#wren plays pmd

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Things I’d forgotten about the start of pokemon super mystery dungeon:

Rayquaza noping tf out of the planet as the opening scene. They did this everyone goes crazy shit already with rescue team, they aren’t doing it again in... whats the time line? Like a century?

How hard it is to place Nuzleaf’s age, other than he’s an adult. The kinda midwestern speech style they give him can make him seem pretty old, but some of his reactions are pretty Dumbass Twenties.

The fact that the game basically forces you to be the person that dies first in a horror movie, when you hear your future partner pokemon eating outside.

The partner pokemon getting chased by the whole damn town for being such a menace.

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DID THE VALUE OF POKE CHANGE IN THIS REMAKE???

I JUST PICKED UP 150poke IN TINY WOODS?!

Pretty sure in the original you’d be lucky to find 20 max from a single coin/pile in Tiny Wood.

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You cave into a combo of adult responsibilities, nanowrimo, and basic procrastination for 1 lousy month and

HANDS UP, WHO KNOWS HOW I WAS DOING MY SCREENSHOTS FOR WREN PLAYS PMD?

You there at the back of the class. Answer.

Well done. You’re right. Gold star. It was BY USING THE DAMNED MIIVERSE! So thats like 50 odd screenshots lost to the never never. And I saved after I took em so to get back the missing scenes I’ll have to start the game over.

To Do List.

Cry

Find out if theres a decent FREE screenshotting method that won’t force me to revert to taking pics with my phone. I kinda assume they had to replace miiverse with something.

Probably update my 3DS’s system setting and shit.

Restart psmd and speed play it back to my last sorted screenshot.

Thank my lucky stars about npt needing to rescreenshot what I’ve done so far will mean that 1 binge play will probably get me most of if not all the way back to where I was.

Have a MINOR existential crisis that I managed to get back to that point so quickly.

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hey I think I figured out what was up with the send off letter the adults left with the kids when the player and partner are leaving the villiage in the dead of night. Their faked, deerling didnt want the them to feel guilty for essentially running away from home so she had those letters made to make the team feel better about leaving, nuzleaf knows they left becouse of partner yelling in front of his house about them leaving and well hes a learn from experience kind of parent

Well Deerling is kinda the mum friend. She could totally do something like that, especially if my darling Espurr said something, or Goomy, the sweet little thing that he is, suggested they do something... 

And Leaf Dad is so. damn. chill. I like to think he only sent me to school because he didn’t want to deal with the neighbours asking why I was allowed to just wander about.

Thanks for the idea Anon. It really helps things make more sense.

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We’ve been on this trip long enough to take a nap? I figured we’d go to a near by island or just the absolute closest of the other continents.

Also we’re about to land? Don’t you mean reach land, or make port, or something more nautical sounding?

Actually ignore me it’s funnier if Lapras is actually flying when Archen can’t.

Good question. All we can see is water. Not even a speck of land to be seen. We’re not expected to jump overboard and swim down to pokemon-atlantis are we. Because I’d like to remind you I’m a fire chicken.

Oh wait. There is land. We’re arriving in Poké-Holland.

Wasn’t the whole reason we came out with you today, so that you could play tour guide and supervise us as we got used to being out of our native country? What the fuck is the point of that if you’re lost?

And you can’t check your gadget because???

Oh whatever lets just do this.

Naturally Poké-Holland, with its magnificent windmills would be in the air continent.

Wait that’s like the opposite end of the... Oh please zoom out to show the gap!

No wonder we had time to catch a nap! Fucking hell.

Well it’s not like we ever actually told Lapras where to go, find some chill Archen.

Didn’t Archen ask for the cheapest tickets? HOW IS A TRIP THIS FAR THE CHEAPEST?

DID YOU LOOK AT HOW MUCH YOU PAID?! Because this is either a really shitty tourist location or Kecleon ripped you off when you asked for cheap.

You’re making it sound like a shitty tourist location.

I guess we might as well. How bad could it be with all those cool windmills to look at?

Cool. So check in at the shops to see if they have anything region exclusive then a little jaunt in the local beginner dungeon?

