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[Post 041] Text/Action for Goldenrod City
[Prose]
[Two years. Two years in this place, and France has nothing to show for it.]
[At least that's how it feels, sitting in the Goldenrod Hotel, overlooking the same, stagnant city (and what a sad example of a metropolitan city it is) with the same, tasteless locals who say the same, inane things. He no longer notices the background music unless he thinks about it, kind of like how he used to tune out the rush of people on Parisian streets or the distant sound of voices between thin-walled apartments. France is adaptable, yes, but that doesn't mean he likes any of this anymore than he did when he first can here.]
[He cannot control this place or its people or any of the strange happenings that occur with disturbing regularity. For all the stagnation of its fixtures, Johto and Kanto seem mutable in a way his world (and, yes, he's been forced to accept the concepts of worlds and universes and that his is only one existence) is simply not. The contradiction of this world's condition is all at once endlessly disturbing and oddly conductive of a dangerous sort of growing apathy.]
[It leaves him in an oppressive state of ennui. He is not entirely indifferent, of course, to the happenings in this world. He does, as he always has, care far too much about what happens around him and to those he's chosen to care about and for. It's the interpersonal relationships--with Envy, with Cooper, with Romano, with so many others come and gone and here again--that keep the acedia from seeping in and turning him into a shadow of him former self like, he's begun to suspect, what the locals themselves once where. It's a sobering thought, one that keeps him up at night and keeps him acutely aware of the danger of his ennui.]
[All of these thoughts, this reflection, it all draws him to the same conclusion. He needs to do something to keep himself active, needs to fill the downtime between the disturbing events of this world with some sort of purpose with what tools he has. France has always been a creature of creativity, of vision, of action, and it's fine time that he find something to do with himself other than despair.]
[Text]
I'm thinking of taking on some of the gyms to give my pokémon a challenge and the opportunity to grace Johto and Kanto with the beauty that is the Republic of France! What is the best advice you can offer to conquer the gyms?
[Two years. Two years in this place, and France has nothing to show for it.]
[At least that's how it feels, sitting in the Goldenrod Hotel, overlooking the same, stagnant city (and what a sad example of a metropolitan city it is) with the same, tasteless locals who say the same, inane things. He no longer notices the background music unless he thinks about it, kind of like how he used to tune out the rush of people on Parisian streets or the distant sound of voices between thin-walled apartments. France is adaptable, yes, but that doesn't mean he likes any of this anymore than he did when he first can here.]
[He cannot control this place or its people or any of the strange happenings that occur with disturbing regularity. For all the stagnation of its fixtures, Johto and Kanto seem mutable in a way his world (and, yes, he's been forced to accept the concepts of worlds and universes and that his is only one existence) is simply not. The contradiction of this world's condition is all at once endlessly disturbing and oddly conductive of a dangerous sort of growing apathy.]
[It leaves him in an oppressive state of ennui. He is not entirely indifferent, of course, to the happenings in this world. He does, as he always has, care far too much about what happens around him and to those he's chosen to care about and for. It's the interpersonal relationships--with Envy, with Cooper, with Romano, with so many others come and gone and here again--that keep the acedia from seeping in and turning him into a shadow of him former self like, he's begun to suspect, what the locals themselves once where. It's a sobering thought, one that keeps him up at night and keeps him acutely aware of the danger of his ennui.]
[All of these thoughts, this reflection, it all draws him to the same conclusion. He needs to do something to keep himself active, needs to fill the downtime between the disturbing events of this world with some sort of purpose with what tools he has. France has always been a creature of creativity, of vision, of action, and it's fine time that he find something to do with himself other than despair.]
[Text]
I'm thinking of taking on some of the gyms to give my pokémon a challenge and the opportunity to grace Johto and Kanto with the beauty that is the Republic of France! What is the best advice you can offer to conquer the gyms?
[Text]
I've done pretty well just making sure my pokemon are all really high leveled
also if you have one with that Flash Fire ability and you're facing one that can make your own moves rebound on you, you can pump up your mon's strength by having them engulf themselves in their own fire attacks!
it's pretty sweet not gonna lie
[Text 1:2]
My Marianne has Flash Fire! I hadn't thought of using her own attacks to the benefit of that ability. Thank you very much for the great idea!
[Text 2:2]
It won't hurt her, will it?
[Text]
haha NOPE see that's the cool thing about that ability!
it doesn't hurt 'em just makes 'em stronger
[Text]
Are there any other abilities that are similar to Flash Fire?
[Text]
uh
haha I don't know actually but probably??
I mean it makes sense for some fire pokemon to have that so maybe there's water pokemon that are immune/boosted by water attacks too
and others.