October-November Test Drive!

[indigo_league]

TEST DRIVE MEME

➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!


NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN YOUR TEST-DRIVE JOURNEY?
CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | and | KANTO

ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and in the spirit of Halloween: August's GHOST TRICK event!

O-Bon festival: The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

Who you gonna call?: Remember “The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak”? Well, some of the local Gastly, Duskull, and Yamask seem to have gotten it into their heads that this kind of tomfoolery is somehow good medicine. If your trainer had someone in their life, someone now dead, that they have unresolved business with, these ghosties may take it upon themselves to play a little dress-up and follow your trainer around in the guise of said dead person until the issue is resolved. It’s their way of saying thank you for all the spiritual appeasement of the festival.

These ghosts won’t speak; Pokémon don’t talk, after all. So yes, your trainer is going to be followed around by some silent echo of their past who will not leave them alone.

Or, of course, write your own!

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[agent3]

[Her eyes widen, and she pulls the hair clump back defensively.]

Cutting...hurts? Or no?

[She's fourteen and has never dealt with real hair. Pity this child.]

[callbacks]

[Oh no, kiddo.]

Naw, 'course not. There's no nerve endings in hair, it's just dead cells we do up to look pretty. You never had a haircut before?

[agent3]

Never had hair. 'S s'posed t'be tentacles.

[She says that like it's the most matter-of-fact thing in the world. The Inkay beams, nudging its mantle against her chin.]

[callbacks]

So you had tentacle...hair.

[...]

That's cool. My buddy, he used to have horns. I mean, he had hair, too, but his skin was a different color and junk. So are you an alien?

[agent3]

Not hair. Jus' tentacles.

[But it did, actually, look like hair.]

'M an Inkling. Not an alien. Evolved...from squids.

[callbacks]

Oh, cool. Because if you were an alien, I'd have to ask if you were an alien god, and then things could get all kinds of awk. I'm Dave Strider, I spent most of my life human, I can help you out if you've got questions.

[agent3]

[Her nose crinkles, and she laughs, grinning a bit. There may be no usual peek of her beak anymore, but there's still something a little sharp about those eye teeth.]

'Kay. Um. Hm.

[She needs to think, actually. What does she not know yet? Water's safe, she's got that down - it was kind of necessary, if still mildly terrifying and only realized with her Pokemon's help. She does think of a couple things, though.]

Got two questions. [Holds up one finger.] What sports're there? [And holds up a second finger.] Can find catfish?

[callbacks]

Uh...hold on.

[Just gonna...steal someone else's PokéGear and look these questions up real fast.]

There's...baseball? And ice hockey. And probably other stuff, like football and soccer. You know, balls. [Dave is so not the right person to ask about sports.] As for the fish...

[He holds up a picture.]

Will that guy do?

[agent3]

[She nods at the sports, but looks unimpressed.] No ink sports. Right?

[As for the picture, she tilts her head and looks at it, as if judging it.] Can eat that?

[callbacks]

Catching and killing your own Pokédinners seems to be generally frowned upon most places, so I wouldn't advise it. Maybe see what they've got fresh at your local seafood place?

[Is catfish even edible, he has no idea.]

What are ink sports, anyway?

[Hopefully not anything like watersports. He's pretty sure kids aren't supposed to know about watersports.]

[agent3]

[Her eyes widen again, and she looks down at the Inkay, who's...a bit oblivious.] Ooh. So...'s like squids. Don't eat it. Okay.

[Darn. Next you're going to tell her that she can't eat Pokemushrooms either.]

Mm...sports. Turf Wars. Fight with ink. Humans can't make ink, so...can't do it. Right?

[callbacks]

Well, we can't make ink, like, biologically, no, but we do have pens and sh--stuff. [Fuck.] But if it's like a turf war kind of deal...maybe you should see if anyone runs a paintball place around here.

[agent3]

Paint...ball?

[What do you...do...like...throw gobs of paint at each other??? There is much confusion going on in her expression.]

How d'you play that?

[callbacks]

I've never done it myself 'cause projectiles aren't my thing, but basically you shoot harmless paint bullets at one another and the team who scores the most hits with the least casualties wins, or something.

[Why are we asking Dave Strider about sports]

I'll ask my friend Jade, she might know more about that.

[agent3]

Hit people? Not the ground?

[I mean...you splat people in Turf Wars, but it just helps you further the objective, it's not the objective.]

'N...only guns?

[callbacks]

Well, yeah, but...

[Hmmm.]

Okay, hang on. Explain the rules of Turf Wars to me.

[agent3]

[Mmmn. That's gonna take a lot of words. Thida lets out a tired breath, shifting the Inkay in her arms so everyone's comfortable.]

'Kay. So...two teams. Go to a stage...start on opposite sides. Gotta cover ground with ink - walls don't count. Can use guns, rollers, brushes, chargers, sloshers...but 's ink. Can't walk in enemy ink. 'N after three minutes...whoever's got more ink wins.

[callbacks]

...You know...you could probably do that with PokÉmon moves and the right kind of paint.

[agent3]

...

[She looks to her Inkay, then at the 'gear.]

How? She doesn't make ink. Tried.