>>36017685
>Offer the girl a bar. Maybe she wants to talk?

>>36017713
>>36017685
Second

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>>36017713
>>36017718
>>36017685

Good to seeya, good to meetcha anons.

>writing

>>36017765
Why, never expected to seea fella chim-ney sweep 'ere.

>>36017765
>>36017765
I must be out on the joke, but yeah. Sweeping chimneys and all that.

>>36017685
>Offer the girl a bar. Maybe she wants to talk?
Are we playing a neckbeard?

>>36017685
>>Screw that! You rarely got the two best R-Bars to yourself.

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>>36017765

You mentally go over your choices here.
A) Be a jerk.
B) Make friends with food.

You sigh internally, and then you realize that company is better than a long train ride. It hurts. It really hurts, but you run your thumb over the banana bar a couple times, staring at it with a deep, spiritual longing in your eyes. It was a short affair that you had; passionate, fiery. You would always have…. What does the trench coat guy say in that old pre-Dark movie? Paras? You don’t particularly know why, but you would always have Paras. You hold the bar up to the girl.

“Would you like one? It’s banana. Got it before I left this morning.”

She smiles at you. She has a friendly smile. It’s not like she’s faking it or only smiling because if she doesn’t then you’ll be mean to her. It’s really honest… you guess the word is genuine?

“One second,” she says, and then she disappears back behind the back of her seat. You can hear some rummaging, and then she pops back up. “I really appreciate it,” She then shakes her head quickly with a “But no thanks! I actually brought some homemade food! I can’t take your food when I have a bunch.” She holds up a SILPH-lock plastic container with what looks to be sandwiches inside. “Would you like some?”

>Yes. You’d never turn away free sammiches!
>No thanks. You can’t take away her homemade sandwiches.
>Why don’t we have some of the other’s food? That’s fair.

"My name's Dani, by the way. What's yours?"

>The main character is male.
>Name suggestions?
>Also, please suggest a color (This doesn't have any serious ramifications, just flavor).

>>36018039
>Yes. You’d never turn away free sammiches!
Take the minimum amount.

>Name suggestions?
Enkidu.

>Also, please suggest a color (This doesn't have any serious ramifications, just flavor).
Grey.

>>36018057
I think he meant a name as a color, like in the games and manga and whatnot.

>Yes. You’d never turn away free sammiches!

>Name suggestions?
Pink, cause it would be funny.

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>>36017817
No, you're just a little social / not used to a lot of socialization. It's a product of the setting.

Note to self for future research: Is an MC, composed of the thoughts of hundreds of neckbeards, a neckbeard by composition?

>>36018086
>I think he meant a name as a color, like in the games and manga and whatnot.
What's wrong with Grey man?

>>36018039
>>No thanks. You can’t take away her homemade sandwiches.

Name
Sam

Colour
Purple

>>36018039
>Yes! Free shit.
>Name suggestions?
Grey
>Also, please suggest a color (This doesn't have any serious ramifications, just flavor).
Grey

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>>36018101
Goddamn it man. Stop reminding me of my shitty childhood.

>>36018104
Nothing at all. I just thought Enkidu was the name suggestion.

For clarification!

The name and color are separate (but can be the same if you really want. That's fine too.)

We will go with the first vote to receive 2 second's.

Bear with me everyone, and I hope to make this vote fair / end well.

>>36018101
That's not how composition works.
So, no.

>>36018109
Yeah, sure. Let's go with Grey for both.

>>36018057
Second

>>36018138
Ah, alright then. Sorry for shitting up the thread then.

>>36018109
lol why not

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>>36018170
No worries at all, Anon! Just have fun. That's all that matters.

>>36018178
>>36018153
>>36018161
Grey/grey it is!

>writing

should have gone with
>Barney
>purple

>>36018228
Should've gone with Burt/Black.

>>36018220

You give a tiny smile back, and you feel your heart grow two sizes that da- okay, no, it’s actually your stomach growling. Close enough, though. “I’d love some, actually. Thanks!” You take a moment to put your supplies back under your seat and then scoot towards the window. “Why don’t you sit here and we can eat together?”

A few minutes later and you’re digging into a – you think it’s some kind of bird-flavor – meat paste sandwich with mustard and some dark greens. “This is really good!” A few crumbs spill from your mouth as you talk, “You made this yourself?”

“Yeah! I thought it would be important to teach myself how to make tasty food before I left on my Tour. You’re going to the Peninsula, right?”

“Mhm.” You nod vigorously instead of talking. Too busy chewing. And swallowing. Ah man, this so beats R-Bars.

