TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!

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ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Last month's mini-events!

Effect: Friday, July 8: Flower Gift - All day, despite the season, flowers drift down from the sky. They’re harmless, beautiful, and smell lovely, but if trainers aren’t careful, they might end up trudging through rosedrifts up to their knees before long.
Swarm: Tuesday, July 12: Spinda
Effect: Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17: Worry Seed - Affected characters won’t be able to get any sleep. Does that make your character cranky? Does it damage their brain-to-mouth filter? The effects can last as little or as long as you’d like over this weekend.
Effect/Swarm Double Duty: Friday, July 22: Surf - Large waves appear in all bodies of water, including things like bathtubs and your Sawsbucks drinks (it’s just bean water, you know). Be careful on the ocean, but also, hang ten, dudes! The waves won’t destroy anything, but trainers are going to get wet on this ride. Also, oh god, small jellyfish Pokemon (Tentacool, Frillish, Inkay) happen to be swarming randomly in these bodies of water. GANBATTE, VICTORY ROAD.
Effect: Friday, July 29: Haze - The forecast is misty inside and out on this oddly cool July day. Affected trainers will find it difficult to remember things, whether those happened long ago or just five minutes past. The memories aren’t gone, of course, it’s just…foggy.
Swarm: Sunday, July 31: Illumise and Volbeat

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Oh, you got a Beldum!

[Oh look, a chance to gush about one of her favorite Pokémon.]

They don't learn any attacks besides Take Down until they evolve, so you'll need to be a little careful battling with it, but they're REALLY STRONG! They're also weak to Fire, Fighting, Ground, Dark, and Bug type attacks, so you'll need to watch out for those, but they're not terribly common on the routes around New Bark so you shouldn't have to worry too much! And they're completely immune to poison, so you could probably get them to level up a little by finding Weedle to fight, they've only got Posion Sting for their attack at early levels.

{Breath, Penny.]

And I'm sure Not Gortys will love their name! It'll be able to tell you so if not, anyway, it's half Psychic, and-

[And parsing some of the rest of that broadcast.]

...I'm sorry, were you not human before arriving? You don't have to answer that if you don't want to.

Half psychic? On their mom's side or their dad's? Or... I guess they wouldn't divide parents up like that. That joke was funnier before I thought about it.

[But oh well!!]

I was a robot! But now I'm a person? I have almost no idea what's happening at all today!

On both sides, probably? I- oh, you were making a joke!

[At least she thought it was funny, Gortys. She's laughing, anyway.]

[For a moment, anyway. That next part gets her to serious up.]

You were a robot? ...You're taking the change very well, at least, I know it can be a little overwhelming- I mean, I can only imagine-

[Hiccup.]

It's- it must be fun though, isn't it? Being human and being able to really feel and smell things, that sort of thing.

[If that slip before the hiccup did anything but fly right over Gortys' head, she gives no indication.]

Thank you! I am used to changing forms, so I am just thinking of this like an extension of that so that I don't start screaming about things like how many different smells there are! There are so many smells! It wouldn't be scared screaming, I think, at least not mostly... so yes, fun! Fun is a good word!

...have you ever tasted chocolate.

[Penny. Penny, no.]

Or anything, I guess? But chocolate's really good.

[stahp]

I have not tasted anything except the inside of my new human mouth! Which tastes like mouth, mostly? I guess this must be what mouth tastes like. But I would like to taste more things!

[A pause as she glances meaningfully at Not Gortys. Later.]

What does "chocolate" taste like?

Chocolate tastes like happiness and sugar. There should be some little pieces of it in the trailmix that lady gave you.

[She thinks for a second.]

Just- don't eat all the food she gave you at once. The trip to Cherrygrove takes a few days.

Trail Mix? Awesome! I sure do like happiness!

[A nod, and a salute.]

Aye-aye! Gotta take care of my new squishy digestive system.

Yup! Having squishy guts instead of nuts and bolts takes some getting used to.

[In which she has no personal exper- oh, you know.]

There's things you can forage on the road that are edible, but. They don't taste very good.

I bet it is! I have not even put anything into my squishy guts yet and I can tell! Related question: if I run out of money and food, how do I get more money so I can buy more food and eat and not die?

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