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Give this website a prompt and it will "write" something for you based off of it. Here's some ZFRP-flavored AI stories. Enjoy.

(The text in bold at the beginning is the prompt I wrote. Italic text in parenthesis is my own comments, added post-generation.)

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Let the ninth Big Bar Brawl begin! After completing the main quest "A Friend in Need," return to the Sanctuary to finish the quest "A Friendship Gone Viral."

Notes

The Big Bar Brawl takes place after the player completes the mission "A Friend in Need."

The quest "A Friend in Need" cannot be completed until after completing this quest.

The Big Bar Brawl is the first Big Bar Brawl outside of the Caverns of Time. After completing this quest you will receive 5 Big Bar Brawls for free.

Bugs

If the player stands to the right of the bar to receive the fight on the other side before the beginning of the encounter, they will see the Big Bar to the left, but in the center. A fix is to return to where you received the fight, stand to the side of the bar, and turn away to receive the fight from the other side and wait outside to receive it.

If the player dies during the fight, they can simply continue on with the quest.

(Five Brawls for free, huh? I think you'll need to start outsourcing, JRM.)

Pokemania

If you've somehow missed the eighteen times we've discussed it in Chatzy, Pokemon turns 20 this year and is celebrating with lots of merch and a new event Pokemon every month from now until December. While it didn't hit American shores until 1998, Pokemon debuted in Japan two years earlier, in February 1996. Initially a quiet release, word of mouth was substantial, and by 1997 Japan was wholeheartedly embracing Nintendo's latest RPG. Reception was so positive that Nintendo decided the game was worth releasing in other regions. They took a gamble and made a big hype campaign for Pokemon's western debut - the anime and the game released together, with the trading card game launching a couple months later. This was definitely a risk - what sells in Japan doesn't necessarily sell in other places, and a big deal was being made out of this fledgling series that rested all its' hopes on a very buggy and unbalanced game that came out on a system many considered long past its' prime. Nintendo COULD have had this blow up in its' face.

But it all paid off. Kids flocked to the series like nothing else, and reviewers praised the game's strong points - as poorly-balanced and badly-coded as the game was, it was just plain fun and introduced concepts that were rare in 1998, most notably the complete party customization. Again, it took a little time - according to Bulbapedia, many stores were initially unwilling to sell the card game, apparently believing it wouldn't be popular, HAW - but it took significantly less time to catch fire in the US than it did in Japan. No doubt the big push from Nintendo helped. By 1999, Pokemania was in full swing.

And brother, what a time to be alive.

Before I go any further - the name "Pokemania" was coined by a number of outsiders looking in on the phenomenon (speaking of, some also called it "The Pokemon Phenomenon"). I'm talking adults who were watching in confusion as kids fell in love with 151 Japanese cartoon animals, folks like newspapers, magazines, and third-party groups who released unauthorized guides to the franchise that often had errors but always had heart. Pokemania began at the end of 1998. It built up throughout 1999, and in fall of that year it reached its' peak. It remained strong throughout 2000 and had a grand sendoff in the form of Pokemon Gold and Silver, then slowly began to ebb away in the early 2000s as Pokemon degenerated from a worldwide fad to simply a cornerstone of Nintendo, an established household name brand people always know. By the time Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire released, Pokemon was just another franchise - albeit a tremendously popular and successful one.

Some of you might be a little too young to remember Pokemania, others might be a tad too old and didn't really pay attention when it was happening, considering it just another kid's thing. But me? I was the perfect target audience. For the first year of its' existence, I didn't really notice, but circa September 1999, I finally got hooked and had the ride of my life.

There's a lot I could talk about. The cards, the social interaction, the Game Boy games. But for the purposes of this post, I'm going to zero in on the toys. I've taken photographs of almost all the Pokemon toys I own, the vast majority of which are from 2001 or earlier, and I'm going to go over them in detail here.

Note that for all my posturing and fancy talk, I'm not much of a collector. These are toys that I heavily played with as a kid, and a lot of them are dinged up. You're not going to be seeing pristine museum pieces here. This is a part of my childhood laid bare for your amusement. That said, on with the pics.

Chatzy Madness Volume 165: Imagine Party Babyz Strikes Back

(Bree is describing a dream she had about Tenshi. The beginning was cut off by Free Chatzy)

