Alter Ego
that evil mod from hell
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- Age 37
- Touhou land, grazing danmaku all the way
- Seen Aug 8, 2010
OOC: Well, this didn't go quite as far as I expected. XD Well, at least I'm not as left behind as in the Viper RP. ^-^ Oh, and since I forgot to mention this in afforementioned RP I'll say it here; it's good to be back. Even though I tried not to brood too much about what happened around here during the trip I've still missed you guys, and I'd like to thank you for keeping my RPs running, you did a far better job at it than I have done in similar situations so yeah, thanks. I really appreciate it. ^________^
Oh, and Melissa, Zachary's whole 'taking advantage' talk is just priceless. XD
IC:
Mesmer frowned as the message from Minerva reached him, although now being onboard a full-packed train as he was, it would simply have been too conspicious for him to send a reply. He needed some privacy, and more importantly, he needed to contact a certain other someone. Of all the times for Isabel to summon him back it had to be this one...
Maintaining his frown, the elderly man promptly began cleaving a path for himself through the crowd, using the end of his walking stick with such lethal precision that people around him quickly became wary of where they put their feet. He made his way down the aisle, looking for any kind of sanctuary from the ignorant masses and noticing only one place that fit this description.
Mesmer's frown deepened as he strode on towards the cramped and far from perfectly sanitized train lavatory. Harlan had better have a really good explanation to give...
The moment he managed to navigate himself inside and lock the door behind him, Mesmer shut and locked the door behind him, closing his eyes and doing his best to ignore the far from appealing odor that hung around the room as he set up the psychic link once more, finally feeling that the mind he was searching for was in his grasp.
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"I thought we had a bargain!"
Mesmer's mindvoice was clearly agitated as it resounded in Harlan's mind, causing the man to steer away from questioning the next bystander and walk of towards a shaded corner to respond instead.
"Come now..." he replied, keeping his own mindvoice steady, even though he wasn't quite as trained a psychic as the other man was, "What was I supposed to do? Isabel would have noticed..."
On the other end of the connection, Mesmer took an irritated pause, obviously realizing that Harlan had a point. Arrogant and megalomanic though Mesmer was, not even he would consider risking a straight-out fight with the Kingsfield gym leader and her disciples.
"Very well..." Mesmer replied at last, his mindvoice still obviously displeased, "Do what you must to convince Isabel but remember; it is essential for my plan that the boy remains on free foot so that he can lead us to wherever his father is hiding. Mesmer out."
"Oh don't worry, little man..." Harlan said quietly for himself, smirking at some incomprehensible scheme of his, "I won't forget...oh no, I won't forget at all..."
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Meanwhile, a couple of blocks away, Ashura skidded to a halt, letting Rai back off and down onto the pavement in a fairly secluded and shaded corner of an alley located between a few of the taller buildings in the city, one of them apparently a cleaning plant of some kind, seeing as how the river seemed to have been redirected striaght through it, the water flowing in through one end and coursing down through a number of pipes on the other, crashing down to regroup into a river again a couple of meters below. Perhaps Jena had been onto something when she talked about the town being polluted after all, or then again, maybe they were just filtering out the sulfur so that they water from the river could actually be used for something.
"Do you think he saw us?" Rai asked, his face still slightly pale as he peered over his shoulder at the street opening up behind him, as if expecting Harlan to pop up at any given moment.
{I doubt it.} Ashura replied, shrugging, {And even if he did, he would have had no chance of following us at such a speed. I belive we are safe for now.}
"Good." Rai replied, nodding and smiling in relief. He took a pause, pondering what to do next.
{Erm...} Kaika began, unsure of wether it was any of his bussiness but too curious not to ask, {Kaika wonderings, who bes this Harlan person?}
{He's-} Ashura began.
