Adventure Thread - Group A

"Wow," Eric says, concerned about the desert simulation. "Basic for me, please."

"You may make any Challenge once per day, yes. If you lose in the Advanced Challenge, you may, of course, return the following day for a Basic Challenge. Although you will have to brave the Sandstorm Path every single time. You understand, I'm sure. We can start with whoever is ready first."

(Eric said he would be AFK all day today, so if you choose to start your challenge now, we can begin right away.)

Eric nods to Vincent in thanks. "Sure, sure," he says quickly, glad to be going second.

It took some time for Lia to make it this far. Having to trek most of the way from her former stomping grounds in Johto to Pallet Town. She figured she was in for quite a dull start when the half-awake Blue just popped in a movie like some two-bit sub in school.

That is... until she saw exactly what they were being shown. Although the others (Who all were in their own groups of friends who she ditched as they were more interested in scouring the first route for some starter pokemon and training) were half-paying attention, Lia's eyes were practically sparkling. A girl who wanted to have trainer and pokemon fight together? Lia already 'wanted' that! And after that whole thing, she wanted nothing more than to knock Lilith off of her pretty little throne.

She practically ran out of Pallet, and through Viridian, to get to Pewter and the first Gym. There'd be time for more pokemon and such later. She was itchin for a fight!

As she approached the Gym, she finally let Scier out of her pokeball. The Chingling was released, immediately chiming quite loudly about being in the ball for so long. Lia gave a sheepish smile to her starter.

"Hey look Scier, I know you don't like it in there for long. And your my lady, you know that."

The pokemon jingles in response.

"But let's face it, you ain't fast. I ran here like a Zubat out of Giratina's realm! Your feet don't even work to make you faster. You just float forward."

The little pokemon fumes a bit, determined to show her master otherwise. She levitates forward, using her little legs to kick forward, as fast as she can. But to no avail. Lia starts giving a snorting laughter at her pokemon. She quickly wraps the little bell in a big hug.

"Scier, promise me you'll never change, ok?"

The little pokemon, despite being laughed at, knows Lia well enough to know the true intent behind her actions. Her trainer never would show any ill toward her. She finally accepts the big hug, showing a smile. This moment doesn't last, as Lia shakes Scier a bit to get her attention.

"Hey, look. You see what I see?"

The Chingling looked forward, seeing a young man in dark clothing exit the gym, with a bunch of pokeballs on his belt. He looked about as tough as Lia did, although maybe trade punch-ready with jump-ready. And there was a 'hint' of accomplishment to be seen.

"I think we found someone who knows what they are doing. Back me up here."

Lia lets go of Scier to float next to her, and heads over to the man, giving him a casual tap on his arm. If he looks, he'd see a red-haired young woman, just a bit under his height, wearing a nearly-loose fitting button up shirt and black pants looking at him. [Lich Note: Profile picture probably does a better job than I can ] If he was perceptive, he'd notice the muscle hidden under the clothing.

"So, you ain't crying like a hatchling heading out of the gym, there. So I'd take a wild guess and assume you did well? You got any tips for a nice lady like me, eh?"

"So it 'is' true then? That all the new Gym Leaders here gotta put up a fight if asked?"

Lia cracks her knuckles in anticipation.

"Sandstorm is news though. Not a fan of sand but I'll deal."

She heads past him, giving him a couple of hard slaps on the shoulder.

"See? I knew ya could be helpful."

Lia makes it to the door, before turning back.

"For formalities sake, name's Lia. Lia Regal."

Vincent, having been drawn out of his thought by the young woman made a snap decision and decided he should hang around town a little longer. It definitely wasn't for the chance to see if that girl made it through the challenge or not. At least, that's what Vincent told himself.

Eager to leave potentially embarrassing thoughts behind, Vincent did some shopping and then walked out into Route 2 again. He was thinking of catching some more Pokemon there, but he also wanted to see if he couldn't find any items left behind by someone. After that he could either check out Route 3 and look for items and try to catch some Pokemon there. Or he could just go back into the city and spend the rest of the day in the Pokemon Center. Or perhaps he could look for a Trainer or two to battle, he hadn't done that in any city yet. Remembering how woefully unprepared he'd been for that battle in the Forest, Vincent made a note to try and get more practice battling Trainers. Maybe he should do all three of the above things, although perhaps not in that order.

Eager to get started, Vincent left for Route 2. (Does it matter that he already searched there once? I can't remember whether you said something about that.)

Item Roll Route 2: UvqBQFPH1d20

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(Oh ok that's fair, I'll remove the item I got then, and assume Vincent found nothing)

Having acquired another Pokemon but not having found any items, Vincent debated searching for more on this route, keeping in mind that the number of wild Pokemon seemed to decrease after catching around two of them and decided to going to the next Route. Since he passed through town to get to Route 3, he made a quick stop at the Pokemon Center, where he healed got his new Buneary healed.

Now he had an issue and that issue was having too many Pokemon. Ever since he got Vex the Cacnea, he'd been sitting on seven owned Pokemon and he'd just kept the extra in his backpack. He wasn't sure that was entirely legal and so although he hated it, he finally called up his Ranch. He'd made an agreement with his father to let any Pokemon that he caught roam around in an area of the forest and fields around the Roth mansion. They would also be taken care of by a professional Pokemon Care expert. They should receive the freedom of living in the wild and the luxury of being taken care of all at one. The best of both worlds so to say. Since making the area a Ranch basically meant giving it up to the government, Vincent was expected to buy full ownership of it eventually on his journey. It was a good deal, Vincent just hated the idea of depending on his family for anything. He was planning on moving his Ranch to a new location in Kanto eventually. It would be the building blocks of an official gym. That would wait until he was done with the Elite Four and the Champion though.

Being done with his call, in which he let the Pokemon Care professional know to be ready to receive Pokemon, Vincent decided to send back the Rotom, Fara and the Buneary which was yet unnamed. A few button presses on his Pokedex and he was done.

With that business finished, Vincent headed out towards Route 3, wondering what kind of Pokemon he would meet next.
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