# Hongye’s Journal

A record of events in [][@:Hongye94]’s pokémon journey.

: [2023-08-28]{as=time}[^time]

  Big chain of events culminated in the start of several new journeys
    today.
  To summarize :—

  - A while back, a new girl (Gloria) moved into Postwick and hit it
      off with Hop, who is about her age.
    Leon caught wind of this and decided to gift them both pokémon, out
      of the hope, as Sonia would have it, that having a rival would
      encourage Hop to get more serious about pokémon training.

  - Day 2 of them both having pokémon, the youngsters run off into the
      Slumbering Weald (!!) to rescue a Wooloo and give everyone a
      fright.
    They go on and on about seeing a mysterious pokémon there, which
      gets Leon and Sonia interested for their own reasons—Sonia’s are
      academic; I can’t claim to know Leon’s but evidently he has been
      pestering her about legendary super‐strong pokémon for some time.

  - After getting Pokédexes and meeting with Professor Magnolia, Hop
      and Gloria manage to pressure Leon into endorsing them for the
      Gym Challenge.
    The professor evidently twists this to somehow pressure Sonia into
      setting off too.
    Not really sure what she’s hoping to accomplish, but I think she
      misses being on the road and Professor Magnolia knows it.
    In any case, I accompanied her to the station to see her off.
    (Would have gone with her if she’d asked.)

  - A train (from the Isle of Armor connexion) pulled in just after
      Sonia’s departed, carrying a rogue Slowpoke.
    Bit uncertain how it managed getting off the island, as that part
      of the journey is usually managed by flying taxi.
    Everybody just kind of hung around the station unsure of what to do
      until I offered to catch it.
    Oddly, there was another guy there who seemed totally enamoured
      with the pokémon, but he didn’t make any claims on it;
      performance anxiety maybe, wot with all the watching eyes.

  So the end result is that I have a Slowpoke to take care of now.
  Honestly, my plan is just to head to the Isle of Armor and release it
    back into the wild; I don’t have any need for another pokémon but
    mainland Galar is clearly not its correct habitat.
  I might see if Professor Magnolia has any tasks I can do there as
    well—not exactly looking forward to spending the next few months in
    Wedgehurst while everybody else is off having adventures.

: [2023-08-30]{as=time}[^time]

  There were still a few pokémon local to the Wedgehurst area that I
    hadn’t yet made a pokédex record for, so I decided to try to find
    them before setting out.
  Purrloin wasn’t too hard to find, but Hoothoot sure is rare!
  To give a sense for how long it took, several of the bug pokémon I
    had under observation had already evolved by the time I found one.
  It was several trips to the Pokémon Centre because my party just kept
    getting worn out!

  On a more positive note, while hunting through the tall grasses of
    Route 2 I managed to befriend an incredibly shy Yamper—it fetches
    my pokéballs for me when I miss.
  I named it Ballecherche, which is a pun on the Kalosian _aller
    chercher une balle_{as=i lang=fr}, meaning “to fetch a ball”.

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