Introductory log! Welcome to the World of Pokemon!

[worldofnpcs]

WHO: You, and all of you!
WHERE: Vaniville Town!
WHEN: October 28th, morning-time
WHAT: Welcoming party time!

It doesn't matter what you were doing before. How you felt, how things were. Wherever you were, it's gone. A flash of light engulfs your vision and you may instinctively shield your eyes. But nothing is shining at you. Your vision is just gone. Poof. In the literal blink of an eye, there's nothing but darkness.

You try to move, but you're frozen in place. You try to make a sound, but nothing comes out. Eventually, you feel like you're turning, flipping, tumbling... and suddenly a feeling of dizziness washes over you. Slowly, your vision begins to return to you, but everything's blurry.

Eventually, it starts clearing up, and you realize you're not in Kansas wherever it was you were before now. Or doing whatever it was you were doing.

But you're not alone. There seem to be many others near you. All of them have one thing in common, however; there seem to be creatures floating or sitting around the entire group. One is likely looking at you with a confused face, as if it was wondering why you were just standing there. Hey, you're just as confused as the creature is, you wager.

The city you're standing in doesn't seem quite so large; in fact it looks more like a Town. And you're definitely in the middle of a small plaza. A few houses line the area, and it looks like some were newly built sometime recently. In fact, it looks like the entire town has gotten some renovations, though this may not be entirely obvious.

What is obvious, however, are the many white-shirted men and women approaching the entire group, giving you and the others puzzling looks, as if you all were specimens they had never seen before. Eventually, one of them stepped forward, and smiled.

"Hello, everyone! Professor Sycamore sent us to welcome you all to the region of Kalos. The town you are standing in right now is Vaniville Town. We're happy to answer any questions you have right now; my fellow Aides and I will make sure you are all taken care of.

"First, however, it seems most of you have come from different places and times. I think it would be best if you introduced yourselves. Afterwards, we will equip you with the necessary items to enjoy your time here. And we will then answer any questions you have for us. Any at all." He looks over to another Aide for the moment, before turning back to the group. "And as for how we knew you would be here, well, we do have someone watching for any distortions in space-time. In layman's terms, something unknown has brought all of you here, and none of you are the first to arrive here in such a fashion... you're just the largest group to appear thus far."

Well, may as well introduce yourself to all these new (and possibly strange) people. You certainly will have a lot of questions for the Aides.

Comments

Ask the Aides anything!

[worldofnpcs]

The Aides stand ready for anyone to ask any questions they might have whilst introducing themselves to each other.

[fastesthedgehogalive]

'Boy these guys don't look shady in the slightest' was the first thought in Sonic's head. He raises an eyebrow at the 'unknown' part. Could it be the doing of Chaos Emeralds?

"Something unknown? Just what you do mean by that?"

[cleric_stance]

They seem to know a lot about this world - Y'shtola approaches the group of Hyur (?), tail twitching.
"Did you say space-time? How advanced is your analysis of it, might I ask?"

[shutupdib]

"Yeah, I've got a question."

Oh boy, here comes the kinda scary looking little girl with the Shuppet.

"Are there any video games here?"

CLEARLY the most important thing.

[unbroken_chain]

Kotoha stalks up to the Aides, newly-named Kasumi the Froakie perched on her shoulder. She hasn't quite summoned her Persona yet, but she has invoked it, creating a flowing pillar of blue light around her.

"I'm Kotoha. You got any idea why my Pokemon didn't come with me through the rift?"

[thedivineroar]

"...So you guys aren't responsible for this?" That was the first thing on Apollo's mind. He couldn't helping being suspicious considering this was not his first otherworldly experience.

"And why is this animal following me around?" He gestured to the little orange bird beside him. Torchic simply gave him a puzzled looked.

[foundmythirdeye]

I suppose all Pokemon will need to be kept in leashes.

(More meant metaphorically than anything, but the Espeon does have her priorities lined up. Such as if she can comfortably roam around towns or if she'll have to keep to forest and such, like all untamed Pokemon.)

[entercheats]

"Hey, hey..." Nanami approaches the Aides; surely, she is here to ask about her strange situation, right? "...What generation is this?"

...Apparently not. She doesn't even seem perturbed in the least about being here. Actually, for reasons unknown, she looks pretty excited.

[neighfeni]

Have a blue pony trotting up, Mareep and Lillipup at her hooves.

"Ya said Kalos, right? Ah know of it from a friend...how far away is Unova an' Sinnoh?" Gwen'd lived all over, so maybe she could visit her hometown...

[bombastically]

[Honestly? Being here, where she wasn't being chased by hunters was infinitely preferable to Rio. She picks up the small cat-like creature (that, apparently seemed to grow an affinity towards her in such a short amount of time) into her arms, approaching one of the aides with a sweet smile.]

