Jian looked around at the voice of someone new and his eyes near boggled at the sight of the piplup and torchic. "Woah! A torchic and a piplup??" Alright, dial it back a bit there, buddy. Jian quickly cleared his throat in embarrassment. "I mean, uh, yeah, big fan of pokemon, guess it's no surprise there, Hahaha!" The man grinned before extending a hand in greeting as well.

"Anyway, nice to meet you, Oz, Peri and Tango. Real cool names you've got! Name's Jian, and this grumpy guy here," He raised his shoulder, jostling the litten on his shoulder slightly, "Is Yanyan." Said Yanyan simply did the cat equivalent of an eyeroll but decided to sit up now in the presence of strangers. "Don't mind him, he just woke from a nap. He's the one who's always trying to remind me of my manners ever since I got him." That comment earned him a tiny bap on the head.

"But yeah, I guess we should be heading into the tall grass 'practice' catching pokemon. Though judging from your little entourage there, it looks like you catch just fine." The man laughed as he turned to walk towards the edge of the tall grass. It was always kind of hard to imagine how tall these grass patches could be from a console, now that it was right in front of him, he never realized just how tall they could get. He wondered if they felt as uncomfortable and scratchy as grass in real life.

As he begin to take a step out, code flashed before Jian's eyes as a familiar blocky looking pokemon appeared, floating in front of him.

"Hello! I am C0D13, your handy Virtual Assistant and I am here to teach the two of you," It then turned to look at Oz as well, "How to catch a Pokemon in UNOVR!"

"Hah! I totally get going on ahead to explore, but I had a feeling I'll completely forget about the tutorial once I stepped out of this area, so what I've been doing is just, uh, a super thorough comb through of the tutorial area." Jian snickered in response before earning a small bap to the head.

"You should listen to the Porygon talking! How else are you gonnya learn!" Yanyan hissed before nudging at the man's head. "Please, it's called multi-tasking. I'm sure it's not that hard." Famous last words for the books for sure.

But even so, Jian decided to shut his trap long enough to hear out the rest of C0D13's explanation. Yeah, it is pretty standard as far as pokemon games went.

Excitement welled up inside of him at the rustling in the grass, the wide grin never leaving his features. It was almost too obvious how excited his was. Still, he had to keep up some form of an appearance as Oz gave him the 'after you.'

"Alright, let's see what we got then. You ready, Yanyan?"

"Honestly, it's about time!" The litten gave himself another once over with the grooming before hopping lightly off Jian's shoulder.

As the man stepped towards the tall grass, a purple head popped it's head from out.

"Oh! A purrloin, that's not too bad. Uh, wait, so do I just..."

Actually, now that he's in the thick of it, did he have to call out pokemon attacks like in the anime? It's not like he has the whole lot of it memorized!

Yanyan lets out a super exaggerated sigh (he's so dramatic, geez), and before Jian could even think up of something to say, shoots out a small ball of fire from out of his mouth directly at the Purrloin.

As good as Tango and Peri were at being hype-men (hype-mons?), Oz clearly had a better hold on this situation as his piplup waddled on ahead to blast the purrloin into next week with his water gun. Suppose the starting moves aren't exactly all that complicated to remember if he actually went to bother with reading it up.

Jan scratched the back of his head while grinning sheepishly at Oz's words. "Yeah, it sure seems like it. Thanks for the back up, Peri. Also you did great, Yanyan, it'll be better next time." The man said as he made a quick attempt to pet the Litten's head before pulling back just as he swiped at him with his paw.

"I'll hold you to that." The tiny cat replied in a huff before getting back to licking his fur down.

In the meantime, the purrloin laid prone and unmoving, very clearly knocked out from that one blast of fireball followed by water,
though Jian wasn't sure how he's supposed to catch it since it's not like he's made it to any Pokemarts or anything of the like just yet.

As if on cue, C0D13 appeared once again in a flash of code.

"Wow, that was quite a fight!" It wasn't, really. "At it's current state, the pokemon won't be able to flee and you're free to catch it with a pokeball!" The porygon turned to look at Jian with its beady, angular eyes.

"Since this is your first time attempting to catch a pokemon, I have a special gift for you!" Out of thin air, a golden pokeball was spawned before Jian, landing lightly in his hands as he extended to catch it. "You get unlimited attempts with this particular Pokeball. Though it would be quite a feat for you to miss something that can't run away." Was that a slight hint of sarcasm in there?

"Anyway, go ahead and give it a shot!"

"Wow, absolutely no pressure on being a bad shot, huh. Didn't think I'm going to be judged by the tutorial itself." Jian chuckled before stepping out towards the purrloin. While nothing said he couldn't just go right up to the body and toss the ball at it, this was something he's always wanted to do ever since he watched the anime as a kid.

Tossing the ball up once in the air as a test, the man then revved his arm back before throwing it over where the Purrloin laid. The middle section of the pokeball opens before a bright light encased the pokemon before absorbing(?) it in.

Jian waited for the tell-tale sign of a pokemon trying to escape a ball but when none came, he warily walked over towards the pokeball that now laid still on the ground.

"Huh, I guess that's it then?" The man said as he gently picked it up. It's a little different when you know there's something inside there now.

"Ha!... Maybe the devs were nice enough to give throws a margin of error or something? Not sure, though that guy totally looks like he'd laugh at us if we fuck up." Oz chuckles while in the process of crouching down to pet Peri for doing a good job. He gives Tango a few head pats too, so he doesn't feel left out and what not. And, yes, by 'that guy' he totally meets C0D13, who apparently turns his attention to him once satisfied with Jian's performance.

"Look at that! Nailed it. Guess maybe catch attempts never f—..."

Oz doesn't manage to get the rest of his praise and musings out, because he's quickly cut off before he can even finish the sentence:

"The usual success rate for captures is 100%! Be careful, though, activating your Golden Pokéball to catch a Pokémon costs 25 bytes!"

"Dude, the hell? You could've said so before Jian made the throw." He sighs, but when the Porygon suddenly darts forward and gets right in his face, he's quick to drop all complaints. "Right, right, 'course catching Pokémon costs bytes, gotcha."

C0D13 nods, its whole blocky body rocking back and forth in the air, and just like that, he continues with his explanations while another Golden Pokéball materialises, this time before Oz himself:

"Up to two players who contributed to the battle may catch a Pokémon. Give it a shot!"

"Sir, yes, sir." This time, the response is spoken in the most unenthusiastic manner possible, but ever one to take things in stride, Oz laughs lightly and shakes his head towards Jian in a 'Can you believe this guy?' sort of way before taking hold of the fancy golden sphere. Pretty neat. Way cooler and more aesthetic than the classic Pokéballs, honestly.

And see, the truth is that he had wondered about the whole 'two players catching one Pokémon' thing, as he himself had done as much before. Sure enough, if he squints, right there where the weird purple cat had fainted and then been caught, the translucent image of it flickers back into existence for a second or two. A partially pixelated echo. Is it some sort of glitch that had been made into a feature? Oz has heard that UNOVR sometimes did things like those, and hell, he had been to Beta Island; he had seen all that glitch-iness first-hand and it sure is a wacky sight to behold.

Either way, this time it's convenient and kind of cool, and with that thought in mind, he chucks the Golden Pokéball in the echo's general area.

"Nice work! Enjoy your time playing UNOVR and remember that you can always contact C0D13 if you ever need any more assistance."

With that, the Porygon disappears as quickly as suddenly as it had first appeared, leaving only the players and their Pokémon.

Oz takes a step to pick up his Golden Pokéball, checking his inventory.

"Huh... Guess that's it, then..."