Victory Road!

Come Sunday, the Goldenrod City Pokecentre is the scene of a cheerful chaos. Moreso than usual, even! Trainers and luggage arrive all throughout the day, and are herded together by some of the cheerful Joy staff, while Lance and his E4 companions check everybody off on lists. Nobody is getting left behind on this trip (except the people who didn’t sign up.)

Once everybody is present--and the lists have been triple checked to ensure that’s the case--Lance calls attention to himself. By now it’s early evening.

“Hello everyone, I’m very glad to see you all here. According to my list, we’re all in attendance, so it’s time to start making our way towards Sinnoh. I’m sure some of you have been wondering how we’ll get there… rest assured that your questions will be answered in just a few moments.”

After that, he steps aside and gestures towards… the warp pad? Are we warping to Sinnoh? Is that something you can do?

There’s only one way to find out!

One by one, the characters and their luggage are herded onto the warp pad and transported to… an airport?

Yes, it is an airport. The sight of those gleaming hallways may be utterly alien to some, but those with some familiarity with air travel should be able to recognise it for what it is. Staff members are on standby already, cheerfully directing characters to leave their baggage on nearby trolleys.

Lance is the last one to arrive, and he immediately launches into an explanation, hoping to preempt the storm of questions.
“Allow me to explain. This is Johto regional airport. While most regions have warp systems to facilitate travel inside a particular region, when it comes to long distance travel between regions, we use airplanes. In the past, airports were built in high-population areas, but this led to a lot of disturbances that affected both people and Pokemon. The modern solution has been for regions to build new airports, away from human cities and Pokemon habits.The Johto Regional Airport happens to be built at sea.”

And no, don’t even bother asking him for its exact location. His expression tells you all you need to know about the likelihood of Lance telling you.

“But we shouldn’t dawdle. There is a plane waiting to take you all directly to the Sinnoh Regional Airport. Unfortunately, my fellow E4 members and I won’t be able to join you on your trip. However we hope that you will enjoy seeing more of this world... and perhaps in the future this can happen more often.”

He doesn’t say not to cause trouble, but please, for Lance’s sake: don’t cause any trouble.

After that, the airport staff take over, bustling everybody across the airport at a rapid pace and towards a waiting airplane. They explain that the trip will take some hours, but that by morning, characters should arrive in Sinnoh. Bags are loaded, characters are installed in their seats (no fighting for the window seat) and the customary safety debriefing is delivered by a stewardess Lopunny, indicating the exits here, here, and here with practised sweeps of her adorable paws.

The flight itself is of little note. Narratively, at least. It might be incredibly interesting to characters who have never flown before, but for those who have, it’s a rather boring, uneventful flight. And once they land in Sinnoh, the same scenes from their time in the Johto regional airport play out in reverse. Characters are herded off the plane by another crew of cheerful airport staff. Bags are retrieved and matched up with their owners once more (don’t worry, nobody’s bag went missing) and once that’s all done, it’s onto the warp pad again.

This time, when they materialise, characters find themselves standing in the Eterna City pokemon centre. It… doesn’t really look all that different from all the other Pokemon centres they’ve visited so far, but just outside its doors lies a new region waiting to be discovered. A woman in shorts and wearing a strange half-cape is waiting for them, throwing her arms open wide in cheerful greeting.

“Welcome to Sinnoh!”

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And with that, our Trip To Sinnoh plot is live. Gardenia will give your characters a short rundown of important sights and directions, as well as answer any questions they might have, before they are free to do whatever they want for the next two weeks.

Please feel free to post your own logs or network communications related to this trip in the victory_road comm. Good news: the network can still communicate with those that chose to stay behind in Kanto and Johto! Meanwhile, we (the mods) will utilise this post to put up any and all mini-events, and the comments on this post will be locked until those go live. If you need a refresher or have any questions about the event, please check out our OOC info post here, which is also where you can ask any other questions you might have.

We've also created the tag !Sinnohtrip, so feel free to tag your posts with that to make everything easy to find in the future.