Learning about the world

Learning about the world

I immediately grabbed the pokenav out of my bag and looked it over carefully. It was a bit bulky but for the most part was about the same shape as an old flip phone. It was sand yellow with a single blue button in the middle of it that released the latch opening the device and a camera lens at the bottom. Once open the entire top part of the device was a screen while the bottom half was a directional pad and clicker button. Pressing the clicker button the pokenav's screen immediately lit up brightly and a prompt asking for my I.D number appeared.-

Retrieving it from my bag I carefully used the directional pad to type in the number on the card before hitting accept. It was much more primitive than the tech on earth so I had no trouble at all figuring it out. I got a loading screen after that as the device sent out a signal to the nearest tower to input the data to the server. It didn't take long thankfully , only about thirty seconds in total before I got put on the home screen. Clearly the device was made to be very user friendly as the seven options were clearly labeled to be chosen.-

The options were Hoenn map , condition , internet , match call , camera , ribbons and rescue call. Clicking on the first option I was presented with a familiar but significantly different map then the one I remember. In emerald the map of Hoenn was very small and only showed "important" places alongside the routes. This map was dotted with towns , villages , forests , routes , caves and mountains. Yes mountains as in more than one of the things unlike in the game where it was basically just mt. chimney. This was made it abundantly clear that the landmass I was currently standing on was WAY bigger than in the game.-

This made perfect sense to me since I always thought that being able to cover the entire region on foot within maybe two days was ridiculous for a whole region. Interestingly the pokenav also showed where I was on this map and much to my surprise I am actually not that far from Littleroot village. According to the device twelve miles away from it at the base of mt. grey in fact. The forest around us was also known as needle forest in fact and was labeled as a tier 1.5 danger area.-

Surprisingly the number of people who make it past the third badge is massively lower than those that make it to the second. Like seventy percent failure rate low which made me quite confused to be honest. As far as I could tell the only real challenge to reaching past the third badge should be the effort in getting comfortable battling and training. It was only at this point I felt like an idiot because it only just dawned on me that most who try to be trainers are probably just doing it because they can and thus don't have the drive to really go the distance.-

Basically the magic of the occupation is gone by the third gym so they give up. If the average gym level is the same as in the game then I have already gone past the third badge and was well on my way to the fourth. I chuckled as I remember that I also probably had Gaia train in a way that could be considered unorthodox to say the least so her power was way higher than it should be normally.-

After that I decided to scratch one of the biggest mysteries of the games , why all the nurse joys looked the same. Surprisingly this was a pretty common question for new trainers and so had an answer from the Joy clan themselves. Apparently one of their ancestors had rendered aid to a wounded Mew and the grateful legendary made it so all that persons female descendants looked the same as them minus small personal features and gave each look a like great affinity for healing. 'That is the sort of crazy shit a legendary like Mew can accomplish easily if pokedex entries are right.' I thought with a chuckle.-

There was also another clan that had a similar thing going on for them except they all had great affinity for justice somehow. This was the Jenny clan and just like the Joy clan they were apparently a massive clan with members nearly all over the globe. I also looked up information on trainers with legendary or pseudo-legendary pokemon and sighed in relief at what I found. It wasn't common for someone like me to pop up but it also wasn't unheard of as well. An example was that a man named John who made friends with a Latios in disguise that chose to join his team before he even caught a single pokemon. It was a rare event for people like me to pop up but definitely nothing I needed to worry about causing a huge commotion with.