“Me too! Maybe we can travel together. You can pay me R-Bars for real food.” She laughs a little, then resumes eating her own sandwich.

“Hey, I love R-Bars! I don’t even know what makes them so good, but I used to eat them all the time…”

> What is your background?
> At home when my parents were out working and I wasn’t in school. I was raised in a smaller community and I had a pretty nice upbringing with my family. (Rich in “love” but not in wealth.)
> At the Housing Facility. Not many of the other clones liked banana, so they usually gave them to me. I had to hide the extras from the Caretakers, though. (Fringe of society. Independent kid.)
> When I was out walking around the city. My mom (single parent) was always pretty busy, but my tutors and the housing staff wouldn’t let me eat too many at home. (Father died in war. Single mom. Well to do, but lonely.)

>>36018456
>> When I was out walking around the city. My mom (single parent) was always pretty busy, but my tutors and the housing staff wouldn’t let me eat too many at home. (Father died in war. Single mom. Well to do, but lonely.)
We "comforted" her.

>>36018456
>> When I was out walking around the city. My mom (single parent) was always pretty busy, but my tutors and the housing staff wouldn’t let me eat too many at home. (Father died in war. Single mom. Well to do, but lonely.)

>>36018456e
> At home when my parents were out working and I wasn’t in school. I was raised in a smaller community and I had a pretty nice upbringing with my family. (Rich in “love” but not in wealth.)

>>36018456
> At the Housing Facility. Not many of the other clones liked banana, so they usually gave them to me. I had to hide the extras from the Caretakers, though. (Fringe of society. Independent kid.)

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Okay, so show of hands:

Who here has read or participated in Gobble's Pokemon quest not too long ago?

Just curious

>>36018734
I havent

>>36018791
Same here.

>>36018791
>>36018862

It's really good. Probably a lot better than how this is going to turn out. I would recommend checking it out on suptg or moe.

ANYWHOZERS

I'm going to call it for single lady mom (cue Beyonce song) unless anyone has any serious objections.

>writing

>>36018456

“Well, I used to eat them all the time when the staff at home weren’t around to stop me. If my mom knew how many I ate walking around the city she’d be pissed.” You chuckle a bit at that. There had been one time when she had left you alone because you were “studying” for a test a proctor was going to come and administer tomorrow (you had been watching reruns of old league matches) and you had eaten a whole box of chocolate R-Bars and rinsed it down with a half litre of SilphPop. Good times. Very good times. And by good times you mean you got sick and threw most of it up.

Whatever.

“So… do you miss her already?” It’s Dani again. She’s looking towards the front of the train, and she has a bit of a sad smile this time.

“My mom?” You watch as Dani seems to swallow a couple different emotions, her face going back to a semblance of her previous cheerfulness.

“Yeah. I bet she was really nice.” She looks back at you this time, and her smile comes back in full force. “I… I was raised in a housing facility, with caretakers. I never met any parents of, er, ‘mine.’ I bet having a mom must be really nice.”

You offer her a weak smile, and shrug a bit. “Yeah, yeah she’s nice. Sometimes they get on your nerves, though! One time she wanted us to get some portraits done to hang around the house because a professional photographer was in the city, so she had me dress in the itchiest vest, with a bow-tie…”

>cont.

>>36019324

Dani cuts you off. “What’s a bowtie?”

You stop, give her a little confused look, and run through that sentence again in your head. Was she joking with you? No, she seemed serious enough. And... You look a little more critically at her clothes and... they do have that standardized housing look to them. Hm... Bow tie... How to explain it? “Well, it’s something you wear around your neck, and it makes a bow. Uh, I guess that’s why they call it a bow-tie.”

Her face seems to pale for a second, and then she gets a little red around the cheeks. She looks away and starts laughing really loudly. Is that… is that intentional? That’s a really loud laugh. Wow. It's like a Ludicolo.

“You must think I’m so stupid. Of course. It’s a tie…. But it’s in a bow….” Her laughing is forced now, and she’s looking away, covering her face. “Yeah…. I’m so stupid. I should have figured that out. It’s just that living with the other clones you don’t get out much or anything….”

>”It’s okay!” Comfort her. “You’re not stupid at all!”
> Embrace the discomfort and the silence.
> Ask about her life at the Housing Facility. What city or town was she from?
> Write-in

>>36019383
>”It’s okay!” Comfort her. “You’re not stupid at all!”

>>36019383
>”It’s okay!” Comfort her. “You’re not stupid at all!”

