pokeboy | 01 voice/video & action

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01 voice/video & action

[ action / forest & town ]

[ A Add another number to the newbie arrival for this month. Red thankfully has friendly company to help him realise what the heck is on his back, and also to rip some holes in his shirt so he can stop wearing nothing over his chest. He's carrying the rest of the clothes though, he's not messing around with changing out in a forest at this time.

Maybe you're lurking around in the forest for whatever, and wow what is that big thing you see through the trees? Or wow, what's that faint, pleasant smell in the air?

But they'll also be found in the town, with the boy and his three pokémon finding themselves led there thanks to a good pair of ears.

They're free to approach, or maybe Red will approach your character should they not seem to be in a rush. ]

Uh, excuse me?

[ B A little trouble may or may not occur. Did somebody say something about Luceti and cookies??? Who's cooking? Because that aforementioned big round guy? Red was led to the town by Pikachu's ears and Snorlax's impressive Food Is Here senses. So if anybody is baking right now, the snorlax might juuust try to circle around your house (or wherever it is you're cooking), to try and find the source and how to get to the source.

What is that shadow creeping outside your kitchen window? What is that rattling on your door knob? Are you not even in a house with food? Well, you may not be so alone for long...

Hi, sexy food havers.

Restaurants are also not safe. ]

[ voice/video ]

[ Red may or may not really get this thing already. Either way he, with maybe the head of one of his pokémon peeking at the side, will be looking at the book in bewilderment. ]

Uh... Hello?

[ A+ work, Red. ]

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Phone and video books? Not really.

[He's messing with the corner of the journal page he's on now, curious.] Hey, if I turn the page, will that cut you off?

But it sounds like you have phones and stuff that can play video, so that's something. [He didn't even know what those things were before he came here. He's about to asking something else, but the question has him stop and think to himself.]

Uh, I guess it would? Lots of people close their journals when they're done talking, so if you turn away I guess that's the same thing. I'd be looking at nothing until you turned back to the first page with the cameras and everything else on it, I think.

Oh? Yeah, I guess you would. [It makes sense, with the video... frame on the page. He stops fiddling with the page of the book, and then seeing the head of the ivysaur beside him move makes him look away. There's a small hushed chatter there to the creature ("Here, do you want to see? Sit here"), and the green monster moves closer in frame, onto Red's lap, and stares at the book as quizzically as Red had.

Heck, let's throw even a pikachu onto the boy's shoulder, too. why not.

Would you like to ask that question amongst all this, Caius?]

[You know what? He's going to hold off on the question he was going for because you can't just ignore a plant monster and yellow mouse suddenly looking back at you. It just raises more questions!]

Both of those monsters are yours, right? And they understand what you're saying?

These two? Yeah, they know what I'm saying! But you call them pokémon, not monsters.

[He points a finger to the pikachu.] This is Pikachu- [He puts the finger away, and puts his hands around the ivysaur] -and this is Saur.

So they're pokémon, I know what those are! The ones I've seen looked way different to your two though. [Sorry Red, he's only familiar with Gen3 after meeting Brendan a few years back.

He lifts a hand up to the journal to say hello to the mons.] Hey there Pikachu and Saur... Uh, and you too! [Since he's said hi properly to the pokémon but not the trainer himself yet.] I'm Caius.

[So not fair. Red barely knows all of Gen1!]

Heheh, I'm Red. [He nods his head, grinning at the introductions.] Oh yeah, and this is Snorlax!

[Suddenly, Red lifts up the journal high up above his head. There's only a dark blue to begin with, but then he shifts the journal, and there's a large face peering downwards at the screen, not sure what to make of the book Red's interested in. (nobody knows what to make of this journal.]

Snorrlaax.

[Excuse him for stating the obvious but-] It's huge! [No offense Snorlax.]

I've never seen a Pokémon that big before. There are some monsters back home that are around it's- Uh, Snorlax's size though.

[Red is all about being Mister Obvious. He brings the journal back down.] There's a massive pokémon called an onix that lives in caves. That's way bigger and longer, but Snorlax is the fattest pokémon I've ever seen! He was blocking a whole road when we met.

[It's the most amazing thing.]

[That's pretty amazing, yeah! The Onix thing and being able to move something as big as a Snorlax.]

I've fought Spots that have been big enough to stop people leaving cities before, they're these creatures that can come in lots of sizes, some even bigger than your Snorlax. [Not that he's trying to one up Red or anything. Nope.] So if Snorlax is with you now then that means you caught him, right? With one of those balls trainers use.

[boy you better not be trying to one-up red why i'll--]

That's right! But I can't find my pokéballs right now. Somebody told me to try a shop? So I was going to do that... [Though he's not sure if he can really put a pokémon in a new ball???]

