route29 ☂ 1st spell ☂ video

[learnedwaterpledge]

Hey! This better be working, because like I asked that woman... What is going on?!

[So sorry for the sudden yelling, Johto. There's one angry girl on the line, hiding her confusion behind, well. The volume.]

Yes yes, it's nice to be back in some place with some sense of reality...

[As she quiets down a soft, constant “Pip! Pip! Pip!” can be heard in the background, unheard or unacknowledged by the girl talking.]

But, I was supposed to be inside a shrine, not running around some quaint little town with animals as weird as Mokona! It's probably that thing's fault to begin with. When I find that marshmallow-

[She's mumbling to herself now, making the background cries all the more noticeable. Enough that the caller snaps at the source.]

Would you quit doing that?! I don't know what you want!!

[One last “Pip!” and out goes the call. Please allow five seconds for ears to stop ringing.]

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[learnedwaterpledge]

Then why aren't you trying to get back, too?

Just because no one's found it? It can't be a one-way trip!

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[kyoukashotennis]

[Well there's a good explanation for that.]

I'd do something if I'd believe that a kid at age fourteen could solve a mystery people much older haven't.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

-exCUSE ME?!

If some world thinks I'm good enough to save it at fourteen, I'm not going to let getting back to it stop me!

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[kyoukashotennis]

[Wow... that went well.]

Some world thinks you can save it...?

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[learnedwaterpledge]

They- No, the princess pulled me and my friends from mine just to do it.

And now I'm here, instead.

[...she preferred being angry about this, thanks so much.]

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[kyoukashotennis]

[It wouldn't do you any good to be so angry all the time, so she's welcome.]

That sounds a lot like a fantasy novel... but hopefully you'll be able to find a way back. That sounds really important.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

[Gratitude not given willingly...]

One of my friends called it an rpg game, actually...

It would sound a lot better if I finished the job before I got here.

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[kyoukashotennis]

Were you close to saving the princess? This place must have the worst timing ever...

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[learnedwaterpledge]

Who knows. We were just getting somewhere - I think - but everything on that journey sounded straightforward to start with.

And then we got a misleading marshmallow for a tour guide.

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[kyoukashotennis]

Mashmallow? [He tries to imagine a marshmallow guiding anything.

... nope, doesn't make sense.]

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[learnedwaterpledge]

What else would you call a white round thing that's more fluff than substance?

Face and ears and pointless noises or not.

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[kyoukashotennis]

Oh. That does sound a bit hard to describe.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

It's a clear cut sign I'm somewhere odd though- running into a thing like that.

[Like a, blue penguin, for instance.]

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[kyoukashotennis]

Well, I'm sure you'll meet odder things here... some Pokémon can be pretty unique.

[Odd creatures? A Budew jumps on Shiraishi's lap.]

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[learnedwaterpledge]

[Gfkfd- Point taken!!]

..............and they aren't all animals.

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[kyoukashotennis]

Yep. Some of them are plants, like Budew. I've also heard of Pokémon that look like rocks. [Or well, seen, when his sister was playing the game.]

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[learnedwaterpledge]

-how would a rock even move? That doesn't make any sense!!

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[kyoukashotennis]

Well... one of them has hands?

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[learnedwaterpledge]

So it's not just. It's more like an animal made out of rock.

[Not the weirdest thing she's heard, but one thing following another.]

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[kyoukashotennis]

Sort of, yeah. I think most Pokémon are meant to seem like animals.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

That at least makes sense.

If they weren't alike somehow, why call them all the same thing?

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[kyoukashotennis]

Uhm... from where I come from, people refer to Pokémon as "Pocket Monsters". As in creatures that fit to your pocket in a Pokéball.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

-so it's anything you can catch in the balls they give you?

That would make a bad shock, if I tried it on something I can't!

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[kyoukashotennis]

You can try catching all the wild Pokémon you encounter into those balls... well, of course you can accidentally thrown them at trainers' Pokémon as well, but it wouldn't work and the trainers would get mad.

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[learnedwaterpledge]

-I wouldn't try and catch some trainer anyways. Or throw a ball near one.

...unless someone tries to grab the same wild.