Gotta Catch Em' All: Platinum Version (Open!)

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Route 203 --> Orebough City
Team: Rowlett (16/16) Starly (5/5) Piplup (15/15)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 4x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 37 (+1 from post) Posts: 12

Palila had run ahead of the group for a while, and when she looked back over her shoulder, she noticed that neither the girl who called herself the leader of the group, nor the one who had flicked her in the face had taken off after her.
"Pfft." She rolled her eyes slowed down a little, back down at a stroll by the time that someone caught up with her.

"Oh, hey Matt." She gave him a nod, but kept more than an arms length away. So far most people seemed to have an agenda of telling her what to do and swearing at her or getting physical when she didn't comply.
"Nah, I don't know anything about raising baby pokemon." She shrugged at him. "Pokemon training isn't really my thing- My family doesn't do anything special. I'm not trying to be a nutritionist, I'm not in the Joy family, I'm not the daughter of a cop or whatever. I'm sure someone back there knows more." She waved a hand back towards the group, somewhat dismissively.
"It seems like everyone who went through portals so far is so /special/. You've probably got some interesting history too, or some grand life goal. I don't. I'm just here." She opened up the conversation in case Matthias wanted to talk about himself to fill in the time.
Still, whether or not he decided to chat with her as they finished walking to the city, Palila was glad for the company.

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When they arrived at the Pokemon Centre, Palila immediately went to the counter for assistance. She rolled two of her pokeballs accross the benchtop to the always-slightly-familiar staff member working there, and had her whole team healed up nice and quickly. No fuss there. At least the Pokecentres in this universe worked in the same way!
When it came to scanning trainer cards in order to stay the night, Palila was baffled.
She did /have/ a trainer card already, since she had begun her journey in Alola by the time she was sucked into the portal. It just... didn't work.
She scanned it again.
Trainer not found
Palila threw her head back in exasperation and wandered to the corner of the room while everyone else scanned in, taking out her sketchpad and doodling some grafitti style art. Sophies announcement about an 11pm curfew stuck in her mind easily, and she wondered how cold this land actually got overnight. Probably pretty cold.

"Kay, I'm off to find warmer threads, dudes." She spoke after Sophie, and headed out the door into town.
Hopefully some clothing shops were still open, and some places that sold berries or potions (or spraypaint) for cheap.

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough City
Team: Rowlett (16/16) Starly (5/5) Piplup (15/15)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 4x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 38 (+1 from post) Posts: 13

Palila peered around at all the market stalls, very pleased with the atmosphere and their wares. As it was getting dark, she supposed that these must be some sort of nightmarkets the city had. She fiddled with the pokeballs inside her hoodie and decided not to let Rowlet or Piplup out, but to meet that Starly she had caught earlier.
With a little spark of the pokeball, Starly came out. It looked up at Palila for a second, then down at the pavement, where there were a few breadcrumbs. It chirruped happily.
"Yeah, I like markets too." Palila gave it a grin, before being attracted by two stalls nearby.
One of the stallholders was calling her a child and beckoning her over, the other just seemed to be doing the regular storeholder thing and talking up their own goods.
She wandered over to the old woman with a grin.
"Child? I guess everyone is a child compared to you, huh grandma?"

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough City
Team: Rowlett (16/16) Starly (13/13) Piplup (15/15)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 3x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 39 (-7 to capture, -16 levelling, +1 from post) Posts: 14

Palila laughed at the old womans sarcasm, glad to see that a silly remark didn't deter her.
"A great opportunity, huh." She raised an eyebrow as the woman explained herself.

"Look, I gotta be honest with ya- I don't know where the heck I am, and I don't know where Eterna City is." Palila explained with a sigh, and then shrugged.
"But, if your wingulls are so well trained, it probably won't matter if I take them the wrong direction- I'll figure out where Eterna City is eventually, and they will have had more time to explore. You won't die in the next few weeks, right, Gemstone Gran?" She half joked and poked fun at her age again, but was half serious. Palilas mother was always making her do helpful things for the elderly people that lived nearby, so despite her sass, she was inclined to help.
"I'll do it."

