N: *Popplio and Oshawott are exploring the test area of the video game world*
Oshawott: So this is the test level
L: Popplio looks around. "So cool that we managed to unlock something like this! Bet there's all sorts of stuff to mess around with!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, almost like a sandbox area
L: "Looks like we'll be able to change how the game works in here too, and spawn stuff... This is gonna be great!"
N: Oshawott: What should we start first?
L: "Sure are a LOT of options... How about some swimming first? It'll be cool to be able to just make air bubbles whenever we need them."
N: Oshawott: Yeah, we can also test our breath holding
L: "That'll be fun! Let's go find some water, and see if we can go deep down too."
N: Oshawott: Yeah
*They two heading to a very deep pool of water*
L: "Hey, this is perfect! I wonder if we'll be able to get all the way to the bottom before we drown..."
N: Oshawott: If not we can spawn air bubble to keep us going
L: "Pretty sure we can change how long we can hold our breath too, but I think we should keep that normal for now."
N: Oshawott: Yeah, we want to test our limit
L: Popplio hops into the water, looking down into it while staying on the surface for now. "Man, I'm excited, I can already tell this is gonna be deeper than I've ever gone!"
N: *Oshawott hop into the water as well*
Oshawott: Yeah, we never find a underwater area this deep
L: "Alright, I'm not planning on swimming back up until I reach the bottom. Wonder how many bubbles we're gonna need to get all the way down..."
N: Oshawott: Only way to find out
L: "Yep, and I'm gonna get started!" With a deep breath, Popplio dives underwater, waiting a moment for Oshawott to join him.
N: *Oshawott joins Popplio as they start swimming downward*
L: Each Pokemon has their breath meter appear and begin to drain. Paying it no mind, Popplio continues swimming deeper.
N: *Oshawott continue swimming deeper into the deep pool*
L: Both of them being aquatic means they have quite a while before they'll need air, but Popplio still isn't sure it'll be enough for how deep this pool is.
N: *Despite their fast swimming speed they are still quite a long way to the bottom*
L: The minutes tick by as they both swim, each with about 2/3 of their breath left.
N: *They both don't bother about the breath meter as they keep swimming farther down*
L: Popplio starts to audibly strain some once he's halfway out of breath, but tries to keep ignoring his need for air.
N: *Oshawott ignores the strain and keeps swimming*
L: As they continue down, Popplio eventually presses one of his flippers to his mouth as he starts struggling, but keeps swimming.
N: *Oshawott struggle as well as he continue swimming with both their air about a quarter remain*
L: Popplio whines some from his need to breathe, but still doesn't make a bubble yet, wanting to only do that when he's about to drown.
N: *They both keep going to their limit as much as they can*
L: In the last few seconds before he'll run out of breath, Popplio stops and covers his mouth with both flippers, before remembering he can make air. He creates an air bubble and quickly swims to it, gasping the whole thing down in one go and fully refreshing his breath.
N: *Oshawott does the same as they continue downward*
L: Before a second set of bubbles is needed, the two finally reach the bottom of the pool, about halfway toward running out of breath again. Popplio smiles as he lays down on the bottom, looking up at the very distant surface.
N: *Oshawott look up as they barely see the surface at this depth*
L: It would definitely be a long swim back up... Popplio decides he's not going to bother with that, and instead just eventually drown and respawn.
N: *Oshawott was waiting for the air meter to drain completely so he can drown blissfully*
L: Popplio blows some bubbles as he prepares to do his best to welcome the water in once he's forced to breathe.
N: *Oshawott blowing some bubbles as well*
L: Popplio is soon struggling again, but doesn't cover his mouth, forcing himself to keep blowing bubbles.
N: *Their air are almost drained as they prepare for the big gasp*
L: As Popplio runs out of breath, he opens his mouth wide and starts sucking in water, just barely forcing himself not to cough. He floods his lungs completely, and even holds in the water for a couple seconds, before he goes into a coughing fit as he starts truly drowning.
N: *Oshawott does the same as their health bar starts to drain*
L: Popplio grabs his neck and starts thrashing, his willpower drained and his insticts forcing him to start swimming back up, even though he knows there's no way he'll make it.
N: *Oshawott choose to stay here and waits for his watery fate*
L: The very last of Popplio's air bubbles out of his mouth as he coughs a few more times, before he gasps again, refilling his soaked lungs.
N: *Oshawott release a big bubble as his lungs is getting filled with water*
L: Popplio starts to calm down some as his body weakens, and he slowly sinks back down to the floor next to Oshawott. He blearily looks over at them with a slight smile, his coughs more like hiccups now.
