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IC CONTACT (Victory Road)

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"Yo, it's Heather. I'm probably asleep or one of the Pokemon ate my 'Gear or something so I can't answer you right now. But feel free to leave a message or something.
I'll probably get back to you. ... Probably. Peace out."

Click!

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[(NOTE: The old contact post containing all threads from Route 29 can be found here!)]

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Heather! Heather, look!

[Someone sounds excited, even with the crackling and snapping sounds in the background that mean an unhappy Voltorb is somewhere nearby. Jean grins wide in the screen and then holds something up for her to see.]

Look what I caught!

[It's a tiny, squirming, indignant Rattata, very unhappy about being held around its middle.]

I have two now.

[No one else in his group has two.]

Edited 2016-10-20 09:17 (UTC)

_{[Oh hey! It's that kid with the exploding ball!]

[She hadn't quite been expecting him to call her up, but her grin when she answers shows she's not at all displeased to have received this purple rat-o-gram.]}

NICE!

Better watch out, those little guys'll eat you out of house and home.

... Sometimes literally.

_{[She doesn't dislike Rattatas, but she's seen the havoc they can wreak on the foundations of a house.]}

[Excellent, someone as pleased as he is about his accomplishment. Jean smiles proudly and carefully sets the Rattata on his shoulder.]

She's already been trying to chew on our tent pegs.

[Much to Blitz's tremendous indignation.]

Blitz is furious about it. He kept shocking me for a whole damn day.

HAH, he's jealous, huh?

_{[Angling her head a little, as though that would change anything, she raises her voice to speak to the offscreen Voltorb.]}

Get used to it, buddy.

Nobody can get around with just one Pokemon forever.

[Heather gets some appropriately pissy crackling noises in response, which makes Jean laugh.]

He's gotten a little better about it. I've only gotten shocked twice today, and I think part of that was because breakfast was late.

[Jean had made the grievous error of trying to feed the Rattata first. He won't be making that mistake again.]

She was eating our trash and Blitz was trying to scare her off, and I threw a Pokeball at him to shut him up and caught her instead.

Reminds me of my Noctowl.

I caught her pretty much specifically because she was perched overhead and making horrible dying old woman screams, and I don't know about anybody else, but I sure don't have time for that when I'm camping in the woods at 2 AM.

_{[Not the EXACT same situation, but still sort of an 'accidental' catch.]}

Edited 2016-10-25 23:05 (UTC)

Yeah, no one wants that.

[Horrible screaming in the middle of the night? No thanks, Jean hears enough of that in his dreams.]

So you have an owl one too? My friend Armin has a hoot hoot.

[Jean lowers his voice conspiratorially.]

Blitz kicked his ass in a fight.

Yep. Her name's Claudy and she kind of gives everyone the creeps, but she's a sweetie.

And what'd I tell ya?

Electric destroys Flying types.

_{[LOOK AT HIM HE'S LEARNING SO FAST.]}

Kicks their asses.

[Sage nod, as though he's been doing this for years instead of a few weeks.]

I'm glad I have another one now, though. I'm going to run into a ground type sooner or later and then Blitz will be in trouble.

[Someone has been doing his homework.]

Any recommendations for what would be good to catch next?

Hmmm.

I'd recommend getting a Fire type, but I honestly forget if there are any down there. Water would be another good thing to have, and there's always Water-types around.

Magikarp, Poliwag...

Magikarp's a good one.

They're totally useless for ages but if you're real patient, they get wicked strong when they grow up.

Magikarps... waaaaait...

Are those those stupid fish that just flop all over the place? Those turn into something good?

[And here Jean had just thrown them back when he'd caught them fishing.]

They sure do.

Let me guess-- you haven't bothered to catch one, right?

_{[SHE'S BEEN THERE. SHE KNOWS.]}

I caught one and threw it back because all it did was lay there.

[Dammit!]

What do they turn into?

_{[Oh, she's grinning huge now.]}

Why don't you train one and find out?

Because Blitz will probably beat it up all the time and I don't want it to have a shitty life unless it'll turn into something big enough to get revenge.

[Logic!]

Oh, I don't think you'll have to worry about that.

_{[... Well, I mean, there'll be the 4x type weakness, but Gyarados are terrifying and Heather's pretty sure they can hold their own. Even if she beat one with a Pikachu once.]}

It can learn 'Earthquake'.

[ . . . . ]

What.

[Who knew those stupid fish were actually worthwhile?]

I... I need to go back to that pond and catch one.

You might just.

Just remember-- patience.

Patience for a long time and don't let Blitz kill it, got it.

Thanks for the tip. I would've just ignored those things forever if I didn't know better.

Hey, that's why it pays to listen to the elderly. You heard it here first: Magikarp.

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