today i got to go into a deep cave and experience true dark. the true deep, wonderful darkness that is complete absence of light when deep underground. the walls of the cave echoing only the sounds inside them. trapping everything inside of it and turning it around and over itself and it was
truly beautiful.
i now understand what it is to be in the darkness and i don’t understand why the light is the one known for its radiance when the darkness can radiate in that way
Hot Litwick Cocoa: What's the spookiest ghost story you can think of?
Oh! I have a couple, actually. But before I proceed with this one, trigger warnings for pokémon death, spelunkaphobia/claustrophobia, and perhaps even pyrophobia. To accommodate these warnings, the story is below the read more!
You may be familiar with the concept of bird pokémon being sent down into mines to indicate air quality, no? General rule of thumb being that if miners could still hear birdsong, they were alright to keep working, and to take a hike if they couldn't? Well, people love pokémon, and as these minors had the soundtracks of their lives filled with birdsong, they couldn't help but adore their little companions. It's such now that in mines that even use the birdsong system, minors are pretty on top of their bird pokémons' health.
So needless to say, many people were heartbroken when a lucrative, well-worked mine in the Orre region struck a pocket of poisonous gas, but none moreso than the 13 miners closest to the strike. Each had their own bird pokémon, and none of them had quite enough in the way of healing items for them to make it out of the compromised parts of the mine. By the time they all were able to get to somewhere with more healing goods, their poor pokemon were past those healing methods.
A few years later, the company operating the mine attempted to have a survey party go down and check if that particular branch of the mine was still good to work. While it did seem that the gas had largely dissipated, they ran into another threat: a proverbial Moltres of light blue, lead-salt flames stalking in the blackdamp, aggressive to them as it noticed their presence. It was powerful enough, from the sounds of it, to scare off the survey party and cause a cave-in.
No-one has worked that mine since then, but families that live close by say that ghost type pokemon are much more active at night now, particularly in the summer.
... Well, I suppose that's more sad than spooky. Anyways! Please ask if you'd like to hear more. I pick up stories from my pokémon all the time. :)
