I've had this idea floating around for a while, but have been struggling with how to present it. And somewhere along the line, this occurred to me. I have no idea if it can be effective or interesting in the long run, but I'm going to give it a shot and would really adore feedback on it.
This shouldn't be too long at all... I'd say about 6 parts of about this length.
Index:
Wave 1: Breaking News
3
Wave 2
2
Wave 3
1
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Wave 1: Breaking News
IRP: Intra-Region Press
VIOLET CITY, Johto – BREAKING NEWS. Three people were found dead today in the Ruins of Alph. Although not much is known at the moment, police are on the scene. A source speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not yet authorized to be speaking about the situation says the people seem to be tourists who were unrelated to each other, and each had apparent head trauma.
The three bodies had been deposited in a small chamber deep within the ruins and were only found when an explorer's houndour apparently smelled something amiss and ran to investigate. The boy and the houndour themselves were briefly trapped because they had difficultly navigating their way out. It is well-known by the locals and warned by the scientists who oversee the area that it is not possible to get cell or radio service while inside the ruins.
The boy said the room itself was clean, although it had begun to stink, and it seemed as if the bodies had simply be dropped there and the actual killings took place somewhere else. “It didn't look like the scene of a murder,” he said. “I wasn't sure how to react. I'm still not really sure. This is surreal. I don't know.”
Updates will come when more information becomes available.
The Violet Eye
News, local nightlife, real estate and more!
RUINS OF ALPH – Three bodies were discovered today by a young trainer and his houndour in a small room at the extreme bottom of excavated areas. Clare Ursine, 54, Martin Boothe, 43, and Jenny Smith, 26, were all apparently tourists with different groups who came to the ruins at different times. Their wounds were consistent with foul play, and authorities are treating the case as a murder investigation.
Sources say the victims had near-identical injuries, although they seem to have died at different times, and were found thrown on top of one another. However, some sources have been saying police think the chamber was used simply as a drop-point and the killings took place somewhere else.
“It didn't look like the scene of a murder,” said Christopher Cura, 11, the young boy whose houndour discovered the site. “I wasn't sure how to react. I'm still not really sure. This is feels like it's not real. I don't know.” Cura was then quickly ushered off by police and has not released any more public comments on the situation.
However, some local researchers find the investigation to be hasty and based in fear-mongering in lieu of a more rational approach to the situation. “I've had people asking me if it's possible they fell through the floor above, if the site is unstable. And to me that makes the most sense, it was my first thought, it's pretty obvious based on what I've heard.” James Sorger, Ph. D, has been working with the team of researchers in the Alph for the past four years. “These people, individually, wandered into a cavern in the dangerous part of the ruins we hadn't fully certified as safe and fell. It doesn't require any suspension of disbelief.”
The research team has been “deeply shaken” by these events, and are expected to release a statement in the “immediate future.”
Research in the ruins centers upon the pokemon unown, who are literally a living alphabet. Carvings on the floors and walls throughout not just the Alph but other places in other regions as well suggests their forms were both revered and used among followers as their main form of communication. It has been suggested that unown were the first written language, or that they arose from the invention of written language, although there is controversy surrounding these claims. Ruins that house unown are characterized by puzzles and traps; writing in unown typography lines the walls.
While some are interested in the pokemon itself and how it functions-- it is very reclusive, at times seeming to go as far as to completely disappear from Alph and is almost never seen in the upper levels-- and some interested in the socio-linguistic implication of the caves, others focus entirely on the ancient culture that seemed to hold them to such high regard.
The Alp also attracts trainers, spelunkers, and tourists. There has been no word from anyone on any side of this case about whether the whole area should be blocked off, just that cave, or anything at all. However, sources speculate that a completely shutdown of the area is unlikely.
................THIS IS GRN THE GOLDENROD NEWS TICKER............VOILET CITY--IN THE CASE OF THE RUIN OF ALPH MURDERS POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE INFO TO STEP FORWARD.........A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE MATTER IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY......OLIVINE—LEADER JASMINE HAS AGAIN
Indigo League Press Release
For Immediate Release
February 2
THE INDIGO LEAGUE strongly advises all trainers against travel to the Ruins of Alph. Based on the evidence thus far, it has been decided that it is in the best interest and in the interest of the safety of our trainers to insist they stay away from this area. Anyone who is staying at the Ruins will be offered lodging free of charge at nearby Indigo League sanctioned facilities.
A MANDATORY pokedex update containing this warning and further information will be released shortly. We ask that everyone that is able to comply with this advisory do so. Trainers from outer regions to whom we cannot send warnings or instructions may find them at any Indigo League sanctioned facility.
IRP: Intra-Region Press
VIOLET CITY, Johto-- Police met the press today and ventured to answer questions and quell hysteria that had arisen as a result of the finding of three dead bodies deep in the Ruins of Alph.
The local authorities assured inhabitants of Violet City that the city was safe and that they were vehemently following leads. “Our investigators are working hard and interviewing as many people as possible in order to bring someone in to custody,” assured Violet Police Chief Jordan Nold.
