second part should be 'find where you need to go'


As for the 'permission' - I suspect that the explanation is that the guildmaster is 'sharing WHERE things are'

 

[Bezzerker]

This is a contraction for 'have'...
it should be 'OF'

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In this case, as it is dialogue; this is likely the written equivalent of an accent, and what was said sounds like what was written.

Especially since the word "OF" can be spoken with a "V" sound.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

far -> fair?

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This was indeed a mistake, and is now not one.

I feel that 'slipped back' should be 'snuck into' - so that there isn't two 'BACK' used.

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Also changed, thank you.

This is a contraction for 'have'...
it should be 'OF'

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Basically the below;

In this case, as it is dialogue; this is likely the written equivalent of an accent, and what was said sounds like what was written.

Especially since the word "OF" can be spoken with a "V" sound.

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But thanks anyway.

I feel like the second part should be 'find where you need to go'

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Also also now changed, thank you again.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

"Question?" Swarm asked lowly, crouching in the alleyway next to the two Pokemon.

"Yeah?"

"Where the hell are we?" She looked out the end of it, still under Eon's cloak, and up and down the street. "I don't think I've ever been here before."

"Really?" Eon raised an eyebrow at her, while Shadow fumbled with the latch on the bag. "Huh. I'd've thought you would've been around a lot of the city."

"Well, ok, maybe I have been here before, but I don't remember it. I wouldn't have a reason to come here as a kid, though maybe we drove through on the way somewhere else and I just can't remember." Swarm shrugged, crouching and holding the flap of the Treasure Bag open. Shadow gave her a thankful look, reaching in to grab the Wonder Map and roll it open. Eon caught the other end in his telekinesis and took it from her, holding it flat in the air as they all watched the clouds covering the edge of the Map- including the place they were at- fade away, new lines drawing around them to show the city.

"Ok, that's fine, not like we can't use the Map." Eon smiled up at her, then went back to the paper. "So, we're here… so, we leave this alley, turn left, then go down the street for a while, then left again into the next alley."

"Somer's Rock actually isn't as far away as I thought it would be." Shadow commented, as Eon rolled the Map up again and handed it to Swarm to put in the bag. "I mean, some place for Capes to meet up neutrally to talk? I'd have expected it to be, like, on the very edge of town, or something, just in case something goes really wrong and a fight happens."

"I think they rely on the hope that no-one wants to risk a fight in case they get banned from the pub." Swarm guessed. "Like we've said, Somer's Rock is the meeting place for Capes if they want to avoid a fight, so no-one wants to be known as 'the Cape that got banned from Somer's Rock' and they keep the peace instead." Then she shrugged. "Not sure, but that's what I'm going with."

"Fair enough. Back home, there's plenty of places with weird reasoning behind them, like the underground market in Newground- that's one of the villages, by the way, kind of far away from where we live but a nice place we stopped at on one really long mission outlaw-hunting- that had no reason to be there. It wasn't illegal, nothing strange was happening, and there was plenty of room to have the market on the surface around the edge of the village or something, but they just decided they wanted it below ground."

"That was a fun place, though." Shadow put in. "The lanterns looked really sweet. And it was mostly run by Pokemon that liked the dark, so in the end it worked out well."

"Your world sounds fun." Swarm said, smiling behind her mask.

"It could be, yeah. I mean, there's times it's terrifying, but mostly it's fun." The three of them went silent as they slipped out of the alleyway and into the crowd, Eon and Swarm standing close together to keep the cloak as small as possible while Shadow held onto her own cloak a little further ahead. Ducking into the next alley along, the Vulpix sighed.

"We're gonna be doing this a lot, aren't we? Why not just give Swarm the Map and let her guide us?"

"Because that makes far too much sense, and we still have basically three hours to get there, so we could just do whatever until then since we basically know where we're going." Swarm replied sarcastically, kneeling next to Eon to take the Map out of the bag again. "Alternatively, we just weren't thinking properly."

"Either-or." Eon flicked his tails in a shrug as she unrolled the Map, waiting a moment for the clouds to move again, then nodding.

"Ok, how're we doing the cloaks, then?" She checked. "Is Shadow doing her own one still but I'm walking in front with Eon, or…?"

"We'll all just stick together and I'll cloak the three of us. I don't think it'll be too hard, and besides that we're not going to be fighting once we get there, so a small headache from holding illusions too long won't be that bad."

"If you say so." Swarm looked back at the Map for a moment, then out of the alleyway. "Are we all cloaked?"

"Yeah." He nodded, focusing. Shadow pressed herself next to Eon's side to make it easier to hold the illusion together, and Swarm carefully silenced as many of her bugs as she could before taking a step forward, leading them around a corner and through the rest of the alleyway. The Wonder Map in her hands shimmered, slowly updating itself as they walked, the clouds moving back off the edges while lines appeared, and Taylor smiled.

This does make it a lot easier to find places. Now I just hope we're not so early that we have to spend three hours doing nothing waiting for Assault and whoever else to show up.

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"Ok, right here, and I think this is it." Swarm muttered lowly to the two vulpines pressed next to her legs. They were in a mostly abandoned street anyway, so if the cloak fell apart it wouldn't be too big of an issue, but Eon wanted to keep it up until they were going into the meeting, since it was better to look around that way for them all.

"That's it?" Shadow looked up that the barely-legible, tattered sign on the small building. The outside was worn and miserable- not unlike a lot of the city, she thought sadly- but it didn't look too bad. It was unassuming, which Shadow hadn't expected from a building where Capes frequently visited.

Though it made sense, given that it was a neutral zone.

"Yeah, that's it, according to the Map." Swarm nodded, holding it out to show the little fox that the two badges were almost exactly across from each other. "If you'd like, you can take the Map and run over there under cloak to check."

"No, I trust you to've read the Map right." Shadow smiled. "So, now what? We've got, like, two hours."

"Two hours twenty." The Cape corrected, looking at the phone she'd pulled from nowhere obvious. "And whatever, I guess. We could go wander around looking for things to do, or crimes to deal with, if you'd like. Or maybe see if there's any obvious gang bases around. We could mark them and come back tonight or something."

"Hey, since the Map's all different now, d'you think we could use it to mark bases we want to come back to, so we don't have to rely on finding them ourselves later?"

"That… would be cool." Eon frowned, taking the Map from Swarm. "Let's see…" Touching the corner, he focused on making a marker on Somer's Rock. The Map flashed, then the version of the badge marking where the pub was vanished, replaced by a little yellow dot. "We can mark places now, I guess."

"That's useful, but if we mark somewhere and someone else find that Map that's not in our team, they might be able to find places that we don't want them to." Taylor thought aloud, kneeling down again. Eon hummed, nodding, then tapped the Map again.
The marker vanished.

"There we go. We can hide the markers on the Map when we're not using it, then..." Touching it, the dot reappeared. "We can turn them back on when we need them."

"Sounds like a plan." Shadow grinned. "Now, let's go look around a bit, yeah?"

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The trio spent exactly two hours ten minutes wandering around the local area while invisible, dropping into different buildings and having a look around them. They found three drug stashes in one area alone, and promptly marked them for later searching before getting the hell out of the place every time.

"Arceus, those're disgusting." Shadow grumbled, as they left the third one. "Why on earth do humans feel the need to use those?"

"I don't know, Shadow, but I hate them too." Swarm replied. "They make me feel nervous."

"Well, we can deal with them later on, can't we?" Eon smiled at them both over his shoulder, guiding them into an alleyway nearby so he could take the rolled up Map from Swarm and mark the building they'd left. "We'll just burn it all under cloak after raiding the place."

"Thanks, Eon. It won't do much, but it'll get some of it off the streets in a way where the gangs can't just steal it back." The bug user said, before taking out her phone and glancing at the time. "Nearly time for the meeting. Back to Somer's Rock?"

"Yup." Shadow leaned over, tapping the Map and making the marker on Somer's Rock flare red, before Swarm took it back from her team leader. "Think you can guide us ok?"

"I managed most of the way before, so I think so." She told them, looking down at it for a moment and turning to orient herself in the maze of back alleys. "The cloak's up?"

"Up and fine."

"Follow me, then."

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Five minutes later, the three were standing back across the street from the entrance to the pub.

"Is anyone there?"

"I can't tell." Swarm admitted. "There's not enough bugs to get a decent picture of everything in there, especially since I don't know who's come."

"Should I go take a look?" Shadow offered, crouching down as if to dart over.

"Go ahead." Nodding, the Vulpix cloaked herself carefully, vanishing completely from view, while Eon and Swarm waited.

"If they aren't there yet, do we go in before them?" The Cape asked lowly, kneeling down to her leader's level.

"We may as well. If we're before them or after them, it's really no loss. After, and it's excusable with us being new to town and never having been here before, before and it just shows that we're willing and eager to talk with them." Eon paused. "Well, willing, at least. It could be less eagerness and more a wish to get things over with." Swarm snorted, making Eon look over. "Relax. You won't really need to say anything in the end, either. I can do most the talking, Shadow can do the rest, you might just need to mention your control over bugs and why you chose to use them as you did, but you can basically stay silent if you want. Shadow and I know how to do a report without giving away all of our abilities."

"Alright, thanks. Let me know if I'm going too far, or something?"

"That'll be Shadow's job, I still need to learn her sound displacement method, but she can feed you lines if you think it'd help."

"It… yeah, it might." She nodded. "It's just a bit nerve wracking."

"Yeah, I know. We were similar, giving our first exploration report to our Guild. They can have high standards sometimes, and you never know if you've met them or not." He sighed "In this case it's a bit worse, since while with the Guild questions are only asked to help make sure they have everything they need from the report, here they'll be fishing for information, looking to catch us off guard to learn more about us."

"That… doesn't help, but… I kinda mean more because I admired them a lot as a kid. I always wanted to be a hero, so I've looked up to people in the Wards and Protectorate for a while." Eon raised an eyebrow, chuckling.

"You don't think we were the same? The Guild had a number of fairly well known teams, Swarm, even if they were only locally known. And when we joined up with that Guild expedition, there was a really famous- as in, nationally famous- team that joined us."

"Why would a nationally famous team join up with a training guild's trip?"

"We were heading somewhere of some pretty great interest, so there were a couple of teams that wanted to come along and help out. This is also known as nicking some of the glory for the discovery we might make." Eon's dry tone made Swarm snicker. "Guildmaster Wigglytuff chose the team that he thought had the best reasons for coming along- although personal curiosity isn't the best, exactly- to come with us."

