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Deciding to head on, Lucian follows the way right, and has to fend off a few more Zubats to remind of the fact he’s still in a Zubat-infested cavern. He then headed down the tunnel alongside the river, one side dry land the other wet cavern. This proceeded past a Geodude brawl, until finally, he could see the light at the end of the tunnel… right on the other side of a Pokémon battle. It was Dawkin and Martin versus one of the trainers Jacques had brought into their first encounter, Cathia. They were using the Aron and Nincada, as they had begun their journey with. Cathia was also using her first Pokémon, Flabébé, alongside a Marill.

Pokédex Entry #669 – Flabébé, the Single Bloom Pokémon. At the beginning of its life, this fairy picks a flower that then becomes a part of its body. It can draw out and control the hidden power of flowers, whatever that means. When it floats in the wind, any troubles in its heart is said to wane.

Pokédex Entry #183 – Marill, the Aqua Mouse Pokémon. The tail contains oils lighter than water, ensuring it drifts to the surface even after having dived for food, and the tail can stretch to become very long. It fishes for food at the edge of fast-moving streams. It’s body is water-repellant and it’s dry even when playing in water. 

… Regardless. He had Ducklett who was following him, and probably taking cover behind him as he recognized the people fighting before them. Anyways, Lucian probably didn’t intend on stopping for them, so it was just to head on and out. Cathia probably threw a grudging glance, she had intended on not letting people pass without battle, but there was little she could do when she was already in one.

Anyways, moving past them, out into the sunlight once more. The brighter light is momentarily blinding, before he could finally see what lay ahead of him. There was a small bridge, leading over a river, the river being small parts of the Dragon Lake pouring down back into the ocean. The river from the Wet Caverns also fell down in a small waterfall, joining said river. On the other side was a hill, leading down via a dirty road down to a collection of buildings. Beyond the buildings, was plains, a tall icy mountain, and more forest. Regardless, for now… he could head down to the buildings. There…

Lakewatch Town

As one looks upon Lakewatch, it is clear it was once built by the side of the water. Yet, over time, Dragon Lake has actually increased in volume, the water-level rising and swallowing the town. Then the natural conclusion would be to move the town back, follow the water-level, and rebuild at the new shore, right? That, does not appear to have been the thought that went through the minds of the designers of this Town, which is essentially placed out in the water on top of older buildings, the streets of the town flooded in water and to get around one has to make use of their many canoes or get on the back of a Pokémon.

The town of Lakewatch rises fairly high for its size, and vegetation grows pretty freely around the buildings. Most buildings and streets have white floating cobblestone to walk on either side of the streets, with a river of water flowing in the middle. People here are highly accustomed to this, and the streets are constantly bustling with people heading back and forth, as well as people actually gliding down from the higher buildings from the roofs above using strange little paragliders. It appears people live in the higher floors, while business takes place on ground/water-level. There are canoes basically everywhere that anyone’s free to borrow, townspeople commonly jumping down on a canoe, using the force of the jump to drift it to the other side and then simply jump off.

Now, anyone could hear from the name that Lakewatch Town is the town that basically rules the Dragon Lake. The Lakewatchers are a group of people that regularly patrol the waters, and become friends with the dragons that live there. Tours by the Lakewatchers are the primary tourist attraction of the place, along with the fish that is procured from the same lake, and guides are trained to show the way in any surrounding areas. Their boats are also those who trade with the western side through Highhill, keeping the place alive and busy. Plus, there’s always the rumors of treasure or otherwise hiding deep in Flooded Lakewatch, and Descent Tower looms in the middle of town for those hoping to explore… but who really knows? It’s a nice and different place, definitely.

So, with that, Lucian arrived into this new place, and there are people who just automatically wave at him and congratulate for breaching the Wet Caverns before going about their business, and there are plenty of canoes or people on Pokémon crossing the rivers… a favorite appears to be crossing on a Quagsire, for some reason. There are plenty of them. Also, their pre-evolution Wooper was also hanging around a bit of everywhere.

Pokédex Entry #194 – Wooper, the Water Fish Pokémon. It lives in cold water, sleeping on the bottom and seeking food by the shore when it's cold. When walking above water, wild Woopers cover their bodies with a slimy, poisonous film that keeps them from dehydrating. It's slightly dull-witted.

Pokédex Entry #195 – Quagsire, the Water Fish Pokémon. A very easy-going Pokémon, they swim about and don’t even mind if they bump their heads into things. When hunting, it simply opens its mouth and moves no muscles, waiting for prey to blunder in. When not moving, it expands very little energy and does not need food for a long time.

