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[captainash]

Blissey produces eggs. Miltank produces milk. You can get wool from Mareep, honey from Combee, bananas from Tropius. Any Water-type can serve as a source of water as long as you boil it, and any Fire-type can produce the flames for that. And there's all the Pokémon that can help you cut tree, or dig holes in a mountain.

This list is probably missing plenty of options and helpful species still.

So, where are the few but hardcore survivalists who choose to live off the grid? Wouldn't this world be perfect for that kind of personality?

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[sociallychallenged]

Pretty sure I've come across a few hermits. But I don't know. Most people I know that did the 'off the grid' thing were trying to get away from big business or the government and neither of those are too bad here.

[captainash]

They're not too bad until they start doing whatever was going on in Sevii. Which still manages to be a step up from the Federation's shadiest dealings or the Vagan's deliberate fuckery, somehow.

But I guess some of the trainers that hang out in caves might actually live there? even if they're too social to be proper hermits.

[sociallychallenged]

Yeah. The biggest companies here can be outthought by a ten-year-old and a good team of magic animals. That's not really what we'd have to deal with back home.

I guess it's good that no one is in any rush to live off the grid, but damn, that is something to think about.

[captainash]

The ten-year-olds, or the magic animals? I've seen kids about that age play major roles in the war before, though not single-handedly. I've never heard about corporations getting dismantled by rats and flowers, though.

If someone does decide to live away from society, they'd still be only a Fly away from civilization. That's almost ideal conditions, if someone decides to try it out.

[sociallychallenged]

I guess you have a point. Some of history's greatest snipers were teenage Russian girls.

But the rats and flowers are very new.

[He's got a very proud Floette though that he knows can hold her weight in a fight.]

I figure if someone had, we're not gonna hear their thoughts on it for a long time. It'd mean getting of the network.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

There was a lady you had to find on that scavenger hunt who kept talking about how she lived off the grid. She was around Blackthorn City and she was hard to find.

Maybe they're just really hidden?

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[captainash]

Really? I should have paid more attention to that game. I hope she wasn't too bothered by all the people who sought her out.

I wonder how deep inside forests or caves they'd have to go to truly hide from people. I mean, between all of us we've probably stomped over every inch of Ilex Forest, by now.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

I don't think so? She talked to me for a while when I met her. About how it was good to live in one with nature. I wasn't really sure what that meant, but I think it's what you were talking about.

They'd have to be really good at hiding.

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[captainash]

The type who wants to be close to nature but hasn't been disappointed by humanity, then. That's good! Between the undamaged ecosystem and all the wild Pokémon, I'm sure her life's pretty comfy.

I'd bet certain Pokémon can help with that a little, depending on where they'd want to hide. That, or they went on a shopping spree for camo print clothing before walking into the woods.

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[bent_the_world]

oh yeah, you can totally live without electricity or running water here, i did it for years

i lived in a mud hut my pokemon and i made before i moved to the islands. and...well, i upgraded to an old fishing shed that botan and me and our pokemon converted into a tiny kind of house thing

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[captainash]

Really? That's not the kind of life I'd aim for personally, but it sounds awesome. What kind of Pokémon were the most helpful in remaining self-reliant? Anything you miss from those days, now that you've gone back to man-made buildings?

[bent_the_world]

all of them, really. and...i wouldn't say i'm living all that differently just because i graduated from a mud hut to a wooden shed. i do a lot of foraging and fishing and skin diving for a lot of stuff.

[captainash]

I'm glad to hear you can live such an active, pleasant life around here, no matter what your walls are built with. Do you have much luck finding fish that are more edible than Magikarp?

[angewiesen]

Where I come from, we don't have a "grid." No electricity. Everything's agrarian.

Pokemon wouldn't just help us survive. They'd revolutionize our way of life.

[captainash]

An electricity-less world? I admit that's difficult to imagine, even if I know every civilization started off without it. What kind of Pokémon do you think would change your world the most?

[angewiesen]

It exists in a more rudimentary way in other countries, nothing like it is here, but it hasn't really hit Paradis yet.

Well... I've got a Blitzle, and she's shown me just how powerful Electric types are. It wouldn't be abuse to have them work a couple of hours a day to power machines, as long as they were treated well. I haven't seen any of the big, powerful Pokemon I've read about yet, but if they really can stomp down mountains and destroy forests like the Dex says they can, that would save a lot of physical labor.

[captainash]

With a few strong Ground-types for digging and Fighting-types to move materials, you could save weeks if not months of construction time. And a Steel-type or two could help build the machines the Electric-types would power, until you could harness more stable and permanent sources.

[shiro2hero]

You mean Ford Pines hasn't done it already?

[captainash]

If he has, I hope he has plenty of stories and tips to share. You never know when that might be useful.

[shiro2hero]

He's definitely the one I'd expect to see out there, making his own civilization with his pokemon's help.

[captainash]

With a sufficiently large team, he might be able to found a small but acceptable hidden village! Though I'm not sure Pokémon would officially count as inhabitants.

[cyclonely]

you can also milk a gogoat i think! though i feel like i would probably want to learn how to pasteurize it before using adagio's milk. i don't know if you can catch milk diseases in poke land but i don't want to test it!

is that what pasteurization is for? i am actually not sure. i've never had to think about that before, really. i just think it would be neat to make something using ingredients from pokemon friends.

are blisseys ok with you taking their egg? it seems like a pretty important thing to them. they have a whole pouch for it and everything.

[captainash]

Miltank milk is safe as-is, so it should be the same for Gogoat? It'd be unfair otherwise. Though I'm not an expert in diseases, and drinking fresh milk is only the lastest step in a long series of impulsive choices.

I don't know if Unoly is a normal representative of her species, but she once threatened to use me as target practice because I said I didn't feel like eating scrambled eggs that morning. I assume this means she's fine with it. I'm sure she'd be more protective of a fertilized egg, of course.

[cyclonely]

oh wow... that is the exact opposite from what i expected. almost kind of weird? if i grew food i don't think i'd force people to eat my body food...

that is really good to know about the milk, though! i don't know how to pasteurize things at all so i would have had to do a whole bunch of research.

[captainash]

For all we know, that's the result of thousands of years of domestication. I caught her in the Safari Zone, so it's not like her early life was free of human influence.

I know it involves heat, but beyond that, beats me. Where I come from, most milk is artificial, unless you're both very rich and living on Earth.