justanexpression | Video 1: A Challenger Appears!

[The angle when the gear turns on is... strange. Like it’s being held by someone too distracted to pay attention to where it might be pointing. There’s part of a chin, a shoulder, and plenty of scenery. The top of a whitish blob flops past the bottom of the screen. From the sound it makes, it must be a Seel.]

This is really weird. You know that?

[The Seel gives a cheerful affirmative from somewhere. Suddenly, the picture shifts, moving erratically until it stops with a soft thud as the gear is dropped and lands in the grass. At least it has a good view, now, framing most of a boy in his teens, crouching on his toes next to a backpack as he rummages through it, occasionally pulling things out for a closer look. His blue hooded sweatshirt has seen better days, and his pants don’t seem to be from quite the right century. Together with the ice-white hair, it makes something of an odd picture.]

If this is... Naw, it’s way too cutesy to be one of Pitch’s tricks.

[He looks up, past the gear at where the sounds of the Seel are coming from. His smile grows, just a bit.]

You sure you’re not a Selkie?

[A negative. The gear is nudged closer, and he laughs as he reaches for it.]

Okay, okay. Remind me to introduce you to Sandy sometime.

Now what am I supposed to do with it?

[Cue the random pushing of buttons. Electronics-abuse is always the answer, right?]

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My name is Talim. It's a pleasure to meet you, Jack.

I suppose a welcome is in order as well?

You might say that. Been getting a lot of them today.

[Yup, being totally visible is still novel.]

Allow me to add one more, then. Welcome to Johto.

Heh. Thanks.

I probably deserve a vacation, anyway. This place could be worse.

It's hard not to come to like it, I think, but that could just be my opinion.

Well, long as you're having an opinion. Obviously I need to go somewhere. [If he stays here, he'll either go insane from isolation or from just plain staying in one place too long. He's always preferred traveling to staying still, now it will just... take a little longer.] Any suggestions?

Well, you have a couple of options. You can take the ferry to the nest region over, Kanto, and explore there, or you can continue inland and travel across Johto first. There are cities and shops and Gyms in both places, though.

[He scratches his neck, considering. If he could still fly, he could go anywhere he wanted. He'd never been on a ferry before, but he knew what to expect from woods that looked surprisingly normal. Mostly.]

Three days, huh? That's what somebody said, to walk from here to the next town.

It's not too bad of a walk, I think. And you'll have to watch out for wild pokémon wherever you go.

Video 1: A Challenger Appears!

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