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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Comments

[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.