Wingulls wheel and dive in the salty springtime air of Olivine City's harbor, as white as the gleaming sides of the ship moored directly below. The S.S. Aqua isn't an infrequent visitor in the slightest, but this time it's for a very special occasion! Colorful banners stream from the sides, each one proudly declaring the word
PROM in glittery font.
The boarding starts around noon on Friday, and the sight of the huge ship alone is enough to get many people and Pokemon swept up in the party atmosphere. The captain is even there when the ramp is rolled out, wanting to welcome each otherworlder onto the boat personally with a hearty handshake and (mentioning he's a renowned 'people reader'), a recommendation on what part of the cruise he thinks they'll like best based solely on a glance. Weirdly enough, guests might find that he's usually right!
Unsurprisingly, it takes a good long while for everyone to get on board and accounted for, which leaves each guest with plenty of time to find their rooms, dump their luggage, let their Pokemon out to stretch their legs a little, and finally head back to the deck to wave goodbye to the harbor as the SS Aqua heads out onto the open water.
IT'S FINALLY HERE, THE BEST TIME OF YEAR!
For the next three days until it makes its way back to shore on Monday, the lucky cruisegoers can live it up as much as they want. And, as the captain boasts over the announcement system once things are underway, the S.S. Aqua and its staff truly are the hosts with the most-- not even Gorgeous Resort has as much variety as this!
THE ATTRACTIONSFIRST OF ALL, THE ROOMS! Each room is fitted with either one or two king-sized beds, making them perfect to share with partners or friends, along with a wide-screen TV, dimmable lights, and fancy bathrooms. With little soaps that have "Please Steal Us!" printed into them.
Depending on whether they're exterior or interior rooms, they may or may not have porthole windows and balconies on the outside.
Check out the "Mood" channel on your TVs, you won't be disappointed.GET YOUR SWIM ON @ THE WATER PARK Possibly the first thing about the ship that most people notice (because it's noticeable from a mile away) are the set of pools and waterslides (proudly titled the Winged Mirage Pools) on the very top deck. It's about as wild as it gets while staying within the acceptable safety level for being pools on top of a huge boat. Each pool has its own set of waterslides that turn and twist to your heart’s content, so be mindful of your fellow guests rushing out to drop in on the fun!
Lifeguards are stationed and well-equipped to keep watch over patrons, and will do their best to keep the pools’ populations separated according to the ship’s rules. It would be unsafe, after all, for a small Pokemon to be bowled over by a group of rowdy folks playing water volleyball, or some similar incident.
The Articuno Pool is limited to human swimmers only! It has a small cold-water jaccuzi on the side, and the mosaic tile laid down looks quite similar to deep arctic ice. Pokemon are allowed in the vicinity of the pool but not within the pool itself.
The Zapdos Pool is special pool just for small to medium sized Pokemon to enjoy! It is staggered in two “tiers” and features greenery and water properly calibrated to suit even the pickiest sea Pokemon’s taste. Humans are allowed to supervise their Pokemon, but are asked to not interfere with the many Lifeguard Starmie on duty.
The Moltres Pool, flanked by two warm jacuzzis, is where people and small Pokemon are allowed to swim together! The water is calibrated carefully to be safe for all swimmers, and while it is expected for swimmers to get a little rowdy, Pokemon larger than their trainers are asked to refrain from cannon-balling, for the safety of everyone around them.IT'S NOT PROM WITHOUT DANCING! For the main dancing action, you’ll want to go to the Nido-King and Queen Ballroom. There, you can get down and funky with friends and your roster alike in your nicest prom duds to tunes spun out by a live DJ, who will happily and eagerly take your song requests. Don’t be shy, bust out those moves you’ve been holding onto all year!
For those of you who might prefer an all-night techno thump to your dancing, the Porygon2 Discotheque will keep you up and about long into the wee hours of the morning. Featuring actual Porygon2 assisting their DJ trainer, you’ll have their ill mixes and projected lights guiding you into perpetual party heaven.AND IT'S NOT A PARTY WITHOUT FOOD AND DRINK! Food is plentiful on board, nowhere more so than Wailord’s Bounty, a buffet operating round the clock to make sure all guests have the chance to fill their plates with delicious morsels whenever they want. While there’s plenty to go around for people and Pokemon, cruise staff do ask that Munchlax and Snorlax are not brought into the buffet. There have been... incidents.
For those looking for fine dining in the evening, look no further than The Mother-of-Clamperl. Slightly fancier than the other areas of the cruise, guests are expected to be dressed somewhat nicely. No showing up in flip-flops! Wear a dress shirt and have some champagne!
