[ti]private[/ti]001 — Welcome [Josh]

"eh?" Vern stared doubtfully at Dr. Bunya for a moment until her words settled in. Realization then struck like lightning and his nerves did not took it well.

The sudden popping of many tutorial prompts in front his eyes provided some brief distraction while he walked along the path outside the lab. He tried to read them out loud, but his focus kept shifting back to Dr. Bunya's words and couldn't push himself to even finish a paragraph.

AHHHHH!! What the FUCK does she mean by illegal! Vern kicked some rocks on the way but briefly remembering what kind of creatures lived nearby he held himself back. He moved all tabs aside to open the STORAGE BOX and check on Litten, now safely kept on his pokeball but whatever plans Vern had to take it with him at all times like if they were Ash and Pikachu was thrown to the garbage.

This was a frustrating first experience.

Unless he could get something in return too, this couldn't be just an unwarranted punishment, could it?

Yeah, looking at situation that way maybe it is a rare event that may unlock hidden things for me. Vern grinned, his mood was slightly uplifted but didn't want to give himself false expectations so he made sure to not be too thrilled about non-existent dynamic events.

"Well, let's just get going... Although where was I going?" He repeatedly muttered "What was I doing?" while reading through the TUTORIAL MODE window.

The first tutorial mission given involved visiting the MOM NPC to get the running house, so Hydance bothered adding that? Nice little homage to the franchise but Vern didn't feel comfortable having to deal with another mom, he couldn't let himself put the finger on why was that.

Well, it's just gonna be a quick visit for the shoes, He frowned. Why would the player need an NPC mom though? Why cap mobility with running shoes too? Haven't we gone past that? Seems too old fashioned if you ask me. But as he selected the mission, this was denied by another tinier window prompt that did not spell good-fortune.

In fact it only spread indescribable dread.

Vern read it out-loud as to be sure he did not miss a bit of it. ""You need another player to go on this mission." What!? Why!? Why the fuck Hydance!" Not a warm welcome at all.

Josh Devlin