So what you're telling you're telling us is: our presence here wasn't your doing. Have such occurrences happened in the past?

[dynast_king]

[A huff, and a beast seems to be... sulking? A Zoroark is staring out at the crouds of people, listening to the aides - while not approaching them himself.]
Why'd they gather here. Tsk - maybe they brought us here.
[A huff, as he can't help but snarl. Well, there were Humes, and hume-like creatures. Some weren't, but.

What, bitter? Maybe a little.]

[foundmythirdeye]

(Some of that focus may be shifted elsewhere as the Zoroark feels movement in his mane. After a bit of rustling, an Espeon's head finally pops out, taking a deep breath and looking over Vaan's shoulder.)

...It's happened again, hasn't it?

[cleric_stance]

[Y'shtola, meanwhile, is looking around though her strange glasses. Hm - she can't seem to see a large disturbance. She can't simply stay here - the Scions need her. Her ears pressed down, she can't help but be a little worried. Her body was paralyzed like that - something had gone wrong.

But something is also filling her mind - her curiosity is peaked. What sort of world is this? What could have brought her here?

So, don't mind her approaching the creatures, after - wait. What was that odd glimmer around her? Of course she is gonna buff herself before she approaches.]

Are these creatures friendly, I wonder.

[brilliantdeception]

[Clive took notice of Y'shtola approaching his Mawhile. He didn't say anything to her at first, his Mawhile was doing it for him anyway with how agitated she looked at Y'shtola's approach.

Clive meanwhile was distracted by her appearance. Those looked like cat ears on her head and a tail? And what was that light just now?]

I'd be careful around this one. She doesn't seem to like anyone but me. [Strike some small talk. It be rude to just outright ask about her appearance.]

[twotailedgenius]

[It took a moment or two for Tails to collect himself. He definitely heard what the Aides were saying, but it took him a bit to process it. Eventually, he shook his head, and realized what was sitting beside him - a Vulpix.

That was a Pokemon! He looked at it, as it looked back at him just as quizzically. And now he's going to kind of look at the other people who came in with him, seeing if he knew anyone...]

[fastesthedgehogalive]

Oh good, a familiar face. The Vulpix is new, but he's not bothered by it.

"Yo Tails! Who's your little buddy?"

Sonic doesn't seem to notice that a Pidgey is following him just yet.

[lovesignmasterspark]

[Marisa honestly didn't care where they were, so much that they were whisked off to this place without any warning. Ignoring the fact she had a Misdreavous following her, she went right over to the Aides to bug them.

Of course, anyone else could interrupt her before or after that![

[wingedpiano]

[As for Machi? He has simply taken his place away from the crowd, to the creatures. And gotten out a keytar, to gently start to play music. As he played, a Lapras approached, and started to hum.]
You are being my starter, then?
[A nod, and Machi nodded back. He'd miss his old Pokemon - he grew attached to them. Tsk. He'll find a way to get them back... or simply move on from them again. That's his fate, the fate of loneliness.]
What song is yours?

[thedivineroar]

[Apollo was taking a walk around the town just to get an idea of where he was stuck now when he came across Machi and what looked something like the loch ness monster. So another one of those Pokemon? Being distracted by the large creature, it took him a while to get a better look at the person beside the Pokemon. There was something familiar about this trainer, and yet not quite how he remember.

Those glasses, the keytar, the rough english.....wait.]

Machi?

[cansolvepuzzlestoo]

[Well... this was new. Last thing she remembered she was making tea back at the Professor's house, and now... she had no idea where he or any of the others were. Who were all these strange people?

She tried to keep to herself for the most part, but of course she was keen to not looking where she was going, and would likely bump into someone on accident.

She also had a little electric mouse following her around, calling 'Chu! Chu! Chuuuu~!' So there was that.]

[brilliantdeception]

[And she'll bump right on into Clive. When he turned to face her, he was startled upon recognizing who it was.]

-! Flora? [Well, this could end badly.]

Combo Gaz and Dib opening post! \o/

[shutupdib]

Once the world stops spinning, Gaz proceeds to give the bright, sunny town and the collection of other people - aides and all - a cursory glance and immediately dismiss them. Not that she's not listening to their drivel with half an ear, just in case it's important, but still.

First things first, she checks her pockets. Her Game Slave 2 is still there. Good. Secondly, she takes better stock of her surroundi-

Oh. Great. Her stupid brother is here too, and it looks like the trip knocked him out, if him being sprawled on the ground with an equally stupid-looking fish flopping around next to him is any indication.

The floating puppet thing that's been hovering over Gaz's shoulder floats down, looks at him, and looks back at Gaz.

"Pffft." She huffs, crossing her arms. The ghost seems to take that as a go-ahead, and gleefully aims an absolutely ear-shattering screech at Dib.