"It sounds like fun."

"It was, though at first most the Guild were horribly nervous about being around them, since they were so famous. That was just awkward. One of the other teams broke the tension kinda by accident, since they wanted to ask about how they'd gotten so good, and it all went well from there, but the first little while…"

"It does sound like it was annoying."

"Just a touch. But don't worry about this. They're people too, so you just need to focus on that. Just let us answer everything we can, and only speak when you feel comfortable, or ask Shadow to feed you lines."

"I wouldn't mind doing that." The Vulpix told them both, dropping back into visibility inside the field Eon had set up. "I'll be waiting until you're asked a question, but I can whisper stuff to you and you'll just have to repeat it."

"I think I can do that."

"Good." Shadow turned to Eon. "There's no-one in there except the bar person, so if you want to go in and pick a table for them then we can."

"Sounds like a plan to me." The grey Ninetales nodded, taking a few steps back with the pair in tow before dropping the cloak and going back, making it look as though they'd just arrived before heading over the street. Shadow easily dropped into pace behind him, standing as his second, but Swarm watched confusedly before trailing after Shadow closely.

"That's fine, Swarm," Shadow whispered through her displacement illusion. "You're the rookie, so you don't need to worry about where you are. We'll show you properly later, though."

"It was easier before." She muttered.

"That's because it wasn't 'formal.' It didn't matter exactly where you were, since no-one would know where you're supposed to stand. For more formal stuff, it's lead, second about two steps behind and slightly on the left, third on the right and a step behind the second, and the rest in the centre trailing." Nodding slightly, Swarm drifted over to where the third was apparently supposed to be, hesitating a moment. "That'll do. You're not really third, since there's only three of us, but you can have that spot anyway. Eon won't mind, and I don't think anyone on this world is gonna know formal Rescue squad etiquette anyway."

"Is there a rulebook for this or something?"

"Yeah, but I don't think we have it on us. We'll do our best to explain stuff later for you. Should've thought to do it earlier, but to be honest I don't know how often we'll need it."

"Better to know and not need it, though."

"True." Eon pushed the door open and walked in to the dim pub, looking around for a moment before continuing, Shadow and Swarm filing in after him and letting the door swing shut. At the bar, the woman seated there went to get up, but Eon shook his head, leading the two over to one of the tables on the far side with a good view of the door and seating them so that their back was to the wall. Shadow headed over to his left, edging close to his tails, and Swarm leaned over slightly.

"So now we wait." Eon murmured lowly. "Any sign of them with your bugs, Swarm?"

"Nothing so far, but they're probably on the way." She mumbled back. "I've got a lot of bugs between us and the PRT building, and again over near the Rig, so I think I'll manage to spot them when they show up."

"Good." Eon settled back carefully, twitching his tails into a more comfortable position around his paws, which prompted Shadow to brush her own over to her left, the first three around her paws while the others rested near her back.

Swarm watched them for a moment, then folded her legs and leaned back, head on the wall, looking the picture of relaxed.

Outside, a small army of bugs were running back and forth in nervousness, but it helped her feel better, at least.

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Leaning back in the chair behind his desk, the newly-freed Dragon of Kyushu frowned deeply.

The Kyuubi and its kitsune youngling were once again a point of interest to him, it seemed. Not as if they hadn't been during his short time in the PRT's jail, bound for the Birdcage, but then he'd had little else to think about aside from them. Now, he was back in his place, and he had a gang to run, as well as the mess caused by Bakuda's one day rampage to deal with.

Lung growled at the thought. He'd disliked Bakuda from the beginning, once it became clear that she was merely a glory hound with an ego problem, but after all the work he'd put into recruiting her he had been loath to say he was wrong to do so and dispose of her, so the bomb Tinker had stayed and irritated him. She had provided a useful distraction the previous day, allowing Lee to attack the transport and break him out, but Lung was still rather glad that she was going into captivity in his place.

Which brought him back to his original thought, the kitsune. He was still no closer to knowing anything about their origins- not that he expected to, in honesty, having been in jail for several days starting on their debut and with no-one in the gang knowing about them to do any looking. The only thing he had was the report of the pair's official and public debut, merely two days before, where some of his ABB had been in the vicinity of the bank attacked.

Shifting forwards, he read over the report again, his frown slightly deeper than before. The Undersiders had attacked the bank, apparently a robbery, and the Wards along with Glory Girl had shown up- Glory Girl only appearing because her sister was in the bank, it seemed- and struggled to fight off the dogs owned by Bitch for a time before the fight was intruded upon by the kitsune.

The pair had recruited the bug user they had saved, it seemed, as she had arrived with them at the scene and listened to the commands of the Kyuubi, the one apparently called Eon. The six-tailed kitsune, referred to as Shadow, had taken over fighting the dog that Aegis had been trying to deal with, shouting at it before just… talking and staring.

Lung frowned further. That sounds rather like how she defeated me. A kitsune whose gift allows them to merely speak, and their opponents fall before them. I don't recall any legends of such things… but then again, they might not even be Inari kitsune at all. Shaking his head, he continued reading.

Eon had instructed the bug Cape, using the name Swarm, to assist Gallant and Kid Win with their fight, and he had joined the battle against the second dog Vista and Glory Girl were against. Tattletale had lead the Undersiders to retreat, breaking whatever spell Shadow had placed on the dog, and caused both Eon and Swarm to attack, the latter with a bug swarm and the former with some sort of purple energy, before they escaped. The kitsune had been observed speaking with the Wards for a while, then the police, before vanishing completely into thin air, as though they had never been there.

Kitsune were well known for their capabilities in illusions, though, so that was less surprising.

Sighing, Lung leaned back again, rubbing his forehead. The kitsune could be the ones from the legends; they showed a fair number of the abilities of ones, despite the little that had been seen, and they looked the part as well. But they could easily just be a pair of Case 53's that got amusingly lucky with their shapes and teamed up together, or a pair of Changers with the same condition.

Yet something told him that wasn't the case. Something, some strange instinct, told him that this wasn't some kind of Parahuman thinking it would be amusing to make links to the kitsune legends and run around Brockton Bay. Something told him that it was more than that.

Now if only he could figure out what…

With a groan, he shook his head to clear it and called for Lee. The only other Cape in his gang appeared nearly ten minutes later, time Lung used to read over some more of the reports that had accumulated in his absence. He was just reading about an incident on the edge of his territory, near the Merchants, but gladly put that aside when he saw Lee, holding another stack of papers in his hands and bowing.

"Lung-sama." He greeted. "I have a report from your spies within the PRT." Interested and curious, he took them, believing that they would likely be about Bakuda's capture.

The read took five minutes, at which point Lung turned back and read it again, then did so a third time with a pen in hand, making notes on a spare sheet of paper as he did so. Once he was satisfied that what he had read was remembered, he put the report to one side and studied his notes carefully.

Illusions, once again putting someone to sleep by talking, though in this case it was during an argument, so perhaps it does not matter how she does it as long as she is focused… but it did take much longer, maybe her own emotional state effects things as well, and her anger made it more difficult. Possible reinforcements available in the form of these illusions, although whether they can physically affect anything is yet to be seen. This Swarm appears to be a typical Master and staying back to provide backup in the form of minions, but the kitsune are likely to try and remedy that, given that she is their team mate. She seems to already have been taught how to act, too, at least to the point of knowing to shut up and let others handle the things they're better at. Which was another thing that made Lung think that the two kitsune were more than just a simple joke or prank. They had the experience in talking, which came across quite well in the police report from the bank robbery and in the report from Bakuda's capture. And Eon has some sort of pyrokinesis, at least in the way of forming fire if not necessarily controlling it at all, with those small fireballs he created for light…

"Interesting," he completed aloud, looking at Lee. "Very interesting indeed."

"What do you command, Lung-sama?" Lee asked, tilting his head slightly.

"Leave Bakuda alone. If she is able to escape, she can, but we will not attempt to break her out as well. She was dangerous, and it is too much risk for little reward to release her." He decided quickly, brushing that off. "As for her captors… leave them alone. Spread the word to the rest of the gang, if they are to encounter either of the kitsune, or their partner the insect controller, they are to retreat, or failing that, surrender. Do not engage them. Arrange for pictures to make their way around so that they know who to avoid. Make sure everyone knows. I will take no excuses."

"Yes, Lung-sama." Lee bowed, then vanished in a teleport, the clone disintegrating a few seconds later. Lung turned his head back to the reports, gazing blankly at the one about Bakuda for a minute.

He still had no idea whether this was all some elaborate prank set up by someone in the city, or if it really was legitimate like something seemed to tell him it was, but either way he wanted to keep his gang out of the way of those kitsune. Even if it hurt his business in the long run, he'd rather that than find out that there were gods in the city that he'd managed to offend.

At least he could make up for any possible harm done. Offending a god was reasonably likely to end your life.

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"…so primarily, illusion work and arrogance." Eon finished, shaking his head slightly to flick his fur back. Shadow was still sitting on his left, looking perfectly fine with the fact that she'd been there for nearly an hour explaining what she'd done to Bakuda- though not in perfect detail, like the exact way Hypnosis worked- while Swarm was bolt upright, one leg folded over the other, completely uncaring that she'd been seated in silence the entire time they were there. Shadow and Eon had worked hard to field the questions sent their way, and the three Parahumans representing the Protectorate at their meeting- Assault, Battery, and Miss Militia- had gladly taken to it, leaving Swarm out of the questioning when it became clear that either of the two vulpines could answer them just as well.

Eon could vaguely hear bugs running around outside, betraying his newest recruit's nervousness, but he couldn't blame her for that. Reporting to someone more powerful and with more status than you could be terrifying the first time- and the rest, in fact, if they did it right.

From the other side of the table, Miss Militia, sitting opposite Shadow, nodded.

"I see." She said quietly, looking intrigued.

"It sounds very impressive." Battery, the only one who Eon knew hadn't been at the scene, put in. "Especially, and I mean no offence, for someone so new to the Cape scene."

"We may be new to the Cape scene, ma'am," Shadow replied respectfully, "But Eon and I are no strangers to battlegrounds, and Swarm is highly knowledgeable in the local situation, so I would say that we have at least some experience in dealing with hostile foes."