>>36018734
>not too long ago
Gobble is kill.

>>36019383
>”It’s okay!” Comfort her. “You’re not stupid at all!”

This is why I wanted the no dead parents backstory. Now we'll never let clone-chan experince the joys of becoming the daughter of a warm and loving family.

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>>36019655
As in, dead? Gobble's dead? RIP in pieces?

>>36019757
But what if HER background changed based on what we picked?

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>>36019793

YOU KNOW TOO MUCH.

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>>36019816
I swear guv, it was nuthin' more than cunnin' inference guv!

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>>36019768
That's his summoning ritual, OP.
But he has been gone for a while so it's possible. I'm still hoping he'll rise from the dead one more time.

>>36019542
>>36019655
>>36019757

I'd like to say "Thanks" for your continued participation, gents.

I'd like to introduce one other character on the train ride, but after that - would you like me to kinda skip to the arrival at the Southern Shores TDR (Trainer Development Region)?

Also, if you guys can throw out some pokemon within the first 50 numbers or so of any national dex that you would like to see appear early on it would be appreciated. Land, water, or sky.


>writing

>>36019793
Then she would have been a single child raised in a house full of housekeepers and tutors.
The need for cozy family loving does not change.

>>36019923
I don't mind about a timeskip or not, up to everyone else or what you think best

Pokemon-wise, these tickle my fancy:
Sandshrew
Nidoran (m/f)
Vulpix
Paras
Venonat
Mareep
Espurr

>>36019923
Time skip sounds fair to me. I have a hard time choosing between the mons though. Maybe random generation?

>>36019923
>Also, if you guys can throw out some pokemon within the first 50 numbers

Beedrills and a Nidoking!
The strongest region!

>>36019923
Tentacool
Pidgeot
Onix
Magikarp

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>>36019923

“Hey, hey you’re not stupid!” You wave your hands back in forth a bit, actually flinging a couple pieces of sandwich around. Note to self: put down sandwich first. “I mean nobody even wears bowties anymore! It’s not like you didn’t know what a jacket was or something!”

She looks at you with her face slightly tilted downward, eyes wide. Is THIS the expression your mom mentions when you really want something? Puppy dog eyes? It does have a sad growlithe look to it…

“W-… What’s a jacket?”

It’s your turn to pale a little now. “Uh… Hey, I was just joking around. A jacket, you see a jacket is something you wear around your other clot-“

You’re interrupted when Dani breaks into a big smile and starts to laugh a little again. “I’m just kidding! I know what a jacket is!"

"You wear it on your head, duh.”

You look at her, your mouth set in a sort of grim line and your eyebrows curved in a sort of “Oh no, not fooling me again!” look. She just looks at you from the corner of her eyes and takes another bite of her sandwich. “Wellsh at leasht one uvva other” it’s hard to understand her with a mouth full of sandwich “...clones did. He wash always” More chewing. “...kinda weird, though.” You smile at that. She’s pretty funny! You start laughing, and when she starts to laugh with you your laughter just builds even more. If the rest of the train ride goes this way you wouldn’t mind if it does take 3 hours!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t go so nice.

“Figures that you’re a clone. Damn, it’s like the government didn’t even TRY to scrabble enough money to buy freaks decent clothes!”

A voice. Male. Behind you? You and Dani both turn around and, sure enough, it’s a jackass with a couple other jackass friends standing in the jackass aisle. They’re laughing! At Dani!

Jackass.

>Insult him.
>Tell Dani he’s full of shit, ignore him.
>Challenge him to a fistfight?
>Write-in (requires 2 seconds)

>>36020315
>Insult him.
>Challenge him to a fistfight?
We gentleman trainer now

Also, if the whole clone thing a joke about the trainers you fight all being identical bug-catchers or whatever etc in the games?

>>36020315
Oi, m8 shut ur fukin gabber u tosser

>>36020315
>Insult him.
>Challenge him to a fistfight?

Hotblooded protagonist is go.

>>36020315
>Challenge him to a fistfight
Luckily we're a Fighting-type human

>>36020389
>>36020421
>>36020473
So who's up for becoming the pokemon version of Digimon's Daimon Masaru?

>>36020389
It's a product of the setting, which, IC, you are a little familiar with but doesn't get talked about too often.

Basically, there was a very destructive world war. I'm honestly not sure if I want to make it an extraterrestrial attacker or just humans vs humans. If you guys have input on that please feel free to say what would cheapen the experience less for you. Anyways, there was a very devastating war during which cloning and pokemon technology was really spearheaded and perfected. Pokemon were weapons of war. They aren't so much now - now, they're a tool for survival. They are very powerful tools, and companions, and provide the foundation for the economy and society.

