Lychee
GCEA Version: Platinum
Trainer Name: Briar Clark
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Word Count: 755
Entry: 7 Year Event, week 3- This is for more backstory of your character. It should be about your homeworld. This is for NEW content, not a story covered yet.

Spoiler:
Journal. Autumn. Morning, clear but chilly.
Ground, rock and normal types around.
No idea about the moon. Wind coming from the east. Athemiometer is probably broken. Mood ring, green.
One days rations and water.

I'm hiking the mountainside today, around Blackthorn City. It's rough and rugged terrain- mostly volcanic with various feldspars and some shards of mica. I'm not near the obsidian section of the geology yet, but it is where I'm going. The trees around this section of mountain are all short and stunted, because their roots cannot penetrate the hard rock. No berries can grow here. No nuts, and therefore no pokeball harvesting. No fossils or fossil types, because this area is not sedimentary. The winds may be right for flying pokemon, but there is nowhere easy to rest or roost, so they are few as well. I do not see very many grass type pokemon around. The only one I've seen was a sleeping oddish, which seems normal, considering they wake up at night and don't require any actual soil in order to grow.

My sister did not want to get up as early as I did, and while we set off together, she didn't seem ready to do a big hike today, so I left her behind on a particularly picturesque cliff edge. We could see almost all the way to the sea, on such a clear morning like this. She took out her paints and I figured it was time for me to leave. Painting is nice enough but it isn't my favourite pastime. I have mysteries to investigate!

The mystery I'm out to investigate today is the great obsidian block, from now on, I'll call it the GO block. I have seen it from afar while hiking in a different part of the mountains around Blackthorn City, but it was a shimmering black mass off in the distance. The geography around this area is very difficult- while the city is cut into the mountainside (cut by who? Not humans. Possibly volcarona! It supports my theory that this mountain was a primary nesting site. More on that in a later entry), there are sharp rock ridges which rise immediately from the edge of the city limits. It is steep climbing, and most people avoid it by cutting through the mountain and travelling through caves. I have my theories about those caves, and I am also forbidden from exploring them alone (by my parents). So, up the side of these cliffs I go, taking endlessly steep and winding paths, while trying to keep the same compass direction as the area I saw the GO block.

Obsidian, while occurring naturally in volcanic environments, does not usually form in great sheets. It forms when molten rock cools so quickly that the atoms cannot arrange themselves into orderly crystal structures, and instead the rock cools into a sort of volcanic glass. The main time this happens in nature is when a volcano spits out a big glob of molten rock into the air, which rapidly cools it as it travels back down to the ground. A sheet of obsidian would therefore be impossible. Unless....
Unless a pokemon was involved.
So, this forms the basis of my theory. Some huge volcanic event (or possibly a site where a very hot and very large legendary pokemon which extrudes volcanic rock lived) was then very suddenly cooled by some huge atmospheric event, which was most likely on the power scale of a legendary pokemon (it is unlikely to be a snow storm up here naturally, as most of the moisture in the air drops out before Blackthorn City). Now, my region is not known to have pokemon which do that. This leads me to believe that EITHER some other regions legendary pokemon have traveled somehow without making themselves known to humans (and therefore included in the folklore of the area) OR there is some kind of pokemon up here which is unregistered in my region, or possibly in the world.
These mountains are harsh, and very few trainers bother climbing them as there is so little reward for all the effort. It is possible there are undiscovered species living up on these rocky areas- potentially living just under the surface in this mountain. Potentially living ON the surface- the GO block is as shiny as glass, which made it impossible to look closely at it from a distance.

All I can hope is that I'm still heading in the right direction, and nothing terrible will befall me.