{Evil!} Chupon exclaimed, uncharacteristically cutting the mantis pok?mon's sentence short and causing the Vulpix to leap back in surprise, {Pure evil. He is always following me and Rai and telling us where to go and where not to go and-}
{Yes, I think you made your opinion on the matter quite clear.} Ashura interrupted, silencing the Treecko who finally realised just what he had done and immediately fell silent again before turning to adress Kaika {Suffice to say that there are some people who do not appreciate us travelling like we do, and that Harlan is the one who usually does their work for them.}
Kaika nodded in comprehension, not wanting to risk agitating Chupon further and returning to his usual state of silence instead as he glanced up at Rai.
{So, where bes we goings now?} he asked at last, nudging the boy's leg slightly. There was something about that cleaning plant that made the Vulpix shudder without even knowing why, and he would much have prefered to move on as soon as possible.
"Oh, that's just what I'm thinking about, actually." Rai replied absent-mindedly before he stopped, blinking as he realized whose question he had just answered "Vulpix?" he asked, turning to the fox pok?mon again, "Did I just answer your question?"
Kaika tilted his head, {Yes you dids.} he replied, slightly confused by this new line of questioning, {Kaika thinkings that bes a nice thing to do. Why bes you askings?}
"Umm...never mind." Rai replied, shrugging as he only heard the usual 'vuul's and 'pix's again. Maybe he had just imagined it after all. "Maybe we should just go back instead..." he trailed off, casting an absent-minded glance at the building on the other side of the fence when a voice so faint that he couldn't even be sure that he had heard it suddenly caught his ears.
{Help!}
Rai froze, turning his full attention to the building in front of him and perking up his ears in an attempt to catch the voice again, but hearing nothing. The boy shrugged, it had probably just been the wind...but, he could have sworn that he had just seen something pass in the water too...Rai gasped in realization. What if a wild pok?mon had been sucked up into the pipes? Whatever mechanism was used for that sort of thing probably wasn't built to be pok?mon friendly.
"Change of plans, guys!" he called to his pok?mon, all of them now giving him quizzical looks, "We're going to check out that cleaning plant."
OOC:
Pwhee! Made an IC again. ^-^ Anyways, I'm having Rai being absent a bit longer here because I just came up with a foreshadow for a pok?mon I want him to have. He won't get it in a good while yet, but this is the perfect place to foreshadow it. ^^ Anyone want to make a guess at what pok?mon it is? I came up with adding it to Rai's team quite lately. XD
Oh, and Melissa, Zachary's whole 'taking advantage' talk is just priceless. XD
IC:
Mesmer frowned as the message from Minerva reached him, although now being onboard a full-packed train as he was, it would simply have been too conspicious for him to send a reply. He needed some privacy, and more importantly, he needed to contact a certain other someone. Of all the times for Isabel to summon him back it had to be this one...
Maintaining his frown, the elderly man promptly began cleaving a path for himself through the crowd, using the end of his walking stick with such lethal precision that people around him quickly became wary of where they put their feet. He made his way down the aisle, looking for any kind of sanctuary from the ignorant masses and noticing only one place that fit this description.
Mesmer's frown deepened as he strode on towards the cramped and far from perfectly sanitized train lavatory. Harlan had better have a really good explanation to give...
The moment he managed to navigate himself inside and lock the door behind him, Mesmer shut and locked the door behind him, closing his eyes and doing his best to ignore the far from appealing odor that hung around the room as he set up the psychic link once more, finally feeling that the mind he was searching for was in his grasp.
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"I thought we had a bargain!"
Mesmer's mindvoice was clearly agitated as it resounded in Harlan's mind, causing the man to steer away from questioning the next bystander and walk of towards a shaded corner to respond instead.
"Come now..." he replied, keeping his own mindvoice steady, even though he wasn't quite as trained a psychic as the other man was, "What was I supposed to do? Isabel would have noticed..."
On the other end of the connection, Mesmer took an irritated pause, obviously realizing that Harlan had a point. Arrogant and megalomanic though Mesmer was, not even he would consider risking a straight-out fight with the Kingsfield gym leader and her disciples.
