Yay, Wolfy"s very first “Creative Hangout” thread. :) Finally, I"ve decided to work on something that"s actually related to PMU for the fun of it, so I decided I"d just share it here as I go along.
Originally, I think it was Flare"s PMU comic, “Flare Out” that gave me this idea to start. I thought it looked fun to write about my own experiences in PMU, so I thought I"d give it a shot. With the coming of PMU7, I was expecting (like many others) to keep everything I had on my old account, so I was shocked when I had to start all the way over again. I thought that would be a good time to start journaling out my experiences of what happens to me in-game…originally, I was going to do something similar to this about my GTXPlus experiences, but I thought PMU would be a lot more fun. ^^;
Anyway, I only started it just today, but I"ll be updating it as soon as I finish each separate bit. This PMU fanfiction will be based entirely on what actually happens to my character in PMU7, although I may leave out parts if I forget them, and dialogue from other players might not be 100% precise because my memory really isn"t that great. x_o
Anyway - probably just something I"ll sit down and write when I"m bored. I hope you enjoy it? x"D I"m going to have some fun writing this. Feel free to comment, offer constructive criticism (I haven"t written actual fiction in a while, so my writing skills might be a bit shoddy) or do nothing at all. Let the craziness commence!
~ Prologue ~
Today is September 1st, 2010 – a Wednesday. Wednesdays are my busiest days.
After driving home from my night music class, I walk into the kitchen to grab myself a ceaser salad for dinner (I"m starving!) and log onto my Windows Vista. PMU7 is going to start tonight – and by my surprise, as I stumble into the PMU Chantango and Skype, I seem to be right on time for its release! In less than ten minutes, PMU7 will become public and I happened to come at the perfect moment. I hang around for a while, eating my salad tossed with delicious Caribbean jerk chicken as I watch the players of PMU spam the Chantango box with 100 messages a minute.
10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…
Is it released yet? I check Skype. 10 more minutes! Wait, didn"t we already wait 10 minutes? 10 more now? With a shrug, I head out to stack my dishes and brush my teeth. It looks like its been delayed, but it"ll be up in a jiffy, I"m sure.
10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…
All right! After making it down there, I"m about 6-7 minutes late of the release, but that"s OK. Now comfortable in my bed with a glass of caffeinated soda and my fat, maine coon mixed cat kneading the covers at my feet, I head back to the page of Pokemon Mystery Universe and install the new client.
Updates…updates…updates…updates…
After about another ten minute wait for the updates, I am finally brought to the menu screen. I go off to create my account, making sure to register my username, playername and password exactly as they were in PMU6 so I do not lose my account"s information. After my character “Wolfy” is created, I take a sip of Coca Cola and dive right in.
Little did I know, this was going to be the start of a brand new Pokemon Mystery Universe adventure…
~ So It Begins… ~
Wha…wait, a minute! Where am I? Well, judging by the looks of it…oh, duh – I remember this place! This is…Destiny Cavern, the portal to the world of Pokemon Mystery Universe. But what am I doing here? I know the world of PMU has been redone and all, but how come I"m in here? This is where you start out when you play the game for the first time. I"ve been playing for more than a year and a half! What"s going on…?
“Hey, Wolfy!†comes a voice, and I turn around to come face to face with an egg. This catches me off guard and I stumble backward with a yelp, only to realise that my landing wasn"t very painful. Why couldn"t I feel that? It"s as if I simply bounced back – and other than a small jolt, I didn"t really feel it much at all.
“A talking egg!†I cry in alarm, trying to point off at the green spotted egg in question. However, as I try, I notice I don"t even have an arm. Ack – where"d my arm go?!
The egg giggled – a female egg. Is that even possible? “So are you,†she replies simply, “We all are!†With that, she bounces away, off to who knows where.
I look down at myself and begin to panic – she"s right! I am an egg as well! I take a look around myself (how am I doing this without eyes?) and notice that I am completely surrounded by eggs that look just like me. It"s official – we"ve all been reset to our original starting point! But what about our old accounts? I have become so accustomed to walking into PMU as a growlithe, that being an egg feels so weird and off to me. Could it be that we had our accounts completely wiped? No one ever told us this would happen! Now I"m stuck inside an egg…oh, what do I do, what do I do? Sooner or later I"m gonna get hungry, and when that happens…
Well, it seems that making sure my account"s name and password were exactly the same was rather meaningless. It appears we"ve been wiped after all – this comes as quite a shock to me, as I really didn"t expect it to happen. But now that it has happened, it looks like I"m just gonna have to go along with it. Growlithe, my favourite pokemon, isn"t a starter in this game…so what should I be? Maybe I should be meowth – afterall, it"s my second favourite, so that seems to be the reasonable choice. However, as I"m about to run into that decision, the image of when I first joined PMU nearly two years ago came to my head. Back then, I was originally going to go for meowth, when I entered the wrong room, the electric-type room…and without a warp panel, I was unable to go backwards. Back then, I had started out as a shinx; it wasn"t really a big favourite of mine, but it was the best out of the four I was set to choose at the time.