Somewhere in between on the fanciness spectrum, The Shiny Corsola may look like a gaudy bar, but lurking in that sparkly, shimmery haven is a smooth nightlife scene with all of the fancy liquor and exquisite jazz you could ever want. The jazz is live, by the way - the Jazzypuffs play an ever-rotating set for your listening pleasure, setting the mood for a sweet, sexy, relaxing night away from the hustle and bustle of cruise life.AS FOR NON-AQUATIC RECREATION... The Radical Croconaw Cove is the dope place to chill for preteen and teen promgoers, ya dig? Chock full of tubular snacks and stocked with retro video games that are the bomb-diggety, this is the off-the-hook zone to get your chill on! There’s also some board games too, for you tabletop nerds who want to squeeze a session in.
If you’re after live entertainment, Sudowoodo Centerstage has all your needs covered. Live comedy? Check. Sketches and skits performed by an ever-rotating cast of human and Pokemon actors fresh from Unova’s Pokemon Musical stage? Check! Opportunities for open mic performances by guests? Oh, honey, that box is done CHECKED! That’s right, guests of all species are encouraged to come on up and belt out that Lady Gardevoir cover that’s been stuck in their head, or perform in any other way! the only limitation is that guests are asked to keep Pokemon moves involved to non-destructive ones. After all, this is a cruise ship, not a Contest! And renovating a ship stage can be pricey.
While Goldenrod and Celadon have their Game Corners, the SS Aqua has the Mystery Egg Arcade, welcoming all ages to come and earn technicolor tickets via timing, chance, sharp eyes, and steady hands! Your first twenty tokens are complimentary, the rest shockingly reasonable in price (the equivalent of twenty-five cents per token), and the prizes you can glean are, while not the usual battle items or rare Pokemon, still very nice! Everything from well-made toys to good quality candies to the usual arcade bits and bobs like whoopie cushions and harmonicas, tiny parachute plastic figurines and paper finger traps...it’s all here, and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg in tickets to win it, either!
For those looking for more intellectually stimulating pursuits, the Mantine Maritime Library offers a decent selection of reading materials, all seafaring in nature. From glossy photo spreads of underwater expeditions to reproductions of nautical journals from early sailors in Johto and Kanto history, this place has...well, not everything, but enough to whet your academic appetite.
What cruise ship is complete without an awesome rock wall to climb? Shuckle’s Challenge is specifically for humans, and any Pokemon that can’t learn Rock Climb or similar moves. It’s a test of ability and will, and the top of the rock wall offers a grand prize - the most spectacular view of the open sea on the entire ship.
Colorful and cheerful, Phanpy’s Putting Green is exactly the kind of kid friendly minigolf experience you could come to expect from the Pokemon world. Springy green turf adorned with figurines and obstacles depicting various baby Pokemon in play, it’s a hit with little children as much as it’s amusing for all ages to play a round or two together.
No ship is complete without a place to get in some rigorous physical activity, and The Rink is the perfect place to do so! Fitted with colored spotlights, this arena is fitted with all sorts of sports stuff that shifts throughout the day. For a few hours, it’s a basketball court, then, poof! It shifts to tennis, or racketball, or even a roller skating rink! And in the evening, it is of course open to Pokemon battles! Feel like hosting an impromptu tourney in your friend group with your best partners? This is the place to do it!
...And oh, don’t worry. We didn’t forget the most essential cruise amenity of all. Shuffle board courts can be found where you least expect them, and are always maintained by at least one friendly-looking elderly staff member willing to show you or your Pokemon the ropes. It’d be criminal not to make sure everyone has access to this timeless and treasured activity!AND ONCE YOU'RE DONE PARTYING HARD... Rejuvination is the core to the SS Aqua’s Max Revive Spa Center. Equipped with saunas, mineral soaks, and fancy mud masks, you’ll feel like a new ‘Mon once you emerge from their pampering. There’s even a special Trainer and Pokemon massage package for those of you who would like to try and improve your bond with one of your partners. Does it work? Only one way to find out...
While they may not have a specific name, the outdoor deck lounges can be found most everywhere on the outer decks, offering peaceful views of the ocean and any land in the distance that the ship might pass. These decks are awesome places to work on your tan or read a book or chat with a friend without disturbing others or being disturbed, and hold wonderfully atmospheric aesthetics for anyone looking to spot breaching sea Pokemon or take pictures.[Feel free to toplevel to your heart's content! For more information about the event, check the infopost over here!]![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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victory_road2019-04-18 11:19 pm
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Right. Are you familiar with meat products in your home dimension, with meat being defined as protein-based structures originating from a living organism? If so, what kind? And how do they compare to the supposed "meat" of this dimension?