Eon carefully suppressed a smile at her answer, and the look on what could be seen of the Cape's faces, before he took over. "As Shadow said, we are no strangers to battle, and we well know our limits. At that point, it's not truly necessary to know those of your opponent aside from at least the bare minimum. Enough of a distraction and a careful application of a taunt or two and you can easily get the rest, after all. And with the attitude of Bakuda, it was far simpler than I had expected, in truth."

"At which point it was pretty simple to defeat her, just by keeping her attention focused on me with the argument, and stopping her from wanting to look elsewhere by having the illusions and bugs look hostile enough to make her feel the need to keep an eye on them." Shadow smirked, satisfied, and absently flicked one of her tails.

"It's still pretty impressive, though." Assault smiled. "Still, I think that's everything…?" He glanced sideways at his companions, inclining his head. Both of them nodded.

"I've got nothing else to ask."

"Neither do I." Miss Militia looked over the three of them, a smile in her eyes. "And Battery was certainly correct. For a new Cape team- even if you had previous combat experience in some way- it's still a very impressive victory."

"Thank you, ma'am." Eon lightly returned the smile as the three Capes on the opposite side of the table began preparing to leave, signalling subtly as they did for his team to stay seated for a moment. "I'm glad we were able to help. Bakuda was… not a particularly brilliant person, from what little I gathered about her, and I am glad we were able to get her somewhere where she won't be able to deal any more damage."

"We'll make sure she'd kept somewhere safe. I'm fairly sure she'll be going to the Birdcage at the very least." Miss Militia told them. Eon made a mental note to check with Swarm about what the Birdcage was, nodding.

"Good. She ought not be going anywhere for a very long time, I should hope."

"The Birdcage is inescapable, and with what we've seen so far of what she's done there's not a chance she won't be heading there." Battery said.

"That is good." Shadow smiled. "Well wishes for the rest of your day."

"And yours." Assault grinned at them in return before the three of them left the building. Eon listened for a moment, hearing a motorcycle start up, then relaxed, nodding to Swarm and Shadow. The Vulpix jumped down from the chair and shook herself, yawning a little as she did, while Swarm stretched.

"You girls ok?"

"I'm fine, Eon." Shadow nodded, as her leader stepped down next to her. "That was different to the Guild interviews… guess it makes sense, though, since we were arresting a criminal… but it was kinda… short."

"That was short?" Swarm asked, sounding incredulous behind the insect buzz. "Jeez. I feel bad for you two."

"To be fair, we quite often do multiple things in the same dungeon." Eon explained, leading the way to the door. With an absent use of Extrasensory, he placed a few bills from the bag onto the counter while Swarm opened the door for them, then he continued, "See, we might go to the job board one day and see three jobs in the same dungeon. Could be anything; criminal hunts, missing Pokemon, item searches… anyway, we'd take all three of those jobs to save three teams heading into the same dungeon, and do them all at once. The problem was, when we got back, we'd need to fill in three reports for the dungeon exploration, and if we did go and catch an outlaw, we had to speak to Officer Magnezone to give a report about that as well."

"Sounds like fun."

"It was worse if we did multiple outlaw missions." Shadow grinned, shaking her head. "So annoying sometimes."

"It was always fun, though." Eon decided, leading them into an alleyway and pausing to layer a cloak over them all. "Still, are you actually alright, Swarm?"

"Yeah, I'm good." She exhaled sharply, leaning against the wall as she did. "It was… nerve-racking, more than yesterday was with Assault after Bakuda, but I'm alright."

"Good. Want to go home, or would you rather we wandered and did some more criminal hunting to relieve the stress?"

The bug Cape paused for a few minutes. "I think home, if you don't mind. I'd like to talk to dad more… we have a lot to catch up on, from the last few months."

"That's fine." Eon nodded. "All together, then, and we'll head home. Shadow, the Map?"

"Got it." Shadow opened the bag, handing the Map to Swarm, who unrolled it and crouched next to her leader. Eon touched the edge, waiting a moment for the marker to appear over Swarm's house, before letting the trio move off, following the Map.

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"That was interesting." Alice said over the comms, as the group of three moved back towards the PRT building.

"It was, wasn't it?" Ethan nodded, bouncing off a wall casually. "They seemed really serious and professional. I think I can see how that little one, Shadow, managed to take down Lung."

"She was rightfully proud of her part in it all." Hannah added. "And if she took down Lung in the same way… Bakuda never stood a chance against her, did she?"

"That's one team I'm definitely not going to try fighting, that's for sure." Ethan grinned. "And we should probably warn Clock off of trying to prank them when they meet next, or something."

"Never thought I'd hear you say that."

"You wound me, Puppy." Hannah sighed, and Ethan smirked at the almost-audible roll of her eyes.

"Come on, you two. Let's get back to base so we can write up this report for the Director."

"Sure thing, Militia." He landed in the street for a moment, just long enough to flash her a grin, then took off towards the PRT building, wondering quietly about the trio of apparently new Capes he'd just spoken with.

 

[LostArchivist]

I think that chapter needs a minor bit of editing -- I saw a few typos -- but it's otherwise good. Interesting to see Lung nervous around them, but it makes a lot of sense. I'm still curious as to what degree his guesses are actually correct, though.

This also gives her a bit more leverage of the political variety if the Sophia situation blows up at the PRT. If it's civilian, though, it's hard to say.

I do hope that she doesn't ally too closely yet, at least until Coil is taken out. Admittedly Cauldron owns the whole thing, but having enemies that close by who should be allies would not help.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

I think that chapter needs a minor bit of editing -- I saw a few typos -- but it's otherwise good. Interesting to see Lung nervous around them, but it makes a lot of sense. I'm still curious as to what degree his guesses are actually correct, though.

This also gives her a bit more leverage of the political variety if the Sophia situation blows up at the PRT. If it's civilian, though, it's hard to say.

I do hope that she doesn't ally too closely yet, at least until Coil is taken out. Admittedly Cauldron owns the whole thing, but having enemies that close by who should be allies would not help.

Click to shrink...

In order!

Please point out typos whenever you see them. Sometimes they're meant to be like that. Other times it's just because I can't read and/or type.

Lung. Yes.

Sophia will be dealt with in due time, with all the fallout she deserves.

Coil? Who's he?

Seriously, he'll also be dealt with in due time, and will also get all of the fallout he deserves from his... work.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

Hmm, been a quiet few weeks, hasn't it.

Have today's chapter, then!

Brace for impact!

 

[ShadowPixelle]

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♦ Topic: New Cape Team?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Apr 14th 2011:

So, an interesting thing happened today.

I, along with a number of other people, was at the bank- Brockton Bay Central Bank, to be specific to the folks not from around here- when the Undersiders happened to decide to stage a robbery.

Wonderful timing, right?

Anyway, things went down, the entire team's there, when Tattletale mentions that the Wards've shown up- most of them, apparently Shadow Stalker wasn't about. Grue and Regent went out to try dealing with them, plus two of Hellhound's dogs, while Tattletale worked on loading the stuff they'd taken onto the third dog there.

Little while later, she glances out the door, then panics, yelling for Hellhound to call off her dogs and the team runs for it.

Thought that was a bit weird, then Glory Girl shows up. Turns out Panacea was there too, so maybe they figured that out and decided they needed to leave pretty quick?

Anyway, they're gone, cops show up, start interviewing everyone, standard fare, then I get outside and spot this.

So yeah, two foxes with a lot of tails and some tall person in a bug costume. Clearly new Capes, but I know nothing about them. Anyone got stuff to say?

Edit 1: PoisionedCells has their names for us.

Edit 2: Video from Singlet.

Edit 3: A lot of information from Laotsunn, all very... interesting.
Edit 4: The entirety of Team Inari has shown up in thread, answering questions for us.

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►PoisonedCells
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

I don't know very much about all this, but a friend of mine was around as well. She apparently heard that they were 'quite famous' where they came from.

The littlest one, with six tails and brown fur, was called Shadow, and the larger fox was named Eon. He seemed to be team leader. The tall person was a girl, named Swarm.

►Aloha
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

That Shadow girl was so cute! I wonder if I'll get to meet them, she looked adorable!

►Singlet
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

She wasn't so adorable during the battle, I'll tell you that.

Actually, I'll show you that.

I mean, still cute, but what the hell?!

►Antigone
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

blinks

Did... did I just watch the tiny fox shout at one of Hellhound's dogs? And whoa, that voice was loud. How did that happen?

Anyway... that was cool. They seemed to pop up out of nowhere, too. How'd they do that?

►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

They just straight-up vanished at the end of it all, too. Shadow vanished a little bit before the others, and no-one seemed to notice it happening, then Eon said farewell to the Wards, shook Panacea's hand, glanced at Swarm and they both disappeared.

Everyone looked very confused, I'll tell you that.

►Deimos
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

I've heard rumours that they're apparently calling themselves Inari.

You know. Inari. Like the Japanese God, Inari.

So there's that.

►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Oh. Holy shit.

Ok. This. This is... whoa.

So. For those of you here that have exactly zero knowledge of the Japanese legends, they're a mess, first off.

Inari is genderless, can be represented as a group of Kami rather than just an individual, and is the patron to a lot of things. That's not as important, though. The thing that is, is that Inari is known to be related to the kitsune.

Kitsune, as you may or may not be aware, are multi-tailed foxes. They gain a tail for every century they live, topping off at nine, and they become white or gold then, with 1000-year-old kitsune being considered basically gods. Kitsune are also known to have long lives and magical powers, normally shapeshifting and possession being the ones that pop up most regularly in stories, plus being really smart.

Inari is known to have white Kyuubi (nine-tailed kitsune) as it's messengers, but it's possible that other, younger kitsune are involved as well, probably learning or whatever.

Not the point.

Anyway, we've got ourselves two foxes, specifically kitsune, in the Bay. And they've named their team after Inari.

That's... well. At minimum, one hell of a power coincidence.

►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

@Laotsunn, thanks for the information. I've linked your post, and some of the stuff from people above, in the first post.

That is one hell of a coincidence, though. Presumably when they got their powers they just ran with the idea?

Does anyone know if they're Case 53's, or just two really similar Changers?

►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

According to the chat that we had just after the police had left, they're not Case 53's. Aegis asked and explained a bit, Eon said neither of them were, no tattoos at all, or amnesia.

Also, Shadow really was pretty cute. She told us a lot, too, but I don't know if I'm supposed to talk about it. It's kind of their business.

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►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Hey all! Nice to meet you, even in a text format!