Going into Skype, I ask… “Should I be meowth, or shinx for the nostalgia…?â€
“Be shinx. Do eet.â€
Well, that settles that. Although I"d probably expect that answer from Rhaenn – she joined only about a month or so after I did, and the two of us both played PMU as shinx when we were n00bs. People used to get us mixed up back then, as funny as it were.
Shrugging (or doing some kind of gesture a mere egg is capable of), I figure that growlithe will eventually become recruitable, so this selection won"t even matter at that point. As I"m about to go, I"m greeted by a chikoirta – I don"t recognise her at first until I hear her voice.
“I don"t know what to be!†she says as she approaches, apparently indecisive. Ino is just another player like myself and many others, who"s favourite pokemon isn"t in the starter selection. It looks like a lot of us are going to have to make do with what we"ve got.
“Rhaenn and I are going to both be shinxes, like we were back when we first joined PMU,†I explain with the mouth I do not have, “I guess eventually I"m going to be growlithe, so it doesn"t really matter.†With that, I begin bouncing off toward the the electric-types, wanting to quickly grab shinx before I change my mind and start wondering if I should be meowth instead. As I bounce my way through the cavern, Ino follows, and we both stumble inside the room.
The way that shinx sprite smiles…I swear, it"s creepy. It"s as if it"s calling me: “Wolfyyyy. Choose meeeee…†But I"m not backing out of this now. I"m going through with shinx; no regrets. I bounce my way over to the sprite – at this point, I"m really just desperate to be inside an actual body. Being an egg really weirds me out, because I can"t feel helping hungry just at the thought of being one. I step up, and instantly I burst out from the egg"s shell and into my new form.
“Haha…I"m shinx again…†I comment, looking over my new body. It"s been a long time since I"ve run around the world of PMU as a fuzzy blue lion cub with large rounded ears and a star-tipped tail. However, I don"t think it will take long for me to adapt to this form – I was stuck a shinx for about five months in my n00b days before PMU got its recruitment and evolution systems. Stepping into the shinx sprite here in Destiny Cavern is like a total wave of deja vu. “Man, this feels so much like my first day in PMU, it isn"t even funny…†A sweatdrop rolls down the side of my giant, blue head. It"s as if I"m completely re-living out this moment for a second time.
As I look over, I notice Ino has also stepped into a new sprite – she had walked into mareep, which was right across from where I was standing. Apparently going with mareep for the time being, Ino continues onwards to the outside world, locking her final decision. I turn around and look ahead, about ready to do so myself.
“All right…†I exhale, making this obviously a bigger deal than it really was. My long, thin membrane of a tail swishes around behind me, getting hopelessly tangled with my back legs like it always used to do back when I first joined PMU; it"ll be hard trying to get used to this, again. I could always go back and change my mind now…I could go back, and do the reasonable choice of picking meowth, my second favourite pokemon. The smart choice…
Are you kidding? It"ll be a lot more fun this way. “Geronimooooo!†I yell out, leaping into the air on two stubby back legs and diving headfirst into the world of Pokemon Mystery Universe.
Time for Wolfy to make her bold debut into PMU7.
~ Hello, World! ~
Whoa! What the - ?
All of a sudden, my body starts to feel like its radiating some kind of energy and as I"m diving down deeper into the darkness, I am hit by a terrible dizzy spell from out of seemingly nowhere. A cool breeze whooshes as I descend, sending my fur rippling and my ears flapping – but my head can"t seem to place where I am anymore, and as the momentum of my falling gains speed, I start spinning out of control and spiraling toward my impending doom!
“Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!â€
THUD.
“Uggghnnn… maybe I shouldn"t have…dove head-first…†I groan, my pulse pounding wildly in my head. I bring up a paw to try to pick myself up off the ground, but find in despair that I cannot.
