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>>2838280
>Don’t show any weakness just focus on finding food
I don’t suppose Rattata is edible?

>>2838294
No, even if it was it's the morning after, they'd be gone by now.
Starting an hour was a bad idea, but fuck it I am committed. Just gonna make it 10 minutes before I call votes until more people start trickling in.

>>2838316
I don’t mean the ones from earlier, I mean generally. Like could we hunt some down now with Zubat and try and cook em or something like that?

Oh yeah,
current equipment:
>3 Pokeballs (Jail Broken)
>1 Potion
>Lighter

Pokemon:
>Zhu (Zubat) (?)
Ability: ???
-???
-???
-???

>>2838322
No

>>2838280
>>2838294
Writing...

>>2838280
You practically just met your partner. You can’t be showing any weakness now. You need to make sure that Zhu knows you are a perfectly capable master, lest something causes it to rebel. You’ve dealt with worse than this anyway; a little hunger never killed anyone. You just need to keep focus, no weakness just focus on getting food.

Food…

You subtly pinch yourself to get yourself back on track. Now what you needed to do was simple, just…

>Call Brunch for advice, he would probably know about food with his name
>Ask Zhu to swipe something for you
>Find some other trainer, maybe you can battle them for some cash, or their lunch
>Write in

>>2838365
>Find some trainer
We bet our non-existent money and if we lose. We can always run away from paying.
Or we can just Rob them

>>2838365
>Swipe something ourselves
I don't think we're ready to challenge a trainer, I don't think Bartholomew would know much about where a starving street orphan can get food affordably, and relying on Zhu to get food for us would be showing weakness.

>>2838365
>Swipe something from ourselves

Didn't Japanese temples had food offerings? We could also try to catch a Ghastly there

>>2838408
You use your years of experience swiping things off suckers to pickpocket yourself and slip one of your Pokeballs into your other Pockets. Not much was accomplished by this action, but at least it made you feel like you were doing something.

>>2838365
By Jail Broken poke balls you mean they haven't got a tracker or that they are an special sort of Poke Ball?

>>2838408
Would there even be Japanese style temples here?

>>2838418
Dammit QM, you are not allowed to make me laugh like this

>>2838387
Ech, made a grammatical error there.
>Swipe something ourself
Would be the correct way of putting it, I think.

>>2838422
I mean, Pokémon has those kind of temples and we have go to a bit more savory part of the city. A small temple or altar should be easy to find, and who is gonna put an alarm to protect some rice and fruits?

>>2838441
True. Would be surprised if we found a Gastly in a temple that was still in service though. I imagine they'd be chased out.

>>2838421
Last thread it was established that modern Pokeballs have trackers that the league uses to activate the Pokeballs using the ID system in the Pokedex as well as knowing when to transport a Pokemon to the PC when a trainer has more than 6. Jail broken ones from Team Rocket are just usable by you without having to have them unlocked by an ID and can't be transported to the PC by the league.

>>2838422
Most likely, but it'd probably be out of the city or in some are that the city isn't allowed to build in for traditional/historical reasons. You could roll to try and find one. Though in a modern city like this people may or may not be as superstitious so they may not leave food offerings anymore. You'll just have to check.

>>2838365
>>2838387
>>2838408
Writing...

>>2838461
Hm, so likely, but not a very probable food source. Could we just try and pickpocket someone for some cash to buy something? I imagine that we have some experience doing so.

>>2838474
Pick pocketing is in your realms of expertise yes.

>>2838365
You just needed to swipe something yourself. There were many places and ways you could do this, you just needed to pick. The flea market was probably open by now, a lot of witnesses and in a better part of town, but crowded enough to get away as needed. You could just roam the city and swipe some fast food off an idiot and run, or some money out of their pocket for food. You’ve heard of some temples around the edges of town, not much security but you’d be massively out of place with all the shrine priests and staff, but they might be willing to share food to a poor soul like you if you asked.

>Head to the flea market
>Roam for a bit to find a mark 1d20
>Head to the Shrine on the edge of town
>Write in

Yo, made it~! So, what we currently doing? Trying to grab some grub?

>>2838500
>Flea Market

We would be able to do many thing for food, but begging is not one of them. We have survived all this long relying on ourselves and damm we take pride on that.

>>2838512
You can steal from the shrine too, asking for food is just an option.

>>2838500
>Head to the flea market

More witnesses but it's a crowded area and, being in a better part of town, we probably have better odds of pick-pocketing a good amount of cash or whatever.

Plus, our background gives us an advantage in both pick-pocketing someone and disappearing in crowds, last time I checked.

>>2838500
>Flea market
Time to be like Aladdin, and steal

>>2838500
Writing...

