#log3

I think I might be in shock. At least, I hope I am-- because if I’m not in shock, I’m just an idiot. 

Here’s reason number one: when I climbed out of my ship to sit on top of it, I didn’t put my suit on. You know, the thing that allows me to breathe, protects me from radiation, keeps me pressurized? Yeah. I noticed I was burning literally seconds after I suspended my last log. I mean, of course I was, this planet has two fucking suns. I’m just lucky the vegetation here produces oxygen instead of, I don’t know, carbon monoxide.

Here’s reason number two: When I saw my skin starting to slough off, I panicked a little, and uh… jumped into the green ooze. Shut up, we’re blaming shock, remember? But here’s the thing-- it fucking worked? My skin cooled off immediately. When I clambered back onto my ship and shook off the goo, my skin was smooth and whole again, and probably better moisturized than it’s ever been before. I mean, I look fantastic.

I’m gonna call this stuff Super Aloe.

Anyway, my suit is back on, and I’ve managed to pull the ship out of the lake. It wasn’t actually that difficult-- the Super Aloe is only a couple feet deep, so I was able to wade to a tree at the edge of the lake and tether my ship to it. After that, it was just a matter of using the ship’s robotic arms to pull her to dry land. The tree bent a little under the strain, and when I went to free it from my tether, I saw the same green goo oozing out of the broken trunk. While I watched, the bark knit itself smooth again, and the goo dried to glass in the sun. 

Maybe all that vegetation I destroyed when I landed will be ok, after all. Strange seeing nature forgive, for once. Earth 1 could’ve used a bit of that.

At any rate, even with my suit protecting my skin, I feel dangerously close to combusting in this heat. I’m just working on getting the gunk out of my engines, and then I should be able to get off this sweltering planet. Before I go, I think I’ll dump my rations into my escape pod and use the containers to collect a bunch of Super Aloe. It’s not as shiny as the Hekk tend to prefer, but still-- magical healing goo has to be worth something.

At least, it had better be. I’ve had the sinking realization that I can’t land on another planet until I get my stupid brakes fixed, and if I can’t land on alien planets, then what the hell am I doing? No, I worked too hard for the freedom to be an asshole in space just to lose it all to a hardware malfunction. If the Hekk don’t see the value in Super Aloe, I’ll make them see it.

I’m just glad I won’t need to land on a planet in order to conduct business with the nearest Hekki trader. He prefers a more… remote approach. 

Anyway, this is me signing off for now. I’ll check back in after I get what I need.

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Another update, I’m now through Route 102 with yet another addition to the team. This time a Lotad, who Merryl RUDELY jumped on as we were admiring the clouds from afar. It was a bit of a nightmare to pull the two apart, admittedly, but surprisingly it seemed Cassidy was able to quell things long enough for the fight to stop. I haven’t really ever seen Pokemon talk like this before... It’s quite fascinating all things considered! 

Cassidy seemed to take quite a liking to this little lady (sidenote, what is with all the female Pokemon with me right now?) and part of me felt compelled to maybe suggest bringing her along? Well. Here we are. Nelly the Lotad, the newest addition. All things considered my type matches are NOT looking too good right now, I wasn’t expecting to become a Mono-Water trainer but I suppose we’ve only just started, and we’ll be seeing where we’re going!

Right now I’m taking my time through Route 102 here, both taking in the sights and letting my Pokemon have some slight free roam. I know Petalburg City is coming up sometime soon, to which I’m pretty sure Felix’s dad is the owner of? That’s pretty nice. Though admittedly right now I’m a little pissed due to some rat of a kid saying he targeted me out because he thought he could beat me? Is it because I’m wearing a suit? 

I also haven’t seen Felix in a bit, not sure if he went up ahead or we just haven’t crossed paths yet, but I’m sure with us going the same way we’re bound to stumble into one another soon... This is not in a good sense, mind you. 

-February 13, 2016-

Here are some pictures of what happened in our first service earlier. 

We went to Barangay 709 at around 9AM and we were first welcomed by only three kids. It seems as though that some of the kids were still asleep haha! But little by little, kids started coming in and would you look at that, we were overwhelmed by the number! Overwhelmed but at the same time we were excited to spend time with these kids.

Like what we planned, we made them answer the worksheets that we provided. Everything was on us, we gave them pens as well as snacks to eat. We got to meet each and every one of them. I personally liked this one kid named Moi Moi, he caught my attention because he was really bright in Math and he was also very adorable and respectful. I guided him as he was answering the worksheet but it looked like he didn’t even needed any of my help, he’s a really smart kid and I got the chance to talk to him for a bit too, he told me stories of how he really loved the subject Math and that he wants to become an engineer someday.

“The new environment of simultaneous and diversified information creates acoustic man. He is surrounded by sound - from behind, from the side, from above. His environment is made up of information in all kinds of simultaneous forms, and he puts on this electrical environment as we put on our clothes, or as the fish puts on water.”