Searching Far and Wide

[intricate_engineer]

Glen was creating a prototype for a new gate design. It was meant to be affordable and provide quick transport between individual homes. She tests several objects and a rat and everything seems to be working.

She steps through. Instead of finding herself in the room next door, she finds herself standing on a sidewalk in an empty city. The buildings are tall and perfect, colorless with doorways far too tall for any human. The roads have no straight lines and twist in on themselves. There is no life or sound.
Glen tries to stay calm. She begins to walk along the road, randomly opening doors and exploring buildings that are as silent as the rest of the world.

She opens a door that she hopes will lead onto a roof and is instead met with warmth, and soft noise, and color.

Comments

[intricate_engineer]

"What's the largest?"

[the_very_best]

"Wailord! They're huge. They might not be the heaviest but I think they take up the most space."

[intricate_engineer]

"How big are they?"

[the_very_best]

"You could... maybe squeeze one in here if you took out all the furniture," Bella says, glancing around the bar.

[intricate_engineer]

"Oh, not that big then."

[the_very_best]

"Not that big?"

[intricate_engineer]

"There are animals with eyes the size of this room."

[the_very_best]

"....that's horrifying."

[intricate_engineer]

"We usually keep our distance."

[the_very_best]

"I bet. So I guess animals just have more size variance than 'mon."

[intricate_engineer]

"They do seem to follower stricter rules. Most animals have much larger natural variations in size and coloring, but it seems like all 'mon of the same type are closer to being identical."

[the_very_best]

"There's variance! Sometimes you get color mutants. Dusk used to be an unusually fluffy Eevee. Fireflower's big for a Rapidash. I think I mentioned designer Bulbasaur."

[intricate_engineer]

"Yes, but it's comparatively limited. In some species of animal, almost every individual is a slightly different color. Some species have a huge size range. For example bears can be 400 or a thousand pounds."

[the_very_best]

"I guess human weights can vary by a factor of two and a half... I haven't spent a lot of time putting Pokémon on scales, you understand."

[intricate_engineer]

"I am generalizing."

[the_very_best]

"You haven't seen that many 'mon! Maybe there are midget Rapidash half Fireflower's mass."

[intricate_engineer]

"Are there? That sounds really cute."

[the_very_best]

"I dunno! It wouldn't floor me."

[intricate_engineer]

"Are the variations ever harmful?"

[the_very_best]

"Harmful directly? I mean, it'd be hard to ride something that small, your feet would drag..."

[intricate_engineer]

"Are any 'mon born blind or deaf? Are any unable to survive to adulthood? Are there any that are especially susceptible to disease?"

[the_very_best]

"'Mon don't usually get sick. I guess they might die if there wasn't enough food or had an accident or something? I don't know about blind or deaf ones off the top of my head, they'd have a substantial disadvantage at fighting and be way less popular to train... Unless they're supposed to be blind, like Zubat or something."

[intricate_engineer]

"Huh. Alright, what about for humans on your world?"

[the_very_best]

"Humans are sometimes blind or deaf or sickly."

[intricate_engineer]

"Is it passed down in families?"