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Post by necroix on Aug 15, 2023 4:28:24 GMT 11
The cacnea was just supposed to help with the ultimate sandcastle, so it wasn't sure why all this had happened. Especially when a rock hit it in the head. What the heck? And then something else banged against it before it was absorbed inside the ball and safely captured. ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/cacnea.gif) Cacnea was captured! Safari Balls Remaining: 14 Encounter: 4/10 [img src="https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/cacnea.png"] [img src="https://pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/itemicons/safari-ball.png"] [b]Cacnea[/b] Name: [choose] Gender: [choose] Level: 25 OT: Adrian Harrt Moves: Sand Attack, Poison Jab, Assurance, Ingrain Ability: Sand Veil Nature/Personality: [choose]
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Post by Pixel on Aug 15, 2023 5:23:07 GMT 11
Well then. That worked? Adrian wandered over and picked up the ball. One caught cactus. He didn't know what he'd do with it, but...done and done? He tucked the ball away and started to look around again. Maybe he could track something in the sand? he recalled his time spent with Raiden in the survival class and grimaced. This probably wouldn't work. He was embarrassingly a city boy through and through. He struggled to rough it and was bad with maps or compasses. Only his own pokemon and their collective instincts have kept him out of trouble recently.
Alas, he didn't have his pokemon here and now. So he continued to bumbled down the side of the dune. He staggered a bit, swayed, and did his best to not take yet another tumble. He would already have a hard enough time getting the sand out of places he didn't want to think about later. The warden, quite familiar with this terrain, just laughed at him.
"..." Adrian groaned and just...kept doing his best, feet sinking into the sand, leaving his boots feeling scorched and his poor feet feeling...sweaty. Yeah, this was not great. Probably would be sporting blisters later.
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Post by necroix on Aug 15, 2023 8:57:00 GMT 11
Safari Encounter [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] [attr="class","qkt-clip"]Houndour LV 25 100% HP [attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/houndour.gif) Encounter: 5/10 Safari Balls: 14 Rock: 0/4 | Bait: 0 Houndour: A mirage! I've finally seen a mirage I've never seen one that looks like a human though! q6fLhieZ1-42 sparkle 1-42·1-42
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Post by Pixel on Aug 15, 2023 9:12:29 GMT 11
Another houndour. Adrian was immediately on edge. He knew he should probably just bolt, but he picked up a couple of rocks just to try...maybe... yeah it was stupid but hey, nobody ever called him the brightest bulb in the batch. So with a bit of determination, he flicked rocks at the houndour and hid behind a nearby boulder to at least try to avoid detection by the fire-type. If it ran, it ran. If it stayed, it stayed. He peeked around the side and waited to see how the hound would react. The warden sat himself down next to Adrian behind the rock.
"Gonna try to catch this one?"
"...Maybe...if it doesn't run."
"You could use bait."
"Not sure if I want it that badly."
"For someone who is halfway through their encounters, you're real flippant."
"If something better pops up, I want to have some pokeballs."
"What if the better somethin' just runs anyway?"
Adrian glowered at the ground, "Then it happens."
"Just like everyone else. Lookin' for rare stuff."
"That's what the safari is known for. Pokemon found nowhere else in the region."
"Sure, sure. Should still be more appreciative."
"Should I be trying to catch every cactus i see?"
"Nah, but it'd be funny to see you try!"
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Post by necroix on Aug 16, 2023 12:20:46 GMT 11
The houndour is quick to realize that this is in fact not a mirage. It had been hunting to see a mirage but it didn't think a mirage could actually throw rocks at it! A real human? Perhaps this houndour was a coward cause the minute a rock bounced off its head it quickly turned on it's heels and ran the opposite direction. It definitely had to find a mirage, just not here! Encounter: 5/10 Safari Balls: 14 flee (4)UiHNL21B1-12 flee (5) 1-12 1-12·1-12
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Post by Pixel on Aug 17, 2023 7:12:28 GMT 11
THAT was the most skittish houndour he'd ever seen in his life. It bolted right away. Not even a hint of aggression. Apparently that one was skittish. With a sigh of relief, Adrian straightened himself out and returned to looking around. He would walk away from this safari with two pokemon, if nothing else. He wouldn't be ungrateful given that the raffle tickets cost him next to nothing except for time filling out the little forms over and over. But wouldn't it be cool to just...see everything this place had to offer? He doubted one could even see all the zones of this place on one trip.
Maybe...maybe one day he could come again. See more.
Perhaps he could actually study the pokemon rather than awkwardly tumble down the sides of dunes.
"Halfway through," the warden reminded him.
"I know..."
"Bet you'll feel silly holdin' all those pokeballs at the end."
"...Not really...I have caught one each of the two pokemon I've never seen before. So..." Adrian shrugged.
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Post by necroix on Aug 18, 2023 10:00:51 GMT 11
Safari Encounter [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] [attr="class","qkt-clip"]Tauros LV 26 100% HP [attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/tauros.gif) Encounter: 6/10 Safari Balls: 14 Rock: 0/4 | Bait: 0 Tauros: That's the strangest couple of pokemon I've ever seen! G_mdxxh81-42 sparkle 1-42
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Post by Pixel on Aug 18, 2023 10:13:55 GMT 11
Oh woah!
