Part 24: Wherein Reddybear wins by doing absolutely nothing.
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You were expecting someone else?
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Better get to it quick, then. These dreams tend to last about as long as my attention span.
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…Wait, does this mean I’m dead? Or are you the agent of all spirits, living or dead? That might explain why these chats are so short.
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That is an incredibly potent curse. You would think Ninetales would be a legendary, with that kind of power.
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She seems to be taking it quite well.
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The first answer that comes to mind is Stockholm Syndrome…
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It sounds like more than “quirks,” to me, personally. Especially given what one of those “quirks” resulted in.
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…Lass, has it really escaped you that such was a request to elaborate on what your role is?
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And then, the screen begins to shake.
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Nature itself does not want me to figure things out the easy way, apparently.
The next morning…
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Gardevoir: You have… come here to perform a certain role… And for that role… you became a Pokémon.
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The protagonist role, clearly.
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Why is that conspicuous line break there?
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Was the entrance locked behind them, or something?
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: Uh… Um…
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I am not your commanding officer, good sir.
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If you want us, specifically, to tackle it, why not just mail it to us?
…Oh, right.
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Ve is a Pokémon, so this should be justified in theory, but I am able to tell what everyone else in this world is saying just fine, so apparently, this particular Pokémon actually just goes around saying vis name over and over again.
That said, I have read that the original name in Japanese translated to “that’s the way it is,” and I have read speculation that this might have been a translation error, especially since there is a Wobbuffet that instead repeats “That’s right!” in a later installment. However, I do not believe that, because neither “That’s right!!!” nor “That’s the way it is!!!” is a proper follow-up to “Please look at it for me. Please, please.”
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Wobbuffet to you, too, good sir.
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They just told us.
Well, okay, Wynaut told us.
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*sigh*
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Cherithe, ace detective!
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Wynaut doesn’t have hands. Depending on how you define “hands”, neither does Wobbuffet.
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Knowing our luck, they want us to deliver a Gold Gummi to them.
Anyway, off to town!
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Given everyone’s reaction when he and his team first appeared, I’m not sure that him being present in the square is very common to begin with.
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Remember kids: Always sleep with a lifeguard present!
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I had a joke lined up about how it doesn’t make sense for it to be so easy to spray silk that it can happen involuntarily because Caterpie could theoretically forget String Shot, but as it turns out, in this generation, the only way Caterpie could learn more moves without evolving is via hacking. You win this round, game.
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I’m still surprised you can take steps at all.
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Heck, I could’ve told you that, simply by virtue of pattern recognition.
In any case, time to go look at that mission!
Those question marks bode ill…
I know I said before that I would not take story missions yet, but this is a C-rank mission. To give perspective, missions taking place in the more recent dungeons (such as, say, Lapis Cave) are at difficulty rank B. So, overall, I think this mission should be relatively safe, a breather after all the hectic battling to find the truth.
…I’m going to eat those words, aren’t I?
They could have come up with a less unfortunate mission name.
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Well, being the only one put up by a client named “Wynaut”…
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Saying that they’re “going wild” does not help the whole unfortunate-mission-name thing.
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Thank you for contributing.
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The place where the Mankey Gang is wreaking havoc on others… The Uproar Forest is now open for exploration!
That is to say, near me.
Anyway, time for some shopping!
Hm… Tempting, but no. A Pecha Scarf or Power Band appeal more to me. I will, however, spring for those shiny thorns!
I imagine I may regret this choice, given all the burns, but nonetheless, I shan’t shy away from it. Best to get Reddybear a fair bit of training, in preparation for the plot!
…Lovely.
That said, I have, in fact, learned from the last time I fought them. Their ability that burns whoever attacks them seems to only trigger upon contact moves. So, using throwing weapons against them instead should significantly reduce the odds of a burn occurring.
…Reddybear has 43 HP.
To be fair, this training dungeon has had a decent variety of foes. All three of these (even if only these three) have appeared before now.
Apparently, “Keep Your Distance”, in boss fights, translates to “Stand There Doing Nothing”.
It seems to be working out well enough for him, though.
Doing some between-dungeon shopping. I will definitely want to go and get some money to spend on at least one of these Heal Seeds. Inventory space is a valuable thing, and it can be difficult, therefore, to be prepared for anything.
Remember back before I inadvertently went back in time (or after, or in-between, or… my head hurts, why is time travel so confusing?), when I decided Return sounded like a great idea? Weeeell… turns out I may have been slightly mistaken. The thing is, Return scales by IQ. A neat mechanic, but the problem is, it scales very slowly and caps fairly low.
IQ has a max value of 990. At 700 IQ, it reaches its cap of 45. To put that in perspective, the archetypical “throw-away first move” of a Pokémon, Tackle, has a power of 35 (this game was released before Tackle was boosted to 50). So, this is, in fact, better than Tackle. However, Bite has a power of 60 (and that’s not even getting into the 50% power boost provided by Same Type Attack Bonus), which blows a full-power Return out of the water. I have Self-Curer, but not Quick Dodger, so my IQ value is somewhere in the 70-99 range, meaning that, right now, Return would have a whopping 10 power. Wee…
I just recently got done nearly freezing to death, so this ought be pleasant…
This is bittersweet. I really do need the levels. I mean, I am the leader and get most of the incoming blows, which I am really not very well-equipped to take. At the same time, though, Reddybear needs to hurry up and level up, dagnabbit!
I hit triple-digits, woo!
In any case, one trip for more throwables later, it is time to head off to the plot!
…In the next part, that is.
When I was originally posting this on DeviantArt and the like, this part and the next part were all in part 24. However, I’ve decided that this time around, I should break parts that were originally huge into more manageable chunks.