Adventure Thread - Group A

Floyd stands up slowly, frowning at the hyperactive girl. Alisa shys at the attention and backs away at the same time.

"Yes, Alisa is an Automateon. Please give her some space."

He says carefully to her.

Once the stranger backs away Alisa jumps back up onto Floyd's shoulder and makes herself comfortable, conveniently avoiding the strange pokemon. Floyd tilts his head at the girl's questions and waits for her to finish before responding.

"The appearances of the eveelutions isn't very consistent beyond them retaining the same quadrupedal body shape.
Espeon and Umbren have no collar at all. Her skin is entirely metal like many steel types.
She doesn't really enjoy coming into contact with strangers so no you can't touch her.
Clearly my opinion can't prevent you from asking questions, so go ahead.
Her diet is mostly the same, but some raw ore needs to be mixed in to maintain integerity of her skin.
She learns many moves, particularly steel ones.
I have no idea what you mean.
We delved into the darkest depths of Mt Moon to vanquish the beasts within.
Yes you are.
I was intending to remain in Cerulean for the next few days. What do you mean contact information?"
Floyd says, answering each question in turn while keeping his eyes on the strange new pokemon.

After wandering around a bit with Kaeda, Lia finally spots Floyd... with a girl bugging him. Hmmm. Lia taps Kaeda on the shoulder and motions to the two of them before heading over herself, and putting an arm on Floyd's free shoulder.

"Sup Floyd, we were looking for ya."

Lia looks to Eve and scans her up and down like she's trying to assess a threat. She motions to her while looking back at Floyd.

"The kid bothering you, Floyd?"

Meanwhile Scier has been fruitfully pulling on strands of the back of Lia's hair, trying to get her to not engage in another confrontation with every new person she meets. Although the Chimecho doesn't really have the body strength to do much of anything, eventually stopping to pout.

Floyd resists the urge to sigh, remembering how stilted his first conversations in Kanto had been. He blinks when the girl pulls out a notebook.

Does she have a guide to good conversation or something? Actually that'd be pretty useful.
He thinks incredulously. He snaps back to reality as the girl starts talking again.

"Right my phone. That's a thing I have."

He says, pulling out the almost untouched device, looking down at it with mild surprise. He glances at Alisa and resolves to fix the mix of apprehension, shyness and excitement he could see in her in a moment.

"I guess you can have my number and stick around for a bit. And you need to make up your mind - either socialise or go back into the ball. "

He says, switching his attention to Alisa halfway through. When she puts at him he picks her up and looks her in the eyes for a few seconds before placing her next to the obviously poison-typed fox and looking back at the stranger.

Alisa gazes at her counterpart and gives a soft cry that sounds like a blade being honed before stepping forwards to sniff at the pokemon.

Before Floyd can speak again Lia and Kaeda arrive and he welcomes them with a warm smile.

"Hey guys. This is a girl who fell over and her dtrange pokemon. Fell over girl, this is Lia and Kaeda."

He says, waving between them before realising he'd also been rude.

"And I'm Floyd. And no she isn't bothering me."

He adds to the stranger and Lia.

"Dude, she could be literally slapping you in the face and you'd sit there stone-faced like nothing happened, but... fine."

Lia listens to Eve before staring her at a moment, and then finally shaking her hand.

"Lia Regal. And I ain't charming. But I'll leave the decision to Floyd. I don't mind hanger-ons, but its the dude you are bothering so it's up to him."

"You really think I'd let someone attack me with no response?"

Floyd asks Lia, mildly insulted by the insinuation.

"And if you're really worried about Lia's opinion of you, just fight her a few times. She tends to get cheerful once she's had the chance to punch you in the face."

He says to Eve.

Lia looks at Floyd and scoffs. 

"Yeah I do think you would if the person slapped you for a non battle reason. Look at this little one."

Lia moves around and slaps both hands on Eve's shoulders.

"This one that just admitted she isn't good at battling gets pissed off and slaps you for whatever reason.
Which the not good at battling is a problem, are you trying to do the league?"

Lia turns back to Floyd.

"Anyway, this tiny one slaps you. It probably wouldn't hurt, but are you saying you'd respond with battle?"

"Yes... slowly and painfully," Eve very honestly admitted her faults, "It took me an entire week to beat the Cerulean City gym because I overleveled Letty, my Floette." Just remembering that dark, dark time drained all the of the energy out of Eve's face. She quickly corrected this drop in mood, though, and with a smile, she added, "Oh! But I've cleared the Vermillion gym since then. It was a lot easier! Ahaha. I've started to just stay in the back and try to hit whatever I can from a distance... It seemed to work with the last gym. I just don't really know any better than that, so when they get close to me..." She left that up in the air so that the others could imagine the various types of pain Eve goes through if she doesn't keep her distance. In summary, "So yeah. Basically, the only strategy I know is to hit them with the biggest bang possible from as far away as possible as much as possible." Her tactics were clearly... lacking.

Oh. The Automateon was pushing in harder? Cera took that as permission for more cuddles, and as she just began to tip off balance, her body shifted into an amorphous form that moved onto Alisa's body and wrapped around the female Automateon. A satisified, "Krrrr," could be heard from the puddle draped around the Automateon.

Alisa almost falls over in surprise, but catches herself just in time. She immediately tries to shake off the goop covering her, clearly off put by the experience.

Floyd raises an eyebrow at Eve before turning to Kaeda.

"I'll accompany you to Saffron, but I won't be challenging the gym. My next badge will be the Toxic badge, though I am considering waiting until we've obtained our mega stones."