3 A record of events in [][@:Hongye94]’s pokémon journey.
5 : [2023-08-28]{as=time}[^time]
7 Big chain of events culminated in the start of several new journeys
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.
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
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.
25 - After getting Pokédexes and meeting with Professor Magnolia, Hop
26 and Gloria manage to pressure Leon into endorsing them for the
28 The professor evidently twists this to somehow pressure Sonia into
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.)
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.
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.
53 : [2023-08-30]{as=time}
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
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”.
70 : [2023-08-31]{as=time}
72 I finally made it to the Isle of Armor!
73 Bit of a strange sequence of events upon my arrival :—
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
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.
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
95 I don’t get it—the guy’s bark is waaaayy worse than his bite.
97 - The dojo accepts me as a new member even thô I’m _not_ who they
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
105 It’s mushroom soup for dinner.
107 In all this I forgot to release the Slowpoke, although I suppose
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.
114 : [2023-09-01]{as=time}
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
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
162 For in‐character R·P stuff we could also add like a
163 `Hongye94/Talk` page or whatever, i suppose.
166 - Threading support has now been added!
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