[There's not a whole lot of preamble here- Osaka just switches on her 'gear and starts talking, looking VERY SERIOUS as she sits in the Pokecenter.]So I was just wonderin'... Squirtle's a water-type, right? An' it's this tiny turtle that evolves into Wartortle an' Blastoise? I kinda get the 'tortle' part of Wartortle, and the 'blast' part of ( Read more... )

[It's barely been a few days since Osaka returned from Olivine- but she got right to work challenging Whitney for that badge (read: wandered into the Gym on accident and ended up in a fight). Osaka won handily, and she now has the Plain Badge in her possession ( Read more... )

[The video feed opens up to show... well, it's Osaka, leaning against the wall outside the Pokemon Center. For once, she's looking a little less airheadedly cheerful than usual, but that's mostly because-]

... Sakaki's gone home. Her number's disconnected, most of her stuff's gone, an' I haven't seen her Pokemon anywhere.

[There's a beat as the ( Read more... )

[There is a Slakoth- some kind of sloth-like creature that's flopped out onto the ground and dragging itself along in super-slow motion. Osaka is, for some reason, following her Pokemon through the forest. Given their pace, this means that they're going at about 1 inch/minute, and Osaka's taking something like 1 step per 5 minutes ( Read more... )

[Without any further ado, there's a girl standing in the middle of a road in Violet. In her right hand, a Pokegear; in her left, the threads/legs of a Drifloon valiantly trying to airlift her to parts unknown.]

[Osaka doesn't seem particularly worried, though.] Hey, does anyone have another balloon I could borrow? There's somethin' I wanna try.