Adventures in Helnith: Assault on the Town of Ash (OoC)

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Actually, how do Pokeballs and being in the box work for the Pokemon inside? Is there a virtual reality thing, or just a small cramped area?

The Pokémon are usually held in stasis in their Pokéballs while in storage (this is why if your Pokémon get seriously injured the nurse will take them for treatment and won’t let you switch them with an uninjured ‘mon - they can’t heal), and the Pokéballs themselves are stored in Pokémon Centers and similar places. There are some edge cases - the nurse (and some other positions, like the regional Pokemon Professor*) can override the system to either take the Pokémon out or put them in, this is usually done for healthcare or research reasons - and if you’ve seen the anime, there are places like Professor Oak’s lab where the Pokémon can free range when they aren’t in the party, but those are the exception rather than the rule, and require a special license.

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The regional Pokémon Professor for Helnith, Professor Hickory, vanished into the Spectral Dimension about ten or twenty years ago during one of the last batches of rifts (they occur in a regular pattern, with most of them occurring in a spike about every ten years - obviously we’re in a spike now) along with one of the only two Eevee to have been in Helnith in the last thirty years. (The other was an Egg the Siltis Elder gave to one of the group - although not the group member who has it now!) So not much chance of him yoinking one of your Pokémon to study if you somehow get your hands on a Legendary or something else ludicrously rare.

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Akio listens but chooses not to interject, before going to bed early for the day tomorrow. Maybe he can get in some training before the others wake up....

Which Pokémon are you training?