Pokémon trying to catch: Wingull
Pokémon using: ---
Point Requirement: 7
Item Being Used/Quantity: 1xPokeball
Item Effects: ---
Points On Hand: 39
Points After: 32

The elderly lady took an empty pokeball from Palila and pressed it against a wingull that was roosting in the stall, then waved down another wingull that was slightly larger. It seemed like that was the one she was going to lead, and the one in the Pokeball was to keep.
Palila nodded to the lady and gave her a wave before being startled by the sounds of a scuffle nearby.

Her Starly was fighting a Ratatta over a crumb near some nice ceramic pots, and the two of them had bumped into one and knocked it over. It fell with a clatter and Palila rushed over, bringing out a Pokeball.
"Starly, return!" She zapped it back into safety and ran away from the scene, noting that Starlys stats had changed slightly. Maybe someone had left rare candy crumbs on the ground!

Pokémon being Leveled Up: Starly
Levels: 5 --> 13 (8 levels)
Points required: 16
Points on hand: 32
Points remaining: 16

Either way, it was getting pretty late, and Palila did NOT want to be stuck outside in the cold all night. She didn't stop at the shops or buy anything else on her way back to the Pokecentre in her haste, and regretted that she still didn't have any warmer clothes.

Palila stepped back into the Pokecentre main hall, feeling like the first one back (although maybe she wasn't).
She took a seat on a comfy chair at the back of the room and pulled her hoodie up over her head, leaning back and looking up at the ceiling. It was going to be a long night sleeping in a chair like this, but at least the foyer was warm.
Being homeless sucks.

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough City
Team: Rowlett (16/16) Starly (13/13) Piplup (15/15) Wingull (7/7)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 3x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 24 (+1 from posting) Posts: 15

Palila looked down from the ceiling at Neith, surprise clear on her face.
"Oh! Uh, nah, I didn't get any warmer clothes. I got distracted talking to some crazy old lady and then I got worried I wouldn't make it back in time." She tried to shrug it off.
"It's plenty warm inside at the moment anyway, so I'll get some tomorrow." She explained, then tilted her head slightly as if in realization.
"You got sucked through a portal too, right? Did everyone else have to buy a bunch of warmer clothes or like, pjamas and undies and swimwear and stuff yesterday?" She looked down at Neiths small bag. "And, like, food and girl-stuff supplies and toiletries and ****?" She flopped backwards with the weight of how many things she would actually need- and didn't have.
"All my stuff is at my house, Nee, In some other universe!"

"And yeah, my trainer card doesn't work. How does yours? If you can sneak me into a bunk room that'd be real sweet."

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough City
Team: Rowlett (16/16) Starly (13/13) Piplup (15/15) Wingull (20/20)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 3x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 38 (-26 from levelling, +1 from posting) Posts: 16

As Palila chatted to Neith, she couldn't help smiling slightly. It was so validating to have someone else recognize how difficult it was to be torn away from everything. Almost every possession they had, and every person they knew. It was also a little funny to imagine Neith forgetting all of her supplies in a cab- it would have been a problem even if the wormhole HADN'T happened!
When the girl sincerely offered to help, Palila was touched. It didn't last very long though- Using the excuse that they were a team rather than anything like friends really drove the point home that Palila had no friends here. She kept the smile frozen on her face (albeit it looked a little forced in the corners) and nodded.
"Thats... nice of you."

Sharing a bunk bed was ok, and despite the glow of Neiths laptop Palila fell asleep into wild dreams as her brain tried to process the day she just had.

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*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
Palila snoozed her way through the morning while her roommate did research.

