Mary
"...Why would you have a poisoned apple on you?" **The girl asked, a genuinely confused and concerned look on her face.** "That doesn't seem like something you'd want someone to eat."
Richard
**Blinking at that answer, he seemed to deflate a bit and shrug** I can eat em, got a rare condition that allows me to survive any poisons, though I gotta be careful not to consume too much, otherwise I might get into a drunk state of being. **He then grins in amusement** Though why you should try your luck, well that's up in the air, though many people like the thrill of trying or just want to prove themselves... So you want one, or would you rather abstain? **He casually asks and awaits her answer**
Mary
"So you want people to risk their lives... For an apple?" **She tilted her head in confusion. What the heck was with this guy, she wondered?! That didn't sit right with her. There had to be another reason for this, and by Arceus, she'd find that reason.** "That doesn't make much sense, does it?"
Richard
Want to risk their lives? No, not really. These apples merely contain a paralyzing poison, which I even donated the antidote to this island's hospital. **Sighing a bit, he put the apples in his coat again and shook his head a bit amused.** Though I have my reasons for offering them and while my main one doesn't apply here as far as I know... **Just to check again, he glanced around in the waters and in the forest.** ...In my town back in my region, it makes much sense. But it's not important either way... Or is it to you? **Tilting his head, he gave her a cheeky, but lazy grin**
Mary
**A few moments of silence would occur. Phoebe stares between both apples. As Island life gave her know-how on poisons, she was able to take a close look at both and distinguish a difference. Slight color deviations, marks, bruises... Usually, a poisoned apple is made to look a little more shiny, darker in color, and made to look absolutely flawless. So she picked the apple that was a little more bruised.** "Gimme that one." **She said, pointing to the not-so-perfect apple.**
Richard
**...He looks down at the apples with a bigger grin, before back at her, giving her the apple she wanted. Taking the other one himself as he just casually bit into it and slowly chewed, quietly nodding as he tried to decipher if the choice she made was the right one... *Well now, how interesting..~~* He then simply shrugged and gestured for her to take a bite from the apple.** Bottoms up, lass. **He calmly stood there after having eaten part of his apple, trying to perhaps make her unsure by not showing any signs that he bit into the poison apple.** Hope luck is on your side..~
Mary
**Without another word, She proceeded to take a bite out of the apple she was given, really hoping she want tricked.**
Richard
**Watching her take a bite, he started laughing, but not in an evil way, rather in an amused and impressed one** Well damn, you actually did it... Guess I should reveal to ya, yes I got the poisoned apple. Congrats on getting one of my self grown un-tampered apples~ **He then proceeded to eat the poisoned apple quickly and let out a small 'hic' afterwards.** Haa... Poison~ so tasty~ I think that was a mild Nidoran toxin.. Anyhow *Hic~* Well I don't know what's it worth, but now you can brag that you managed to not eat a poisoned apple~ **He simply shrugged and patted his Sandaconda**
Mary
"So, um. Why exactly *Do* You do that to people? And yourself?" **Phoebe asked, tilting her head. Dusknoir seemed to sigh in relief.**
Richard
**He stops patting Serqet and raises an eyebrow at her** Oh... You want to really know now? **He looked conflicted about it, before he sighs and plops down on the sand beneath him.** Well... I guess I could tell ya... **He then starts drawing with his finger in the sand besides him, doing a little sketch of his village (just this square shape) and mark each side with something different- east is marked "Ocean", south is marked "Valley" And the north and west are marked as "Forest"**

...So this is my village very very roughly and the thing is you gotta know about my region, it's full of dangerous extremes. Some areas are filled with a high amount of fire types- some are filled with many sharp clawed 'mons etc. And since my region has many of these concentrated amounts of rather dangerous 'mon zones, many disasters happen. You could say every major town has their own disaster type- like one is surrounded with fire types so, great fires start very often. Alright?

