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Laios Touden ([personal profile] dunchies) wrote in [community profile] bottlecaplogs2025-04-12 05:20 pm

APRIL CATCH-ALL

Who: Laios, his fellow questers, and you!
What: Exploring the market and collecting some shrooms
Where: Bottlecap Bay, the Forest
When: Throughout April
Warnings: Will be added as needed
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-04-19 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah! Yes, quite far indeed! Though I have a friend who traveled there from Galar - I think he has mentioned the species, actually!

[Ingo knows a fair amount of Galar trivia, considering that he spent a while thinking that he might have come from there.]

Bravo! I am a fire and ghost type! Ghost and dark do often share rather similar aesthetics, and both that and the fire typing are far more visible when I am in battle!

[He ignites his collar, not as fully as he might if he were in a real battle but certainly enough to be visible.]
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-04-29 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed! Usually, ghosts who are not particularly...hm, phantasmal have another type as well...though that is certainly not to say that a dual-typed ghost could not be that way! There are really very few hard-and-fast rules like that, when it comes to Pokemon forms and typings!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-04 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
They're not! It's not the most common, but it certainly happens! There are grass-and-water Pokemon, and ghost-and-dark - that sort of thing! Emmet, my brother, is a ghost-and-normal type! It's a particularly interesting combination, ghost types are usually completely immune to all normal-type moves, and vice versa!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-05 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
It is very strong defensively! He is only extra vulnerable to dark-type moves, outside of certain very specific conditions! There are fighting-types that learn a move which allows them to strike ghosts, but they must use that successfully first, and Emmet's quite fast! He could get in some good hits while they set up!

[Of course it can be a viable strategy anyway in the right conditions - but it's complex! That's what makes it fun!]
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-06 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
It certainly could! He cannot take many hits - or, well, his species typically cannot! I have not seen him in such a serious fight since we got here.

[Serious in tone, certainly, but the Swoobat didn't come that close to knocking Emmet out!]

There are also some Pokemon that have special abilities that can allow them to strike a ghost! In battle, things are rarely entirely clean-cut - there are always strategies one can employ to counter even significant advantages!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-09 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
There are berries that can affect things like that, yes! Though they typically only work when consumed in a pinch, and they're rather rare! There are also some that weaken certain specific types of damage, but only when it is super-effective!

[Ingo. Does not pick up on this! He'll be mortified when he realizes his own failure to introduce himself, but just now he's too interested in the conversation.]

Ah, well - it is a bit difficult to test, considering, but Emmet believes - and I agree - that it is most likely Blaze! It means that my flames will burn hotter when I am hurt!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-11 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It certainly can be! Sometimes it helps turn the tide of what seemed to be a losing battle!

[And just about here is where he has his realization about their total lack of introductions.]

Ah! But I have been terribly rude! My name is Ingo! I was a Warden, at home, but I suppose that doesn't matter very much here...
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-13 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
It is good to meet you as well!

Yes, my brother Emmet and I are both from a world with Pokemon in it! We are the only ones, as far as I know...it certainly does provide an advantage! That is why we have both been trying to help everyone else! Much of this would be difficult to learn through trial and error! The local Pokemon are doing a great deal as well, of course, but we ought to pitch in as we can!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-19 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, now there is Miss Akari as well...

[But, Alola? That's nothing to do with her. Ingo's facial expression doesn't change at all - it really hasn't done much beyond a resting frown the entire time they've been speaking, in spite of his apparent interest - but he does sound concerned.]

Ah, but. When I first arrived, that same day, there was a fellow from Alola there as well. But I only got to speak with him once, quite briefly, and then he vanished again. That has happened sometimes - once or twice they have returned, sometimes with a different form, but mostly not.

[A concerning topic. Though, that was a man, and this new person sounds to be a woman...]

I had not heard another had arrived! What sort of Pokemon is she?
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-19 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We do not! Alola's quite far away, though, and a series of islands besides! It is quite interesting - I met a traveler from there once, and he had a number of Vulpix with him! They live in Hisui as well, but ours are red and fire-types, while his were white and ice-and-fairy type! He said that there, they live on a snowy mountain!
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[personal profile] offtracks 2025-05-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid he did not know much about it! As far as he was concerned, Vulpix had always lived in that mountain, and our fire-types were the strange ones!

[Ingo imagines someone brought them to Alola on a boat, ages and ages ago, but who knows how they ended up in the mountains, doing all that?]