Something’s happening in the plaza! Time to rubberneck!
Huh that’s quite the crowd actually! What happened, did somebody die?
… What’s with this line up of goons?
Hey, what gives? You look like that guy from the throne room in the opening movie!
Ahhhh, of course, you’re a villain. In pokemon, any “team” is guaranteed to be a bad guy, right? IDK what the fuck a team plasma is, but we better hope they’re ready to get their asses creamed by somebody too h=young to be in high school!
Oh, it’s PETA. Its pokemon PETA. We’re actually going there. 😂😂😂
He gives us a speech about how humans and pokemon aren’t “really” partners and that humans are only using pokemon.
Ghetsis, buddy, these things aren’t docile. If the pokemon doesn’t want to be there it’s gonna nuke you and leave.
Yikes is right. We’re reminded of “Don’t Be A Sucker”, a wartime short about not falling for Nazi propaganda.
Remember kids, never listen to fanatics raving about things at you in public parks.
“Liberate the pokemon”. Yeah, okay buddy, shoo, scram.
After a little more ranting and some “thank you for your attention” his knights who say ni take him away for the crowd to discuss what he said.
Thankfully, most people seem to know this guy’s crazy.
And then some guy shows up.
Apparently, he can hear pokemon talking. When he finds out we can’t, he thinks that’s sad. He tells us his name is “N” which isn’t a name, it’s an initial. Sin-kun wants to ask if he’s related to “L”, but Cheren cuts us off by introducing us instead. He gives N our life story; well the life story of our isekai so far. We’re on a pokemon journey.
Cheren says his main goal is to be the Champion, which is sad because we’re going to stomp him into the dirt.
So we’re finally grappling with it. Are pokeballs Bad? 🤔
Yeah, sure man whatever.
…
Wait…
Why is a battle starting?
…
We have not trained any of our pokemon aside from Ganon. We may be fucked.
We get one exchange of attacks in and…
Oooh, you’re a freak, huh? <3
We cream his Purrloin with our favorite strategy (attack attack attack).
And Ganon gains another level.
Scratch that.
Ganon gains another TWO whole levels from this fight.
This little piggy is level 9! He also learned a move called “Odor Sleuth” which doesn’t sound like an ATTACK, but what can you do? We get 700 pokedollars for winning.
N says and I quote “As long as they are confined to pokeballs, pokemon will never become perfect beings.”
Which is an extremely fucking sus thing to say. Perfect beings. Get outta here.
IDK about you, N, but our friends don’t need to be “perfect beings”, so maybe chillax, alright?
But he doesn’t chillax, he leaves.
Cheren at least agrees with us that that whole encounter was weird as fuck. He’s not going to let it worry him though. So I guess we can worry about it our own damned selves.
Cheren says he’s going to go battle the gym leader in the next town and frankly Sin-kun can’t fucking wait to do the same thing.
He leaves us alone, the music changes.
Finally we can actually start our pokemon adventure!
Time to go back to the pokecenter.
We wander around the town a little bit, getting to know the area and the people. All of them have delightfully useless things to say about love and pokemon, and pressing A, and all that good shit.
Except this kid.
Thank you, kid, that was very ominous.
You meet the most interesting people when you’re randomly wandering around other people’s houses. Apparently pokemon rock paper scissors means comparing pokemon types, so she won since she has a water type.
Sin-kun doesn’t mind being beaten by children unless its in a pokemon match.
Is she telling us we look like a pig? you’re no peach either, kiddo!
You should get divorced now and save time.
When Sin-kun is done snoo PINGAS usual, we remember to buy some pokeballs. 10 should do for now.
Alright, time to head out of town and really, REALLY start our pokemon journey.
We head out to the next route… through some kind of weird tunnel?
The municipal tunnel council has really outdone themselves.
… whatever floats your boat, kid.
And with that, we are really, actually finally on our pokemon journey properly!
… GOD DAMN IT!
Hi mom…. She called just to check up on us and because she wanted to hear our voice 😭😭😭 Triple Icon.
… wait.
MOM??????
… okay you know what, quadruple icon. Fuck yeah, thanks, mom.
Let’s not go too far now!!
Mom reminds us that we’re never really alone, with our pokemon, and our friends and she’s always thinking of us. That’s so sweet. But it WOULD be nice to get ten minutes of peace on our pokemon journey!
She bids us farewell, and heads back.
Maybe this time we’re really, truly, on our pokemon journey…
From here on out we will only be sharing important, or funny moments rather than liveblogging minute by minute gameplay battling trainers and pokemon. Though we may share some of that. <3