Anyways. What would Lucian do, now?

Note, one basically has to cross water to get through this town. It’s not going to be used to slow anyone down, but to be considered when writing a post about crossing it.

1. Find Pokémon. There’s plenty of water here. Could be any number of Water Pokémon in the different rivers through town.
2. Talk. In cities, there are considerably more people one can talk to. Talking can give you info on local rumors and such.
3. Exit. Exit the town to any of the connected areas.
4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result.
5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you.
6. Notable Buildings. Visit any of the facilities of the city!
	6.1. Pokémon Center. Heal all your Pokémon.
	6.2. PokéMart. Go to a store and buy things.
	6.3. Pokémon Gym. ???
	6.4. Lakewatcher Base. From where Lakewatchers embark to patrol Dragon Lake.
	6.5. Lakewatch Docks. For getting tours of Dragon Lake, just taking a ferry or fishing!
	6.6. Explorer’s Guide Service. With all these strange places around, Lakewatch offers guides to the surrounding areas!
	6.7. Descent Tower. A tower in the middle of town, with stairs down to Flooded Lakewatch. Come prepared for the underwater.
	6.8. Back Alleys. … What? Lakewatch has a darker section? What are you talking about?

Connected areas: 
Wet Caverns. Water-filled caverns that are located to the east. There’s a small hill to climb to get to the entrance.
Route 5. The main exit of Lakewatch, leading to a grassy incline connecting mountains, forests and plains.
Route 14. The waters of Dragon Lake are also known as Route 14. It connects Lakewatch Town, Highhill Town and Stillwood Village.

Common: 
#194 Wooper
#195 Quagsire

Uncommon: 

Rare:

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@Project

And so, Erza set out to train his new Growlithe. And train they did, against more Rattatas and Pidgeys. As a slightly more naturally gifted Pokémon, Growlithe was able to handle them reasonably easily, taking only somewhat damage back. It could however be noticed that it helped that it seemed that the wild Pokémon of Route 1 seemed naturally frightened of Growlithe, for some reason, making them hesitate when committing to striking back. Being a Growlithe on Route 1 apparently came with a certain amount of status. He’d be able to get somewhere relatively quickly.

Growlithe grew to Level 5!

Also, hm? While training there was something on the ground here, in very familiar colors, seemingly belonging to nobody.

Erza found a Pokéball!

Hm, oh, well. Random Pokéballs aside, Erza was free to do as he wanted again. Continue training? Moving on somewhere? Doing anything else?

Route 1

Route 1 is a long, flat and grassy route where most trainers get their first taste of the world. From Pureplain you can see the hills of Highhill in the distance, from Highhill the scrapers of Pureplain looms in the distance, the start of the Silent Forest surrounding the Silent Shrine on the side. There is a larger road, a main road used for travelling in and out of Pureplain City, there are plenty of more mature travellers taking that road to get from point A to point B. But, young Pokémon Trainers usually much rather use the smaller path going out into the grassland. This is some remnants of the plain which Pureplain City was named after, although most of that plain is now swallowed up by buildings of people living around here. Small roads branch out, leading to different places where some individuals have made their houses. 

There are many safe roads, yet take one step out of it and you’re immediately in tall grass, where you can already see many first-time Pokémon Trainers are challenging their first Pokémon. One could expect Pokémon Trainers to be searching for Pokémon either in the tall grass or the forest on the side, and also battling one another as they can. From the looks of it, there are plenty of young trainers sporting freshly caught Pidgeys and Rattatas. As one approaches Highhill Town, the forest becomes more plentiful, as beyond the town lies a forest. 

Through the route also runs an indent, a drain surrounded by walls, seemingly made for the water to gather up inside it. It’s currently dry, whatever cause of that might be. Some trainers appear to be having fun battling inside it, and they’re running around challenging one another inside it. But, the drain also raised interesting questions about what kind of Pokémon or things one might find should one explore it further.

1. Find Pokémon. There’s searching in the tall grass, and there’s the forest in the left, then there’s the drain…
2. Train Pokémon. With this command, we can jump ahead in time and skip posting about grinding.
3. Seek trainers. There should be some here and there. Note, some may challenge you, regardless.
4. Talk. There’s plenty of young trainers around. There are also houses and travellers. Maybe seek answers to any burning questions you have.
5. Move along. Move along normally, letting any events that may come happen naturally.
6. Hurry along. Intentionally avoid confrontations and try to get safely to the next destination.
7. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result.
8. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you.
9. Area Specific: Descend. There’s a drain. The kids are having a little tournament in it, challenging themselves to fight in a tight area. Perhaps you’d like to try becoming king of the drain? Or maybe you’d just like to explore it.