"Very well..." Mesmer replied at last, his mindvoice still obviously displeased, "Do what you must to convince Isabel but remember; it is essential for my plan that the boy remains on free foot so that he can lead us to wherever his father is hiding. Mesmer out."
"Oh don't worry, little man..." Harlan said quietly for himself, smirking at some incomprehensible scheme of his, "I won't forget...oh no, I won't forget at all..."
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Meanwhile, a couple of blocks away, Ashura skidded to a halt, letting Rai back off and down onto the pavement in a fairly secluded and shaded corner of an alley located between a few of the taller buildings in the city, one of them apparently a cleaning plant of some kind, seeing as how the river seemed to have been redirected striaght through it, the water flowing in through one end and coursing down through a number of pipes on the other, crashing down to regroup into a river again a couple of meters below. Perhaps Jena had been onto something when she talked about the town being polluted after all, or then again, maybe they were just filtering out the sulfur so that they water from the river could actually be used for something.
"Do you think he saw us?" Rai asked, his face still slightly pale as he peered over his shoulder at the street opening up behind him, as if expecting Harlan to pop up at any given moment.
{I doubt it.} Ashura replied, shrugging, {And even if he did, he would have had no chance of following us at such a speed. I belive we are safe for now.}
"Good." Rai replied, nodding and smiling in relief. He took a pause, pondering what to do next.
{Erm...} Kaika began, unsure of wether it was any of his bussiness but too curious not to ask, {Kaika wonderings, who bes this Harlan person?}
{He's-} Ashura began.
{Evil!} Chupon exclaimed, uncharacteristically cutting the mantis pok?mon's sentence short and causing the Vulpix to leap back in surprise, {Pure evil. He is always following me and Rai and telling us where to go and where not to go and-}
{Yes, I think you made your opinion on the matter quite clear.} Ashura interrupted, silencing the Treecko who finally realised just what he had done and immediately fell silent again before turning to adress Kaika {Suffice to say that there are some people who do not appreciate us travelling like we do, and that Harlan is the one who usually does their work for them.}
Kaika nodded in comprehension, not wanting to risk agitating Chupon further and returning to his usual state of silence instead as he glanced up at Rai.
{So, where bes we goings now?} he asked at last, nudging the boy's leg slightly. There was something about that cleaning plant that made the Vulpix shudder without even knowing why, and he would much have prefered to move on as soon as possible.
"Oh, that's just what I'm thinking about, actually." Rai replied absent-mindedly before he stopped, blinking as he realized whose question he had just answered "Vulpix?" he asked, turning to the fox pok?mon again, "Did I just answer your question?"
Kaika tilted his head, {Yes you dids.} he replied, slightly confused by this new line of questioning, {Kaika thinkings that bes a nice thing to do. Why bes you askings?}
"Umm...never mind." Rai replied, shrugging as he only heard the usual 'vuul's and 'pix's again. Maybe he had just imagined it after all. "Maybe we should just go back instead..." he trailed off, casting an absent-minded glance at the building on the other side of the fence when a voice so faint that he couldn't even be sure that he had heard it suddenly caught his ears.
{Help!}
Rai froze, turning his full attention to the building in front of him and perking up his ears in an attempt to catch the voice again, but hearing nothing. The boy shrugged, it had probably just been the wind...but, he could have sworn that he had just seen something pass in the water too...Rai gasped in realization. What if a wild pok?mon had been sucked up into the pipes? Whatever mechanism was used for that sort of thing probably wasn't built to be pok?mon friendly.
"Change of plans, guys!" he called to his pok?mon, all of them now giving him quizzical looks, "We're going to check out that cleaning plant."
OOC:
Pwhee! Made an IC again. ^-^ Anyways, I'm having Rai being absent a bit longer here because I just came up with a foreshadow for a pok?mon I want him to have. He won't get it in a good while yet, but this is the perfect place to foreshadow it. ^^ Anyone want to make a guess at what pok?mon it is? I came up with adding it to Rai's team quite lately. XD