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SHRIEKING SKULLS WILL SHOCK YOUR SOUL AND SEAL YOUR DOOM TONIGHT
[After 10:00 p.m., the library's... definitely a little different. The tables have lit candles on them, and there are... kind of janky cardboard cutouts set on some of the shelves. An attempt was made, at least, even if there could've been more boxes destroyed in the attempt...
But regardless. There's candles set around a place for some snacks if anyone wants to bring them, and there's also a blanket set on one of the tables. Because clearly, that's where the storyteller's supposed to sit...? Maybe you wanna do it. Maybe you just want to stand or sit or something.
Either way, let's get fucking spooky up in here.]
But regardless. There's candles set around a place for some snacks if anyone wants to bring them, and there's also a blanket set on one of the tables. Because clearly, that's where the storyteller's supposed to sit...? Maybe you wanna do it. Maybe you just want to stand or sit or something.
Either way, let's get fucking spooky up in here.]
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[he hops up on the table where he spread the blanket out and leans into the audience a bit.]
So. Since there's only one other person familiar with Alolan culture here, Professor Guzma's gonna take you to school for a sec.
One, back in Alola, we have this moldy old tradition called the Island Challenge. Basically, you turn eleven, and then you're supposed to visit all the islands with your Pokemon and meet up with other kids picked out by our leaders called Trial Captains. They set up little challenges for the kiddos to do, and when you complete the challenge you fight a stronger and bigger than usual version of a Pokemon called a Totem Pokemon that the Captains are in charge of training and raising.
Got that? Good. So let's get this show on the road.
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See, long ago, Alola had Kahunas as the leader of each island, and there was a royal family who ran the whole show, too. That's when this whole thing took place. Of course, the Island Challenge was still a thing back then --- Trial Captains, Totem Pokemon, the whole nine yards. I told you it was old and moldy. And so... on our biggest island, Ula'Ula, there was a Trial Captain who was supposedly the local Kahuna's daughter. You know, because that's what you get when you let the Kahunas run that kinda thing. Nepotism runs rampant.
I mean, it's said that she did a pretty good job for most of her run. The trials went well and the Totem Frosslass she trained was a pretty good contender --- not too tough, but tough enough to give your average brat a challenge. She specialized in Ice Pokemon, and her trial was actually a ways up Mount Lanakila, the most sacred mountain in the region.
But there's gotta be a "but," right? And the "but" here is that towards the latter end of her captainship, something was a little rotten on Lanakila. There started being some mysterious disappearances around the mountains --- more mysterious than usual, I mean. Mount Lanakila isn't the easiest climb in the world, and you'll always have people who just get unlucky on the climb up or the climb back down.
The weird thing was, though... you were definitely more likely to disappear if you fit a certain profile, and it wasn't the sort of person you'd expect to get beaten by the elements. Younger kids on their trials seemed pretty safe. Old guys and old ladies also didn't have any trouble... actually, no ladies disappeared at all. If something did happen to them, you'd find their body at some point.
However... handsome dudes in their prime? They'd vanish without a trace. No body, no blood, no nothing. So, naturally, this got people's attention. The Kahuna started looking into it... but the investigation never went anywhere, for some reason. Which, I mean, sometimes a dude needs to climb a mountain, you know?
So eventually, one of the king's lady soldiers did a solo investigation. She went up the mountain and started searching... and came across this pretty well hidden cavern that was off the beaten path. I do kinda have to wonder how she felt when she walked into that cavern, because... well.
It was like one of those statue galleries in Kalos. All fancy and stuff, with artfully sculpted ice statues of handsome dudes... but if you know anything about Froslass, you can probably figure out where this is going. See, they're a female-only Ice/Ghost Pokemon that has a bit of a nasty habit... when they happen upon something alive they like, they tend to flash freeze 'em and take them back to their den to display as decorations.
Now, trained Pokemon aren't really supposed to pull these kinds of things, since they've got a code to them and won't murder people or other Pokemon when under the care of a trainer. However, since only humans were being put on display there, suspicions quickly arose that the Trial Captain was in on it --- and, well, when she was confronted with it, she went ahead and confessed.
After that, things get a little hazy. What we do know is that there's still a pedestal up on Mount Lanakila where you can pick up the traditional reward for completing a trial, a Z-crystal. There hasn't been a Captain running the place since, but some people wanna get a whole set of 18 Z-Crystals for every type, so they still go up there to pick one up.
When asked about the experience... well, girls generally tend to come out of it with no problem. Guys... notice something a little creepy, though, like there's a sudden chill to the back of their necks.
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...Have you ever gone up there, Guzma-san?
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[ masquerade. ]
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He has no idea. ]
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What'd they do with the people statues?
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They were still people. They had families—I'm sure they would've taken them back if they could to bury them properly, or something.
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So the months-frozen ones would be out of luck.
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[That was a bit of a special occasion, too.]
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[Though he sounds like he's joking, at the very least, because guess who doesn't believe in ghosts!!!
... Not him! He does, in fact, believe in them! But a Pokémon's a Pokémon, so.]
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[And why are there eighteen of them, aren't there seventeen types-]
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There's one for each type, but I think outside of those eighteen there are a few that are just for specific Pokemon, too.
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[They sound really cool, but that seems like the prudent thing here.]
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What a spooky story! [ He smiles, clapping his hands. ] I'd never want to run into a Frosslass - she'd probably flash freeze me the instant she laid her eyes on me.
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