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

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Route 204 (Upper)
Team: Dartrix (0/25) Staravia (0/25) Prinlup (0/25) Wingull (0/25) Oricorio 'Sensu' -shiny (0/15) Eevee -shiny (0/25)
Partner Pokemon: Chatot
Items: 1x Greatball, 5x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad, Locked pokeball with Shinx (0/8), Locked pokeball with Zubat (0/9) Locked pokeball with Trash Girl Burmy (0/10)
Points: 74 (+1 from posting) Posts: 62

Palila looked around, too dazed and shaken up to refuse a towel. She wrapped it around herself, and heard a voice ask about Amy. Her eyes drifted back accross to the waterfall, still searching it for a splash of colour.
"The dumb ginger was in there. When the Gyarados attacked she nearly got blasted." She let the rushing sounds of water fill the silence, eyes still locked to the water.
"I was all out of Pokemon, so I had to leave." She explained, feeling the pit of her stomach drop. There was nothing more to say- she didn't know what else had happened. Palila didn't get along well with Amy, but the thought that she'd left someone to get savaged by a wild pokemon or drown in the dark was a very bad thought.
She looked down, shivering slightly, then snapped around, looking at the rest of the group as a realization hit her.

"Oh, psyducks! Does anyone know if Amy could swim?"

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Route 204 (Upper) --> Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (0/25) Staravia (0/25) Prinlup (0/25) Wingull (0/25) Oricorio 'Sensu' -shiny (0/15) Eevee -shiny (0/25)
Partner Pokemon: Chatot --> Catching
Items: 1x Greatball, 5x (-1) Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad, Locked pokeball with Shinx (0/8), Locked pokeball with Zubat (0/9) Locked pokeball with Trash Girl Burmy (0/10)
Points: 75 (-26, +1 from posting) Posts: 63

Palila gasped and pointed as a flash of colour fell from the cave opening... and then lost sight of Amy in the waterfall turbulence. It seemed like a very long time until a buizel came floating to the surface with Amy in tow. Palila let out a breath. While she wondered what had happened back there, she was mostly just glad that they were out of it now.

While the rest of the group seemed rather unharmed, unsoaked and unresponsive, Palila scooted over to Amy.
"Oy, you look like a drowned ratatta. Firehead gave me a towel." She had forgotten everyones new identities already, so nicknames were what she had fallen back on. Firehead referred to Sophie, who had bright red and yellow streaky hair as of last night. Palila wrapped the towel half around herself and half around Amy, not wanting to let go of it. She had to sit close in order to share. Also, body warmth was good.

She sat very still (albeit with the occasional shiver) waiting for a signal to show that this was too close and abandon the warm towel to Amy's posession. Meanwhile, she looked back over at the rest of the group. To her, most of them seemed to be no help. Even if she had no pokemon left to battle with, she doubted that leaving the group and running ahead could get any worse than being attacked by a gyarados, or laserbeam arm man, right?
"Is town far away? If its close, I mi-ight jog up ahead to st-stay warm and get to b-buying some drier clothes before the shops sh-shut." She shivered her way through a proposal, scanning peoples faces. She had almost no resistance to cold- Alola was notorious for its warmth, even at night!

She sat still a moment longer, then something seemed to click internally.
"You know what, I'm sure town is close. I don't need your permission- I'm just going to head off."
She stood up, shrugged off the blanket, hugged herself to stay warmer, and ran off towards town.

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Her bare feet pounded on the muddy path. The forest was gradually giving way to a flowery meadow, and more and more colour was sprinkled between the sparse trees. Despite the springtime atmosphere, it was still quite cold.
"A-achoo!" Palila sneezed and shivered.

"A-choo!" Her own voice echoed back at her from the trees.

She whirled around, eyes darting through the bushes. Surely it wasn't another ambush!
"A-choo!" Her voice echoed again, and she squinted. There, a splash of colour among the trees.

"Oh no you don't! I am SO not ready for battles right now!" She dug into her pocket and pulled out a soaking wet Pokeball, readying it to throw.