“Wha – oof…can"t…breathe…†I gasp, an enormous pressure pushing down on my lungs. I manage to twist my head only slightly, my eyesight a little blurred from my moment of dizziness, and as I do, I manage to catch a glimpse of what"s there: what do you know? A tower of about five or so pokemon are all standing on top of me…and as I try to struggle out from underneath them, I cannot move. Great! My first minute into PMU7 and I"m going to die of suffocation before I even get to do anything!
As I struggle to take each hapless breath, a voice suddenly rings in the air.
“Hey, you! Are you OK?â€
I blink a couple more times, still trying to focus my eyes in the bright sunlight. An eevee stands about a pace away from me, grinning at me from ear-to-ear and talking to me as if I don"t have five times my own weight pushing down on my oxygen supply.
“A-are you…kidding…me…?!†I slowly exhale in and out, my body heaving with each word. “D-do…I…look OK…to you…?!â€
“Oh, good! You"re awake!†it chuckles, its bushy fox-tail wagging in the air, “You"ve been laying there for a while, now. Are you OK? Are you hurt?â€
“…help…me…â€
“Oh, well. The important thing is that you"re awake now!â€
By this point, I really think I"m about to die. The pokemon sitting upon me still have not moved nor shifted, and here I have an eevee – a fake NPC from the very story I actually help to write for PMU – standing before me and doing absolutely nothing in the matter to lend a hand. As the fake NPC continues going on about things that really could matter less at the moment, I feel an odd sensation from below me and look down to notice that someone else, a cyndaquil, has appeared there underneath me. Oh, I see… so this is the spot everybody warps to after they get out of Destiny Cavern. And judging by how many people are in Destiny Cavern at current…
Arceus, I gotta get outta here! I try my hardest to endure the rest of what the eevee NPC has to say (I have to wait through almost two periods of it freezing due to lag) and as it finally walks off to the edge of the screen, I almost want to cheer ecstatically – but that will have to wait until I gain back the ability to breathe, again. As soon as its figure disappears over the horizon, I start to struggle out from underneath the pile. It"s not an easy task in the slightest, but it"s doable and with different twists and turns of my body, I eventually get to the point where I have squirmed out nearly all the way, with the exception of my tail.
“Auughh…why couldn"t I have picked a pokemon without a tail?†I complain to myself aloud, standing up and clenching the wire-like tail with one paw. I tug harshly on it to free it from underneath all that weight, and I swear, it"s painful enough that I think I could actually accidentally snap the thing in half. Luckily, I somehow manage to free the star-tipped appendage completely after pulling at it with all my might, and fall backwards due to the recoil.
“I…I"m alive…†I breathe slowly, still holding my tail in a firm grip. It"s throbbing quite a lot, but I figure it"ll get better as I go along. Geez – PMU7 sure is brutal getting into tonight. Maybe I should"ve waited until tomorrow, when the crowds have diminished by a bit; although now that I"m in, the very thought is pointless. I guess it"s about high time I explore PMU7, then.
I jump back up to my feet and take in the new look of The Crossroads I have come to know and love. It doesn"t look too much different, but it"s definitely a lot more spacious. The small cliff that I used to enjoy standing on is now on the opposite side, and it"s a lot bigger too. The only parts of PMU7 I got to see ahead of time were some of the Exbel maps, so this was all rather new to me.
“Hmmm…did that eevee NPC say where the first dungeon was? Tiny Woods, or whatever?†I wonder, tilting my head. I was in such a rush to get through the fake NPC"s dialogue that I wasn"t really listening to what it was saying. I must"ve skipped over the bit where it was explaining where I should go next.
“Well, judging from the fact that Tiny Woods used to be over that way, it should probably still be over there…right?†I ponder aloud to myself, thinking about this logically. Yes. It must be to the left of the intersection, as it"s always been. As I head over in that direction, I look back at the pile of pokemon and see that most of them are still laying there in that spot on top of one another – rather comically, they are all looking just about in bad as shape as I was. I wish the players in Destiny Cavern good luck – they"ll need it.
With that, I take off onto my first map outside the Crossroads! Or…wait a minute…
I look up, noticing the blue “Loading Map…†text is still up there in the corner, and everyone is still moving around and chatting as I am stuck securely in this position between two maps.
“Ermmm…crud, I think I"m stuck,†I chuckle nervously. I try to take a step forward, but my mobility is once again, impaired. I can"t move my body onto the next map, and I can"t move backwards to The Crossroads, either. I am hopelessly glued to this spot.
“Not a big deal,†I say to myself, confidently, trying not to panic. That"s what we have that command, /refresh for, isn"t it? I type the said command into the chatbox and once again, bring my front paw forward in attempts to walk. Hunh…what? It"s still not working?
