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victory_road2018-09-29 01:27 am
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[The video starts off jitter-y, like whoever is holding the Pokegear is shaking. The camera is pointed at some out-of-focus trees, and Newt's excited voice can be heard, midway through a sentence- he started talking before the video actually started.]
-been a while, I know, I've been really focusing on getting some stuff in order and training my Pokemon, and it's fucking paid off big-time, alright-
[The camera turns to Newt's face- the angle is unflattering, but he looks the happiest he's been since he arrived to the Pokemon world.]
Ok. You guys ready for this?
[He moves the Pokegear around to face away from him again, and starts mimicking a drumroll sound effect. The video slowly pans over to the right...
There's a very blurry, toothy maw taking up the entire screen. The camera zooms out a little bit and re-focuses, revealing a very proud Eelektrik who wiggles happily for the camera.]
That's right, baby! Yamarashi's a big girl now! She's not quite ready to evolve a second time yet, but that's fine with me. Look at those fangs, man! She's definitely more like a lamprey than an eel- I dunno who named these guys, but they kinda fucked up there. Like, look at this!
[Yamarashi's mouth works obligingly, sucking in air as her mouth gapes. If you've never seen a lamprey's mouth before, the visual might be a little disturbing, but Newt seems to think it's the most wonderful thing in the world.]
Ok. But that's not all, my dudes. Like I said, we've been doing a lot of training.
[Now, the camera pans to the left, revealing a somewhat sparkly Unfezeant female and a beautiful female Meowstic. The Meowstic, Negora, meows a greeting as the Unfezeant, Dolly, fluffs up her feathers proudly.]
That's right- three of my girls are evolved, now! And everyone's been trained up pretty well- Hammerjaw should be evolving within the next couple weeks, if he wants- and Slattern, should, too, but he's being a bit of a pill.
[Newt turns the camera to face him, again.]
Also! To keep this evolution train going- Powder Puff and Raythe're both getting ready to evolve, but they're both trade evolutions. Anyone willing to help me with that? I've got the items for them already.
-been a while, I know, I've been really focusing on getting some stuff in order and training my Pokemon, and it's fucking paid off big-time, alright-
[The camera turns to Newt's face- the angle is unflattering, but he looks the happiest he's been since he arrived to the Pokemon world.]
Ok. You guys ready for this?
[He moves the Pokegear around to face away from him again, and starts mimicking a drumroll sound effect. The video slowly pans over to the right...
There's a very blurry, toothy maw taking up the entire screen. The camera zooms out a little bit and re-focuses, revealing a very proud Eelektrik who wiggles happily for the camera.]
That's right, baby! Yamarashi's a big girl now! She's not quite ready to evolve a second time yet, but that's fine with me. Look at those fangs, man! She's definitely more like a lamprey than an eel- I dunno who named these guys, but they kinda fucked up there. Like, look at this!
[Yamarashi's mouth works obligingly, sucking in air as her mouth gapes. If you've never seen a lamprey's mouth before, the visual might be a little disturbing, but Newt seems to think it's the most wonderful thing in the world.]
Ok. But that's not all, my dudes. Like I said, we've been doing a lot of training.
[Now, the camera pans to the left, revealing a somewhat sparkly Unfezeant female and a beautiful female Meowstic. The Meowstic, Negora, meows a greeting as the Unfezeant, Dolly, fluffs up her feathers proudly.]
That's right- three of my girls are evolved, now! And everyone's been trained up pretty well- Hammerjaw should be evolving within the next couple weeks, if he wants- and Slattern, should, too, but he's being a bit of a pill.
[Newt turns the camera to face him, again.]
Also! To keep this evolution train going- Powder Puff and Raythe're both getting ready to evolve, but they're both trade evolutions. Anyone willing to help me with that? I've got the items for them already.
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Not that I'm sure how to describe what evolutions are for pokemon.
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like for example, maybe certain stone evolutions were seen in the wild because those stones were common in that area, but ppl who owned the earlier forms of those pokemon could never get theirs to evolve, so they started trying to expose the owned pokemon to the stones and boom! evolution!
honestly idk who called this stuff evolution because it makes my brain spin a bit, evolution is smth that happens over thousands of years not over the course of the day with a stone or some training; but idk what i'd call it instead so i guess it works i just gotta keep getting used to it
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[ She sighs and frowns. Terminology fails here, and she's grudgingly resigned to it, and too used to absorbing new spins on old words based on what the local population uses them as. ]
But yes, that's what I was thinking. People use trial and error to test out more than they realise, and the science here seems likely to do the same. It's possible that earlier pokemon... groups? I'm not sure what that terminology is either, but possible that those kinds of trades could have happened to, trading individuals to another group and triggering that metamorphosis. Trying to replicate the same things in a controlled environment seems like the natural human progression. We know it's possible, so we have to find out how, and if we can control it.
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ur absolutely right- society is built upon people trying to do new shit, failing, learning from those mistakes, and trying again; so why wouldnt it be the same here?
u trade ur pikachu to someone and it doesnt evolve, but you know it has an evolution that won't come from leveling up; maybe you start giving it items then so you can trade it with a held item, and then it spontaneously evolves when you give it a thunderstone. boom. progress, baby
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[ Though reaching Violet Town, there's the question of what happened in the ruins of Alph to the southwest; that however has the unfortunate air of unsolved mystery, which she doesn't appreciate. ]
There's a certain amount of sense to most this stuff, for all some things make no sense whatsoever. Like the ledges issue.