Swarm's helped me get a PHO account all set up, and she's just doing one for Eon too, but Eon's given me the job of being the main internet contact! That's super-cool, since you all seem interesting and it'll be nice to talk to you!

Um, right, answer people's questions, yeah?

So, we did name our team after Inari, but that was because we thought they were really cool, not because we look like kitsune. We only picked up Swarm recently, and I really like working with her. She looks kinda scary, but she's fun. Plus her powers work really well with ours, which is nice.

Eon doesn't have any relation to Inari, as far as we know, and we aren't Case 53's, as Vista said above. Speaking of, I don't mind repeating what I said to her earlier; basically, I just miss the fact that Eon and I, and some of our other friends, tended to terrify villains into giving up pretty fast, though we also did rescues and stuff, and that it was a bit weird to run into a bank robbery, since we didn't normally see people robbing banks and shops due to people being able to look after themselves.

Also, user Aloha, I'd quite like to meet you too! Maybe we'll run into you while we're on patrol!

Hopefully not by having to save you from something, though.

►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Oh, @Shadow! A pleasure to have you in the thread. Thanks for dropping by and volunteering to answer stuff, that's always nice.

Would you mind telling us a little more about yours and Eon's powers? And Swarm, if you're willing. People here're nosy, and we like speculating on powers, but it's also nice to have actual confirmation.

►Answer Key
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Plus, there's some people here who like looking at powers, so they might figure out something you could possibly do that you've overlooked.

►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

I went and asked Eon, and Swarm, and they said they didn't mind, so sure!

Basically, I'm an illusion maker and pyrokinetic. I burn things and make things that aren't there. Or, sometimes, things that are there not there. Mostly I just throw fire at things, though. And I prefer talking out stuff over fighting, but I know that doesn't always work.

Eon's the same, but better at everything than me. His illusions are super cool, too, and he can do really neat tricks with fires. He's pretty serious sometimes, but he can be fun too.

Swarm's a bug user, which is neat. Kinda scary, but neat. And she can use loads all at once, which is cool. She's super serious, but that's ok, because she's still awesome.

►AllSeeingEye
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Nice to know, Shadow, and thanks for popping up.

What about that vanishing act you all pulled at the end of the video? Can you talk about that?

►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Don't see why not, and neither does Eon. It's a cloak effect, part of our illusions, that lets us go invisible. It's kinda hard to do, but you can hold it for a while if you know what you're doing. And Eon really does, 'cause he's old and experienced.

►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Watch your mouth, pix.

But yes, the cloak is one of our more useful abilities, and unless you know what you're doing with it can be pretty dangerous. You could easily hurt yourself if you didn't do it right, or held it for too long when you can't handle it.

►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Wow, Shadow, not sure whether I should be offended that I got such a short mention. Then again, you've been friends with Eon for ages, so I guess you would know more about him than me.

Anyway, hi, PHO! Nice to meet you all. Like she's already said, Shadow's going to be the main point of communication here, just because she's the one most interested in being online. Point your questions at her, though we'll obviously drop in to answer stuff more aimed at us.

►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

Nice of you to join us people here, Team Inari! Which, by the way, is a cool name. Hopefully you'll be doing some work here in Brockton Bay, and maybe you'll actually enjoy your stay!

►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Apr 14th 2011:

A pleasure to be here, Clockblocker. I hope our team will be able to work with yours again soon, hopefully in better capacity than was occurring earlier this afternoon.

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♦ Topic: Empire vs Protectorate and Inari!
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Brocktonite03 (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted On Apr 28th 2011:

Holy crap that was awesome. Kind of scary, but still awesome.

So, a little while ago, like an hour or so, Hookwolf and Cricket went tearing down the main street for some reason. No idea what the hell happened, but something'd set them off bad.

They're off down the street, someone obviously calls in the Capes, since Miss Militia, Dauntless and Triumph all showed up, and it all turns into a battle as the heroes tried to drag the others away from civilians.

Then these guys showed up.

Team Inari just jumped into the battle, ready and roaring, and holy crap are they incredible.

Here's the video I was able to get, which shows them in action, but for those who can't watch it right now...

Shadow just goes right in against Cricket, joining Triumph in that fight, while Eon went with Dauntless and Miss Militia against Hookwolf. Swarm spent a lot of the battle drawn back, out of the way, but she was using her bugs to distract them both.

Shadow seemed to be doing something to Cricket's echolocation thing, going in and out of that cloak she can do, but Cricket seemed to be lashing out at nothing a lot, like she was hearing something. Swarm was using this to get in little hits against her, but it looked like her bugs were a bit lost against her sometimes, like they were confused. Triumph seemed a bit confused too, at first, but he took advantage of it pretty quick.

Shadow spent most the fight invisible, actually. Maybe she was trying to set something up but couldn't, or maybe she thought she was outmatched against Cricket and was hoping to just act as support along with Swarm? Still, she managed pretty well. She just popped up right at the end, too, and Cricket went down! It looked like she barked or something, but whatever happened really knocked her for six, which let Shadow drop her and Triumph grab her.

The other battle, Eon's visible for pretty much the entire fight, and wow can he move! He basically lead Hookwolf on this merry chase around the place, throwing little fire orbs behind him from his tails, and at one point made a freaking dragon pop up! That really startled Hookwolf, he froze right there which let Miss Militia nail him with something, then Eon came back around and set him on fire! That took him down pretty fast, so the three of them wrapped him up and the dragon thing vanished, at which point Swarm came down to join them and they looked over to see how Shadow and Triumph were doing.

That fight ended a minute later, the two of them dragging Cricket over, and Inari spent a couple more minutes talking with Miss Militia until a PRT van showed up and they loaded the Empire Capes up, then they vanished like they normally do at the end of an encounter.

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►ChocChipCookie
Replied On Apr 28th 2011:

Wow. That was... impressive, to say the least.

Watching the video there, Eon looked really neat. Did it look like his fur was sparkling to anyone else, or was that just me?

And I wonder what was up with those flames, too. They seemed to be sticking to Hookwolf, but they weren't burning out or anything.

►Helotan
Replied On Apr 28th 2011:

no, its not just you, his fur was sparkling. dunno why you noticed that tho.

and the flames werent dying out either. is strange, yeah.

►GellSine
Replied On Apr 28th 2011:

Maybe it's a side effect of the Shaker power that's making them? Eon's a Cape, why would the flames burn out if he didn't want to?

And I can't see what you're on about with the sparkles thing.

►Arombee
Replied On Apr 28th 2011:

Hmm. I can kind of see it...

But to be honest, I'm more interested in what Shadow's doing over with Cricket. Like, she was just gone for the entire fight?
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Why would she even really bother with that, though? It's not like she doesn't have similar Shaker powers to Eon. Why not just set her on fire or something?​

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In all fairness, from what we've seen of Team Inari so far, they're pretty careful not to cause damage to people that might be an issue. Shadow even seems to make it a point to do that weird healing bark every time they finish a fight and they're waiting for the police, just in case someone had a bad reaction to Swarm's bug. Maybe she just didn't want to risk setting Cricket on fire and possibly hurting her by accident? Or maybe she didn't want to risk hitting Triumph with the flames when he was trying to attack.​

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►PoisonedCells ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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@PoisonedCells yup, I have a healing bark! I confirmed it in this post here, over on the thread that was speculating on our powers, but for the sake of clarity; I can only do it a certain number of times before I need a break, and it depends on my perception of an area- namely, what counts as a room. It's also actually easier to do a bunch of people at once, since that still only takes up one use of it.​

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@ChocChipCookie @Helotan @GellSine yeah, Eon's fur sparkles in the right light. It looks really pretty up close. And the flames don't burn out unless Eon wants them to, or I heal the effects of them. Eon can stop them being there, but the burns themselves stick about until I heal them.​

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@Arombee I was mostly playing distraction for the Cricket fight, to be honest. Triumph was more effective on the front of actually battling her, so I spent the time throwing my voice to confuse her about where I was. I was also making a really high pitched sound using my illusions and a couple things I picked up as a kid, which seemed to really mess her up, so I kept doing it.​

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The louder bark thing apparently has some sort of weird intimidation effect too, so I thought I should use that to try and knock her out.​

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@Answer Key @AllSeeingEye you're right there ASE, I didn't want to accidentally hurt someone badly because I didn't have time to heal them, and that goes doubly so for someone who's on my side! That'd really suck.​

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Other than that, it was a pretty cool battle. I've fought people who use echolocation before, but Cricket's was really precise, way more than I expected. I think she does other stuff too, Triumph looked a bit off balance sometimes, and I could kinda hear some ringing in the background, like a really awful sounding bell. Looks like she can do other stuff too.​

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Also, it's nice that Triumph and the others didn't mind us dropping in on the battle like that. They looked like they could do with a hand, given how many people were in the area.​

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►FirstofMayuary ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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Huh. That's cool. Thanks for the reply, Shadow!​

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And yeah, I missed hearing about the healing bark thing too. Are you planning on hospital volunteering next, by any chance? If you could count an entire floor as a room...​

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►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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Hey, that's something I hadn't thought of before. Could be a good idea, actually, trying to help people in that way too.​

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Swarm's told me before that this city has a healer here, too... maybe I should ask her if she'd be willing to spot for me once to see what I can and can't heal, if she's not too busy?​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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It'd be nice of you to help, sure. The hospital can get pretty busy some days, and I tend to spend a lot of time there helping people.​

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I tend to be there most days, actually, so if you were to meet me somewhere maybe we could organise with the hospital for you to come in and help?​

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I've opened up a PM to continue this discussion in for you, if you'd like.​

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►GellSine ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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Maybe you should focus Shadow nearer the kiddy wards? I'm sure the littler kids that're stuck in there for whatever reason would love having a fluffy little fox doing the healing for them.​

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►AllSeeingEye ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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I certainly can't see the hospital being too annoyed with getting a new healer in for when Panacea's away or something.​

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And thanks for that bit of confirmation, @Shadow. I can understand being careful with your powers because you don't want to hurt anyone by accident. It's good to see, actually, though I have to wonder how Swarm was planning on dealing with that same issue?​

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►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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@AllSeeingEye I'd done a lot of research after I Triggered about allergies to stings and bites, and I was carrying Epi-pens to make sure that nothing went wrong.​

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I still carry them now, actually, because Shadow might not always be right next to me when we're dealing with something, so it's better for me to be prepared in case something happens and Shadow's not about.​

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►Brocktonite03 (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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That's a really good way of thinking, @Swarm. There's no reason to get complacent about people's safety, after all, especially with a power as subtly dangerous as yours can be- no offense.​

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And Shadow, thanks for the mini essay answer about the battle. It's nice to hear from you, as always. I'll add a link to the post in on the original.​

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►Chilldrizzle ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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Hey, @Shadow, any comment on the dragon thing Eon pulled off? I noticed that you kinda ignored that bit, and I'm curious?​

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►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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The dragon was just an illusion of Eon's, nothing special. It's something he's been practising a lot, actually, trying to get the movements right. It's kinda difficult sometimes, and looked really bad when you do it wrong.​

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And none taken, @Brocktonite03. I know my fire's dangerous, and so does Eon. We'll be careful with it, we promise.​

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►bothad ​

Replied On Apr 28th 2011:​

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♦ Topic: Shadow doing hospital work?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
AltoKara (Original Poster)
Posted On Apr 30th 2011:

So, I was at Brockton General today with my daughter, because she'd tripped and broken her arm. We were in the kids ward, obviously, and one of the nurses mentioned that they were going to put a cast on it, when Panacea walked in. Of course, I'm pretty happy about that, since it means that my little one isn't going to need to deal with a scratchy cast for weeks on end while her arm heals, and the nurse goes over to talk quietly with her.

