Voicemail/IC and OOC contact;

[islandshore]

"This is Riku. Looks like you just missed me, so leave a message, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

If you're here for Training Center business, press 0, and I'll redirect you to our info."

[Should characters press 0, they'll be presented with a list of options:

1. Purchase pass.
2. Arrange battle.
3. Arrange private training.
4. Rental services.
5. Job opportunities.
6. Pokémon roster.

If your character presses 6, the following list will appear:]








[A second list pops up labeled "All-Out Only:"]



[A third and final list pops up labeled "Special Requests:"]



[If a character clicks on a Pokémon, a menu will pop up listing their stats, moves, whether they're available for rent, and their current status. See here for details.]

PGC contact;

[However, that's not all. Riku's set up a secure line, with its own automated message.]

"You've reached the Pokemon Guardian Corps. If you're here to report an emergency, press 1. If you're here to join the cause, press 2. For all other purposes, stay on the line."

[ooc: Please head your comments appropriately with video, text, and voice and note if you're calling for Training Center Arrangements.

For OOC Training Center business, please note which service you'd like to arrange. For rentals, list the Pokémon your character is requesting, what they'll be used for, and the total cost if your char is after more than one. I'm more than happy to handwave pass purchases, since I realize that repeatedly noting purchases could get a little time consuming.

For a job, I'm cool with an IC interview or OOC coordination. Whatever works best.]

Comments

[schachmeister]

[This is slightly backdated, but somewhere around the fifth/sixth of January, every Aurora League member is going to get one of these. It's a hand-written letter with a Pelagic gym letterhead leaving no doubts as to the sender.

It reads:]


I hope this letter will not be seen as me overstepping my bounds but --

I think the Aurora League should meet.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed that strange things are happening -- first the wild rumours about pokemon losing control, then the incident at the Safari zone, and now the message that was visible in the sky during the New Year.

Perhaps I'm worrying too much, but it is starting to feel like what happened a year ago when that creature managed to find its way into this world. That didn't come out of nowhere either; there were several smaller events that preceded it though we didn't see the connection at the time. I'm not necessarily saying that this is because of that same creature (though 'He will be back' could certainly be a reference to it) but something certainly seems to be going on. And perhaps this time, if we act early enough, we can put a stop to things before it gets that bad.

I know the Pokemon League is undoubtedly monitoring this situation too, but there is no reason why we of the Aurora League couldn't look into things as well. Or at the very least share our thoughts. Several of us are gym leaders and come into contact with a lot of trainers. Someone may have heard or seen something that, on its own, isn't particularly troubling, but if put together with other, similar accounts, could indicate something brewing.

Plus, even if there is nothing to share of that sort, I think it would be good to get to know each other a bit better. Several new members have joined us since that November. Who knows, we might need to depend on each other again in battle, and wouldn't knowing more about each other and how we fight help if it ever comes to that again? It's easier to trust someone at your back if you know what kind of person they are.


I know all of us are pretty busy, but I'm hoping you could all make time to meet on the 27th of January. That is still nearly three weeks from now, which should give those of us with gym schedules and other jobs enough time to arrange for some time off. I've even found a good place to meet at, where we can both talk and even battle if people would like. I've enclosed the address on a separate card in this envelope.


I hope to see you all there, though please let me know if you cannot make it.

Yours truly,

Armin Arlert


PS. Please do not worry about the costs involved. When I asked Lance for suggestions on where to meet, he told me the Pokemon League has a discretionary fund for these kinds of things.


[As mentioned, there is a card inside the envelope with the address of a battle club in Viridian City.]

1/17 (backdated)

[fingersandteeth]

I've been putting off telling you this, but I'm not working in the Newsroom anymore, so I don't know how often I can pass on anything to the PGC after this. It wasn't because I was frightened. It was because Tyler disappeared back in December and someone had to step in for him at Fight Club and I quickly realized that I couldn't be the main person running it *and* work at the Radio Tower *and* have a life.

However, I'm still friends with that Rocket girl I told you about, though, and I even hired her at Fight Club as a bouncer, so we have regular reasons to interact. And also because I figure it might encourage the other Rockets not to interfere with the business. She's a good kid. I mean, she was out at Christmas, but evidently it was mandatory, so I don't hold it against her so much.

(She's still catching her quota rather than stealing them. Some of the other Rockets who were press-ganged like her are doing the same thing. This could possibly be considered a good sign?)

Mid-January

[vrdantwind]

Hey! A charming young lady said you're the guy to contact about things involved with trying to address Team Rocket's activities. My name's Claude von Riegan, and I'd be interested in potentially offering my services...assuming you want them, of course.

Also I may or may not be in some hot water with Team Rocket already, so let's just say I'm motivated.

text (sent in late May)

[fingersandteeth]

I wanted to make sure he was going to stick around past the weird weekend, but my newest coworker is *not* happy about being press-ganged. A second inside man might seem superfluous, but given how often people disappear, it's probably good to have him as well. I'll be in Celadon in June, so I can bring him to the training center then.

Directly continuing their network conversation

[feathersfly]

[With Riku having given his secure line, Hawks promptly contacts that instead. Why keep talking over an insecure channel when they don't have to?

He's not sure how much this confirms, but then again, he's not sure how much of his paranoia is justified and how much of it is overblown. He's just going to have to run a risk here.]

so not to ask any leading questions, but does an anti-rocket vigilante organization like yours do any collaborating with pressganged rocket members? you know. ones that might not be happy being forced to be criminals.

[It's not particularly subtle. But at some point, Hawks was always going to have to gamble on whether this Riku is worth trusting - might as well take the plunge now. And, more to the point...Hawks doesn't have the patience to wait longer.

He's not generally an impatient guy - he does what it takes to get the job done, no matter what it requires or how long it takes - but patience isn't serving any higher purpose right now. He's not serving any higher purpose right now. He's done being a two-bit criminal. He'd been able to tolerate it when he was working with the League because there'd been a point to it. His spying on them was helping people, however indirectly. It was part of his hero work, and even if it meant getting his hands dirty, knowing that other people were better off for it was enough to make it worth doing.

But being a Rocket grunt...nothing he's had to do so far has helped anyone. There's no goal, no justification, nothing at all he can feel good about. Hawks can't stomach that any longer. If he's got a chance to connect to someone who can help him put his position to good use, then he'll take it.]