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   1 # Hongye’s Journal
   2
   3 A record of events in [][@:Hongye94]’s pokémon journey.
   4
   5 : [2023-08-28]{as=time}[^time]
   6
   7   Big chain of events culminated in the start of several new journeys
   8     today.
   9   To summarize :—
  10
  11   - A while back, a new girl (Gloria) moved into Postwick and hit it
  12       off with Hop, who is about her age.
  13     Leon caught wind of this and decided to gift them both pokémon, out
  14       of the hope, as Sonia would have it, that having a rival would
  15       encourage Hop to get more serious about pokémon training.
  16
  17   - Day 2 of them both having pokémon, the youngsters run off into the
  18       Slumbering Weald (!!) to rescue a Wooloo and give everyone a
  19       fright.
  20     They go on and on about seeing a mysterious pokémon there, which
  21       gets Leon and Sonia interested for their own reasons—Sonia’s are
  22       academic; I can’t claim to know Leon’s but evidently he has been
  23       pestering her about legendary super‐strong pokémon for some time.
  24
  25   - After getting Pokédexes and meeting with Professor Magnolia, Hop
  26       and Gloria manage to pressure Leon into endorsing them for the
  27       Gym Challenge.
  28     The professor evidently twists this to somehow pressure Sonia into
  29       setting off too.
  30     Not really sure what she’s hoping to accomplish, but I think she
  31       misses being on the road and Professor Magnolia knows it.
  32     In any case, I accompanied her to the station to see her off.
  33     (Would have gone with her if she’d asked.)
  34
  35   - A train (from the Isle of Armor connexion) pulled in just after
  36       Sonia’s departed, carrying a rogue Slowpoke.
  37     Bit uncertain how it managed getting off the island, as that part
  38       of the journey is usually managed by flying taxi.
  39     Everybody just kind of hung around the station unsure of what to do
  40       until I offered to catch it.
  41     Oddly, there was another guy there who seemed totally enamoured
  42       with the pokémon, but he didn’t make any claims on it;
  43       performance anxiety maybe, wot with all the watching eyes.
  44
  45   So the end result is that I have a Slowpoke to take care of now.
  46   Honestly, my plan is just to head to the Isle of Armor and release it
  47     back into the wild; I don’t have any need for another pokémon but
  48     mainland Galar is clearly not its correct habitat.
  49   I might see if Professor Magnolia has any tasks I can do there as
  50     well—not exactly looking forward to spending the next few months in
  51     Wedgehurst while everybody else is off having adventures.
  52
  53 : [2023-08-30]{as=time}
  54
  55   There were still a few pokémon local to the Wedgehurst area that I
  56     hadn’t yet made a pokédex record for, so I decided to try to find
  57     them before setting out.
  58   Purrloin wasn’t too hard to find, but Hoothoot sure is rare!
  59   To give a sense for how long it took, several of the bug pokémon I
  60     had under observation had already evolved by the time I found one.
  61   It was several trips to the Pokémon Centre because my party just kept
  62     getting worn out!
  63
  64   On a more positive note, while hunting through the tall grasses of
  65     Route 2 I managed to befriend an incredibly shy Yamper—it fetches
  66     my pokéballs for me when I miss.
  67   I named it Ballecherche, which is a pun on the Kalosian _aller
  68     chercher une balle_{as=i lang=fr}, meaning “to fetch a ball”.
  69
  70 : [2023-08-31]{as=time}
  71
  72   I finally made it to the Isle of Armor!
  73   Bit of a strange sequence of events upon my arrival :—
  74
  75   - In the station there was a guy evidently looking to join the dojo
  76       on the island—except he’s averse to weirdos and there’s one
  77       hanging around outside.
  78     I immediately don’t think he’s dojo material, and weirdo evidently
  79       agrees, as he mistakes me for the new member and pays the other
  80       guy no mind.
  81
  82   - Weirdo (Avery) turns out to be the same guy who was super into the
  83       Slowpoke back at the station—turns out he already is training
  84       one, which explains why he didn’t catch it back then.
  85     I find this out because he challenges me to a battle—he doesn’t
  86       seem to remember me from the station.
  87     I’m not big on battling, but I want to get a sense of his strength,
  88       and it turns out he is pretty green.
  89
  90   - After we win the battle, Sobble evolves into Drizzile, and it seems
  91       pretty interested in the idea of dojo training.
  92     The guy whose place I stole seems fine with it—he evidently has
  93       second thoughts about training on a remote island with the likes
  94       of Avery.
  95     I don’t get it—the guy’s bark is waaaayy worse than his bite.
  96
  97   - The dojo accepts me as a new member even thô I’m _not_ who they
  98       were expecting.
  99     We’re immediately set on a task of chasing down some quick
 100       Slowpoke, which my experience running down pokémon for the lab
 101       evidently prepared me well for.
 102     Then we’re given another task of mushroom foraging, and the dojo
 103       instructor evidently likes me because he tells me just where to
 104       find them.
 105     It’s mushroom soup for dinner.
 106
 107 In all this I forgot to release the Slowpoke, although I suppose
 108   there’s no rush.
 109 As a reward for the first trial I was offered the opportunity to raise
 110   a Squirtle or Bulbasaur—it’s not often you find those in Galar and
 111   these have the Gigantamax factor.
 112 I agreed and went with Bulbasaur.
 113
 114 : [2023-09-01]{as=time}
 115
 116 As Avery and I performed the best in the dojo trials, we’ve been asked
 117   to compete for the top spot in a pokémon battle at the end of the
 118   month.
 119 I’ve never had difficulty taking on Avery before, but I admit that
 120   battling isn’t my strong suit.
 121 In the meantime I’ve been familiarizing myself with the local ecology
 122   and running down Diglett which have escaped a trainer from Alola.
 123 Bulbasaur evolved into Ivysaur after not much time together, but
 124   Venusaur is likely still a ways out.
 125
 126 I’ve decided to keep Slowpoke in my party for now.
 127 I may still release it after my battle with Avery, but for the time
 128   being a larger party is better, and we’ve developed at least a little
 129   rapport.
 130
 131 [^time]:
 132   ::: thread
 133   - The dates here are “real‐world” dates not “in‐universe” dates,
 134       which is more useful for following along in real time but less
 135       useful for roleplaying purposes.
 136     Do we have a preference?
 137     [][@:Lady]{.sig}
 138
 139     - My preference would be for “real-world” or both.
 140       Or at least to having some clear marker of different updates.
 141       Just a HR between updates would also work fine.
 142       btw do you have thoughts on how (if) you would like other peeps
 143         to comment on the events?
 144       iiii fiured this would be okay in this case given your asking a
 145         question hehe
 146       [][@:Rinna]{.sig}
 147
 148       - Yeah I definitely agree and think the only advantage to
 149           in‐universe dates is if other people were also R·P·ing and
 150           wanted to like, co·ordinate timeline.
 151         And it’s more that like, “canonically” (wiki page forthcoming
 152           eventually) _Sword & Shield_{as=cite} take place in like,
 153           Summer 2019 and not late summer or early fall in 2023.
 154
 155         Commenting on the events is fine!
 156         Just be sure to like, make it clear that it is a comment (sign
 157           it, ⁊·c) so that it doesn’t get confusing to read.
 158         I think there’s a feature request for using lists as threading?
 159           but even without additional styling I think adding a bulleted
 160           list of signed comments after each update could work.
 161
 162         For in‐character R·P stuff we could also add like a
 163           `Hongye94/Talk` page or whatever, i suppose.
 164         [][@:Lady]{.sig}
 165
 166         - Threading support has now been added!
 167           [][@:Lady]{.sig}
 168   :::