[...Look, he has to be broad in case people don't actually have meat in their dimensions, and also, he doesn't know what he's dealing with! In the meantime, Riley wanders over to the Arcanine and lets out a curious noise, nibbling gently on its fur.]
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It tastes better here. Most of the meat we got at home was prepackaged stuff they sent to us from earth. It didn't really taste good but you could eat it.
[Ripley doesn't seem to mind, but she's keeping a close eye on everything as she sits there.]
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I see. Interstellar transportation was established in your universe? What were the conditions of the civilization you grew up in?
[Riley studies Ripley for a moment, then lets out a creaky noise of questioning. How'd you get so big? Riley wants to get big so she can crush her enemies.]
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Yeah. Space travel is normal where I'm from. I still think it's kind of strange they don't have it here.
I only know about the colony on Acheron though. It was called Hadley's Hope. I was the first person born there. It was run by the company and all the adults worked for them and did terraforming and stuff. Kids went to school and we played in the vents....it was nice.
Then ....people found these weird eggs on a weird crashed ship and they hatched and really bad things happened and aliens killed everyone but me. And when the marines showed up, almost all of them died and the colony exploded.
[So much death!]
I don't know what Earth is like in my universe but it I hope it's nice. I was going there with the marines that survived, before I got pulled here.
[Ripley well glance down, staying close to Newt before replying that she was smaller but then evolved with a fire stone.]
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His first instinct is to immediately retort that aliens don't exist, and he opens his mouth to say as much, but something in the back of his mind (thankfully) stops him. Something about children being more fragile than adults. He pauses for a moment, looking a tad uncomfortable and rubs the back of his head.
What...do you say in this kind of situation?]
Why...what were the aliens...like?
[......yikes, Egon.]
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They were....scary. And strong and ...used people to make more of them.
[And her voice loses emotion as she talks.]
They start as eggs and hatch and the thing inside will jump on your face and stay there for a while. It puts something inside you that bursts out of your chest and kills you. Then the thing grows up into a really big alien, that has acid in it and a mouth inside it's mouth....
And they kill everyone....I saw it. I was hiding for weeks and I saw it all....
[She falls silent at that, Ripley next to her. Which is good because she's now clinging to her fur.]
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Maybe he should...talk about something other than aliens. For the sake of both of them. He can't help but shake the feeling he's heard of something similar to what Newt is describing. He clears his throat, rubbing the back of his neck.]
Let's focus on something else for now.
Um--now, when you arrived in this dimension, what would you say was your first encounter with unfamiliar food, if any?
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There's a lot of different food you can buy that we never had.. Oh! Botan makes all sorts of food I've never seen before at her bakery.
I don't know what the first would be though....maybe the lunch box in the backpack I got when I left the house where that lying lady lives. I knew what some of it was but it looked different and tasted better.
[As much as she hated "mom", Newt knows not to throw away food.]
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The Lying Lady? Do you mean the entity that calls herself "Mom"?
[Wait, this is far more interesting than food.]
What do you know about her? Her motives? Her physiology? Personally, I have theorized she is some sort of interdimensional entity that acts as a gatekeeper for these newcomers, but I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter.
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[She folds her arms.]
She said she was my mom but she's not. And she said I was ten and it was my birthday even though I was only seven and it wasn't near my birthday.
I don't know why she lies but I bet she doesn't care that she's lying.
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[A little freaky, to be honest! But Newt's comment causes Egon to pause and peer down at her.]
How old are you, anyways?
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[Newt's hatred of "Mom" aside.]
I'm eight.
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[Egon repeats Newt's words slowly. Oh, God. She's eight. That's extremely small. What the hell? And he made her talk about her bad experiences with these...so called aliens? There's a long pause as Egon tries to figure out what to say next.]
When I was eight, I was busy trying to harness electromagnetic energy to create an anti-gravity field in the school playground.
[...Sure. Okay. Better anything else he could've said.]
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[She is a traumatized eight year old who looks small for her age.]
Really?
Did it work?
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[Is that the hint of a smile on his face? Egon tucks his clipboard under his arm.]
Would you like me to explain the process over some Jell-O?
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[She's really interested in this for many reasons. I mean jell-o and also.]
We had machines that made gravity back home and on the spaceships. I wasn't allowed around them though.