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[castlethrasher]

[VIOLET CITY - AUG 4th EVENING]

She's back here again. Not for the last time she's sure, nor for the second time given what she's been doing for the last week and a bit. But she's back here again, and Carly stretches as she re-enters Violet to head for the Poke-Center.

"We've been working really hard huh~?" she cheerfully announces, referring to the pokemon at her side. Solitaire- the Alolan Vulpix- seems exhempt from the matter, simply dozing away atop Carly's backpack...which is notably emptier seeming without a tent in it. But the rest of the pokemon, including the one which momentarily looked more like a fuzzy hair broach than anything, seem to be chittering their excitement.

One in particular looks especially pleased- evolution does that for a gal, and the newly evolved Salazzle is enjoying walking on two legs.

Entering the poke-center though, Carly is getting right to the point. "Alright- we'll just heal up, and then hea-"

....Hold on.

"S-Susie..!?" She'd have expected her to be off near Ecruteak, or even the Farm by now!!

[TEXT - AUG 5TH, MORNING]

HEY FUCKERS
WHEN WAS I SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT I CAN MAKE BANK OFF FIGHTING GYM LEADERS
HOW COME NONE OF YOU CLOWNS TOLD ME
I'VE BEEN EATING MUD FOR A MONTH
AND YOU JUST HAVE TO BEAT UP THESE NERDS?? AND EARN THAT MUCH CASH??

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[neverstudied]

or you just get a cat that spontaneously creates money for you

which is working great for me so far

gym battles arent half bad either though

... have you really been eating mud and nothing else

[Are You Like, Ok]

[castlethrasher]

wait a WHAT
what the FUCK i cant believe nobody told about any of this
and its no big deal im used to eating chalk and rocks and stuff back home
my pokemon have actual food so its chill

[Totally Fine she's been buying food for her pokemon but not herself so
It's All Good]

[neverstudied]

yea but this dimension turns everyone into humans

pretty sure human digestive system cant live on rocks

i mean. unless you already were human in your own dimension and just straight up survived on mud there because you wanted to

in which case more power to you i guess

but seriously eat some real food

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[castlethrasher]

Susie jumps and whirls around. "D'AH—
..oh! Oh shit! Hey!! It's, uh.. Good to see you again! Even if you don't. Remember the first time..!" She shrugs and awkwardly extends a fist—likely for bumping purposes.

"How you been, man? Love the hair.. thing."

[insidescoop]

"Hohh!!" It takes a moment to get the fist bump. She very awkwardly gets her fist up, and bumping,

Did she do it right...

"Hmn? Oh! That's Kushi~ Kushi, say hello~"

Kushi in question skitters up the head, dropping all the hair she was holding up. Notably there's an everstone strapped to her back.

It's almost as big as the joltik. "And...It's good to see you sort-of-again too! I'm kind of surprised actually, though I guess there's three different ways to get here..."

[castlethrasher]

"There we go." A passable fist bump.

"Oh damn, alright. What's poppin', little man..?" She goes to fist bump the 0'04" bug.

"Y-yeah, I've just been, uh. Takin' my time, y'know? Taking the time to stop and smell the flowers. A lot.

Though I gotta say, I'm pretty over flowers by now." That'll happen when you spend two entire weeks lost in Ilex Forest. Not that she'd ever reveal that.

"Sssooooo uh.. What've you been up to..?"

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[outofhershadow]

wow, what rock have you been living under
i found that out on like
day one
i've been practically living off the money i make off the guys i beat up

[castlethrasher]

hey dont shit on my living rock its comfy under there
trainers have mostly been avoiding me since i keep threatening to beat em up if they dont move
i kinda figured the persistent ones who actually battled me gave me their pocket money out of fear
but theyre ALL supposed to do that???? what the fuck

[outofhershadow]

nice

yeah it's like... this huge thing
even we're supposed to do it if we lose?? can't see that happening though
i haven't lost yet

some people are boring here and get REAL jobs, but this is where the real fun's at

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[shiro2hero]

...

Why... were you eating mud?

[castlethrasher]

well somebody has to
besides i did it all the time at home
stomach was a lot cooler with it then though

[shiro2hero]

What?

No? No one "has to" eat mud?

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[pkemeter]

Yes. You can also make money by working at various part time jobs throughout the cities, which will give you a more stable source of income.

Did you not read the manual given to you by the entity that identifies itself as "mom"?

[castlethrasher]

bold of you to assume i can read
also gross no
also also who the hell is that anyway

[pkemeter]

[Egon doesn't get it.]

If you're responding to this message, that means you can read, clearly.

I do not know. I have reason to believe that she is an otherwise benign spirit or supernatural entity that serves as some sort of gatekeeper from other dimensions to this one. However, as our brains are limited in what they can interpret, she has reduced her form to that of a maternal figure.

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[alittleobsessed]

Oh, you can make a lot of money of both them and other trainers!

It seems just a little bit unethical, but apparently that's how it works here!

[castlethrasher]

thats what people keep telling me and i gotta say this is a pretty sweet deal

[alittleobsessed]

Challenging gym leaders is worth a lot of money too! If you haven't tried that already.

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[badluckbabe]

Making money is so stupidly easy in this world most of us figured you wouldn't need the help.

I mean you're a big tough badass so that first gym must have been a walk in the park for you yeah?

[castlethrasher]

its about to be babeyy

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[agent3]

uh dont even know u
how do i tell someone a thing if i dont know em
duh






u r not beatin them up u r fightin pokemon with em
n gym leaders r harder than ppl in other places

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[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

This may shock you.

But you may also perform services for the local businesses in exchange for currency.

It's colloquially known as a "job".

[castlethrasher]

whaaaaaat
thats crazy ive never heard about this before
im learning all kinds of new shit here
so what do you do here then exactly
must be a lot of fun

[cyclonely]

i mean that is the fastest way but also people on the routes basically charge at you and beg you to beat them in a pokemon battle so that they can give you money for it.
were you just avoiding them or what?
also everyone else has already bugged you about the mud thing so i won't but i need you to know that it's really hard not to.

[castlethrasher]

what the hell howd you do that
anyway as it turns out a lot of trainers back off when you threaten to pulverize them
and
sometimes
follow through on that
not that i would uh
ever do something like that of course
and i swear to god if one more person gets on my ass about eating mud
i WILL find them