Originally Posted by
LKWayvern
(Happy surprise, today's the one day this week I'm not stuck at a school for 15 hours. Let's make the most of it...)
I'd like to Interview(Learn) Kure the Doublade. I want to learn the Exorcism skill.
You seek out Kure the Doublade in his apartment at the Dakin Apartment Tower. Unlike the apartments of most Pokémon, Kure has very little furniture and mostly books, strange relics, and other mysterious possessions and artifacts.
When he sees you arrive, you feel a mysterious presence and aura surrounding him as he looks at you with his unblinking, pink eyes. All the while, he simply floats in the area, observing you curiously as you introduce yourself and request training in Exorcism.
"Ah, hello there, Laura," Kure addresses you. "I would be more than pleased to teach you these ways, but you must be ready, as the path of the exorcist is not an easy or predictable one. Despite what some might think, to be an exorcist is a selfless and very difficult task. Moreover, demons do very much exist and fighting them is terribly difficult, challenging, and taxing. But nonetheless, it is an essential path, as without these struggles, both demon and host are terminated together, and we must be mindful of the ones who were possessed by these demons when they never intended it."
You accept the conditions even though Kure has informed you of what you might encounter.
"I admire your commitment, noble Umbreon," Kure replies to you as he continues floating in midair. "I sense you are ready, and I sense you will put this knowledge to good use. Step forward and close your eyes."
You do as you're instructed, and you step forward and close your eyes. You hear a low humming sound, a slight tingling feeling on your fur, and then, all of a sudden, you see even with your eyes closed. In fact, you suddenly feel outside of your own body, floating in a murky sea of darkness. A twisted abomination in the shape of a murderous skull with jagged teeth attempts to attack you, but you instinctively target its dark essence and thrust your paws forward, driving a white spear of light into the dark soul of this nightmarish entity.
Do you feel it within you, Laura? Does it come from within you as if it always has? This is what the power feels like. This is what it means to fight not using your body or mind, but by using your soul.
Suddenly, in the strike of a moment, you are dropped before a valley landscape and you see the passage of time around you. Days, months, seasons, and years upon years pass. And you walk it through it all yourself in the role of the exorcist. It is as if the multiverse allowed you to live a whole separate lifetime as one who gained an extensive knowledge of how to drive back constant numbers of demons in their career. You save countless children, adults, and elderly Pokémon from demons in many villages, towns, and cities in a world beyond worlds. You started off small, worked your way up to an apprentice, became an intermediate, and eventually became an expert and a grandmaster in your many journeys. In this dream-like life, you walked through a whole lifetime's worth of mastering this skill, and at the end of it all, you stand before your alternate self.
"I learned this for you," this alternate Umbreon Laura tells you. "In another time, another life, I learned the many ways of driving back demons and devilish abominations. I learned young, spent a lifetime harnessing this skill for the cause of good, and grew old with this power. My time with it is done. I now pass it down to you so that you can use it to make the difference upon Valdyne. I wish you... I wish us... the best of luck."
As you feel it, the power and the knowledge, in the form of a white, glowing star, passes from the Umbreon you were in another universe to you in this universe. It is breathtaking as the knowledge becomes innate to you, and when you have gained what you need, you suddenly open your eyes and you're right back in Kure's apartment, eyes wide and amazed at the vision and experience you just encountered. You almost find yourself short on breath, but all the knowledge, skills, and memories are now within you, linked with your body, mind, and spirit.
"What you saw was for your eyes and your eyes only," Kure tells you. "I know the gates, the ways and the paths to lead Pokémon to discover who are what they could have been as master exorcists. The journey itself varies from one Pokémon to another. It matters not how you learned, but how you take what you have learned now and use it to the best of your ability. The souls of many depend on it."
"I wish you good luck and safety in your path ahead, Laura," Kure speaks to you. "We must remember not to wish for our challenges to become easier, but to tell ourselves to grow stronger so that we may overcome them."
Congratulations! You have learned Exorcism!
Laura the Umbreon (M: Dark)
Health: 5/5
Sanity: 4/4
Perk: Diplomacy | Learned Abilities: Escort/Protect, Exorcism
Failed Assassinations: 0/2
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