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✦ Horizon Gym Directory ✦
beyond the horizon, over the next hill

✦ As in, beyond the horizon, or broaden your horizons ✦ Themed around mysteries, cryptids and the unexplored ✦ Located on Route 36 across from the northern entrance of the Ruins of Alph

✦ All winners are entitled to one egg from Ford's breeding projects ✦ Winners against Regular and Elite teams receive the Voyager Badge, a Weakness Policy, and p18000 ✦ Winners against the Junior team receive a sticker version of the Voyager Badge

Museum Hours: 9am to 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Monday.
Challenges Accepted: Wednesday through Saturday.
All challengers must pass the same test to challenge the Gym Leader. It is a puzzle that plays on the idea of making the familiar strange and it changes weekly. Trainers are presented with a small description of a Pokémon as written by an alien who has never seen it before, parts of which are written in code. Correctly guessing the name of the Pokémon gives the challenger the password up to the battlefield. Trainers can do this by simply going on gut instinct, by solving the coded portions for more information, and/or by beating junior trainers for hints. Working as a group to solve the puzzle is allowed and encouraged but sharing the answer after the fact so that others can bypass solving it is not.

✦ Layout ✦ Teams ✦ Badge Requests ✦

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Junior Trainers

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✦ Junior Trainers ✦

Each Junior Trainer has Pokémon appropriate to the level of the challenger: one for Junior, two for Regular and three for Elite challengers. There's more of them than are technically needed since they can't all be available for challenge/on shift every day, but several do need to be on-call at once every day the gym is open to give out hints. Generally three will be available per day on a rotating schedule.

Marsha | Fire Type A Pokéfan who runs a local ramen shop; her young son just enrolled at the Trainer's School. Junior: Litwik Regular: Braixen, Lampent Elite: Ninetales, Chandelure, Solrock Terrance | Fighting A Biker who's traveled all over the Sevii islands and is an expert in Sevii urban legends. Junior: Croagunk Regular: Toxicroak, Hakamo-o Elite: Chesnaught, Conkeldurr, Kommo-o Nolton | Rock A young Ace Trainer from Blackthorn who hopes to study ancient and Fossil Pokémon primarily. Junior: Kabuto Regular: Sudowoodo, Relicanth Elite: Aerodactyl, Lycanroc Midnight, Bastiodon

Parker | Steel An up-and-coming Steel Type Pokémon researcher who has been published in Pokémon Letters. Junior: Honedge Regular: Doublade, Bronzong Elite: Aegislash, Escavalier, Mawile Olivia | Grass An established Grass Type Pokémon researcher and Legend Seeker who primarily studies Celebi. Junior: Phantump Regular: Trevenant, Nuzleaf Elite: Shiftry, Carnivine, Cacturne Byron | Fairy An established Fairy Type Pokémon researcher and Legend Seeker; you might have read his blog documenting his search for the Tapus. Junior: Cutiefly Regular: Ribombee, Whimsicott Elite: Mimikyu, Gardevoir, Florges