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[practicalproblemsolver]

[A: Text]

[Lordamighty is Dell famished. He hasn't walked this much since he was a kid, and he certainly doesn't have that energy nowadays. There's only one solution to this problem: steak.]

Where's a fella got to go to have himself a t-bone in Violet City? Hell, I'll take any kinda meat at this point, long as there's a lot of it. All's I can find here is a bunch of health food.

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[B: Violet City Gym]

Who: Dell and another gym challenger
What: Episode 1 of the season-long training arc
Where: Violet City Gym
When: Early September

[Dell's sharp. He's a quick study. And he's competitive. So while it didn't bother him at first that he hadn't wrapped his head around all this magic type matchup nonsense, the moment he found out people were doing this whole Pokémon battling thing competitively, he was suddenly bound and determined to master it.]

[Only problem? He hadn't the foggiest idea of where to start. He'd seen a few critters that wore their types on their sleeve, like the birds and fish he'd been breezing through, but he was less certain about the, uh, group of eggs he'd seen. Was egg a type??]

[The best way to learn was to practice. Taking a leaf out of the books of trainers he'd run into on his way to the city, Dell decided to kick down the doors of the Violet City Gym and see if he couldn't find someone he could browbeat into giving him a crash course.]

Hey, you. Me 'n' Sparky here need a li'l help - why ain't its lightnin' attacks workin' on the sheep 'round here?

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[C: Union Cave]

Who: Dell and anyone in the area
What: We do a little caving
Where: Union Cave
When: Mid-September

[Damn, it's dark in there.]

[Violet City had been a bust for restocking his tools, for the most part. He'd bought some Pokéballs mostly out of curiosity, but they sure as hell weren't any help in tightening a flange.]

[When he and Sparky had made their first foray into Union Cave, the Zubats had come fast and thick, and the Geodudes were all but unstoppable for someone only sporting a Rotom. The inhabitants of the cave forced them back into a hasty retreat, so here he is, sitting outside the Pokémon center nursing his and Sparky's wounds.]

[The moment someone competent comes through, he's gonna flag them down and see if they want someone to watch their back. Maybe even someone less competent. Upright and breathing, maybe.]

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[swordarc]

[A text post pops up on the network from someone going by the screenname 'III'.

(That...can't be his actual name, can it?)]

This is definitely a different world from mine.

Is it common for people to end up here?

(By the way, if IV or V are here too, please let me know. :] )

[(III got a basic explanation about 'outworlders' from the Rockets in the base he woke up in, he's now playing innocent for the network.)]