>>2838519
I was thinking more like an small altar taken care by the community, with no permanent caretaker. Still, why I would love some Gastlys to fill my tism, I am now getting cold feet from stealing from a temple

>>2838500
>Head to the flea market

>>2838535
I'm pretty sure we'd have a good chance of finding a Gastly just checking through abandoned buildings.

Or a graveyard, although it remains to be seen if Saffron has one or if the only one is still the tower in Lavender.

>>2838500
The flea market is probably the best place for you to get a quick meal. With all the chaos and money swapping hands you can probably easily swipe something. You quickly draw close to the market in question. It is full swing of the morning rush as crowds of people are moving goods and trying to get the best deals. Well not the best deals, you are getting the best deal after all.

Free of charge.

>Slip into a crowd and try to swipe some cash 1d20+4
>Find a inattentive stall worker and try to swipe something small for now 1d20+3
>Go for something bigger than a few stray wallets or an apple… 1d20
>Write in

>>2838564
>Slip into a crowd and try to swipe some cash 1d20+4
Take things slow for now, once we've gotten something to eat we can take a risk and maybe go for something bigger.

>>2838564
>Something bigger

Tourist and noobie trainers often drop their bags or rucksacks and leave them unattended for a small window of timeand they usually carry snacks and other things with them.

Besides, worse case scenario we get the rucksack, which is kinda nice.

>>2838564
>Slip into a crowd and try to swipe some cash 1d20+4

Jeez, tempted to try and go for something bigger, especially if we're gonna be sharing our stolen food with Zhu.

...Unless he/she's full from all that Caterpie/Metapod nomming.

Cash is always nice to have though and it comes with the biggest modifier.

>>2838564
>Slip into a crowd and try To swipe some cash

>>2838564
>Slip into a crowd and try to swipe some cash 1d20+4

>Writein: Put Zuh back in his pokeball as cool as he is it's hard to go unoticed with a zubat on our hat.

>>2838586
i think Zuh if full from all the absorv he/she has being doing.

>>2838586
I think Zhu should be fine for a while, after he drained all those Metapods and Caterpies. We can go after a few Rattatas late as well, if he needs them. Besides, we can go for something bigger after this, can't we? It's not like swiping a few wallets is going to take much time.

>>2838596
depends if we are lucky or unlucky too.

>>2838564
>>2838581
>>2838586
>>2838592
>>2838593
Roll 1d20+4 best of 3

Rolled 1 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>2838608

Rolled 10 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>2838608

>>2838611
Welp.

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>>2838611

>>2838611
....Welp, guess that'll be it for me this session.

Rolled 12 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>2838608

>>2838608
>>2838611
Writing...

>>2838611
>We have pickpocketed the CIA

>>2838611
Oh Joy! Or maybe Jenny.

Time for that trainer battle music? Or we just somehow tried to pick-pocket an Officer Jenny.

>>2838629
Nah we pickpocket Jenny or Sabrina

>>2838633
Or maybe Sabrina. Or some of the trainer from the figthing pokemon dojo.

>>2838638
I thought about Sabrina for a moment, but I'm gonna be honest, if you fucked up that bad this early the quest would end this thread.

>>2838652
>spoiler

I mean Sabrina wouldn't be in the Market she would mostly stay inside the gym...At least make it be a officer or maybe someone from the pokemon dojo. Heck any grunt trainer from Sabrina's gym could kick our ass

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>>2838564
The smells and sights of food call to you, but you know it is best to focus on something easier to hide. Some cash shouldn’t be an issue, to just grab and go. You make your way through the crowd, the food somewhat distracting, but nothing you shouldn’t be able to handle.

Your hand out of muscle memory goes for the pocket of some random bystander, it was almost too easy. The moment you brush your hand against their purse you felt a strong and painful grip grapple your wrist. Before you can even think to try to resist you feel your feet leave the ground as you are lifted over your marks head and promptly slammed onto the ground. Zhu had been fortunate enough to fly off your head mid flight.

You were left on the ground looking up at your attacker. A green haired hazel eyed women you’d recognize anywhere, even outside of uniform. Despite her casual appearance of jeans and a simple blouse you knew who you had just tried to rob; Officer Jenny. And man, did she look pissed.

Fuck.

>RUN 1d20
>Try and talk your way out of this (write in)
>Give Zhu a command (write in)
>Write in

>>2838701
>>RUN 1d20

Huh, it was Officer Jenny. Well, I'm in favor of just hauling ass.

>>2838701
>Give Zhu a command
Stun her and while she's stunned, leg it.

>>2838701
>RUN 1d20

If you need something to name the randim trainers in Sabrina's gym.

Have this: https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Saffron_Gym

>>2838706
The police knows us if they find out we have a pokemon we will be imediatly put in the rocket suspects list.

>>2838701
>RUN 1d20
Time to get gone fast.