A player with a totodile walks past me as if I"m not even there, heading off onto the next map. And I…I stand. That"s right. I"m standing here because I want to. I"m not stuck. Not in the least bit!
“Nothing to see here, people! I just randomly decided to stand here, on the borderline of this map. Yes – I"m doing this completely off of free will! Ahahaha…†However, as I say this, no one seems to hear me and I wonder as to why. Suddenly, a pop-up hurdles into my face, causing me to cry out in surprise. Pokemon Mystery Universe has encountered an error?
Crud.
As this happens, my entire screen turns white and the client crashes. I find myself sitting back in bed, staring at my computer with a blank look. I think back to the agony I had to sit through, being squished to death while the eevee NPC was talking to me, and I suddenly get worried that I might have to go through it all again. Oh Arceus, no.
“I sure hope my game saved…â€
~ A Time To Die ~
As the game loads back up, I open my eyes to see that I am back in the Crossroads. I"m still shinx. I"m not being crushed by a bunch of warping players. And the world around me does not look frozen. So far, so good!
“Well…here goes nothing, I guess,†I say to myself, a sweatdrop rolling down the side of my head as I glance at the path ahead. A couple people run ahead of me, apparently going off toward the same destination. That is, if Tiny Woods even is this way to begin with. I"d ask around, only I don"t want to sound like a n00b; I"m an old, wise and competent player, for crying out loud! I can totally do this on my own. That"s right – I don"t need anyone"s help!
“Woo! This"ll be a piece of cake,†I muse to myself, getting on my hind legs and rubbing my paws together to anticipate what is to come, “I think I"m going to need some motivational music though, for kicking rattata butt. That,†I scratch at my noggin, “Plus, this PMD music is already giving me a headache. Yup. Definitely time to crank out the tunes!â€
After simply switching the volume of the game off, I grab my iTouch and begin to scroll through my playlists. Oh let"s see…scroll, scroll… ah yes – Queen! A Queen song for good luck is always a good bet, by my standards.
With head held high and music blasting into ears, I rush through the luscious grasses of PMU7"s brightly paved maps. A pokemon on a mission is who I am, and nobody is going to get in my way – not even the lag that attempts to pull me back or the forbidding of a coming error or crash. And no, there is nothing at all strange about a shinx running around with the wires of an iPod connected to its head, singing terribly off-key to classic rock music. Nothing strange about it in the slightest.
“I"ve paid my duuuues…time after tiiiiime…I"ve done my sentence…but committed no criiiime…~â€
After running for a couple maps, I easily come to the opening of a cave. “Tiny…Grotto? The dungeon got a name change, then?†I peer down at the cave, which is positioned a couple ledges below. “Looks like it"s pretty low down there. Am I supposed to… jump down there?†It"s only a couple ledges down, so it shouldn"t hurt too much to just leap over a couple ledges, right? I still find it to be rather harsh of the mappers to create an obstacle like this right in the beginning of the game. We"re still getting used to our new pokemon – at least, many of us are!
“Heh, what am I worried about? This shouldn"t be hard. Just one jump and I"ll be down!†With that boost of self-confidence, I prepare to take an epic leap into the air – unfortunately, my back leg somehow trips over the wires of my iTouch and I make somewhat of a screeching noise as I twist upside down in the air and fall painfully on my back on the first ledge. I begin to get up, but as I"m on the edge of the second cliff, my body simply rolls down the next ledge, causing me to do a couple of somersaults before landing in front of the cave"s mouth.
“Ughhnn… what the heck? Are those mappers trying to kill us, or something?!†I cry out, getting back up on four legs and shaking off my fur the way a growlithe would – yeah, I"m still not really used to being shinx still. “Hmm… I wonder if I angered one of the mappers the other day? Let"s see…â€
As I"m contemplating this, I see a yellow movement up above and I look up. A cyndaquil looks down over the edge, then begins to go around the cave, taking a path that I didn"t even realise was there to avoid the ledges. As the cyndaquil makes it down, he looks at me only for a second before wordlessly walking into the dungeon.
“…right. Note to self: Take path next time,†I tell myself, hoping it will stick out in my brain. Despite what people may think, I"m really not the brightest crayon in the box. I tend to jump into things without thinking them through, a quality that often used to get me hurt in the old Pokemon Mystery Universe. But not this time – starting now, I"m going to change that. I"m going to be a lot more cautious here in PMU7.
