001 : Day One, Can I Go Home Now? (video)

[standingonmyneck]

[Your video suddenly clicks on. Someone's already started their journey and hadn't bothered coming online yet, and only was on accident. There was a scene unfolding before you, a girl with thick glasses and really pale skin sat by the base of a tree and had a book in her hands. She appeared to be barely attentive to a stranger in from of her. The stranger was obviously a trainer, but the girl was in no rush to get up and engage. She obviously wasn't holding the camera, something else was.

The scene would go as follows:]

"Come on...just ONE go? We both got one Pokemon, I only see one ball!"

"Your eyesight does indeed work. But I told you, I'm not interested."

"But this is where trainers hang out! Why come where trainers go if you're not battling?"

"This is a good spot, no one said non trainers weren't allowed. But if you look just around the corner, I bet you'll find thousands. So why bother with me?"

"Don't you want to have your Pokemon DO stuff?"

"Fitzgerald is just fine. You're seriously barking up the wrong tree, I'm not making him fight if he doesn't want to."

"Aaaaaabraaaaaa..."

"Look, we'll double the wager. I really want to see what my Haunter could do!"

"Your Haunter."

"Yeah!"

"Haunter is a Ghost type."

"...Yeah?"

"So...Riddle me this, why bug me to battle your Haunter with my Abra? A Psychic type. Putting up a good wager on top of it."

"...Uh."

"So I take the bait with a high chance of you winning this glorified cock fight, and taking away money. You win, I lose. That's what I call glory."

[The trainer then turns around, very quickly. The girl then gets up, exasperated. She placed her book in her backpack before motioning over to what had the camera the entire time. Expressionless, and appearing apathetic, she dusted off her black skirt.]

"Let's get out of here, Fitzgerald. Before other trainers attempt at being smart. I'm feeling a bit too claustrophobic."

"Aaaabbraaaaaaaa."

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[standingonmyneck]

[Oh my god, someone else sensible. Today was her "lucky" day. She found it easier to type for some reason. Less picture time. Less of a pain in the ass.]

Duly noted, I just hope I don't run into way too many wild Pokemon. Tell them I'm not trespassing.

[torsion]

[ No muss, no fuss, no forced smiles so people know you're joking or not being a jerk... all you really have to do is add a smiley face at the end and all is forgiven. Could stand to be easier to do, but there's probably a voice to text function she's not privy to. ]

Unfortunately, you'll probably get a lot of guys like that. Might've been trying to hit on you in a roundabout way if you hadn't humiliated him.

I'll be sure to do that. I'm a little ways ahead of you, but hopefully that just means you'll get a straight path to wherever you feel like settling down.

Take it you've only been her a little while?

[standingonmyneck]

Look for a trail of corpses. Got it.

[At least through text, she could gauge and make her own judgments behind a wall of text instead of watching someone try to be fake. Easier on her sanity, or apathy...whatever is more convenient.]

His heart will go on and his dreams will come to fruition someday. Unless his Haunter eats them.

About two days, how obvious is it?

[torsion]

That's my old job. Try to do a little more feeding berries to random pokemon to get them to head off into the tall grass than beating them up. Mostly works.

Hear that it's not necessarily an unpleasant experience. Maybe it'll give him a new perspective on being obnoxious.

Only obvious by location. Planning on sticking to Johto? If so, hot tip (ha!), get a Fire pokemon or make sure to bring something that will ensure you can start a fire easily. Some of the areas take several days to get through even if you're going at a grueling pace.

[standingonmyneck]

I'm planning on going home the first chance I get.

Camping is fun (it's not) but there's so much self enlightening questing I could do before the enlightenment gets to my brain. Then I would need to be destroyed.

So I don't know much of this business I should even participate in; in order to just get by.

[torsion]

Fair enough. Figure I would do the same, so long as my partner comes with me.

I enjoy it, but it's not for everyone and not everyone is equipped to handle it long-term (especially in this weather). Good pun, though. Assuming it was intentional and you don't think I'm suggesting you run off on a vision quest or something.

I guess start small and work your way up? Just figured I'd start traveling and see where it took me. At the very least more people seem to be in bigger cities and there's better amenities. Figured if I didn't know what I was doing, it could at least be somewhere more convenient.

[standingonmyneck]

I hope that vision quest lets me bring my glasses.

I was actually heading toward town but I decided to take a sanity break and that proved pretty fruitless.

[torsion]

Haven't been on one, but I get the feeling someone around these parts has. Probably wouldn't want their answer in the long run, though...

That when your suitor approached?

[standingonmyneck]

Sure did. I guess I was unfortunate I was a part of his vision quest. Hopefully his eyes are wide open now.

[torsion]

And with a pair of contact lenses affixed to them. ;)