No I don’t got that. We just spent half the day on a Lapras, and you just wanna visit shops that are ust like the ones at home, and then get back on the Lapras. Is this a destination or a pit stop?

You clearly haven’t had much one on one time with Morla, have you Archen?

Well whatever lets see if there is anything about town of interest before we start causing mischief. Come to think of it didn’t I get a request ages ago that had Baram town written on it? I hadn’t paid it too much mind because I had dungeons with multiple jobs in them that’d get me more stuff quicker.

I’m maybe not gonna tell Rampardos that when I get back to the water continent...

Ok one lap of the town and then we try going in a dungeon yeah?

I ABSOLUTELY WANT TO HERE ABOUT IT!!! GIVE ME ALL THE BLUE TEAM RESCUE FEELS!!!

Theres no yes no option or extra dialogue after that... it just ends the interaction and if you talk to them again they just repeat the line... I was so excited for a bit of red/blue where are they now type nostalgia... I mean we kinda get that just by Wishcash being here but...

I’m tempted to just go back to Lapras and sulk my way home.

I won’t though. Lets head to that bridge that goes out of town now. Get this show on the road.

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Alright we all heard the drunk said this...

and then I had a moment that went something like this...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOWEVER!

WHERE IS SHE AMPHAROS!? WHERE IS ESPURR!!!

AND WHEN DID I BEFRIEND A Lv. 55 BUBBLE CHARIZARD?!

So to sooth my disappointment I took a “find the hidden room” type mission so that I’d get to see some random companion pokemon say a stupid sounding password.

At least THAT wasn’t a disappointment.

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After all that talk of remapping the world, there isn’t actually any special task, you literally just go out and do what you’ve already been doing. Not that I’m surprised. So now here we are the day after.

I guess this is the new morning wake up thing. I find it less annoying than being confronted with Morla before my morning caffeine. Welp we’ve given our morning cheer, time to hit the streets!

The who, is what, because why? What’s going on?

Um alright?

So I guess I’m using these guys as my team today so that I can get that extra experience. Which is gonna feel weird but uh ok, I guess that’s cool. Especially since everyone I’m connected to gets the exp I earn in the dungeons anyways. Which is both cool and annoying.

Ok... NOW it’s time to hit the streets.

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Where were we?

Oh yeah I explored the whole town, got my hopes up and then dashed by a wishcash, and the only thing left to do was go explore.

I mean leave. We’re not exploring on this continent. We’re totally leaving. Yup. I would never disobey a pointless and stupid order to just leave after walking around town for 5 minutes.

You know, except for that small detail of I would.

So close, yet so far!

Why? It’s been like 2 minutes since we arrived? We could totally clear a dungeon and still sail (ride?) home in time for dinner.

MORLA AND I ARE AGREEING ARCHEN!!!

Think how often that happens. The longer you hum an haw the less time we have to do something before going back.

Oh come on. Just one little dungeon. Just a little itty bitty one. 10 floors absolute maximum. Pleeeeaaaase?

What the fuck?

Did you guys just notice there were people standing near by and decide to increase your volume? Because you were all muttering about this when we walked past you before. (Rule 1 of rpgs TALK TO EVERYONE)

It’s been so long since that clip where that had the stone Wailord. I keep forgetting pokemon turning to stone is problem in the wider world because we kept getting fed stories like those fucking Litwicks “haunting” the village.

Please. I’m excited for something plot like to happen. It won’t change the fact that this trip was really fucking extra but at least there will be a reason beyond pointless map expansion.

Do people find the frozen pokemon and drag them into town or... How does a pokemon show up made of stone (well frozen stone in the case of some rock types I guess, if there have been frozen rock types)

That is what they’ve been saying.

Normally I’m the one being nitpicky about phrasing. What is this? Get back in your lane twig head. If I don’t have that, then what do I have hmmm?

I’m more interested in the how of it. Just because I can think of some folks I wouldn’t mind turning to stone.

The what now?

Ugh. Didn’t we just finish a ghost story?

If this is just more Litwick’s...

If they’re burning them to ash WHY ARE THE PEOPLE TURNING UP AS STONE?! Of all the stupid...

