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Okay, took longer than expected to get back. We start in Crest about one city away from where we start in Skyline, and meet our rival Jorex (who appeared in the Skyline beta), who tells us we have to take him to get his starter, and he walks into us to join our "party" JRPG-style and railroads us if we try to go anywhere other than the lab. When we get there, he's disappointed that they don't have a Torchic and leave, and we can choose our starter, Chimchar, Piplup, or palette error Turtwig.
Also, every single region is exactly the same up to this point. Meet a rival one town away from the lab (the rival is based on one of Jagold's earlier games if it's a custom region, or a new OC in Kanto or Johto), go to the lab, meet the professor's assistant because the professor is gone (since you can reuse the assistant sprite without needing to make five professor sprites), get your starter. Gento has the Hoenn starters, and Hevah Unova starters (even though you had Kanto starters in LoG).
So, our starter?
