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Maia shouts "Oooooooookay, I think it's high time we started taking a look-see on how to get to the world I originally came from! It's time for "The Last City: Welcome Home"! Careful, it's only non-anthro-pokemon and humans there, but arrangements can be made if you aren't one already! luge S3 E8, n-stage -OR- t #14307, we're getting started in ... about 15 minutes! Spectators welcome!"  (Public-shout)
You feel a wrenching sensation...
Nina-Stage
All the world's a stage, and this one is an ad-hoc RP zone! See current poses and/or the GameInfo object to determine where and what is happening.
Obvious Exits:
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Contents: Maia, Casimir, and GameInfo
Elaraea gets onto the N-stage that isn't there.
Elaraea has arrived.
Featherwing has teleported in.
Featherwing has arrived.
Vahno gets onto the N-stage that isn't there.
Vahno has arrived.
[OOC] Vahno says, "I'm probs just gonna watch. I'm kinda fighting sleep a bit."
[OOC] Maia nodnods
Mako has arrived.
Mako meeple
[OOC] Maia nearly types 'msummon Maia'
Dawnwing has teleported in.
Dawnwing has arrived.
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "Dawn and Charlie both have good reasons to go, but I don't think I can manage both at once! And I definitely don't have Charlie 'ready.'"
[OOC] Maia nodnods
[OOC] Mako has a desc ready, just not a.... uh... desc. A transformation, not a charactger-desc. :x
[OOC] Elaraea is going to be 'nonanthro milotic' here
[OOC] Casimir has a new look desc and all
[OOC] Vahno is gonna pass on the descing but... Ninetales.
( The Story So Far: Maia, Elaraea, and several others came (reincarnated?) from The Last City, now known as the City of Dreams, an afterlife-dimension/well-of-souls in which people incarnate as pokemon. Maia (who ended up as a MissingNo) now wants to try to find a way to her original homeworld, if nothing else because she died as a revolutionary fighting against a force known as the Rocket Empire, and wants to see how things turned out, but hey, it's her original home, y'know? She's contacting two people: Patashu, who has methods of letting people temporarily assume the forms of non-anthro pokemon or humans, if you don't have a method already, since she isn't aware that anything else is an option; and Mako, who will actually assist in opening a portal! )
[OOC] Elaraea's been calling it an uploaded reincarnate
Maia falls, glitches streaming out and coalescing into a humanoid MISSINGNO.! [desc updated]
pa ws
Room: Nina-Stage
-Stat-Name----------------Gender------Species---------------------------------
      Dawnwing[7m idle]   Herm        Charizard Hydra                          sie/hir      
 IC   Mako[5m idle]       Female      Nekomata                                 she/her      
 IC   Vahno[2m idle]      Female      Magical Faery Kangaroo                   she/her      
 drg  Featherwing[4m idle]male        Greninja (Pokémon)                       he/him       
      >Elaraea            female      Milotic Anthro                  |Niny'ah she/her      
      >.Patashu           male        Steampunk Anthro Dragon         |Patashu he/him       
      >Maia               female      MissingNo                          |Soli she/her      
      >Casimir[5m idle]   male        smeargle                          |Myril he/him       
---[ Found 8 characters. ( 4 Awake / 4 Zombies ) ]----------------------------
.Patashu stands by with a crack team of kobold makeover specialists. Vahno and Mako might need something, if they didn't bring their own tricks?
Vahno is gonna borrow a synth frame remote. Should be good enough to pass as a real Ninetales... maybe.
Dawnwing admits interest in seeing a Human World, as sie's from a world inhabited by sapient 'mon only. However! ...Sie's also aware most charizards do not have more than one head.
Mako did have tricks! Mako throws her hair back and pulls her hands along it like she was pulling it into a ponytail, only as she does so, her hair goes from white to raven-black, remaining only white at the considerably-long tips, going well to her knees. Her skin is alabaster white, in that "Doesn't quite get out in the sun enough but not sickly" manner. Her eyes are a soft gold with a faintly feline slyness to them on an angular face. On he body she wears a plain-ish but well fitted sundress that looks white at first glance but appears to be a kind of cold ice blue, with a slightly jaunty black belt upon which hang several pokeballs, and simple sandals on her feet.
( Kobolds swarm around Vahno, double and triple checking everything to make sure it's all checking out. )
Kandra has teleported in.
Kandra has arrived.
( They also check Mako out, giving a thumbs up! "Will you be bringing your own pokemon or claiming these are yours, ma'am?" )
[OOC] .Patashu says, "Kandra caught up on Discord"
[OOC] Maia thumbs-up
Casimir approaches the site, walking a bit odd; likely he's still getting used to this form. Doesn't seem synth. Maybe a polymorph? Maybe a genuine body, soul-replanted? Either way, here he is! He looks around, then to Mako? Any other humans? "The doodle dogs are free, you can just take one. Hello."
Dawnwing says, "...First time I've heard anyone refer to a smeargle that way."
Elaraea has been practicing practices using the trailing crests as mitten-like 'hands', after getting a special augment on this remote to bridge the proprioception plus some KAS to run the kinematics to make it work Now Not Later.
pa l casimir
The classic iconic doodle dog, orange edition. This one otherwise isn't too unique, just north of the typical 1.2 meters tall and showing the usual pattern, bipedal with three fingers and toes, the pointed fluffy 'beret' cap, pale tan fluff with a brown band around each eye, forearm, wrist, ankle, his neck, and full brown on those floppy beagle ears of his. He has a build that's a bit stocky but not too imposing, a keen stare; odds are his talent leans more towards endurance and special attack at the expense of his kind's otherwise-half-decent speed.
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Too normal for true art? He does have his signature color, tail-paint rust-orange with the pawprint on his back matching, his eyes dark green in contrast. He has longish canines- yes he is a canine, but slightly fangier than average with a nose that's nevertheless not quite as rounded as usual which pretty much invites being booped when he isn't paying attention- that being half the time often enough. He does tend to be absent minded or even a bit oblivious when he isn't focused on a project or a battle. He might be imagining, might be daydreaming, either way he seems comfortable enough in his own little world.
Carrying: Painted Scarf
pa l maia
Maia is a MissingNo morph! Humanoid, looking like a woman in her late thirties with snow-white skin, plum hair, and black eyes. Occasionally her skin shifts with pixel-shapes in the colors of plum, beige, and black. She is surrounded by distorted pixels in the colors of plum, beige, white, and black.
She's wearing a simple black tunic dress with slightly darker leggings.
        (pinfo is set on player.)
Carrying: Bullet Hell Bubblegum Gumball
pa l dawnwing
Dawnwing is an unusual specimen of a reasonably well-known species. Sie is a Charizard, a tallish bipedal draconid mostly covered in orange scales with a lighter cream running down hir chest all the way to the end of hir tail. A departure from the normal bodyplan of the species, sie has three heads instead of the one most would expect hir to have. About six feet tall at the shoulders, hir heads rise above on long, graceful necks. Each head is identical - a somewhat boxy draconic muzzle and visage, a pair of horns rising backwards from just behind the head's eyeridges and sky-blue predatory eyes. Sie doesn't carry hirself like a predator, though. Hir eyes often lend hir a bright and cheery air instead!