Well, if anyone hadn't noticed the two kids before, they sure would now.

[myheadisnotbig]

"AAAAnghlGAHpfNEH--"

Her brother flails and screams for longer than would be strictly necessary when the little creature screeches at him. Then he looks at the creature.

"AAAH!"

And the fish.

"AAAAAH!"

And the people in white labcoats.

"AAAAAAH!!"

And finally as his sister, who is no doubt irritated with his yelling by now.

"AAAAAH! GAZ! Where are we? Who are these people?! Why am I cuddling with a fish?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"

[fantasyseal]

[There is one person who looks oh so THRILLED by this. Reimu immediately moved away from the group, trying to figure out what exactly is going on here..but not bothering to ask questions or even approach anyone. Reimu is in 'This is stupid and I want nothing to do with this' mode..

Although she keeps looking back at the Eevee that keeps bothering her.]

Seriously, knock it off....

[lovesignmasterspark]

Betcha we know who's behind this. [You can't escape her that easily, Reimu. Marisa may not be able to fly, but she's still gonna stand right in front of the miko with a grin on her face.] And what this all means.

[strengthinkindness]

...This again?

Fluttershy sighed softly. Finding herself in a new world was certainly becoming a strange recurrence. First she checked herself over, to see if being transported to a different world gave her a different form, and quickly realized that she appeared human, but with her feathered wings. Just as she had been in the Digital World.

As she looked herself over, though, she noticed that there seemed to be a small creature sitting by her feet. Blinking, she knelt down to be more eye level with it.

"Hello, little one...Are you lost?"

The creature gave a reply, that most others wouldn't understand. Fortunately, she wasn't most others.

"Oh...! You're a Pokemon? And you...said you were mine?"

It gave another cry in answer.

"Oh goodness...! Well, it's very nice to meet you...Scatterbug, you said?"

The Pokemon, Scatterbug, once again answered in its Pokemon way.

"Oh, that's what you are. Well, we'll have to come up with a good name for you, then..."

Scatterbug gave a happy cry, and Fluttershy giggled softly. Engaged as she was in her conversation with her Scatterbug, she might not notice if other people are watching her.

[twotailedgenius]

After having figured out the situation they were in, Tails decided he needed to introduce himself to at least a few other people. Of course, he also didn't want to interrupt the girl talking to her new Pokemon. But eventually, when the talking stopped, before he could say a word, his Vulpix let out a happy cry and bounded around him.

It was certainly a bit hyper, that's for sure.

[unbroken_chain]

After her conversation with the Aides, Kotoha took the time to calm down considerably, and now she's just hanging out with her new starter buddy, calling out to the newcomers in general.

"Hey! Anyone here need a rundown on what Pokemon are?"

[neighfeni]

A tall blue pony in armor trots over, unease in her steps. Not the sort of unease of not being used to it, but the unease of being here at all.

"Um...Ah know a lil' 'bout 'em, but what's these?"

She points at the Lillipup and Mareep that're walking beside her. "My doggie Daisy got turned into the puppy." Daisy yips in greeting. Hello, stranger! "An'...this one's followin' me, an' ain't right sure what it is, 'sides a sheep. Ain't a Whimsicott, for sure." Maaa, the sheep bleats.

[brilliantdeception]

Option A
[Clive had arrived laying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. His pokemon, a Mawile was standing close by his body, almost as if she was guarding him. She certainly became wary of those who approach. Perhaps she be less hostile if people can convince her that they weren't a threat and want to help.]

Option B
[After Clive was back on his feet, he could be seen wandering through the crowd, his steps uneven as if he was still disorientated. Mawile followed closely behind him, uncertain of her trainer's condition or what to do. His mind was filled with so many thoughts, how everything he had planned out for years to exact revenge had crumbled, how he was sure he should have died back there and yet here he was, still breathing. Why? So he could live with the fact he failed? Yes, that must be his punishment for trying to rid the corruption and punish those who hide behind their power over society. Ha.

While this was going on, Clive wasn't fully paying attention to where he was walking and will likely bump into someone by accident.]

Oh, pardon me. I wasn't watching where I was walking.

B

[foundmythirdeye]

It happens to the best of us.

(Why yes, that was an Espeon he almost tripped over and no, he wasn't imagining that voice being beamed directly into his head. Telepathy is weird, but at least this Pokemon seems friendly enough.)

[neighfeni]

Nephenee had been sleeping peacefully in her bed when the change occurred, shocking her to consciousness. And though it, all she could feel was panic.

No, not again!

