1. It absolutely has antique shops. There might be an antique stall or two at the market place. Plenty of places to find old keys!
2. He should have no problem leaving several pokemon behind in his hotel room, and also withdrawing a full team to travel with. Only having a team of six on you is more of a social rule, rather than an actual physical inability. The PC doesn't stop letting people take more pokemon out of storage once they've hit six. The PC is just that, after all, and it can't really tell if someone is walking around with all those pokemon on them, or if they are leaving those pokemon outside of their balls in safe environments.
Technically there is nothing physically stopping someone from carrying tons of pokeballs (after all, team Rocket members are able to steal a ton of pokemon, which would be rather difficult if they couldn't hold more than six pokeballs), it's just something that is Not Done and judged really hard by individuals of this world.
And at the same time we as mods ask people to please stick from an OOC perspective as well to it to keep an even playing field between characters. It's one thing to have a bunch of pokemon out and about where a person lives/sleeps as this doesn't really convey any sort of advatage to them. But when travelling, having access to a lot more pokemon would really skew what they'd be able to do in terms of using pokemon mounts and winning battles.
3. She'd definitely be happy to talk to him, assuming there isn't a line of people waiting to challenge her (in which case she'd invite him back later)
Gardenia would sympathise with Thace, especially if he tells her about his own worlds and how people are captured and made to fight as slaves. In fact, hearing that sort of tale would be quite horrific to her. But she would also try her hardest to explain to him/convince him of the fact that pokemon are not slaves. They aren't being forced to fight; they enjoy it. And if a pokemon didn't want to fight, there isn't really anything a trainer could do to make them fight anyway. Most pokemon are much stronger than humans, so they can't really be cowed around.
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2. He should have no problem leaving several pokemon behind in his hotel room, and also withdrawing a full team to travel with. Only having a team of six on you is more of a social rule, rather than an actual physical inability. The PC doesn't stop letting people take more pokemon out of storage once they've hit six. The PC is just that, after all, and it can't really tell if someone is walking around with all those pokemon on them, or if they are leaving those pokemon outside of their balls in safe environments.
Technically there is nothing physically stopping someone from carrying tons of pokeballs (after all, team Rocket members are able to steal a ton of pokemon, which would be rather difficult if they couldn't hold more than six pokeballs), it's just something that is Not Done and judged really hard by individuals of this world.
And at the same time we as mods ask people to please stick from an OOC perspective as well to it to keep an even playing field between characters. It's one thing to have a bunch of pokemon out and about where a person lives/sleeps as this doesn't really convey any sort of advatage to them. But when travelling, having access to a lot more pokemon would really skew what they'd be able to do in terms of using pokemon mounts and winning battles.
3. She'd definitely be happy to talk to him, assuming there isn't a line of people waiting to challenge her (in which case she'd invite him back later)
Gardenia would sympathise with Thace, especially if he tells her about his own worlds and how people are captured and made to fight as slaves. In fact, hearing that sort of tale would be quite horrific to her. But she would also try her hardest to explain to him/convince him of the fact that pokemon are not slaves. They aren't being forced to fight; they enjoy it. And if a pokemon didn't want to fight, there isn't really anything a trainer could do to make them fight anyway. Most pokemon are much stronger than humans, so they can't really be cowed around.