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[4play]

Okay. So. [Reaching down, IV lifts a curious-looking Meowth kitten up into the sight of the camera.] This is Not my Cat.

He’s literally not my cat, but he thinks he is, or whatever else cat logic that equals making himself at home in my traveling bag means that I also ought to feed and entertain him now.

Recently not my cat has started to pelt me with small change -- is that f- I mean, is that normal? It looks like it's grabbing that amulet or whatever it has first and then poing! Always straight in my face!


[He gives Not His Cat an accusatory stare that gets met with the feline version of a :3 face. Can you blame such a cute face? It's definitely planning another coin attack and when to best spring it on its human.

Sighing, IV sets the kitten down.]


I'm also looking for anybody who'd be interested in hunting for pokemon together. It's recently ...been brought to my notice that only having one that's truly capable of fighting might not be a good thing, so any help or advice on how to build a good team would be worth gold.

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[crystalmaster]

[Radley blinks at this.]

... Did he deserve to lose his license?

[4play]

He looked through my deck right before the two of us were slated to fight in the finals of a pretty big tournament. I won't deny that I'm also at fault for leaving them somewhere where he could reach them, and there's that he must have been pretty nervous, what with it being his first big event and all that.... but, he was caught. On camera.

There's not much either of us could have done to save him after that, is there?

[What IV isn't saying is that he set Shark up to get the chance to look through his cards. He's not even particularly sorry for it. He merely gave the other the chance. Shark was the one who couldn't resist and who went that foolishly about it that he was caught and had his reputation destroyed by it.]

[crystalmaster]

... No, I guess not. That is a pretty foolish thing to do. But how did he get caught on camera? Was it a security camera?

[4play]

It was. They have them in all the waiting rooms for the participants - to make sure everybody's playing fair. The stadium wasn't only used for hosting duels, either, so I always figured that it was just part of their general security routine.

Do you think it was a strange thing to have? I'm not really familiar with how these things are usually handled in Japan. [another bald-faced lie]

[crystalmaster]

It makes sense to me. I guess he wasn't aware of the cameras?

[Which doesn't make as much sense to him.]

[4play]

Surprisingly not. I've wondered about the same, before you ask.

My best guess is that his nerves got the better of him.

[crystalmaster]

Yeah, nerves can really do a number on a person.

[Himself included.]

[4play]

They. It takes even pro duelists a good amount of time to get used to not succumbing to them, and even that can fail.

[Usually IV is damn good at keeping his nerves, even with his hot temper, but his last duel -- there's no denying that he lost it because of it. He'd chalk that up to very special circumstances rather than just losing his nerves, though.]

[crystalmaster]

I can believe it.

[He had seen it from many of his Duelists back home, former pro and otherwise. It had made Kalin's ice-cold approach all the more chilling and eerie to watch.

Some of his Pokemon approach the screen again, wanting to talk to the kitty.]