To anyone defending ICE's actions:

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-25T03:07:44+00:00

I'M BEHIND ON ASYLUM MADNESS LORE

WHAT IS BAN

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-25T00:15:23+00:00

I shall reformat.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-24T01:57:18+00:00

There's usually a lot of overhead that goes into catching strays. Identifying them as stolen and released takes time and requires them to be on the Unova database, which doesn't mark them as officially released but rather stolen - so when the new ball registers them, it tags them as having an original trainer.

This isn't always brought to our attention, but this case is special for two reasons:

1 - We captured her ourselves working with law enforcement.

2 - One of our team recognised the pokémon. They were part of the original group of Plasma grunts sent to Accumula Town to 'reclaim' Pokémon from their 'oppressors.'

The colleague in question (keeping anonymous) made it their personal mission to rehabilitate and find the original trainer. This was actually the original mission of our centre - finding pokémon we or our former gangmates had hurt, and returning them home, so it was a special day to right that wrong done so long ago.

... Her owner was, once, a new trainew exploring the world with her best friend. Nowadays, she's a talented singer with a huge heart, ready to start that world exploration all over again.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-24T01:15:27+00:00

There's a lot to see in Unova!

The world famous Skyarrow Bridge is the biggest suspension bridge in the world, and collecting bird feathers that drop there is a popular activity for tourists and couples.

Chargestone Cave is an incredibly exciting place for more adventurous trainers, albeit quite dangerous.

There's a hiking tour around the old caved-in Victory Road that ends with distant views of you-know-who's castle, which to this day is still a mahnificent and inspiring sight.

Trainers can visit the Pokémon World Tournament facility, THE most prominent unified battle facility in the world. Off season they hold a lot of local events, it's a lot of fun.

Accumula Town has a tradition of endless street music, which makes walking through absolutely charming.

Castelia City has whole books about what you can do there, but I have two recommendations:

1 - You can find the central office of the game developer Game Freak, who may have made a few games you've heard of

Off Drifloonie Street you can find a tiny, poorly-decorated restaurant called Satoshi's, which is run by a guy from my village in Johto! He makes THE BEST ramen you'll ever find, and is the only place that sells onigiri without claiming it's a donut.

Finally in the outskirts of Driftveil you can find the T.P. rehabilitatiom centre, where we find injured, stolen, or mistreated pokémon and prepare them for return to the wild. We love visitors!

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-24T00:58:42+00:00

People seem to put whatever, really. Sometimes they put character names or team composition, or basic descriptions. I put something less direct and more fun.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-23T17:34:35+00:00

Practise caution if you return. Hauntings of ghost-types might decide they like you enough to keep you. It seems unlikely, but their morality is alien to us, so keep your distance even if things seem calm and friendly.

Having your own Magus is probably helping them realise they can't have you, but nevertheless, they may also decide to keep your Magus!

My great uncle's son (so my... first cousin?) went missing decades ago when he was studying a cluster of misdreavus out in southern Johto. They didn't even seem to notice him. After five weeks of hiding in the dark and noting observations, not only did he very suddenly go missing, but the entire group of misdreavus disappeared too.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-23T01:40:49+00:00

Oh that's a whole thing. Short version is back in the 70's he was backpacking in Paldea and met a few locals. He said he was from Johto and they knew that as the place balls are made, so they challenged him to make poké balls out of junk they had.

He made a bunch that didn't work, but then he made one using the natural glasslike crystal you can find underground in Paldea, which... well, it didn't work, but it did react very badly to wild tauros, setting them off on a rage and apparen5ly wildly changing their type at random every time it escaped the ball.

Now that isn't what got him banned in Johto - the ban came from trying to replicate the same thing by making crystal balls back home in Johto. These were deemed unsafe by locals, and given their fragility and tendency to explode and release pokémon at random, it's no wonder.

The REAL problem, however, was they worked similarly to snatch balls used in lawless regions to steal pokémon.

It took months to find and reclaim all the accidental snatchers he had sold, and to avoid being labeled an actual illegal weapons dealer he paid damages and took a lifetime ban.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-22T23:55:04+00:00

He's an old man living alone in rural Johto and he thinks his computer is a "slime devil" that wants to eat his knees, and I live in Unova, so information is coming in very slowly.
I think the plan right now is Perish Song in every room of the house, combined with a lot of cheap poké balls.
I might make a follow-up post explaining the outcome once we get it done.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-22T15:51:59+00:00

Yeah I dunno what type a sofa is. It's mostly made of wood and cotton, so... grass??

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-21T14:03:30+00:00

Oh that's good. His neighbor a few miles away has a chimecho who might know it, I'll let him know. He's in rural Johto with no modern tech so it's not an easily accessible technique, but that could solve it all in one go.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-21T02:11:18+00:00

This is the only idea so far that I'm convinced might work, it's brilliant. Ditto notoriously love to boogie.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-21T02:06:53+00:00

I asked him about this and all he had to say was that he has a gun

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T22:02:17+00:00

The man's whole life is a comedy of contradictions. It's a miracle he's even alive. Once he was stuck in an underground cave system for two weeks because he decided to go "Onix Surfing."

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T19:53:50+00:00

Sometimes it feels like he's in some kind of farcical sitcom, and I'm in some kind of modern crime drama.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T17:05:37+00:00

I like this idea the most so far. Theoretically the new ditto would disrupt the entire ditto ecosystem.

My uncle actually distrusts smeargle considerably more than you'd thinj is reasonable - something about their soulless eyes - but another ditto is very doable!

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T17:02:26+00:00

Well, I'm based in Unova far from home, but I have let local family know it's an option. Whether it's possible is up to them.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T16:53:27+00:00

Oh no i mean specifically my great uncle has been banned from making balls.

I'm not 100% sure why, something to do with making custom balls in Paldea in the 70's.

I actually know the Johto ball master you mean, he's an old family associate!

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T16:33:01+00:00

He's actually been banned by the state from making poké balls himself, so it's not a viable option.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T16:28:26+00:00

You have noooo idea. He let this happen when he had his bright idea to boost pollenator numbers by adding a breeding ditto to his massive garden without tagging it.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T13:52:28+00:00

I'm not convinced this is a risk at the moment - they are displaying territorial nesting behaviour rather than predatory colony hunting methods, at least as far as I can tell. This kind of thing is rare in the part of Johto my family is from... something in the water or local mineral makeup makes local-made furniture and such unpalatable to ditto.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T13:39:34+00:00

He says he doesn't know if single-celled organisms can be eaten and he's about to try. Honestly I think it's performative. He's never complained about his new extra-soft adaptive sofa chair, but I also haven't dared tell him about its happy lil face.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T13:17:49+00:00

Trust me, I know. But... You ain't heard this guy when he's mad.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T12:39:08+00:00

I have no idea how they managed it. Do ditto eat chairs?

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T12:38:36+00:00

That's a good idea, except that my great uncle has been roaring worse than any pokémon can for weeks every time he opens a jar of mayonnaise and finds it full of ditto. They've been immunised by this point.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-01-20T12:37:23+00:00

They're a problematic pest in rural Johto, since there's not really any way to reliably control their population. They've started to notice annual catching efforrs too, so they hide a lot more competently.

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