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[awomanoutoftime]

[Kim is taking a break on the side of a route. You can tell because she's under a tree and there's an Espurr draped over her shoulder. Don't mind the pokemon, she's just going to stare at the screen as Kim brings the gear up in focus. Said Espurr will continue to stare throughout the post. Have fun with that. Why no she does not seem to be moving closer...]

This place takes a while to get used to. But I have to admit, the multiple radio stations are a nice perk. Back home we have.....two functional ones at the moment? And I think I have all the songs from the main one memorized. ....I really need to try and find Travis some new music holotapes....

I suppose there's three if you count the Minutemen one. Though it's mostly an alert system and despite being their general I've yet to convince them to play any other filler songs besides that same fiddle music on a loop.  There's a few other stations but they're usually pre-war emergency signals that only play in certain areas so I don't think they count.

Anyway. I do have a question though. Does anyone know if there's a station here that has radio dramas? Like plays in radio format? There is one back home that has these old radio programs that I listened to as a kid, and while I know this place won't have the Silver Shroud or anything. I'm open to others. Does this place even have fictional superheros or detectives? I really should check to see if there's a place that sells comics here.

Thanks in advan-

[And she gets interuppted as the staring Espurr tumbles down onto the gear.]

Ack, Mama Murphy. What did I say about leaning too far?

[She picks up the pokemon who 'totally meant to do that' and puts her back on her shoulder.]

Sorry about that.

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[awomanoutoftime]

That's what I'm hoping for.

[Mostly because she's hoping it'll give them time to change.]

Huh, well you don't have to convince me. I've known enough synths to know the place that made them liked to lie to make themselves feel better about the whole, enslavement thing they had going on before the rebellion happened.

[Also her son is a synth and she will literally kill anyone who tries to hurt him. And then there's the rest of the non humans in her group of misfits. Do not hurt Kim's friends is probably something a lot of people in the commonwealth should know by now.]

Yeah, I can imagine it would be.

[a_sin_for_him]

Perhaps your world will break the mold.

Synths?

[The way the woman says the word...]

[awomanoutoftime]

It would be nice if we managed to break something other then ourselves for once.

[It's the wasteland/pre-war America, you get a dark sense of humour.]

Synthetic humans. They used to be called androids. They were built by a place underground called the Institute. We have robots too but they're not as human looking as synths and they were made before the war. Still even a lot of them are more human then certain humans I've met.

[Codsworth is family. And Curie even before she became a synth was part of the team.]

Unfortunately for the Institute their synths kept escaping which really went against their whole, these things have no free will policy, and really don't mind doing whatever we tell them. So they kept saying they were broken. They were wrong of course, they just didn't care or had managed to convince themselves that anything they did in the name of science must be good.

The guy I mentioned before, the one that people didn't treat well all the time because he wasn't human looking enough? Nick Valentine, probably one of the best people I know, and he's a synth. It's just a bit more obvious with him. Luckily, he's also one of the most sarcastic people I know so anyone who says anything gets it back tenfold.

[He's also one of the most insecure, self doubting people she knows but she and Ellie have been working on that.]

[a_sin_for_him]

I...see.

[It looks as though Lust intends - or wants - to say more, but she bites her tongue. She doesn't know this woman.]

There are always too many humans eager to play at being god.

[awomanoutoftime]

Yeah....yeah there really are.

[She doesn't know what the woman intended to say, but she can agree with that.]

Sorry, that was a lot to drop on someone. My world is....a mess. In more ways then the radiation.

[a_sin_for_him]

No. Your world really isn't that much different from many others.

[awomanoutoftime]

[She smiles slightly. A bit sad.]

I wish that was surprising. But people are people everywhere I suppose.

Even if small details change. Honestly when I came here I was ...worried it would be more like pre-war America. I was even asking people if the government took away pokemon for weapons once you trained them enough.

Apparently not, but still I can't help but wonder when the other shoe will drop.

[Kim is an optimist in the wasteland but pre-war she would have laughed you out of the room if you'd called her that. Here, it's a mix of confusion and the remains of pre-war paranoia.]

[a_sin_for_him]

No, this world is far kinder than most. There's a rather sinister organization that may try and steal your leveled or rare Pokemon, but they rarely manage to cause real trouble.

Though sometimes...

And of course this place has it's upsets, some of them quite disruptive, but...we come together and fix whatever needs fixing, one way or another.

[awomanoutoftime]

Yeah, I've been warned about the weird non-lethal raider type of group out here. I guess killing people for their pokemon won't work here.

[And probably the only reason she believes what sounds like a cross between the Gunners, the Institute and raiders aren't just killing people to get what they want.]

.....Can I ask what some of the upsets have been? It's good to hear that people have been working together to fix things though.

[a_sin_for_him]

Things that are...difficult to explain, really. Usually side effects of the behavior of very, very rare and powerful Pokemon. They have great influence over this world. Even their moods can effect it, sometimes, it seems.

And once I think the world broke, but we cleaned it all up and that certainly hasn't happened again. No one was hurt, it was simply...like some great tremor went through the universe, and it upset the land. And the Pokemon.

[awomanoutoftime]

Well that's good to know at least. Even if I don't fully understand how moods can cause things to happen. Then again there's a lot of stuff I don't understand here.

[Super powerful pokemon that can control the world.]

Sorry, the world broke? And no one was hurt? .....at all?

[In her mind, world breaking is the sort of thing you say about the Great War and the bombs. That had certainly broken the world.]

[a_sin_for_him]

Well, I believe there were some bruises and scrapes during the clean up.

Roads ended up blocked, but it didn't take us very long to put things to right.

[awomanoutoftime]

That's still....pretty good for a broken world.

Has it only broken the one time?