N: *Their health are nearly drained as eagerly accept their fate knowing that they will respawn soon after*
L: With a spasm as his health runs out, a bubble as big as Popplio's head floats up from within him. He weakly smiles at the sight of it, then closes his eyes, letting the water take him.
N: *Oshawott release a huge bubble as he slowly passed out from drowning*
L: As always, the two Pokemon respawn, safely being returned to the edge of the pool they'd drowned in. "Man, my body may not like it, but drowning feels really good... Love those big bubbles we always let out after, too~"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, that felt so soothing
L: "You know, I'm gonna check something real quick..." Popplio opens up the special settings for this testing area and scrolls through them. "Nice, there's a way to make our bubbles bigger! Want me to turn that up?"
N: Oshawott: Sure
L: "Alright, let's bring that up to... 4 times normal. Ought to make our regular bubbles just as big as those drowned ones!"
N: Oshawott: There's one other thing I wanted to try
L: "And what's that? I bet it's gonna be a good time too!"
N: Oshawott: I wanted to drown in quicksand
L: "Oh, we haven't done that in the regular game! Let's go find some quicksand and try it out!"
N: *They both search for one*
L: "There might not be any here... Oh, we can probably just make our own!" Popplio looks through what can be spawned here, and does indeed find a few different kinds of quicksand pools, which he makes one of. "Perfect! Picked out what it says is the deepest one."
N: Oshawott: Let's go with jungle themed quicksand
L: "Alright, think it said it could be changed to different themes..." After a little bit of looking through menus, Popplio finds a way to change the quicksand pit to be jungled themed, which he does. "There we go."
N: Oshawott: Looks almost like real quicksand, nice
L: "I bet it'll feel like the real thing, too... Think we're all set here, so I'm just gonna..." Popplio hops into the quicksand, splattering it around some.
N: Oshawott: Getting eager are we
*Oshawott hops into the quicksand as well*
L: "Hey, I've never felt quicksand before, we did a good job of avoiding all of it in the actual game!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, was actually curious about it for a while
L: "Well, finally get to check it out without any issues, and so far, think I like it!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, I already loving this, it's like a nice mud spa
L: "Yep, this is gonna be great to relax in...~"
N: Oshawott: Indeed, how about we make it so we last long enough to reach the bottom~
L: "Sounds good! I'll go ahead and adjust that..." Popplio substantially raises how long he and Oshawott can each hold their breath. "Might take some waiting if we plan on drowning again, but we can exhale to speed that up."
N: Oshawott: Yes, maybe having higher health value for a more longer blissful inhale
L: Popplio blushes at the though of drowning for a long time. "O-oh man, I didn't even think of that! Okay, I'll raise up our health, enough for maybe about 2 minutes of drowning. Should I set our breath holding back, or leave it?" Popplio raises the health of himself and Oshawott.
N: Oshawott: Maybe lower a little
*They sink to their waist*
L: "Alright, I'll bring that down some. Man, I can't believe I didn't think of raising our health, drowning for a long time is gonna be great!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, being able to endure so much from drowning and having to test the quicksand is gonna be so much fun
L: "Gonna love to do some swimming down there when I'm nice and drowned~"
N: Oshawott: Pretending to act perilous as if I was sinking in real quicksand~
*They sink to their belly*
L: "I was sort of wondering if you were gonna do that, I didn't want to if I'd be the only one!" Popplio pretends to struggle to get out of the quicksand.
N: *Oshawott pretends to struggle by attempting to swim in quicksand*
Oshawott: I'm sinking in deadly quicksand~
L: "Oh, if only there was something we could do to get out of this!" Popplio happily slaps his flippers on the quicksand a couple times.
N: *They sink to their chest*
Oshawott: We are so doomed
*Oshawott rest his arm on the quicksand surface*
L: "Boy, I sure don't want to end up breathing quicksand! That would suck for sure!"
N: Oshawott: At least the mud feels nice, hehe
L: "It does, and I bet it's gonna feel even better soon enough!"
N: *Oshawott lift his one arm up as he sinks to his neck*
Oshawott: I'm slowly drowning in quicksand, getting closer to being fully sunken
L: Popplio raises one flipper as well, "frantically" smacking the mud with the other. Still in fake fear, he calls out "Someone help us, we're gonna drown in quicksand!"
N: Oshawott: We'll be goners if we sink under
L: Popplio starts tilting his head back to keep breathing. "We're gonna sink all the way to the bottom, and then we're gonna end up flooding with it all!"