Uh.
While he was glad to see something a little less common than a cactus, he wasn't expecting a tauros. These things were notoriously hard to keep in a ball, even when you could battle them. Adrian doubted this bull would behave, but he supposed there was no harm in trying. He did want a tauros of his own for the ranch...Especially with that big bull out in the pastures. It was impressive and made him want to try training one.
"Well. Here goes nothing, I suppose?" Adrian said dryly. He chucked some bait at the feet of the bull, hoping he didn't get charged at. That should keep it from getting too skittish, right? if it was distracted with bait? Little did Adrian know, that he was not alone in this particular trial as of late. They were tricky and elusive, and the warden had a notice that he would make a trade for a tauros for a Quick Claw up on a corkboard. Whether you wanted the pokemon or the claw, this hard to catch beast was on everyone's list.
Adrian drew in a slow breath...and waited to see what would happen after the Tauros ate the bait.
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Post by necroix on Aug 19, 2023 6:54:25 GMT 11
Safari Encounter [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] [attr="class","qkt-clip"]Tauros LV 26 100% HP [attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/tauros.gif) Encounter: 6/10 Safari Balls: 14 Rock: 0/4 | Bait: 1 Tauros: AND IT THROWS FOOD?!? flee? (2) xRyYNEvF1-171-17
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Post by Pixel on Aug 19, 2023 10:36:39 GMT 11
Adrian drew in a breath and tossed a little more bait to the skittish bull. There we go. It looked ready to run at any moment, but he knew that the bull was at least a little distracted now. Maybe if he threw these just right...then the bull wouldn't just flat out bolt. And if he did, whelp, that would be a lesson learned. Hard. But learned.
With another deep inhale through the nose, he readied two rocks, one in either hand, and tossed them at the tauros. One to the left, the other to the right, hopefully starling enough that it didn't bolt in either direction. Or maybe it would annoy it so much that it would charge him down.
The warden gave him a wry look and Adrian groaned, "I know, I know. I'm stupid. But I can't think of a better idea right now."
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 21, 2023 2:01:33 GMT 11
The Tauros snorted as the rock came flying and it spun around and thundered away. The food was tasty but not that tasty. Flee(1-3): 9QcJ8b2O1-17Flee(1-4): 1-171-17·1-17
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Post by Pixel on Aug 21, 2023 7:45:14 GMT 11
Whelp. That didn't work.
He brushed himself off.
"At least it didn't charge at us," Adrian mused aloud. Now onto finding something else.
"Aint yer upset it ran off?" the warden asked.
"No? Tauros are native to Johto. Maybe one day I'll run into one outside of the safari," Adrian said. "I'm glad I got to see one here, however. It wouldn't have been a proper safari zone trip if I didn't see one."
"Whys ya say that? Aint like its the rarest thing here."
"...I...don't mind me. I'm talking to myself." What was he supposed to do? Explain that tauros were a feature of the Kanto safari zone and people clamored to see one, alongside chansey and kangaskan? They were the 'big three'. And while they were here too, back home they were more the focus. Or they were before it closed for renovations... He wondered if one day they'd open back up...
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Post by Tarlar on Aug 21, 2023 18:05:12 GMT 11
A dust cloud rose in the distance from something racing over the sands, and soon a whole group of houndours appeared. They slowed down and growled warily at the newcomers, as they circled them to try figure out what they were and what they were doing here. One stepped out of the group and approached curiousily. Safari Encounter [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] [attr="class","qkt-clip"]Houndour LV 26 100% HP [attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/houndour.gif) Encounter: 7/10 Safari Balls: 14 Rock: 0/4 | Bait: 0 Houndour: Curious Shiny: m9OmlVlM1-421-42
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Post by Pixel on Aug 24, 2023 5:30:24 GMT 11
Another houndour? This was the third one he'd seen so far.
Running out of chances to encounter things, Adrian didn't see the harm in throwing a couple balls at this hound. After all, if it ran off, he only had three more chances to even find something. The rare and uncommon pokemon in the pamphlet must have indeed been very rare, as he'd seen one tauros and it was labeled as 'uncommonly found'. And everything else he saw was commonly found.
Maybe he was just holding out pointless hope for seeing something super rare to throw pokeballs at.
Maybe he should put some more serious effort into catching these houndour he kept seeing.
So Adrian shrugged and grabbed a rock and a ball.
He threw one after the other. If it ran, he wouldn't lose sleep on it. These houndour were twitchy and seemingly easily spooked.
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Post by necroix on Aug 25, 2023 22:52:31 GMT 11
Safari Encounter [attr="class","qkt-bkgd"] [attr="class","qkt-wild-pkmn"] [attr="class","qkt-clip"]Houndour LV 26 75% HP [attr="class","qkt-wild-imgbox"] [attr="class","qkt-pkmn-img"] ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani/houndour.gif) Encounter: 7/10 Safari Balls: 11 Rock: 1/4 | Bait: 0 Houndour: Da heck was that for? flee (4) fKuvlTSy1-12catch (46) 1-100OOC: updated balls as there was an oopsie a few times 1-12·1-100
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