Panacea smiles, nods a few times, then gestures to the door. The nurse looked a bit surprised, thought for a moment, then nodded, so Panacea went over and opened the door.

And then this walked in.

I'm not much for Cape stuff, but both my husband and daughter are, so I recognised her vaguely, then my daughter spotted her and started grinning. 'Mom, that's Shadow!' she said, excited, 'From Team Inari!'

So while she's freaking out about that and only sitting still because it hurts her arm to move, Shadow speaks with Panacea and the nurse for a moment before the nurse comes forwards and quickly talks to the room, explaining that Shadow's here to heal everyone and then Panacea's going to check them, so all the kids stuck in there will be able to go soon. There's a couple of parents that look a bit nervous about that, but no-one complained, so Shadow steps forward. She's smiling a little, all gentle, and cheerfully explains that she's going to help, and sorry if it's a little loud for a moment, but her power's annoying like that and has to make a noise to work, then she barks.

It's not actually all that loud, and it sounds kind of like a bell chimes, then this ripple of pink-yellow light flashes over the room. My daughter giggled, saying her arm went all tingly, then a few seconds later it's all over. Panacea makes some rounds about the room, just putting her hand on the kid's for a second before nodding and moving on, while Shadow makes the same lap but in the other direction.

She stopped at my daughter and smiled, and asked if she felt ok. My daughter, now super excited, grins and nods, basically bouncing in her seat, and Shadow chuckles, 'Ok, just sit still for a minute so Panacea can come make sure everything's definitely alright, then you'll be able to head back home with your mom instead of being stuck in here. Just might want to be careful not to hurt yourself again, ok?' My daughter nods, then really shyly asked for a high five, which she got, and Shadow moved on as Panacea came over and checked.

We were signed out about five minutes after that, and my daughter kept glancing over at Shadow. When we were allowed to leave, she asked me, really quietly, if she could ask Shadow to sign something, so I gave her a pen and my notepad and let her go over there.

She's now begging my husband to put it in a frame for her so she can have it on the wall.

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►Coyote-C ​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Aww, that's so cute! I didn't realise Shadow was doing healing rounds now.​

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Actually, I didn't realise Shadow could heal at all.​

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►AllSeeingEye ​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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It all came up in this thread, specifically starting here when Shadow was giving some answers about Team Inari's part in the Empire Vs Protectorate and Inari fight the other day.​

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Someone else suggested Shadow volunteer at the hospitals sometimes, and Panacea offered to help arrange it and to spot for her, make sure she didn't miss anything.​

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Sounds like she did a really great job, though! Good to know your daughter's ok. Broken bones suck.​

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►Chaosfaith ​

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That's really nice of Shadow to do. Kudos to whoever suggested that, and to Panacea as well for giving up some of her time to follow Shadow around and make sure there weren't any mistakes made.​

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And kudos to Shadow too, for doing that.​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Thanks, Chaosfaith. Shadow did a really good job, actually, there was no reason for me to be following her. She healed everything perfectly, and she even managed to get a couple of things I can't do, like concussions. There were a couple of nasty ones that she managed to fix right up!​

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Shame she has such a bad limit though, it'd make the lives of just about everyone in the hospital much easier.​

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►ArchmageEin ​

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Damn, shoutouts to both of you for doing that, and the hospital for being willing to let the new Cape run about doing it. Not that there was much danger to it, Shadow's one hell of a hero from what I've seen and heard, and with Panacea there it's not like issues couldn't be fixed. And that's really cool, to hear that she can heal concussions. Can she do really heavy brain trauma, or tumours and stuff that're on the brain?​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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We don't know about that yet, since Shadow ended up too tired to do anything more pretty soon after. We managed to get through eight rooms in the end, in about two hours. Most of that was me going to make sure everything was ok, but Shadow could probably clear out that in about twenty minutes, not counting time to go to the rooms.​

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She was kinda wiped out by the end, though. Not massively, but she was pretty tired by the last room. She actually struggled a bit to do it that last time.​

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Shame, because it was actually pretty interesting to see what she was doing.​

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►Chrome ​

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That's still really cool, though. Nice of her to volunteer to help, and good of you to make sure everything went ok as well.​

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That whole limit thing does suck, though... I wonder if Eon can do it as well? Maybe he could do it more? Or maybe he'd have more of a range on it?​

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►bothad ​

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shadows really nice to have done that and well done panacea for helping her good to know that she can heal brain problems as well since she can help get more people out of the hospital quickly like you do​

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►FirstofMayuary ​

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It would be cool if Eon could do it too, @Chrome, but I'd've thought that if he could he would've been there with Shadow and Panacea to test it. Just in case something was different about his power, or simply so Panacea wouldn't need to give up two days to make sure everything was fine with it.​

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►AllSeeingEye ​

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It could be a ranking thing. Like, Eon's team leader, so he does most of the up front battling. Shadow's the second in command, so she's healing and illusory combat, keeping safer. Swarm's the third and the rookie, so she stays back out of the way and gives long range support.​

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It just so happens that their powers merge well with that.​

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►AltoKara (Original Poster)​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Honestly, I have no idea about that, I'm just glad that my girl's out of hospital quickly. I'll bet that everyone else helped by Shadow is feeling the same.​

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►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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Well, Shadow's still asleep, so Eon's designated that I handle the PHO responses this time! Thanks to everyone saying thanks to Shadow, I'll make sure she gets them when she wakes up.​

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Special thanks to Panacea for spending some of her time at the hospital today checking over Shadow's work after she healed everyone. It's always good to be careful, and we're glad you were willing to help.​

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Also thanks to the hospital staff for letting Shadow help, and to @FirstofMayuary for the original suggestion in the other thread, which @AllSeeingEye already linked last page.​

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@Chrome @FirstofMayuary Eon's never actually learned to do the healing thing that Shadow did, at least partly because it's difficult to learn to do correctly and all that, and partly because Shadow actually inherited her ability with it, so she's been able to do it for ages and has practised it religiously to be perfect. He's now planning on getting Shadow to help him learn, though. That way we won't have to rely on Shadow as much for on-duty healing, and also because then he can come and help as well.​

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He hopes that Panacea wouldn't mind spotting for him too, once he gets it down.​

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@AllSeeingEye it's not so much a ranking thing as an opportunity thing, to be honest. Shadow's good at healing, but she's also good at combat. It just so happens that I'm best staying out of the way. If I was better at close in combat, then I'd be there, despite my part in the team being the third and rookie.​

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And Shadow's healing power works pretty weirdly, since it lets her use it anywhere between five to eight times, but resting between each one helps regain the use faster. We're also pretty sure something like an energy drink would help, and Panacea would probably be able to recharge her a couple of times. Eon's got something he knows works, though, so we're currently making sure she'll always be able to have some on her so she can recharge in an emergency.​

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We're also pretty sure it won't work on lost limbs, though tumours or brain damage we don't know. If @Panacea is willing to help, Eon's hoping to have Shadow test that either tomorrow or the day after, depending on when she's back up to full strength.​

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►FirstofMayuary ​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Thanks for the reply, Swarm, and hopefully Shadow gets better soon. Make sure she doesn't work herself into injury or something, though, if she has a hard limit on her powers. It's a good thing that you have a way to help her recover, too.​

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And huh, I'd actually forgotten that I came up with the idea for that, sort of. Thanks anyway, though I don't know if I really deserve it.​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

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I'd be glad to help out with your experiments again, Swarm. If Eon figures out how to do the healing, I'd be glad to check it over for him to make sure it all goes ok. And once Shadow's better, I'm sure the hospital would be fine letting her test herself on some of the more injured patients in the building, to see if she can heal that too. It's always good to have more healers in town.​

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►AllSeeingEye ​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Maybe the two of you could call some of the other hospitals in the city as well, if General doesn't have anyone who you could try and heal. I can't really see them refusing to let you, especially with Panacea on the case to make sure nothing goes wrong there.​

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►Deimos ​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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Id quite like to know if Inari is planning on heading to the next Endbringer attack that happens. Having another heavy duty healer on site would probably take a lot of pressure off Panacea in the medical bay, and more Capes would probably pull through.​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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We do have intentions to at least allow Shadow to make her way to the next attack, especially since it is now confirmed that she can heal people well enough to be a useful addition. Swarm and I are likely to go with her, Swarm intending to help with search and rescue while I plan on staying near the medical unit to keep it safe, unless we as a team deem it more useful for me to go on the offence against the Endbringer to try and drive it off.​

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Unfortunately the chances of me being able to assist with the healing itself is low.​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

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That's good to know, actually. You'll want to make sure you head to the PRT building when you do, so you can get one of the bands there and join in. It'll be good to have an extra pair of hands there to heal, though I'll make sure that Shadow only deals with large groups since that's where her speciality seems to lie.​

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And good luck with your learning, Eon. Even if you aren't very good with the healing, just being able to patch people up is a useful addition in an attack.​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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Unfortunately it's doubtful that I'd even be that good, depending on when the attack occurs. Healing is a very difficult art to learn, and not everyone has the luck to be born with the gift like Shadow was.​

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I might join you on Shadow's next trip to the hospital, in fact. Perhaps a bit of first hand experience would help.​

