Test Drive Meme - November & December

[indigo_league]

➞ 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!

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JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

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Comments

[pennyloafer]

That's a pretty good way to describe it. Although, even monsters back home that weren't looking after a treasure were still trouble. Like gribbles are these little fuzzballs that look like they'd make a great pets, except they bite, and multiply on their own... And there were the murder ponies who just really, really wanted to drown us.

[Those had an actual name, according to Webby, but heck if Louie bothered remembering it. He'd been too busy focusing on surviving the craziness of a fae realm golf course... And exploiting Glomgold for caddy tips.]

First impressions, huh? It was a while ago, but I wasn't happy about all the walking and camping, that's for sure... But I liked that my first pokemon was a cat.

[At the start, Louie had been far from happy about anything, Shilling included... Yet now so little of that early unhappiness stands out.]

[prodigiousknowledge]

[Oh he's absolutely going to circle back around sometime to the monsters this other trainer just namedropped. But for now, furthering his inquiry takes precedence.]

I could certainly understand why someone would be unhappy about the modes of travel and living that seem to be primary here; I feel like you and a friend of mine back home, Mimi, would certainly have a lot to talk about in that area.

But yours was a cat, then... Interesting. So those that arrive here from other planes of existence get assigned different partners. Not surprising, but certainly interesting.

It also sounds like you've been here quite a while, by now. Do you still have that cat?

[pennyloafer]

Yeah, there's all kinds of pokemon. A lot of them are like animals, but some aren't at all. And some are kind of in-between.

I do still have him! Well, he's different now. Pokemon do this thing where they change and get stronger, they evolve.

[Oh wait this guy has nerd energy, he might be like Huey about this.]

It's a lot faster than the way living things normally evolve. Usually it's because they've battled and become more experienced, but there's other ways too.

Anyway, Shilling's still a cat, but now he's always on all fours and he's bigger. His head, especially, is bigger.

[Louie don't tease your pokemon where they can't see you doing so.]

[prodigiousknowledge]

Oh! I'm well acquainted with the concept of a partner monster evolving due to combat and other gathered experience. It certainly interests me that they do something similar here too, though it sounds like it's more in line with what more natural animals do, rather than the Digimon I'm more familiar with.

When I first arrived, I received a Zubat. I wonder what sort of metrics are used to decide who gets what partner? If there are any and it's not just random. Improbable, though not unheard of, I suppose.

[pennyloafer]

I don't know. I mean, apparently a pokemon god llama is what brought us here, so it probably determines what people get. But I don't know if it just picks whatever pokemon it feels like, or what. It's probably just random.

Although I do like cats a lot, and I got a cat for a starter both times... I've had two, because I was back home for a while.