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Video/Action for New Bark Town

[The video opens to an excited teenage girl sitting on the ground just outside “Mom”’s house. She’s twirling a blue piece of fabric that was her mask that match her godly pjs in her free hand and a skitty chases after it.]
OMG, isn’t this the most adorable pokémon you have ever fucking seen? Is this the universe we created? Because lbr, this is exactly the type of pokémon I would think up. And I don’t remember it from the original games or show. Is the goal really to become the very best, like no one ever was? [Guess who loved pokémon as a child. Just be happy she isn’t singing.]

[But now on to less exciting questions.]

The mom part was fucking bizarre. She was super nice and packed me a bag and lunch. But then she locked me out of the house.Is that normal maternal behavior? Because I’m pretty sure it isn’t.
[A brief pause and frown. The skitty promptly attacks her fingers and she smiles. She seems to be speaking more to herself or the cat than the pokégear.] I hope my friends answer this quickly. [If they’re even here...but that’s a problem she will deal with when she gets to it.] Or at least someone more helpful than the NPC chilling in this town. Not that they aren’t nice. [But like the chess people who surrounded her growing up, they made her feel lonely.] Gastrell the Munificent and I have poké-adventures we need to get up to. [Really excited with a broad smile aimed at Gastrell the Skitty.] This is so much better than the last video game I entered. [Not that that’s a particularly high standard.]

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Uh...no, I've been here for...about a month?

[Jane's brain is starting to catch up to the rest of her. Oh. Oh, gosh, this is going to involve some more weird timeline bullshit, isn't it.]

Roxy...this may sound weird, but, what's the last thing you remember from home?

Winning the game. You?

[There's a pause - long, drawn out, accompanied by a slow and gradual shift in Jane's expression from worry to...complete and utter confusion.]

We...we've actually won that terrible game? But...

[No, no, she won't ask how. Jane shakes her head.] I'd just gone God Tier, I didn't...is that all it took to win?!

Yeppers. [God tier. A lot of shit happened after that. A lot of really bad shit. Geez, Roxy doesn't even know what timeline Jane's from.]

No, it wasn't that simple. The other kids showed up and there was a big final battle.

[She sits back a bit, taking that in. The others really turned up. They really fought. They...they won. She's just letting that wash over her for a second.

A shame that, even if she went back home, she'd be stabbed through the chest instead of seeing things to the end.]

So...it's actually possible to win. I...[She laughs weakly.] I don't know if I can believe it...

[A small part of her is frustrated that Jane still doesn't trust her, but then she's pretty sure that wasn't what Jane meant. After half a year in the dead-end game she gets it. It felt like it would never end and being told some vague shit about gods coming to save you wasn't all that reassuring.]

I kinda think we broke the rules a bit. Or said fuck them or something, what with smashing three sessions together. But yeah, we get to claim the prize.

That's good. That's...

[Jane smiles just thinking about it. Winning the game. Seeing it through. Breaking the rules and making them all at once.]

That's wonderful, Roxy, and now I wish this was that world we made! But I don't think it is. For one, not all of us are here.

[She believes you, girl, just don't. Don't ask about timelines. Because she's still not sure what the fuck is going on there.]

[Well, Jane did say she had been here a month and that the last thing she remembered was becoming God Tier, so it makes sense that not everyone would be here. After all, Roxy just arrived. But it still hurts.]

Who is here?

Well, I'm here, and so is Dirk. John is here, Dave is here, Jade is here, and one of the trolls is here, his name is Karkat. That's it so far.

[While she's excited Dirk, Dave, and John are here and that she can get to know the other two, she's acutely aware of who's missing. Jake. Calliope. Rose who she had just finally gotten to meet. It takes her a moment to respond.]

I haven't had a chance to talk to Jade, yet. Or Karkat.

But I think you're right about it not being the world we created. So what is this place?

Edited 2016-08-23 23:42 (UTC)

[It would be nice to properly meet Roxy's teen Mom. It would be fantastic to meet Calliope in person and give her the grandest time that she definitely deserves. Jake...

...Give her some time on Jake, but even so, he doesn't deserve to be in a session alone, whether they won or not.]

From what I've been told? It's some country or region called Johto.

Never heard of it. [Obviously. If she looked at her map she would recognize Kanto, but why do that when she can talk to Jane? Besides, she has a more pressing question.]

Where are you? Like in comparison to me. [Please say close.]

Neither did I, before showing up. But the region from the games is apparently close by. I saw it on the map.

[She winces.] Um...a bit of a ways out. We've been in a city called Ecruteak dealing with some...things. [Read: ghosts] But, I can get closer to you very easily, to the point where we could meet up in a couple of days. Add a few more, and I can come out with Dirk and Dave to get you - but I have to actually tell them that first.

[Because of course they're going to say "Hell fucking yes we're getting Roxy climb up on the clay robot Pokemon we're going to New Bark" but she does actually have to ask first.]

...Things? [Is that a raised eyebrow? That is definitely a raised eyebrow.

A few days. Roxy could handle a few days.]

It prolly helps to let people know their going on a cross country trip.

Yes. Things. They're gone now, so it's nothing to worry about.

[Don't ask her Roxy, don't ask, don't ask........

She's gonna probably ask isn't she]

That's what I was thinking. Luckily, I'm one-hundred percent sure that there's no way they can refuse!

[Yeah, with a pause like that, then avoided the topic, she's totally going to ask.]

Things can meaning a fuck ton of different things. A swarm of locust...or their Pokémon equivalent. Alien invaders. [Which hits a little close to home] Team Rocket. Is Team Rocket even a thing here? Trying to snatch your Pokémon, but you beat them back. What were these things? [She assuming negative because Jane's avoiding it, but maybe it was positive. Maybe she thinks Roxy will be upset she missed it. Which, honestly, she'll be pretty upset when she realizes she essentially missed a giant funeral party. Not so much the ghosts.

She's not even responding to the Strider comment because obviously they won't refuse. Dirk's probably already figuring it out.]

N...no, none of those things were the "things". It was...um. Ghosts.

[Jane shifts, and a little bit of what's behind her can be seen - a bed in a fairly generic inn, an egg propped up against the stomach of a pink hellion who hugs it close, and whose ears twitch curiously whenever Jane or Roxy speak. What a little snoop.]

It was. It was difficult, to have them around.

I'm guessing you don't mean ghost Pokémon.

[She get back to that but ohh...]

Who is that? They're adorable.

Uh-

[You've distracted her, Roxy. She turns around, looking for a moment before smiling sheepishly.]

Oh, that's Dinah. She was my starter - something called an Audino? And, I woke up a couple of days ago and there was an egg in my room, and she's really taken a shine to it.

Oh, all these new pokémon are so cute.

[Unfortunately for Jane, that was only a temporary distraction. Roxy gets more serious again.]

Who was haunting you?

[Oh gosh dang it to heck.]

...My Dad.

But, Janey, your dad isn't dead. [Is this more timeline bullshit, because seriously fuck that.]

I know that now. Dirk told me. But I didn't know it when the ghost showed up!

So the ghost didn't actually have to be someone dead, just someone you thought was dead?

I guess? Honestly, I have no clue and I'm fairly certain the darn thing was a Pokemon, thinking back on it.

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