Finally, I take my step into my first dungeon. Instantly, the screen is flashed black, informing me that I have made it to BF1. Hurray!
When I open my eyes, I am met with a dungeon that is mapped to look quite a lot like Tiny Woods in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games themselves. Up ahead, I can see a sunkern – hoo yeah. That sunkern is in for a beating in about five seconds. Cue motivational music!
“Weeee are the champions, my frieeeeend!†I sing out as I charge toward the grass-type, my voice echoing through the dense brush of the forest. “And weeee will keep fiiiighting, "til the eeeeeend…!†The sunkern NPC notices me, turning around. Yay! Level six, here I come!
“…what are you?†the sunkern asks I approach, appearing a bit terrified. I"m wondering if he"s referring to my actual species as a shinx, but then I realise that its eyes have fallen on the wires of my iTouch stemming from out of my enormously huge shinx ears. I realise I must look like some kind of weird alien that the new NPCs aren"t used to seeing yet – back in PMU6, I listened to music while I went training all the time. I guess I must be one of the first people this sunkern has seen with an iTouch. I really don"t see how it"s weird for a pokemon to listen to an iTouch to make grinding a little less boring and a little more fun.
“I am Wolfy of PMU – a growlithe stuck in the body of a shinx. I am the almighty…SHINXLITHE. Prepare to be terminated!†Hmmm, shinxlithe. Not the most original word but it has a nice ring to it. Heck yes! I am a shinxlithe; that sounds twenty times more awesome than referring to myself as a shinx. Definitely gonna use that.
“No…you!†the sunkern replies. The grass-type slams into me with its frail, seed of a body – however, I still take quite a bit from the blow, being a level 5, and have to stop myself from being forced backwards.
“Oh, so that"s the way you wanna play it, eh? Take this!†I open my mouth, attempting to charge up a flamethrower – wait! Ah crap, I"m not a fire-type anymore. How does one use electric powers, again? Back when I was a shinx in PMU6, we didn"t have any moves! We just used…
The sunkern throws itself at me again, and I take another bad hit to the face, losing precious HP. I probably shouldn"t bother trying to use moves yet, so I"ll just stick to the standard attack button. The CTRL key oughta get things done!
Getting up close to the sunkern, I attempt to use the CTRL key, clicking it many times. However, my body isn"t moving. What is this? Oh, please don"t be lagging again. Now of all times isn"t a good time.
CTRL CTRL CTRL CTRL CTRL.
Despite my efforts, the sunkern doesn"t seem to take any damage. “What? I don"t understand this! What am I doing -†The sunkern hits me again, and I collapse onto the ground in defeat. Wow, I"m weak. I already fainted, and I haven"t killed one thing yet. As I open my eyes, I"m startled to see that I somehow haven"t made it into the crossroads. I"m still here in Tiny Woo – er, Grotto! Why am I still here? I just bloody died!
SMACK.
Give me a break! I pick myself off once again, to see that the sunkern is still trying with all its might to kill me. I just fainted and I didn"t get warped out – I need a minute to catch my breath back. Unfortunately, when an NPC has gotten itself into a fight, it isn"t going to back down.
“Giving up so soon, shinx?†It asks with a smirk. A smirk!
“You already killed me once,†I growled, bringing up a paw to somehow attempt to defend myself in case the seed comes at me again, “Isn"t once enough? It"s not even letting me attack you back! My CTRL key isn"t working for some reason and…oof…!†Quickly, I manage to dodge the flying…creature as it comes back to tackle me. What am I doing, trying to reason with an NPC? Everyone knows that they aren"t going to let down a fight; that"s how they were programmed, of course.
“Nyaarrrgh – get away from me, you fool!†I snap, turning back and and glowering at him with my eyes of greenish-grey.
“Are you kidding? This is fun!†the sunkern laughs, coming at me again. I try to dodge it again, but the server lags a little bit, causing my momentum to slow, and the sunkern manages to get a direct hit on my thigh, sending my tiny body flying a couple feet into the air and slamming into a tree.
Wolfy has fainted! You lost some of your items!
No duh, Sherlock. I get on my feet once again, watching in dismay as the one apple I managed to pick up on the way over topples to the ground and disappears – but now, I"m getting a little tired of having that seed pokemon constantly eat away at my HP. I"m still confused as to why I"m not warping out of this dungeon; to my luck, it must be a bug or glitch of the sorts that"s keeping me here. What"s better, is I can"t seem to fight any of the NPCs back, because the CTRL key apparently doesn"t work to attack enemies anymore. So…now what should I do…? What is it I usually do in situations like these?
