-Gemstone caverns-

Sorry for the wait

The two pokemon stumble their way through the twisting caves, fighting off ferals as they went. {+3 LVLs}

During a Challenging battle with a couple of carbink, Lucifer is hit back into a small pile of rounded crystals. They weren't like the normal crystals found in the caverns, the cavern crystals stood tall and sharp... These ones couldn't even put a hole into the world's thinest piece of paper. The crystals suddenly started shaking as little dark pokemon apeared from the crystals, they looked lke...... Dwebble? They were a bit more dark grey then a normal dwebble and they looked pretty angry at the sudden waking up. The crystal crabs shook, starting to fling little crystals at the other pokemon and hitting everyone back.

Lucifer and Cedar decided to leave before the dwebble got any more angry.

-Gemstone Caverns-

Returning back to beacon town, the group stopped by Dally's market to see if the Delcatty could help them find something for the rockruff.

Upon telling Dally about the cave Rockruffs and them taking light off the gemstones, she took out a brightly glowing crystal from her draws... It shone brighter then any of the ones in the caves and she traded it to them for the gem they had gotten in the Caverns. {-1 Caverns gem, +1 Luminous Crystal} Saying that it might be a good gift for the dogs.

-Gemstone Caverns-

The deerling stood by the Caverns enterance, trying to Psych themself up before going in alone.

They ventured into the caves, skipping passed the glowing gemstones and spiked rocks as they made their way through. They did manage to make it pretty far by themself but soon enough the deerling was abushed by a couple of thieving Sableyes, They stole some of the coins that Simone had on them and The deer had quickly chased after them. After cornering them into a dead end, Simone managed to fight off the other pokemon and get their poke back from them successfully. {+2 LVLs}

They walked around the caves for a bit longer before realizing they weren't going to find much else so they turned back and left to go back to beacon town for now.

-Gemstone Caverns-

The two walked back into the Caverns, this time basically staying as close to eachother as they possibly could.

Looking around there wasn't much but they did manage to find an old cave structure of some kind... with broken down columns, patterned stone floors and everything! Searching around the ruins for a bit, the two found some random old items that seemed interesting enough to take with them {+250p and x1 Tera Crystal}

There is a large mural on one of the Ruin's walls that seems to depict some sort of turf war, one that happened centuries ago between the cave's carbink and rockruffs. The Rockruff's supposed leader looked to be a lycanroc... the specific form was hard to make out as it almost looked like all three of them at once...

The part that they guessed would have shown the carbink's leader was broken off and was nowhere to be seen... Taking it all in, they decided to mark down the ruins location in the Caverns and they left to go report to Julius. 

-Gemstone Caverns-

The two explorers decided to take their first exploration to the Gemstone Caverns, Bickering the whole way there.

They didn't get that far into the caves before they accidently ran into a large group of... Carbink? huh, they seemed to be taking random gems off of the caverns crystals and onto their heads, hopping off to somewhere further into the caves. None of the working carbinks seemed to notice the two in the cave with them... however three of the much larger carbink that had been standing off to the side quickly bounced their way over to them.
The smallest one of the three slowly looked between the two explorers before suddenly lauching itself forward, headbutting Sparrow and starting a fight.

After a surprisingly tough battle, Sparrow and Corvid managed to knock down the two larger carbinks {+2 LVLs each} and the smaller one ended up running away... only to come back with more carbink...

They were already a bit exhausted by the previous battle so they agreed to just retreat while they could...

-Gemstone Caverns-

Once the group got back to the Gemstone Caverns, they agreed that they were going to be extra careful not to trip over anything in the caves ever again.. Looking at you mouse.

As they searched through the caves for any sight of the rockruffs, they eventually came across a path that was completly veiled in shadows as all the glowing crystals lining the paths walls had all gone dim. thankfully, they were able to light it up with a small torch lit by Jubilee. Adventuring further down the path they see a single glowing crystal on the wall slowy fading as the light from it seemed to be absorbed by the two little paws holding onto it. the paws belonged to one of those strange rockruffs they saw before... only this time it had more brown coloring then the others blue and grey.

But before they could get any words out, The puppy mon jumped back and the crystal's light completely vanished... hiding the rockruff in the shadows.

once they walked over to where it was they couldn't see any sight of the small dog anywhere...
After that encounter the team didn't find much else...

-Beacon Town-

Walking out of the shop and leaving her two teammates behind. Lily went in searched of the icey trail left behind by the mystery pokemon.

Spotting the trail not to far away from the market, she went after them and found the pokemon crouched down behind the explorers guild with a snivy. When Lily tried approaching them for the first time, they both got really defensive but after she explained to them what happened the two pokemon did back down a little bit... still suspious of the meowth, the hooded pokemon, who could slightly be made out to be a Cubchoo under their hood, snatched the coins back from Lily's paw and shooed her off... Rude...

Despite the good act, it didn't feel that rewarding as she left back to the group with a couple less coins {- 100p}

-Beacon Town-

After talking to Julius, The group of three went off to the market to see if there was anything being sold that they really needed.

they didn't see anything that really interested them as they choose to just pick out a couple of potions and reviver seeds. Suddenly, A small pokemon bumped into Lily and dropped some coins as they ran passed, They couldn't really see what pokemon it was because of the dark hood they were wearing but they did a small trail of ice behind them... 

