[@Balthazar007] a couple of follow up questions haha. how exactly are we handling leveling up in this rp? I guess I'm a little wary because I don't want to 'grind' too much. you gave us permission to control encounters, and I appreciate that, but so does that mean to 'level up' we need to have an encounter every post? 

what if indigo wants to train his pokemon against each other like they do in the show? how much will that contribute to leveling up? I also quite liked that method because while I understand in the games it's perfectly fine to grind against wild pokemon, it seems that when you translate it to a setting just as this one, it seems quite cruel. I mean just picking off wild pokemon to battle against seems so mean... I can understand wild pokemon challenging humans for fun or to train themselves, but even then, I feel like there's a limit to how much a pokemon can train a day. 

or are we doing a thing where story events can proceed as normal and we can sort of imply training, and perhaps they grow half a level or one level a day without us having to worry about stuffing encounters in to make sure our pokemon grow levels? Maybe when they get to level 20 they increase by.5 a day instead of one, just like in the games how the higher level they are the more it takes to train them? 

I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful. I was just feeling a little apprehensive because I was a little worried about grinding and having to get training posts in instead of being able to focus more on the journey and story?