 
Hir arms are just a little on the short side relative to hir size. Each sports a trio of clawed digits, one of which is able to act as a thumb for the other two if it has to. Sie also has a pair of large, leathery dragonwings, blue on the insides of their sails and orange everywhere else. Hir belly's a bit on the large side and hir hips are wide, held up by three-toed feet with claws bigger than those on hir hands. Hir tail is thick and about as long as sie is tall, smoothly tapering down to a point on which Charizard's signature tailflame burns brightly.
 
Though sie wears nothing, sie often carries a satchel slung over one shoulder in such a way that it doesn't interfere with flight. It's a relatively simple thing made of weather-treated brown leather and held shut by a stylized pokeball clasp. It usually has a faint scent of baked goods around it.
Carrying: Copper medal for Tool-Assisted Speedrunning 2024, and Copper medal for freighter painting 2024
pa l elaraea
At around 6ft8in, you may have to look Up to see eye to eye with this Milotic 'morph; She has the species' signature dark-cream coloration with a smattering of 'stained glass' patterning over her shoulders and the backs of her hands, as well as down most of the length of her tail, tipped with the 4-lobed tailfan, itself seemingly glassy when held to the light. The brow-antennae help to hold back a full head of waist-length pink hair, the tips expressive in the way of feline or canine ears. Figure-wise, she is well-curved, but in good fitness, with a Very Present bust.
Carrying: Basketweave Summoning Badge, and Twelfth Night ornament 2026
Mako says, "It's been a while since I've had to try and pass as human but I think I'm good."
Casimir looks to Dawnwing. "My only regret is that I can't /really/ call myself a 'doodle poodle'."
Elaraea airswims around Casimir
Dawnwing whispers, "(No single-headed zard desc available yet. Or, someone can try to just make hir extras invisible~)" to you.
Maia grins Casimir, and looks down at her own bone-white skin. "Hmm. Right, I'd better ... do something about *this*, too. Most humans aren't, y'know, glitchy. But I *have* been working on what I can do in this form, and I *think* I've got ... *this* right!" She concentrates, and then ... shifts appearance, looking like a pale-skinned human with mahogany hair. (... The same color as Blue/Gary Oak.) ... Still black eyes, though.
Maia changes to a "human"! [desc updated]
pa l maia
Maia is a "human", a lightly-tanned white woman in her late thirties with shoulder-length mahogany hair and piercing black eyes. (... Her hair is the exact same color as that of Blue/Gary Oak.)
She's wearing a simple black tunic dress with slightly darker leggings.
        (pinfo is set on player.)
Carrying: Bullet Hell Bubblegum Gumball
Mako passes maia a pair of sunglasses. That's easy to fix. :D
Maia dons sunglasses!
Casimir not really noticing Ela approaching him- until the shift in air sweeps over him. Then he starts turning about, tracking Ela. Might get him a bit dizzy.
Elaraea says, "I'm glad I've been getting practice in with this remote before this was announced. It moves *SO* different than the 'morph frame remote."
Maia claps her hands together. "ANYWAY! So, like. ... Arceus, I've been having dreams about the Distortion World practically since I came to Spin. *One* of the reasons I've been wanting to do this ... -- Oh, uh, the Distortion World is the home of Giratina, the God of Destruction. I *think* I'm a MissingNo because of it, because my old self would've had *just that much ambition* on her way to the Last City."
Maia says, "*ANYWAY*-ANYWAY ... Mako how do we get started on this."
Featherwing mrbits.
Maia looks to the greninja. "Exactly, Featherwing."
Vahno says, "I guess i should keep my trap shut here... and keep on all fours."
Mako says, "Right, so, the gate basically dials to one of three things. Another gate, a place I've been before, or a sufficiently strong signal. You can provide the second of these. Alls you gotta do is put your hand on the plinth and phone home, as it were."
Dawnwing says, "...Is that because of the 'human world' thing?"
Casimir pauses a moment after stopping spinning... blinkblink. Turns his nose to Maia, mumbles about still needing to introduce her to Arkara. But that's another time.
Elaraea says, "Yeah. In most Pokemon-and-humans Manyearths, A 'mon talking is ... Outlier and Cause For Great Attention"
Maia nods to Dawnwing and Vahno. "Oh! Yep, right. Only humans and non-anthro pokemon as far as I know. I'm ... honestly not sure what we *will* find. Could be timey-wimey shenanigans, could be a minute after my original self died, or could be a thousand years later."
( A kobold suggests, "Or you could see your own death!" Another kobold nods. "Special relativity allows for it to be possible!" )
Dawnwing is present as a totally nonanthro self! ...Sie still has extra heads, though.
Maia laughs mirthlessly. "Yeah, that!"
Elaraea says, "... I think We Would Rather Not, even though it might be informative."
Dawnwing says, "...Well, that sounds morbid."
Maia takes a deep breath. "Anyway! Let's ... yeah." She turns, and puts her hand on the plinth, a look of intense concentration on her face. A few black, white, plum, and beige pixels briefly waft up from the air around her ...
Casimir says, "Let's hope we can read about it. That way we get the info without the trauma."
Mako says, "Do try not to die, I can't bring you back, I'm not that kind of god."
Vahno peers at Dawn. "Hmmm..."
Elaraea drapes herself around Vahno, only resting enough of her weight to feel like a Toy's Weight.
Maia mutters, "Think the kobold meant we end up going back in time to *before* I died."
Elaraea says, "lets not dwell on it lest it flavor the portal."
Maia says, "Yeah that, bite me. -- Figuratively."
Casimir looks around to Dawnwing, Ela. Mumbles Smeargle. [Do we all understand uh, saying-our-name-speak?]
Vahno closes his mouth and looks innocently away from Maia.
Dawnwing nods to Casi. "I can tell what you're saying, at least!"
[OOC] Maia says, "Also: Special thanks to Pata for helping me out with bits of this! I forgot to say that earlier!"
Elaraea looks 'offcamera' and her next line is milotic call, but all present with any tech-option for it will get the 'subtitles'. <Lets not spook folks too much on arrival.>
Casimir looks to Dawnwing, smiles a bit contentedly.
[OOC] .Patashu says, "Hellp! I helped."
Featherwing mrbts. (Yes.)
Dawnwing whispers, "(Adaptation of the holo-masking that taur-Dawn uses to 'stay decent' to hide hir smaller zardself's extra heads?)" to you.
Maia anyway, opens the portal!
Dawnwing places a small ring on one of middlehead's horns! ...Holomasking for the Extra Heads, so sie looks closer to Totally Normal Charizard.
[OOC] Dawnwing does not have a desc for this.