Clones were a way to bolster the troops/ranks, and today? A way to rebuild. Not much humanity was left. Ecological restoration efforts (using pokemon) have been doing alright, but there aren't enough people unless we have clones. I figure this also explains the Nurse Jenny shit....

The war was a good number of years before you were born.

>>36017685
>A girl - maybe a little younger than you? 17, maybe?
Goddamn, we old. Are we just slow or something?
...Are we a Jared?

>>36020595
Ah cool, in my opinion having it a way with ayy lmaos makes things more silly, less poignant. I'd prefer it to just be a human conflict

>>36020595
Most of your knowledge about the war was communicated to you by your mother and one of your tutors that was a little rougher about the edges (a nice old man on the inside, though). They expressed to you that it's really not too PC to talk about, though, and the government doesn't shut people up per se so much as not talk about it officially.

The government is a non-representative sort of oligarchy/parliament, with representatives chosen based upon certain metrics (intelligence, age, skills, background) from different cities and region. They draft and implement laws. There is a constitution.

If you have any other questions or concerns let me know.

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>>36020639
This isn't a smut quest, but I wanted to have more adult interactions and feelings/shit than "10 and 13 year olds." It was a conscious choice, and I apologize it it's weird or stupid. You're not slow - you finished what amounted to an advanced high school program (privately because you were well off and your mother insisted) and now you have embarked on your Tour. After which you will select a profession (or will be selected for one). The Tour is designed to test your ability to survive, adapt, your intelligence, strength, etc. etc.

I know I should be focusing on the update more, but I figure it's good if I get all this fluff out of the way. Sorry guys, and thank you for your patience!

>>36020595
>>36020700
Huh, seems neat to me. I like it OP.

>>36020781

Dani… Actually doesn’t really say or do anything in reaction. She just kind of gets this sad look in her eyes, turns around – laughing a little bit? But it’s a sad laugh. – and goes back to eating her sandwich. You pat her on the shoulder and she smiles at you. You liked it when she did the big, genuine smile.

You turn back to the jerks, who have walked past you know and are heading towards the front of the car. The insulter – tall as you, looks well-dressed, blonde hair, stupid face – is talking loudly to two other kids. One, shorter with black hair. Has a smile like a Rattata and some rather unfortunate freckles. You normally wouldn’t care but everything looks worse on a dick.

The other is a pudgier kid in the back, his right flying away at the Silphone on his left wrist. Probably surfing some websites or something. Every so often he looks up and laughs with the others, then goes back to the screens hovering in front of his face.

You’ve dealt with guys like them before. That was the majority of your interactions with some of the other kids around your home, actually, because you just didn’t really fit in. You didn’t go to school so you just didn’t have the same level of interactions and bonding as the other kids.

Anyways. Time to take out the trash.

You stand up, moving past Dani, who grabs the back of your shirt as you walk away. “Wait, Grey – where are you going?”

You turn back to her and offer a smile. “I’ll be right back! Just stretching my legs! Promise!” She doesn’t say anything else. She just kind of weakly smiles and then turns to look out the window. Poor girl.

>cont.

>>36021154

You walk up behind beaverteeth, clapping him on the back. You laugh nice and loud, matching the trio’s laughter. You have no idea what they said.

“Oh MAN! That was SO FUNNY!” You just keep clapping Bucky on the back, harder and harder, and he actually starts to lean over a bit and wince away. Nope. You just grab his shoulder and hold him still from behind. “Did you see her face? You got her – that, that CLONE! – soooo good! So funny, man. So funny.”

The blonde hair, for what’s it worth, is just looking at you like you’re crazy. Like he’s not sure if he should laugh or not. You just lean over him with the stupidest grin on your face. “What’s your name, MAN?”

“It’s, uh It’s Nick.”

“Nick!?” You let go of Toothy and offer a hand to Nick. “Nice to meet you, man! I’m Grey!”

>Roll 1d100 to beat his ass. Best of 3 separate rolls (1 per post)

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>36021188

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>36021188
Lets hope we don't shit our pants

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>36021188
Fisticuffs!

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>>36021218
Not with rolls like that.

Good job, anon.

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>>36021266
T-thank you S-senpai.

I love you already

>>36021266

You’ll never be sure if it was because he was dumbfounded or if it was because he was intimidated with you, but Nick shook your hand. He probably wouldn’t have if he knew what would come after.

