Episode 2: Whats in a name?

Well heres another update! Its relitively short this time as well I want to get something out fairly regularly and in shorter perhaps more interesting bursts. That dose of course meen we will be spending longer in each session as i think most of this happened in either the end of the first or the start of the second and there have so far been 4, handily the 4th was recored but im not sure what the quality of that is like and if it's not just full of Digression Hammers and Tangent Spanners* but we shall see..

Anyway on with the show! :P

*I may explain these at another point i may not depends if anyone is interested

It takes hardly any time at all for the Nurse to register Dan into the league and when she finishes she asks the group an important question "so what do you want to call your team then?"

"Err what do you mean" asks Major

"Well your team needs to have a name, other teams have called them selves things like Team Dratini, Team Arcanine, Team Arbok and Team Pikachu, just generally named themselves after powerful Pokemon or Pokemon they feel really represent their teams" She says with a simile

The group go into a discussion amongst them selves with Emily exclaiming "Team Flygon" instantly and loudly "Flygon is awesome and cool and has goggles and is a Dragon so its pretty powerful"

"How about Team Palkia?" suggests Major

"Yeah thats pretty cool" says Dan "after all it did bring us here"

"I think we should be team other world after all we aren't from here, we are from another  world" Suggests Dave 

"Nah thats crap… everyone else has their teams named after a Pokemon so I think we should as well" Emily says disappointedly 

"But thats boring as well its just following everyone else" 

"But Team other world is naff it doesn't mean anything! no one but us and Professor Pine know we aren't from here, even Team Palkia is better than team other world" She argues. The group argue for a while longer with eventually a vote being taken which Dave wins.

"Its such a stupid name…. could have been team Flygon or Palkia….. I'm not even going to remember that" Emily quietly says with a sulk.

"Ok" Says the Nurse "Thats Team other world" She registers the name looking slightly confused "All done! your ready to take on the league"

"Umm is there any chance of us getting some gear?" Asks Brian "We don't currently have anything at all" 

"Of course!" She smiles "Every trainer gets a back pack with everything they need to compete in the league, a tent, sleeping bag, rations, frying pans…"She continues with the list but suddenly Emily, Dan and Major start laughing

"You could use a frying pan as a Drying pan!" Emily squeaks

"Or I could hit you with it and it could be a crying pan!" Laughs Dan 

Or use it as a scrying pan!" add Major with a big grin on his face

"What are you three talking about?" asks Brian 

"Oh in an episode of the anime Ash, Brock and Misty are running through a forest in the rain" explains Dan " An Brock pulls out his Frying pan and says 'I can use my trusty frying pan, as a drying pan!' It was hilarious!"

The others laugh agreeing that its pretty funny, as the nurse continues with her explanation of the kit trying not to look confused "And a Makeshift Rod, enough feed bowls for 6 Pokemon, some cutlery, tea bags, kettle and well everything you would expect"

"Brilliant, I suppose we'd better be getting on then?" He suggests brightly "Er do we have a map?" 

"Theres one in your pack" the Nurse replies "Along with the program of events for the year"

"Coool! so where should go first?" Emily asks

"Well we can look at the events and see what we want and then we can see about what Pokemon are likely to be where and go from there" Major says to the group. They study the events list for  while and eventually ask the Nurse what the date is right now "Its the 7th of February today" she says with a bright smile

"Ok so the events that we have going on next are the Open Sea hunt in Zeno City and Floretta Photography in Floretta town" Says Brian "Lets have a look at the map?"

Emily walks over to a table and spreads the map out for all to see "We are currently here" She points to Inevita Town "With the two events happening here and here" Pointing to Zeno city at the top right of the map and Floretta at the top left, both of which are either on the other side of a large bay or through a desert, jungle, ash plain and then volcano

"Its going to be hard if we go that way" Emily indicates the desert, Jungle and volcano "But there will probably be Trapinch in that desert which is a Pokemon I really really really want!" She says excitedly "I think we should head there as soon as we can after all we can always double back on ourselves and go to er…" She reads the Map "Cannallis and get a boat to the other side so we can at the very least get to" she checks the map again "Shadrakia City, where they are holding a dragon display on the 26th" She grins

"Well I want a Lotad" says Major "It's likely to be around rivers and swamps and that looks like a swamp to me" He points to the area around Cannallis "So I want to go that way"

"But there are rivers on the way to the Desert and a big lake" Says Emily 

"I want a Squirtle" Says Dan Excitedly "Thats gonna be rivers or sea?"

