Oh boy its been a while since I’ve written something like this down! Lets see… oh right!
So after we chatted down those goons, and found a way to set them off safely- we took to the skies! Between the 8 of us we’d gathered a veritable fleet of pokemon to carry us with Exceptional speed 😎. We’d pinpointed the location of their base and were ready to get to the heart of this mess. New badges in hand we soared into view of Rift’s supposed base of operations on this island. We knew that they had some way of neutralizing the island emp fields and building up a base here- but we weren’t expecting a deserted waste of a locale. The island looked an absolute mess, with bits of garbage and debris all around. No fauna or significant flora in sight.
The seeming disappearance of any structure was disheartening, but all was not lost! A quick investigation brought us to a small shack on the horizon. Though it was dingy and broken down- we found a stairway deeper underground! Taking care not to set off any team rift traps, we made our way in. The stairway gave way to what appears to be a large elevator. Though it was worrying that we got in so easily we didn’t have much of a choice at this point. We started up the elevator and sat tight. Played some card games which I *handily* won.
When we reached the bottom there it opened up to an otherwise plain room with a screen in the middle.
Suddenly it lit up to a beautifully dressed lady with a, uh, familiar air of foreboding. Guinevere had finally decided to show herself. Unfortunately she informed us that we had fallen for her trap, and that we could stay in this base for however long we wanted. After some wonderful back-and-forth quips we were determined to move forward. Though the elevator had been disabled we were certain that there was some other way for us to reach the surface. The path branched and we explored until we reached what appeared to be a crew quarters. Some food was scattered about and we gathered what we could. We came across someone sleeping in one of the bunks in our looting, and found out that Joe (From back on ESP’s ship) had been left behind as they were evacuating. We had some chit chat, but had to press on. Joe stayed behind and said he’d heal up our pokemon if we needed it.
The next room we came across was a little deeper in. A large machine in the center of the room was humming ominously. Guinevere popped up on the screen and explained to us that This was one of the machines that turns pokemon into shadow. She went on to explain that, they do this to capture their essence or energy or whatever, and use that to power the robots! It turns out the major rift between her and her sister were a matter of method. Professor Cinnamon and Morgana were working on a method to do the same but with eggs instead. The whole thing seemed… crazy. Kip felt pretty rough about the whole thing- but I guess thats to be expected at this point. We took our time to take this whole thing in and resolved to destroy ther machine however we could in spite of Gwen’s complaints.
OOF! These take forever to write- and its hard to find time while you’re trying to thwart region spanning threats :P hopefully our next journal entry will be our inevitable victory 😎