Set in the original region of Arciel, Legends Rising is a route-inspired, but not strictly route-based, Pokemon roleplay. Pick a faction, pick a class, and strike out into the wild to take on the League, master Contest coordination, research the mysteries of Pokemon and Arciel, and much, much more. Will you be a classic trainer? A criminal? A farmer? Choose your destiny on Legends Rising.
It was probably a testament to how much he was hurting for money that he hadn't yet left Birch, but if he had to be completely honest he didn't really need anything beyond the gates of Birch. At least for right now. In his time in the city he'd already come across a fair number of eggs, one of which was sitting in his ratty satchel, comfy as could be in the folded up clothes he had padded the bag with. The Rotom he'd hatched - which he'd fittingly christened Zappa - sat for the most part silent and unmoving in his pokeball, though from time to time Soren would check to make sure he hadn't escaped or anything and gotten into his cell phone again.
He didn't have much in the way of garbage clothes, but he did have a couple of sweatpants and wifebeaters with holes in them, threadbare and slightly torn. The job overseer was gracious enough to provide him some heavy-duty work gloves so he wouldn't cut/stain his hands irreparably, and they had enough grip on them he could hang onto the garbage truck's handles as they went bouncing and rolling around the neighborhood.
It was going to be quick, he was told, the route that the job put him on a small residential area specifically for seniors that couldn't lift very much. Soren was only too glad to help, and as they pulled into the quiet cul-de-sac he hopped off and moved over to a few heavy looking antiques of the wooden variety, grasping onto the edges to start trying to heave them into the waiting truck.
9rKIhKKWp_+18 Strength Word Count: 270 Rookidee Egg: 1/3 posts Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.
You are strong enough to move the first pieces of furniture, an old "antique" chest of drawers that may have seen better days. All is going well... for now.
It was lighter than he'd anticipated, but he still had broken out into a light sweat by the time he was done. Granted, he also hadn't done any kind of heavy lifting since coming to the region, so that was to be expected. Soren made a mental note that once this was done he should hit up the local gym or something to try and keep himself from getting completely out of shape; lift some weights, practice some forms, anything would probably be good at this point.
He tossed rather than loaded the chest of drawers into the truck, and the sound of crashing and splintering wood made him wince a little, but he also couldn't deny the mildly satisfying feeling of having been the one responsible for the booms and bangs. After checking to make sure that nothing had been too damaged in the process (though it was all going to the dump anyway, so it probably didn't matter) Soren loaded the rest of the curbside objects onto the truck with minimal difficulty and hauled himself against the back of it. After doing a quick sweep to make sure he hadn't missed anything - and that he hadn't somehow smushed his egg in the process - he banged on the metallic side doors to signal he was good to go and the truck proceeded to the next pile of garbage.
M6G4F9j6p_+18 Strength Word Count: 228 Rookidee Egg: 2/3 posts Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.
The few scatterings of things small and metallic sounding caught his attention, and as the truck rumbled along to the next house with a decent-sized collection of bags and cardboard boxes sitting in front of it he took a moment to peer at the semi-broken chest of drawers. Though a few of the drawers were missing, there were a few that were pulled out and just barely hanging on, and it was when the truck came to a screeching stop that he saw something spill out over the side. Was that... a bottlecap?
Rather than investigate further, he decided to just proceed with the job as normal and hopped off, dusting off his hands and making his way to a few of the bigger bags so he could begin to load them in. Taking one in each hand, he carried them both over to the truck and tossed them unceremoniously inside, making a few trips back and forth and completely forgetting about the spillage of caps all along the bed of rubbish. He wasn't super sure about the cardboard boxes, but they didn't have anything inside them - he made extra sure to doublecheck there weren't any stray Meowth or unwanted babies - and he was quick to break them down, minding the grease and food stains on the sides, and tossed them in with the rest of the garbage.
Like before, he banged on the sides of the truck to signal he was ready to head along, and they continued along down the small cul-de-sac to the next house, the egg in his satchel beginning to shift and jump about the whole while.
hSW7YP50p_+18 Strength Word Count: 272 Rookidee Egg: 3/3 posts Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.