But what's a Spot look like? Can you catch them? I bet they're not as big as onix are. They're humongous.

[Oh no no no, he'd never dream of trying to one up the guy. Never. Not at all. Maybealittle-]

The item shop normally gets in all sorts of things so you might be able to find them there, yeah. [Its where he's found a few of his things in the past, so why not pokeballs?] And Spots are huge dark looking monsters, but some of them are pretty small too, they come in all sorts of sizes. There might be a Spot out there that's as big as an Onix, or bigger! [...] But you wouldn't want to try catching one, defeating them is better.

Why? What's defeating them do that's better than keeping one?

If you defeat one then it's gone and it can't cause anymore trouble. [Though it wouldn't take long for another Spot to come along and replace is anyway.] They attack and hurt people, they aren't things that are meant to be kept. It's better to fight them so everyone is kept safe!

[He's not sure why anyone would ever want to keep a Spot, that's like practically asking the Spot to turn your body into a nest for more Spots.]

Wait, you don't kill them do you? Even if something attacks you, you shouldn't go killing them!

The Spots want to kill you too you know! Once they've tired you out they just use your body to get more power, and to make more Spots.

[It's not like Spots really die anyway, they just sort of... Sink into the floor. But still, the point is it's better to get rid of them.]

And you can't just fight a Spot off so it leaves you alone, they'll keep attacking you unless you defeat them or you run for it!

Wh... then if you can run away from them, can't you just lose them that way? And then you can figure out another way to deal with them!

Then you're just leaving it to attack someone else, someone who might not be able to protect themselves or get away! You only run unless you really need to.

[...] Why do you care so much anyway?

'Cause! Pokémon are wild too, and some of them attack people as well-- but that doesn't mean we need to kill them!

And some of them can suck energy from you too! Saur here can! [He nods his head to the pokémon in his lap.] But if you caught one, couldn't you learn more about them?

It isn't the same! Pokémon are different to Spots, there's no way you could get one to sit on your lap and be friendly with you like that. [There's a frustrated sigh on his end as he tries to figure out what to say.]

If you tried catching a Spot then more would just show up, or they would take over your body. You can't talk to them or reason with them!

[There's certainly a frustration between them. Red's expression doesn't change much, but he is listening. Sorta. Kinda. He's at least trying to think about this, but it's hard not to think of these creatures as pokémon, and that attacking them is wrong despite what instincts they have.

So he tries pausing, and thinking for a second or so...]

I don't get it! [That's what he decides to settle on, huffing a little as he looks down at the ivysaur on his lap who's looking back at him.] But you get it, so I guess it doesn't matter if I do. I dunno!

[He's not entirely conceding, even if he can get that he doesn't understand - because even if he knows that his head is just too jumbled, and there's still a part of him that wants to heavily disagree. It's hard fighting against that side.]

[He's not sure what else he could say to convince Red that Spots are meant to be defeated and not captured. Maybe it's just a world thing? By the sounds of things, it's a lot easier to deal with a pokemon than it is to deal with a Spot or even a normal monster attack.]

If you saw one for yourself you'd get it then! [That would be a lot easier than trying to explain how much of a pain Spots are.] But even if you don't, there's gonna be lots of stuff you get about Pokémon and things where you're from that I won't get. [...] Stuff like how Pokémon can fit in those balls when they're so tiny.

[Definitely world differences. And while Red might've be warned about differences, that's not on his mind right now, other than the apparent ways of thinking being displayed now.

Well, and even though Caius is talking about it. Doesn't mean he can't still have a bit of a sulky face about it. (Don't worry big baby, Saur will smell pretty for you and calm you all up.)]

I dunno. [He's still mostly focusing on Saur on his lap, but glances to the journal now and then.] They turn small, then they get bigger again when you press them. I don't get how pokéballs work either.

[Today has been too long of a day.]

Edited 2014-03-19 12:27 (UTC)

[Wow Red, way to get your sulk on. Caius didn't mean to send him into a sulk, especially since he's new and all. He had hoped that changing things around to talk about Red's world would have helped prove some point about how it's hard to understand other worlds sometimes, but that didn't work.

He ends up staring at Saur through the journal as he figures out where to go from here.]

Oh, uh, I thought you might've known. I guess pokéballs are as complicated as they look. [...] Do you know where you're gonna stay yet?

[There we go, changing the subject is just as good as thinking up the right thing to say. Perfect.]

[Saur isn't watching the journal now, having turned around to get more comfortable of Red, but she is still visible.]

In one of the apartments? Somebody told me I can stay in them for free. [He looks off-screen.] I've gotta see if there's still a ground floor free 'cause Snorlax won't like climbing up too many stairs.

[Voice is slowly less and less sounding so down in the dumps at least!?]

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