"I think Squirtle is just fresh warted says Brian

"I Want a Charmander" says Dave "where are they likely to be?"

"Err my guess would be a volcano" says Major

"It will be hard going through all of that.." says Emily "I think going to the desert and round will be easier and we will get less lost"

"But thats such a waste of travel! doubling back is pointless" says Dave "And I bet there will be cool things in a jungle"

"But it will be hard! non of us are exactly jungle explorers" Emily says with slight worry in her voice "The path of least resistance will be better for us over all and we aren't in a massive rush are we?" The group spend more time discussing the where-fors and what-nots of the path to take eventually deciding to go the hard way through desert, jungle, ash plains and volcano… Its going to be hard going for our group….

As always if anyone of the players wants me to change anything feel free to let me know and we will see what can be done, I hope you enjoyed reading my ramblings about an imaginary world in an imaginary game held mostly in 5 peoples heads.  

The Long Silence and the Loud Noise

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Well gosh... iv been quiet here for a Very long time... Alot of that has been to do with arguments among friends, Not playing pokemon, moving and well just forgetfulness. I havn't played P:TA with Arlia, Klint and Desmond in a very long time mainly Due to arguments with Klint that i wont go into but also due to the fact that Myself and the DM have moved away from Devon! we now live in Somerset where we play RPG's with a new group of people Including P:TA so far there have been 2 sessions worth of game with another coming on wednesday, we have been playing in the DM's region of Areouanta with the rules we perviously used and in the same time as where Team Dratini left off..

Its likely that i will update here periodically...
Or possibly not who knows.

zPlease play this before you start reading.

Palkia's Cry echos across the bay as our new adventurers find them selves on top of a cliff overlooking the sea, "what was that and were the hell are we?" asks Dave

"Umm that was was Palkia from Pokemon..." says Emily, "but they don't exist!" 

As the group look around they see a large pink and white creature fly out to sea "its definitely a Palkia which means we must be in the Pokemon world" says Major 

"it must have used spacial rend to have brought us here" comments Brian.
The 4 continue to argue amongst themselves until they spot a man walking very fast, if not running, up the hill they stand on, the 4 watch him until he introduces himself as Professor Pine, The group introduce themselves as Emily, a short 20something with dark mousey hair and blue eyes dressed in a steampunk style, Brian, also short but taller than Emily who looks a lot like Nikola Tessla, Dave, short dark hair early 20's dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, Major The Tallest of the group also early 20's with long dark hair, slightly broken glasses and dressed in a Legend of Zelda T-shirt and jeans
"So was that Palkia?" The Professor asks

"We think so, after all we did just see it" 

"Hey this guy looks just like Hojo from final fantasy!" Dave says somewhat excitedly
"Well he isn't he's professor Pine! he just told us..." comments Emily slightly distractedly "why are we even here Professor?"

"Yeah Hojo?" asks Dave, Professor Pine looks at Dave "I don't know any Hojo's... but you 4 should probably come back to my lab, after all we cant have you running around with out a Pokemon, its not safe"
"Wait" says Major"we are getting Pokemon!? This is like the start of the games!" The group excitedly start to chatter amongst themselves about how awesome it is that this is real, wondering what kind of Pokemon they will get and how they will get home.... Professor Pine leads them towards his Lab on the side of the hill confused they they aren't from this world as they tell him about Pokemon from where they are from that its just a game.....

