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[walkersystem]

[Video! Molly's sitting on a park bench in Cherrygrove, a Natu and a shiny Sentret fighting for space in her lap.]

I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me last time. I can't remember everyone's names, but thanks.

[There were a lot of you people. But she does appreciate it, which is why she's reaching out again.]

But ... okay, I have to ask a few things. I've heard people talk about badges, what are those?

And ... well, what are pokémon supposed to eat?

[Video tilts to show the pokémon she's concerned for, then back up to Molly's face.]

They've kind of been eating my food, but I don't know if that's good for them. But I haven't really found anything in those stores either, like bird food or ... dog food or anything like that. So if anyone could help me with that that'd be great.

[Action if anyone in Cherrygrove wants to bump into her!]

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[bertall]

Badges are sort of like a little prize, or at least that's how I've been seeing it. When you beat a gym and get the badge, you also get some money and a new move you can teach to your pokemon, and the ability to use a special one wherever you want. Like... flying. If you have one that knows Fly and you beat uh...

_{[Give him a second here to remember the name. It's been a little over a year since he took him on... Ah!]}

Falker, I think? A-Anyway, if you beat him you can basically fly wherever you want, whenever you want instead of walking around. I think all of the bigger towns have a gym and it doesn't really matter which order you get them in, but... some of them can be pretty tough.

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[walkersystem]

They can't learn flying on their own?

_{[That's what she's gonna take away from this for starters, but she does appreciate all that info!]}

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[bertall]

W-Well, they can fly like normal birds and stuff on their own, but there's a move that lets them carry you around called Fly.

_{[He knows what it's like to be a new person in town!]}

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[stitchedupbodyguard]

Pokémon seem to eat just about anything. Human food, Pokémon food... They also eat Pokepuffs, but I guess you're not supposed to just feed them those.

[at least, Veronica hoped not. Hmm. Pausing ever so briefly, she hoped that her Sylveon wasn't getting fat off the veritable truckload of pastries she was eating.]

I think they sell some healthier stuff in the stores.

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[walkersystem]

Oh, are they like candy? I don't think I've seen those.

_{[She hasn't seen much of anything around. Cherrygrove has limited everything.]}

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[stitchedupbodyguard]

They're these little pastries. They're multicolored and some have more toppings on them then others. I think they're originally from this region called Kalos, that some of us got to go to a little while ago.

[She pauses again, frowning...]

Don't eat them, though, Molly. [She stated, almost urgently, as thought trying not to forget.] They taste awful to Humans.

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[awesmazings]

Hiya Molly! Glad to see you got to Cherrygrove okay. And woah, you got a Sentret, that's awesome!

[And a shiny one too, by the looks of it. Which makes a little more sense to him now that his sparkly red skunk hatched not all that long ago.]

Badges are things you win when you beat the different gym leaders in towns all over Johto and Kanto! It's good to have badges cause Pokemon of higher levels you got in trades will listen to you if you have the right ones, and some badges you need if you want to be able to fly or surf n'stuff.

And like Roni said, Pokemon can eat pretty much anything! But like, those berries I told you about? They can eat those just fine, along with Pokepuffs and things like that.

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[walkersystem]

Hi Jimmy!

<sub>[Smiles big!! She likes you a lot.]

[And is distracted by you referencing other people.]</sub>

Hey, you can hear her too? How does that work?

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[awesmazings]

Oh, right- well, most things you post on the Network are public! You can make posts anonymously if you got something to say that you don't want others to see, or you can lock a conversation if you're good at that sorta thing.

So just somethin' to keep in mind! Just in case you wanna talk about something and don't really want everybody seeing it. Most of the time it's a good idea to know the 'Gear numbers of friends so you can talk to them that way if you wanna just talk privately or whatever.

[in_praetego]

They're not really picky eaters so... you could probably feed them anything and they'll be fine.

[ At least his aren't complaining. ]

Most of them seem to like berries. As for your question about badges...

[ He'll turn to fumble in his pack for a second before holding up a shiny little bauble -- his Zephyr badge. ]

This is a badge. It's proof that you were able to beat a gym leader.

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[walkersystem]

_{[She leans closer to see it, really curious about it.]}

It's pretty!

Which one is that from? Jimmy said there are a lot of gyms.

