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Part 5: They Fight Crime


I named my new friend "Lady". I'm a kid, okay? I couldn't think of anything else 

Now, Lady was much weaker than Champ, and needed to get stronger. I asked Birch for advice, and he suggested letting her out to fight first. If she won the fight, great. If she got into trouble, I could switch her out for Champ, and they'd both gain experience. Seems like a nifty idea to me!

The wild Omanyte on Route 101 turned out to be ideal for this, as it would often take both Lady and Champ's best efforts to bring one down, and all the exercise made them both stronger. Sadly, they seemed to be pretty rare around here.
The devil foxes on the other hand? Those things were mean, especially since poor Lady was weak to their ember attacks. Then I'd have to bring in Champ, and he'd usually end up burned. I apologized each time it happened, but he seemed to shrug it off. The little guy actually seemed to enjoy the challenges, and Lady was quickly learning to emulate him.


Anyway, once Lady was looking nearly as tough as Champ, I decided that it was time to leave Route 101. I couldn't catch anything there anyway, and there was a whole world filled with strange new Pokemon to explore! I decided to check out Route 103 instead.


This cute little thing jumped on me as soon as I stepped into the grass of Route 103. She's a brave one, alright. I had to catch it!


It critted on it's very first hit on Champ. That's pretty damn impressive.





It was at this point I threw the Pokeball, and it worked! Nidoran is mine!



So after I run back to the Pokemon Center to heal up Champ, what should I name her?


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As an OOC note here, I'd appreciate it if people could post general-purpose or specific names here in the thread ahead of time, so I don't have to cut each update short as soon as I make a catch

Quote from: MaximumZero on February 04, 2013, 12:16:55 pm

Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on February 04, 2013, 03:06:12 am

Quote from: penguinofhonor on February 04, 2013, 01:25:41 am

YOLO.

I look both ways before crossing the street. YOLO!

You Obstinately Lick Orphans?

Why do "teens" (ugh at saying that) use YOLO as a justification for doing things that may very well end thier single shot at life?

Cause teens are idiots?

Quote from: Sirus on February 04, 2013, 11:15:13 am

Quote from: fqllve on February 04, 2013, 05:13:34 am

Ok so in this book there is a rogue planet about to come close to several stars for about 50 years. The people of the galaxy then spend nearly a century terraforming it and building cities and by the time they finished it was already moving away from the stars.

Apparently George R R Martin thought this was a plausible premise???

First off, how old is it? The older the sci-fi, the pulpier it tends to be.

Also, not all sci-fi is hard-core no-physics-breaking-ever stuff. I actually tend to enjoy the sillier stuff.

I don't think it's the science that's the issue.
It's that people aren't so stupid as to invest so much into something that'll disappear.

Hell, I'd probably sign up. A wandering colony of various intelligent species traveling to new solar systems and seeing new sights? That's something out of a myth or fairy tail right there.

Quote from: lordcooper on February 04, 2013, 10:03:08 am

Quote from: Owlbread on February 04, 2013, 09:49:06 am

But why call the game that only involves feet "soccer" and call the game that involves transporting an oddly shaped object across a pitch filled with large armour plated men that want to knock you over "football"? Not that I'm belittling american football of course; it's an exciting game and I really enjoyed "Any Given Sunday".

No, I mean we should call American 'Football' Soccer instead.

I second this motion!

But we already have soccer! It's that game where you run around kicking a ball through a goal. Oh, and it seems to cause massive riots whenever it's played in Europe and South America

Scriblenaught?

That's a good choice. Half the fun is coming up with ever-more creative ways to solve the puzzles.