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[unabates]

[ he's not into showing his face off. once he verifies there's a public network and an audio option, he begins to opt for that. but then he looks at all the videos of people and their pokemon, and decides o a different option.

the video opens on the sandy beaches of cherrygrove. his rockruff, bandit, is in the surf, chasing what looks like a stick. he brings it back to jack, who pets his head and then throws it again. his location will also ping as cherrygrove. ]

The name's Jack.

[ his voice is distinctly older, and very rough. it sounds like he may have damaged his throat at some point in his life. his hand, when he throws the stick or pets bandit, is gloved. ]

I've been looking around this place and it looks like the consensus is that people can't go home on their own. I'm not here to ask how to get home, since it seems like that's been covered pretty well.

I wanna talk to those of you that have gone home, or know people that did. And... for those that don't, how you're dealing with not being able to.

[ he ends the video on that note, throwing the stick again for bandit. ]

( cherrygrove )

[ for those actually in his vicinity, they can likely hear jack make the post. other than that, he's spending some time on the beach, playing with bandit and getting his energy out. he's just as open to a battle if you two have similarly leveled pokemon.

or maybe bandit, with all his energy, comes running up to your pokemon and headbutts them. at which point jack follows. ]

Bandit. Come back here.

[ the wagging of his tail doesn't amuse jack. ]

Sorry about him.

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[unabates]

And you get money for beating the Gym leaders too, I hear.

So, wait, since you've already done enough hours you can just leave whenever? I would have killed for that kind of job as a kid.

[ hell, he'd kill for that kind of job in general. ]

[isleavepossible]

That too.

And yeah, I could leave tomorrow if I wanted to. I think it's because they have so many people travelling around here for pokemon battling. The entire place seems to run around pokemon. So it kinda makes sense they wouldn't want to keep people stuck in a job for a long amount of time. There would probably be riots.

[unabates]

I don't know if anyone here knows how to riot. Maybe strongly worded phone calls from people's parents or people just not showing up anyways, so why not incentivize them to show up.

[ jack seriously doubts they'd riot. ]

Still, the flexibility must be nice, even if it seems like there's not really much to do.

[isleavepossible]

I don't know. Kids leave to go travel the world here when they're ten. And they end up with super powered monsters. I bet they'd throw a good riot if they had too....actually wait, no the entire thing would turn into pokemon battles. That makes more sense here.

[Alex meanwhile is trying to weigh which way the pokemon obsession of these folks would make that fall.]

It kind of depends on the stuff you're looking to do. I will admit I'm totally biased because I like nature. ....also not being stuck in a timeloop makes pretty much everything look good in comparison.

But it's neat the stuff people find here. There's some people who put out old school radio productions every so often. My housemate does voices for it.

[unabates]

The head of some big chain company versus a bunch of kids? ... Yeah, with how things work, I could see that being the solution.

[ when she mentions nature, jack chuckles. ]

I used to go camping every summer when I was a kid. Not so much as an adult, sadly, so take advantage of that while you can.

[ for many reasons. ]

On the radio? Do they do it in a podcast version at all?

[isleavepossible]

Oh, I plan to. It's too bad we can't visit more places in this world, then the two...sorry three regions.

[Seconds chances are great. Now to get over her ...uneasiness of islands.]

Not that I know.....but I haven't looked into podcasts here much. I think they were put out on the gear.

[unabates]

I'll have to look them up, then. Can always use something to listen to when I'm travelling.

[ being alone in his own thoughts isn't the most kind. ]

[isleavepossible]

What, you're tired of the background music already?

[The never ending background music that makes it seem like they're in a video game or something.]

The radio's pretty good for that too.

[unabates]

There's only so long I can take these cheery tunes. At least if it was electronica or something I could kind of put it in the back of my mind.

[ he hums. ]

Yeah, I've been letting that play instead.

[isleavepossible]

They really should let us pick, if we have to get stuck with it. You can buy a lot of different types of music to drown it out with at least. ....I wonder if the music industry is in on the whole background music thing.

I've never gotten around to ask the locals if they hear it too.

[unabates]

"Choose your own background music". That was a feature in some older video games that I remember.

I would bet they do. It'd be weird if we were the only ones that could hear it.

[ if they were... well, there's that theory that maybe they're not actually really here. ]

[isleavepossible]

It would at least break things up here.

And yeah that's true but this place....is really weird. So I've stopped ruling things out based on that factor.

[unabates]

Variety is the spice of life, and all that.

[ he reaches up to scratch under his chin. ]

All right, fair point. I'll ask someone the next time I see them. Get a few different answers.