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August Test Drive Meme
Test Drive Meme #4Whether you plan to app or not, anyone is welcome to use this meme as a way to try out the setting, test out a character for future app cycles, or just for fun. You may also borrow ideas from this meme’s prompts for use in the main game.
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Scenario A: Bite Here, Bite Now
"Food" is still a loose concept, as anything one can take fit in their mouth and swallow is considered close enough to count. While people can differentiate between things that should and shouldn't be eaten, the wildlife does not hold such views. Though at first they seemed to prefer whatever objects people deemed edible, they’ve now begun to experiment with some interesting alternatives.
Rocks, dirt, glass, tree trunks, corners of buildings, beach trash, chair legs, books, clothing, jewellery, prized possessions, the kitchen sink - there doesn't seem to be anything an animal won't try to eat at least once, and bite marks are quickly becoming a common sight in the most bizarre of places. You may even head home and find one of the red toothless dragons hanging off of a doorknob, trying its best. If an animal can get to it and fit its mouth around it, chances are it will try to eat it.
While the creatures can be coaxed and trained off of these behaviors, it's no small feat. And along the way, they might even find something else more appetizing than what you're trying to offer them. If you lose something important, hopefully it’ll still be intact when you finally fish it back out of them.
Scenario B: Blowing Hot and Cold
Random snowstorms are still a common sight, carried by powerful winds from the peak of Mount Silver to the furthest reaches of the known world. The snow never seems to stay on the ground for long, but it brings with it a frigid chill that could drive anyone back to the relative safety of indoors. A storm can last seconds or hours - not that it's easy to tell the difference - so it can be quite troublesome if you're not prepared for it.
Recently, a new type of "weather" has emerged. Fire has many uses, and it can be made quite easily by anyone... perhaps a little too easily. Most of the time, a strong breeze will blow out a growing flame, but occasionally something different will happen: the wind itself will catch on fire, carrying those flames far and wide in the blink of an eye. Within moments any place can be turned into a raging wildfire, blindingly bright and hellishly warm.
The flames will burn themselves out eventually, leaving everything coated in soot, but unharmed. It’s a good thing that fire doesn’t actually hurt yet or everyone might be in trouble! That may not be a comfort for everyone, though, especially if you're stuck cleaning up the mess. Sometimes it might take a little too long for the fire to die down on its own, too. If the wind won't do it, water is the way to go.
Scenario C: Long Distance
Distance and sound are not mutually exclusive just yet, and they both seem to be a bit out of whack at the moment. No matter how much you walk toward another person, you can't seem to close the distance between the two of you, as if you're on some sort of invisible treadmill. When you speak, however, it sounds like whoever you're speaking to is standing right beside you. Distance doesn't seem to be an issue if you're looking to converse.
However, this means you can hear others who are even farther away just as clearly. Someone on the beach might be able to hear another muttering to him or herself as they scale Mount Silver. Like dialing a random phone number, you now have to speak to a mysterious voice to figure out who it belongs to. Hopefully you weren't just muttering a deep, dark secret.
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Leon turns to look at Blue when he hears the uproarious laughter, his brows furrowing with his hands balled into fists at his sides. It's enough that he's lost his hat- something more important than Blue here seems to get, clearly- but he's very obviously being provoked over it too, in some way.
Well, Leon isn't one to back down from a challenge, just as much as he isn't one to immediately have a rise gotten out of him, either. Now Charizard, on the other hand...he's snarling at that comment, baring his fangs until Leon reaches a hand out in front of him. Easy.]
He hasn't been able to use any of his moves here. [Leon states calmly, as much as it's hard to be calm when his hat is still being chewed on.] Which shouldn't be possible.
[It IS possible for them to lose power to moves for a time, but he'd not recently been in any battles. If anything, Charizard should be at 100% after a recent trip from the Pokemon Center...]
And what of you, then? You and your partner must be a lot more capable than we are, if you've got that to say about all this.
[Are you going to show him, Blue?]
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Sounds about right. We're all in that boat so far, [Blue agrees, unbothered by the Charizard's aggression. He raises a hand to his chin.] Pokéballs don't work either, in both directions; whatever partner Pokémon is out, is out.
Kind of a funky place, isn't it? Wherever this is.
[Anyway, meanwhile, the Pidgey is still gnawing at that hat.... Blue remembers eventually with Leon's challenge thrown back at him, and Blue and Eevee exchange a glance, part confidence and part amusement, before the little guy hops down from Blue's shoulder.]
I guess a big Pokémon like Charizard's not all that agile until he's up in the air, huh? Alright, since I'm such a nice guy, me and 'vee will give you a freebie.
[If he even needed Eevee for this. Blue had struck up a real camaraderie with the Pidgey in this place, especially the ones that roosted in the low mountain areas around Heavenly Blanc and Mt. Silver- after all, he was a veteran Pidgey trainer. Waving Leon off a little, he takes a few steps closer to the Pidgey... and then slowly sits, low to the ground nearby, still a safe yard or two away from it where he won't spook the cautious, but ravenous little bird.]
Heheh. Hey little guy, that old thing can't taste very good, can it? [Blue digs around in his bag; he'd been drying mushroom jerky strips as treats for Pokémon and people all month, seasoned with all sorts of delicious flavors- this time he picks out a sesame-seed coated one, and leaves a couple in a neat circle between them.]
[All the while, Eevee stalks, tiny body pressed low to the ground in the high grasses; biding his time for a moment where he can dart out and snatch the hat from the Pidgey's beak.]