( When the plinth is touched, the space inside the ring of rocks goes VWMMMM and shimmers, before solidifying into an image of... something. Stepping through will taste slightly of chartreuse with a side of sunshine. What's on the other side though? Well... )
( This is strange... A world of deep blue twilight. There's neither sun nor stars, yet everything is evenly lit. Floating islands are angled at different directions with no respect for gravity, and long, kelp-like plants are swaying gently back and forth. A waterfall can be seen in the distance, crashing down past multiple islands as it gently foams and mists. )
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfMgKT_op9k -- )
Maia closes the portal before anyone goes through.
Maia facepalms, and inhales deeply.
Maia says, "UUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH."
Dawnwing says, "...Wrong door?"
Casimir was stepping up- hesitates! Uh... Curls his tail around himself a moment, looking to Maia.
Maia turns to the group. "SOOOO I think. We're going to have to pass through the Distortion World in order to get to my home."
Casimir muses, "So, we're liable to end up hearing from Giratina before even getting there."
Elaraea miii. <That's what it sounds like...>
Vahno hrmphs... <Fun...>
Maia makes a face. "Nnnnot entirely sure how we're gonna do that. I know that a bad-guy-group called Team Galactic pulled it off, a few decades before my time. Uh. Anyway ..." She reluctantly opens the portal again. "Mako, do you think you ... could ... help? Getting through once we're there?"
Casimir headtilts a little. [Just because it's a destruction deity doesn't mean it can't be nice. Or at least usually-not-nasty.]
Mako says, "If we're barging in on someone else's turf hat could go Very Bad, but..."
Featherwing looks around.
Maia nods slowly, grimaces, and slowly steps through into the Distortion World. "... hoooo boy ..."
Vahno rubs his face with a paw. <Right, let's go.>
Elaraea airswims through, carefully
Dawnwing nods via sole remaining visible head!
Casimir steps up again, taking a moment to just, take in the moment, staring through... here he is in a new body, about to end up dropped into the -very- deep end of a new world... Welp. They say 'you only live once'. He knows that's false, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right? He steps forward, then, leaps! ... Tries to land gracefully, depending on what ground (if any) is on the other side.
Mako steps through, and squints. "Hmm.... That's... odd."
Dawnwing shall follow inside! Sie remains close to Casimir.
( The Distortion World is exactly as described earlier. It's a reasonably-sized island on the immediate other side. )
Maia looks uneasily to Mako. ... Though, she's looking 'uneasy' as a matter of course right now. "Hmm?"
Mako traces a few lines in the air with a finger. "We go.... thataway. It's like there's a... wake."
( Notably, the local gravity is pointing down to the surface of the island you're on, but judging by how the thing s around you move, that may not be true everywhere... )
Casimir looks a bit unsteady on landing, but, catches hiimself. Looks to Dawnwing briefly, then Vahno and Ela, then forward, then to Maia.
Elaraea mieeh... <I'm worried about how my floating will work if we have to jump islands...>
Maia glances off into the distance, and mutters, "Is that a waterfall going sideways." She ... tries to look over Mako's shoulder, even though there's nothing immediately visible.
Mako, to Elaraea, "It helps if you have a good internal feeling of "down".
Dawnwing, to Ela: "If you want, I could try carrying you between 'em if we have to." ... Wait. Fuck. That's still human-intelligible speech.
Casimir [I'm imagining it'll work a bit like Spengo hopping. But I might be wildly wrong.]
Vahno gasps in mock surprise at Dawn. "GASP! A talking Pokemon! ...Might need to-" Ahem... <Might need to swap dialects... Or ask if the kobolds can get you a collar or something...>
Featherwing grips a shuriken and moves to the side so everyone can fit.
Dawnwing ponder! "...Gimme a moment."
Maia gremlinsnickers to Vahno.
Dawnwing is Thonking!
Elaraea mi mi mieh. <helps when you can put a literal lockout on your voxsynth>
Dawnwing hesitantly tries after a moment! <...How's this?>
Mako cheerily to Maia, "That might be!" She seems to have a reasonably idea of where to go. o.o 
Maia nods to Mako. "Can you ... do it?" she says, in the tone of voice of someone who has only a shaky idea of what 'do it' means in context.
Casimir nods and thumbs up to Dawnwing. [Kinda wierd, it sort of came to me when I was trying out this form. Not sure if it's neural firmware or some mild spell-of-tongues effect.]
Vahno <sounds rightish.>
Mako let's see.... "First we go this way, then we go this way, then we go *doip*" aaand she just turned left and walked through a solid wall of rock. Or is that a path? If you turn your head 37 degrees and squint it looks like one!
Maia blinks! And follows after Mako! "Hey wait!"
Elaraea head... tilt... OH. She airswims through!
Dawnwing wait -what-
Casimir, following along until- that. He smirks slightly- then sees Ela proceed. Tries to climb onto the new inclination. Is it not a wall? ... Seems it is not.
( A few island hops and subjective gravity changes later... Mako: You feel something warm and wet on the other side. Open a portal here? [Y/N] )
Casimir, otherwise, looking up and around, sort of just gawking in awe half the time at this world.
Elaraea is looking very @V@ after so many gravity reference changes.
Dawnwing is somehow managing to handle the periodic changes in 'down!'
Casimir has enough spaceflight experience to manage, though he may well end up tripping on a ledge a couple of times.
Featherwing uses his shuriken to balance with each shift,
Dawnwing DOES have EVA training. Maybe that's it!
( If you follow Mako, you walk right through the wall, have a brief sensation like the floor just dropped out from under you, and then end up with your feet wet, somewhere on the edge of an island, in the water. Quoth Mako: ".... it's almost like someone else was through ehre already ahead of us. That wasn't so BLEAHG." And now the gravity dif hits her and there goes her lunch. ".... did i mention the wound in the world makes me yak? -x-" )
[OOC] .Patashu typing
[OOC] Maia says, "(Big Descriptions is what Pata is helping with~)"
Elaraea miehhhh.... No words behind it, just more @V@ next to Mako.
Maia UUUGGGGHHHHH again.
Elaraea is very glad this remote doesn't have That Reaction, but she still feels like she's been run through a tumble dryer.
( You are just off-shore from an island with a volcano at its center. The salt of sea water is strong as a sea breeze carries it past your nostrils and there are a few boats docked and in the wter. You can recognize a few buildings on sight! Like, that's *definitely* a Pokemon Center. Plenty of humans, plenty of pokemon partners, wingull on the beach. One in particular catches your eye, though. Further along the eastern shore up towards the north, a woman with white, long, loose hair and a dress of black crystals, looking away as she stares off into the sea. )
Maia looks around, then up. "Oh! Cinnabar Island! I know that volcano anywhere." She looks around, and points inland. "There's a pokemon center *that way* ..." She points outland. "And Fuchsia City is *that way* ..." She turns and points north. "And Pallet Town wait what who's that."
Dawnwing is Disoriented upon arrival through the portal-end! Visibly dizzy for a few moments, but once that passes sie's backing up the shore a little for drier ground.
