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

this is rem, just using a non-game muse for once

[gokigenyolo]

[What's up, Mr. Cowboy? Have a teenage girl tilting her head as she looks at you. The expression on her face is... judging seems too harsh a term, maybe. But she's thinking this over.]

It's not like really violent fighting or anything, it's all pretty tame. I think you'll get in way more trouble if you start fighting yourself.

...So let me guess. You're American.

<3!

[fanthehammer]

I ain't afraid of a little trouble, so long as it's for a cause. I don't think it's right to get an animal involved; ain't that some kind of abuse? I'm already fond of Eastwood here, you see. [ Eastwood - that is, the Rockruff - gives another bark and tries to lick McCree's chin, not bothered by the scruffy beard there. ]

[ At the mention of being American, he simply smiles and tips his hat. He tries to access the girl's accent and uniform in turn.] Guilty as charged. You from Japan?

[gokigenyolo]

Nah, that makes sense. Things just work a little differently here. These little guys all like to fight, apparently.

[She giggles a little at the Rockruff. What a good pupper.]

Yep! You know, I always thought those stereotypes were a little silly, but wow. You really are a cowboy!

[fanthehammer]

[ Jesse hums, clearly not persuaded yet to engage in dog-fighting. Eastwood just wags his tail, beaming. ]

Well, I'm always happy to please, although my kind of dress ain't all that fashionable or common nowadays. Takes a special kind of man to pull it off. [ Keep telling yourself that Jesse ]

Now I don't believe I caught your name, Miss...?

[gokigenyolo]

Well, it's a... it's a brave look, I'll give you point for that. But there's no reason you can't pull off the cowboy thing and be fashionable at the same time, you know! You just need to try a little harder.

[...She may or may not be a member of the fashion police.]

Kirara! Kirara Amanogawa!

[fanthehammer]

Well, I certainly ain't a coward, Amanogawa-san. [ That's the polite way to address a Japanese someone, wasn't it? You didn't work in an international black ops section like Blackwatch without picking up some niceties from other cultures. ]

'Sides, this is plenty fashionable for a man like me. We can't all be models. [ He's pulling out a cigar as he talks. Eastwood sniffs at it curiously, until Jesse lifted it out of nose-reach. ]

[gokigenyolo]

Pfffff... [The second he says her name like that, a huge grin appears on her face and she has to cover her mouth for a moment to hide how much she's laughing.] Eheheheh, if you say so, Cowbow-san~

[Yeah, sorry, don't expect that politeness back. You're Cowboy-san now.]

Everyone can be a model! I mean, not everyone can be a star model, maybe, but a regular model, totally. And I should know, I'm an expert.

[fanthehammer]

[ Well, at least she ain't offended. He can take a little bit of laughing, it's not like it's the first time it's happened. ]

I'm a little bit beyond all that. Reckon a grizzled dog like me oughta leave that to the young and beautiful expert here, don't ya think?

[gokigenyolo]

What? Come on, you could totally do it.

It'd be a fun challenge!

[fanthehammer]

Challenge? [ He don't like the sound of that. He lights the cigar and holds it between his teeth, taking a puff ]

If you think you can tame someone like me, you got another thing comin' Amanogawa-san!

[gokigenyolo]

See, now you're just phrasing it as even more of a challenge! You're sending a lot of mixed signals, you know!