A Chatot hopped out into view curiously. "Oh no y-" It echoed her, but only got that far when the pokeball smacked it on the beak.

Pokémon using: None
Pokémon trying to catch: Chatot
Point Requirement: 26
Item Being Used/Quantity: 1x Pokeball
Points On Hand: 75
Points After: 49

Palila watched the Pokeball struggle for some time, and bit her lip, not approaching. It seemed like this pokemon was going to be strong and hard to control. Thinking about it, this is one pokemon she really could use.
"C'mon c'mon. Stay in! I don't have a poketch anymore, so you're gonna be my messenger service, you magnificent mimic!"
And with that, the pokeball stopped shaking. It locked tight, just like all the others.
Palila picked up the ball and spun on her heel, making a beeline for the pokecentre.


((Palila Exits Pokemon Platinum -- Might do one or two posts later, sending the Chatot back and forth to the group with recorded messages to say stuff like DONT WORRY I'M FINE BYE, but she's not going to physically be around))

[Lychee]

RAE'S CHATOT (26/26)
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Route 204 (Upper)
Posts: 1

((Since I can't play with Briar yet, but I still want to play, I figure its a good idea to wrap up Palilas storyline nicely.))

A Chatot with feather colours surprisingly similar to Palila's original hairstyle would fly over to the group sometime between Route 204 and Floaroma town. The team probably got the feeling it was hers- especially if they took out any pokeballs to catch it (they would say it was already caught and owned by "Rae", a trainer whose card was missing quite a lot of detail. It chirped a few times like the birds around it, and then began imitating human voices.

"The people I was travelling with suck, and that stupid professor is out to kill us. Your team Galactic really saved my ass back there, when the laser-gun-arm man with dinosaur pokemon ambushed us."
"I'm guessing after that fiasco you guys need more of a crew? Am I cool to join?"

"What happened back there was a massacre. I knew a few of those trainers."

"I heard that the only reason they found your friends was because of one of your group members. Tall kid, kinda odd."

"Honestly, if you dont mind tracking down legendary pokemon and breaking the law to do whatever it takes to solve the damn mess we are in. You are more than welcome."

"Laws are for losers, anyway."

It was clear what this meant. It was easy to recognize one of the voices in the Chatots mimicry.
Palila was not coming back.

The bird said these lines a few times on repeat so that everyone could hear them, fluffed its feathers happily in a self satisfied way, and took off back towards Floaroma town. Being fully healed, fully evolved, and a higher level than any of the other bird pokemon the trainer group had, it easily outflew any pokemon the trainers might try to get to chase after it.

[Lychee]

Cryptic Scientist Briar Clark
Location: Valley Windworks
Team:
Partner Pokemon:
Items:
Points: 82 (+1 from posting) Posts: 1

"Well this is very odd! Very interesting indeed!" Briar exclaimed, more to himself than to anyone else. He was not travelling alone, but by now his travelling companions had either learned not to listen to him, or simply couldn't really hear him to begin with. He looked over at his sister, straightening up from the honey tree he was inspecting.
[b]"Would you say that this tree has changed its phenotype due to the strange ritual trainers have of covering it in honey? Or perhaps it has always been happening throughout history, and trainers have simply joined in and added to the honey smell?"[b/] He took a deep breath, breathing in the scent of the tree.
"I wonder if there is a fast tracked evolution of tree type, due to its close proximity with people and pokemon!" He closed his eyes, imagining a snover, except dripping with honey instead of snow.

"It's an amazing tree! I feel like it would definitely help to lure out any previously unseen pokemon- if they liked the sweet sort of smells, or just honey in general. Do you have any local bees? Do you have any blue bees? I've heard that in the valleys of Jhoto, sometimes a green bee can be seen flitting through the forest. Perhaps your region has something like that?" He shot a barrage of questions at the only known local to the area, Nathan, and shot his sister a big excited smile.
"Isn't it amazing to be in such a new and different place? I would thank the pokemon that brought us here, if I could!"