( You double take, and can't see where she went. )
Featherwing looks over at the Wingull. Huhs.
Elaraea misses The Figure In Black due to trying to get the reset on her equilibrium to work. Takes a good ten seconds.
Casimir YAPs at the drop-through, flails a bit, doesn't even register the transition until he's faceplanted the other end- spoosh! He pulls his head up mostly to avoid breathing water, dazed and stunned a moment, ugh... sea? He sits up after that moment, blinks. Ooh... oceanic serenity! He runs his fingers through the water, just taking it all in. Looks back; any hint of the portal we just went through? Heck, he could just sit here and enjoy the beach- but, right, we've got places to go in this strange new world. Stands, wanders off a bit away from folks to un-soak himself a bit. Flappaflappa! Then, rejoins Maia. Where is Maia looking? Hmm. Nobody there?
Vahno is busy unburying himself from the Sand.
[OOC] .Patashu says, "I'm imagining Vahno got comically slingshot spat out of the portal even though no one else did and giggling"
Elaraea uses [SURF]! Somehow, everybody is now perched or riding on her back, Actual Size of her bedamned!
Maia mutters, "I *thought* I ... saw ... someone ..." She peers northward, then looks down at herself. "..."
Mako bluhhhh. "Felt something for a moment there, but that might have just been the last of my dignity leaving me."
Casimir- is soon enough, amazed that he isn't falling right off Ela; hangs on! How...? Might try to grab Vahno on the way past if need be. This is all a lot to take in.
Elaraea mi meah mi mei mie! <I wasn't actually expecting that work That Well!>
Maia looks around, doing her best to remain steady on Ela's back. "Well. I feel like going around asking 'hey what year is it and what's the coolest thing that happened recently' is gonna attract unwanted attention ... and the public library here was buried under lava a couple three decades ago. Puts a lower bound for what year it *is*, ANYWAY we should go somewhere else."
Featherwing is just somehow balancing on his shuriken. How it's lasted this long without dissipating is amazing.
Maia says, "Or ... a couple three decades *before my time*."
Mako says, "Easy solution, find a bar or inn, most of those places have a calendar on the wall. Or a TV..."
Elaraea mi mieh mi? <Check the PC at the Center? it should have a clock.>
Casimir looks otr Ela? Nods.
Dawnwing flapflapflap! No, sie doesn't wanna Surf!
Maia nods. "Oh, right, I was overthinking it, I was expecting to have to go to like Pallet Town's library or something."
Elaraea's SURF is keeping the balance for Maia! 
Mako, semi cheerily, "Wonders of modern technology! .... also I need some water. -x-"
Vahno <Do we need trainer cards...?>
Maia about-face to Vahno. "That's ... an excellent question, actually!" o.o
Mako says, "Center could probably furnish us with some if need be..."
Dawnwing muses! <I'd love to see the insides, anyways. Might give me some reno ideas for the one back home.>
Elaraea all the while has been quietly SURFing us towards the shore
Maia nodnods. "I mean there's pokemon centers anyway, but yeah."
Maia says, "... *Everywhere*. Not anyway. Bite me."
Dawnwing hmf. <I probably shouldn't!>
Vahno grins toothily at Maia.
Featherwing hops off amd froggypaddles for shore, having dissipated his Shuriken.
Casimir thinks we're probably not far; idly mumbles smeargle smeargle. [Wondering if we'll get the attention of Dialga and Celebi next at this rate.]
Maia nods, points to the southwest past the volcano. "Pokemon center should be thataway."
Mako says, "... I sincerely hope not"
Elaraea SURFs faster along the shore, kicking up a bow wave! Somehow, you only get splashed by the spray if you'd enjoy it.
Maia says, "Uh, I meant on the land!"
Dawnwing is fine just being a low-altitude follower by air!
Casimir lets his tail skirt the spray, reaching down for it. He might not've ended up a water type, but he still likes the sea.
[OOC] .Patashu says, "thinking/typing..."
[OOC] Elaraea says, "should I hold off a pose?"
[OOC] Maia says, "Nah, go ahead."
[OOC] .Patashu says, "feel free to do anything incidental, just describing the Next Scene"
Elaraea aww. She cuts inshore and sets us down right at the edge of the sand. Mi mi meh. <I'm glad the SURF worked>
Maia grins, and leads the group onward. "... mmm ... everything's the same, but like ... all the *details* are changed."
Casimir wobbles a bit once he hops off- looking contented all the same. [Like having a jet-ski I can call a friend. Heh, this world's awesome already.]
( You enter the Pokemon Center, the glass door sliding open and shut behind you. It's cool and air conditioned inside! There's a Nurse Joy and Chansey on the far end of the counter, striking a conversation with a blonde female human and a Nidoqueen... Oh! That's interestingly proportioned, actually. Could be a pokemorph Nidoqueen! Something else also catches your attention as you look around. Human, Wingull, human playing with Arcanine... Is that an Iron Valiant? )
Maia ... tries not to do a double-take at the pokemorph Nidoqueen or the Iron Valiant.
Featherwing sits mext to the door of the Center, watching the Wingull play.
( The Wingull is perched on top of a human boy's head. The game is as follows: The boy pats the Wingull's beak. The Wingull caws that many time. Repeat. Gameplay! )
Vahno peers at the Nidoqueen...
Casimir . o O ( Prime edutainment. )
Casimir looks at the Nidoqueen. Wait, I thought-hrm...
( The Nidoqueen-morph can talk, apparently! She's asking Nurse Joy a few medical questions. )
Mako Grins. Some things never change. She does pause to see the blonde and the nidoqueen. Thought there werne't pokemorphs? Interesting...
Elaraea does a small 'Mih'. it subs as < :eyebrowraise: >
Maia recovers. She whispers to Mako, "Rrrright. Trainer IDs. Uh ... can you do the talking? I'll, put my name down as, as, Mmmmmisty. Wait no. Nona!"
Vahno <...Go Monica.>
Casimir rrf? Looks to Mako. [Are you sure we went to the right world?]
Dawnwing absolutely Does Not Recognize Iron Valiant at all. And is puzzled by the Nido! <...What's going on.>
Maia mutters, "Apparently things are *different*."
Elaraea metareminds, pokespeak *is* going to be understood by other 'mons (and implicitly, monmorphs), so it's not like the usual Tacnet groupchat.
Dawnwing rumbles, <Make sure to get a time-date fix, at least!>
Mako waits in line and maybe eavesdrops just a bit till she gets her turn. "<Can learn a lot just by listening....>" IF she does get her turn, she'll ask, "Hello, yes! Uh, we had a wee transit mishap. What're the local licensing laws and can we get some replcaements if need be? >.>"
Maia stands by Mako, smiling cheerfully and with very slight embarassment.
Casimir doesn't mind if others around understand his mutterings; he's used to being seen as a weirdo. Nevertheless, steps up behind Maia and indeed, listens in.
Elaraea idly does loops in the air, in a 'showing off' kind of way.
