Okay, I've settled on using "Victor" mostly in posts, as that is what everyone will know him as. So, uh. The post I just posted.
Victor gonna socialize with everyone. Get that 100% Achievement!
I got inspired by the above post to ACTUALLY talk to everyone (that Stiles hasn't talked to yet). But, everyone is in scenes and Victor can't be everywhere at once, so I imagined each scene actually takes place a bit of time away from one another, but that doesn't stop me from writing them all at the same time. If you prefer this happening otherwise, then tell me. But, some oddities may have occurred.
@Savo We had a little convo about if this was happening while Yuu was getting water, but since I'm having Victor RIGHT NOW overhear that Ryuu is blind, that would imply Victor isn't there to get the water, can I claim this happened before Yuu went to talk to Ryuu and Lina? Then they can meet again by Ryuu when he comes back, hah.
@Renose@Crusader Lord Despite wanting to keep all scenes separately, I really did want Victor to overhear that Ryuu said he was blind. Albeit it occurred to me that maybe Lina wanted to say something along the lines of what Victor just said? In that case, feel free to tell me to edit that post, I can have him keep his mouth shut for a bit. XD
Also, Lina didn't get her own part because I realized I was intruding on a scene she's in, so it felt a little strange to have another section for her. Which led to that he doesn't say a lot to her, hah.
@Xaltwind@Ryik I'm kinda leaving it open to if this takes place in at a separate time from the current conversation, or if Victor came in and did this right in front of Toshi. Feel free to pick what you prefer, hah. This was one time I checked with the player (Xalt) first to make sure he was okay with this, I note to everyone else. I have zero intention of playing it further than the joke. Stiles is just an easily distractable person, okay? And those are very distracting.
So, when typing the part for Melissa, I realized Victor was just gonna follow Melissa around out of curiosity, and at that point it felt far more likely she would speak first after finding him following her. Which led me to contact @Floofenstein about it, and now their interaction is a little collab instead. And that's why there's a random collab mid-post. Yepp.
@Azure Bubbles@Yankee I was gonna type one where he approaches Hazel, too, but I feel like her interaction with Stella might greatly impact how she experiences others after this, especially since Victor is currently interacting with Stella's pony. So, yeah, made sense to leave that out and let that interaction play out as is.
... Yepp, I think that's all special notes I wanted to note. Tell me if there's anything you all want me to change, heh.
Note. All interactions in this post are intended to take place at different times, perhaps independently of scenes currently in progress. Victor just wants to talk to everyone, regardless of possibility! :D
‘Hello, Hiddy! This is Bud. He’s a Bud!’ Victor said, somehow still with the posh voice as he gestured at the Budew on his shoulder.
‘Buuud~’
‘I understand completely! Then let us find more interesting stuff in this world, alright?’ Victor declared, more interesting than Kantona City. Alright, making a mental note there’s no need to go to Kantona City, then. If he remembers it. Then again, why not, really? There could be stuff Miharu just didn’t consider interesting because she’s from there! At the very least, keep it in mind!
Victor was kinda pleased with this convo. He held his own against tall gentle lady Miharu. It wasn’t as scary as he thought. Nice.
@Double Victor’s going to acknowledge Jackson’s reply but then doesn’t have anything interesting to reply to it with!
[@Rival_Remi] ‘It is good to meet you, too, Remi!’ Victor told the girl(Stiles' pov) that had served him a cup of coffee. His face brightened, actually from excitement at drinking coffee for the first time. ‘Ah, my old friend, coffee! How I have missed you!’ and so, he took a decisive swipe-
and stopped short. Eyes widened. Barely held back a cough. For whatever reason, with how much others had talked about liking it, he had expected it to be sweet.
He recoiled, eyes in a panic, briefly scrounging up, grimacing, rubbing his mouth with the back of his free hand and then trying to return to his previous position of gently holding the coffee-cup straight with both hands and smiling as he looked to Remi with crying eyes.
‘AH, YES! COFFEE! IS! GRET!’ Victor loudly announced as he was restraining a deeply fundamental inability to appreciate bitterness. In fact, the taste was absolutely vile, for him who had never drank coffee. However, Victor Gallagher would be a coffee-drinker! SO HE HAD DECIDED!
‘I WILL! NOW! GO TALK PEOPLE! HAVE GOOD DAY :D’ Deciding that remaining in conversation with Remi was the absolutely best way to be revealed for the fraud he is, he all of a sudden started moving to the next person to avoid Remi for the time being. And then that just somehow resulted in him walking to every person he hadn’t talked to yet and talked to them.
@Savo Victor randomly decided on a guy to approach. (it is Yuu) ‘Hello! I am Victor Gallagher, and you-’ Victor paused, turning his head to look up at the guy he had just approached. He was still holding his arch-nemesis the coffee at this time. Anyway, he was also intimidated by this big guy looking all dark and looked to Stiles like he had this look of distaste for everything living. Kinda reminded Stiles of- ‘You have cool hair!’ Victor eventually settled on.
