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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[Armin blinks in surprised when he's suddenly approached, about halfway through his plate of pasta. It certainly is a surprising thing to be asked, but it sounds like this is something being conducted in the Pursuit Of Knowledge, and honestly, Armin always approves of that. He scoots over a bit, just in case Egon wants to join him where he is sitting, before he nods.]
All right. I'll try to answer as best as I can.
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[Egon brightens as he sits down and flips through his clipboard. Armin might glance a few weird doodles of...food? Unidentified meat theories and scriblings? Pokémon cross sections?
Hm.]
How would you describe your home dimension's cuisine? If this is too broad a question, how would you describe your eating habits back in your home dimension?
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Let's see. Back home, the food we eat is a lot less extravagant than the people eat here. And we definitely didn't get to eat meat as often as people eat it here. We got a bit more of that because we were training to be soldiers, but even then, it wasn't something we got every week. We usually got a lot of vegetables and bread. Potatoes were common. So were things like beets and cabbage. We usually drank water or milk with our meals. We had tea too, but that was either a special occasion sort of thing or something you had to buy yourself.
Things used to be a bit better, but after the Wall fell, we lost a lot of farmland and livestock and nearly an entire harvest, we were still recovering from that.
Oh, and everything we ate was a lot... milder than things are here. To be honest, I never even heard of most of the spices people use on their food here until I came to this world. We had salt, but that was incredibly expensive, so that was usually something only the nobles ate.
Oh, and our military rations were treated with a special kind of yeast so they wouldn't spoil, so they always had a very... unique flavour. You get used to it after a while.
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You were part of the military, then. Class system present in society. Most likely in a temperate zone.... [He mutters under his breath as he writes. Unless potatoes in Armin's universe grow under hot conditions, or potatoes are actually a complete different plant and called potatoes in that universe? Why is comparing universes always so hard?]
You stated you had livestock back in your world. How would you compare the meat of this universe to the meat you ate back in your own dimension?
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The meat here is of much better quality, much more fat and juice. I suppose the meat the nobles in our world ate was probably more like what they sell here, but we mainly got meat from older animals. [A small shrug.] It makes no sense to slaughter a cow while it still gives milk or pluck a chicken before it has laid its last egg.
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[Egon's not going to force Armin to speculate on what he thinks the meat in this dimension originates from, but if he wants...he can totally do so.]
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[Armin shrugs a little, and as for Egon's second question, he doesn't hesitate in answering. Nor does he seem very bothered by it either.]
Of course. It is logical, isn't it? Meat comes from animals and pokemon are the only animals that exist on this planet. Naturally, with how much people treasure their pokemon here, there isn't much attention given to that detail. I think most people are naturally inclined towards ignoring that which they find unpleasant so they can keep living happily. It was the same in my world.
[Not about animal meat. That was an accepted fact in a very farming heavy community. But it is not unlike how, before the Wall fell, people had been eager to pretend that the Titans could never pose a threat to them, to the point of shouting down anyone who might suggest they could be.]
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....Or, perhaps I am overthinking the process and outsiders simply aren't allowed to learn of these processes.
[But like...what if someone wants to be a cheesemaker or something in Johto...?]
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[Armin sounds surprised and genuinely interested. He comes from a world where science is, well, not very developed. He knows a little bit (just a tiny bit) about cloning from what he has learned here, but the idea of cloning meat in a lab and then eating it is something he had never even considered and, honestly, it has piqued his curiosity.]
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[A pause.]
You do know what stem cells are, don't you?
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[He sadly doesn't know a lot more than that. But considering the world he came from, this little bit is already a wealth of knowledge. You can thank those remedial high school biology courses he's been taking online.]
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Yes, very good. Scientists can then utilize these stem cells to grow whatever part of meat they would like to create, and thus artificially create "real" meat without harming any animals. Of course, there comes into the factor that none of this is worthwhile unless one is able to create meat in an efficient and resource-effective manner.
[Realizing he might be going on a bit too much, he clears his throat, rubbing the back of his neck.] Of course, speculating can only do so much. I still would like to get a first hand look on how they source certain foods here, particularly meat.
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Regardless of how the food is produced here, it does seem strange that they are so unwilling to be open about it. Especially when all other information is so easy to access here.