( As the Nidoqueenmorph and trainer walk away, Nurse Joy looks up to Mako. "Certainly! Can I get your name, and..." Chansey is peering past Mako at the whole crowd of mon. "Are all of these your pokemon, ma'am?" Hmm, this may be tricky to explain... )
Maia quickly answers the Nurse Joy, "Oh, both of ours! They like hanging out, y'know?"
Vahno sticks his tongue out.
( Nurse Joy giggles into a hand. Trainers being what they are, the system is apparently used to them just showing up on a new continent with no explanation, so there's forms you can fill out to register all the trainers-and-pokemon that don't require existing ID. )
Maia nods, and does a double-thumbs-up, accepting her paperwork! She goes to find a table to fill it out ...
Dawnwing, pretending to be Totally Normal Charizard, yes. But sie's also glancing at the paperwork - hopefully, the lettering actually matches with what sie's familiar with.
( As far as this DM knows, you can read and hear all the local language! )
Casimir settles by a leg of the table, sort of taking it all in. If the paperwork takes a while to fill out, he might get up and start wondering, just, investigating all the various things around. He's familiar with the setting, but never actually been -in- one of these places before.
Mako ugh, no matter where you go, paperwork. But she's able to read and write and she has a few... tricks, at any rate. She'll get this filled in. And take a look around. TV screens? PC? ... radio clock?
Maia follows the gaze, sees a TV with a news report about the mayoral election in Viridian City. ... She mutters to Mako, "Oh. We're ... over a hundred years into the future. So, uh, about as much time as I was asleep in the Last City."
( Cas: The part of the center you're in is somewhat of a waiting room. This is both a center and a hospital, so depending on how much you want to peep, there's further rooms where pokemon are resting and being given care. There's a bookshelf with a bunch of literature - practical, fiction and hobbyist. There's also some public use PCs. One of them is in use by a guy, and his Machamp is looming over his shoulder, peering at the screen. )
( While you're doing that, an anthro gardevoir walks in and makes a beeline for Nurse Joy. She's wearing a silver sleeveless jacket over a black T-shirt and blue jeans, her hair in an elongated bun that comes out of the back of her head and with another bun like a ponytail, and she wears a flat-topped silver-and-black baseball cap, that bears a golden stylized "GC" emblem with a spike sticking out of the upper-left and lower-right corners. There's a prominent high-tech bracelet on her wrist that says "KEEP-UP", and she has four pokeballs at her belt. A few bystanders do a double-take at her. )
Vahno <Welp... Next stop, the library- And another anthro...>
Dawnwing huh. <But at least it's the right world?>
( Nurse Joy asks the Gardevoir, "Hi, how can I help you?" Maintaining her usual cheerful tone. )
[OOC] Maia says, "for reference: she's dressed like a palette-swap of Red/Ash, with Jupiter DiamondAndPearl's hairstyle. >.>"
Elaraea watches this interaction CLOSELY. Joys have to be absolutely unflappable huh...
Dawnwing all of a sudden, after thinking about it, does Not want to attract the Gardevoir's attention. Psychics!
Casimir is still shy as ever and either way wouldn't intrude on the patient rooms back there. He will flip through a couple of books though, leaving it ambiguous to onlookers whether he's taking inspiration from any illustrations or actually skimming. Then, peeks over? Gardevoir?
[OOC] .Patashu  imagines there's a Smeargle pokemorph artbook, come to think of it...
[OOC] Elaraea says, "GM's fiat: can Psychics pick up from Synthremotes? I'm actually leaning 'yes'"
Featherwing pads inside and resituates himself at the table. Mrbt. (That Wingull was too enthralling. so I came in...)
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "Porygon/etc are already a thing in standard Pokemon canon, so I'd GUESS Yes?"
[OOC] .Patashu says, "I also feel like yes. Especially now that future paradox pokemon exist and can be psychic'd just as good as the rest"
( The Gardevoir smirks faintly. "What, even *I'm* a trainer like everyone else!" she says. (... Somehow, she seems to mean something other than the fact that she's a pokemorph.) "Just the usual healing." )
[OOC] Casimir, given how I've handled psychic things before, also leans yes
Maia is ... subtly keeping an eye on that exchange. >.>
( Nurse Joy nods, gesturing for her pokeballs to be handed over. Noticing the bracelet, she asks, "Do you want a checkup as well, ma'am?" )
Vahno earperks. Check up?
( The gardevoir hands her pokeballs over, and shakes her head. "Nah, I'm good, I'm on a schedule." )
( She nods! One pass of the machine later, she confirms that none of your pokemon are in need of further care and hands them back! "I hope you have a lovely day!" Chansey smiles and curtseys! )
Vahno whispers to Maia. <Should we follow her, or...?>
Maia mutters, "At least watch which way she goes, there's like two directions she could be going."
( The gardevoir gives a double-thumbs-up and puts the pokeballs back on her belt. "Thanks-a-million, smell ya later!" She turns to head out ... )
Elaraea SNAPLOOKS at the gardevoir before she can help herself.
( Nurse Joy just gives a chuckle once she's out of earshot. Aah, trainers. )
Casimir peeks over the book he's got, but is inclined to think people like this are not -that- uncommon in this world.
Vahno will... peek out after the gardevoir.
Dawnwing attaches no significance to that particular phrase, so sie's mainly looking to try and see what's got Ela's attention like that.
( Once outside, the gardevoir walks up to a miraidon which is cheerfully idling in ride-mode, and she gets on and drives north. )
Elaraea Mih. <should we admit voices>
Maia shrugs uncertainly to Ela, then tries to look busy with paperwork.
( A Growlithe barks excitedly and goes chasing after the Miraidon, only giving up its chase when it's too far away, pacing in a circle and then just sitting down. :3 )
( The growlithe's trainer nervously says, "Whoa, easy there! Sit! Sit." )
Casimir asides from over there, looking to Maia. [Over a hundred years?... Things don't change much here do they?]
Kandra has disconnected.
Maia mutters, "I mean I think we've established that things *have* changed in at least two ways. That Miraidon and Iron Valiant ... were supposed to be from the future from my perspective ..." She tries to busy herself finishing off the paperwork.
Casimir [That's just it though. And the poke-mans. You would think that would upend society here, but...] He looks around.
Vahno <Guess this is the future now...>
Maia murmurs, "Yeah ..."
Dawnwing rumbles. <Suddenly, I don't think I'm so implausible myself.>
Mako says, "Well, it's the future now..."
( A lil Charmander owos and walks up to Dawnwing from behind, before her trainer (a teenaged girl) picks her up and tells her to ask first! The Charmander's legs wgl. )
Mako sighs, hands the paper back in. <"We gotta finish what we're here for first....">
( Upon reaching the coast, if anyone's still watching, the miraidon switches to aquatic-mode and continues northward with the gardevoir on its back. )
( When you complete your paperwork, you get your IDs printed and handed out! Nurse Joy says, "If you're short on any other items or gear, you can check out the PokeMart!" )
Featherwing awws to the cute 'mander. Froggy go ^w^
Dawnwing has to turn to see this! ...Sie can't -not- wave at the little 'mander!