Harpy: oh jesus
Bree: remove her soul, exorcise/purify her body and get the Bad Thing out of it, then put her soul back in her body now that it is okay again
SteelKomodo: TENSHI PLS
Harpy: this is the plot to LoT2
RubyChao: that does sound very zfrp.txt
Harpy: (no it isn't)
Bree: except none of that actually happened in the dream, for some reason the dream decided to focus on the guy who was doing the soul removing
Harpy: that does sound cray tho
RubyChao: was it viola
Bree: he wasn't a real character
Bree: it was definitely a man
RubyChao: oh ok
RubyChao: inexplicably male viola
Bree: he had some really vaguely shamanistic/fortune teller type of aspects and--no he was not at all similar to Viola in any way
Bree: and I think Viola appeared briefly to speak to him but idk I don't remember it other than "Viola was there for a whopping five seconds"
Bree: literally, five seconds
Bree: she got a cameo
RubyChao: "SAVE TENSHI" "ok" "IF YOU DON'T I'LL HAUNT YOU FOREVER"
Bree: somehow, she only cameoed in this tenshiplot
Bree: anyway so the dream decided to focus on the guy who would remove her soul
Bree: because he could see auras/ghosts/shit like that, and his job during the plot was to protect tenshi's soul while everyone else captured her body (by beating it into submission) and then exorcised the bad shit
Bree: for some reason Tenshi's soul looked like a small child version of Tenshi, was super adorable and vulnerable and--okay basically Tenshi's soul was Momoko, only not
RubyChao: hahahaha
Bree: it was specifically Tenshi but it acted like Momoko, if Momoko were child!Tenshi
Bree: and he spent the rest of the dream carrying Tenshisoul piggyback and it was adorable
Bree: then suddenly the setting was Wal-Mart
Bree: no really I swear to fucking god
Harpy: what
Harpy: did Tenshi demand peaches
Bree: Tenshisoul and Random Guy went around Wal-Mart and then some bad guys in Wal-Mart killed Random Guy and Tenshisoul was scared
RubyChao: random guy noooooo
SteelKomodo: what
SteelKomodo: D:
Bree: and they had a weird castle/tower sort of thing that they hauled around, it had wheels on the bottom???
Bree: they drove it around Wal-Mart
Bree: I don't even
RubyChao: i don't even either
Bree: like I said, my dreams are weird and fucked up when I sleep too much
SteelKomodo: what is this
Bree: I don't know what happened after that
SteelKomodo: WHAT IS MY LIFE etc.
Bree: I think I remember a bit about Tenshisoul going to Heaven, in the sense that she "moved on," because the dream forgot that she was not dead
RubyChao: tenshi nooooooo ;_;
RubyChao: followup plot: bust tenshi outta heaven
Bree: Iku returns from Bhava-Agra Heaven with Tenshisoul like "DID YOU LOSE THIS >:I"
Bree: I also remember a bit about a family gathering where there was tons of food, literally there was so much food even Gluttony couldn't eat it all, I swear to god there were eighteen tables overflowing with food or something
Bree: fud
RubyChao: so
Bree: like, what, is my family the Sarahkin now
RubyChao: sarahkin family, righ- hahaha
Harpy: >​even gluttony couldn't eat it all
Bree: and I was mad because they wouldn't let me in and I got in late and most of the fud was gone
Harpy: Gluttony: Is that a challenge~?
Harpy: srsly tho holy shit
Bree: my dreams are so random
Bree: I remember one other scene with the Wal-Mart parking lot
Bree: it was very dark outside and rainy and 2scary
Bree: lonely, scary, empty, dark, rainy parking lots are a recurring theme in my dreams
Bree: I swear I remember previous dreams with parking lots and they always involve me being totally convinced there is a knife-wielding thief somewhere in this parking lot
Bree: also it's always the Wal-Mart parking lot
Bree: always
Bree: I don't understand the recurrence of the Scariest Parking Lot Ever because I have no actual fear of dark parking lots
Bree: and I'm not afraid of Wal-Mart, either
Bree: like, usually the things that show up a lot in my dreams are stuff that...at least sort of make sense
Bree: and the mack-daddy of Bree Nightmares is cars
Bree: fucking cars
Bree: every single dream there is always a scene where for some reason I am driving a car, and it's wildly out of control
Bree: which makes sense, I'm scared shitless of driving which is why I don't know how despite being 20 years old
SteelKomodo: it's okay, I don't know how to drive either
Bree: that makes sense. I understand the overabundance of scary driving scenes in my nightmares.
SteelKomodo: and I'd rather not, I'd get road rage all the time
Bree: but I do not understand this fixation on the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Bree: I just don't even
Bree: I don't get road rage, I just inspire road rage in others
Bree: the few times I've driven, I was so paralyzed with fear and so busy hyperventilating that I made tons of mistakes
Bree: ran a red light? yep
Bree: missed a turn? yep
SteelKomodo: oh lawd
Bree: one time I almost ran over an old lady while going approximately 1 mile per hour in the--
Bree: --in the Wal-Mart parking lot. o_o
Bree: WHAT IS IT WITH WAL-MART, BREE??????
Bree: anyway, I hope you enjoyed my trippy-as-hell dream about Tenshi
RubyChao: i liked it
Bree: I...I almost feel like it might make it into a chatzy madness because it was so...weird
SteelKomodo: twas weird indeed
Bree: the lack of Viola was the weirdest part though
Bree: I remember thinking that while I was actively dreaming the dream
Bree: like "where is Viola"
SteelKomodo: lel
RubyChao: ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ give viola
Bree: Viola would protect Tenshi's soul so hard if she were in that dream
Bree: I bet she wouldn't have died like Random Guy
Bree: 2determined
RubyChao: viola uses the power of love to just
RubyChao: lift and throw the entire fortress thing yuugi-style
RubyChao: despite being puny
Bree: no no the moving castle thing belonged to Random Guy
RubyChao: oh ok, i thought it belonged to the villains in wal-mart
Bree: no it did not
Bree: there was also a doge
Bree: Random Guy kept a doge in his moving castle thingy
RubyChao: ...was random guy actually juan
Bree: no
Bree: trust me it wasn't anyone in zfrp
Bree: P.S. there was a scene where Random Guy told the villains their fortunes using Tarot cards
Bree: in the room at the bottom of the castle thing
Bree: it was before they were villains though
Bree: okay now I am done talking about this because I don't remember anything else and it's so damn weird
Bree: back to talking about normal things THAT DON'T INVOLVE WAL-MART