When she regained her sight, the girl looked around, and felt a deep sense of unease and more than a bit of sadness. ...Horsefeathers... She wasn't in Equestria anymore..these were humans, mostly. Her family and friends..her Commune...Instinctively, her hand - no, hoof - went to her shoulder, and she felt the weight of her armor and weapon shift. At least the Wishblade was here, as was the items she'd checked for, a lance pin and shield pin interlocked to keep her cloak fastened. Her bracelet was there too. Good.

A small yip was heard, and looking down, Nephenee saw a small, furry brown dog at her heels, and knowing exactly who it was, she scooped up the pup. "Aw, Daisy...ya got changed again...what are ya, anyway?" A bark of "Lil!" was her answer, and she sighed. And then, a bleat! Shocked, Nephenee spun, and a little yellow sheep, not half her height, maa'd in greeting. "Oh, hello! Um...what are ya? 'Sides a sheep, Ah mean?"

"Maar!"

"..."

It was about now, as she shifted to look at it, she realized that she wasn't human again. Rather, what others will see is a blue pony decked in armor sitting on her hocks, a small brown dog and a bigger yellow sheep nearby. She looks rather lost, and, as she pushes her helm down over her face more, a bit shy.

[fantasyseal]

After a while, Reimu started wandering about, trying to figure things out. This was just screaming incident over and over in her head. And at this point? She could not ignore it any longer. Her Eevee was riding on her shoulder for the moment when the miko stopped dead.

Was that a talking blue horse...? Okay. Qualified for strange and that's what brings her to speak.

"So...what made you learn to speak? Because that's slightly weird."

[ahogay]

[Hinata is so shocked and confused by this entire situation that it takes him a pretty long while to really snap out of it and pay attention to his surroundings. He'd caught the aides' initial explanation, at least, although it didn't really make sense to him. So many SHSL Spoilers on his mind right now, but eventually he looks down and notices an Eevee sitting right by his feet, looking up at him expectantly.]

Huh?

[Startled, he takes a few steps back, but the little brown fox thing just gets up follows after him, which only makes Hinata back up even more. Clearly the Eevee isn't going to leave him alone, though. It stops in front of him and starts whining at him.]

What do you want from me...?

[Someone clearly isn't very good with animals.]

[entercheats]

[Immediately upon spotting Hinata, Nanami makes her way over towards him; she hadn't been expecting any of her classmates being here, but she's certainly happy that there is at least someone she knows here, especially so since it's Hinata. Not to say that she would've been dissatisfied if it were another person, but...out of everyone from Jabberwock Island, he's definitely the one that Nanami could say she was the closest to.]

Wow, Hinata-kun...you got an Eevee as a starter!

[And besides her, a Porygon floats. Nanami doesn't seem surprised at all, as if it's an everyday occurrence.]

Eevee is well-known for its multiple evolutions...you're really lucky.

[entercheats]

This is pretty cool, right? I've never played in this region before...Kalos, right? I'm pretty excited.

[Who is Nanami talking to...who knows? From a glance, it seems that she's speaking to the Porygon hovering in front of her...or rather, it would be appropriate to say that the Pokémon is the only one who's around to listen to her ramblings. She glances around the area, taking in the new unfamiliar scenery.]

Although, the storyline isn't exactly the same as the previous games...usually, you start in your bedroom, and then you go outside and meet your friends and also your rival, then you go to meet the professor of that region and receive your starter Pokémon...and then you and your rival battle as a test of strength! That's usually how it goes, but...this is totally different. ...If it means we get a new generation, then...I don't really mind it that much...I think.

[Though, in the meantime, she'll just remain a little bit miffed. She'll get over it eventually, though.]

[unbroken_chain]

Hey, wait, is that...?

Kotoha walks a little closer, Froakie on her shoulder.

"Nanami? Is that you?"

Combo time with Apollo and Clay!

[thedivineroar]

[This was exactly how Apollo wanted to find himself after finishing a trial, flat on the ground with someone laying on top of him. Perfect. And there were two weird looking animals watching them, at least for now.

One looked like an orange bird and the other a pink star. They kept saying some word he didn't know, but he at least figured they weren't much help with his situation. Also...pretty sure he wasn't near any grassy place like this in the first place. Did it happen again?

Well, he'll work that out as soon as he could get up.]

Hey, can you get off of me alread- [As he turned, he soon realized that this was someone very familiar to him. The GYAXA jacket, the face of a space obsessed bro.] CLAY!?

[blueearth]

[ Going from one place to another like this was strange, but at the same time welcome. Better than going to the afterlife, right?

Well... unless the afterlife had strange creatures saying something strange while he finishes getting his bearings and realizing that he's on top of someone. And the moment that someone opened his big mouth he knew who it was. ]

Apollo? Hey! [ Glad you're here buddy. Clay will shuffle off his best friend. ] Sorry about that. Don't know what happened. Just one place one moment and the next thing I knew you were underneath me. Strange, huh?