‘Dew!’ Bud agreed or something.
‘So, uh, what got you excited about what we’re going to be doing here?’ Victor asked the guy who didn’t look particularly excited.
‘Also, you look like you could use this, so please take this off my hands!’ Victor handed over the coffee cup.
Yuu obtained Victor’s (used) Coffee!
@Rune_Alchemist Next, Victor approached, by sheer coincidence (and absolutely not top to bottom in the order the characters are in the characters tab) was a pair of women. One of them was another tall intimidating lady! … But the other girl was substantially shorter. Anyway! Stiles immediately said what was on his mind as he saw them!
‘Wow, you both have cool hair, too!’ … ‘I mean.’ He fixed his posture and put on the fake posh voice.
‘I am Victor Gallagher! I am pleased to meet you and would like to know if you’re cool! No, wait, I mean, where are you from and does anything cool happen there?’ he asked, absolutely not losing it.
‘Bu-deeew~!’ Bud greeted them.
@Renose@Crusader Lord Victor happened to be close enough to hear Ryuuichi say that he’s blind.
It got Stiles’ attention. He turned, holding a hand up to his chin as he pretended to be fancy Victor Gallagher as he looked with Stiles’ interest at the boy. Blind, huh. That’s like living your entire life without any light, right? Then of course he was seated. But, in that case…
‘You took this job, despite being unable to see?’ he asked… and then his face spread into a wide, happy smile. ‘Niiice. Surviving, despite the circumstances thrust upon you. Making the most of it. I respect it, my dude!’ He then caught himself and adjusted his voice.
‘Um. I am Victor Gallagher. Where are you from, and have you see- er, heard of anything cool happening around there lately?’
Then he might look aside and see Lina standing there, too. ‘Whoa! Oh, hey. Uh. You’re cool,’ he said, giving her an awkward little wave. Yepp, it was another kinda tall cool girl. Now, he likely would have said more to her, but he just asked Ryuuichi something, so he’d wait for the reply.
‘Bud!’ Bud said.
Randomly a collab with @Floofenstein It had not escaped Victor that there was an eccentric personality bouncing around the place. In fact, this made him very curious about the personality, more so than in the things she was investigating. So, for a couple seconds to a minute, there was Melissa walking around searching and inspecting everything, and then Victor curiously following her more inspecting her methods of searching everything rather than what she was actually finding. Mostly because he’d never seen anyone search quite like she was.
Between the investigating the counter (away from the coffee machine) and trotting off to…something else, Melissa noticed she was being followed. Watched. She wasn’t quite as oblivious as one might think, though she definitely was not paying super much attention. A spin around to catch the–oh, it’s…this guy. Who she definitely noticed before, yes, because he had a Budew riding him. Much like Lonitt on her head! So she smiled, big and wide and chirped a ”Hello! You! Have a friend, too!” And yup, her eyes were more on the little grass-type…A rival to her water-type?! Maybe. She’d need to be wary!...Orite, politeness. ”I’m Melissa, nice to meet you!” she chirped, and ”Azu!” from above. She was pretty sure Lonitt was also staring at the Budew, but it was hard to check, yaknow?
Victor flinched a little bit as Melissa spun around and caught him, like he’d forgotten that was possible. Bud, though, smiled happily as he came face to face to Lonitt.
‘Oh, uh, hi. Yes, uh, yes, I do. This is Bud,’ he gestured at Bud. ‘And he’s the coolest!’ he added with a smile.
‘Buuuuud~!’ Bud called to Melissa and Lonitt.
‘And I,’ he adjusted his voice to Victor’s fake posh one. ‘I am Victor Gallagher! It is nice to meet you!’ he also said, looking proud. But, that’s… not important, compared to what he wanted to ask.
‘So, uh,’ he returned to his normal voice and looked at her curiously. ‘What are you looking for? Do you usually look around like this?’ Victor had previously seen people search like this. He’d searched like that himself. … When starving on the street, that is, or when intruding in someone’s home uninvited. But never had he seen someone relatively well-off search like that in someone else’s home, when people were present. So he got curious.
Bud! What a name for a Budew, yup yup mmhmmm. Looking for? Wellll, that was easy to answer! But first! ”Nice to meet you, Victor! And bud!” She chirped, and, yup, ”zuuuu!” Lonitt’s greeting! Yup yup. And then a tilt of her head, and Hm. ”I’m kinda just seeing everything there is to see, really!” She chirped, smiling brightly. There was nothing to it, she just wanted to see if there was anything neato, or shiny, or both. Also, uh, waiting for the…everything to happen. But she didn’t say that, acting impatient was bad. Even if she was already bouncing and wanting to get moving again, staring at the boy for a biiiiiiiiiiiiit longer, to see what else he had to say, but there were things waiting for her, so…
‘Just that, huh?’ Victor asked, then smiled. ‘I like it. Even the smallest of places deserves exploration!’ So it was simply who she was. This amused him. ‘Alright. Melissa, was it? I’m gonna remember you.’ So he declared.