Eventually, she groaned and rolled over, then nearly fell out of the unfamiliar bed. It was well into morning, and the Poketch that Nathan had given her was flashing (though the noise hadn't woken her up as it was muffled in her bag). She poked it curiously.
Gym will be open now. Let's try and get that finished by noon, and meet back at the Pokemon Center. Can somebody please pass this on to Palila and Amy if they see them? Sender: Sophie Reed
Palila dropped the poketch from the bed and groaned again. Maybe their grand leader hadn't noticed that she had been given one already. She lay there for a minute staring at the ceiling, wondering if she should reply, then wondering if she could even figure out how. She decided not to bother, in the end.
"Oh man, I had some epic dreams last night..." She started, then realised that Neith was no longer in the room. Clearly it was time to get up. Other people were probably out battling already.
"Uuuuugh."
She glanced at the door on the way out and took Neiths note down, stuffing it in her pocket.

Palila shuffled out to the Pokemon Centre foyer slowly, rubbing her eyes and taking a free piece of fruit from the bench. Nobody else she knew was there- they must have all been out at the gym. There was just the general bustle of an unfamiliar Pokecentre.
So I guess it's still all like this, then. Palila sighed, having still hoped that it was just some kind of crazy illusion.
"What a horrible day." She said aloud, shuffling out into the street in a bad mood.

The wingull that the Gemstone Grandma had told her to guide was sitting outside the building roosting, and Palila flapped her hands at it to try to make it go away.
"Rack off! I don't need responsibilities in bizarro-world Sinnoh!" She shouted at it, and took her own wingull out of its pokeball.
"Wingull, attack... the other wingull!"

Pokemon Levelling Up: Wingull
Level: 7 --> 20 (13 levels)
Points cost: 26
Points remaining: 12

What followed was a brisk morning brawl that did wonders for Palilas mood, as waterguns sprayed on people entering and exiting the Pokemon Centre. She chuckled to herself as the wingull became better and better at using watergun, but it remained a stalemate.
"Fine, fine, stop. You can stay, then." She told the two sopping wet wingull, who promptly fluffed their feathers and dried off. "You're too accurate now anyway- theres no more collateral damage!" She motioned around at the people nearby (who were managing to mostly stay dry). Actually, they didn't look too pleased.

"Uhhhhh....actually maybe we should nick off." She told the wingull, returning her own to its ball and scampering off down the street towards the gym. Even if it meant bumping into people she didn't like much, getting into a battle at the gym would probably be more of a challenge and less destructive than having a waterfight in the street.

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough City Gym --> Orebough mines
Team: Rowlett (0/16) Starly (0/13) Piplup (0/15) Wingull (8/20)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 3x Pokeballs, Pokedex, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 12 ( +1 from posting) Posts: 17

Palila finished her battle and lingered around, noticing that literally everyone had an easier time fighting the gym leader than she did. Despite winning, she still somehow felt like she had to prove herself.
As the gym leader approached Sophie and complimented her, Palila bristled from her seat on the side of the room, somewhat jealous of the accolades and attention. She was purposefully listening in, and her eyes widened when the gym leader explained that they were going the wrong way.
She really DOESN'T know where she is or where shes going! Palila thought to herself, fighting down the urge to stand up and start yelling. Instead, she jammed her hands down into her pockets really hard and pulled her hood up over her head, reminding herself she had no viable pokemon to stand by her side in a conflict and therefore shouldn't start one.

The news about some strangely dressed people causing trouble in a mine and some of the groups decision to go and help the miners seemed a little strange, but Palila shook it off. She did have a sense of civic duty somehow- plus, a fight in a mine might be good battle practice as well as somewhere to take out more of the anger she seemed to have.
She shot a look across at Amy, nodding when she requested time to heal her pokemon.

"I'll come too, but yeah I need to swing by the PC."

She looked over at Neith and Renny, who seemed hesitant.
"Dudes, we'll be with a gym leader, a bunch of miners who know their stuff, and you're all clearly mega strong too! Don't be a wimpy wismur! It'll be a breeze. What if there's some sick-as cave scenes? What if there's some, uh, interesting mining technology? Won't you feel bad if you miss out on something cool?" She grinned, trying to goad them into coming along too by poking at their clear interest niches. Being alone in the dark with Amy, Drake and Sophie gave her the feeling she might just get beaten up and left behind- she wanted backup but didn't want to ask outright.

