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victory_road2019-01-28 02:23 pm
unabates) wrote in victory_road2019-01-28 02:23 pm
Entry tags:
- alex (oxenfree),
- armin arlert (attack on titan),
- bertolt hoover (attack on titan),
- connor (detroit become human),
- dandy (space dandy),
- egon spengler (ghostbusters),
- hank anderson (detroit become human),
- jack morrison (overwatch),
- jean kirschtein (attack on titan),
- krieg (borderlands),
- peter venkman (the real ghostbusters),
- ryner lute (legendary heroes),
- sasha braus (attack on titan),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- takashi "shiro" shirogane (voltron),
- yayoi kise (smile precure)
⊕ 001 & action option
[ 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.
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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some days, it definitely didn't feel like one, that was for sure. the question on what they were fighting, goes unanswered as he picks through the edamame pods for a moment. ]
Omnics. A company had the idea of creating robots that would help humans. They went defunct and shut down, but the Omniums they produced - factories that self ran, that could learn and improve - didn't, and kept going for decades. The Omnium software became what it called a god program, and they sent Omnics to attack us.
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[He nods like this is completely reasonable. And really it is -- if you're going to be fighting machines, you need to be as close to a machine yourself as you can get if you want to have a chance.]
Your traditional robot uprising. I take it that no one in your world ever read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream?
[Like... self-aware robotics 101, right there. Never just leave it alone if it can learn and self-replicate unless you're super hype for a knife in the back.]
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jack chuckles despite himself. ]
Probably not the guys in charge of this company. They never bothered to tell anyone they left them on, or we could have, you know, flicked the power switch off.
[ more than likely, they had turned off the power and the Omnium had already developed a backup. ]
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[Ford shakes his head and pops a piece of karaage in his mouth.]
It's like the people who keep sailing stubbornly into the Bermuda triangle. At some point you're asking the Magnathorax to eat you.
[Says the man who absolutely had plans to sail into the Bermuda triangle to try and put his hands all up on the Magnathorax.]
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[ look there are definitely some bermuda issues in his world, too. to the point they just declared it a no fly zone with overwatch technology.
jack takes another deep sip of his water and pulls open more edamame, popping it into his mouth. ]
So, yeah - spits out tanks, things that shoot lasers, sniper models. We were the only chance they had to fight back and even that wasn't perfect. Ended up taking a team of different people from over the world - most of 'em weren't in the same program I had been.
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[It's one of the places he's most interested to study, though he got precious little chance before arriving here. It used to be one of his childhood dreams to just sail into it and disappear. Wanting to sail into it and come back out again is some pretty tasty character growth.]
In my experience the bulk of the work in that kind of situation is almost always done by a ragtag group of whoever is brave enough.
[Possibly this is because he comes from a cartoon world where tropes do live and breathe to an extent, something that's only been reinforced here in a world where (just like most Pokémon games) all the difficult responsibility falls to the player characters.]
Was that where the young man with the dragons came in?
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[ a good sign he's a bit tipsy - he says the young man's name, before he shakes his head. ]
No - Genji was after that. We, uh, won, in case that was in question. It was me and an old friend of mine - several old friends. Most of it fell to us, in pushing them back.
Turned out that the Omniums weren't all connected. Some of them had decided on different protocol - life. They were making Omnics that wanted peace, but the God programs were hacking into them and turning them into weapons. So that became our goal. Shut down the factories, stop the war, hopefully stop any more death from happening.
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[At least not in such relatively-good condition. Alcohol content notwithstanding.
Ford kind of gets the impression that perhaps this whole story is something this man doesn't get to tell much (something that will be confirmed later when sober Jack asks him not to tell anybody else about it). It's a shame, because as stories go it's fascinating. Kinda lucky he was on the beach when he was to begin with, huh, or he'd probably be heading back to Violet right now instead of listening to this.]
And did you? Shut down all of them, I mean. [Ending the war obviously happened. Preventing more death probably didn't. It's the third thing that's a difficult variable to judge.]
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We shut down most of them. We treatised with the ones that were peaceful. And then we were left with that great issue after a global war - rebuilding.
We also had to keep the guys that looked like the ones that had been trying to kill us, from being destroyed before they could even establish themselves.
