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victory_road2020-06-06 10:07 pm
cyan_maid) wrote in victory_road2020-06-06 10:07 pm
35th Recipe [Video, Goldenrod City]
You know...I've been wondering something lately. About the Gym Challenge stuff.
[Jane looks like she's about ready to go to bed, honestly - glasses off, pajamas on (though you have to wonder what bacon is actually made of in the Pokemon world), and 'gear angled so you can sort of tell she's kind of lounging in bed, light still on.]
It's more of just an idle sort of thing...thinking about what I'd like to do, here. While I'm here. It could very well turn out I'm here for a long while yet, or I could be gone tomorrow. No matter the case, I want to work towards something, and for the longest time it was just...you assume to yourself, ah, I'll get the badges and challenge the Elite Four. After that, they'll let you open up your own gym, but...what if we did all that, proved ourselves, and did something different?
[She pauses to yawn, covering her mouth.] I mean...originally I definitely wanted to do something like that, but...it feels like defeating the Elite Four is more a test of your own strength, and the strength of your Pokemon - and the strength you have together. In theory, couldn't you do whatever you wished, within reason, once you proved that strength? I guess...I'm just wondering about other options. If we have them.
[Another pause. Jane turns a bit on her side.] Oh, I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. I guess I just thought...if I proved myself to be strong, couldn't I go on and do work I've always thought was admirable and exciting? There couldn't be much to hold me back from that, would there? Don't get me wrong, I'd keep working at Pokemon Centers because...that's good work, it's helpful and I've learned so much. But...[She turns back, a bit of steel and fire in her eyes. The good kind, the kind that rings true of determination.] What's to stop me from, say, becoming a detective?
[Huh. That's...that's a thing.]
...I guess I wanted to put that into the world and see how it sounded. I'm still thinking on it. And even if I do go that way, I've still got a lot of badges left to earn, so...maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
[Jane looks like she's about ready to go to bed, honestly - glasses off, pajamas on (though you have to wonder what bacon is actually made of in the Pokemon world), and 'gear angled so you can sort of tell she's kind of lounging in bed, light still on.]
It's more of just an idle sort of thing...thinking about what I'd like to do, here. While I'm here. It could very well turn out I'm here for a long while yet, or I could be gone tomorrow. No matter the case, I want to work towards something, and for the longest time it was just...you assume to yourself, ah, I'll get the badges and challenge the Elite Four. After that, they'll let you open up your own gym, but...what if we did all that, proved ourselves, and did something different?
[She pauses to yawn, covering her mouth.] I mean...originally I definitely wanted to do something like that, but...it feels like defeating the Elite Four is more a test of your own strength, and the strength of your Pokemon - and the strength you have together. In theory, couldn't you do whatever you wished, within reason, once you proved that strength? I guess...I'm just wondering about other options. If we have them.
[Another pause. Jane turns a bit on her side.] Oh, I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. I guess I just thought...if I proved myself to be strong, couldn't I go on and do work I've always thought was admirable and exciting? There couldn't be much to hold me back from that, would there? Don't get me wrong, I'd keep working at Pokemon Centers because...that's good work, it's helpful and I've learned so much. But...[She turns back, a bit of steel and fire in her eyes. The good kind, the kind that rings true of determination.] What's to stop me from, say, becoming a detective?
[Huh. That's...that's a thing.]
...I guess I wanted to put that into the world and see how it sounded. I'm still thinking on it. And even if I do go that way, I've still got a lot of badges left to earn, so...maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
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[He smirks, just running off of experience.]
For one, could be a ghost type that decided to mess with its trainer by turning invisible. Maybe the case ties into another about mysterious hauntings, and the runaway ghost went rogue in the radio tower when its trainer didn't get the memo.
[...Yeah. That's a bit of a stretch, but you never know.]
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[He trails off, realizing that probably sounds like gobbledygook.]
So. We used to have this group dedicated to fighting Team Rocket. It just kinda... fell apart after a while. The active Rockets disappeared. A lot of our core members did, too.
Honestly, given how little headway we made in taking out the organization even in our prime, you're not wrong to wanna work your way up.
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[She nods with sympathy. It's likely hard to actually keep a dedicated force of people going when one's stay in this world is so fickle.]
Well...I can't say I'm willing to go whole ham in resurrecting a defunct group, but I also can't rest lightly on the idea of there not being active Rockets around. Just because they're not doing big things all the time and constantly causing trouble doesn't mean they aren't somewhere.
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[Oof. How to explain this.]
Just got kinda hard to stay motivated in running it when this place is like a revolving door. Can't say I blame you for wanting to keep things small scale- and even just having good word-of-mouth communication would probably make a huge difference.
But if there's one thing I will say- keep an eye on the Radio Tower. One of the PGC members used to work for the Rockets, and he said they have a pretty tight hold on the place.
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[She does recall, vaguely, one instance of someone emerging in Goldenrod and claiming to have been kidnapped by the Rockets upon waking here. She doesn't think they stayed here for long, but it would match up with Riku's knowledge.]
I'll keep that in mind, thank you.