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DXZ has different strains, each one kinda analogous to a pokemon evolutionary line. In some areas you got little pockets of specific infection, like how Blackthorn largely ended up with druddigon posthuman survivors.

Saffron is similar to Blackthorn; the strain that ran amok in the city was the kadabra/alakazam strain. There's an ancient pokedex entry that talks about a boy turning into a kadabra; instead of being a reference to Kafka's metamorphosis like in the original*, in GEO it references the posthuman survivors in Saffron, namely Yuri, who is Sabrina's father.

since it doesn't take massive, visible mutation for posthumans to have hybrid kids, a lot of the kids born in Saffron after the first plague were psychic. and that was weird and hard to deal with at first but there was a big enough group to kinda turtle up and keep the kids safe. over time the saffron population got used to the psychic kids and the city itself became known as the psychic capital of japan. other psychics came to saffron looking for community, because many of them encountered the same sort of hostility gold did in holon, and the city's reputation kept growing.

As the kids got older and started growing into their powers, a psychic school of a sort was established, which pulls double duty as a research facility looking into the psychic powers hybrids are capable of as well as teaching people control and making sure they can access the meds that make their brains less loud.

verdigris was a small town to the south-west of mt moon, which housed one of the initial gyms for the indigo league--a ground type gym run by an older man named gene.

verdigris was one of the towns that popped up during the war, hidden in an isolated spot in the mountains and taking in refugees from around the country. some of them dissolved after the war ended, but verdigris stayed inhabited.

On september 3rd, 1995, an initial tremor shook the city, causing minor damage to buildings, and that was all the warning the residents and visitors got before the town collapsed into a sinkhole. the epicentre was at the southern side of town, roughly where the gym was; that area sank lower than the rest of the town, but almost the entire town went down. verdigris was ruled uninhabitable, and the survivors were moved to celadon.

it comes up a bit bc lance and his best friend rune were both in the town at the time of the disaster. lance was shopping for supplies when the initial tremor hit--the boys were planning on leaving once rune finished challenging gene at the gym. The ceiling of the building caved in, but lance's dragonair evolved in a panic in order to keep it from crushing his trainer, so lance and the other people in the shop were able to get out safely. that also lead to lance trying to safely cross the town to find rune, stopping to dig out anyone he and his pokemon could detect along the way.

rune, however, was at the gym at the time, and he didn't survive.

in the current day there's a memorial by the cliffs near the doomed town, and survivors and family members still gather once a year for a memorial service.

Kamina knew them from before since he met Simon during one of the times that he snuck away from Blackthorn to explore outside of it

Simon's parents were one of the many victims in Verdigris, and Simon himself had dug himself most of the way out before he was reached from the outside

"Kamina. . ."

"Huh?"

"Your back is your one big blind spot."

The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun 1964

"The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s and is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. The folk song collector Alan Lomax suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves", but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs.

"House of the Rising Sun" was said to have been known by American miners in 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925, in a column titled "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine. The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it on September 6, 1933. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley, who got married around the time of the Civil War, which suggests that the song could have been written years before the start of the 20th century. Roy Acuff, an "early-day friend and apprentice" of Clarence Ashley's, learned it from him and recorded it as "Rising Sun" on November 3, 1938.

It has been recorded by a number of artists. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the English rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The Animals vocalist Eric Burdon revealed that he first heard the song in a club in Newcastle, England, where it was sung by the Northumbrian folk singer Johnny Handle. The Animals were on tour with Chuck Berry and chose it because they wanted something distinctive to sing. The Animals had begun featuring their arrangement of "The House of the Rising Sun" during a joint concert tour with Chuck Berry, using it as their closing number to differentiate themselves from acts that always closed with straight rockers. It elicited a tremendous reaction from the audience, convincing initially reluctant producer Mickie Most that it had hit potential, and between tour stops the group went to a small recording studio in London to capture it in just one take on May 18, 1964.

"House of the Rising Sun" was a trans-Atlantic hit: after reaching the top of the UK pop singles chart in July 1964, it topped the US pop singles chart two months later, on September 5, 1964, where it stayed for three weeks. Many cite this as the first true classic rock song, and it became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with the Beatles. It was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song. The song was also a hit in Ireland twice, peaking at number 10 upon its initial release in 1964 and later reaching a brand new peak of number 5 when reissued in 1982. The Animals' rendition of the song is recognized as one of the classics of British pop music. It is one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ranked it number 240 on their list of "Songs of the Century". In 1999, it received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It has long since become a staple of oldies and classic rock radio.

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