Well legendaries would most likely be the ones with the power to stop whoever is doing this. It’s just practical to get them out of the way first. At least this rumour/theory makes sense.

So... We’re going to Mystical Forest right? Like now?

Oh isn’t that where Latias and Latios were going? Well now we’re definitely gonna have to go check it out.

Where is a gif of Moliére from Atlantis jumping around trying to volunteer when you need one?

*BIG SCREEN SHAKING RUMBLING*

Great question. I was caught off guard reaching for my tea.

Oh. So Latias and Latios didn’t quite make it to the lake then?

Now we are 100% gonna be going there. (as if there was any doubt)

This is me just noticing half the town has suddenly joined us.

We don’t have a base here? Does that mean we don’t have any jurisdiction here?

We will? Why are you pausing? They din’t make the forest sound that scary.

Oh for fucks sake the “we’re kids thing” again?

We already crossed one continent on our own without any near death experiences, and this isn’t our first day. Bitch why don’t you stay, keep the crowd organised for some shit?

If you leave without us we’ll just follow you.

You don’t have to give us permission (because it’s not yours to give, we have the same badge and gadget genius) you just have to accept that we’ll go in that forest whether you “allow” it or not.

No you don’t. So, shall we?

Were they debating whether or not to let us go while we were arguing about how many of us would go?

What other road would we have taken? *sigh* Well you’re welcome, see you when we get back.

I’m choosing to read this as Morla is the weakest link. Because if they’re gonna take time to point out the way the team was always gonna automatically be (player chara, companion chara, guest explorer is literally the default since game Blue/Red team rescue) then I’m gonna assign extra meaning to it.

And finally off we go!

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I almost got my ass handed to me by someone who was fighting while asleep. Then I remembered I had blast seeds.

What do you mean “what’s gonna wake up?!” Jirachi is gonna wake up. And it’s rude to call them a what.

This is a very extra way to wake up.

This has go to be the first time I’ve ever beaten a pokemon to wake it up rather than knock it out. And look how chipper they are! Who the fuck has that much energy JUST after waking up?

Wait so you fought in a dream... and we were the ones in heroic battle??? While we were fighting were you dreaming yourself as the bad guy?!

You must have been just on the edge of lucid dreaming. Asleep but aware. Just not quite aware enough to realise what was and wasn’t dream.

I fucking wish my guy.

I wish. Like c’mon. Magic.

Still not sure why that was so easy tbh.

Yes. That is what we’re saying.

That response is much more in line with someone who just woke up than that chipper greeting before.

He was too drunk to get up the stairs.

We did. You were asleep.

Ok then...

I have no idea where that is or if it should be significant. Normally I’d assume since you took the time to say it that it means it is, but with this game it could just be oversharing.

MAYBE

Nice to meet you too.

Jirachi is more like me than Poke-me. I love them.

As much as I love you, and support your desire to go back to sleep, I do need you to stay awake and go downstairs to see the drunk one about the broken nexus. So lets go do that.

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Yo!!! 3x experience for 3 pokemon (experience that everyone I’m connected to gets!) plus a dungeon that had like 4 missions in it! (2 requests and then 2 pokemon that hust happened to be wandering in there too). What. A. Day!

I also completed the full dungeon that I hadn’t visited before so maybe this is showing me how the map updates in more detail? That is supposed to be my job now after all.

Wait for real? I only found out about ranks this morning. I was expecting at least 2 or 3 trips before a rank up. With one trip I’ve gone from Rookie to Normal. There wasn’t even a dungeon boss...

JUKEBOX?! Did I miss something in the settings or is there a physical pokemon jukebox out in the world somewhere that I can use to change the music in dungeons?

Well I’m fuzzy on the exact numbers because I thought it’d take more than one trip out to gain a rank but I’m pretty sure between the 4 mission completes I got between 110 and 160 expedition points in one day out so I don’t think it’s gonna take long to rank up again.

I haven’t met a Bisharp or Fearow but are the Drilbur and Gabite from the mines?! Gabite probably wants to get close sp they can kick Morla’s ass for stealing shinies. I’m gonna let him if he tries.

