So I start out with a set amount of HP, which represents my capacity for social interaction.
At this party I was given the role of "socialite", the You-helped-I-guess role since pretty much everyone kind of had to do that anyways. Metaphorically, I am walking through the tall grass and meeting people. I have a decision to make at encounter, a social interaction (fight), introduce them to someone else (PKMN), or run. Since I was given a role title, I felt obligated to fulfill my duties so I picked social interaction quite often. As a result, my HP ran low pretty quick. Now, there are different levels of battles.
Metapod people - These are my favorites because these don't really zap my energy at all. (This is about the best you can do besides the very rare person that adds to my energy bar during social interaction.) Ah, these are generally the people I know I already like and are comfortable with, or people that just vibe well with me: Tomboys, laid back guys that aren't interested in me, or funny girls without much of a filter.
Rattata/pidgey people - This is most everyone else. Both people in the conversation are expending energy to keep the interaction going. And both people are stressing about whether the other person is having a good time.
Gym trainer people - This is where the real HP hits come from. People who are trying to impress me, people that give me the impression I need to impress them, guys who have feelings for me, and people who don't ask you questions back.
Elite 4 people - Passive aggressive people, people who talk extremely slowly or extremely polite people. I cannot even. I die. I die.
So about hour 3 I'm about to KO. I have like ONE HP left... BUT I have a family dinner after this which I'd be perfectly on time for if I left just 30 minutes later. I am... very stubborn. So because I can't go to the pokemon center (home). I have several potions conveniently available to me at this location.
-Play music +1 HP
-Play with an animal to avoid social interaction +2 HP
-Shut myself in the bathroom and watch youtube videos +5 HP
Shutting myself in the bathroom would probably make people think I had diarrhea and then when someone opened the bathroom door that can't even lock and find me playing with my phone, it would solidify everyone's nagging suspicion that I am, indeed, very strange. So, I chose the first two. I played some music, but I was so INCREDIBLY tired that I made mistakes on songs were I was even the creator of the improvisation and had to expend energy to remember how to fix it. My brain was even too scrambled to learn THE CHOPSTICK song with my friend. 0___0. I reiterate, the chopstick song. And then afterwards, people came to talk to me. To make it worse, one of the people who approached me was an Elite 4 person. OMG. I am DYING at this point, D-Y-I-N-G. I definitely dipped into the negative and hope she didn't find me too rude. The lower my HP bar, the less fs are given, excuse my french.
I also played with some chickens but it didn't help much and at some point I told someone that I was in a "ballerina class" and invited everyone to go to New Zealand with me. It was a total disaster. Walls are down, filter is off because all my energy is now being redirected to just maintaining civilized social standards. *SIGH.
And then afterwards, I caught a cold.
