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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}[^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 [^time]:
  71   The dates here are “real‐world” dates not “in‐universe” dates, which
  72     is more useful for following along in real time but less useful for
  73     roleplaying purposes.
  74   Do we have a preference?
  75   [][@:Lady]{.sig}