[Video / Action for Azalea]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

[The feed comes on to show Apollo in scrubs behind the front desk of the Azalea PokéCenter. It's been a slow day and he hasn't had very much to do besides stand there and think about the problem that the rain is hammering home. He hates to admit it, but it looks like he's stuck having to ask other humans for help on this one.]

Does anyone know how to build a shelter that's good for all the seasons? Ilex Forest isn't mountainous enough to have caves. I was thinking that digging some kind of burrow in a hill would work, but I don't know how to make a roof that would stay up and water wouldn't come through. I know there are mountains here, but do any of them have forests near them? If there's one like that it would be easier to just find a cave there than build a shelter.

Comments

[Video]

[combat_butler]

Oh, that place!

I just surfed over the tiny lake that was next to it. It probably spared my group a good week or two of travel time. Which was always a plus back then, considering my stamina was leagues above the rest of my party...

[Video]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

What's "surf"?

[Video]

[combat_butler]

The move that lets you ride your Pokemon over water!

... why you need a move to let you do that, none of us will ever truly understand, but that's just the way things work.

[Video]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I never thought of riding a Pokémon. I guess some of them are big enough to carry a human.

Is there one of those TM things that teaches it? Or do some Pokémon just know how to do it?

[Video]

[combat_butler]

Technically it's an HM, but... yeah, you need to teach it to them. THat's part of what makes it so strange, really. Having to teach them how to let you ride them with a machine...

[Video]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I've never tried teaching an animal anything before, but I probably wouldn't need a machine to do it anywhere else. Do you need a machine to ride them on land, too?

[A pause. It might be worthwhile to ask.]

Does the Goldenrod Department Store sell the TM or HM or whatever it is? What's the difference?