( Charmander :3s and waves both paws back! "Char!" )
Casimir peeks, smiles a bit.
Dawnwing very gently applies Boop to Charmander!
( Char goes crosseyed and bleps, bleaaaaa )
Maia . o O ( Ah. No money. Uh. )
Maia double-thumbs-up to Nurse Joy, and turns back to the group. "Okay!" she says to Mako, with affected cheer. "Next stop is Pallet Town!"
.Patashu . o O ( Did you get a Nugget from Patashu? )
Featherwing offers a webbed finger to the little lizard to shake if it wants.
Casimir perks, puts the book back before returning to Maia.
Maia . o O ( Right, yeah that! )
( Char pawshakes Featherwing vigorously, tail lash! Her trainer giggles sweetly. )
Vahno <For the record, the anthro headed north.>
Dawnwing rumbles! <-So- adorable.>
Mako heee.
Mako does have a nugget or two on her. First stop, GET money. Then..... /map/.
Featherwing giggles in Greninja too. Nods to the trainer as if to say. "Foster that energy. It'll serve you both well."
Maia moves her 'next stop is Pallet Town' to after Vahno!
( "Uh-huh!" to Featherwing~ )
( Gold appears to be *much* less valuable in this world. Selling an orb of that size is only like P$5000. )
Maia buys a couple of healing-items, pokeballs, and an Ultra Ball to make it look like she's here for normal reasons.
Elaraea wonders if pokeballs will even work on the Remotes...
Casimir all but pokes his nose up at Maia's hands.
Casimir . o O ( Plus, practically, we'll probably need to get in those pokeballs ourselves sooner or later. )
Elaraea innocently looming hovers behind Mako and Maia
( Shopkeep asks Maia, "Anything else?" )
Maia gremlinsnicker-that-turns-into-a-giggle and pets Casimir a bit. "Ehhh, I'll get a few more pokeballs, why not!" She gets a few more pokeball until she has one for everyone. ... Plus a couple others.
Maia . o O ( Just don't ask who belongs to who! )
Elaraea . o O ( well since you're both Registered Trainers now... how many do we have, make it 3 and 3? )
Mako . o O ( I can Fake It some with magic. :P )
( "Thank you for shopping at Pokemart!" in practiced cadence. )
Casimir was more curious about the things Maia was getting, buuut... does look pleased on being pet, swishing his tail.
Maia . o O ( Looks liiiike 3 and 2. )
Featherwing . o O ( We'd rather prefer NOT to have Officer Jenny breathing down or necks, please and thank you. Heh. )
.Patashu . o O ( I wonder how many Wanted stars you can get on this continent... )
Casimir . o O ( Double trainer, sum total five mon. Rare encounter, but not unheard of. )
Maia, once we're done with that business, starts walking north past the volcano. "Hmm ... surf, or fly?"
Dawnwing muses! <Probably want to split Vahno and myself, unless someone's theme teaming. We both use Fire.>
Casimir streeeetches. [Taking the ground route would be a chance to get some practice in.]
Maia says, "Water, but yeah."
Kandra has connected.
[OOC] Kandra says, "yippee"
[OOC] Maia says, "We good to skip ahead to to Pallet Town?"
[OOC] Vahno says, "Sure."
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "Dawn would likely be flying the whole route!"
[OOC] Elaraea says, "sure"
[OOC] Kandra says, "... I have not been following like... at all..."
[OOC] .Patashu hug-offer
[OOC] .Patashu typing...
Elaraea, once we're back to the water, can use SURF again! Trying to look at her too hard when she's doing it is probably going to make your eyes go wibbly, except maybe Mako
Mako can fly! .... just not Fly. Maybe best she not show off. :x "How far are we, relatively?"
[OOC] Mako is good with skipping along as neded!
Maia shrugs to Mako. "Li'l bit of a hike but like we'll get there before sundown."
( North you go! There's a lot of ocean to Surf or Fly through, and the occasional Tentacruel or Seaking shows up for a wild pokemon battle! Nothing you can't blast your way through, but a good test of how your pokemon bodies work and what the local wildlife is capable of. Occasionally you see a Pokemon-Surfer or boat go by the other way but it's sparse. Time passes, but eventually you see shore. )
Vahno is... WET. Too much fluff...
Dawnwing is constantly reminding hirself to Flame using Only One Head every time a fight springs up.
Elaraea's SURF should have been keeping Vahno mostly dry, ideally. but the focus can wander, letting that protection slip
Featherwing says (Lamd ho!) while riding a shuriken.
( Vahno smells of salty sea water and air. )
Vahno <I need grooming...>
( You approach Pallet Town... [MORE] )
Casimir gets a little too content to daydream on the way- he -was- hoping for a chance to try his new form out. A wild Tentacruel? He tries to use Moves as he'd used magic before- not quite the same, but, it is a good place to start, thankfully! Turns out his moves starting out, shaped from his other skills, are Endure, Shadow Ball, and Sketch. Possibly replace that Sketch with something one of the encounters uses, if Maia would like. But, that aside, on we go!
( It's a peaceful, cozy place. Not trying to be a center of commerce, it serves two major purposes: A pitstop before continuing on to Cinnabar Island, with a small pier with some boats docked to it, and the home of a Pokemon Laboratory, specifically chosen *to* be away from extensive human activity. There's less people/pokemon outside than you'd expect, though, as they seem to be staying away from a commotion in the center of town... )
Vahno is TOTALLY gonna check out the commotion.
Elaraea deposits our group on the pier and releases the SURF! ... and Does An Tired Flop. 
Dawnwing beelining straight there!
Dawnwing is Drawn to Odd Commotions. It's an old habit.
Mako ahh, trouble, our siren song... She might as well go and take a look. "Think we should hit up the lab?"
Maia hmm. "Yeah, hold that thought, Mako ..."
Featherwing follows behind. (Not sure if Samuel's in...) to Mako.
Casimir settles down, then, turns back to look to Ela, headtilts? ... Sees about bugging Maia for a cup or such to bring Ela some (potable) water to drink.
Elaraea just Needs A Minute. Systems recharge a bit slower when you'
Elaraea just Needs A Minute. Systems recharge a bit slower when you're this far from Spin, both temporally and multiversally.
( It's not *huge* commotion, but the cause is that the gardevoir is supervising a group of humans in silver uniforms that seem like a cross between a business suit and a space costume, with the same golden "GC" emblem as a badge on the chest; they're apparently replacing a couple of entire newspaper vending machines. (The miraidon she was riding is parked nearby, watching the proceedings as if it wants to participate, but the current task requires zero miraidons, and so all it can do is stare.) "Right on schedule, Venus!" one of the grunts is saying. )
Vahno <Team alert...>
Casimir nods and, well. This is happening. Tries to get a look at the old and new newspapers if he can without getting too close.
