[Meta Thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

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Unfortunately for you people though and sorry to say that, my lone-wolf-PC is pretty surely not going to take anyonelse with 'em to the Mageocracy, for various reasons, the biggest one is that it's plain in stark contrast to xem's nature/view on things in-chara, and has chances it may be put them into a bad light due to their position. Sorry again! (>o< ) I...hope this won't cause problems too much since we'll be somewhat split as a party then at the start until we start to leave Bayhama, but seeing you have already planned for exploring that big city to take quiiiite a while - that's relieving to know. Less anxiety on my end, phew.

Following the train of thought though I have to ask you another thing: Pokedexes! Given we're not the ordinary fresh and completely-new type of PC that starts from zero (read: New Trainer embarking on very first journey like in the canon games), do we actually start with a Pokedex? Are they even a thing, how important/game-relevant are they to own, or do we have other means to stay in contact with one another in-person? Are customized or 'special' Pokedexes are thing, similar to the Almanac Dex I had in TheSkullRuins (if so, I'll send you a PM with an idea for that for my PC)

Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry to meet with the mage council even though there's a few questions I might like to ask them.  Always the chance I could try and diplomacy my way into the mageocracy if needed (though that probably would go more smoothly with assistance from a reputable source)

I can provide a little info on Pokedex availability due to some easy to find world building info!  Given this is very much a post-SV adventure, anyone who has a Rotom Phone would have access to an open source Pokedex app that was developed by Naranja Academy's Mr. Jacque, a teacher who specialized in biology.  Whether anyone's actually developed a Sutalöran Pokedex for that app is a bit of a different matter, but the potential is definitely there!  Having a Pokedex of some kind is actually a very normal thing for the average person in the modern era, especially since researchers (like Mr. Jacque) can use the vast amount of data collected by the app as a reference.

My character happens to have a rather expensive Rotom Phone due to...circumstances 0_0.  Should be pretty easy to stay in touch with him.  So long as your character has a phone, of course (who doesn't these days, right? ;P Rotom based tech even gets increasingly common with each generation of the main series)

And if you pardon a little speculation on my part, I'm guessing the Scimitars might still have some Pokedex-like technology to put to use, given Almanac was originally a front for their organization.  I could definitely believe it at least!