Victory Road!

By midnight, everyone is asleep.

It doesn’t matter whether or not sleep would normally come to them at night, or whether sleep would come to them at all; sated with food, fun, and good company, each of the moon’s visitors finds themselves drifting off before the great game clock in the sky would tick over to May 30th.

And so every one of them misses the vast earth-shaking below.

In fact, as they wake the next morning one by one safe in bed, they might be excused for thinking perhaps nothing happened at all, that the entire thing--a dance party on the moon, for Arceus’ sake!--was nothing but a vivid, bewildering dream, if hopefully a pleasant one. But then--is this their bed? What if they were on the road; when did they get inside? How did they get here? Where are their friends? Your character (and all their Pokémon and belongings) may find themselves dropped off right where they left, somewhere at least familiar to them, or in a city they haven’t yet been to--but they are all in Johto. At least they’re indoors and unharmed, but geez.

Still, it doesn’t stop there. As soon as they step outside, they’ll notice some structural damage to NPC-owned buildings, though interestingly, all player-owned structures seem to be safe. And the NPCs whisper worriedly amongst themselves, and to anyone who will listen, about the tense behavior of wild Pokémon--they’re disturbed, upset, wandering into the outskirts of cities as if driven from their homes.

And then the news reports start rolling in.

Almost every route on the map is blocked or damaged in some way. Pokémon are running rampant in the forests. Our intrepid heroes might be stuck where you are for a while, guys--unless they take some action.

( Ohhhh snap guys, it’s about to go DOWN. )