When asked about doubt that had been cast on the validity of looking at this as foul play, Nold looked visibly annoyed and said, “Only my men have seen that room, and only we are really in any position to comment on it. I promise you, if there had been a big hole in the ceiling and rubble everywhere we would have noticed.”
Earlier, researchers working at the facility and familiar with the ruins had pointed out their inherent danger, and how getting hurt in a cave and becoming trapped is not unlikely, particularly if you have little or no spelunking experience. The Ruins have long been a tourist attraction and challenge for trainers.
In August of '93, a trainer who had been exploring alone became trapped in the caves after sustaining a head injury. Fortunately, his friends were able to realize what must have happened and police were able to rescue the boy.
Each researcher who works out of the institute is being interviewed individually, as are all trainers whose pokedex trackers put them in the area at the time or immediately before.
Nold had little to say about Christopher Cura, the eleven-year-old boy whose houndour picked up on the scent of the bodies and led his trainer to them. “He's resting, and his parents are coming in from Kanto.” Where in Kanto, Nold would not specify. “He's been a little out of it, but he's traumatized, understandably. He's given us what we need to proceed further, and it would be in his best interest if the media stopped prying into his situation, interesting as it may be.”
It was confirmed that there were three victims who had all died at least several days apart. Claire Ursine, 54, was a tourist from Hoenn whose coordinating led her to travel. Martin Boothe, 43, was a wealthy yet under-the-radar socialite whose identification was Sinnohian. Jenny Smith, 26, was a student from Blackthorn conducting independent research. No more would be said about the three except that their families had been “contacted.”
Faulkner was on hand as well, particularly to comment on the news that the Indigo League is “discouraging” its trainers from entering the area. “Obviously, this is very tragic. I fully support the League's decision to warn people against visiting the Ruins until we know more.”
He did, however, disagree with the broadness of the alarm. “I don't see any reason people should stop visiting Violet itself. Our crime rate is very low; a significant portion of our population is monks. The gym will be open, and it is not dangerous. The Marts and Centers will be open, and they are not dangerous. People should not be afraid to pass through the town, or even to stay here.”
There would be little use in visiting the Ruins now, anyway, observes Nold. “We have blocked off all entrances to caves and to the area, including those that lead through the well [in Azalea Town]. Guards make sure we know the name of everyone who comes in and out, when they do so, and where. With the help of the researchers, we are going through the ruins methodically to make sure no one is hiding there, and no one else who is hurt is being missed.”
There has been suggestion that the murders took places somewhere else, and the largely empty caves were used as a dumping ground. Nold would neither confirm nor deny this. “We are doing all we can,” he assured.
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Please, R/R. Mostly the second R. Though... they kind of come hand in hand.
This shouldn't be too long at all... I'd say about 6 parts of about this length.
Index:
Wave 1: Breaking News
3
Wave 2
2
Wave 3
1
---------------
Wave 1: Breaking News
IRP: Intra-Region Press
VIOLET CITY, Johto – BREAKING NEWS. Three people were found dead today in the Ruins of Alph. Although not much is known at the moment, police are on the scene. A source speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not yet authorized to be speaking about the situation says the people seem to be tourists who were unrelated to each other, and each had apparent head trauma.
The three bodies had been deposited in a small chamber deep within the ruins and were only found when an explorer's houndour apparently smelled something amiss and ran to investigate. The boy and the houndour themselves were briefly trapped because they had difficultly navigating their way out. It is well-known by the locals and warned by the scientists who oversee the area that it is not possible to get cell or radio service while inside the ruins.
The boy said the room itself was clean, although it had begun to stink, and it seemed as if the bodies had simply be dropped there and the actual killings took place somewhere else. “It didn't look like the scene of a murder,” he said. “I wasn't sure how to react. I'm still not really sure. This is surreal. I don't know.”
Updates will come when more information becomes available.
The Violet Eye
News, local nightlife, real estate and more!
RUINS OF ALPH – Three bodies were discovered today by a young trainer and his houndour in a small room at the extreme bottom of excavated areas. Clare Ursine, 54, Martin Boothe, 43, and Jenny Smith, 26, were all apparently tourists with different groups who came to the ruins at different times. Their wounds were consistent with foul play, and authorities are treating the case as a murder investigation.
Sources say the victims had near-identical injuries, although they seem to have died at different times, and were found thrown on top of one another. However, some sources have been saying police think the chamber was used simply as a drop-point and the killings took place somewhere else.
“It didn't look like the scene of a murder,” said Christopher Cura, 11, the young boy whose houndour discovered the site. “I wasn't sure how to react. I'm still not really sure. This is feels like it's not real. I don't know.” Cura was then quickly ushered off by police and has not released any more public comments on the situation.
However, some local researchers find the investigation to be hasty and based in fear-mongering in lieu of a more rational approach to the situation. “I've had people asking me if it's possible they fell through the floor above, if the site is unstable. And to me that makes the most sense, it was my first thought, it's pretty obvious based on what I've heard.” James Sorger, Ph. D, has been working with the team of researchers in the Alph for the past four years. “These people, individually, wandered into a cavern in the dangerous part of the ruins we hadn't fully certified as safe and fell. It doesn't require any suspension of disbelief.”