Of course every of those towns knows how to deal with their disaster type and the gym leaders in each town have been not only trained to be well gym leaders, but also to be specialists that can easily deal with those disasters in some shape or form. You following me so far?
Mary
**Phoebe proceeded to sit down in front of Basil as he spoke, nodding as she followed along with what he was saying. Makes enough sense.**
Richard
**Taking her silence as agreement, he continued and motioned to himself** I.. Am the poison specialist *Hic~* Chosen mostly because they needed someone that could deal with the many many poisonous inhabitants of the village of Auradam.. Since well I could not really die of poison and because I knew how to create antidotes to the poisons. **Serqet snuggled against her Trainer and hissed happily, while he gently pat the dangerous Pokémon**

But the thing is... Creating antidotes for the incidents would not pre-emptively stop people from being in danger... But there is another way of dealing with poison, consuming small amounts to eventually and over time develop a resistance for them... And well I think you now should be able to connect the dots.

**Yawning, he felt his Hippodown nudge him from behind, before the ground type sank into the sand next to him, relaxing there as he offered his trainer somewhere to lean on, which Basil did.** Besides... Every gym leader kinda has a certain act they put up that gives a certain flare to them or like they have a theme or something. Mine is being the local bogeyman that hands out possibly poisonous apples. Great example to teach kids to not accept gifts for strangers and I like being the 'bad guy', worororo...~
Mary
**Phoebe listened to the whole gist. Yeah. It did make sense.** "...So if people choose the poison one, it's okay, because they can get a resistance to the poison in the future?" **She asked, tilting her head.**
Richard
**He gave her a lazy thumbs up and yawned again, as he got more comfy while leaning against Geb** Yup, building up a pre-emptive resistance, if not immunity to some of the more nasty buggers that come along at certain times of the year, like in the summer where the ocean is filled with all kinds of poison types or mons that can learn some deadly poison attacks. Imagine if a kid fell in there and they didn't have a resistance? They'd have minutes, maybe half an hour at max to get treated, before serious damages would accrue to their small bodies and if then there was no antidote against that poison... Well you can guess what would happen.
**Looking much more sombre by now, the man took out a flask and took a swig from it, seemingly remembering some old memories**
Mary
Yeah... **Phoebe nodded.** But there's a bright side. Even kids who passed away like that can still be talked to, if the right steps are taken! So even then, not all hope is lost.
Wanda
She hurried to the beach when she got Hop's texts saying that he was stuck on an islet. She ruffled in her bag and took out a Pokeball, and released Brionne. "Hop says he's trapped on an Islet somewhere around here, can you go look for him and bring him back?" Brionne nodded and jumped into the water and swam away. The Professor sat in the sand and took out her Rotom-Phone.
Doris
"I wouldn't mind offering a ride, I'm quite the swimmer and so is Hydreigon,"The young man exhaled a few breaths and dived into the water. His head popped out of the water, gasping for some air. Saul swam towards his Hydreigon and the three headed dragon nudged his face aganist his. Chuckling he waved at both N and Ezra, "Let's go then?"
Edward
"Huh, alright," N chuckled. After a lot of making up his mind, he was already halfway into the water, since swimming had been his desire anyway. He brushed his hair back, flashing a slight grin, before plunging into the water along with Saul. 
He swam up to the two, seeing the hydreigon, and he gave it a pet on the head. "Awe..." He mused, "Absolutely adorable. You absolutely should meat Reshiram some day, assuming it's interested.^^" He said 'you' to the pokemon, like that was the only one he wanted to talk to here. But oh well, that was N for you. "Say, where did you get him? You wouldn't happen to be from Unova?" He asked, incredibly quickly as usual, before N went back to petting the hydreigon on it's snout.
Nancy
Ezra stood there as he watched the other two get into the water. He didn't want to be that kind of guy again but—
*He didn't really want to swim right now!* And the two of them were going farther than he wanted to. He takes a breath and steps more into the water. Oh boy, he was definitely going to take a shower when he got back to the mansion. "Give me a moment, please!" He called out to them, making sure he didn't have anything in his pockets. He then got out, looking down and silently apologizing to his shirt and short combo before swimming after them.