[ANONYMOUS Text] / Action for Route 29

[garbagechild]

[TEXT, approximately midday on July 1st]

how t

how to stop hed from hurting

resons hwy hed myte b hurting human

dose hed hurting mean deth (for humane)

<sub>[WHAT'S UP NETWORK, it seems someone has gotten their wires crossed and is trying to use the PsyDuckDuckGo searchbar but keeps posting messages by accident.]

[Help. Help them.]</sub>


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[ACTION for Route 29]


<sub>[With a gritted-teeth groan, Wrath sets aside the PokeGear and presses both hands to his temples.]

[He's been walking west from New Bark with his new Pokemon partner for about five hours. And while his memories of once being human here are growing clearer by the minute, he doesn't remember it ever being quite like this. His head is throbbing and the heat is unbearable.]

[And there's no air-conditioned buildings or shady storefronts to duck into like there always had been in the Goldenrod City (or "the yellow town", as he always used to think of it).]

[At least there's trees, which is what he's finally opted for now that the sun is high in the sky and the thought of taking another step is about as appealing as sticking his head in a wasp's nest. Laying spread-eagled on the grass under the shade of a big maple is at least cooler... but it hasn't stopped the banging pains in his head.]

[Sitting next to him is both the (thus far unexplored) complimentary rucksack from "Mom", and his starter: a little Cubone, who's been watching him a little worriedly. Said Cubone is the one who pulled the PokeGear out of a pocket on the backpack and helpfully pointed out the internet search engine (prior to being assigned to his very! first! trainer!!!!! (exciting!) he had been cared for by Elm's various lab assistants, and had seen them look things up online for research regularly!), but it didn't seem like the search had been fruitful.]</sub>

"Bone?"

<sub>[Wrath cracks open one eye, grimacing-- his partner has started to rummage through the backpack, pulling out packets of trailmix and holding them up expectantly.]

[But he doesn't feel hungry-- he feels gross. :(]</sub>

You can have it...

<sub>[He's just gonna fold an arm over his face and lay there like a corpse for a bit.]




[IDIOT DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HE'S JUST DEHYDRATED.]</sub>

Comments

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

[It's the misspellings that get Envy to pause. That and the word 'human'. It's nostalgic, sort of. He doesn't draw any conclusions, after all he remembers a time when hordes of people showed up who used to be horses, but he does figure he can toss a response in the ring.]

if it hurts because you hit it really hard, death is an option for humans.

what did you do to it?

[anon text] types angrily with his hoofs

[garbagechild]

_{[If he weren't feeling so gross, he'd have been more annoyed at the implication that he did something to his head. He's been SURPRISINGLY gentle to it since arriving, especially for someone who wanted to die!]}

nothyng!

i didnt do anething to it!

it just hurts

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

okay okay!

well you're probably missing something then, humans need way too much stuff or they fall apart

what haven't you done in the last 12 hours

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

_{[It does not come through via text, of course, but Wrath actually lets out chuff that's almost an 'I'll say' laugh. He remembers that much.]}

i hav done nothyng but walk syns i arryvd

what i did befor i got here is inconsy

inconsykwne

incnsyskenshl





it dosent mater

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

[Likewise, Envy snickers at the repeated spelling attempts of 'inconsequential'.]

oh you're REALLY new huh

I don't know how much you did before but humans need to drink A LOT of water

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

yea

_{[Typing that he'd been here once before feels simultaneously like more effort than it was worth and also... imposing. So he doesn't.]}

i supose i havent done that

but

i dont feel very thurste

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

that's because the thirst moved to your brain already

[Is this even remotely true probably not he has no idea!! He knows he's right about the water and that's what matters!]

you don't have much time

you need to drink water before it shrivels down into a raisin

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

_[WHAT?]

that cant happen thats not real

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

do you really wanna risk raisin brain though?

who's been human lon

[Hm, what an odd place to stop typing!]

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[No, he genuinely does not want to risk raisin brain. :(]

[However, he has to squint at the cut-off sentence. His own writing and reading skills are too rough to really glean that this is a word only halfway-typed... but he doesn't know what 'human lon' means.]</sub>

i wil drynk water if i can find it but i donot thynk my brayn wil be a raisin eyther way

what is a human lon

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

[Wrath will have to wait a little while for Envy to be done getting a talking to. Leave it to too serious roommates to take all the fun out of things!!]

That was supposed to say "longer". just find the water as soon as you can and you won't need to worry about turning into a raisin

I do have a question though. Are you a child or a car?

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[A child or... a car?]

[The question catches Wrath completely off-guard and he stares at it for a moment before replying.]</sub>

????

i am neyther??

_{[He doesn't really consider himself a child anymore. He's wrong, but who's gonna tell him?]}

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

[OKAY, SO CLEARLY THIS IS A HORSE. TAKE THAT SCAR.]

just curious. I've met people who used to be cars before.

oh yeah, for food there should be stuff in your bag. DON'T eat berries from the woods.

the pokemon will eat them but DO NOT eat them yourself

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

thats stopid pepl canot b cars

aneways i wasent going to eat the berrys

<sub>[He remembers... that much.]

[But also, he's not even hungry. He's forced down some granola... but it had FAILED to instantly cure his headache, so now he's all disgruntled about it.]</sub>

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

sure it SOUNDS stupid but people can definitely be cars in some worlds

or maybe they were robots that could turn into cars. either way people can be all kinds of weird stuff here

[anon text]

[garbagechild]

cars r mashyns tho they canot thynk

...

oh.

_{[Robots that turned INTO cars... that's completely different. Okay, mystery misinformation man, he'll give you that one.]}