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[captainash]

The only guests to my anniversary party were a big bunch of Krabbys, and they were only there for the food. I guess even after a whole year here, you can still reach new lows. That's actually kinda reassuring, in a very twisted way.



Ketchup isn't bad for crabs, right? Some of them are starting to look a little pale.

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[captainash]

This is a world where even the creatures that people consider 'normal' have endless potential. I can respect that. I want to nurture that.

Considering all those glitches a while back, malevolent wouldn't be too surprising to me. Or maybe chaotic would fit it better.

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[melodicnocturne]

You got a point there. The only normal types I've run into are the ones out in the wild. Never ended up catching any, though. Not for any particular reason either. I've got a pretty varied team, just never had a Normal-type join up with us.

Seriously, that and the two or three times the world's almost ended in just the year I've been here. You might've been around for that weird viral outbreak that had everybody turning half-mon for a while...and then there was the freak thing with the quake and snowstorm all happening at once... This place is actually really dangerous if you stop to think about it. I don't think it'd really surprise me either.

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[captainash]

Maybe you'll find one that goes well with the rest of your team someday. It's not like you absolutely need to have one of every type anyway.

The thing with the ghost possessions, you mean? Or did I miss some fun stuff before that? All we're missing is an alien invasion.

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[melodicnocturne]

Maybe. It's weird, everybody on my team's ended up either following along for their own reasons or I've gotten them from eggs. It never stops surprising me how little difference there really can be sometimes between us and them.

There was that, too. There was a viral outbreak or something before that. People started getting weird powers and kinda turning partly into pokémon. It was after the weird mix of thunderstorms, snow, and heat-flashes all in the same period of weeks. We've had a lot of disasters, but at the same time there never seems to be much actual damage from them, huh?

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[captainash]

Yeah, sometimes it even feels more like picking up a travel group as you visit the place, rather than building up a small pet army.

Wait, people started to what now? How often do cases like that pop up? Is it contagious? Can we get inoculated against it?