Shit I might even help him. Twighead didn’t give me any shinies!

I’m still bitter about not getting a pretty purple rock out of that stupid dare.

And hey if words out back home that we kids are in the expedition society and starting to make a name for ourselves, so much so that the guy that lives in the mines on the outskirts of town can find us, what the hell does that mean for the Beheeyem. Surely they’re on their way. 

Then again those idiots spent a whole day trying to decide if Budew was me.

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It’s super late (both the update and when I’m posting it) but I think I can say (though I’ll bet a cookie the universe will disagree somehow) that we are back to our regularly scheduled viewing friends. We left off ~here~ my first night rooming with Morla as a member of the expedition society. So now it’s time to see what the morning will bring!

So far the morning is bringing me a grim reminder that I don’t even get a few minutes of quiet and breakfast before Morla takes over my day any more...

This place’ll have the pokemon equivilent of coffee somewhere right? Let get out there and look for it.

This is exactly the kind of conversation that should interupt searching for caffeine, but it’s also exactly the kind you want to caffeinated for.

How often do you reckon this thing gets blown up? for him to be saying again?

1. Remember what-?! is code for WHAT THE FUCK. 2. Just out of curiosity how many times has this thing been blown up since it was originally built? Please tell me not a lot.

How “all the time” once a week? Once a month? More? Less? What kind of bullshit organisation have I signed myself up for?

Poke-me has a point...

It did look pretty impressive. I can’t believe everyone is being so blasé about blowing it up.

See what I mean? What might be one of the most sophisticated devices I’ve ever heard of in the poke-verse, archiving a treasure trove of knowledge, has been blown to smithereens and our drunkard of a boss is telling the only person who seems to give a damn, that it’s ultimately no big deal.

Jirachi. The star like one that like grants wishes or something? The one that you normally have to go through a one hundred floor post game dungeon to just meet ever mind recruit? What have you got them on speed dial or something?

No wonder everyone is so blasé if they can just wish the problem away.

There really are no fucking consequences to anything in this universe.

THIS HAPPENS OFTEN ENOUGH THAT THEY HAVE A ROTATING ROSTER OF PEOPLE TO FETCH JIRACHI?!

So it was you then.

Like I can’t be the only one who read that as sounding fake af right?

Yeah yeah, we’ll do our best, earn our keep, blah blah blah...

Did you just say you’ll figure out who’s turn it is to go get Jirachi to fix the Nexus, AFTER the Nexus is fixed?

Really? What if I wanted to wear it as a hat? Or to gag Morla?

This thing better have a really good capacity if I’m expected to use it as a bag and not a gag.

Okay...

I FUCKING KNEW IT! (I can’t remember if I mentioned knowing) BUT I FUCKING KNEW! There was no way they were “junior” badges that did all the things regular ones did but for “junior” members, a membership level that Expedition Society obsessed Morla didn’t know about until you gave us badges for it.

Wait. So are we just gonna go out an leave the nexus like this?

I have a bad feeling.

Too keen dude. Too keen.

Knowing how much effort normally goes into finding Jirachi in these games and the mainstream pokemon games, AND thinking about the fact that Bunnelby was definitely looking to skive off being the one who went to get them, I feel very justified in my bad feeling.

They are one of the slightly lesser known legendaries (despite the fact I’m pretty sure they had a movie) so I’m not actually gonna snipe at Morla for this. It’s totally fair that they wouldn’t have heard of this particular wish granter.

No wonder Bunnelby didn’t wanna be the one to get the job. It never ends well being the one sent to wake up someone you don’t know that well.

The floor above us?

Those stairs right there?

The legendary pokemon that you normally have to traverse a hundred floors with a bunch of bullshit restrictions, fucking well lives here?!

Well ok then. We’ll just pop upstairs and wake up a kinda famous (at least in every other variation of the game) total stranger. What even is this game? 

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Between that not-fight with Krokorok and my fun trying to rake in as much multiplied exp as possible I. am. starving.

Aaaand now I’m just self concious.

And lowkey convinced Archen is 40+

Which is possible. I mean we’re the only children in the society, everyone else has been here long enough to have completed a world map multiple times each.