The research team has been “deeply shaken” by these events, and are expected to release a statement in the “immediate future.”
Research in the ruins centers upon the pokemon unown, who are literally a living alphabet. Carvings on the floors and walls throughout not just the Alph but other places in other regions as well suggests their forms were both revered and used among followers as their main form of communication. It has been suggested that unown were the first written language, or that they arose from the invention of written language, although there is controversy surrounding these claims. Ruins that house unown are characterized by puzzles and traps; writing in unown typography lines the walls.
While some are interested in the pokemon itself and how it functions-- it is very reclusive, at times seeming to go as far as to completely disappear from Alph and is almost never seen in the upper levels-- and some interested in the socio-linguistic implication of the caves, others focus entirely on the ancient culture that seemed to hold them to such high regard.
The Alp also attracts trainers, spelunkers, and tourists. There has been no word from anyone on any side of this case about whether the whole area should be blocked off, just that cave, or anything at all. However, sources speculate that a completely shutdown of the area is unlikely.
................THIS IS GRN THE GOLDENROD NEWS TICKER............VOILET CITY--IN THE CASE OF THE RUIN OF ALPH MURDERS POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE INFO TO STEP FORWARD.........A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE MATTER IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY......OLIVINE—LEADER JASMINE HAS AGAIN
Indigo League Press Release
For Immediate Release
February 2
THE INDIGO LEAGUE strongly advises all trainers against travel to the Ruins of Alph. Based on the evidence thus far, it has been decided that it is in the best interest and in the interest of the safety of our trainers to insist they stay away from this area. Anyone who is staying at the Ruins will be offered lodging free of charge at nearby Indigo League sanctioned facilities.
A MANDATORY pokedex update containing this warning and further information will be released shortly. We ask that everyone that is able to comply with this advisory do so. Trainers from outer regions to whom we cannot send warnings or instructions may find them at any Indigo League sanctioned facility.
IRP: Intra-Region Press
VIOLET CITY, Johto-- Police met the press today and ventured to answer questions and quell hysteria that had arisen as a result of the finding of three dead bodies deep in the Ruins of Alph.
The local authorities assured inhabitants of Violet City that the city was safe and that they were vehemently following leads. “Our investigators are working hard and interviewing as many people as possible in order to bring someone in to custody,” assured Violet Police Chief Jordan Nold.
When asked about doubt that had been cast on the validity of looking at this as foul play, Nold looked visibly annoyed and said, “Only my men have seen that room, and only we are really in any position to comment on it. I promise you, if there had been a big hole in the ceiling and rubble everywhere we would have noticed.”
Earlier, researchers working at the facility and familiar with the ruins had pointed out their inherent danger, and how getting hurt in a cave and becoming trapped is not unlikely, particularly if you have little or no spelunking experience. The Ruins have long been a tourist attraction and challenge for trainers.
In August of '93, a trainer who had been exploring alone became trapped in the caves after sustaining a head injury. Fortunately, his friends were able to realize what must have happened and police were able to rescue the boy.
Each researcher who works out of the institute is being interviewed individually, as are all trainers whose pokedex trackers put them in the area at the time or immediately before.
Nold had little to say about Christopher Cura, the eleven-year-old boy whose houndour picked up on the scent of the bodies and led his trainer to them. “He's resting, and his parents are coming in from Kanto.” Where in Kanto, Nold would not specify. “He's been a little out of it, but he's traumatized, understandably. He's given us what we need to proceed further, and it would be in his best interest if the media stopped prying into his situation, interesting as it may be.”
It was confirmed that there were three victims who had all died at least several days apart. Claire Ursine, 54, was a tourist from Hoenn whose coordinating led her to travel. Martin Boothe, 43, was a wealthy yet under-the-radar socialite whose identification was Sinnohian. Jenny Smith, 26, was a student from Blackthorn conducting independent research. No more would be said about the three except that their families had been “contacted.”
Faulkner was on hand as well, particularly to comment on the news that the Indigo League is “discouraging” its trainers from entering the area. “Obviously, this is very tragic. I fully support the League's decision to warn people against visiting the Ruins until we know more.”
He did, however, disagree with the broadness of the alarm. “I don't see any reason people should stop visiting Violet itself. Our crime rate is very low; a significant portion of our population is monks. The gym will be open, and it is not dangerous. The Marts and Centers will be open, and they are not dangerous. People should not be afraid to pass through the town, or even to stay here.”
There would be little use in visiting the Ruins now, anyway, observes Nold. “We have blocked off all entrances to caves and to the area, including those that lead through the well [in Azalea Town]. Guards make sure we know the name of everyone who comes in and out, when they do so, and where. With the help of the researchers, we are going through the ruins methodically to make sure no one is hiding there, and no one else who is hurt is being missed.”
There has been suggestion that the murders took places somewhere else, and the largely empty caves were used as a dumping ground. Nold would neither confirm nor deny this. “We are doing all we can,” he assured.
.:A:.
He wandered in alone at night. Before him, they danced. He laughed.
He wandered in alone at night. Before him, they danced. He laughed.
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Please, R/R. Mostly the second R. Though... they kind of come hand in hand.
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