timelymaid | first bubble; text.

this is rather odd!!
i had actually expected to be somewhere else
other than where i am currently i mean
dream bubble travel is not a precise science but i am usually much better at it
as in i normally go where i am meant to go!

although logically speaking if i am here i am meant to be here
it is just that i thought i was meant to be elsewhere
this isnt even a dream bubble

and while my new companion is very sweet i find that i am missing
everyone
since we were more or less all there just a little while ago
i am also missing my horns and my general biology
and i believe this woman is claiming to be my human lusus??
she is quite nice regardless of the fact i do not remember her
which i feel a little bad about so i pretended i did
and she gave me this!!!

i have not had to ask for directions in a very long time this is very nostalgic
so i hope i am doing this properly!!
if anyone can offer up more information that would be lovely :)

my companion and i will continue to get to know one another in the meantime!!
oh and this is aradia
megido
if that is important

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Yup! Customary rules of a trainer battle in Johto, loser coughs up the cash. Predictably, leaders give you more than your average youngster or bug catcher on the routes though.

That makes sense though! They are boss battles, aren't they?

Basically, yeah. I guess the Elite Four would be the true "bosses" in this sense, but for some reason or another we can't challenge them yet.

Even if you already have all the badges, I might add. Really not sure what's up with that.

The "Elite Four"? [ Obviously four of something elite, and probably trainers, but. Expand on that, please? ]

Do you have all the badges, then?

Yeah, the Elite Four. The four strongest trainers in the league. Like the gym leaders, they all specialize in a specific type. You can only challenge them after you have all eight badges. Though it might be all sixteen here, because of the two regions. Or at least under normal circumstances, since like I said, they don't seem to be accepting challenges right now.

Anyway, if you manage to defeat all of them then you get the chance to take on the Champion, who is basically the big kahuna super end game boss of Pokemon. And if you beat him then that makes you the Champion until somebody else comes along to try and knock you off your throne. At least, that's how I that would be the next, logical real world conclusion.

[Since there are multiple players involved here, after all!]

But not quite. I have all the Johto Badges, but only two of the eight Kanto badges so far.

Has anyone managed to get all sixteen yet? [ She's guessing not, due to the Elite Four speculation up there, but. Aradia looks pretty interested in all of this; world lore is important, okay! She doesn't really have any interest in challenging the Elite herself, but wondering why that's not a possibility it perfectly fine. ]

Have you ever met them or the Champion? [ Being Champion does not sound like a fun time. Not that she's not used to that aspect of gaming, but Aradia was always more into the adventure aspects of flarp, as she'd told Tavros. ]

Yes, actually. My friend Riku got all sixteen a while ago, but even he couldn't face the Elite Four yet. I kind of wonder if maybe they are waiting for more people to get all sixteen. Maybe things will work differently here than they did in the games. I haven't met any of them though, no. I don't think anyone has. I am not even sure who the champion is, to be honest. In the game, it was your rival but somehow I don't think that's how it will work here, especially since the whole point of the game was to beat him.

[Oh wait hold the phone. What if...]

Though I guess the champion could always be the main character from the game.

Well, if we're inside the game, that could be a possibility, couldn't it? Or at least we're in a world that has a game based off of it in your world. [ ...why are universes always so confusing. ] Although I guess the "rival" could be like the mother-lusus?

[Don't ask him, he just lives here. He has no idea.]

Well if there is a rival "character" here, so to speak, I have yet to come across him. Or hear of anyone else who has. But I would assume that the champion would initially be an npc type character. At least until one of us beats him.

Do the natives here seem to challenge the elite four?

[There's a long pause as John just kind of stares at the screen blankly.]

You know I...don't know.

[ ...Did she say something wrong? Aradia stares back, equally blank, until he talks. ]

...Do you not talk to them much, then?

[He just really wasn't expecting that question. Nobody's ever asked him anything like that before. Or like the question she just asked for that matter! Does anyone talk to the NPCs...]

Not really, no. I talk to the nurses, but that's kind of unavoidable since I work at the centers. And there's always the occasional banter before a battle with a random trainer on the routes but that's about it. And even then, I try to avoid too lengthy of conversations with route trainers. Since some of them can...be a little weird. Ask Sollux about Juggler Irwin sometime.

[ She's managed to stall both John and Rose so far with questions. That deserves an achievement badge of some sort. ]

Weird? [ She's not questioning the truth of that statement, but more that someone could be weird enough to weird them out. ...That just sounds ominous. ] I'll try to remember to ask him, though.

[Achievement unlocked: Boggle with Pokevets.]

Yeah, weird. Sometimes they sound kind of...scripted. You know, like they really are your typical video game NPC. And then there are some like Irwin and Youngster Joey that well...let's just say, if and when they ask you for your phone number? Don't give it to them.

[He is dead srs about this. You'll regret it forever, Aradia.]

Are they weirder than the other NPCs?

[ Should she like avoid them once she hears their names or what now. ]

Joey calls you constantly and appears to have no concept of what time it is or how fast it passes. Irwin may or may not have stalker tendencies.

Take that as you will as far as weirdness goes.

They don't sound like people I want in my phonebook. Thank you for the warning!

No problem, happy to help.

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