"Well you all are going to have to pick from some of the Pokemon iv been testing as I don't have any standard starting Pokemon" Professor Pine hands the group a list of Pokemon with some all ready crossed out which the group doesn't question.
"Ooo! I want the Snowrunt!!!!" Exclaims Emily with a lot of excitement
"I dunno that one" says Brian as he points to one at random ending up with a Grimer
"I'll have the Solosis'" Says Major confidently
"I want a foxy one! yeah... err what do Zoura and Yanma look like"? Dave asks
Professor Pine lets both out of their Pokeballs for dave to see "OMG that ones a Dragonfly! now i don't know which one to chose..."
"You could flip a coin?" suggests Brian
"Thats not a bad idea" says Dave as he rummages in his pocket... "Huh... I don't have any money..."
The others rummage in their pockets as well finding they also have nothing, though one of them has a d4  "Ok 1-2 the Zoura 3-4 the Yanma ok?" says Brian, Dave nods and Brian rolls.
The dice bounces a few times and eventually lands on 2 "Yeah the Foxy one, nice!" He lets it out of the Pokeball and it immediately turns into Dave and giggles "What the !?"
"So every one has made their choice? excellent now we can get on with the Pokedex registration, ladies first?" says the Professor
" Ok! this is exciting" says Emily as the others chatter to each other about the Pokemon they have,
"first the Photo identification" Click "and now the finger print" He pushes Emily's finger onto the Pokedex "this will be your identification here so don't lose it" He warns, "Right who's next?" Brian steps up for the process pulling a funny face for his photo, then Major being serious about it and finally all thats left is Dave "Next?" asks the Professor, unfortunately dave ignores him as he is talking with the others so the Professor just takes a photo as Dave is talking leaving him with an awful identification photo and gets his finger pressed against the Pokedex.
"So now you all have a pokedex with you you can enter the League if you wish but i assume you will be tracking down Palkia?"
"Wait we can join in the league!? Awesome! but i do want to get home" says Major, his conflicted feelings showing
"We could join in while we find Palkia?" asks Brian
"Well we probably should stay at least a little while and get stronger because who knows what will happen if we find Palkia now... we could end up anywhere..."
"But we need to get home as soon as we can" Dave counters "we don't belong here and i have no idea about any of this"
"Well its lucky you have us then!" Emily winks "between us 3 i'm sure we will know enough, though Professor will you give u some extra Pokeballs?"
"i'm sorry but i don't have any to spare but i can give you some money to help get you set up" says Professor Pine, he hands them 1,000 pokedollars* each "That wont buy you a lot but it should get you some balls and potions at least"

*1,000 Pokedollars is equal to about £10

After they say their goodbyes and thank you's to Professor Pine the group get on the road, They battle some wild Pokemon and catch a Jigglepuff for Dave and a Surskit each for Major and Brian once the group reached Inevita town and their first visit to the Pokemon centre. 

"Whoa" Says Dan as he looks around, seeing his friends coming out of a building on the side of the hill heading towards a town, so he heads towards the building "wait!'" he calls but they don't hear him 

"oh another one, are they your friends?" asks the professor

"Yes! where are they going and where am i? "

"From what I can gather you are in the Pokemon world when you shouldn't be I'm Professor Pine, your friends all have Pokemon and a pokedex so i think it would be best if you have one as well" The Professor hands Dan the list the others had previously seen and starts registering Dan into his Pokedex as Dan makes his choice.
"I'll take the Rogenrolla!"
"Ok Here you go and seeing as the others had it here's 1,000 Pokedollars.. its not much but it should get you a little something in inevita town, now hurry on!"
Dan makes his way quickly down the hill towards inevita town and his friends, noticing all the Pokemon calls in the distance and feeling so excited he could burst!

As Dan reaches Inevita town the rest of the group are leaving the Pokemon centre
"What are you doing here!?" Both Dan and Dave say at the same time both shocked that it is the other they are seeing in the Pokemon world and then they High Five
"Soooo Palkia?" asks Emily
"Yeah i think so" says Dan "we really are in the Pokemon world then?"
"Yeah! its awesome!!"
"Yeah it is!" says Dan as they both enthuse and squeal slightly
"We have to find Palkia so we can get home" Brian pipes up
"We all got registered for the Pokemon league as well" says Major
"Yeah we did!! go in the Pokemon centre and you can get registered as well!" says Emily with excitement as she pushes Dan towards the building.
"I forgot we can scan the Pokemon we see cant we?" asks Major "i'm gonna scan the Chansey*"
"Thats a good idea" says Brian "do you mind if we do?" he asks the nurse behind the desk
"Not at all go ahead" she replies with a smile "Are you here to get registered as well?"

*Which might actually have been Audino I cant remember atm


And thats it for now, its been a long blog entry and alot of this wont be entirely accurate so its a mix of what I remember and what I thought sounded good/ok, if the chaps involved want me to change anything they can let me know.. I wish I had some sort of recording device so I could do this better but alas...

Gloomy.