Subject: Sorry, My characters are walking.
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Posted on: 2013-09-18 03:37:00 UTC
Even if wildly exaggerated, I at least have some figures to work with. Thanks, hS.
And if anyone else has any better figures, please feel free to pitch in!
Because I have a geography question for you.
If anyone follows the Pokemon series, one would know that it usually takes quite a while for Ash and company to get from town to town. As I've already mentioned on the Board, I am working on a Pokemon/Bakugan crossover. I have a beta (I hope) and I have a pretty much concrete idea of where I want the story to go, but I now have a problem: what exactly is the time-frame that I have to work with?
Which leads to the geography question: Can anyone figure out how far the walk is between Fuchsia City and Vermillion City via Routes 11 to 15?
PS: Of course, you don't have to be the author of a DOGA agent to answer, as long as you can answer the question; I just used that subject to catch attention.
...don't know any of that, as I have extensive knowledge of neither Pokemon nor Bakugan...but I do have an active DOGA agent?
Somehow, I don't think that helps much. I guess that's why hS is around!
Happy writing!
~DF
Okay, no, sorry. I can't say anything about the anime - I don't think I've ever seen it - but from the games... well. In this Minecraft map of Kanto, the total length of routes 11-15, plus half of the width of Fuscia and Vermillion, comes to a grand total of... 600 metres. Loading up an actual Pokemon game, Vermillion 'City' itself is only 35 paces in length - at most (assuming the player character is really tall), 35 metres. The Pokelands really are quite pokey.
All of which reveals one thing: Ash is a really slow walker.
hS
PS: As a slightly more useful, but wildly estimated, figure... the area of Kanto in the above-mentioned Minecraft map is about 700x700m (yes, really!), which is conveniently square. The Kantō region of Japan, which Kanto is apparently based on, has an area of 32,423.90 km2, which if it were square, would give it an edge-length of 180 km. That gives a linear scale factor of (180/0.7 =) 260. So the 600m journey in Kanto would be (very roughly) 156 km in Kantō - or almost exactly a hundred miles.
hS again
Even if wildly exaggerated, I at least have some figures to work with. Thanks, hS.
And if anyone else has any better figures, please feel free to pitch in!