Your voice immediately drops from the over-the-top ridiculous tone you opened with. Playtime's over.

“I’m only gonna say this once, so listen carefully: If you go over there an apologize nicely, I WON’T punch your teeth in." You wrench his right hand in yours and pull him slightly toward you. "Okay?”

Nick’s face immediately goes from “who is this dumbass?” to incredulity, and anger. Lots of anger.

“What...? What the fuck you say to me, dickhead?” Dickhead? Nice.

They usually open with “pussy.”

Nick goes to say something ELSE just as stupid, but you beat him to the punch.
Okay, okay – that was a lame joke. You punched him in the face before he said anything.

>75

With your right hand firmly gripped around his you pull him towards you. Like a well-oiled machine you swing your left hand, balled into a tight fist, at the same time as your right pulls. Pow! Right into his jaw. Your hand stings really bad, and you mean really badly – but it was worth it. Definitely.

Nick’s head goes back as you let go of his right hand, and he kind of collapses across the seats. That's right around when his cronies realize what’s going on and actually start grabbing onto you and pulling you away.
“Hey, come on! Three versus one is NO FAI--“
Bucky actually lands a hit into your stomach that sort of deflates into a slap, but it does knock some wind out of you. It was no Mach Punch, but maybe he knows Hyper Fang?

Nick is starting to get to his feet now and he is bleeding quite a bit. You would whistle if you weren't already occupied. He’s coming at you, but someone comes to save the day!

Oh, it’s the cops.

>cont.

Hey, great quest so far, I'm really interested! Also please don't go kill after 50 quests.

>>36021697
Fuck, I really miss Gobble. God dammit not having closure sucks. I'd like to just know that hes okay

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>>36021599

You would wonder how you get into situations like this but you know exactly why.

The R-Bar consumption went to your head.

Nah, actually, it’s because that old fart of a battling instructor taught you to be a gentleman…

“And that means defending the innocent!” You… you actually said that part out loud. Everyone kind of looks at you. Nick does so with a scowl.

Shortly after the fight began a camera, unbeknownst to you at the time, had swiveled to the left a bit and focused in on the little roughhousing going on. An alert was sounded and then some of the security personnel and attendants on the train filed into the car to separate all of you and take you to detention. Yeah, it’s not really detention – but you never went to a public school and this is what you imagine it feels like. You’re there with Bucky, Technology boy, Nick, a couple security personnel and an oddly dressed old man. That last one is a little odd.

He has what looks to be a large, paper e-cig in his mouth. A cigar...? You had seen ones in movies, but never in real life. And the smoke is irritating your throat a bit... A hat, glasses, a coat… The works. Huh. Like out of a movie.

The old man shifts around a bit, sighs, and without looking up from the book he’s reading addresses all of you in a deep, scratchy voice.

“What do you have to say for yourselves, you dumb...” He takes a long draw from his non electronic e-cig “…kids…?”

>This may be the last post for tonight. If so, we will continue this in a new thread later. Probably next week.

>”I started it.” Tell the truth.
>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.
>Stay silent.
>Lie. If so, what do you say?

>>36021817
>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.

>>36021817
>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.

Talk shit, get hit.

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>>36021697
What about after 51 threads....?

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>36021817
>>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.

>>36021817
Well burt, if that is your real name, can we at least get a twitter?
>>36021864
pls no

>>36021817
>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.
We seem to be more of a violent autist than anything, but it's fun to play.

>>36021817
>>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.

>>36021817
>”I started it, but for a reason. These guys are assholes.” Tell the WHOLE truth.

>>36021864
don't do it man. Oh, and get a twitter. I want more of you and checking the catalog is massively unreliable.

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>>36021873

>>Well burt, if that is your real name, can we at least get a twitter?

It's not.


My real name is

TheHerald

And my Twitter is

@theheraldQM

>>36021926
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Also awesome, I already follow you!

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>>36021994
I thought I smelled you in this thread, ANON!!!!

>>36022052
Alright folks. I really hoped you all enjoyed it!

>end of thread

If anyone has any complaints, tips, advice, or questions please leave them here for me to see or Tweet them at me (I'm pretty active on that thing).

I had a lot of fun. Thank you for playing! Your participation makes this possible.

Also, shit. I didn't want to make him an autist. At least he's fun to play.

>>36022159
Thanks for running. I had quite a bit of fun. Any idea on when the next thread will be?

>>36022159
It's okay. Autists can still be great fun.

See It's Always Sunny in Pallet Town, which started back in July of this year.

>>36022463
I miss that quest too....