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►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)​

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It probably wouldn't be a problem, as long as you're careful there. I've added your account into the PM conversation I was having with Shadow over the last few days to organise it, so we can arrange for you to join us there.​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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Thank you, Panacea. I will endeavour to arrange a favourable situation as soon as Shadow has recovered enough to join us.​

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►AllSeeingEye ​

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Man, if Shadow's going to be out for so long every time she pushes herself to the upper end of the thing without a break, is it even a good idea to send her to an Endbringer battle? I've heard those get pretty hectic. Even if you try and limit her to healing only groups, who's to say that she won't get caught up in a massive rush and end up out for the rest of the battle?​

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And I think the next attack's going to be pretty soon, isn't it? Maybe she should be careful not to go to her limit each time she heals at the minute. How long does it normally take to recover between uses? If it's not too long, you could have her do one room, then Panacea do the next one, so she never gets too tired.​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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The effect grows with every use, sadly. The first time, it might only need a couple of minutes break, but the next will take longer. And the exhaustion collects as well. It's better if she has a break in between, she can sometimes get a ninth use out of it, but without something to help her recover she'll just be out again.​

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Your method could still work, of course, but we're making sure to give her a supply big enough that she can use it in the next battle to keep going throughout.​

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►GodofDogs ​

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It'll still be really cool, though. Good thing Shadow can work with Panacea so well, that'll certainly help at one of the battles, and just around the city in general too. If Panacea can give Shadow boosts, then that'll be really helpful in the end.​

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►Arombee ​

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Damn. Going to an Endbringer attack. I wouldn't have pegged it for you. I mean, no offence, none of your powers seem like they'd be all that useful against any of them. Leviathan's hydrokinetic, Behemoth's dynakinetic, and the Simurgh can fly. It doesn't seem like you'd be able to do anything at all to them.​

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It's good that Shadow's healing, but I'd say it's a no-go for combat?​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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@Arombee no offence taken, I understand that we don't look like we'd be particularly helpful in that situation. However we do have a few more powers that we can use- Shadow more than myself, admittedly, but I plan on learning as many of them as I can over the coming weeks.​

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None of them are as difficult to learn as healing is, and there's bound to be something I can learn from her that'll be useful.​

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►Tin_Mother (Moderator)​

Replied On Apr 30th 2011:​

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As interesting as this all is, can it please stop in this thread? If you want to discuss what you'll do in the next Endbringer attack, please take it to its own thread.​

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Thank you.​

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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)​

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Of course. My apologies, Tin_Mother.​

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►BlueDragon ​

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So, am I the only one having trouble with the fact that Eon can apparently learn powers from Shadow?​

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[Spaceships]

That last line. Really puts in perspective that pokemon are different. Up until the end, I completely forgot how much of a OCP they are.

 

[MarkAren]

but Cricket seemed to be lashing out and nothing a lot

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Out at nothing

I was waiting for someone to bring up that bit at the end.

 

[Astrobot]

So why is shadow revealing that they have no connection to Inari? Wasnt it an earlier plot point that they were going to play up that angle while on bet? It feels a bit counterproductive to confirm the oposite.
Also wasnt it stated that eon was potentially involved with Inari in some fashion at some point in the past?

 

[Alethiar]

So you're telling me that Shadow used multiple times a healing aura with uncertain limits but that also AFFECTS BRAINS, eh?

With PANACEA in the room...

Interesting...

 

[FallenKingSeton]

So you're telling me that Shadow used multiple times a healing aura with uncertain limits but that also AFFECTS BRAINS, eh?

With PANACEA in the room...

Interesting...

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Yeah but that was more like healing physical damage, rather than mental. In Pokemon terms, Shadow is using Healing wish, and Panacea is afflicted by Attract. The Attract will still be there, unaffected. She'll need a Lum Berry to get rid of that Attract.

 

[FailLord]

Yeah but that was more like healing physical damage, rather than mental. In Pokemon terms, Shadow is using Healing wish, and Panacea is afflicted by Attract. The Attract will still be there, unaffected. She'll need a Lum Berry to get rid of that Attract.

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Nah just purchase a red flute.

 

[LostArchivist]

I found this chapter odd. They basically outed their whole repertoire (which is probably easy to circumvent, since it's actually fairly limited) without keeping anything interesting secret. They then said that they weren't named for Inari, and didn't mention that they know the one on their world, thus making it more likely people will not be as frightened of them and more likely to attack, because capes.

And yeah, the whole thing about learning and being born with powers should probably have led to a surprise abduction by a woman with a fedora who's now rather curious. I'm surprised that no-one noticed at all until the end of the thread (and chapter).

 

[Qwertystop]

Yeah but that was more like healing physical damage, rather than mental. In Pokemon terms, Shadow is using Healing wish, and Panacea is afflicted by Attract. The Attract will still be there, unaffected. She'll need a Lum Berry to get rid of that Attract.

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Healing Wish, or Heal Bell? Some of the description matched one (the bell sound), some the other (the extreme tiredness).

 

[Brainarius]

I found this chapter odd. They basically outed their whole repertoire (which is probably easy to circumvent, since it's actually fairly limited) without keeping anything interesting secret. They then said that they weren't named for Inari, and didn't mention that they know the one on their world, thus making it more likely people will not be as frightened of them and more likely to attack, because capes.

And yeah, the whole thing about learning and being born with powers should probably have led to a surprise abduction by a woman with a fedora who's now rather curious. I'm surprised that no-one noticed at all until the end of the thread (and chapter).

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They're Pokemon and Taylor's an amateur so different norms and no experienced people to teach them. Back in Pokemon land, they're used to working in teams for a supportive society so they are open with their moves and abilities so that they can better help effectively. In any case, if anyone harms Shadow, Eon will probably try to get Hoopa to send in back-up. They're already flexible 'Grab-bags' (Shaker/Stranger/Blaster/Thinker/Mover/Brute) and fairly powerful by Worm standards. Maybe Cauldron already contacted Hoopa to ask for Pokemon support?

 

[Bezzerker]

Plus, I don't think that Shadow or Eon have really explained the sheer breadth of powers they have at their disposal, especially if they aren't limited to the games' normal four move limit.

I mean at minimum, they've completely left out Eon's post-, peri-, and pre-cognitive ability. Sure, it's not all powerful (I know it works off of touching people/pokemon, but I think it might also work off of objects as well? I don't fully remember the plot since my playthrough was quite a while ago), but that's still one hell of an ace in the hole.

There's also the fact that both Eon and Shadow have fought multiple Legendaries, including a corrupted Diagla. Depending on how the author sets things up, it's entirely possible that the Rescue Team is actually fairly well-versed in fighting off Endbringer level opponents. But, that's up to the author to decide.

So what they've revealed is essentially nothing someone couldn't have figured out on their own based purely off of first-hand observation. I'd be willingly to bet that at least part of the reason for this openness is for PR, as being seen to be open and honest with what they can do to the public they want to help protect.

 

[january1may]

Depending on how the author sets things up, it's entirely possible that the Rescue Team is actually fairly well-versed in fighting off Endbringer level opponents.

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My impression was that they had lots of experience with fighting off A-class to low S-class level opponents, but the Endbringers are on the higher end of S-class, which would make things tricky.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

That last line. Really puts in perspective that pokemon are different. Up until the end, I completely forgot how much of a OCP they are.

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Yeah, it was kinda easy to forget, I guess. They're weird.

Out at nothing

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Fixed.

So why is shadow revealing that they have no connection to Inari? Wasnt it an earlier plot point that they were going to play up that angle while on bet? It feels a bit counterproductive to confirm the oposite.
Also wasnt it stated that eon was potentially involved with Inari in some fashion at some point in the past?

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Um, right. I've adjusted that segment slightly, because I had a derp. They are playing up that angle, yes, but nothing's been confirmed in story or out of it on Eon's possible relation and/or involvement with Inari in the Pokemon world.

So you're telling me that Shadow used multiple times a healing aura with uncertain limits but that also AFFECTS BRAINS, eh?

With PANACEA in the room...

Interesting...

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Yes.

Healing Wish, or Heal Bell? Some of the description matched one (the bell sound), some the other (the extreme tiredness).

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Heal Pulse and Heal Bell, actually. The reason behind the tiredness has an explanation, also known as this is how I'm explaining Power Points.

They're Pokemon and Taylor's an amateur so different norms and no experienced people to teach them. Back in Pokemon land, they're used to working in teams for a supportive society so they are open with their moves and abilities so that they can better help effectively. In any case, if anyone harms Shadow, Eon will probably try to get Hoopa to send in back-up. They're already flexible 'Grab-bags' (Shaker/Stranger/Blaster/Thinker/Mover/Brute) and fairly powerful by Worm standards. Maybe Cauldron already contacted Hoopa to ask for Pokemon support?

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For the first part, yes. Also in part, they don't really care, because, as Bezzerker said below;

Plus, I don't think that Shadow or Eon have really explained the sheer breadth of powers they have at their disposal, especially if they aren't limited to the games' normal four move limit... So what they've revealed is essentially nothing someone couldn't have figured out on their own based purely off of first-hand observation. I'd be willingly to bet that at least part of the reason for this openness is for PR, as being seen to be open and honest with what they can do to the public they want to help protect.

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They aren't limited to four moves, so even if the public knows about Shadow's healing powers, the illusions, and the fire, there's still a lot they don't know about and that Inari are keeping under their hats, because it hasn't been shown yet, as noted.

On Hoopa, though... actually, thinking about it, some stuff will also be popping up in the near future. But Hoopa can't always be as helpful as they might wish.

Though I now think I need to get around to writing a Cauldron interlude, even if only as an omake...

I mean at minimum, they've completely left out Eon's post-, peri-, and pre-cognitive ability. Sure, it's not all powerful (I know it works off of touching people/pokemon, but I think it might also work off of objects as well? I don't fully remember the plot since my playthrough was quite a while ago), but that's still one hell of an ace in the hole.

There's also the fact that both Eon and Shadow have fought multiple Legendaries, including a corrupted Diagla. Depending on how the author sets things up, it's entirely possible that the Rescue Team is actually fairly well-versed in fighting off Endbringer level opponents. But, that's up to the author to decide.

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Splitting this up;

Eon's ability will be getting touched on soon, but I'm willing to make note of some more details of it here- warning, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Time/Darkness/Sky spoilers.