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[in_praetego]

[ He can feel his ears turning slightly red from that. He's never been one to brag but this one seems to be new if she's asking about gyms, after all. ]

This one's called the Zephyr Badge from the gym in Violet City. It's the first badge I ever got.

[ And he'll just hold it up a bit closer to the screen to let her get a better look. ]

Jimmy's right in saying that. There's a gym in almost every town. So... counting the gyms in Kanto, that makes eight and even the ones in Johto brings that to a total of sixteen gyms.

[neededlassie]

[Oh wow a kid. A kid!!

Time to be super helpful.]

Pokemon aren't that hard to feed, they're usually pretty good about letting you know what they like and what they don't.

And if you're out on the routes, they can usually find their own food okay. Just don't eat any berries that they bring you, sometimes the little ones don't know any better that berries make humans sick.

I'm Shaun; what's your name?

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[walkersystem]

_{[wow yes hello! That is helpful even if Molly's not keeping up exactly, but she just kind of laughs a little at the way he rambles at her.]}

I'm Molly. _{[small wave!]} Hi Shaun.

Have you been here really long, too?

[yes sorry, video 5ever]

[neededlassie]

[He would be even more excited if you were a boy because it has been A While since he's seen another boy around his age. No offense.]

Hi Molly, it's nice to meet you.

Yeah, I have. I've been here... Oh jeez. It's been almost two years.

I guess you're new here.

[pinnedbangs]

...There's stuff that's way better for them than our kinda food.

[That's how he sees it, anyway.]

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[walkersystem]

What kind of stuff?

[video] i forgot it xD

[pinnedbangs]

You already know about the berries, but there's some homemade food you can make 'em if you know what they like.

[Rin says this quietly and deliberately. It would be bad to scare off a little kid rather than give her some well-meaning advice. Kids were cute, but if even his peers thought he was a trouble maker at first sight, who was to say a little kid would think any differently?]

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[goestoextremes]

[Oh no, she's cute! But seeing that others already answered a lot of questions here, and no, she's not going to go through all the stuff... This may or may not be new info.]

They're something that take a lot of traveling, badges I mean, and the further away the city is, the more levels the gym leader's pokemon has. So your pokemon need fighting experience and it takes time get them to the higher levels.

[Wait. Thinking back to her first time here.]

...Well, unless if you go with the ferry to Kanto, then Viridian is the exception. Because it's actually the one with Kanto's highest leveled gym, even though it's the city right after Pallet -- that's where the ferry goes to!

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[walkersystem]

How do you know what level your pokémon is? What does that mean?

_{[Going straight for what was both most interesting and most confusing, so that's absolutely new information. Thank you in advance, friendly nearly adult!]}

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[goestoextremes]

You can check it with this device! It has a thing called PokeDex in it, that knows a lot about the pokemon you have and even the ones you encounter. You just need to point the top of this device to a pokemon and it will tell you levels and much more. Pokemon gain more skills, or attacks, when they gain more levels -- and they also evolve if their evolution depends on their level.

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[codeforhope]

Hopefully they don't take to eating your food too often...my Linoone seems to enjoy human food more than he does anything else.

[Which can be a problem when he's trying to beg for scraps always.]

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[walkersystem]

It's not too bad. But I thought since chocolate is poisonous to dogs maybe there's something we shouldn't feed them.

_{[Pokémon that is, not dogs.]}

What's a Linoone?

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[foolishwren]

I'm sure someone's talked about the badges already, but as for food, most Pokemon are practically living vacuum cleaners. They'll eat just about anything.

But if you wanna feed 'em what's GOOD for 'em, you're probably best off pickin' berries in the woods or buying kibble and Poke-chow in the stores. They sell 'em in just about every Mart so it shouldn't be too hard to find whatever's best for yours. I think they divide 'em up by Egg Group, but I could be wrong. I don't know much about the Breeding side of things. I just kinda grab stuff off the shelves.

_{[... AND SHE'S REALLY GUILTY OF FEEDING HER POKEMON HUMAN FOOD MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.]}

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[walkersystem]

_{[Yep she's heard some of this by now but let's just leap for the New Thing in that info load]}

What's an egg group?

Is that to do with why they all hatch out of eggs? Which is really weird, by the way.