Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24304510-20140530083240/@comment-24304510-20140602000933

Cardin, Neil, and Talen find the great steel doors to the plant's interior in as much of a wreck as those on the gates outside, clearly having been battered in by some kind of massive force. Inside, the plant floor is strangely slick, even with all the water that seems to be dripping from every surface. A number of lights are flickering on and off, but if that's indicating that power is active in this area, or if there's a few generators running them, it's difficult to say. More than a few of the lights are sparking, apparently short circuited. As for the machinery itself, what little you can see of it from the doorway, it appears relatively intact. Undoubtedly, there will be things needing re-calibration and so forth, but there's no great rents in the piping or so forth. For now of course though, none of it's running.

Outside, Kyosuke waits until Cardin's group is out of earshot to confide in Shiro, whispering as they follow Sven and check the perimeter. "To be honest, I think I already have a fairly decent idea of what we might find here, after seeing that gate. This plant was famous among the rangers for having certain...problems. Partly brought on themselves, but even after they cleaned up their act, the Pokémon weren't exactly forgiving. Makes me wonder if those things might somehow have been a prelude to this, even though that was all years ago now. In any case...if it is anything to do with what I think it is....Cardin and the others should be out of the line of danger...and far enough away that their antics shouldn't put us in any more danger either."

Reaching to his belt, Kyosuke pulls off a Pokéball, and quietly releases a Pidgeotto. With a nod to its trainer, apparently aware of what was being asked of it without being told a word, it flies up, and starts scouting the area ahead. Just as their companions inside can see, the entire complex is strangely wet, even for something located right on the shore. It would seem the defenders here tried to put up a fight, with a number of hastily erected, and now thoroughly breached, barricades set up, seemingly with the intention of trying to funnel the attackers through choke points in the maze of tubing and vats in the plant's exterior. Why they decided to make their stand outside, rather than within the relatively safe walls of the plant itself, is hard to say.

Of more concern though, to both groups, is what happened to all the Pokémon that must have been here, friendly or otherwise. This plant is, or was, the hub of one of Celadon's few large industrial complexes. With the city having been built primarily around its huge financial and commercial districts, this area should have been one of the few where you would have expected to find large numbers of Pokémon trainers employed. So why weren't they able to hold out? What could possibly have happened here?