Lily picked up the coins and turned to give it back to the pokemon but when she looked back, they were gone... {+100p}

-Gemstone Caverns-

The two went back to the caverns the next day and made their way back to the crack in the wall... only to see one of those weird rockruffs patting it's paws over the crack... though, this one looked to be more dark brown in color compared to the blue and grey they were told. The rockruff noticed their arrival and quickly ran off, dissapearing around a corner.

Checking the crack, it looked to be covered up with random pebbles that had been stuffed into it.. however, it really didn't do much as Bennet and Clay easily broke through the wall and continued down the hidden path.

The path led them into a large opening in the cave with a stone staircase leading up to a large statue surrounded by rings of water, glowing gemstones and thick clouds of fog, the statue looked to be of a Large wolf like pokemon similar to that of a Lycanroc. There was an overpowering aura that filled the cave as an eerie howl sounded out from somewhere beyond the statue... The two explorers were both spooked by whatever made that howl and they hurried back out of the cave. 

They aren't ready to face whatever that was just yet...

-Beacon Town-

Checking out the town square, The two mon sit down under a tree by the center fountain.

while Vagabond is sorting out their things, Inlet notices a light colored snivy standing in the fountain with their out arms and searching around in the water. The snivy was seemly picking out golden poke coins from the bottom of the fountain and putting them into a bag. Inlet shouted out to them and walked over.
What started as a small arguement quickly turned into a fight but since the Snivy had been standing in water to begin with and the fact that they were out numbered... Inlet and Vagabond easily won and snatched the coins back from the them.

"F- Fine! I didn't need the poke anyway!"

After scaring the snivy off, the two Explorers went to return the stolen poke to Solitaire and the Scolipede insisted that they keep some of it for the help. {+ 250p}

-Gemstone Caverns-

After hearing the reports of weird looking cave rockruffs, Bennet and Clay agreed to go back into the caverns and search for them.

while walking, Bennet's ear twitched as it caught the faint sound of beeping coming from a nearby crystal, it was pretty foggy to see but it seemed like there was something inside. They broke it open after a couple of attacks and a rectangle object made of metal falls out. {+ 1 Strange Remote}

The beeping from it continues but it stops as the tepig presses the flashing button on it. unsure what it does, they stash it away for later... Just as Bennet was about to turn and leave, Clay pulled them back and pointed to a small crack in the wall that was made when they broke the crystal. looking inside showed that there was a whole other path behind the wall. The two quickly mapped down where it was on a piece of paper and leave to go report back to Julius.

-Beacon Town-

After spending the day trying to get themselves settled into Beacon town, The two explorers had decided to check out some of the tall grass fields surrounding it.

while they were making their way around the fields they noticed some sort of broken down ruins by the forest's edge... seems like other pokemon did use to live here.... Corvid swiped some dust off of a close by rock with their tail and it was quickly revealed that it was in fact! not a rock, sitting there was a dusty old wooden doll of an Espurr {+ 1 Abandoned doll}

After searching for a while longer, they didn't come across much else and left with the doll, they'd have to ask Solitaire about it later.

-Gemstone Caverns-

On a stroll through the caves, Mouse tripped over a small rock and takes a tumble down into a pit... Don't worry it isn't that deep so Lily and Jubilee quickly hurry after the shinx to help them.

They arive to see Mouse surrounded by a couple strange looking Rockruffs, all different shades gray and blue in coloring with sparkling muilti color gems instead of rocks... One of the rockruffs steps forward, seemly sniffing at the air as something drops out of it's fur. {+ 1 Caverns gem}

Picking up the gem startled the Rockruff and it suddenly turned to flee with the others... Strange... The group decided to leave and report this sighting to Julius.

-Beacon Town-

Taking a break from everything since ariving in this continent, Lucifer and Cedar decided to take a stroll around Beacon town together.
By the fountain in the middle of the town, the two find a small bag that seems to filled with strange items. checking the bag shows that there is a name sewn onto the bottom of it... the name is Dally, the town's shopkeeper! they better return it to her.

After heading to the Market and handing the Delcatty the bag, she thanked the two and insisted on giving them some sort of reward for finding it.
{+300P and an Evolite}

-Gemstone Caverns-

During an exploration in the Caverns, The two got split up by a small cave in caused by a large feral onix.
Trying to make their way back to Verin, the Oshawott tripped over a small bag that had been dropped in the caves. they checked the bag and found no name sooo... finders keepers it is! {+100P}
Verin on the other hand, didn't have much luck... they were quickly chased out of the Gemstone Caverns by the onix and met up with Melody later.

-Gemstone Caverns-

The two pokemon curiously wandered their way through the caves, Quietly chatting with eachother as they dodged by many puddles and gemstone stalagmites.

Eventually some of the feral cavern residents caught onto their presence and ambushed the two, fortunately the ferals weren't too strong and Clay was able to fight them off. {+1 LVL}

Stunned by the battle, Bennet stood back and watched most of the time. While watching, the tepig had caught sight of... something out of the corner of their eye but it was gone by the time they turned to face it... Must have been nothing.