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Open Info Collection Post

Who: Rhel + anyone who wants to help out
Where: Pokemon Center
When: August 8th
What: So Rhel wants to get all the information folks may have learned written down! Come help?

[Rhel can only hope that other people are of the same mind when it comes to gathering information. She doesn't know much about this place, she doubts other people know all that much about this place, and the more information they can get and make accessible the better.

So she asks Minato for help and tells the people she recognizes what the plan is and on the eighth of the month she settles down for a day-long info gathering fest.

She's quite pleased with the rather pretty journal and pencil she managed to find, too.]

OOC: Like it says in the explanation, Rhel wants to get all the information everyone's been gathering piecemeal and write it down! Feel free to threadjack if everyone's okay with it, I just play a nerd who'd do this sorta thing.

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Wait, I'll - [He raises his hand like a kid at volunteering-to-fall-off-a-boat class.] I'll come too. I've got... some kind of fish.

[Imagine knowing Pokemon names without someone telling you first.]

Between them, that should be enough bait. Plus, safety in numbers, right? Unless... well, I don't know how that thing's memory for faces is...

[Whether it'll remember him throwing boba at it, he means. What about its memory for the half a bird's worth of feathers overlaid on his back? Shh.]

Ehh. Nice one, Sagi. What kinda fish is it?

[ the walking-talking pokedex can figure it out for you. ]

And I guess with those wings of yours, you can just zip it outta there. But you'll carry me too if it comes right down to it, right?

[ please don't leave him there ]

Yikes, no pressure. [He's sheepish again.] Wish I could tell you yes, but I can't fly for longer than most people. Uh, not people here, I mean, just... Best be ready to swim. Sorry.

[Believe him, it hurts part of his teenage heart to choose honesty there over allowing someone to assume he and his wings are cooler than they are. So sad. Only Itaru's inevitable drowning will be sadder.]

The fish is - hold on. [With absolutely no fanfare, he deploys his Basculin onto the floor by his feet, where it squirms impatiently. They're not in a fight, and anyway there's no room to strike a pose in here.] This. It's... a fish. Does it count?

... You haven't named it.

[ SAAAAGI? ]

N... Name it?

[Was he... was he supposed to... He's genuinely drawing a blank. This is way too many damn rules.]

How would you call to it when it's around other Basculin?

[ It just seems inefficient to go about... Not giving it a name. ]

Well, it hasn't happened yet.

["Fishy" it is, then. Look, if he'd ever been remotely curious about names, he would probably have lost interest again five seconds after looking up his own.]

There is a chance you may battle another trainer with a Basculin. It could avoid confusion.

[ In a more reasonable and likely scenario.

Joonghyuk isn’t here to judge names, though. Fishy is fine. ]

Don't pressure him, man. The right name will come to him when he least expects it.

[ speak for yourself, nerd ]

It sounds like you haven't named your Rowlet.

[ He is pointing fingers here. ]

That's because I can't decide on what to name him yet. Has to be perfect even after he fully evolves, y'know?

Are you the type to take an hour to order something on a menu?

[ Please say no and that you're just being super considerate and caring for your round bird. ]

Depends on the restaurant. [ waves hand ] But no, I'm serious about naming my Pokemon. I used to give 'em really cool names, actually. Wanna hear what I got in mind so far?

[ please say no to this one instead ]

[They're getting sidetracked, but... if the naming of monsters is such a delicate matter, maybe some more examples would help him wrap his head around it.]

Sure, what've you got?

[ Unlike Sagi: ]

No.

[ sorry yjh, but you did kinda ask for it. at least sagi's here to hear him out? bless his soul. so without further ado, itaru puffs out his chest a bit and: ]

Okay, so. You guys know Rowlet, right? Spoilers, but he's going to get a Ghost typing when he evolves further, so his name shall be Apollon - the Sniper that Lurks in the Darkness.

Meanwhile, Mudkip shall be named Mizunohame, the One who Controls the Tides, but maybe that's too feminine? It rolls nicely off the tongue, IMO.

[ ... ]

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[ ............. ]

So what's stopping you?

[ YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO NAME THEM??? ]

Nothing! Thought I'd get a second opinion before I finalize 'em. Naming Pokemon IRL just hit different this time.

[ the power he now holds...... ]

IR...?

[100% interpreting this as some kind of obscure bureaucratic protocol, probably printed in a tiny handbook no one has ever read. The Pokemon-Naming International Regulatory... List? He's afraid to ask.

But an opinion, sure.]

For a name, those are... long. Any more than two words, you'd start tripping over them.

He means "in real life."

[ He's got you, Sagi. The acronyms being spoken out loud again... ]

... But it's the same length.

[The abyss just keeps gazing back unto him.]

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Oh, it's a... [ crap what the fuck is this pokemon again, the fifth gen introduced so much - ] Basculin! Yeah, that's sure is a fish.

[ a pretty unremarkable fish, at least to itaru's eyes. but he doesn't want to damper sagi's optimism by introducing him to competitive meta, so he'll keep his mouth shut on the subject. anyway! ]

But yeah, that's fair. You'll just save me when I inevitably drown in the depths of the lake, at least.

[ right??? ]

All right, all right. It's a little early to get that morbid.

[Sure is a fish that's going straight back in the Pokeball before it can get excitable again. Still, it's good to have something to call it! "Basculin", huh... Despite that pointed look from Joonghyuk, Sagi might have let it remain "a fish" for the rest of its life otherwise.]

Agreed, let's not talk as if drowning is a certainty. That's the last thing any of us need.

My bad, my mad.

[ he's just saying!!! ]

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