Mako facepalms lightly. "<Much as I'd like to say otherwise, we should probably not make a fuss right now>"
( The old newspaper is headlining the mayoral election right next to "The Copperajah in the Room: Comparisons of the Galactic Corps to the Rocket Empire"; the replacement has "Humanitarian efforts of the Galactic Corps" taking up the entire upper half of the front page, with the mayoral election pushed down. )
Maia ... ... ... :|
Elaraea shakes off the post-prolonged-SURF lethargy and rejoins the group and... Oh that's Suuuuuus as hell but we're still getting our bearings, and not in any shape to challenge it, so all she can do is watch Judgingly from a distance.
Vahno earflats.
Casimir leans forward a bit and- ohs. [Classic propaganda.] Almost nonchalant.
Dawnwing is doing what sie can to keep hir tail out of line of sight of The Gathering. Charizards aren't great at vision-based stealth. <Someone smartphone that? A recording might be good evidence.>
Featherwing sits next to Ela, nonplussed about the group.
( The gardevoir, Venus, glances at the players, and then around at the crowd in general. "What're *you* losers lookin' at?" she says to all and sundry, in a way that sounds like she's aiming for 'placating and friendly' and hitting 'I'm better than you' instead. "Just official Galactic Corps business, nothin' to see here!" )
Elaraea headumpits at Maia. To the Pkmn Lab?
Dawnwing welp. We've been noticed.
Maia nods subtly to Elaraea, doing her best not to frown *too* obviously.
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "SHEPARD: "We've been spotted!""
Vahno earflicks. Sure...
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "*glass smashing noises*"
Maia murmurs, "Remind me what the plan was for the lab?"
Mako <"We're trainers, it'd look wierd if we DIDN'T wanna take al ook. And if there's anywhere with info...>"
Casimir was probably the nearest given he was going out of his way to have a look. To Venus' question, he mumbles a simple, [You.]... But! Even on the face of it, he sees nothing wrong with a bit of propagandizing- it's the other bit he's wondering about. What's being done with the removed vending machines? He won't stray too far, but...
Maia nods to Mako. "Fair. But, uh ... I think we're gonna have to head back to Spin when we're done here, we might need to rethink things a bit."
Dawnwing muses. <Who owns those other machines, anyways?>
( The Galactic Corps grunts are loading the vending machines back onto the back of the truck where they got the propaganda. It's divided lengthwise; new on the left, old on the right. )
Casimir [Probably municipal? I mean, those guys have their right to speak, but, I'm tempted to put the old machines back by the new ones given the chance.]
Casimir mms, [Then again they're probably taking the old ones to be scrapped. Shame.]
Vahno <Guess that's something to keep an eye on... Evil's a weed...>
Elaraea tries to do the Looking At You anime spotted-lock to Venus. it probably doesn't work.
Casimir [The good news is whoever's running the presses for the town news can just, print more.]
( So, do you want to check out the Lab, do something else around Town, or head back to Spindizzy? )
Elaraea votes lab
( Venus doesn't immediately notice Ela, but smirks faintly when she does. She turns back to the grunts. "Anyway, guys, I'm gonna move onto the next stop. Smell ya later!" She gets back on the miraidon and gets out a phone as she drives off. "Hey Idalia!" The rest becomes inaudible as she leaves. )
Dawnwing would vote for Looping Around to the Lab first.
Casimir . o O ( I think we're in here for a long haul aren't we? The lab's a good place to learn and learn we aught. )
Elaraea pouts a little. <I could've come as anthro and only raised a few eyebrows...>
( Oh, and for those with a sense for Psychic-types ... did you just feel a little bit of *attention* from Venus's direction just now? )
[OOC] .Patashu pre-writes Lab
Casimir, to Ela, [Seconded, but, this isn't so bad. Besides, not sticking out might come in handy.]
Dawnwing isn't Sensitive, but Psychics would definitely be able to tell sie's Not Normal.
[OOC] Dawnwing side note: Dawn here is acting Independently, with no link to the collective on Spin while on this world
[OOC] Maia nodnods.
[OOC] Elaraea says, "so we're fully off the link, unless Ela has that link and didn't use a Local Processor in the Synthbody"
Casimir would appear relatively normal, if perhaps more actively sapient than most non-morphs. Depending on how much bleedover between psi and magic there is here, he might also show up as being more attuned than usual- but not outside the realm of normal possibilities.
Featherwing is just a ninjafrog.
Mako is psi-blank, she can't sense that sorta thing though she can recieve telpathy and that sort of thing. But she does have a BArrier. Never worked out how good that is against psionics
Vahno <Let's do some internet research...>
( Heading in through double doors, you head into a large open area with some side rooms full of scientific equipment. This central chamber seems designed to put up and tear down temporary testing environments. Currently, a Charizard is standing on a central pad behind translucent blast protectors! Cooling air blowing on his body, he takes turns launching fireballs at left, right and center targets, and a bunch of sensors and cameras take readings. The Professor in question is a cocky, scientist looking lady with a split white coat, glasses, white vest and black latex pants, surrounded by an Iron Valiant and two aides who are watching the proceedings. "Ohhh, yes, Charie! You're improving so quickly~ Hmhm? A visitor..." She pushes up her glasses and spins around. (On a short delay, her Iron Valiant copies her mannerisms, so she also touches her forehead and spins around.) "Hmhm! Out-of-towners, the lot of them~ What can Professor Vanilla do for you?" )
Elaraea looks to Maia for cue. She had to do a bit of studying beforehand on typical mannerisms of Milotics so she doesn't just look like she's 'finger puppetting' the nonanthro form
Maia glances back to Ela, then to Mako.
Mako waves, and activatres Charm Mode. "Hello, yes! We're travelling trainers. We figured visiting the local Lab would be a good way to get the pokemon-facts of the area, as it were."
( She hmhms! And adjusts her glasses. "Absolutely! Let me catch you folks up to speed." She gives an explanation that's more on the level of 'from a far away continent' than 'from another world', since that's the impression you're trying to get: )
( 1) You're in Kanto, of course. So the original 151 pokemon are the most likely ones to be seen, but there's a little bit of everything (either because it made a local population, is being bred deliberately, or from trainers bringing theirs in). )
( 2) Pokemorphs are a thing! Well, you've seen a few, but HOW they exist is now revealed to you: Based on a historical incident with a certain Bill's PC, generations of scientific inquiry built up to the point where permanently transforming a human into a pokemorph through DNA splicing is a safe, manageable process. )
Dawnwing huuuh.
Elaraea settles into a comfy coil. The smaller of our group are welcome to perch/lean
Dawnwing wonders if that works 'in reverse.'
Elaraea hmM.