HOLY SHIT IT’S LIKE BEING ON TUMBLR. You forget everyone isn’t the same age as you until they say something otherwise because you’re all too busy blogging about things that age has no bearing on. Only instead of content it’s just that everyone is a brightly coloured monster with no visible age markers.

Getting back on track, why do people comment on how much/how enthusiastically other people are eating anyways? Unless they’re a kid only just starting on soilds, or they’ve been sick and unable to eat much lately I don’t see why it should be a topic of conversation.

Like if it had just been “eat up so you have energy” sure, that’d have been fine. That’s more about the needing energy for adventures, and can progress into a convo about adventures. But there was no need to draw attention to how much we were eating, unless we were only having large amounts unhealthy foods (which unless some of those fruits in the pics are candied I doubt was happening) or if we weren’t eating at all, which would have been a deviation from the norm and worth asking about.

Getting back on track.

I have to keep up my energy or else Morla just drags my unenergised body along the ground and I get all dirty and scratched.

It’s not as viable an option as Inside Out makes it look.

The fact that they started that sentence with a ‘but’ irks me. I don’t even know why it irks me enough to be worth commenting on but it does.

An ‘also’ would have been a stretch but acceptable, just because of how people talk in texts and on the internet.

Best option would have just been an opening line that didn’t sound like it was tied to their last statement.

A ‘hey Archen’ or, a ‘You know, I don’t think we’ve ever seen you around town’, ya feel me? I mean it’s pretty clear who is being spoken to without saying Archen again or connecting with the previous statement using ‘but’.

North? South? East? West? Which sea?

I’m guessing east or N/E or S/E. Mostly ‘cause I can’t remember where Lively Town is on the map but I know you go to the right of the screen to docks, from the town square, and have no reason to believe the automatic camera orientation when you’re in the town square doesn’t adhere to that old video game thing up being north.

Right. I forgot. You’re the explorer in charge of the skies but you can’t fly. The society just pulled some weird pokemon racial profiling shit and made that your job because you’re the only one that’s bird shaped.

Yes a Lapras. I don’t suppose any would have come up river to check out Serene Village, so it’s not too surprising you don’t know one.

Of course. Because everyone know Lapras was basically designed to have everything except a neon sign around their neck saying SURF ME.

I tried. Just out of curiosity. They don’t let kids without adults. If we’re every gonna go it’s gonna have to be with you/a society member, or after a time skip.

We’ll have to eventually anyways for the map, so Archen or someone would have to help us whether they actually wanted to or not, or else take over the task.

Well sure. If it’s like a tiny island with one (1) dungeon that you’re gonna take us to.

If it’s not then it’d be more logical to finish exploring the 5 bajillion dungeons on this continent that keep opening up and adding themselves to my list.

You’re in no rush to do this map are you? You just wanna go across the sea for the sake of it. I mean I guess it doesn’t matter, we’re gonna have to do it all eventually anyways but aren’t these kinds of expansions usually kept until you either finish exploring everything where you already are, or when you reach post game? This feels weird.

*sighs* fine.

Morla is gonna be insufferable tomorrow. I can feel it.

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Today’s Motivated pokemon are... Charizard, Vulpix, and Unknown.

Unknown! Unknowns double already tripled EXP!

GRAB YOUR STUFF KIDDOS WE’RE HITTING WHATEVER DUNGEON HAD THE MOST JOBS.  IT’S A 6x EXP DAY!

All I wanna do is go and start reaping in the extra EXP, why must there be interuptions?

You’re that dude that tried to mug us but got flattened by the society stampede and decided to go get drunk instead.

Unless you’re about to volunteer to get your ass kicked I suggest you make this quick.

Hahahahaha. No. How’s about you give me some cash instead, to pay me back for the time you’re wasting.

I know it’s kinda small but if you look Morla’s eyes are flattened at the top to make them look worried, mind on the other hand are normal, and it’s not just typical “pokemon cbf animating the protags features” because they have made poke-me look sad/worried before. Poke-me is just as unimpressed by Krokorok as I am, and for the first time in a long time I feel connected to them.

