Test-Drive Meme - February & March

[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!

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

JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

Feel free to make various prompts in multiple locations!

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[bugbeverage]

Beetlejuice has a soft spot for New Bark Town--it's where he'd suddenly and mysteriously become Alive and experienced so many new things for the first time. It was also full of inexperienced and gullible trainers, so it was always worth swinging by occasionally.

"Step right up, step right up, and try the flavor of the season!" A voice calls out to the streets.

Beetlejuice has set up a booth on the sidewalk consisting of a single card table, a flimsy sign reading: TRY THE BEETLE'S JUICE, and an open cooler filled with neon green bottles. He's dressed for the warmer weather in his Bug Catcher get-up, but has made sure to wear some BEETLE'S JUICE branded pins on his hat and shirt just to make his whole deal look more legit.

It's then that he spies the girl with that tell-tale curious and lost expression making her way out into the world of Pokemon. Beetlejuice rubs his grimy hands together and whispers to the Chatot who is perched on his shoulder,

"Here comes a sucker, Chatz... HELLO THERE! YOU, YES YOU! C'mere..."

[calisugarfiend]

Behind the rose tinted glasses of the plague mask, Cali's attention was fully on the neon green bottles. Without thinking, Cali walks right on out into the open and right towards the equally weird guy at the stand, if a mask could smile, it'd be a wide blown one that was for sure. There was a bit of shock at just how clean everything was outside considering the world she came before was often smog filled. Up she went to the man with the rather odd looking bird nearby selling what was hopefully highly sugar based.

"Hi Hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Calliope, but everyone calls me Cali!" Cali cheerily greeted in a fast paced voice, her sugar rush evident.

[bugbeverage]

The mask isn't something he usually sees around Johto, but he's not bothered. She seems to be taking things so well that he wonders if she's actually just visiting town too rather than waking up in a strange house. He gives her a winning (and yellow) smile and his Chatot squawks a greeting.

"Well aren't you a ray of sunshine? Cali, are you ready to send your taste buds on the ride of their lives?"

He fishes one of the bright green bottles out of the cooler and waggles it a little.

"Only 1000P!"

[calisugarfiend]

"What's P? Is it sugary too?" Cali asked as she peered about at the bright green bottle fully curious at what sugary delight it'll bring.

Cali's brain was going into overdrive on trying to figure out what flavor the green drinks were, were they lime or was it that fabled guava that she heard about in bedtime stories. Noticing the yellow teeth, Cali felt much more at home as it was a current fashion trend to dye teeth, though normally it was done to resemble keys on a piano.

The chatot, catching Cali's attention once again, "Also how'd you get your parrot's feathers to look like a music note?"

[bugbeverage]

Ahh, his original suspicions were correct. This girl has no idea what's going on.

"You must be new." He leans forward and rests his scruffy chin on a fist.

Chatter Box, his bird, squawks again. "She's a Pokemon-- Chatot. And P is cold hard cash." He reaches into his pocket and fishes out a couple of shiny coins. He holds them in his fingers, but not close enough that she could take them.

"Did you wake up with a backpack? You'll probably have some P in there."

[calisugarfiend]

Cali nods eagerly as she reach behind for the backpack, "Oh! Okay let's see, I normally can't leave home without my backpack, so it should have some cash in here. So what's a Pokemon?"

Normally on her back would've been the Lisa Frank colored teddy bear backpack, but this time around, she had a regular pack for an unknown reason. Curious at the sudden change of bags, "Oh wow, my bag changed! I think I can dress it up nicer with some patches and buttons. Hopefully I still have my oxygen tank in there still."

Cali goes to rummage around the new bag, fully curious what it has now since it's like a kinder egg surprise! Truly it's going to be magical whatever she finds in there for sure.

[bugbeverage]

Beetlejuice quietly collects this information. This kid just busted out of Mom's house without asking questions, huh? Oh well! If he talks to her, she'll probably eventually buy one of his horrible drinks.

"You don't even know you're in another dimension, do ya, babe?"

[calisugarfiend]

"Another dimension? Well, that certainly would explain why there hasn't been a corrosive fog warning today.." Cali casually said as though that was just normal thing as a spring rain fall.

To Cali, today has been an awesome start with a possible new friend and magical looking creatures to learn about. Such a wonderful thing to kick off a new start after recently gaining a medical license, Cali smiled inside of her mask proudly.

[bugbeverage]

"That it would, that it would." His eyes crawl over her mask, searching for any sign of vulnerability. He finds none. "You won't find much corrosive fog here, unless you happen to be training a Wheezing."

He holds the bottle over to Chatter Box who reaches out with her powerful beak and pries the cap off the bottle with no effort. BJ, in turn, takes a swig from the bottle.

"Yes sirree, you're in the world of Pokemon now. Your whole life is about to be catching, training, breeding, nurturing, and if you're lucky, selling Pokemon. You should have a book in your bag that'll tell you all about it. Just know that Pokemon aren't for eating. Don't even try, you'll regret it."