>>2838701
>Zhu, SCREECH, NOW!

Then bolt grabbing anything dropped in the confusion.

We are dead if she sees the inside of our jumpsuit

>>2838716
We are dead if she see us with a pokemon dude

Pretty sure she's aware of Zhu, seeing as we had him on our head and he just flew off as we got thrown to the ground.

>>2838721
I mean, many ordinary criminals have Pokémon too...

But okay. Let's bolt.

>>2838705
>>2838710
>>2838715
Roll 1d20, best of 3

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2838729
Watch this sick Natural 1 action

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2838729
LOOK SOMEONE IS CROSSING THE STREET WITHOUT LOOKING BOTH SIDES!

Rolled 13 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>2838729
Nat

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>2838729
>>2838733
Dammit

>>2838733
.....Well, I didn't lie. That IS some sick Natural 1 action right there.

>>2838733
....dam this woman has a iron grip..

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>>2838729
>>2838733
Writing...

>>2838739
You tempted the dice gods and we shall all suffer their wrath

Now guys, I believe we can still bullshit our way through this, if we manage to play out how hurt we were from her throw.

Also, since she is not in uniform, I believe she can't really arrest us. Perhaps we could just ask her to leave us go and we won't return to the flea market for a week or so.

But don't mention we are hungry. The hell we are going to win this by pity.

>>2838749
Think positively dude. At least now we don't need to hide we are a rocket anymore

>>2838770
We gonna get rocketed like James, Jessie and Meow.

>>2838701
You stumble trying to get away, and that is all it takes for the irate officer off duty to tackle you to the ground. Despite your best efforts you feel a familiar cold metal embrace of handcuffs around your wrists as she applies her lawful device.

Why does she even have handcuffs in her off hours?

You don’t know if her ability to lift you over her shoulder and carry you away was a display of her surprising strength, or just a sign of how little you weighed. You were carried away from the curious eyes of the crowd as she walked away with you on her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Before long the spectacle would be forgotten and the market would resume its hustle and bustle without someone like you to leech off it.

You think you saw Zhu fly off in the panic.

You were taken a few blocks away before she tossed you ass first on the ground in a fairly secluded area of a nearby park. From the looks of things she remembered your face as much as you remembered hers.

“Care to explain what you were trying to pull?”

Before you can even open your mouth she continues “do you have any idea on how thin the ice you are standing on is right now? If I weren’t off the clock right now I would have thrown you into cell by now, do you know what would happen to a kid like you in jail? Do you!? I gave you the benefit of the doubt last time, give me one reason I shouldn’t just bring you in right now?”

>”I… was hungry…”
>”There was no proof I did anything, you can’t arrest me.”
>Write in

>>2838813
>>”I… was hungry…”
*Stomach gowls*

>>2838813
>”I… was hungry…”
Time to turn on some puppy dog eyes if we want to survive.

>>2838813
>>”I… was hungry…”

I guess it's time to see if Officer Jenny has a heart of stone or not.

>>2838813
>I am thirteen, stink Caterpie shit and you have no proof of any wrongdoing, besides a few witnesses watching a woman manhandled a kid more than half her age.

Look, just let me be and I will stay out your radar for a month or so. You get a rat off the street for a week or so and I don't have to invent any sob story for the judge to hear. Everyone wins.

I would rather not resort to begging. But we are pretty desperate so...

>>2838813

Supporting:>>2838844

>>2838813
>>2838816
>>2838820
>>2838827
Writing...

>>2838813
Trying to put on your most pathetic face you could, not really hard for a malnourished orphan, you just tell her the truth.

“I… was so hungry…” your stomach chose the perfect time to emphasize said statement with it’s loud growling.

You see her falter a bit, it was small, but it was there. She redoubled her efforts to remain stone faced.

“You wouldn’t be hungry if you were still back at the orphanage now wouldn’t you?” She pushed.

>”No, I’ll never go back there.”
>”Not like they’d take me back even if I wanted to go there.”
>”…”
>Write in

>>2838876

I can't remember, what was our situation with the orphanage exactly? Were we despised by the workers, did we just hate living there and decided to leave/never come back or...?

>>2838876
>I am not going back there. I would rather be eaten by Ratattas.

>>2838876
>I am not going back there. The caretakers touch the kids.

>>2838876
>”Not like they’d take me back even if I wanted to go there.”
>Wtite in: "no one wants to adopt the old kids...to much work to make us used to the parents rules i guess."

Gonna have to end the session early, that thing that I had to start the session early for has come up. Will start up again tomorrow at 5pm EST and hopefully we can finish up. Sorry.

>>2838880
considering we lived in a abandoned building full of rattata's and didn't got back i will say we don't have a good experience with the place.

>>2838904
See ya tomorrow qm.