Well, he wasn’t quiiiiite right. Exploring was fun though, and that’s what this job would be about, right? So…Maybe he was right? Huh, something to think about. “Well! Yeah. I’ll remember you, too?” she replied, looking around. Her memory was usually pretty good, even if she didn’t make the best use of it, especially given….ooo, that! She grinned, waved at him and chirped a short ”See ya, then!” and was off, bouncing away to the next thing she saw!
Victor gave a small wave as she took off. Yepp, that was an interesting person. Now, who’s he going to talk to next?
@Xaltwind(and possibly @Ryik if he’s intruding on their convo) In his quest to talk to everyone, which Victor decided on was a course of action after having talked to around half, he eventually arrived to this short young lady. Which was a nice change of pace, so many of these ladies had been very tall. So, he put on his fake posh accent, and went straight to it!
‘Hello! I am Victor Gallagher, and you, uh, are-’
And it was about this moment when his eyes kinda just drifted down.
‘... aren't… wearing a lot...’
…
So, he was definitely looking at her.
But, like, not in a word not allowed in Pokémon way.
You know that look a child might have when they’re seeing something amazing? Like fireworks?
Or a normal adult seeing a huge model train-set that is taking up the entire room with beautiful terrain and interesting details?
Yeah, that.
Tilly’s Cute Charm infatuated Victor!
… or at least distracted him!
‘... Dew?’ the Budew on his shoulder looked in slight confusion at his trainer.
[@Rival_Laurel] Victor came to a dead stop in front of Laurel and broke out in a cold sweat. For the exceedingly simple reason that she seemed very well off, and he knew the real Victor was also really well off, ergo, they probably knew each other! … Sounded Stiles’ perfect logic in his head.
But, like, he couldn’t give a different name to her, not right here in front of everyone! He had so proudly announced himself as Victor Gallagher to everyone else! So, he had to just, uh. Escape. Except, now he’d been standing there staring at her for multiple seconds! It would be weird to not say anything! So, uh…
‘Y-yo. Uh.’ Okay, wait, maybe the approach “I am casual to specifically you” doesn’t work. Posh voice, coming up. ‘I’m, uh, Vic. Just Vic. Pleased to meet you!’ … and then he tried to escape as quickly as he could.
‘Bu-dew~’ Bud waved at her as Victor tried to leave.
[@Rival_Nevine] Victor came to a stop next to Nevine on the couch. There were, let’s see. Slakoth, Sprigatito and Vulpix on top of her. He stood there, thinking for a second.
Then he picked up Bud, and placed him on top of the pile of Pokémon.
‘Buuud~...’ Bud cozied in and relaxed.
It seemed like Nevine’s back was just simply very comfortable to Pokémon.
Victor smirked and gave his bud a thumb’s up.
[@Rival_Svein] Finally, he arrived to Svein, obviously without knowing their name. Victor stopped and was a little surprised to find that this individual existed.
‘Uh. Hello, I am Victor Gallagher. Where are you from? Has anything interesting happened there lately?’ he went with his usual question. ‘Those are some really cool pins you have there, dude,’ he followed, absolutely perfectly maintaining the voice he was using.
‘Galarian Ponyta…’ Victor replied. Even the name sounded fancy. He nodded at her statement that if she allowed it, and he held his hand up, announcing his intention, and then let her decide if she wanted to come close enough.
‘Budew~’ Bud happily called back in response to the neigh, and then Victor got to pet the pony.
‘Ooh…’ Victor made a little sound of amazement as his hand got to feel her mane and test petting her skin. ‘You’re one amazing Pokémon, Fantasia! What did you do to get such pretty colors!?’ he asked, happily petting her. The answer was likely “be born”, but still.
He was a bit confused when Stella walked off while he was still petting Fantasia, but alright. Victor could continue petting her until he was satisfied. Intermittently, he looked over curiously what Stella was doing while he had her Pokémon here, and saw that she was talking to the one who looked like she might fall apart. Oh. Well, he mentally wished them both luck with the conversation, and in case any of them caught him looking, he’d give them a little wave (would be the second little wave to Hazel) before refocusing on petting Fantasia and admiring her colors.
‘Buuud~’ Bud called happily, also having looked over in that direction.
@Double Stiles wasn’t about to fault someone who was having a moment with their Pokémon, he smiled and held his hands up like “I’ll wait!”.