Connected areas: 
Pureplain City. A bit south.
Highhill Town. A bit north-north-east.

Common: 
#16 Pidgey
#19 Rattata

Uncommon:
#58 Growlithe

Rare:
#1 Bulbasaur

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@Eklispe@Pikmin Eye

Nincada successfully intercepted the Vine Whip attack, Flabébé looking down at the bug that just basically absorbed the supposed damage of the weak Vine Whip with excellent defense, before turning to attack Marill. Meanwhile, Atlas had already charged forth at Marill, who…

‘Marill!’ Spewed a Water Gun straight into Atlas’ face. The water penetrated the steel defense, soaking and damaging the rock body beneath, dealing a Super-Effective amount of damage, and Atlas would feel the energy taken from him during the attack. In fact, he probably owed it to Marill’s terrible Special Attack that he was still charging forward, but this was on his last legs after the damage combined with Bagon’s Ember. Any more damage would be it. But, the fact was that he was still charging, and Marill blinked in alarm, unable to dodge the impact.

The blue ball was knocked back, flying a bit back from Aron’s impact and rolling a bit. Nincada came after, meaning he’d have to catch up to Marill being rolled away, but the moment Marill recovered it was immediately surprised by a sudden Scratch attack, making it roll one lap more backwards. It blinked in panic at the close-by bug. It had taken a serious damage from the two, but wasn’t out yet.

‘Marill, defend yourself, Bubble! Flabébé, Fairy Wind on Aron, finish it!’ Cathia commanded, pointing forward with a frown, the excitement of the battle getting to her.

‘Marill!’ The Pokémon shouted it’s own name, and blew out bubbles. Unlike Water Gun, Bubble was a widespread move, designed to hit multiple Pokémon. It was currently used to make a wall of bubbles to ensure Nincada or Atlas would take damage if they approached to attack Marill, and it was making sure to cover the whole front and out to the sides… but it would be far less damage than a straight-on Water Gun. The bubbles were moving slowly away from Marill's body, probably would hit Nincada if he stayed put, but it was also going to take a while before they had dispersed enough for charging through with no damage, especially when it'd be super-effective.

‘Flaaaaaa~!’ Meanwhile, Flabébé soared in from behind Aron, intending on shooting out it’s wind of power at him, Cathia clearly hoping that the disadvantage of type would be overcome by Flabébé’s natural Special affinity and be enough to finish it.

So, how would they act, now?

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@Joshua Tamashii

When the berries were offered to the Snubbulls, she received a bunch of nervous glances. But, they went forth and collected the berries, giving her a few happy looks. A couple of them wanted to approach her and try to be friendly, but well, Amelia had places to go, and they were nervous so that might have been after she turned around. Sooo, moving on.

The Flabébés, when addressed, looked curiously at her and then at one another, before they decided with happy little calls. ‘Flabé!’‘Bébé!’‘Bébébé!’”As if we have anything more interesting to do~!” So, the three differently colored followed her curiously, mostly because they were curious fairies and she was currently the most interesting thing in the forest right now.

She’d notice a curious effect when she walked through the forest. Some of the arcs were glowing, as said, but when she moved through one… the glowing disappeared, and a different arc further away lit up. While there were arcs standing about fairly randomly, by following these glowing arcs they painted a definite path through the forest, and the Flabébés were chattering in pleased voices amongst themselves as they were on the way.

So, somewhere on the way Amelia turned to ask Drifloon this question.

‘Flooooon…?’ The Drifloon looked at her curiously at the question, then looked out across the forest, tiny black eyes looking as if considering something.

… Amelia suddenly felt something very odd. It felt like when she took her next step the air changed dramatically, turning from the humid rainy forest air to an unknown thickness, a dry air that was notably colder. It felt as if something enveloped her, like her next step had taken her somewhere different, almost like...

‘… Drifloon!’ Drifloon swelled and turned to call out to her, looking immensely happy all of a sudden, and the tense air immediately vanished, returning right back to the normal rainy forest air that was ever present in Northern Silent Forest. … So, um. There was no telling what exactly happened there, but Drifloon seemed more than happy to join her now. So, yay.

Amelia obtained Drifloon!