When they reached the next house, just before Soren hopped off he felt and odd fluttering and flapping in his bag. Actually forgetting that he'd had an egg in there from this morning, he wondered over it for a fraction of a second before it dawned on him, and he opened his bag warily, remembering what had happened with Zappa the last time (he also doublechecked to make sure that the Rotom was still stored in its ball and was relieved to find that it was - he'd read up on them and didn't know if he'd be able to handle if it somehow managed to possess the truck he was riding in).
A small blue and black bird with markings in the shape of bushy eyebrows on its face peered up at him, and as he stared at it it let out a soft, coo-like "roo". He poked a finger at it, and while at first the bird shied away it eventually gave him a light peck before nestling in the nest of blankets and faded jeans he'd lined his bag with. It was a tired baby. Gently he closed the satchel to let the pokemon get some sleep, and made it a point to move slightly more gentler than before so as to avoid aggravating his newly hatched baby.
There were antiques here waiting to be picked up; another chest of drawers, smaller than the last with its paint chipping and peeling, a large folding partition with holes and claw marks in them, and a really strange looking novelty lamp in the shape of a woman's leg. Soren maybe stared at this one overlong before he set to work moving the other stuff first, grasping at the partition and folding it up first so he could walk the few feet away and toss it into the garbage truck.
clkI6Jhhp_+18 Strength Word Count: 308 Rookidee - Lv1 Rookidee (5/5 Energy) Zappa - Lv1 Rotom (5/5 Energy) Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.
You're starting to feel the burn in your shoulders specifically. Raising those kinds of items repeatedly will do that to you. Power on! There's an actual kitchen sink in the next lot.
Carting out the rest of the garbage was an easy enough task, especially since there hadn't been many heavy objects to contend with. In no time at all he was hopping back into the truck and it was rumbling along to the next lot, which seemed to be the last one in the cul-de-sac with anything sitting curbside. All the others had their trash cans tucked neatly against the side of the house, their driveways and front of their properties clean of any rubbish. They weren't kidding when they said it would be a short job, but he wasn't complaining, really.
The last house had a small collection of bathroom objects in front of it, likely from a bathroom remodel? There was a chipped and cracked sink, a toilet that was so old it was stained a very light brown - and Soren imagined he could see some mold growing in the harder to reach places - what looked like half of a copper bathtub... Those didn't prove too hard to move, though by the end of it he was starting to feel it in his back and knees.
The toilet he had to hold his breath as he carted over, but it too went into the truck with a satisfying slam of heavy glass. Soren turned his attention towards the one he'd left for last (and that wasn't as gross) and moved over to grasp the sink, hefting up the porcelain object and carrying it over to the truck with an increasing feeling of soreness in his muscles. He'd definitely have to find somewhere to bathe once this was all over.
1wiOSczyp_+18 Strength Word Count: 271 Rookidee - Lv1 Rookidee (5/5 Energy) Zappa - Lv1 Rotom (5/5 Energy) Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.[/quote]
You find a sudden burst of strength within you, as everything and the kitchen sink goes crashing into the back of the truck. You may continue on to your next destination.
As soon as the curb was clear, Soren let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the budding sweat from his brow. He was kind of glad he was doing this alone, because he couldn't imagine how he'd feel if there was another, stronger, burlier guy out here helping him move stuff. All he had to worry about were the elderly, and the few that he'd seen leaving their houses while he was moving only gave him little waves before toddling back to their homes.
As soon as the sink was situated, he peered around the side of the truck to look at the remaining houses. Nope, completely clean. This was a short route after all. He heard the driver calling out to him from the front, telling him to hurry and get a move on because he had a ham sandwich waiting for him and he had to check some game score or other. Soren didn't need to be told twice, and so hopped efficiently onto the back of the truck, pounded on the side a few times to signal he was good to go, and the sped off to the dump to get his pay for the day.
GARBAGE JOB END Word Count: 201 Rookidee - Lv1 Rookidee (5/5 Energy) Zappa - Lv1 Rotom (5/5 Energy) Job: Garbage Pickup Job Participants: Just Soren Hale Job Info: Posts must be a minimum of 150 words to count as a post. You must post at least three (3) times. Your Strength skill can help you pass rolls. Rewards: 100 Pen, 2 Rare Candies, and +2 Strength for completing the task, + 10 Pen per random event. For each post interval past the minimum [6, 9, etc], earn an additional 50 Pen and 1 Rare Candy.[/quote]