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

[blackparagon]

You're not familiar with ice cream, then?

[Hm, how to explain this...]

It's a sweet, cold treat, made with milk. If you haven't had it, you should try it. It's one of the most popular desserts where I come from.

[callyourname]

[ Well, she is obviously not familiar with it so the quiet girl doesn't say anything to that first question. Explaining their world is always weird, it's not a nice place at all. And most things along with food are things, that she's not familiar in this world but that's also not something she'd admit right now. ]

So people don't usually scream in shock when they taste it?

[ She'll taste it. Soon. Maybe. If that someone out there had screamed of excitement, she would have tasted it by now but some stranger's reaction to the surprise in the ice cream didn't sound excited at all. ]

[blackparagon]

[Xander looks out over the crowd. He has no idea who did that, but he also heard it.]

Not unless they eat it too fast. Sometimes people overestimate their tolerance to the cold.

[callyourname]

[ Sasha would be screaming in horror and for many other reasons a lot while eating ice cream then if she was here. Noted. ]

People underestimate a lot of things. So, your answer is a no then?

[ you know, to the possibly weird ice cream that she is (still) offering. ]

[blackparagon]

...Well, I suppose I wouldn't feel comfortable taking a treat from a stranger who has never tried it. My apologies.