>>2838876
>”No, I’ll never go back there.”

>>2838904
Alright, see you tomorrow.

>>2838876
>>”No, I’ll never go back there.”
jail gets me 3 square meals and my own room right?

>>2839229
More then we ever will get at the orphanage.

>>2840043
Some personal shit™ came up. Can't really get to my computer while its going on so I'm probably gonna have to cancel tonight.

>>2840866
Thanks for running what you could.

>>2840866
Shit happens take care of your stuff dude.

mfw we get adopted by officer jenny and become a poke detective trying to bring down team rocket

>>2841393
Only after we get arrested when/if Red comes around town and he knocks down the rocket hideout.

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>>2841393
But my dreams of poketerrorism and building a feared team of elite pokemon! We were going to become the Don!

>>2842250
Totally on board with actually working our way up to the top

>>2842250
Mike doesn't actually care about that shit. He was just misguided to think that joining Team Rocket was a way to get back at the world when all he wanted was food

>>2842656
Yet. I mean we are just a young kid with a criminal past. We've been taken in by a criminal organization who will help keep us fed, strong and supplied as long as we help out. There is plenty of room for growth there and becoming invested in the organization seems like a natural path potentially.

>>2842660
Could just use the adoption to get intel about the police for the rockets?

>>2842671
That's not a terrible idea. I mean assuming any sort of adoption thing happens. I have a feeling she's going to just feed us, cloth us and try to sign us up to some classes or some manual labour or something.

I wonder if we could get a legit pokemon trainer ID and pokedex or something out of this with her as our sponsor. Could make it easier to blend in and they'd be valuable to have

>>2840866
So when is next session you think?

>>2838876
>”I’d rather starve”

>>2842656
That's not really true though, we are Mike and the majority decides his personality. Even if you think that, the majority might want to strive to go up the ranks of Team Rocket and become the boss of others for once, instead of some orphaned street rat.

>>2844464
I want to boss around Jessie and James.

>>2844473
same,

>>2844494
Same

>>2844761
Same.

>>2844473
Bully, the word your looking for is bully

>>2844868
This is acceptable

>>2844473
>Wanting to have our rep dirtied by those morons

Although they are supposed to be a elite duo. At least that is what i think the white uniforms mean. Maybe they aren't as dumb or useless here in the quest.

>>2844909
Maybe they were legitimately good at their job and then one day they come across an unassuming group with a pikachu and think "You know what? Fuck it. This will be easy pickings, lets have some fun".

Things don't go as planned however and before they know it, shame and embarrassment have blossomed into full blown obsession over this group and that fucking pikachu (why doesn't this loser evolve it anyway?). They move on, time and time again, determined to find a new mark in a new town and catch some rare pokemon. Every few months however who should show up but that smug little bastard and his latest floozy along with the pikachu that doesn't even stay in it's pokeball!

The boss is getting pissed, the group think they are pathetic and terrible at their job, their rep officially trashed. The only way to prove themselves now is to catch that fucking electric rat and show all of Team Rocket they haven't lost their minds.

>>2844912
Didn't they have a season that had Jessie and James get assigned to something and they were scarily competent at it? I recall hearing there were a few episodes that showed how actually good at their jobs they were, it's just that Ash is their kryptonite.

>>2844473
I want to sex Jessie

>>2844912
I vote we steal Pikachu from under everyone's noses, shove a thunder stone down the damn things throat, and then shove it into some battery powering some nefarious team rocket device.

I'll be honest, this quest reminds me a lot of Pokemon Apollo and I now really want a meowth.

I thought you were going live this sunday or something man. do you have a twitter or discord or something?

>>2845749
https://mobile.twitter.com/QuestMoonMan

>>2844946
This is also acceptable. Though the real goal should be to sex Sabrina. Sabrina is the best Kanto pokégirl.

>>2844968
No no no, if you have watched Pokemon Abridged Brock taught us the TRUE way to use an elemental stone is you must put it up the butt like a suppository.

>>2847367 well if the comics are anything to go by buttholes are thing

>>2845661
Pokemon Apollo?

>>2847991
A pokemon fan game where you play as a team rocket member. It's well made, you can find it really easy to find and play either online or by download. You just have to google Pokemon Apollo and you're set.

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>>2838280
I don't know if Moonman is just using the Original 151, but according to G/S, Murkrow hang out on Route 7 right outside Saffron.
I'd like to pick up a Honchkrow.

>>2849054
He said it would be some pokemons from different regions thanks to the Magnet Train and the occasional trainer that frees his pokemon. So we are more likely to find some pokemon from Johto here in Saffron.

>>2849152
New thread will be up soon, totally didn't fall take a nap and sleep through my alarm.

>>2856603
>>2856603
>>2856603
New thread