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I have two questions. The first is for any of those familiar with what this entire world is "based" on, so to speak: a game series.

Taking the time to travel through Kanto has brought me to the realization that many things are different from what I remember in actually playing what amounted to a children's RPG. Maybe it has something to do with there being different interpretations of it across different universes. It's strange to think how normal discussing something like that is, anymore.

My question is, if you are familiar with the games I'm referring to, what exactly do you recall as being different in comparison to the world we're all now forced to live in? And I mean beyond there being new Pokemon; that much has already been established. In my experience, the cities in Kanto for example- as well as their gym leaders- are the same, but the routes taken to get to them seem different here. It's entirely possible that I just chose a different path unintentionally, given the fact that traveling in real life is different from moving in a video game.

Having the opportunity to face Elite teams formed by these gym leaders is also something new, it seems.

[This translates into the fact that Nagi had intended to do the gyms in order (in painstaking, 6 100-level Pokemon to the face, order), but the way traveling went sortof threw a wrench into those plans.]

And my second question.

Assuming you do not have any ground types on hand, what Pokemon would you use as alternatives to battle Lieutenant Surge?

Is it unreasonable to want to just forget about someone, even though the universe seems bound and determined to continuously remind you of their existence?

[Especially when this world apparently saw fit to give you a picture of someone you've been trying to just move on from. A picture that would probably be better left destroyed, yet...hasn't been.]

[Early in the morning, a single, urgent text appears on the Network.]

18 Espurr eggs in need of homes. Only serious responses will be considered. No charge.

[There is a story here, but any further explanation is just not provided. When you've returned home to your first experience in unprecedented eggpocalypse happening in your room, what else CAN you say?

It doesn't help when you have eight cats just by default that really tried hard to keep their eggs hidden. But 18 eggs + one pretty small closet = a bad time for everyone involved.]

[OOC: OOC egg post here! Again, all of these eggs are free and there are a lot left!]

[Video]

[It's evening, and a video seems to be starting up with a very brief bit of static, along with a muffled voice that keeps cutting in and out.]

...-ori...-n't paw...-he 'Gear-

[By the time the video starts the culprit has clearly assumed a position of total innocence. Who's touching the 'Gear, she's not. You're touching the 'Gear. She's been sleeping this whole time.

There's a heavy sigh and the sound of sheets shifting across each other as the Gear jerks when the person on the other side realizes it's been switched on, and a second later it quickly goes back off.]

[Text]

[A little while later a text appears from the same Gear.]

When I first arrived to this place, I had a certain idea of what Pokémon was supposed to be like. There were only about a little over half a hundred species of Pokémon in total with very few 'Legendaries'. Just as many moves total for them to learn were available. Dark type, Steel type, and Fairy type did not exist. Breeding, evolution via friendship...none of that existed. I found it interesting, then, to note that Psychic type was unparalleled in its power. The only weakness it had was Bug, and there were only three Bug type moves available to be learned. And, of course, you were only allowed to teach your Pokémon four moves at a time. They simply could not learn everything.

There were also far more technical issues with the Pokémon that I knew that I didn't realize until I came here. You could only carry twenty items in total at once. Items had to be stored in the PC to make room for new items, particularly key items that were used frequently.

I encountered many bugs in battle that were potentially game breaking. For example, there is a move called Struggle that a Pokémon would use if all of the PP for its moves had been depleted. It wouldn't be of much use here, since there is room for far too many moves for that to be an issue. But the problem lay in the fact that the move would inherently take on a Normal typing, no matter what type the Pokémon using it was...meaning that if they were in battle with a Ghost type, they would be helpless. The move Rage was useless; the user would immediately become enraged and disobedient after using it, making it unable to use any other move until it fainted. What was more, moves that struck multiple times- such as Fury Swipes- retained the same amount of power for each turn. So, if the first strike was critical, all subsequent attacks would be critical hits as well. Critical hit ratios were also directly related to speed, meaning that a faster Pokemon with Fury Swipes could potentially deal unfairly massive amounts of damage. The same applied to One-hit K.Os. If you were slower than the target, you would never possibly be able to knock them out in one hit.

I wonder how different things would be like in this world if the same, original rules applied? They would certainly be more challenging than they are now. There was far more strategy involved in only having access to four moves at a time during battle, after all.

[Well this...sure is a text at an ungodly hour of the morning. 3 o'clock, to be exact. Cold enough for everyone this fine evening?]

I don't expect anyone to actually be awake at this time of night, but I figured that if I wasn't going to be getting any more sleep any time soon I may as well check and see who else is suffering from insomnia at the moment.

[Now, see, Nagi is used to pulling all nighters, so usually this wouldn't be a problem...if it weren't for the fact that he's actually interested in sleeping off the stress that the past event in Kalos handed to him.

And he wouldn't be awake right now if it weren't for a good reason.]

Speaking of which, for those who are awake: is anyone here familiar with Pokemon who are known to eat dreams?

[The network seems to have been seeing an influx of anonymous texts lately, and this one is no exception. Seems like the events of the past weekend have had some residents doing some reflecting.]

It is inevitable that no relationship will truly last forever. No matter how confident you are in the thought that things will be fine, they won't. You can delude yourself into thinking they will, but eventually they will dissolve and those left behind will move on.

