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firstnothingA day ago, Xemnas finally arrived in Cherrygrove City, in the rain, at night. There had been a battle or three or four on the way, his pokemon's eagerness to prove herself meaning she was more than happy to confront wild critters, and his efforts to teach her to use her teeth and sharp little hooves instead of just bodily running her opponent over didn't work very well.
Such is life.
With evening well settled in, he chose the beach as a place to spend the night in lieu of dealing with an inn. The steady rain could have made this less than enjoyable, but the coats he'd selected for all of the Organization were thoroughly waterproof and comfortably warm. Watching the water was an old and familiar habit.
Less of a habit is falling asleep outside.
Morning breaks as soggy as night had fallen, a steady rain doing little to actually stir him awake. What did, was the oppressive weight holding him down, and the occasional twitch of something moving. That startles him wide awake, careful to not move and possibly alert whatever had chosen to attack him - or in this case, as observation noted quickly, what had chosen to sleep on him.
A small array of odd looking anthropods lay obviously sleeping all over his person, perhaps lured by simple body heat, some tucked against others. They weren't big enough to strike him as dangerous, and the claws ... mandibles, whatever they were, while sharp didn't seem likely to get through his coat. Xemnas shifts slowly, pushing one off to the side. It startles awake almost instantly, and just as quickly reattaches itself, its small eyes wide. One waking stirs the others awake quickly, all regarding their impromptu heat rock with wide, wide eyes. But not a single anorith actually lets go.
"Get off me, insolent creatures!"
Where careful pushing failed, angry thrashing seems to work amazingly well, sending the displaced fossil pokemon scattering in all directions ... and not entirely under their own power in the doing. Dignity battered but not broken, the ex-Superior of the Organization seethes for several long minutes before stalking towards the inn instead. If it means not getting covered in ... in sleeping animals, he'll pay their damned room fees!
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[He doesn't look annoyed but boy he is. He seems to be at an inn. And that is absolutely a blitzle happily jumping on the bed in the background, doing cheerful somersaults every few bounces. A pokemon egg, carefully nestled in what looks suspiciously like a long black leather coat, sits by the bed.
An aerodactyl glides past the window outside.]
Good evening, strangers and known individuals alike. It seems there's a bit of an infestation going on, as others have surely noticed. I wonder, has anyone set to catching these creatures yet?
[There's a moment's pause, and a faint frown.]
Another thought; I understand there are many here whom breed pokemon rather than battling them. I seek the expertise of one with experience in breeding and handling growlithes.
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Date: 2013-07-30 10:09 am (UTC)Breeding and raisin', huh? Well, I raised Moomba here. What do you want to know?
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Date: 2013-07-30 01:44 pm (UTC)Do they all grow that size? How trainable are they? I do not mean by way of battle alone. Are they obedient? Will there be handling difficulties, assuming I have very little experience in dealing with these creatures? [So many questions!] Will one in theory work well with a blitzle and ... deerling? Or will it see them as prey?
[video] I am so sorry for the delay!
Date: 2013-08-04 02:00 pm (UTC)Are you interested in one?
[Video] [It's okay!]
Date: 2013-08-04 06:46 pm (UTC)I have not owned one, but dogs do exist in my world, yes.
[Technically. Very technically. Xemnas remembered a dog being around for a short time in the bleached white halls, though how it got there or why he wasn't sure.]
I am. I have been told there might be some a week or two's walk from my current position, but rifling through wild pokemon in the hopes of finding one worth keeping seems.. mm. A waste.
[Besides, captive bred guarantees some things that wild-caught did not.]
However I did not see any listed in the breeding center, so acquiring one has proven difficult so far. I believe a growlithe will compliment my current pair of pokemon, by way of power and temperament.
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Date: 2013-07-30 05:03 pm (UTC)[Even though his is now a hyperactive Arcanine, who can be seen behind Ren in the video.]
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Date: 2013-07-30 08:43 pm (UTC)[Another amazingly oversized dog. Xemnas was going to have to shift his estimations of how much dogfood exactly he was going to have to be prepared with.]
...At what stage does a growlithe become its larger version?
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Date: 2013-07-30 08:55 pm (UTC)[Even if they might do mistakes, but that's pretty obvious so he doesn't say that.]
Growlithe needs an item called Fire Stone to evolve. Usually it's better to wait until they've learned all the useful moves before evolving them, though.
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Date: 2013-08-01 03:43 am (UTC)[His blitzle is still jumping on the bed. She's having a good time. Maybe he hadn't thought of the pokeball option.]
But if a growlithe's evolution can be controlled simply by not gaining the appropriate item, size shouldn't be an issue for quite a long time. I did not see any available in the breeding centre's advertisements.. I may have to be patient, or attempt to find a place where they live wild.
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Date: 2013-08-01 07:50 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I'm just a trainer with little experience on breeding, so I'm not of any help with that... but there should be wild ones near Goldenrod. At least I was able to catch mine from there.
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Date: 2013-08-02 04:20 am (UTC)Goldenrod City is some distance off still. I suppose I will have to get going if I intend to reach it in any reasonable timeframe. Are wild growlithe any different from captive-- ah. Trainer bred?
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Date: 2013-08-05 04:42 am (UTC)Indeed. I have discovered that my young deerling will likely have these bred-in skills, and with some luck perhaps a growlithe would as well. An automatic bonus over a wild-caught pokemon, one would assume.
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Date: 2013-08-09 06:51 pm (UTC)Aside from having to carry around an egg for some weeks, I wonder if there are any drawbacks. A pokemon of little experience might be troublesome to those more advanced in their training, but for one such as I, new to this place, it is no terrible burden.
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Date: 2013-08-12 06:24 am (UTC)Indeed. It is a new and unwanted experience. I have performed various 'jobs' in the past, but either for a master or as a master, and the exchange of funds was never required. The hiring list seems much less.. refined.
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Date: 2013-08-12 07:20 pm (UTC)I know how you feel. Before coming here, I had never worked "for real". So being a waiter at a café was a new experience... though you get used to it pretty quickly. It was just a matter of swallowing your pride, at least for me.
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Date: 2013-08-13 03:01 am (UTC)I suppose I'll find something I am suited to on the way. If nothing else, this world encourages travel.
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Date: 2013-08-19 11:54 pm (UTC)You can always try battling trainers and see how far that takes you. There are plenty of trainers on the routes.
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Date: 2013-08-20 12:02 am (UTC)Many of the trainers I have seen so far are rather ... young. There is no onus on setting your pokemon on a far weaker trainer and then taking their munny?
[Money, munny. Surely it's the same thing, but he seems terribly baffled.]
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:04 pm (UTC)There isn't. Though the trainers come in many age... some are elderly, even.
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:11 pm (UTC)[At least he seems to understand perfectly that it's his pokemon that need to do the fighting and he's not actually beating up the kids..]
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:15 pm (UTC)[Their reasons for arresting and reasons for not arresting are way beyond logical.]
Oh, and they do arrest people if they hurt Pokémon themselves... and other people, but it sometimes feels like Pokémon are more important.
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Date: 2013-07-30 10:16 pm (UTC)Breeding the little fuckers happens to be easier than you think.
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Date: 2013-07-30 10:57 pm (UTC)[Xemnas' tone never varies; he's maintaining a polite tone easily. He's curious, but not really interested in case studies.]
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