N: *Oshawott tilts his head as well*
Oshawott: One final breath before we submerge under the quicksand
L: "Then all our breaths will pack us full of mud!" Popplio takes a deep breath and finally sinks under the surface.
N: *Oshawott does the same as they both hold their breath*
L: Their breath meters come up again, draining slower than before. Both of them can still barely see under the quicksand, which is likely a convenience feature the game has.
N: *Oshawott smiles as he sink deeper*
L: Remembering the change he'd made earlier, Popplio blows out a bubble, and find it's quite a lot bigger than before. He happily keeps blowing one bubble at a time, hardly using any air to achieve that large size.
N: *Oshawott blow his bubbles as well as they both sink deeper and deeper*
L: It's taking a while to get all the way down, but this time neither Pokemon has to do any swimming, able to just relax the whole time.
N: *They both feel the strain as they continue their long descent into the quicksand depths*
L: Popplio blows out one more bubble before deciding to keep in the rest of his air for now, looking down to see if he can see the bottom yet, which he can't.
N: *Their air are halfway drained as they both motionless sink deeper*
L: Popplio is beginning to worry just a little that he and Oshawott might not make it to the bottom after all, but he doesn't intend on giving up, continuing to sink.
N: *Oshawott keeps calm as they sink deeper still*
L: Popplio puts a flipper over his mouth again to help keep his air in, hoping the bottom of the quicksand pit will be coming soon.
N: *Their air are nearly drained as they both reach the bottom*
L: Settling onto the bottom with a strained smile, Popplio presses both flippers to his mouth. As much as he's looking forward to drowning again, he wants to be forced to breathe.
N: *Oshawott holds it in as much as he could*
L: Popplio shivers some before he finally can't hold his breath any more, and he exhales a ton of huge bubbles before semi-willingly gasping down mud, starting to choke again.
N: *Oshawott starts blowing out many bubble before he starts inhaling mud as he smile*
L: Managing to keep more control of himself this time, Popplio stays on the bottom as he drowns, though he still grabs his neck while gurgling, his lungs flooding.
N: *Their health drains much slower then last time due to the settings as their lungs slowly fills up*
L: The slower health loss seems to also mean a longer period of struggle, as Popplio is still frantically gasping mud for a while longer.
N: *The mud in their lungs felt good as they take in more and more*
L: As he slowly weakens, Popplio eventually gets himself under enough control to stop choking, though he's still panting mud.
N: *Their health are halfway drained as they happily inhale more and more mud*
L: With a full minute of drowning behind him, Popplio finds himself starting to get tired like last time. His panting slows to calm breathing, and he's finally smiling again.
N: *They both calmly let themselves slowly drowning from the blissful feeling*
L: Remembering he wanted to try swimming while peacefully flooded like this, Popplio lethargically pushes himself off the bottom and starts slowly swimming, staying near Oshawott so he doesn't lose them.
N: *Their health are nearly drained as they starting to feel very weak from drowning*
L: While he still has some strength left, Popplio returns to Oshawott and hugs them, likely letting them feel his muddy breaths against them.
N: *They both hold it in as much as they can before they prepared for their big exhale*
L: Popplio is a little excited at how big the last bubble is going to be, though he's too drowned to really show it. He's barely staying awake now, with just a sliver of health left.
N: *They decided to exhale one massage bubble before their vision started to fade from drowning*
L: With the last of his strength, Popplio tilts his head back as the drowning bubble starts being let out. It's a HUGE amount of air, so much that it puffs his cheeks on the way out even with his mouth being open. When the bubble is fully out, it's a little bigger than him! Popplio smiles up at the enormous globe of air, before he finally passes out.
N: *Oshawott does the same as he pass out, they both respawn soon after and sees their massive bubble reaching the surface*
L: Popplio smiles as he regains awareness just in time to see the bubbles, watching them loudly pop and splatter mud around. "Man, everything about all that was awesome!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, that was amazing
L: "I'm definitely gonna want to come back here and play around some more, but for now, think I need a break from drowning."
N: Oshawott: Yeah, let’s try something safe while we’re still here
L: "I bet this place will let us play around with anything in the game!"
N: Oshawott: Yeah, we can do whatever we want in here
L: "Let's actually take a look around, we kinda just beelined toward the water before. Maybe something fun is already set up for us."
N: Oshawott: Yeah, there’s so much to explore
L: Popplio and Oshawott set off to explore more of the test level and have fun playing around with adjusting the game's mechanics together.
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