Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness: Difference between revisions

The story begins with a cut-scene where the {{player}} is to have been unconscious on a beach due to a time-traveling accident, causing them to become a Pokémon. Meanwhile, the partner is nervous about joining the [[Wigglytuff's Guild]], a local exploration club, and gives up early. Walking along the beach, the partner encounters the player, and informs that the player has been turned into a Pokémon. The [[Relic Fragment]] the partner holds is then stolen by {{p|Zubat}} and {{p|Koffing}}, members of {{OBP|Team Skull|Mystery Dungeon}}, which the player helps recover. After a brief exchange, the partner explains their motivation for joining the guild. The player's partner loves legend and lore and their life dream is to find the secret of their personal treasure—a Relic Fragment with a strange pattern on it. The partner, reinvigorated by the player's courage, resolves to join the Guild as a new team with the player, who, due to having obtained severe memory loss that erased everything from their past life except their name and the knowledge that they were once human, agrees as a way to piece together who they were.

The player discovers not too long after that they have the ability to spontaneously see things in the past and future, but only when touching an object of some kind. This comes in handy when the player and partner arrest {{mdc|Drowzee|2}} when he attempts to manipulate Azurill into collecting some treasure for him. Later, the partner tells the player the story of the [[Time Gear]]s; the artifacts that maintain the flow of time in their respective regions. The partner theorizes that if a Time Gear is stolen, time in that area will stop. Despite this, a mysterious thief is seen stealing a Time Gear.