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[makeitquick]

[ CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: Five options:

( Of Note: Melaka has no reacted her first evolution. The visible changes acre actually fairly minor - her muscles are tighter and thicker, and her skin is tougher too. She's also got a thick natural leathery fingerless "glove" over her hand. Like how a lot of fighting types have biological "clothing?" same deal )

a) Melaka in Union Park! She's there, walking with Willow and the two babies, generally enjoying herself a little more. It's nice and bright out and... she's looking for Gunther. A little. But mostly it's just a nice walk and a nice picnic. Do you sit with her? Attract the attention to the cute babies? There are options here.

b) Towards Kurain Village! Melaka is en route there with Brownie. Brownie recently evolved and Melaka wanted to re-introduce Jinxie to him. That said, Brownie is a n overly violent idiot, and is trying to pick fights with everyone they can even begin to cross paths with along the way. Try to avoid this conflict, get caught up in it, try to make him more violent? Awkward.

c) Around town all over the place, Melaka is running her errands. This begins at Pokeco, but then quickly devolves into her looking around to see if she can find a better deal at smaller shops. In the course of these errands she is doing some parkour leaps and jumps to get around quicker, and Sneak is floating beside her. In the course of this, you might find Melaka consoling Sneak for the fact that she hasn't evolved and she shouldn't feel too bad for it sometimes people take longer. You also might run into Melaka despairing about her budget...

d) Which leads us to the final push: Melaka scouting out the Verdant Forest with Slugger and Lurks. She's not doing it super officially, but she is trying to map out a route which can allow people to safely travel between Union and the spot where Banzu is making that port. She hopes she can then get an expense pay for doing that, but it's mostly a side-job for now. Will you run into her? Will a swarm of pokemon descend on them and make things weird? Will they run into a randomly strong evolved pokemon? Who knows, you can join in.

e) The bonus round! There is no Melaka here, there is only Gunther. He's out and about and planning to live large in his newfound city life. Places to get drinks? People to impress? Small businesses he can create to get his hands on more candy? Maybe he can discover even more vices? Have adventures with him, either as a trainer or with your own character's pokemon! ]

Comments

[makeitquick]

[ She feels a little awkward to be called admirable. She even flushes a little, quickly dismissing it in favor of trying to be diligent. Which is why while she isn't trying to be a smartass, the next statement out of her mouth might come off as such: ] Got any suggestions for it? I'm all ears

[... Wait she should clarify- ] 'Cus I'd go a different route too. I'm going for one you can go through without having your own bonded, trained pokemon.

[merameranomi]

[Ace just smiles, he doesn't really find her to be anything but sweet really]

Sure thing, this path here [he points to a small little part in the map she drew] it actually also goes down towards the right, and there are a lot less trees and random root branches everywhere, but a lot more open sky so it makes it easy for the sun to get in your eyes. I've only gone there with my pokemon, but we didn't encounter any that actually wanted to fight, they seemed mostly curious about us.

[makeitquick]

[ Hmmm. Well, remembering her initial encounter with Sneak, she does feel the need to ask: ] Remember if you saw any stumps sitting around there?

[merameranomi]

[he thinks for a bit, trying to remember, and moves his head from side to side]

Nope, nothing out of the ordinary actually

[makeitquick]

'Guess I have to look into it. Could be better than how I'm going here.

[merameranomi]

how come? This path is not as good as you thought?

[makeitquick]

It's not bad, but if that one's actually clear, then it might be better. [ A shrug ] Chances are, I'll end up looking to both.

[merameranomi]

I'm sure there's more paths here somewhere too, so it wouldn't be bad to look at all of them at some point in time

[makeitquick]

I for sure can rule out some of 'em though. Like the one here.. [ And she traces a line on her map ] goes too close to a Beedrill hive right here.

[ And she points a little off on the map ]

[merameranomi]

I didn't even know there could be hives around here

[he looks pensive for a moment, looking at the map]

How about going somewhere around here? [he points at a different point in the map, a bit farther from the road she has pointed out now] from what I've seen at a glance it looks relatively safe and easy to walk through, lot less trees in there

[makeitquick]

Oh yeah, I've been thinking of that one. Less trees could mean that there's more big pokémon though, so I was gonna hit it up at night later.

[merameranomi]

won't trying at night make it a bit more difficult though? There could be big nighttime guys over there and those seem like a pain to deal with

[makeitquick]

That's the idea. If there's a bunch of guys which hang out there at night, I can't say non-trainers can go there in good faith.

[merameranomi]

true, but I don't think many people would be going through there at night hopefully. I think all roads are dangerous at night actually, just the amount of danger than changes

[makeitquick]

[ ... Well that's true yeah. She shrugs ]