travel across the land | Glowfic Constellation

Gah. Have P$50. (P$1503 remains in her wallet.) Can this hiker at least escort her to the Cerulean City end of the cave, since her only other Pokemon is poisoned?

The Cerulean City end is pretty far away, and there were some really annoying people back there. She'd really rather escort her to the Pewter end instead.

Yeah, okay. Back she goes.

The Pokemon center here is just as good as the ones everywhere else. And the day is still young; she can go right back to the cave as soon as she's done healing her team.

All right, she will try that again. Let's go, Basauw and co.!

Hey, that rhymes!

This time she gets a lot farther in. Zubats fall before her in their hordes. So do a couple of geodudes, unless she wants to catch one of them instead.

Nah, she doesn't want a Geodude.

Does she manage to get to the far end of the caves?

She gets within sight of them, at least. But between her and the exit is a narrow place, where two of those people in all red are staring at something on the wall.

Well, she really wants to get to Cerulean City, soooo... Taptaptap. "Excuse me, I'd like to get past."

"Why are you talking out of a box? Wait, never mind that! Go away! You can't have my fossils!"

Well, at least the first jerk about how she communicates is firmly in the "opinions not worth beans" category. It still stings, though.

"I'm not here for your fossils. I'm just going to Cerulean City."

The red-clothed man says "Well, you'll have to go through me! Let's fight!" and releases a Koffing.

Ah-huh. Basauw, get 'im.

The goon yells attacks at his Pokemon; when they get hit, he says "get up" angrily instead of encouraging them. At one point the Koffing misses an attack and he says "How could you miss?!" His Pokemon (the Koffing and a Geodude) seem kind of dispirited at all the yelling, and Gwen promptly hands him his rear end.

Having to type it before she can say "Why are you so mean to your Pokemon?" is an effective way to prevent her from saying it, but her face is probably yelling it pretty loudly anyway. Man, what a jerk. Is he going to let her go to Cerulean City now? Also, is he enough of a jerk to not pay up?

He pays up, and pretty well too (P$40!) but he doesn't look happy about it. And then he has to run off to heal, leaving her with a clear path to Cerulean City and two fossils sticking out of the wall in front of her. One is a dome-shaped thing with bits sticking out; the other is a spiral. Both of them look like they could be broken off the wall with a good yank.

(P$1543 total!)

Hmmm... yeah, ok, the crazy cultist or mob minion or something was really interested in these fossils, but what's the worst that could happen? Yoink. Bag. Cerulean City.

There's a Pokemon center and a store and a gym, of course. There's also a couple flyers on street lamp poles, and a house with a broken window and a uniformed officer outside.

Oh dear. If there's an officer outside the house then the broken window can't just have been an accident. Probably nothing she needs to worry about, though. What do the flyers say?

One of them says "Will trade Jynx for Poliwhirl", and below that "Well-trained, friendly Jynx doesn't get along with my Growlithe and needs a good home; will trade for any poliwhirl" and a phone number. The other is a request for help clearing out an attic, with payment of P$30 plus choice of the stuff the attic-owner doesn't end up keeping.

Hmmmmm does the attic cleaning request have a phone number? If it does she'll heal up her team and then text that number to offer her help.

Yup, there's a number! Texting the number produces an address; going to the address reveals an elderly woman with a Pidgeot. "Hello there! Are you the kid who offered to help with my boxes?"

Taptap. "Yes!"

"Great! The way I want to do this is, you bring things down the stairs, I sort them into these "keep" and "throw away" piles, and then we take the "throw away" pile to the donation center except you get first pick of anything you want from it."