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So he watches in curious silence as he and his partner work together to try and get his cap back from the Pidgey who- at the moment- is still staunchly trying to figure out a way to bite clean through the hat's brim. It doesn't taste like much though, so it's not very appealing for sure...so when Blue brings over actual food, the rabbit-bird-cat seems a bit more inclined to pay attention to what he has. His head tilts from one side to the other as he hops from the stone, hat still in his beak as he pads a little closer to the circle...
Since he can't eat those and keep the hat at the same time, the Pidgey drops the hat in exchange for snapping up the jerky strips in his beak, leaving the opening that Blue was looking for.]
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[Even if the Pidgey had refused to give the hat up, Eevee would have been in prime position to Thief it away anyway; fortunately, no feathers need be ruffled. When the Pidgey pads over to munch, Blue grins a little fondly to himself as he watches it, Eevee darting quick as a Linoone in the grass to snatch the hat and leap up to Blue's shoulder again; his bushy tail twitches as he glances back to Leon with the hat still in his little jaws; he drops it into Blue's hand, who turns it over to look at it as he stands.]
This old thing? [He muses, raising a skeptical brow.] ...I'll never get you hat fanatics.
[He flips it towards Leon again with a flick of his wrist, before kneeling to give the Pidgey some good headrubs to the soft feathers at the top of his head as he eats.]
These Pidgey have heavier bodies than Kantonian ones, so it takes them a tad longer to get up in the air- they need a bit of a running takeoff, like Pidgeot do. A little guy like Eevee coulda beaten it out easy, if it didn't suspect anything.
[Eyes shutting for a moment to muse to himself, he thinks of his most typical gramps advice impression, here.] 'Try staking out wild Pokémon in the field sometime to learn their natural behaviors!' [Hmm, something like that.] Well, everyone lets their guard down once in a while, I guess, no shame in it!
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His hand snaps out to catch the hat deftly by the brim as it's tossed his way, taking just a moment to look it over and feel for any damage before he puts it back on his head.]
I like to consider it as sort of a lucky charm. It's been with me for every Champion battle I've had over the last couple years. Hasn't steered me wrong yet.
[Charizard snorts, but Leon placates him by petting his neck.]
I'll tell you, these Pidgey aren't exactly like anything we have in Galar. I'd ask if it's a regional variant, but...it'd have to be a pretty big variant for it to have suddenly sprouted paws, now wouldn't it?
[Maybe it's an evolution? Galarian Zigzagoon acquire massive, bipedal forms when they evolve into Obstagoon after all, which is completely different from what they're like in Hoenn.]
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[...Anyway, while Blue is busy stewing in his triggered rival feel, Leon is busy being distracted by these cool new Pidgey, because of course he is. Blue sets aside his suspicion and annoyance for the moment.]
Beats me. I've seen some pretty big form differences in the Alola region- you ever seen an Alolan Exeggutor? [Blue holds his hands out wide, vertically.] Their necks go waaaay up into the sky, and they got tails that keep watch from the back, since their heads got a big view overhead! ...I guess a tree's a tree, but they look super different from my Exeggutor, all things considered.
Whatever region these Pidgey are from, they definitely got some real habitat adaptations... My suspicion's that they must live in mountains somewhere; with those big paws, they seem to have an easy time climbing Mt. Silver, here.
[Blue indicates towards the mountain towering high above them.] ...You're not actually in Kanto, by the way. Even though it might seem like it, with yours truly gracing your presence. Wherever this place is, it's just a bunch of imitation.
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Not Kanto, not Alola, not Galar...
[Raihan's hands go to his hips as he leans back on his heels slightly, looking up at the sky. Charizard makes a questioning sound at his trainer that goes unheard for a moment as he exhales, then turns back to Blue.]
Kindof a shame this isn't Alola, really. I wager I could use a break! It'd be a treat to get to see all of the Pokemon on those islands in person, too.
[Charizard huffs. And here he thought Leon had something profound on his mind but NAHH.]
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[Blue jokingly cracks, and watches Leon have his moment. Probably, he was just taking in that same disbelief they all did when they randomly showed up in this place, right?]
[...It's kind of weird actually, Blue thinks. This guy must have only just appeared here, right? That could happen?? More people from home could just... show up here??? He muses on that for a moment before Leon laments. Sheesh, that's all he's worried about?]
Ahhhh, if it was Alola, I'd be in the right place! [Blue perches his hands on his hips.] Well I'll tell you what, Mr. Galar Champ. You ever have time to get yourself to Alola, hit up the Battle Tree. I'll give you a battle you won't forget!
[And then we'll see who's the prideful one!!]
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[Leon's got that spark in his eyes already...even if he's at least aware by now that battling here can't happen. It's a shame, really. He'd love to see how Blue's Eevee could match up against his Charizard.]
Is that your way of telling me you're the champ over there?
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Me? Heh. No dice! [Blue waves dismissively, a little playfully.] Ah, but the Alolan Champ is a kid from Kanto, so I guess you might as well call us the same breed, huh?
Nah, I'm a champ of the Kanto region, itself! The name's Blue. [He gives a little two-fingered salute.] Blue Oak!
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[Charizard seems less immediately enthused to do that, but Leon is- of course- a cheerful, easygoing guy who doesn't really care. He's honestly dealt with far worse, coming from Poke-Britain.]
I'm Leon, and this here's my partner Charizard. I'd let you meet the rest of my team, but...
[He reaches to his hip, tapping the middle of one of his pokeballs to absolutely no effect.]
Well, we already went over that.