Spoiler: Seeing Stuff

The Dimensional Scream works on both people and objects. This is seen in Sky with Drowsee in the first Outlaw mission, and in the Waterfall mission, where the main character sees a Pokemon jump through the waterfall and find the cave, and later trigger a flood. I've actually used this both ways here as well; with Tattletale and Taylor, and with the glass street in Bakuda's chapter.

And for the second bit... well, they've fought Legendaries, yes. So they have some experience with powerful opponents and how to deal with them.

That'll be coming up, though, so I'll shut my mouth there.

My impression was that they had lots of experience with fighting off A-class to low S-class level opponents, but the Endbringers are on the higher end of S-class, which would make things tricky.

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This is also true, yes. Legendary fights aren't actually on the same scale as an Endbringer battle. Like, at all.

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Now, on other things, I'm gonna be posting a thingy about Moves and how they work in this story in a couple of [variable time period]s, because I feel like I should probably explain a bit about that. It might come up in story later, I'm not totally certain. So I'll be adding that to the informational threadmarks in a little while.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

In this story, Moves use the criminally underused concept of Aura- in canon, that is. In fanon, Aura's probably criminally overused at this point.

Essentially, Pokemon can learn to use any type of Aura, but they naturally produce Aura in their type- so, Fire for Eon and Shadow. However, they can transform it into other types of Aura- like Psychic, which is how they use Extrasensory- or even types that are dynamically opposite their own, like Ice or Water. It just takes a lot more effort.

Along with this, I'm abusing the Field egg group a bit, since that theoretically allows for any Pokemon to be in the family tree- Shadow has a Lucario, for example, which is why she can use Heal Pulse, while Heal Bell comes from a Delcatty. As such, Shadow has a really weird and varied moveset- think Ashes of the Past Ivysaur, and you'll have something similar. She's also slowly working on teaching Eon most of her Moves, since that's possible.

I'll also quote something from a conversation about later plot bits from Discord, so spoiler below.

Spoiler: Plot Bits

"Shadow; I'm also abusing how the 'lineage' moves work in mine; that is, you can learn them, but it's way easier if someone else in your family knew them, since it'll pass down the ability to do it…

Eon; longer windup to modify aura power from default fire mix, its possible. Just really friggen hard.

Shadow; Mhm. The inheritance just makes it easier. It's why most Pokemon only know the moves that're on the moveset lists; too much effort to learn other ones.

Eon; lazyness

Shadow; Yup. And having to find a tutor. Though you can get lucky sometimes, and have a team that's willing to trade moves a lot. Wild Pokemon don't have that advantage… of course, you've also got those teams that have Legendaries… And believe me when I say that lack of legends on teams, laziness and time requirement are basically the only reasons why exclusive moves are exclusive."

So there's also that as a factor as well.

Pokemon get more and more tired as they use Moves, leading to them eventually being incapable of using that Move anymore- Power Points, basically. With Shadow's Heal Pulse and Heal Bell, I'm also treating them as being PP Max-ed, so they have 16 and 8 respectively. This is a little variable, though, so sometimes she only gets 10 and 5, or other random numbers. She always knows how many she has left before she runs out, though, and then- as mentioned in the healing part of the PHO post- she has to rest, and even that won't totally help unless she rests for multiple days.

Things like Max Elixirs and Leppa Berries will help, though, letting her ignore the limits.

Lineage moves, by the way, are just what I'm calling Egg Moves, because I felt they needed a different name to the one in the game, especially since I don't think anyone actually calls them that.

Anyway, hopefully that explains a little bit about how I'm using Moves in this one. Hope that's helped people figure out how things are working here, and maybe it'll keep later bits from getting confusing because they don't know stuff.

 

[eonmoon]

yup, modify aura for the move, unfortunately there is only so much one can use when its heavily against your own natural flavor, you can do it,. but it is a heavy fuel hog. very very inefficent, until you train heavily to refine your skill.

not going to spoil the upcoming adventures. but there is gonna be some heavy stuff going down vs levi.

 

[ConfusedPotato]

I think I like where this story is going. Watched.

 

[ShadowPixelle]

PRT Internal Document EP//THRPT//1022-01-00102659//2011-05-14​

CLASSIFICATION:
Secret, Not for Public Release, Open Internal Release
DISTRIBUTION:
Security level 2 or above.
DRAFTED:
Director Emily Piggot, PRT ENE, Brockton Bay
CHECKED:
Armsmaster, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay
Miss Militia, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.
ADDITIONAL:
Assault, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.
Battery, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.

REFERENCES:
AM/MM//PHACT//1022-00-00001450//2011-04-12
AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14
AM/AS/MM//PHACT//1022-01-00001469//2011-04-15
AS/MM/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001471//2011-04-16
CB/GA//PHACT//1022-01-00001474//2011-04-18
VL/DL//PHACT//1022-01-00001479//2011-04-23
VS/CB//PHACT//1022-01-00001483//2011-04-24
SS/KW//PHACT//1022-01-00001486//2011-04-25
DL/TR/MM//PHACT//1022-01-00001500//2011-04-28
CB/KW//PHACT//1022-01-00001512//2011-05-01
AG/GA//PHACT//1022-01-00001515//2011-05-02
SS/KW//PHACT//1022-01-00001518//2011-05-04
DL/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001522//2011-05-07
AM/AS//PHACT//1022-01-00001545//2011-05-11
KW/GA//PHACT//1022-01-00001548//2011-05-13

DATE:
05/11/2011
TIME:
12:48:26
REVISION:
01.A.2

INTERNAL THREAT ASSESSMENT REPORT
SUBJECT: Team Inari
Update May 14th, 2011
Summary
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This report contains the threat report for the Parahuman group known as Team Inari, along with protocol recommendations for communication.

Background



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Team Inari is the name given by themselves [introduced DocRef AS/MM/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001471//2011-04-16] which was quickly adopted by the public soon after their debut [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14]. At the current time, there are three members of the team:

Eon, initial public appearance 04/14/2011 [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14]

Shadow, initial public appearance 04/14/2011 [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14]

Swarm, initial public appearance 04/14/2011 [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14]

All three members of the group named themselves, giving their names to the Wards ENE during their initial public appearance.

Eon has the appearance of a dark grey fox with nine tails, each tipped with blue. Shadow is a similar vulpine, predominately a brown-red with an orange plume on her head and six orange tails. Swarm is the only obviously human member of the group, a human female with an insect-themed costume.

Both Eon and Shadow claim to not be Case 53's, when questioned by Vista during the initial public appearance, claiming to have no tattoos and be able to remember much of their lives previously.

Threat Assessment Ratings, Provisional​

Subject:
Eon, Independent Hero

Real name:
Unknown

Affiliation:
Team Inari

Age:
Unknown, estimated to be between 18 and 21

Height:
Approximately 3'08"

Weight:
Estimated to be approximately 44 pounds

Appearance:
Eon has the appearance of a large, vulpine creature, with massive similarities to the Japanese kitsune, notably the Kyuubi, which are nine tailed kitsune that are over 900 years old. Please note that this age appears unlikely. Eon stands on four animalistic paws, with red eyes and dark grey fur over his entire body, with the exception of the tips of his nine tails, which are a light blue. He also has a crest of fur on his head, which drops approximately half way down his neck. Eon often appears to be wearing a bag, which has a crest of a badge on the front where it seems to clip together [PicRef PHACT/0016/11:16:53]. An identical badge to this has been noted apparently pinned to his chest [PicRef PHACT/0017/11:17:06], though it is unknown whether it is or if it is merely held onto the fur there.

Personality:
Eon appears to have two distinct personalities, primarily based on the situation at hand. The first is relaxed and calm, willing to speak with anyone who wishes it, whether civilian or otherwise, and is noticeably polite, though not dismissive. The second is very much a leader, making an appearance most often during incidents where his team ends up intervening, speaking sharply and almost snappishly even to his own team mates, with extreme competence in directing them during any form of battle or ambush. This persona is extremely formal and polite, almost report-like even when speaking somewhat casually during a situation, and is a sure sign that something serious is occurring.
Known Associates:
Other members of Team Inari.


Mover 3+:
Eon has been shown to have fairly high agility, able to run at approximately 15 mph, with the apparent ability to increase that speed given some set up time. Eon can jump up to the roofs of two-story buildings with little apparent effort, and has been observed leaping between buildings and jumping off of roofs in order to set up an ambush.

Assume that he will make pursuit difficult, and would likely give chase should retreats be attempted.

Shaker 6:
Eon is well known to weaponise a form of illusory ability when in combat. This has been used multiple ways, but Eon seems to favour it as a method of intimidation, using it to form apparent reinforcements to his team in order to distract opponents and allow a takedown while they focus on the illusions. There is no known range to the illusions, as though Eon appears to mostly form them within a close range of himself- approximately 10 feet- he has been seen forming them further away than that distance.

Eon also has a form of pyrokinesis, which makes up the remainder of his fighting style. Small orbs of blue fire, which he calls Will-o-Wisps, are known to cause painful burns in whoever touches them, and can only be healed with the assistance of his team mate Shadow. Other methods include flamethrowers and small blasts of fire that explode and expand rapidly on contact.

Rumours on Parahumans Online [PHO] suggest a form of mild telekinesis may be available to Eon, but these are unconfirmed as of yet. Assume that Eon will attempt to distract attackers with large scale illusions for intimidation, while herding them towards the flames in order to take them down.

Brute 1+:
Eon has been noted to take hits somewhat above the normal strength without flinching or even appearing injured, though it is unknown how much he can take. He also appears to have somewhat above-average strength, being seen easily holding down assailants with his front paws, though some of this can be attributed to use of leverage.

Blaster 5:
Eon has been seen using multiple Blaster abilities, including his pyrokinesis, as a method of attack. During the Bank Incident [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14] he was seen creating a purple mist that tracked down the Undersiders during their escape, and an encounter with the Empire Eighty-Eight [E88] Capes Hookwolf and Cricket was seen using the flamethrowers and explosive flame balls [DocRef DL/TR/MM//PHACT//1022-01-00001500//2011-04-28] to assist in takedown of the two Capes. References have been made by both Eon and Shadow that they have other abilities, though none of these have been shown.

Striker 1:
Eon has a few methods of close range attack, predominantly using retractable claws in his paws to scratch at opponents. Tackling attacks have also been used, and seem to have much more strength that Eon's size would normally allow for.