[ you want an unfortunate parallel to civil rights? jack scrubs his face with his hand. ]
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Remarkably compassionate of you. I have often found that most humans when faced with extra-human intelligent life tend to devalue and dehumanize it as fast as possible. Consider the fact that before the existence of alien life was even confirmed, the vast majority of human media concerning them was focused on how unlike us -- and therefore less moral, less civilized, and less deserving of life -- they were.
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I wasn't, at first. I was ready to shoot the lot of them into a smelter and be done with it.
[ he picks at some of the edamame shells with a frown on his face. ]
I met with some of their leaders. I realized that they were like kids, walking in light for the first time, but they understood what had happened. And I knew it was going to be an uphill battle for them.
[ so jack - got over it, compartmentalized it away, whatever he had to do. ]
The rest of the world didn't feel the same way. They weren't even considered alive by some places - less than.
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Of course. Inorganic or artificial life always has it hardest. Do you know I've had to have multiple arguments with other trainers about MIPS and whether or not it's 'really' alive?
... I should specify, MIPS is man-made. [Not that it wiggling around like a Bethesda dragon or stubbornly T-posing by turns wasn't a dead giveaway.] It's a similar but marginally less, uh, globally-destructive situation.
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It's a little different. But I get what you mean. If they can think and feel, it doesn't matter if how they feel is different from us, or how they think isn't in a human brain.
I've seen omnics get hurt. They're not crying out in pain, but damage does something to them too. Everyone should get a chance to live without that. MIPS too.
[ and with that rousing speech, the other food dish arrives- and a cup of coffee, courtesy the human bartender. jack blinks. ]
What's this?
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Is there no coffee in your universe?
fuck html
[ Jack immediately turns and glares. ]
No, jackass, I mean the food.
[ he gestures at the plate of food. he hasn't eaten this particular thing before. ]
pshhshshhh html
[Listen. It was an easy thing to assume after all the similarly-weird worlds he's been to. Infinite universes, infinite possibilities!]
That is karaage. It's a fried dish seasoned with soy and ginger.
[He's not a foodie, he's just got a friend in Ecruteak who runs a ramen shop and has taught him some basics about the local cuisine because it's Her PassionTM.]
More importantly it will soak up some of that whiskey.
GMAIL MAKES IT A NIGHTMARE
Cool - thanks. [ he's not a jerk, just intoxicated. he picks up a pair of chopsticks that's sitting in a cup of them, and ford may note that he's using them like he's done it quite a few times in his life as he gathers a couple pieces to eat them. ]
So, how do you get a MIPS?
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There's a vetting process. You need at least six badges -- to prove you're capable of training and caring for Pokémon, I would assume, as Type:Null are still highly-regulated. You also have to apply in person at Silph Co headquarters over in Kanto.
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Since they're a created Pokemon, they wanna make sure it's not some random person who's not faking it, I'm guessing. You said they're in Kanto?
[ he sips more of the coffee. he is, at least, looking a little less sweaty now ]
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Saffron City, specifically.
In particular I believe they want to be sure anyone caring for one is prepared to deal with potential glitches. Each Type:Null comes out a little different. You may have noticed some of MIPS' more unique qualities.
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[ he laughs. ]
You mean him acting like they're from a Bethesda game?
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[Stanford Pines, despite the fact that he'd probably cream his pants over Skyrim, has never heard of Bethany Esda.]
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[ thanks to hank telling him about staryutube, he's able to type in 'video game glitch', since he doesn't want to count on finding an actual bethesda game.
the first result is for a game called Skyerun, which seems similar - judging from the top five list of glitches, like the flying tigers, the npcs walking into the ground and disappearing, and storing entire sets of armor in a carriable object. he turns the pokegear around and shows it to ford. ]
It's a company that makes video games, and is famous for having glitches like these ones in them.
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[He watches a polygonal beast just kind of float upward into the sky, spinning softly into the distance. In his day video games were almost entirely text-based. Maybe you'd get one chunky pixel illustration if you were lucky, unless you went to an arcade where you'd get the beautiful hi-res art of Tetris or Pac Man.]
When it comes to games I tend to favor tabletop.
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[ he tilts his head a little. he was never into the game, but he knows a few overwatch members had an ongoing session.
monopoly, however, was banned on base. too many flipped tables. ]
aaand lets wrap this soonish
yus yus
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