Dreams 5/14/10
Pokemon trainer is unable to defeat an opposing gym, they tell him to challenge them at a battle for the slums. In this universe, your monsters are controlled by performing tarot on a specific kind of table, with your legs crossed et cetera. The higher your altitude, the better off you are in the match.
The "slums" are actually like a natural craggy clifftop with abandoned buildings hollowed into parts of it. Everyone climbs onto the roofs and peaks if they can find comfortable places to sit cross legged. There are like a hundred people sitting around with their tiny tables and fighting one another.
MEANWHILE, there are tiny (and person-sized) humanoid bug-demons. They need to bite (or pinch) the back of your neck and shoot webs from their eyes into a transformer (at the power lines or on a building) and it sucks all the life/soul out of you. It was a very painful process, like having fire move around inside your circulatory system.
The protagonist spends some time looking for highest points to sit on but they're all taken already. Then he catches on to the mass assassination of those gathered by the little demons and teams up with the constabulary to explain and stop it.
The "slums" are actually like a natural craggy clifftop with abandoned buildings hollowed into parts of it. Everyone climbs onto the roofs and peaks if they can find comfortable places to sit cross legged. There are like a hundred people sitting around with their tiny tables and fighting one another.
MEANWHILE, there are tiny (and person-sized) humanoid bug-demons. They need to bite (or pinch) the back of your neck and shoot webs from their eyes into a transformer (at the power lines or on a building) and it sucks all the life/soul out of you. It was a very painful process, like having fire move around inside your circulatory system.
The protagonist spends some time looking for highest points to sit on but they're all taken already. Then he catches on to the mass assassination of those gathered by the little demons and teams up with the constabulary to explain and stop it.