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hello, poke universe, i'm john egbert! or, general poke land, i guess... poke lands. i have a probably really dumb request but just stay with me here for now. come with me on this, uh, idiot journey.

so, i arrived here two days ago and i thought i knew what was going on. i have done pokemon before, i know how the game works. i even got nostalgic and replayed it four years ago so i'm not THAT out of practice. the thing is, i forgot that stuff that takes maybe ten minutes on the game boy would obviously take much longer in person?

basically, i bought some more snacks but i am still on route 29 with no sight of cherrygrove city and i am out of food. is there anything like a bike delivery service that i can order from because i am not finding it with a preliminary search. i can't afford much because there don't seem to be any people to fight on this route but it would be pretty stupid if i couldn't even make it to the first real city?

did they fix it here so you can ride the horse pokemon, incidentally, because i always thought it was weird that you had to get a bike instead of just putting on a special flame proof saddle and riding a ponyta. or non fire horses i guess because there are actually a lot of pokemon here i don't recognise and i guess a special flame proof saddle would cost the same as a bike anyway.

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Presumably if the Ponyta likes you enough to allow you to ride it, its flames won't burn you in the first place. Unless you plan on attempting to find and ride a wild one, which I'd very much like to see.

oh, really? in that case it should be cheaper than a bike, right? you...are saying you can ride them here, aren't you?

Yes. Most any Pokémon big enough is technically able to be ridden. Whether they let you on is up to them.

This universe never showed up in mine mirrored via videogame as far as I'm aware, so I'm unfamiliar. However I can hazard a guess that the rules are very different. What works on a computer is not always going to work when it comes to supporting a full ecosystem and society. Which is to say: your options are likely more open than you think.

see, i mostly agree with you on this except that i tried to climb up one of those little ledges and i just couldn't. so obviously there is still some weird cross over but i will definitely keep that in mind in future, thanks!

i mean, it will be pretty hard to forget how much this sucks right now realistically.

Oh yes, the ledges are one of this universe's particular quirks. And the music, which I'm sure you've noticed. There's also the relatively-advanced teleportation technology available in the buildings that provide completely free housing and healthcare right next to the almost complete lack of short-distance public or personal vehicular transportation. It's a fascinating world you've fallen into, much as it 'sucks' currently.

That said, if you're stuck and in need of transportation while you adjust, I'd be willing to fly out and drop you in Cherrygrove. Falkor can carry two.

i think my teen nanna is going to come and help me actually but actually i think the most important thing i need to ask is if that's just a cool reference or if pokemon has luck dragons now!

anyway yeah, this all sounds pretty good, actually. i am looking forward to this!

It's mainly a reference. I don't believe Drampa have any more luck than a normal Pokémon might.

I have to ask, though. Teen nanna?

[Is this a slang. He missed the prime slang years from 1990 to 2010, he's woefully behind.]

oh...right, i kind of got used to that just making sense to people.

basically she is the teen version of another version of her who was my dad's mom, even though she is technically ectogenetically my mom? so i can't help but think of her like that.

Ah. Alternate-universe shenanigans. Say no more.

At least yours is a teen. I once visited a universe where everyone was a baby. Everyone. It was supremely unsettling.

everyone?! how did they get anything done? or...move around. did they have little motorised versions of those cars for toddlers?

As far as I'm aware they didn't do much of anything to begin with, but I didn't stay there very long. There are some worlds it's best to not think too hard about.

yeah...it is giving me a headache just trying to think about how that would work at all...

do you travel between universes a lot? or did you before pokemon?

For about thirty years I was near-constantly bouncing between realities. This is actually the longest I've stayed in any one place that wasn't my own native universe, with the three year mark coming up in late August.

[WEIRD... Being used to one place and staying there long enough to put down roots? Just wild.]

I'm grateful for the extra time. This is one of the most interesting xenosocial systems I've encountered and ample time to study it has been nice.

oh wow! was it on purpose? bouncing between realities i mean. it took me kind of a long time to control it myself so it could really go either way.

i think i am also looking forward to staying here. it seems really relaxing.

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cue me actually grabbing my journal copy to see if it answers this question

jhmsdfgsd Baby Worldbuilding

BABY WORLDBUILDING IS IMPORTANT

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