Thinker 5+:
Eon has made no effort to conceal that he has above-average senses, informing Assault that he would have little difficulty tracking at night [DocRef AM/AS/MM//PHACT//1022-01-00001469//2011-04-15] either by sight or sound, which has also been demonstrated during a number of foiled assaults where Eon has taken down enemies in low light conditions. In the report of the same incident [DocRef AS/MM/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001471//2011-04-16] both Eon and Shadow mentioned tracking Bakuda by scent from approximately five blocks away, along with noting that she had a peculiar scent attached to her along with her normal signature of a female, smelling "sparkles, tin, and grey." When further questioned on the description, Eon explained that it was impossible to truly explain a scent to someone who cannot smell it, and that was the closest they could give.

Stranger 7:
Eon has been obviously observed vanishing completely from view multiple times, normally at the beginning or end of an encounter with crimes or heroes. It is unknown how this mechanic is performed, but there is no plausible method of tracking him once he has vanished, as he leaves no shadows and no scent, makes no sound, does not show up on scanners and appears to have no heat signature.

Eon has also been seen using this as a tactic in combat, temporarily vanishing from sight and allowing his other team members to distract the opponent to open them for his attack.

Changer 8+?:
Due to Eon's appearance and the claims not to be a Case 53, a tentative Changer rating has been given.

Trump 5+:
It has been mentioned on PHO that Eon may be able to learn new abilities from his partner, Shadow. Nothing has yet been confirmed.

Conclusion:
When in combat with Eon, the most viable method is to stay in close range and take him down quickly, in order to avoid leaving openings for him to use his main abilities. Careful watch should be used to ensure that illusions are not used as an ambush method, and combatants should be careful not to allow him to go invisible, keeping up high pressure to ensure he does not have the time to focus on doing so.


Subject:
Shadow, Independent Hero

Real name:
Unknown

Affiliation:
Team Inari

Age:
Unknown, estimated to be between 10 and 14

Height:
Approximately 1'11"

Weight:
Estimated to be approximately 21 pounds

Appearance:
Shadow has the appearance of a small kitsune, standing quadrupled on small paws with dark brown fur. The fur on her body is a noticeably lighter shade of brown, with a cream patch on her chest, and orange fur on her head-crest and six tails, and light brown eyes. Shadow is normally wearing a purple scarf, to which the same badge worn by Eon is pinned [PicRef PHACT/0018/11:18:23.

Personality:
Shadow's personality is predominately that of a bright and bubbly girl, one who appears to be very young. She appears to be curious about just about everything that she doesn't recognise, and is very talkative when introducing herself to curious people.

Despite this, she is still able to be very serious when required, giving very carefully phrased reports and being discreet with information without prompting. Either way, she appears to be very intuitive, disconcerting information easily, and is highly intelligent.

Known Associates:
Other members of Team Inari.


Mover 3+:
Shadow has been seen to have very high agility, able to run at approximately 15 mph, with the apparent ability to increase that speed given some set up time. Shadow can jump to the roofs of two-story buildings with some effort due to her small size, and has been noted to easily slip into small spaces and underneath things in order to set up an ambush.

Assume that she will make pursuit difficult, and would likely give chase should retreats be attempted.

Shaker 5:
Shadow is known to use a form of illusory ability in combat, though she rarely does so, preferring other methods. However, she will still form large creatures in an attempt to intimidate assailants or fake backup, sometimes using them to make it appear that her team mates have arrived to assist [DocRef SS/KW//PHACT//1022-01-00001486//2011-04-25] and to distract enemies to allow her to get her own attacks in. Shadow's range on her illusions is unknown, though it appears to be approximately 10 feet, though she has been seen placing illusions further with some difficulty.

Shadow also has a form of pyrokinesis, which is also a very small part of her fighting style. Will-o-Wisps, flamethrowers and explosive fire blasts are all used by her in combat, however she is less likely to use this as an attacking form than Eon. Rumours of a form of mild telekinesis are also known, though unconfirmed. It can be assumed that Shadow will use mild illusions and fire attacks to herd attackers towards Eon for takedown, or as a distraction to use other abilities.

Additionally, Shadow confirmed during her report on the Bakuda incident [DocRef AS/MM/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001471//2011-04-16] that she has an area-of-effect healing ability. She claims it has a usage limit of five to eight times, though she can split it into healing damage, which she can do up to sixteen times maximum, and healing what she refers to as statuses, which has a maximum of eight uses. The area is apparently defined by what she conceives as a room, which they can influence using their illusions, however she did not go into any more detail.

Brute 1+:
Shadow has been noted to take hits somewhat above the normal strength without flinching or even appearing injured, though it is unknown how much she can take. She also appears to have somewhat above-average strength, especially considering her size and lack of leverage available, being able to hold down assailants with only slight difficulty despite her inability to properly hold them down with her paws.

Master 3:
Shadow has been observed with a targeted Master effect multiple times since her introduction, for example the takedown of Lung [DocRef AM/MM//PHACT//1022-00-00001450//2011-04-12] was accredited to her by Lung himself, claiming that the small kitsune spoke him into sleep. This ability has been seen multiple times since then; in the Bank incident, she showed the ability to force attention to her with a shout followed by the same sleep ability, and it appears to be the same method she used to take down Bakuda. In most encounters, this is her primary weapon, focusing on taking down her enemies with this power while her team mates use other methods.

It is unknown how this power is applied; whether it requires her to speak to knock them out, or if the speech is merely a method of making her target focus on her while she uses her power.

Blaster 4:
Shadow has been seen using a small number of Blaster abilities, mainly pyrokinesis, with devastating efficiency. However, her abilities are noticeably weaker than Eon's, with less apparent finesse, and she has only been seen using pyrokinetic abilities thus far.

Striker 1:
Shadow has a few close range attacks that all appear to do much more damage than they should, given her apparent size and weight.

Thinker 5:
Shadow has made no effort to conceal her above-average senses, using sight, scent and sound as her primary method of locating enemies while hidden during combat [DocRef CB/GA//PHACT//1022-01-00001474//2011-04-18], as well as Shadow being the one to notice the scent of Bakuda from five blocks away, as well as the peculiar scent mentioned to be attached to the Cape [DocRef AS/MM/BT//PHACT//1022-01-00001471//2011-04-16].

Stranger 5+:
Shadow has been observed vanishing from view repeatedly, often at the beginning or end of an encounter. It is unknown how this mechanic is performed, but there is no plausible method of tracking her once she has vanished, as she leaves no shadows and no scent, makes no sound, does not show up on scanners and appears to have no heat signature.

It is also unknown whether or not this is being performed by Eon or by Shadow due to the lack of information on their illusory abilities. However Shadow has been seen to prefer using a different form of the same ability, changing her fur colour to dark browns and blues before hiding in the shadows of an area to ambush [DocRef AG/GA//PHACT//1022-01-00001515//2011-05-02].

Changer 8+?:
Due to Shadow's appearance and the claims not to be a Case 53, a tentative Changer rating has been given.

Trump 5+?:
As it has been mentioned on PHO that Eon may be able to learn new abilities from Shadow, it has been assumed that the reverse may also be true, though nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

Conclusion:
When in combat with Shadow, the most viable method is to take her down quickly from close range, being careful not to allow her to focus for long enough to vanish or knock her opponent out using her Master ability, keeping up high pressure to ensure she does not have the time to focus on doing so.


Subject:
Swarm, Independent Hero

Real name:
Unknown

Affiliation:
Team Inari

Age:
Between 16 and 19

Height:
Approximately 5'8"

Weight:
Approximately 132 pounds

Appearance:
Swarm has the appearance of a tall, slender human with dark brown hair. She wears a black and grey costume designed after a bug, with armoured segments resembling a pill bug, and large orange lenses in the mask. The armoured piece on her back appears to be some kind of pouch, as Swarm has been seen directing bugs into the back in order to retrieve things from within.

Personality:
Swarm has a calm and cool, but approachable, personality. She is quiet, preferring to let Shadow or Eon talk for her, but is also willing to answer most questions and appears to go to great lengths to avoid being rude. She appears extremely confident and secure in herself, and places a large amount of trust in her team mates that they will guide her correctly.

Known Associates:
Other members of Team Inari.


Master 8:
Swarm is an insect controller with great apparent skill. She typically carries bugs will her in segments of her costume, and has been noted to carry poisonous spiders in her hair with no regard for any possible danger, suggesting complete control [DocRef AG/CB/KW/GA/VS//PHENC//1022-00-00001467//2011-04-14]. Her total range is unknown, but suggested to be quite high, given that she often pulls more bugs out of obviously nowhere to use in combat.

Thinker 1:
Analysis of Swarm's powers suggest some form of multitasking ability, due to her ability to control upwards of a thousand bugs at an estimate from observations [DocRef DL/TR/MM//PHACT//1022-01-00001500//2011-04-28]. It has also been suggested that she can see and hear through her bugs, though the mechanics of this is unknown.

Conclusion:
Swarm is the least apparent threat of the group, being limited to her insect control as a weapon and nothing else, which would appear to make her viable to mostly ignore while dealing with her team mates. However, given the time to call bugs to her, she could be an incredibly difficult target, as well as a dangerous distraction to anyone attempting to fight her, using her bugs to inject poisons as a takedown method or distracting opposition for long enough to allow Eon or Shadow to get attacks through.


Conclusion
To conclude the report, Team Inari could create a highly considerable threat to anyone who attempted combat with them due to their incredible synergy of abilities. Swarm is the least threatening, but is extremely dangerous in a support role, as she can poison her foes or distract them using her bugs, making her an obvious first target. Shadow, however, makes that obsolete with her healing ability, which would allow her to bring Swarm or Eon back into the fight, making her a more useful target, but she could easily evade notice in battle using her illusions until she was able to focus on her opponent long enough to knock them out. Eon is the most obviously dangerous, apparently very skilled with their illusions and able to easily use them as distractions while his Blaster abilities give him plenty of long range options for battling opponents and keeping attention off of Swarm and Shadow, letting them work in their own specialities. The likely best method of fighting them would be to force the team to split into three separate fights, and putting pressure on them to avoid the fights converging.

However, Team Inari appears to be unwilling to become hostile unless provoked, and as such it is recommended that that is the first approach used, and only to attempt to battle with them in the group becomes hostile.

Director Emily Piggot, PRT ENE, Brockton Bay
Armsmaster, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay
Miss Militia, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.
Assault, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.
Battery, Protectorate ENE, Brockton Bay.