friendyousohard | 22nd Spell: [Video/Action for Route 38]

[The video clicks on with a view of a Magnezone hovering over the long grass, peering around as though looking for something. After several moments, it turns back to the gear and shakes its body back and forth, looking remarkably like a shaking head.]

Well, it's not surprising. I did have to search for weeks to find you, after all.

[The Magnezone bleeps unintelligibly at the gear. Even those who can understand Pokemon (and other Pokemon themselves) will only hear noises that sound oddly like R2-D2.]

Maybe someone else has one you can talk to. [The gear turns around to show Twilight's face.] A question. Well, two. First off, who out there has a Pokemon from the Magnemite line? And second, does anyone else have... trouble communicating with them? Of course most of us can't understand Pokemon when they talk, but even my other Pokemon can't seem to understand anything Tesla has to say. Are there other Magnemites who seem to have that issue? For that matter, other Pokemon in general? It's something I've never even heard of before.

Hmmm... and on a more general topic, here's something I've been wondering about for a while. If you were to take six Pokemon, start them at level one, and try to train them together as a coherent team, which ones would you pick? I've been considering the idea for a while now, and while I'm not certain it's practical to start right now I'd like to start gathering input.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, there is an entire world out there. If it's anywhere near as big as the ones we came from, I don't know how we'd discover everything.

Oh, of course. ...still, though, you'd expect there to be more information on other inhabited regions of this world for academic purposes, commercial purposes, cultural purposes, or even entertainment purposes.

They do seem strangely insular. Kanto and Johto are decently linked together, but it's so rare to even hear news from the other regions. Countries in your world didn't tend to just... ignore what happened outside their own borders, did they?

I wouldn't say it's something that's ever happened, but it's exceedingly rare, particularly in my era. It'd be one thing if this place seemed entirely backwards, but that clearly isn't the case.

I guess most Equestrians probably didn't think too much about what happened in say, Gryphonia. But we had diplomats and traveling salespeople and the like, so it wasn't like it was hard to get news if you were actually interested in it.

Stranger still, the regions don't even seem to be separate governments. Then again, I've never seen any government bodies in this world higher than city level, unless you count the Pokemon League.

I've been getting some indications that the scarcity of information may be at least partially due to an exaggerated sense of self-importance, so for all we know, we could be missing out on travelers from other regions. Provided they exist, of course.

The Pokemon League seems more like a glorified sporting association. ...then again, given that everyone's lives here seem to revolve around said sport, it's not really that far fetched to assume that it's the closest thing to a government this place has.

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