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[The feed starts out blurry, as whatever is holding the camera adjusts its grip. It eventually focuses on a blond teenager with a sunny smile and a bright orange ascot, who claps his hands together excitedly.]

Is it working?

[His voice may sound... vaguely familiar to some people, either by virtue of him being a cartoon icon for nearly 50 years or how eerily similar he sounds to a certain Ray Stantz. Regardless, the camera person[?] seems to nod, the camera jostling slightly and picking up the sound of rustling leaves.]

Great! Ok, so, my name's Fred Jones, and I woke up here about a week ago, and I've got a couple things I wanna say-

But gosh, first of all, can I just tell ya that this place is fantastic! I mean, it's a little weird that all these creatures are- y'know, real, or at least I haven't found any way to take off their masks if they are just guys in suits? But I guess they're just like Scooby or something. But they're even better- uh, don't tell Shaggy I said that- I mean, Scoob's great for helping make traps and all, just like all my friends, but dogs can't make vines grow and appear at will! ... Can dogs in this place do that?

[The Pokemon holding the camera shrugs.]

Anyway, I know I'm technically supposed to use those "Pokeballs" or whatever to catch new creatures, but that's no fun. So I've been perfecting trap designs with Audrey here [He gestures to the Pokemon holding the camera.] - she's a great listener, and learning fast! Can you believe she'd never made a pit trap before I got her? And now she's helped me make a ton, even with those leaves for hands!

Oh, uh, by the way, you might wanna be careful if you're going down Route 29 or 30. There's about... [He flips through a notebook, the tip of his tongue sticking out as he regards his scribbled notes.] Twenty-three traps in total- including some really nice modified Rube Goldberg-style setups using some scrap metal and a fallen tree I found. The rest aren't all that complex- I don't have enough materials yet, and this place doesn't have a TrapMart. Just some pretty standard snares and nets and pits. [Fred waves his hand dismissively.] Not my finest work, but it's good practice for my new friends!

... Right, and I was gonna ask- are there sharks in this place? I really want to get to making shark tank traps again, it's been forever since I had a shark to use and I don't wanna get rusty with setting them up. Thanks!

[With that, he signals for Audrey to shut the camera feed off. The Carnivine turns the camera to face her for a moment and waves her leaf-hand goodbye before following his instruction.

... Hopefully anyone who might actually be traveling down Route 29 or 30 soon will catch this video before they get caught in a trap.

But probably not. At least they're all easy enough to escape. And local wild Pokemon, clearly exasperated, are already undoing the damage done by filling in pits and disabling snares.

Later in the day, a text post appears on the network:]

I've been making a list of Pokemon moves and abilities I've read up on that I want to get my hands on! If anyone can point me towards Pokemon they know will have a lot of these, or can suggest one I missed, please let me know!!!

Already related to trapping enemies: Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Magnet Pull, Block, Mean Look, Spider Web, Bind, Wrap, Clamp, Fire Spin, Whirlpool, Sand Tomb, Magma Storm, Infestation, Sticky Web, Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Stealth Rock

Can be used in a specific way to make traps: Constrict, Vine Whip, Sand Attack, Rock Tomb, Electroweb, Toxic Thread, String Shot, Leaf Tornado, Smokescreen, Mud-Slap

[... This kid might need new hobbies.]

Threaded | Flat

[Drifter had waited a while to talk. Something to be admired about caution.]

I got at least a few of them rigged up like that. Ariados and Tentacruel are good for it, so long as you can tolerate slimy and crawly.

Edited 2019-09-28 11:02 (UTC)

[Okay. Someone is looking more than peeved off at this video.]

Those traps were your doing?!

[Roxas was not happy about tripping on some of those.]

It's very nice to meet you, Fred Jones. There's all sorts of oceanic Pokemon! Fish, squids seals, sharks, dragons....

Oh but you really should try traditional battling and pokeballs!

[Wow. This guy sure has taken to being in a new world like a fish takes to water. It's impressive.

But someone is still going to have to be a stick in the mud.]

Leaving that many traps around doesn't really sound safe...

[Hey Fred! Here comes a voice that... sounds just like him? It's fine don't worry about it.]

Oh! You're from a dimension without any monsters? This must be a shock to you then! My dimension has monsters but only a couple of them are as benevolent as the ones here! While I miss Slimer with my whole heart, I love the cool friendly monsters here so much!

So you're into trap building? That's cool! I like building myself but I can't say a lot of the things I build are outright "traps".

... Unless you consider the ghost traps one, but there's not really a surprise element there. Usually the ghosts know if we're gonna deploy a ghost trap on them.

[God save the world from these two.]

There are two notable shark-like creatures that exist in this world--one is called a Sharpedo, which lives primarily in the water, and another is called a Garchomp, which is bipedal and is thus amphibious in nature.

[He pauses. He can't pinpoint why, but this teenager (?) sounds rather familiar...

...

Too bad Egon's not great at doing the whole "people" thing.]

But yes, all the creatures in this dimension are "real" by our perception of not being men in masks. However, the biology of these creatures are noticeably different from the creatures that exist in my home dimension in many aspects. If you'd like, I can help you construct a shark-related trap. I'm quite knowledgeable in almost all aspects of engineering, as well as physics, mathematics, parapsychology, microbiology, mycology, and more.

Goodness.

You certainly have a singular fixation, I see.

...Well, I'll give you points for creativity, I guess.

[But yeesh. Isn't this all a bit inhumane? Riku stares awkwardly at the camera, a bit perplexed.

The later post about trapping moves... yeesh. This guy certainly is fixated on the art of trapping, isn't he?]

Just... be careful. These traps might work out for weaker Pokemon like Pidgeys, but how are you gonna account for ranged attackers? Y'know. Fire, electricity. Just because they can't move their bodies doesn't mean they're powerless.

[...well. This guy sure knows what he likes.]

I guess that's one way to catch Pokemon. You may want to be careful about younger trainers who may be running around, though.

[Winston missed out on seeing the video post, so he has. Basically no context for this list.]

[Judging from the first set of moves, he'd take a guess that "trapping" in this case is purely about keeping a trainer from switching out in a battle, or preventing wild Pokemon from fleeing. ...then he looks over some moves in the second set and starts to second-guess himself.]

Hi. I'd like to help, but I'm kind of confused over what criteria you're using to include moves in that second group. My team's been hit by its fair share of vine whips, and as far as I can tell it just does regular old damage and nothing else, unless there's something I'm missing here...

Do you mind elaborating a bit on /how/ you'd use those moves to set up a trap?

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