[center][h1][color=gold][u]Evelyn[/u][/color][/h1][/center]
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[b]Key Items:[/b]
[list][*]1x Rotom Phone Pokédex
[*]1x Pair of (Stylized) Work Gloves
[*]1x Solar-chargeable Flashlight
[*]Needle and Thread[/list]
[b]Consumables:[/b]
[list][*]Pokedollars: 1000p
[*]3x Potions
[*]3x Antidotes
[*]3x Paralyze Heals
[*]8x Pokeballs[/list]
[b]Extras:[/b]
[list][*]An unspecified amount of extra clothes
[*]A fair few cosmetics, skin and haircare products, along with things like styling scissors, brushes, combs and even a nail file.
[*]Dental care products and items, like toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss, etc.[/list][/hider][/center]
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[b]On Hand:[/b]
[list][*]Joltik - Level 9, [color=lightgreen]Healthy[/color]
[*]Sentret - Level 7, [color=lightgreen]Healthy[/color]
[*]Growlithe - Level 7, [color=yellow]Bruised[/color]
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[b]In Storage:[/b]
[list][*]N/A[/list]
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Leaving the hills and rocks and sleeping, half-buried dudes-in-the-ground and the frankly uncomfortable number of fishmern behind, Evelyn trotted on down Route 4,until something new started to coem into view. Trees, as it were. That was fine. She'd gone walking in a wooded area once or twice before, no biggie!

... Exept it was a biggie. A [b][i]real[/i][/b] biggie. Because as she approached and came closer, these trees... They somehow just kept getting larger... And larger... And what-the-actual-Gigalith was this!? These things weren't just huge, they were [i][b]monolithic[/b][/i]!! What the hell was in the soil that made [i]trees[/i] grow as tall as frikkin' skyscrapers!? Heck, some of these things were probably as tall as the buildings over in NExus City! Evelyn paused, momentarily, gazing up in awe at the goliath vegetation that now stood before her like a looming Fortress of Doom.

[i]Gulp.[/i]

Well, there was no turning back now. She'd come this far, and no way in heck was a ... Well.. Giant forest... going to stop her! So, following the small dirt path, she ventured forth, into the underbrush, underneath the massive canopies and trillions upon gazillions of leaves and branches above. It was sort of like going into a cave... Except... Outdoors... And up on the surface... And with less rocks... Anyway!

The first thing the blonde trainer noticed, was just [i]how[/i] big these trees actually were when you stood next to them. Like, yikes! Just walking [i]around[/i] a single trunk would take you a fair bit of time. Seriously, you could probably carve out an entire home for someone [i]inside[/i] the trunk of these things alone. Hmm.. Actually, that mighjt've been pretty cool. A [i]real[/i] tree-house. Evelyn smirked at her own internal pun. Thankfully, nobody elese was around to see it.

Moving right along and going deeper though, things started to liven up. There were pokemon, of course. A lot of... Bugs... Now, Evelyn didn't have a problem with bug-types per se, she loved her Joltik after all. But there was just something about a whole, damn, numerically inflated [i]swarm[/i] of the little things that made you get gooosebumps all over. In addition to the party-worms and caterpillar-thingies, there were also... Frumpy mushrooms... Yup. Those were some grouchy-ass-lookin' fungus. When her rotom phone detailed what they could do, Eve got this weird feeling that it might just be better to leave those little guys alone for now.

What was odd though, were the people here. There were a good number of them, and a whole heapin' few were... Climbing the trees? ... Why..? And why were some of them so excited, but also somehow terrified(?), of those marks that were scratched across the bark and sides of some of the big lumberpoles? Wasn't it just some failed attempt at lumberjacking? Still, there wasn't any har in finding out more, was there?

Thusly, our intrepid beauty made her way over to one of the big trees, with those kinds of bizarre cuts or whatever they were, where there was an excited person standing nearby to. Hailing them in a friendly-enough-manner, Evelyn would ask.

[color=gold]"I notice a lot of people here are really excited about these... Scratches? On the trees. Why is that? And why're some of you trying to climb these giant things?"[/color]

Once she'd gotten her answer - and if she got none from this person, she'd move on to someone else and ask the same thing - there was only one more thing to do!

Yup. It's time.

[b][u]time for Evelyn to look around and see if there any [i]other[/i] pokemon lurking about that could be spotted or encountered, without spending too much effort or tredding off the little woodland-road too far. The search for more pokemon was on![/u][/b]