Talking their way into getting beat up.

Ooooh. Has Buizel kicked your ass before Krok?

They were. We had it handled though. Wanna help us beat him up anyhow? For team building?

Liar. Why are you even bothering. We clearly all know what kind of shit you’re into.

I will go along with this farce for 500 bucks.

Yeah, it’s almost like you know Krok or something...

Buizel does dramatic exclamations way better than Ampharos. When they do it there’s weight behind it, it’s more goofy than anything. Buizel actually gives the impression of being a competent badass.

See. Ole drunk Amphy could proably have just gotten stared down.

Well anyways. Krokorok’s been put in their place can I get on with my 6x EXP day out right?

Of course not.

Ok, I’ll bite. Who the fuck are you?

Are you this cretins boss? Can we fight? I wanna fight you.

Whoa. Buizel looks riled up. Maybe we will get to fight ‘em.

Ex-fucking-scuse you?

You were trying to get money from us, and just generally being a little bitch.

Wanna fight about it?

You can talk, you coward. Imma kick your bosses ass and then I’m gonna chase you down and beat you up using your bosses body.

You guys clearly have history, pretending you don’t think enough of them to really remember where they work isn’t much of a power move. A power move would have been pretending you’d forgotten them completely.

Staring down someone who just asked a question you know they know answer to can either be a power move or a guilt/shame response. This is a power move.

I will fucking test you mate. Let’s fight. Right here, right now. You’re not fooling anyone with your faux generosity tough talk.

But I wanna battle you!

Take what? You and your boss are running like cowards.

YOU AND BUIZEL HAD THE TYPE ADVANTAGE! And I have enough long distance moves and blast seeds that standing on the right place would have let me take them down no problem. WE COULD HAVE WRECKED THEM.

Great so we met the local mafia and its lowest grunt. And didn’t even get to kick the grunts ass.

Look I’m not gonna go after them just to kick their asses. We’re more like bounty hunters than cops, but if they go to the effort of putting themselves in our path again, like they did today... Well I’m not gonna back down.

Now. If you’ll excuse us. IT’S A 6x EXP DAY!

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We’ve been given our task, people have wished us luck, we’ve pledged to do our best, time to go right?

Apparently not...

I wonder how long it’ll take them to explain that all we’ll have to do is go out and explore and that the map will update automatically as we do? Because that’ll be what it boils down to. That’s the whole franchise.

Oh-kaaay.

It all looks kinda flat from this vantage point, but I guess they mean the middle of the circle bit.

Wow even Poke-me who has the better angle on it doesn’t sound sure.

You know even though it’s an orb which kind of eliminates the problem I was still half expecting a usb style joke about trying to put it in the wrong way around or something.

Cool. Now what?

Pokemon wireless.

We explore, our connection orb collects whatever data it normally collects, and all of that data gets added to the nexus to recreate the map.

And hang on... Wouldn’t map recreation go a lot quicker if everyone sync’d up (which seems to add all the data already on an individual orb if how we suddenly got a holo screen again after adding ours is anything to go by) and then we ALL went out to a different place each day? Like everyone just goes in a different direction and collects data for it. Hell, with how often they’ve all apparently had to redo this thing couldn’t a senior member just plug in their orb and it’d be like loading a backup save? No re-exploring required.

Um... What?

Better question, you mean one of the expedition society things you gave us while sticking on a fake junior tag, was actually junior?

Or was it the equivilant of you giving us your old nokia brick after you upgraded to an iphone, but now we need the more advanced phone to actually do the work?

Handy.

So we went from a gps with an emergency broadcast radio, to a gps with a satelite phone? All we gotta to is add our connection orb (sim card)

Oooh shiny. I wants one irl to use as a tablet.

Figured.

Oh we’re introducing the idea of ranks now too? Ok cool.

I honestly can’t believe it’s taken more than half the game to get to such a basic concept that has been in every version of the game. It’s practically one of the corner stones.

You get rep.

HOW? This society has been your obsession, you spent the entire first half of the game yammering on about how you wanted to join it. How do you not know shit like this?

Or we can just make an average map since it’ll probably get blown up anyways.