Two things: 1.) Scream and 2.) RUNNNNN!!!1!
I start going around, flailing my stubby arms and screaming at the tops of my lungs; that"s right, I"m bookin" this joint! The sunkern NPC follows me and I slam down on my SHIFT key to go at maximum speed. All that is on my mind now is to get out of this terrible place. Never in PMU6 have I ever been faced with something as torturous as a dungeon in which I constantly die without being revived and have no way of which to defend myself.
After freaking out and running all over the place like a crazed loon, I manage to see the wonderful grey tile of stairs ahead and I pick up the pace, determined to get as far away from that killer NPC as possible. As I make it there, I rush down and the screen turns black once more. B2F.
“Holy…Miltank…†I breathe in and out heavily, regaining myself from the wild run. “That was…a close…pant…one…†After sitting for a moment to allow my lungs some much needed oxygen, I get up and head on my way again. I don"t think the rattata and sunkern NPCs will bother me as long as I don"t make direct eye contact. I make my way along the dungeon slowly and as I do, I notice a shiny coin all on its lonesome in the middle of the floor.
“Money!†I laugh greedily, scooping it up off the ground and cradling it to my cheek. “1 Poke…oh, just think of what this baby can buy…†I stash it into my pocket (err…the fur on my hip? Was never really sure how that worked…) and continue onwards.
The rest of my excursion through the dungeon isn"t too bad, really. I manage to get through both B2 and B3F without much of an issue; just as long as I don"t go after them, they usually don"t start chasing after me. I still wonder how I got into a battle with that sunkern anyway, if the CTRL key wasn"t working…now that I think about it, I must"ve somehow clicked something on my keyboard to trigger the NPC to attack me. I just have no idea what…
Anyway, none of that really matters as I make it up to the room where the boss is situated. Across the room is a roselia, who turns around to face me as I enter.
“Ah…you"ve finally arrived,†the grass-type comments, “I really didn"t think you"d be able to survive, but it seems as though you have.â€
“What, do I look weak to you?†I challenge, my tail flicking behind me. Oh, wait. Probably shouldn"t have said that? I really am a genius.
“Unfortunately, that"ll have to change now,†the NPC, a fake NPC says back to me as if it hadn"t even heard me speaking. It brings up one of its roses and prepares to do something with it – I"m not sure what, but whatever it is, it certainly doesn"t look good. “Are you ready? Then let"s begin!â€
…Arceus, help me.
I don"t think there is a more pathetic sight than a shinx running around in circles, being chased by a ferocious roselia. Well…perhaps the even more pathetic would be a shinx running around in circles, being chased by a ferocious sunkern. Seriously, I have no idea what I"m supposed to do. As the roselia nears me, I start clicking random keys on the keyboard to see if any of them will enable me to use my standard attack.
Ifjwb3ldagmx9;…none of these are working! A shadow looms over me and I emit a loud, high-pitched scream as the roselia mercilessly lowers its red rose of death upon me. The last smell that lingers around my nostrils before I die is the lovely, sweet odor of fresh rose petals after an April shower. The stench of failure.
Wolfy has fainted! You have lost some of your items!
“Ohhhh…my head…†Weakly, my eyes open again – but this time, they are greeted by the harsh sunlight rather than a canopy of trees. I look down and see as the 4 poke and one oran berry that I collected have fallen and disappeared. “Nooooo – my money! I lost all of it!†I wail, smacking my fists against the ground, “My money…all my hard earned cash…grooooaaaaah!â€
OK; time to stop being a baby…I"m a big girl and I can handle this. I bring my face back out of the cobblestone tiles and realise – hey, I"ve made it back to the Crossroads! That Tiny Grotto nightmare is finally over! I may have lost all my dough but…at least I"m still alive, and now I"m in a place where I"m safe and secure.
“hey, so wat lvl r u?†one player, a pikachu, asks a fellow charmander, interrupting my thoughts.
“12â€
“O i"m 15†the pikachu replies with confidence, flicking his paw.
“cool. wanna train?†the charmander enquires, grabbing his bag and slinging it over his shoulder.
“sureâ€
…hooow? I watch the two run off together and I facepalm. Well, I guess we all have to start somewhere, right? I might have died and lost nearly everything minus maybe 3 apples…but that"s OK. Everyone fails stupidly sometimes… don"t they?..
Ooch, my head is pounding; I think I might just take a break and explore the Overworld a bit…