Before we head out on the open road the first time it’s time to take care of some things like saving the game, and checking on our dear little piggy’s stats.
Ganon has a “timid” nature, and likes to run (which makes sense since his nature increases speed and decreases attack). Maybe we should have named him Usopp instead. But hey, names are aspiration, right? He’ll be great.
Admittedly, he’s not ideal, but this isn’t one of those isekai where you reset a million times until you get the cheat powers you wanted. He may be a coward but he’s our little piggy and we love him.
Alright with that taken care of, let’s catch some pokemon!
It takes a zillion years of walking around in the grass (seriously way longer than usual) to run into a wild pokemon, and as expected it’s Patrat.
The little bastard (gender neutral) got a critical hit on us!
Still, she’s no match for the power of a pokeball, and Mrs. Beaver joins the team. Named for the Narnia character, obviously, and not any weird innuendo, I promise 😉
I guess she’s more of a chipmunk or a prairie dog than a beaver, but whatever. 😂
At least it doesn’t make us wait a zillion years to nickname her!
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and then we walk literally two steps and wind up in another battle because of course.
But it’s a different pokemon!
We have never seen this little guy before and he’s adorable! Sorry, she’s adorable.
She’s precious. We’re naming her after the dog from Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
It means we should hang around in the tall grass to catch pokemon?
Pal, that’s what we just said. 😂 Eh, whatever! We got the knowledge, we got the skills! Time to get on that journey!
Honestly mostly they have very stupid things to tell us, but they ARE pretty funny so this is a great tip. We take a moment to wonder what the municipal sign budget is like in the pokemon universe, and how many committee meetings there are to decide what they say.
We run into another Lilipup- another girl, and this one gets straight up merc’d by Ganon for the EXP.
And he learned ember! Which means we can now officially go back home and set our bedroom on fire if we wanted to!
A helpful stranger on the road reminds us to watch our pokemon’s hp, and gives us a medicine case and a potion which is good because Ganon’s hp is uh, actually not great right now.
We fix that with the potion and keep going!
The inventory screen Our bag is adorable, it’s styled like a large messenger bag with a bunch of smaller bags in it.
The next municipal sign just says “route 1” which is a much more normal thing for a sign to say.
We try Ganon’s ember out on a wild patrat for the first time and baby it burns so good.
At the end of the route we run into Cheren and Bianca again and Cheren asks if we’re ready to make our comparison. Apparently they both only have two pokemon which is pretty weaksauce.
Sin-kun decides to show them up a little harder and scoot around in the grass for another few minutes to see if we can find a bird.
Two more battles and two more Patrats.
Alright well three pokemon is still one more than either of them so where’ moving on for now.
… We are of course ambushed by one last Patrat as we head out of the tall grass. It’s not quite enough for Ganon to get to level 8 yet, but next time.
For now let’s hear what Bianca has to say.
Time for a pokemon measuring contest with Bianca. (Mine’s bigger.)
Bianca congratulates us for having more pokemon. There’s no hard feelings, she’s excited too! And as she and Cheren are about to head off to catch up with Juniper in Accumula town…
What’s this?
The Xtransceiver is ringing?
We didn’t even know it could do that!
Oooooh, it’s a discord call!! Okay.
It turns out Juniper just called to check to see if we were doing alright, and tell us she’d show us around Accumula town. It’s more of the script of course, and we don’t really need to be shown how to use the pokemon center and pokemart, but if it’s in the script it can’t be avoided!
Such is fate!
A short couple of steps later and we’re in Accumula town.
We guess it must be called “Accumula” because it’s accumulating residents, and we wave to Professor Juniper from this beautiful raised platform and sign that the municipal sign committee erected for us.
Here we are! Juniper reminds us that traveling with a pokemon partner is a joy, and honestly, yeah we agree with that. But…
Is it the pokemon center, professor Juniper?
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Professor Juniper gives us (and Bianca) an inescapable tour of the pokemon center. Admittedly, it is bigger and more complex and futuristic looking than the ones we know from our anime in Kanto. What year is this, anyway?
Thankfully, no matter how state of the art the municipal pokemon center committee makes the pokemon centers, they’re still free to use. Even the Unova region has free health care.
We hand our pokemon over for the first of what’s sure to be many times. A jaunty little jingle and all of our adorable little monsters are right as rain and ready to start cockfighting again!
Then Juniper shows us how to use a computer, which is also free to use. But maybe use some hand sanitizer after you’re done with it.
Juniper really said “no spoilers” right to Bianca’s face. Who’s PC is it? Find out yourself, champ! Our PC system runs on narrative surprise!
Surprisingly in a move to boost efficiency, the pokemart is actually right inside the pokemon center. How does that work? We had always assumed that the pokemarts were little mom and pop shops but now it seems like it’s another municipal service!
Well, as long as its not overpriced, whatever. Sin-kun doesn’t care.
Juniper finally tells us she’s headed back to Nuvema town where we came from.
Before she wishes us farewell she does tell us one final thing.
She has an old girlfriend in some city we’re headed to! Another member of the League of Sexy MILFs I’m sure!
Juniper leaves, and Bianca gets distracted by the pokemart, because of course she does.
Right, well, with that, it’s finally time to head out! No more distractions, no more hand holding! Its time to really start our pokemon journey!
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God damn it.
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