Gender: ♀
Type: Ghost/Flying
Personality: (Up to player.)
Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: (Up to player.)
Level: 6
Moves: Constrict, Minimize, Astonish
Ability: Aftermath, deals damage to a Pokémon that knocks it out. (Pokédex entry for Moon implies this is by its body bursting with a screaming sound as the soul spills out, or so, but the Drifloon will obviously still be okay after some healing after, hah.)
Held Item: None.

New Pokémon caught! Amelia earned 1000 P!

Would you like to give a nickname to Drifloon?

She then assumingly continued on, eventually. She continued on through the Silent Forest, which indeed was silent except for the Flabébés following her and the rain that was still coming down. Following glowing arcs, Amelia made progress through the forest, the path continuing for quite a while. But, eventually, she reached somewhere. Her feet suddenly placed themselves on what was undoubtedly a flat, man-made rock made to be walked on, which continued as a path through the surrounding forest, straight towards an actual destination. A lonely structure, in the middle of the forest…

Deepforest Shrine

It’s a shrine. Following the arcs of the forest, eventually the path somehow reached this road made of rock, leading through the forest to a destination. Surrounded by forest, far from any road, lay this sudden, as if hidden, shrine. In the midst of the rainfall of the Northern Silent Forest, this was clearly not the Silent Shrine, but someplace else entirely. Yet, other than being a shrine in the middle of nowhere, was there anything relevant about this place? It seemed but empty, abandoned and bleak from here. 

Yet… the shrine was attended. There were small, white-bodied green-capped little fellas standing a bit here and there, holding tiny brooms swiping like they were trying to be shrine maidens for the shrine. They also had noticed Amelia approaching way before she noticed them, some of them fleeing as if by sheer shyness, but others stood, watching the newcomer, unsure what to make of her yet.

Pokédex Entry #280 – Ralts, the Feeling Pokémon. The horn on its head can sense emotions, and its own mood will be affected in turn. It will approach positive emotion and its body will warm, while it will shy away from and avoid negativity and hostility. Quite rare to see in nature.

… But even more eye-catching than the odd attendants of the shrine. There was a young girl, sitting on the stairs up to the shrine, all alone except for the company of these Pokémon. She didn’t look much older than Amelia. But… there was something else. A brief flash of shimmering green, floating next to her head which the young girl had seemingly been talking with, shared a little laugh with… and it was gone moments after Amelia had seen the trace of it. In its wake, the girl was left on her own. She turned her head towards Amelia as she assumingly got closer.

‘Hehe, I’ve been sought out, here of all places.’ She mused, with an amused smile, legs crossed and with a soft expression. ‘You’re here to bring me home, I guess? Well, sounds like duty calls. Tihi.’ She giggled a little, before slowly standing up, making ready to move.

Amelia was now free to say or do whatever she found appropriate.

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@Rune_Alchemist

Lucario was focusing for Foresight, but became aware of the Pokémon around him going for an attack. It looked like he’d hit, but… 

Just before he’d hit with the tackle, Lucario flew up steadily on his feet, spun around and aimed a powerful punch at him. With his current momentum, it was impossible for Ritz to dodge the more experienced Pokémon. The punch impacted with a heavy sound which anyone who heard would swear had to hurt badly, Lucario himself looking calm with his outstretched arm, looking like he was assuming that had finished the Ledyba. He glared at Ralia, eyes only slightly wavering from the confusion, and he was clearly making ready to dodge…

Then he got Ritz tackling into his face, Lucario’s expression twisting into one of utter confusion.

Now, it still hurt. Lucario’s high Attack against a Ledyba’s low defense meant a meaningful amount of damage, and after the Quick Attack as well Ritz didn’t have much health left. But then there was that Lucario had used a Fighting-type move against a Bug/Flying-type, and Ritz had basically just been pushed back by the heavy hit, his lightness, ability to fly and body-type all lending itself to that Power-Up Punch didn’t do quite the damage Lucario had expected, except for increasing his attack. Ritz was then free to slam into Lucario with Tackle, and regardless of how little damage it actually did it completely threw the Lucario’s sense of control out the window.

The time Ritz had given was enough for Ralia to get her own charged Confusion off straight into Lucario’s face.

‘LUC-!?’ Lucario took the hit, recouling and looked hurt, angry and confused all at the same time, and didn’t look like he was taking it well. However, he wasn’t out. He spun in place, extending an arm to slap Ritz out of his way. That might not have hit, but it was enough to momentarily free Lucario from Ritz’s tackles. Sparing no time, the now hurt Lucario spun and glared at Ralia, determined to end the greater threat before it became too much. Before she had time to charge a new Confusion, Lucario had taken his stance, and then launched himself forth at her in another Quick Attack.

