A. New Bark Town [Vierna has not, quite, worked up the nerve to leave town. No, not the nerve, she's not frightened. But it would be foolish to go rushing off across this strange surface realm without taking a moment to gather her wits and evaluate her resources. Especially when arriving here had been such a disorienting experience. For a variety of reasons.
For one thing, it's the middle of the day, and while her new form is not, thankfully, as sensitive to bright light as her true self would be, she still feels unnaturally exposed. Lingering in the strange domicile she'd woken to hadn't been an option, though - she doesn't know what was going on with that, although she supposes she has to be thankful that the strange human woman hadn't actually been anything like her mother, because Matron Malice would never have allowed an intruder to walk away.
So for the moment, the dark-skinned young woman is lurking in the shade of one of New Bark Town's few buildings, holding a Zubat with one hand firmly under each wing and frowning thoughtfully at it.]
Ugly little thing, aren't you? [The pokemon wriggles and shrieks at her. In a friendly way? Maybe?]
B. Network; Video [It's early evening, and the message is recorded from what appears to be a quiet corner of Violet City. Vierna's changed into her spare outfit - the gen three Hex Maniac outfit, to be exact. At the angle that she's holding the PokeGear to film herself, her Zubat is just visible nestled under her cloak. She's low-key scowling down the camera the entire time she speaks, which just makes the red of her eyes more obvious.]
This is Vierna Do'Urden. I've been lead to understand that the next stretch of road is somewhat longer and more perilous than that which I've already traveled. I have no desire to spend the next tenday on the road with no intelligent companionship.
[The Zubat squeaks in what might be objection, and Vierna diverts her glare from the camera just long enough to scowl at it instead.] Hush, you.
Is anyone else planning on leaving Violet City via Route 32 soon? If you are, I would join your traveling party.
C. Union Cave [For all that she's now limited to seeing things in the visible spectrum - the horror - Vierna is instantly, visibly more relaxed once she gets underground. A little less flinchy, a little less defensive. It's good to have a stone roof over her head again and not that awful empty space of the sky.
And look, maybe you'd intended to head straight through. Vierna had intended to head straight through. But she'd taken a wrong turn, and that entrance to a lower level looks awfully inviting.]
Come on. There will be more formidable creatures deeper in the cave system, right?
[She sounds... well, maybe not enthusiastic, but certainly like she considers this a positive, despite the fact that she and her team are rapidly approaching the point of their current journey where a bath and a trip to the pokecenter should sound more appealing than going and looking for another fight.]
Vierna Do'Urden | Legend of Drizzt | OTA
[Vierna has not, quite, worked up the nerve to leave town. No, not the nerve, she's not frightened. But it would be foolish to go rushing off across this strange surface realm without taking a moment to gather her wits and evaluate her resources. Especially when arriving here had been such a disorienting experience. For a variety of reasons.
For one thing, it's the middle of the day, and while her new form is not, thankfully, as sensitive to bright light as her true self would be, she still feels unnaturally exposed. Lingering in the strange domicile she'd woken to hadn't been an option, though - she doesn't know what was going on with that, although she supposes she has to be thankful that the strange human woman hadn't actually been anything like her mother, because Matron Malice would never have allowed an intruder to walk away.
So for the moment, the dark-skinned young woman is lurking in the shade of one of New Bark Town's few buildings, holding a Zubat with one hand firmly under each wing and frowning thoughtfully at it.]
Ugly little thing, aren't you? [The pokemon wriggles and shrieks at her. In a friendly way? Maybe?]
B. Network; Video
[It's early evening, and the message is recorded from what appears to be a quiet corner of Violet City. Vierna's changed into her spare outfit - the gen three Hex Maniac outfit, to be exact. At the angle that she's holding the PokeGear to film herself, her Zubat is just visible nestled under her cloak. She's low-key scowling down the camera the entire time she speaks, which just makes the red of her eyes more obvious.]
This is Vierna Do'Urden. I've been lead to understand that the next stretch of road is somewhat longer and more perilous than that which I've already traveled. I have no desire to spend the next tenday on the road with no intelligent companionship.
[The Zubat squeaks in what might be objection, and Vierna diverts her glare from the camera just long enough to scowl at it instead.] Hush, you.
Is anyone else planning on leaving Violet City via Route 32 soon? If you are, I would join your traveling party.
C. Union Cave
[For all that she's now limited to seeing things in the visible spectrum - the horror - Vierna is instantly, visibly more relaxed once she gets underground. A little less flinchy, a little less defensive. It's good to have a stone roof over her head again and not that awful empty space of the sky.
And look, maybe you'd intended to head straight through. Vierna had intended to head straight through. But she'd taken a wrong turn, and that entrance to a lower level looks awfully inviting.]
Come on. There will be more formidable creatures deeper in the cave system, right?
[She sounds... well, maybe not enthusiastic, but certainly like she considers this a positive, despite the fact that she and her team are rapidly approaching the point of their current journey where a bath and a trip to the pokecenter should sound more appealing than going and looking for another fight.]