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[these_balls]

Who: Anyone in route_29!
Where: Standing in front of your PC!
When: The Week of September 14 through 20
Summary: A mod-hosted venue for players to thread out trades of Gen VI Pokemon!
Rating: G unless otherwise specified (so please specify if necessary)!
Log:



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• We've provided seven headers, one for each day, swarm, and location!

• Characters currently in the area who are offering to send out swarm Pokemon on that day should respond to that header with offers/an IC starter of choice/etc!

• Characters who have incorporated an offer to send out Pokemon in one of their own posts are also invited to link to their posts on this log if they so desire!

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• Threads completed on this log do count towards AC, provided they meet our usual standards!

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Comments

[captainash]

Craftiness, I can deal with. Not quite as well as I'd deal with good behavior, but it's still a big step up from psychopathy.

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, admittedly, that's a risk too, although I haven't really encountered a Pokemon that hid that sort of thing well yet.

...of course, the key word there is "yet."

[captainash]

From what I've seen they don't bother to hide it at all, well or not. But that 'yet' is still a strong possibility.

[enjoymyatelier]

Precisely. Either they're extremely aggressive or they're relatively well mannered... though I think some of them have been a bit sarcastic with me.

You can't really complain too much about that, though.

[captainash]

Why would you? It just makes training them more challenging and interesting.

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I don't take lip from the majority of humans, either. I can't simply let myself have some sort of strange double standard like that, after all.

[captainash]

Why, because then humans might decide that double standards are unfair and give you lip anyway?

[enjoymyatelier]

Or the Pokemon would assume they were getting special treatment and take advantage of it.

[captainash]

I'm sure they wouldn't all be crafty enough to do that. Most, but not all.

[enjoymyatelier]

...really, I'd rather not take the chance that mine would be one of the few. It'd set a bad example for the others.

[captainash]

They do say it only takes one rotten fruit to spoil the whole basket. A fruit that deliberately wants to spoil others would be even worse.

[enjoymyatelier]

Precisely. Fortunately, even my more poorly behaved Pokemon don't take to rabble rousing, so it's not as bad as it could be... but I'm keeping an eye on them all the same.

[captainash]

I think that's the wisest decision any of us can make, when surrounded by playful and clever critters.

[enjoymyatelier]

Indeed, it is. Usually, they seem to be fine so long as they're not bored.

[captainash]

Which can be a problem, considering that ensuring they're not can be easier said than done at times.

[enjoymyatelier]

It depends on the Pokemon, really. Some of them are easier to please than others, but they tend to have relatively simple tastes overall, in my experience.

[captainash]

You don't have half of them demanding their daily dose of interpretative dance the moment you wake up? Lucky you.

[enjoymyatelier]

...I am suddenly very, very glad I don't actually train any of your Pokemon.

[captainash]

Oh, that part's not so bad. I'm more alarmed by the very few that demand their daily dose of blood.

[enjoymyatelier]

Ah, I've dealt with a few of those as well... not necessarily blood, but life force.

Honestly, as long as they're not sick, you're not sick, and you don't overdo it, it's really not too much of a hassle.

[...honestly, he's talking way too casually about that because it's more typical back home...]

[captainash]

...Sick or not, it's still kind of a hassle when she tries to get my blood by clawing my eye out.

[Sweet little Hellspawn, may she not go to another innocent trainer should he disappear.]

[enjoymyatelier]

...Well, that's... aren't there better ways for her to do that?!

[captainash]

I can think of a million, but they're not quite good enough for her sadistic streak. She'd even try it on the newly-hatched ones if I let her.

[enjoymyatelier]

...and why don't you just leave this horrid thing to rot in the computer?

[captainash]

I bought her egg from a departed friend. Irrational attachment can be funny like that, sometimes. And dangerous.