How does one fail at this? Do they not complete the map before you blow it up again? I still don’t get why this isn’t a group effort thing, so it can be moved out of the way quickly and allow for a sharper focus on exploring places you haven’t already discovered and rediscovered a hundred times.

Well at least we get to go do something now.

But if he’s going to explore wouldn’t that be exactly the right way.

I think this occassion was a lot less Ampharos being a directionally challenged drunk, and a lot more Ampharos not wanting to be holed up in their office doing paperwork... Oh well. Sucks to be them. We’re out of here.

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*groans g’morning in zombie*

(At least in Serene village I had time to potter about the house and have an imaginary breakfast before facing Morla’s early morning enthusiasm)

Already? Damn Jirachi must really be a genius. Or just magic... Actually it’s more likely that they’ve just had to do this a lot.

HOW IS THAT JUST LIKE IT USED TO BE?! IT WAS A GIANT FUCKING FORTUNE TELLERS GLOBE BEFORE!

Stylish repairs? Is it normal for Jirachi to totally switch up the design whenever they fix it or is Ampharos messing with us?

And adorable. Don’t forget that too.

Water Continent? Is that the one we’re on? SINCE WHEN DO YOU NAME YOUR CONTINENTS IN THE PMD-VERSE POKEMON?

Well I mean... Aren’t you a wish granting pokemon, with like magic or some shit? Couldn’t you do exactly that if you wanted to? Or is there like a protocol you have to  follow? Is this where that “maybe” comes in? Has anyone ever tried straight up wishing for it to be restored instead of just saying “hey Jirachi fix this”?

Why is it always Archen going on about their hard work? Isn’t this a society? Don’t they all contribute to the map? What am I missing?

See the drunk says team. It’s a group thing right? Ah whatever, I get the feeling they’re gonna explain it, at least to some extent.

This time it seems like a more genuine question. Not like when they were clearly trying to dodge needing to wake Jirachi...

It’s gonna be us isn’t it?

Called it.

I mean why not? We have exactly 0 experience in cartography, and no idea how the nexus works. Obviously we’re the perfect choice.

Dude I was being sarcastic. This is a terrible idea, why would you suggest it?

It’s a good thing Morla has more than enough passion for the both of us because I’m pretty well stuck on mild disbelief and disconnected acceptance that whether it makes sense or not this is the why things are.

They’re not wrong.

Isn’t that exactly what it is though? Your job. If you’re so sick of needing to explore the same places over and over again maybe try not blowing up the fucking nexus every other day.

Oh and also.

If we get the map back up to snuff and then you guys blow it up five minutes later, I’m murdering all of you. You hear me? ALL. OF. YOU.

Dedenne’s excitement leads me to the conclusion that it was supposed to be their turn to remake the map. Either that or they want in Ampharos’s pants, and just no. We’re cancelling that thought right now.

I suppose not. Exploring is kinda the whole game after all.

Sure. Just don’t blow it up again after we’re done. It’s an important archive not the Fairytail guild hall.

Though I’ll bet those dreams were a little more focused on actually undiscovered places, not rediscovering stuff people had already learned like a hundred times.

I have a terrible hunch they don’t actually give a fuck because they fully expect it to get blown up again anyways.

Weird fact: I just think of Mawile as Stephen from Hoenn. Between the archeology thing and the fact that you find Mawiles in the cave where you deliver the letter to Stephen my brain just anthromorphises them together. This had to have been intentional by someone on the staff right?

Thanks I guess.

Ok so I guess we’re on our way to explore for the day?

Oh wait.

There’s explanation part I figured was coming. Yeah that can all get it’s own post. I know putting these under a readmore gives me more leeway on how long posts CAN be, but that doesn’t mean they SHOULD be that long. Even if people reading don’t mind, I sometimes do.

[violetren]

Ok adventuring for the day is done. Time for a well deserved rest. But maybe some food first?

Perfect timing.

Look how cute poke-me is :)

What?! What?!

MOTHER FUCKER NOT AGAIN!

Actual footage of Swirlix in this moment:

I am not going out begging for food again! EVERY POKEMON FOR THEMSELVES!!!