Is it truly worth it to allow yourself to entrust another enough to open up to them, knowing that one day it will all go away? Is it worth letting yourself be hurt just for the brief moment of pleasure that person's presence might give you? Is it worth the risk of that person betraying your trust, only to come after you with malicious intent? Someone who you were so sure you knew until they have left you. Manipulated you. Deceived you.

Feel free to provide any answer you would like, but don't think you will impress me by saying it is better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all.

So tell me. Is it really?

[A whole day and part of the night spent flying has required some resting up on the parts of both Nagi and his team after leaving Goldenrod as soon as was possible. His Hoothoot evolved rather suddenly during battle, finally granting him the freedom of flying from town to town. Only instead of going forward, he went back to Azalea. Gotta do the gyms in order, after all.

But when you're stuck sitting in a hotel room mulling over battle strategies- not that he's too concerned, it's a bug type gym, after all- playing the same Gear games a thousand times over only goes so far. Somehow, he also can't help but think that if he somehow did have a computer right now that he could use, he would just leave it sitting there untouched. It's not a comforting thought, but it's there all the same.

That being said, it's time to put your thinking caps on, trainers. "Tensai" has a question.]

Let’s assume that you are in the midst of a battle with a passing trainer. You have three Pokemon on your team, and each of them are relatively close in level. The trainer you are up against seems to have a team consisting of Ground-type Pokemon, and Ground-types exclusively. They also have three Pokemon with them, and the levels they have reached closely match your own.

However, you seem to have constructed a team of solely Electric-types. Unless you know absolutely nothing about what you are doing, you will quickly realize that their electric type moves have zero effect on the opposing trainer’s Pokemon. Yet, your own Pokemon have a few moves that will damage the opponent. Let’s pretend that you have a Raichu, for example. You have taken the liberty to teach this Pokemon a few moves via TM...one of these being Grass Knot, a move that would be super effective against any Ground type.

Let’s continue by saying that the other two Pokemon on your team have no such moves that would be nearly as effective, but they have a few that will actually make contact in a pinch.
So. Would you flee from the battle, or would you still attempt to fight? Perhaps you believe that type advantages are the key to winning all battles and would choose to flee. Or, you may believe that a Pokemon may be able to succeed due to its own merits alone.

...

Also. Do you have a certain type of Pokemon you prefer training exclusively? If so, have you thought of ways to balance them so that you will have some chance of success no matter the opponent you face? Or, do you instead tailor your roster with more balance in mind?

[It's also just as likely that you do not care whatsoever and just pick your favorites, but.]

[It's a little early for the Network to be terribly active, but thankfully Violet doesn't seem to be seeing any influxes of Pokemon this morning. The pink birds from yesterday have all gone, leaving their sickly sweet scent behind that will surely hang around town for quite a while. Ultimately forced to catch a particularly clingy one to get it off of him, Nagi promptly boxed it with the intent of keeping it there indefinitely.

Then he received a rather strange Pokemon living inside a pumpkin that would not stop crying. Come to find out that the sweet scent that the pink bird gave off seemed to calm the little thing down, as well as give it something soft and fluffy to cuddle with. Even now, the bird, pumpkin, and two psychic cats from the beginning of the month sit curled up against Nagi's side as he writes a text on his Gear.

On his other side sleeps an Eevee, her chest rising and falling gently and her ears flicking every now and then in her sleep.]

Eevee can evolve by using various stones, normally. Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon for example. But now there are evolutions that exist that allow Eevee to evolve into different types by way of..."friendship".

I'm not familiar with the concept of friendship evolution, and I am interested in my Eevee evolving into one of those forms. It sounds straightforward enough, but the Pokedex doesn't state anything further other than that the Pokemon will evolve during a certain time when leveled up with high friendship.

What exactly measures a friendship that is high enough for evolving? Does it just mean making the Pokemon as happy as possible? What have you done to cause your Pokemon to evolve via friendship, if anything at all?

[High friendship is as about as vague as a stipulation as you can place on a thing, and whatever he's been doing, it's not working.]

[Open | Public Frequency]

[With a special bulletin out promising bad weather to come, someone has decided it's time to start gathering information while there's still a chance before the Network becomes inundated with reports and messages being sent back and forth to those living in areas of higher concern. Of course he would be in a town promising to get hit rather hard, on top of everything else. After some time learning the workings of the 'Gear (because having the thing in your hands is a lot more complex than just getting some limited options in the game proper) he's tweaked it so at least he's sure his name isn't being divulged to a public of who knows how many trainers, at the very least. That being said...

...what appears on the Network isn't about anything at all to do with the weather.]

I have been informed that these regions contain far more Pokémon than I had first thought. So tell me. What are some of the stronger species of new Pokémon that have been discovered? Don't waste my time with any listed in the PokéDex from 1-151. I already know everything there is to know about those.

I am particularly interested in Psychic types, but I want to know about as many as possible.

[This may or may not be coming from right after a trip to the breeding center, in which there are like a million eggs and yeah we're getting some information before we commit to anything here.

Because priorities or something.]

[Filtered | Rocket Frequency]

So apparently I am to be a part of Team Rocket. If that is the case, I would like to know who exactly I'm expected to be working with.

[If any of you mention Giovanni, he swears.]