( 3) Robot pokemon are ALSO a thing! It's not just your Iron Valiants and whatnot, technology has developed to the point where artificial pokemon are going from 'prototype' to 'commodity'. It's still pretty pricy to get one custom ordered, but getting cheaper every year. )
Maia . o O ( So that's how Venus has a miraidon, too ... )
( 4) Making Pokemon more capable through the scientific process is becoming a more popular mode of scientific inquiry! Hence what she's up to right now. "Training, combat practice and bonding with your trainer only seems to take you so far, we've observed! Everyone fighting for the championship wants to know what the next step is. And who better than Professors like me to try out new hypotheses for what everyone else might be missing?" )
( "That's all the important stuff! Any specific questions?" )
Mako hmm! 
Mako . o O ( That makes some things very convenient for us to handwave. And probably awkward if we can't. )
Mako says, "That covers the major things, I think. Who do we ask if we want the local gossip? ;p"
Elaraea mi mieh? <How many talking non-morphs are around?>
Casimir gently settles against Ela- perks, was thinking of asking similar for that matter.
Maia nods along with Mako. "Like what freakin' Venus might be doing at any given moment," she adds.
Maia . o O ( Please be someone well-known, please be someone well-known ... )
Maia, trying to fish for exposition about the Galacitic Corps.
[OOC] .Patashu typing...
Kandra has disconnected.
( "Oh, you're asking about the Galactic Corps?" She smirks. "Yeah, that's business for you. A bunch of guys and girls with nothing better to do dress up and they're all one big family fighting in the corporate world for keeps. They don't mess with my stuff so I don't mess with them! Nooot that I'm much of a combatant, anyway." She shrugs a little! "But yeah, you hear about them on the news. Making charitable donations here, suddenly taking over whole companies there. Runs a ton of PR, there's always someone professional to get an interview and paint them in a positive light after whatever it is they did this time." )
Maia chuckles with the practiced ease of someone who has experience keeping things close to her chest. "I know, right?"
( Vanilla places her hand to her chest and giggle-laughs at Maia. "Yeah!" She has no idea what Maia is talking about. (Her Iron Valiant repeats the gesture afterwards.) )
Mako sighs. "Ah, the corporate world. That's how it goes."
Mako . o O ( I can probably fake it that I'm some rich lady out on walkabout if I tried. :P )
( And to Elaraea: "I've never met one, but it is possible! Occasionally a pokemon gets taught to speak for some professional thing, like they're in show business or something. Most pokemon don't seem to care enough to put in the effort. They can already talk just fine with the one person that matters, right?" )
Elaraea says, "Well it was getting a bit annoying having to hold back."
Maia tenses up for a second, then gremlinsnickers.
Elaraea, Calculatedly, Like It's Nothing
( Professor Vanilla doubletakes at that?? )
Dawnwing snickers a little at Ela, before chiming in. "Yeah, -agreed.-"
Elaraea miiieh?
( And then Iron Valiant does the same doubletake a second later. )
Casimir [I'm familiar with the philanthropy-cover rigamarole. It was kinda common back where I'm from. And-] He smirks a bit. Though, looks to the Valiant, kinda curious.
Maia grins at the professor. (Do people still recognize Gloria's face?) "Anyway, yeah. Thanks for the help!"
Mako has An Excuse handy, but gauges to see if it's needed...
Vahno facepaws.
( The Iron Valiant breaks from the 'copycat' act to look back at Casimir - but its gaze only lingers for a moment. Professor Vanilla says to Maia, "Great! Enjoy your journey through Kanto!" )
Elaraea mieh. <where's good for food here?>
( She shrugs, "I just get an aide to order delivery!" )
( The aide in question looks very pleased to be important. )
[OOC] Maia says, "We're at winding down times~"
Casimir . o O ( So you -are- more than an automaton. )
[OOC] Elaraea says, "how much of a WTF did I give Vanilla with that?"
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "We do a little trollin'"
Casimir nods to the Valiant, then, looks to Vanilla. [I do have a question... why haven't the anthropomorphs toppled the human society? I don't mean to be flippant, but, they seem like they'd take humans out of their niche.]
[OOC] .Patashu says, "Professor Vanilla assumed she missed some ventrilloquism or that it was some other kind of bit."
[OOC] Casimir won't mind Cas's question being kept for next time though
Maia does a double-take at Cas. "... What do you mean 'toppled'."
[OOC] Elaraea says, "I bet it's "because it's an incredibly expensive and distruptive process, and the types who can get it are probably not the sort who would go after a whole 'topple society and make things better' bent"
( Professor Vanilla goes, "I guess that's two different questions! First, not everyone becomes a Pokemorph because it's an intensive, difficult to reverse procedure. A lot of people are happy with their bodies! It gives you new instincts and cravings, too, so it's kind of like you're a different person on the other end. Second! Pokemorphs have Pokemon strength, yes, but any trainer has Pokemon strength too. It's not as much of an edge as you'd think! )
[OOC] Maia says last call, I think~ z.z
Maia gives a thumbs-up! "Okay! Let's look up restaurant reviews." She lowers her voice as they exit. "... and then let's head back to Spin, like I said. Regroup, figure out who wants to go 'morph or shake things up." She looks over in the direction of where the newspaper vending machines were. "Sounds like we got a *lot* of things to go over. And then there was that ... whoever-it-was at Cinnabar who apparently I'm the only one who saw ...?"
( "Toodles!" )
Mako says, "I'm def gonna need something in me if you want to gate back..."
Casimir looks to Maia, then to Vanilla. [That makes sense, thanks.] Then to Maia- well, Maia probably gets Casimir's ponderings there. Nevertheless...
Casimir . o O ( I thought we'd be staying here, but this also works. What a wonderful world still. )
Dawnwing rumble! <I still probably shouldn't come Full-Sized, but I might be able to get away with some shenanigans?>
[OOC] Maia whew!
[OOC] Maia says, "Thank you all for coming! And thank you Pata for helping take some of the edge off this!"
[OOC] .Patashu salutes!
[OOC] Maia says, "(... Professor Vanilla was all Pata, my sole reason for coming to Pallet Town was because it was closest to Cinnabar and I had no actual plans for the Professor~)"
[OOC] .Patashu says, "(graphics design is my passion) Improv is my passion"
[OOC] Elaraea says, "(if vanilla reviews security footage, she'll see Ela's mouth articulating when she talks~)"
[OOC] Casimir says, "Thank you both for hosting! Looking to be a fun adventure, the usual formula with room for twists aplenty"
[OOC] .Patashu says, "'what if pokemon was real?'"
[OOC] Mako  can see a lot of places this can go. :P
[OOC] Casimir asides, I was thinking of Casimir showing up as a smeargle-morph when he ends up in TLC, him showing up as a non-morph here came from that.
[OOC] Maia nodnods.
[OOC] .Patashu says, "any objections to logs -> wiki?"
[OOC] Dawnwing also smuggle Charlie in as an AI core and he'll figure out how to get a porygon body or some shit :p
[OOC] Casimir has none
[OOC] Dawnwing says, "No objection!"
[OOC] Vahno says, "tbh, Smeargle is one of the mon that kinda straddle the line naturally."
[OOC] Casimir says, "It is, yes, which makes it easier to keep things as they are for now"
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