Chasing Mountains III [Badlands Treasure Roll - Complete]

[Kouji Sakuraba]

After finishing all of the preparations for the Golden Egg society (and finally managing to ship out all of the extra ‘mons and eggs that he was going to be putting up for grabs at the event) Kouji could finally return to Kalos in order to continue his search for the weird, funky marbles. He’d entrusted his assistant with the shipment and their luggage, and he could only wonder and hope that he’d arrived alright at the small flat that he was renting for his stay in the region. Sure beats having to shell out for a hotel room weekly, at least this one I can pay for monthly… he thought with a grin as he then looked around the flat—he’d already pulled out the extra bed for his assistant to use and had cleared out some wardrobe space for their additional clothes—as he left the flat and headed back to the Badlands. As it had turned out, the weird rainbow-colored rock had netted him a potential buyer—and a tidy sum, which was now sitting in his bank account.

Exiting by the usual way he’d take whenever he’d go to the Badlands, he was surprised to find out that the line wasn’t as long as it was—he could only guess that some of the people who were normally out here digging with him were actually invited to the bigwig event that was going to be taking place in a few days—and as he hefted up his backpack full of his usual equipment (and subsequently got the go signal to start digging) he noticed that there wasn’t as many people as there normally would be. Scratching his chin, he could only guess what the other patrons were up to, as he then looked around and tried to pinpoint a spot that he hadn’t desecrated yet. He then decided to march forward in order to be able to look for one spot that “tickled” his senses, whistling all the while. After ten minutes of walking around, he had finally found the spot where he would start looking, and he then unslung the shovel that he’d placed on one of the back pack straps and began to dig through the area.

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3 | 4 for November

CODED BY SYLVIE

[Sylvie]

Dig Dig Dig . . .  What's this?!
Congratulations, You've found a  RELIC STATUE !
A stone figure made in a civilization about 3,000 years ago. A maniac will buy it for a high price.

( Post a Mod Summons to exchange this for •20 )

[Kouji Sakuraba]

He continued to yawn as he began digging through the area, trying to see if he would be able to locate something of value. It was a bit late in the game, but seeing as he still had more than enough time to search, he decided to wing it. Damn, I should have bought hot chocolate and a piece of that weird, moon-shaped bread at least… he thought to himself as he kept on yawning—was the jet lag finally catching up to him after being on the road all this time? He could feel his arms getting all sluggish, and the way he was moving wasn’t as…sprightly as it normally would be. He didn’t know it, but he was definitely tired on his feet; yet he could still feel his arms going through the almost-mechanical motions of trying to toss dirt over his shoulder form the shovel he was now struggling to hold. Urgh, this is not good… he thought as he felt his eyelids getting all droopy, before finally landing on the dirt and conking out, shovel abandoned some distance away.

Some time later…

He then woke up with a start—and then realized that he was no longer vertical—but horizontal. He then peeled himself from the ground—and then his eyes caught sight of something; there was a half-exposed, weird-looking “icon” staring back at him, and he then blinked—before realizing what exactly the item was. “Whoa!” he said with a start, quickly pulling himself up into a standing position and then brushing off as much dirt as he could from his clothes, and picking up the shovel. “Time to check another spot then…” he muttered again, quickly dusting off what he’d missed earlier as he then hiked out to another spot further back; before sticking his shovel into the ground and digging once more, shaking his head in order to clear it of the cobwebs that had built up.

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Pass

CODED BY SYLVIE

[Dracken]

Dig Dig Dig . . .  What's this?!
Congratulations, You've found  MANECTITE !
Turn a normal Manectric into a large effing Thunderbolt.

[Kouji Sakuraba]

After that extremely embarrassing little episode of him having quite literally fallen asleep in the Badlands, Kouji was now hacking away at another spot, digging through the dirt when he thought he’d heard something that sounded like music to his ears. Hoping that his instincts were correct—he then knelt down and slipped on a pair of working gloves (which he’d thankfully tucked under his belt before heading out, half-dazed as he was) and began shoveling through the ground with his own bare hands. As he pulled out another chunk of earth, he thought he saw the sun glitter on the surface of something, and he began crumbling the clod in his hands—before finally revealing that he’d found… a marble! The funny thing about this was the fact that this was another one of the marbles that he’d already had before (but had chosen to give to his benefactor) so this one was definitely his, for real.

“What goes around definitely comes around,” he remarked with a grin on his face as he continued to brush off the remaining specks of dirt stuck to the weird yellowish marble; before revealing that it was indeed similar to the one he’d given away earlier. “You’re mine. Even if I have absolutely no idea on how to use you, soon, I’d eventually figure out how to do that new-fangled secret that she told me…” he muttered grinning as he referenced his hot-headed, much younger female benefactor. Now that he’d found something of value, he then decided to leave the place as soon as he could—because there was no way he was going to have another entertaining “lie-down” in the Badlands! Lucky I did woke up. if I hadn’t I’d have been sunburned all the way into next week… he thought with a grin on his face as he then picked up the shovel and then proceeded to just get out of the area, for now.

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definitely claiming, no questions asked.

CODED BY SYLVIE