NOVEMBER - DECEMBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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Comments

[stopfen]

It didn't feel right being paid when I did so little. Training is a pain here too. [Eventually she'll get to Cianwood...]

This guy didn't like them, the Machoke. He kept hissing.

[One day he'll have a name as well.]

[angewiesen]

Yeah, there aren't any places around here that offer strength training as grueling as what we had to go through. You'll have to improvise.

Some Pokemon are just battle-hungry. I wouldn't let him challenge a Machoke though. He's kinda... Small.

[stopfen]

[Finding time to do it with Sneasel though.]

I'm not sure if it's that. He kept trying to hide in my bag when they were around.

[angewiesen]

Oh-- Then it might be... Uh, shit. I have to look this up.

[Jean rifled through his bag for his trainer's manual, and then did a couple of searches on the Gear. Armin has taught him well on how to use his resources here.]

Okay. Sneasel is Ice and Dark type. Machoke is Fighting type. If this thing's correct, that means that Sneasel is... 4x weak to a Machoke. Maybe he was intimidated.

[stopfen]

[At least someone knows how to use it. She occasionally went out of focus or moved out of view, even if she was getting used to it.

But she has to wince because the moment Jean starts listing weaknesses, Sneasel starts yowling from his spot. He's not afraid, of anything, EVER! HMPH- Ah yes. He's sulking.]

...That seems to be it. Not that the types make sense, don't they all fight?

[Would they class as fighting types themselves?]

[angewiesen]

[Domino knickers in amusement. Someone was too big for their britches!]

Yeah, the whole type thing seems to be semantic bullshit. Like, Dark? What's that even supposed to mean? Ice I get, Electric I get. [He pointed at Domino for emphasis-- She literally had electricity in her mane, and he could feel it.] But Dark? Normal? Fighting? None of that really means anything.

[stopfen]

His fur is dark... But your one's is too. [Hm.]

The normal ones look like animals. [But the only ones she's seen where the cute ones that stayed near the earlier routes.]

[angewiesen]

Sometimes they do, but sometimes they don't. Have you seen the weird pink ones that carry eggs in pouches at the Pokemon Centers? They're definitely not like any kind of animal I've ever seen, but they're still considered "Normal".

[stopfen]

...That's a normal type not a fairy? [But Jean it's pink like the icon. What the hell is this?]

[angewiesen]

Nope. Apparently pink doesn't always mean Fairy. Like I said-- Semantic bullshit.

[stopfen]

It doesn't look like anything I've seen before...[Wait]

.......It's shaped like an egg isn't it?

[angewiesen]

Yeah, but it's got those weird... antennae things coming out the sides of its head too.

[stopfen]

Maybe thinking too hard about it is a bad idea... On the way to the town a pink...thing with leaves on it's head jumped at me.

[Maybe the pink things are just weird.]

[angewiesen]

See, but then if it's got leaves, it might be Grass...

You're right. Big headache. Not worth it.

[stopfen]

That one could at least pass as a berry...

Looking like food is worse than looking like nothing.

[She hates it. Sasha would have probably tried to eat it.]

[angewiesen]

Oh, there are literal food Pokemon out there. Here, look at these:

[Jean provides a picture of a Vanillish, followed by a picture of a Slurpuff]

I saw these guys on some signs in front of stores. I thought they were made-up, but nope. Real Pokemon.

[stopfen]

It...It looks like ice cream.

[Why tho?]

Isn't looking like food a bad thing?

[angewiesen]

You'd think that, right? They're not poisonous, so it's not like a trick or anything. It would only be a disadvantage in the wild...

[stopfen]

[She squints. And you know what, she's giving up. ]

...Are there any others I should know about?

[angewiesen]

Well, since there's more than 800 of them, more alarming cases will be sure to pop up in the future.

that icon...

[stopfen]

And I thought this one was strange.

[She rocks her arm slightly, yes she means you, Sneasel.]

I'll have to catch others at some point. But...

jean in a nutshell

[angewiesen]

Gotta learn to love the one you've got already, I guess.

Tho', the first two I've caught are a bird and a worm, but Armin says they "evolve" into bigger things. The bird is going to end up big enough to ride someday.

'I guess this is happening'

[stopfen]

He's a bit of a handful at the moment. [And it's faint, but there is a smile when she looks down to reaches out to scratch at his ear. See he can be cute, sometimes.

She's just going to skip the worm cause she doesn't know what that'll turn into.]

That sounds useful. But wouldn't it take a long time to grow that big?

[angewiesen]

He says they grow in crazy spurts. After they hit a certain level-- bam. Totally different Pokemon.

[stopfen]

That sounds...How quickly does this happen?

[Should she be holding one like this?]