Hopefully it won't become a question until you've had an opportunity to visit Cherrygrove and Violet and get the fast-travel warps you've missed waking up here instead of there. I had to claim I hitched a ride on another's Flying pokemon from New Bark to here to explain why I haven't them. But since Goldenrod is the main urban center of Johto, it was easy enough to see why I'd head directly here without taking the traditional route.
The false mother, so far as I know, is a woman who is there when you wake up that claims to be your mother and is patently not. She gives you a bag and hustles you out her door and then you're alone in this world.
Honestly, in some ways it's easier to wake up in the care of Team Rocket. Sure, you're forced to endure mandatory training your first week and every so often they call us up for some mission, but once training week is over, all you really need to do is turn in a sufficiently high level pokemon every other week for your quota. Granted, they're meant to be stolen pokemon, but they really don't check.
Otherwise, your time is your own. And for this, you get a weekly stipend--which increases with rank--and you're allowed to expense travel costs and anything else that might occur during your work for the team. [He chuckles.] We've all gotten very good at justifying said expenses.
That said, if you seek supplementary employment, the team will provide that as well. I myself am a member of the newsroom at the Goldenrod Radio Tower. [He just got the promotion in fact and he's so goddamn happy they're letting him work in his actual field again.] There's a few position they won't sponsor you for unless you're Beta or above, of course--but that's just more reason to work to advance within the team.
[Which, even more than not wanting to share a rank with Steve Palchuk, is why Steven's working so hard on making it to Beta as soon as he can. He wants to go on the air.]
They've got several science positions open, I know that much. Dirk works for them in that capacity. And Tyler's part of Data Collection for now, although that might change once the business venture the two of us and Jack are working on is ready.
But yes. It's been years for Jack. I-- wouldn't discount his warning, by the way. Jack's good with tech. He's a genius in his field, in fact--I say this as a man who's merely intelligent, but can recognize brilliance and genius when he sees it.
The truth, Solus, [Steven says very quietly, the kind of quiet that makes you focus on someone's words,] is that the best way to get power in this world is through money, not superior technology or conquest. But you'll see in time.
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Hopefully it won't become a question until you've had an opportunity to visit Cherrygrove and Violet and get the fast-travel warps you've missed waking up here instead of there. I had to claim I hitched a ride on another's Flying pokemon from New Bark to here to explain why I haven't them. But since Goldenrod is the main urban center of Johto, it was easy enough to see why I'd head directly here without taking the traditional route.
The false mother, so far as I know, is a woman who is there when you wake up that claims to be your mother and is patently not. She gives you a bag and hustles you out her door and then you're alone in this world.
Honestly, in some ways it's easier to wake up in the care of Team Rocket. Sure, you're forced to endure mandatory training your first week and every so often they call us up for some mission, but once training week is over, all you really need to do is turn in a sufficiently high level pokemon every other week for your quota. Granted, they're meant to be stolen pokemon, but they really don't check.
Otherwise, your time is your own. And for this, you get a weekly stipend--which increases with rank--and you're allowed to expense travel costs and anything else that might occur during your work for the team. [He chuckles.] We've all gotten very good at justifying said expenses.
That said, if you seek supplementary employment, the team will provide that as well. I myself am a member of the newsroom at the Goldenrod Radio Tower. [He just got the promotion in fact and he's so goddamn happy they're letting him work in his actual field again.] There's a few position they won't sponsor you for unless you're Beta or above, of course--but that's just more reason to work to advance within the team.
[Which, even more than not wanting to share a rank with Steve Palchuk, is why Steven's working so hard on making it to Beta as soon as he can. He wants to go on the air.]
They've got several science positions open, I know that much. Dirk works for them in that capacity. And Tyler's part of Data Collection for now, although that might change once the business venture the two of us and Jack are working on is ready.
But yes. It's been years for Jack. I-- wouldn't discount his warning, by the way. Jack's good with tech. He's a genius in his field, in fact--I say this as a man who's merely intelligent, but can recognize brilliance and genius when he sees it.
The truth, Solus, [Steven says very quietly, the kind of quiet that makes you focus on someone's words,] is that the best way to get power in this world is through money, not superior technology or conquest. But you'll see in time.