… The wind of something flying by at a speed unachievable by a Ralts flew straight past Ralia, inches from having impacted her, the air from it breezing over her small body.

Then the whole building shook, an impact like a bomb striking it shooting from behind her, the shock-wave of it sending rocks and pieces of wall flying as cracks formed around the Lucario-shaped hole in the wall. The whole audience stared at the event with alarmed eyes, as the sounds of cracks spreading were alarmingly loud.

Lucario hurt itself in confusion!

Hector carefully approached the still smoking and still crumbling piece of wall and the hole that had shaped from it. Honestly, the cracks from the impact had spread several meters around said shape, almost up to the roof, was it still safe to be in here? The Gym Leader carefully reached into the hole, before pulling the Pokémon out with his strong fist, several rocks falling out the wall as the way for Lucario’s freedom was achieved.

‘… Oy. Don’t power yourself up and THEN shove yourself into the wall. We’re gonna have to pay for that, you know?’ Hector sounded like a coach lecturing his boxer about something he did wrong with that.

‘LuuuuUUUuuuuuh…’ Lucario, meanwhile, was hanging limp from Hector’s grip, eyes spinning, clearly not in any shape to continue fighting. Hector grinned a bit, nodding to him. ‘Well fought, young friend.’ He then returned Lucario to his Pokéball.

…

Ralia grew to level 10!

Ritz grew to level 10! Ritz learned Comet Punch!

… Did he get a hint of how to do a move of his own from Lucario’s punch?

There was numerous claps in the audience, they were somewhat impressed. Still, Lucario had basically done himself in on the end there. The greatest challenge was yet to come.

Now, it wasn’t entirely relevant, and Claire might with likelihood not even have noticed, but someone entered the building.

‘Oh, hey, Anise. There’s a Gym Challenge going on. Is it true this chick wrecked you?’ The Battle Girl by the door asked.

Anise had come in, probably becoming tired from waiting by the shrine or so, and returned home.

‘Huh?’ She’d blink a little in surprise, but then join the audience, looking over Claire. She’d now just be watching. She did not answer the Battle Girl’s question.

More relevant to Claire, Hector now turned to her, grinning widely.

‘Well fought…’ … Of course, now both Ralia and Ritz had taken serious damage from the Pokémon before. But, now it was just the last one to go. ‘Ooooh, I’m getting excited, my blood is pumping…!’ Hector’s eyes looked a little bloodshot. ‘OLIVER!’ He shouted.

‘Wait, you sure?’ Asked a suddenly hesitant Black Belt.

‘GET IT OVER HERE!’ Hector grinned wickedly at him, so ready to fight. Oliver looked startled, but ultimately shrugged.

‘Well, if you’re certain. Poor girl, though.’ Oliver replied, lobbing over a Pokéball that Hector quickly snapped out of the air, grinning at Claire.

‘It’s time for me to get into the ring…’ Hector kept his grin, before slamming the Pokéball into the ground, and a shape emerged. It was humanoid, brown in color, big red nose, purple bands going along its body, and two giant arms lifted… two huge blocks of concrete, that quickly slammed into the floor, shaking the building, as the Pokémon that honestly looked ready to take on the Pokémon League gave his roar, an atmosphere of sheer power emanating from that corner now.

‘COOOONKELDURR!’ He sounded out, before looking forth at his opponents.

Pokédex Entry #534 – Conkeldurr, the Muscular Pokémon. It uses concrete pillars as walking canes, and can swing these pillars freely in battle using the centrifugal force of spinning concrete. It is said that, thousands of years ago, Conkeldurr taught humans how to make concrete.

‘CONKELDURR! GYM BATTLE!’ Hector called out, and unlike how the two earlier seemed to have fire lit in their eyes by hearing this, Conkeldurr merely smirked. He knew what was going on. The muscular Pokémon oozed of confidence and power, to the degree that Claire could feel it looking at him. Hector smirked forward at her.

‘As per the rules… Feel free to add another Pokémon.’ Hector said. Then his eyes drifted to both Ralia and Ritz, both weakened after earlier struggles… he grinned, and so did Conkeldurr.

‘Actually… Feel free to send out your whole team! … And borrow some of Anise’s if you’d like! You might need ‘em!’ Hector didn’t really seem like he was thinking straight at this point, just plain excited to battle, and Conkeldurr didn’t seem to mind. Up to Claire how she reacted. 

‘Wait, what?’ Anise, however, looked confused by this statement, needing a moment to process.
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