‘Giant’s Watch, huh?’ Stiles said, and looked like he considered something. ‘Caves. Who knows what might be down there? Okay, thanks!’ he then simply said and seemed to be satisfied there.
‘It is, uh, good to hear you don’t!’ Victor replied, while wondering why on earth Stella would talk about biting someone. That said, his eyes went over to the pony-Pokémon…
‘… Your Pokémon is beautiful and amazing. What kind is she? Can I pet her?’ he then asked her, looking with kinda shining eyes to Stella.
‘Buuud~’ Budew sounded out from his shoulder happily.
@Ryik ‘I know, right!?’ Clearly, this boy recognized how awesome Bud was! Good! … But then he didn’t share anything about what the league circuit was.
‘Man, now I’m curious,’ he said, looking around for who else he could ask.
Other than that, he felt he had to behave in the lab. Because Victor Gallagher would behave. It didn’t matter how much he wanted to bother everything and everyone, he had to make do to be a convincing Victor Gallagher! So Victor Gallagher stood, motionless! … Okay, maybe a bit shaking!
‘Budeew~’ Bud waved his bud in a “hi” motion at Melissa the moment she looked at him. Because “hiiii”.
The group started moving, to get away from the emerging Armaldo and hide from when it emerged… when suddenly a large, white and green monster of a Pokémon fell from above and slammed into the icy floor next to the frozen Pokémon!
Pokédex Entry #460 – Abomasnow, the Frost Tree Pokémon. They live quiet lives on mountains covered in snow. It is capable of whipping up blizzards and blanketing entire areas on ice and snow. They appear when snow flowers bloom, and then retreat to places unknown when the petals fall. Generally dislikes associating with others.
‘ABOMASNOOOW!’ the Pokémon shouted, and it was like ice and snow manifested on their own around the Pokémon. The snowy Pokémon swung its arms around, the snow and ice moving with it, and then flung both arms forward, and in a Blizzard of snow and ice it all slammed into the icy shelf where the Armaldo was about to break free from. The ice and snow gathered in the cracks, healing them, and the maintained blizzard created numerous more layers of ice on top of it. Armaldo was thoroughly sealed once again. A couple Delibirds flew in and started putting down red warning cones around that particular section of ice…
A large man approached Basil, Anise and Earl. He tipped his hat and smiled a friendly smile at them.
‘Hello! I’m Isaac the Hiker, and I work in this mine. That must have been quite a scare! But don’t worry, we always have people watching what’s being mined out of the ice just in case!’
He lost his smile as he looked up at the large creature in the ice.
‘This one, though… Hoo, boy! It looks like a league above what we’re used to around these parts! It may be time to take a trip to Cooldome City and ask for the help of someone strong…’
Anise took a moment to collect herself and then stood up and gave Isaac a proper martial-arts bow. ‘Thank you for your aid.’ Isaac nodded to her with a smile. ‘Hey, mining’s supposed to be fun and productive! It wouldn’t be if things like that threaten our miners. Of course we have to have countermeasures!’ and so he laughed.
Earl, holding onto two Budews and a Cleffa, sighed in relief and just put his Pokémon back down on the cave floor.
What does Basil do?
1. Find Pokémon. Note, there are more Pokémon in the tunnels than here. Unless you’re specifically searching the ice? 2. Talk. This is basically a small settlement. They probably know a bit about mining in ice! 3. Move along. Either out of the cave, or deeper into it. 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. Not many, but there’s a small base here! 6.1. Miner’s Lodge. For maps, getting info or tools and learning how to mine! 6.2. Miner’s Shop. Skip all the hard work of actually mining and buy what the miners are selling! Varies every day! 6.3. Comfy Igloo. If you just want to rest, have a chat, relax, restore health. 7. Area Specific: Mining. People here mine the ice for items and Pokémon caught in the ice. You could too!
Connected areas: Route 5. Exit the mines and you’ll be right there. Frozen Cave. The Frozen Cave proper awaits beyond the mine.
For no reason in particular, I thought back on my previous Pokémon adventures, to see how much I remember about them. In general, I only play through a single game in each generation, and only once, so I only ever have one team in a region. I just spent a while to see if I could remember what Pokémon teams I had at the end, just because. To ensure it wasn't a complete waste of time, I'm now posting it here, just because. They're probably relatively typical to how they usually look. Minus maybe the first one. I also don't remember parts of my Johto team, but since I was young, yeah, I probably used Ho-Oh.
I was imagining the lines I wrote there to be said on the way between the airport and the lab, the one where Victor says he's gonna have coffee being the one and only for when they've actually arrived, but I am fine with it having taken place after arriving too, doesn't make that much of a difference. :)
Xaltwind
Lunamaria Hawke
Kon Kon
Floofenstein
RPM
Renose
Rune_Alchemist
Savo
