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[heartfeltfancy]

[ When Madoka first speaks up, her voice is a bit hesitant. It’s the first time using the public network, and even as a puella magi, her self confidence was still not as high as she wanted it to be. ]

Um, hello everyone!

A good day to you all. We hope we are not interrupting.

[ Homura follows up after Madoka, speaking as confidently as she can to give her friend someone to lean on. ]

My name is Madoka Kaname, and this is my good friend Homura Akemi-chan. We wanted to introduce ourselves to you all, and [ A little bit more of hesitance from Madoka, shifting her weight from foot to foot while searching for the right word. ] make it known that we’ve arrived a few weeks ago.

Mm. It's nice to meet you all. [ A polite head bow, before adding: ] We're outside of Cherrygrove right now. We are camping. If anyone has some advice, it would be very much appreciated. This is not something we often do back home. [ She turns to look at Madoka for approval. ]

[ Madoka giggles sheepishly. ] Especially since we live in the city, ehehe. Any advice or hints would be really helpful, thank you in advance!

( Madoka and Homura will reply in the "commenter -> Homu -> Mado" order, unless you indicate in the subject line you'd prefer separate replies. ♥ )

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[fullmoonfortune]

It's nice to meet you both Madoka-chan, Homura-chan. I'm Ryoji Mochizuki. I've only been here... Oh, it'll be two months this month, won't it? I've only been here a little while myself, but I've found the best thing to do is really to get to a city as soon as you can, especially if the weather looks like it's going to worsen. I ended up travelling a lot at night, and it was relatively peaceful compared to travelling in the day. No one really challenges you, since they're all asleep.

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[rewindingly]

Is that so? Are challengers common along further routes?

[ They've only reached Cherrygrove so far, but Homura would like to keep Madoka out of major battles for as long as possible. ]

[heartfeltfancy]

Challenge...? [...] Oh! Right, right. Have you gotten challenged a lot, then?

[fullmoonfortune]

If you train your pokémon [or your pokémon train themselves, as is his case!!] then you shouldn't have too much trouble with them. I've only been challenged a few times, since I didn't usually travel in the day... Ah, that changed when Haruka-chan invited me to join her travelling group, since we were all heading to Goldenrod, though.

[rewindingly]

Is that so? So challenges are more likely during the day...

[ She glances at Madoka gain, then back at the screen. ]

Are there any disadvantages to traveling at night?

[heartfeltfancy]

Then maybe I should start training Junko-chan more. [A giggle.] It's good to be prepared.

[fullmoonfortune]

[Disadvantages... He scratches his chin a little, thinking.]

Well... It's pretty hard to see since it's dark. Even when the moon's out. Mina-kun and Takara-chan have pretty good eyesight at night though, so it wasn't difficult for me... If you can catch a Hoothoot or a Sentret, I think you'll be okay. It's better to be safe than sorry, after all.

[rewindingly]

I see... Mm. Such Pokemon would be useful.

Thank you for the advice.