Action John isn't looking a gift horse in the mouth, exactly. The nice momly lady (maybe actually somehow his mom here, based on what he remembers about Pokemon) gave him a backpack sylladex with a bunch of free stuff in it, and she didn't have to do that. He actually kind of embarrassingly teared up when he found the packed lunch inside it (though if it happens in the forest when nobody is around to see it, did it really happen? Probably not. Nobody needs to know John Egbert cried over onigiri shaped like little seal faces.)
The problem he's having, here, is it's been kind of wet all day and the sun is starting to set and all he has for this situation in his backpack is a sleeping bag and nothing else. It's not as if he has any hidden wilderness survival skills: he hasn't done anything like that since, well. The world ended. Alice, his Swablu, is sitting at the base of a tree the rain hasn't soaked through yet and watching him with quiet interest as he rummages in his backpack.
"I guess I could set up this clothesline and hang a towel over it...somehow?" he says to the bird. Alice responds with a high-pitched peeping noise and lifts himself up and then down on his feet, settling back down like a ball with a face. "You have no idea either, huh. You would probably be just fine in this tree. What if we trade? You get me inside that Poké Ball and I will take a nap." Predictably, Alice cocks his body sideways in confusion and John sighs. "Yeah, that isn't something that works, is it. I will just have to..."
He trails off at the sound of someone approaching, turning towards the sound.
"Uh...hey," he says carefully to the newcomer. "Listen, can we do the battling thing tomorrow? I am kind of busy right now with my...tent." He lifts up a clothesline and a bath-towel indicatively. "I'm sure we can work something out."
Text so i get that a lot of stuff here is going to work in a weird way because that is just how the game functions but i still have an important question.
do i keep the poke ball in small mode for small pokemon? does it even work to catch them if you don't expand it first? i saw one of those...flower babies yesterday and i was too worried to try and catch it because it is basically the same size as the ball and i think that might kill it if i throw it expanded, but, uh. if it doesn't work not expanded that would be like i am throwing a rock at a flower baby and i'm pretty sure that's animal cruelty!
the poke balls don't hurt in general, do they? it's hard to tell, sometimes, because i am throwing them pretty far.
John Egbert | Homestuck (Meat Epilogue)
John isn't looking a gift horse in the mouth, exactly. The nice momly lady (maybe actually somehow his mom here, based on what he remembers about Pokemon) gave him a backpack sylladex with a bunch of free stuff in it, and she didn't have to do that. He actually kind of embarrassingly teared up when he found the packed lunch inside it (though if it happens in the forest when nobody is around to see it, did it really happen? Probably not. Nobody needs to know John Egbert cried over onigiri shaped like little seal faces.)
The problem he's having, here, is it's been kind of wet all day and the sun is starting to set and all he has for this situation in his backpack is a sleeping bag and nothing else. It's not as if he has any hidden wilderness survival skills: he hasn't done anything like that since, well. The world ended. Alice, his Swablu, is sitting at the base of a tree the rain hasn't soaked through yet and watching him with quiet interest as he rummages in his backpack.
"I guess I could set up this clothesline and hang a towel over it...somehow?" he says to the bird. Alice responds with a high-pitched peeping noise and lifts himself up and then down on his feet, settling back down like a ball with a face. "You have no idea either, huh. You would probably be just fine in this tree. What if we trade? You get me inside that Poké Ball and I will take a nap." Predictably, Alice cocks his body sideways in confusion and John sighs. "Yeah, that isn't something that works, is it. I will just have to..."
He trails off at the sound of someone approaching, turning towards the sound.
"Uh...hey," he says carefully to the newcomer. "Listen, can we do the battling thing tomorrow? I am kind of busy right now with my...tent." He lifts up a clothesline and a bath-towel indicatively. "I'm sure we can work something out."
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so i get that a lot of stuff here is going to work in a weird way because that is just how the game functions but i still have an important question.
do i keep the poke ball in small mode for small pokemon? does it even work to catch them if you don't expand it first? i saw one of those...flower babies yesterday and i was too worried to try and catch it because it is basically the same size as the ball and i think that might kill it if i throw it expanded, but, uh. if it doesn't work not expanded that would be like i am throwing a rock at a flower baby and i'm pretty sure that's animal cruelty!
the poke balls don't hurt in general, do they? it's hard to tell, sometimes, because i am throwing them pretty far.