PAYDIRT! { badlands treasure - COMPLETE }

[Eileen Paulsen]

Nights are Days -
We'll beat a path through the mirrored maze.
I can see the end,
But it hasn't happened yet.

Eileen Paulsen
354

Kalos again, but she didn't have the heart to go back to Madeline's Perrington's. It would never be the same as it was back then. Not without Darby and Walt and everyone. Not with Joss still there and against all reason attempting to win her over after ten or so years of barely remembering she existed except when she ate all his dessert. She met her mother at a cafe in the city instead. They talked awkwardly about Dad and how stupid some of the Furfrous coming out of the salon looked.

"Glow?"

All childhood nostalgia and such aside, though, she had never been to the Badlands. Never really had a chance too, because Kalos was all Lumiose City or secluded country manse or bust. It was pretty much just like she expected though - hot and sunny and TONS of dirt as far as the eye could see. Except when the eye saw the highly suspicious looking power plants that, if you asked her, looked more like highly fortified secret government bases for top secret research - but no one was asking her.

"Gloooow!"

All possible extraterrestrial activity aside, though, since she had already stopped in Kalos to see her mother, and since when embarking on a mini world tour it made sense to try to scrape together some extra spending money, she set her sights on the Badlands. Treasure hunting sounded to her like an as good a way as any. She just needed to find something shiny or sufficiently old looking and sell it online. She had friends who could probably appraise it for her. 

"GLOW GET YOUR FLUFFY BUTT BACK OVER HERE NOW!"

Finally, the Mareep looked up from where she was nosing around at a dried out little weed and with a little jiggle, got to hopping back over. Eileen stood with the tip of her shovel planted in the ground, fixing the electric sheep with an unamused look before spinning in a tight circle. When she stopped, she planted the shovel in once again. 

"We'll dig here," she told the Mareep. 

The Glow Cloud meeped and had no particular objections. 

NOTES

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CODED BY SYLVIE

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[Lyro]

Dig Dig Dig . . .  What's this?!
Congratulations, You've found  KANGASKHANITE !
This stone is required for Mega Evolving Kangaskhan

[Eileen Paulsen]

Nights are Days -
We'll beat a path through the mirrored maze.
I can see the end,
But it hasn't happened yet.

Eileen Paulsen
442

Something shiny. And sufficiently old. 

There were stories all over of people making good money selling the stuff they found buried in this place - antiques and rare rocks and things professors around here were just itching to get a good look at. And money was dandy and all, but Eileen liked the treasure hunting part, too. Who wouldn't? If she lived in Kalos again she would probably be out here every week. It was like this whole mini-adventure, hiking around in dirt under a blazing sun. Only not too blazing, because she had a love-hate relationship with extreme temperatures and who wants to adventure when they're all sticky?

It had been a couple of hours, and regardless of the degree to which the sun was blazing, she was starting to get kind of hot. On her knees with a smaller shovel as she sifted through the dirt she had turned over, she kept up a steady stream of chatter directed at Glow, who had already wandered off again. 

"We need to get a hovercraft. Or not get one because it would be too expensive a thing to get right away, but we need to rent one. To test out. I wonder why they don't have them anywhere else, yet. They're hovercrafts. They hover. It's like flying, but not as scary because if you fall out the ground isn't thousands of miles away-"

And there it was, something shiny, her shovel about a centimeter from hitting it. She yanked it back leaning down to inspect before carefully extending a gloved finger to push some of the dirt away. The item was small, however, and with the further disturbance of the dirt slipped right out and into view. 

It looked kind of like a marble. A really pretty, shiny marble. 

Would there be expensive, antique marbles buried in the ground? Yes? Yes. Hopefully?

For the first time that afternoon she at last pulled her cell phone out to snap a picture, plopping down there in the dirt and uploading it to a private album, and then navigating to one of her usual forums. 

LC: Heeeeeeey soff? Does this look valuable? Or at least kind of valuable. [view attachment] 
SDX: . . .
SDX: mehbeh

"YES!"

"Maybe" roughly translated to "definitely" in soff-speak, and that was enough for Eileen. She could get details later - but now, treasure! Glorious treasure. And banana splits to celebrating. Hopping back up to her feet, she spun around. "GLOW WE FOUND A SHINY!" 

"Meep?"

Turning back to the marble from the incoming bouncing electric sheep, she got to snapping more pictures before packing up and starting the trek back to her parking spot.

NOTES

One KANGASKHANITE claimed.

CODED BY SYLVIE

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