Regardless of their answers, she had to take off quickly in order to get to the PC, heal, and catch up with the gym leader who was leading the way to the mines. She flipped the rest of the crew a shaka sign and with a squeak of sneakers she was out and dashing down the road.

[Lychee]

Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Orebough mines (Does anyone else update these as we are going?)
Team: Dartrix (17/17) Staravia (14/14) Prinlup (16/16) Wingull (20/20)
Partner Pokemon: --
Items: 3x Pokeballs, Pokedex, ID Card from Roark, Journal, Sketchpad, Poketch Plus
Points: 29 (+1 from posting, -47 for evolving, +58 levelup points back) = 41 Posts: 18

Palila accepted the ID card from Amy at the Pokecentre, inspecting it to see if it had any useful information on it. Not really knowing what it meant, she pocketed it after Neith had used it too. Since her own ID didn't work, at least having someones ID would mean she had a place to sleep at night.

As the three of them (or maybe more!) ran up to the entrance to the mines, Palila let out her Starly. It had been beaten very quickly during the gym battle, and she was a little worried that she had picked up a dud pokemon. She dropped back slightly.
"Starly, you OK? You got thrashed back there." She asked it, hands on hips.
The little bird seemed upset and looked down at the ground, tweeting sheepishly. Palila frowned and let out her other birds, who were all looking a little upset about being knocked out. Team morale was low.
"Aw hey, chin up! Get back on the board and try again! You gotta prove to me you are worth working with!" In a strange way, it was a pep talk for the smallest member of the team. Palila stuck out her forearms in a dance-like motion and then pretended to flap wings in a long smooth movement.
"You can probably do some epic stuff! Like this, right?"
Starly and Rowlet hopped up from their sitting position into the air, seeming to feel the energy Palila gave to them, and taking flight far up into the air. Piplup scooted over the ground, wiggling its wings. Their bodies glowed as they flew up and swooped around- almost copying their trainer with her silly wing movements.

Pokémon You're Evolving: Starly
Pokémon it Evolves Into: Staravia
Evolution Point Requirement: 14
Points On-Hand: 29
Points After Evolution: 15

Character: Palila Rae
Pokemon: Staravia
Level Ups purchased: 5->13 (16 points)
Links to Level Up Posts: Starly from level 5 to level 13
Link to stats: In header

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Pokémon You're Evolving: Piplup
Pokémon it Evolves Into: Prinplup
Evolution Point Requirement: 16
Points On-Hand: 31
Points After Evolution: 15

Character: Palila Rae
Pokemon: Prinplup
Level Ups purchased: 5->15 (20 points)
Links to Level Up Posts: Piplup from level 5 to level 15
Link to stats: In header

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Pokémon You're Evolving: Rowlet
Pokémon it Evolves Into: Dartrix
Evolution Point Requirement: 17
Points On-Hand: 35
Points After Evolution: 18

Character: Palila Rae
Pokemon: Dartrix
Level Ups purchased: 5->16 (22 points)
Links to Level Up Posts: Rowlett from level 5 to level 16
Link to stats: In header

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As everyone in the team apart from the wingull (who wasn't knocked out during the gym battle anyway, so it wasn't really in need o a morale boost) evolved, Palila gradually stopped her silly dancing.
"Woah, cool!" She told them all in earnest, and then they all ran to catch up with the rest of the group.


Everyone seemed to be standing around talking- no goons in sight. They had probably run off before she even arrived.
Sophie was shaking hands with some new guy who introduced himself as Cody, and Amy was standing there crossing her eyes and looking him up and down.
Palila chuckled to herself, memorizing how silly Amy looking for an artwork later on.
"Hey, Coh-deee, you wanna take Sophies place as leader of the team?" She snarkily called out "You made it out here on your own and probably won't lead us in the wrong direction like she did~"
As Matthias arrived at the group Palila gave him a wide smile, enjoying his battle comments.
"Oh no, we couldn't possibly take him on! He just beat two random untrained people in a pokemon battle where he had the advantage!" She was clearly enjoying herself, on a sassy high from the gym battle and her team evolving.