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[rhythmaction]

its pretty awesome that this place has a built-in soundtrack, but man, whoever's putting on the playlist needs to up the tempo a little. add some guitars, some synths...yknow stuff to get you pumped about being on an adventure!

the battle music is cool i guess but it only plays when youre in a battle

i gotta ask--which town has the best tunes? cus thats where i wanna hang out

[And then, after like maybe five minutes--]

oh yeah can anyone tell me where i am because uhhhhhhhhhh i dont remember getting here

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[epitaffio]

It's not a town, but I like the music in the National Park north of Goldenrod.
It's really relaxing.

If you like the heavier stuff though...
Uh this is kind of weird but maybe the music that plays when I'm doing well in a fight?
It might actually be a bit too intense for me.

[And after he sees the follow-up question, five minutes later:]

Oh geez.

[rhythmaction]

how far is it to get to goldenrod?

also i totally wanna hear that music now...i might have to get into a battle with you sometime

but seriously where is this place because it sure as heck isnt vandelay island

unless they were working on ANOTHER top secret project we didnt know about

[epitaffio]

You're in New Bark, right? [He probably is, if he's new.]
It might take a couple of weeks unless someone gives you a ride. :(

I don't know where Vandelay is so we're probably not from the same world
Because this is a different world? And there's people from all kinds of places here. I know it sounds bananas.

[rhythmaction]

a couple WEEKS??!???!? what the hell?????? cant i just get a ride from you or something?????

so is this like a comic book situation where a guy gets sucked into another world and has to use their newly found super cool powers to save everyone? because i dont have my cool musical robot powers anymore so its gonna be kinda hard to do that

[epitaffio]

I mean if you really want to check it out, I can go pick you up...

[But should that really be a priority for someone who barely knows what's going on?? Anyway--]

I don't know about saving everyone, but it's kind of a comic book thing, yeah!
Or like a videogame, even.
The way Pokémon level up reminds me of those games where you fight monsters and such.

[rhythmaction]

as long as youve got sick tunes on the aux im down

[he does not know about the lack of cars in this universe]

'level up'....wow, it really is just like a rpg!! sick!!!!!!

[epitaffio]

The what now?
We can try the radio, but we're both getting the same stations, so it's not really up to me

[rhythmaction]

the aux. you know, what you plug your phone or mp3 player into so you can blast tunes from the speakers of your car??

[epitaffio]

You can do that with your phone???
Wait, that's got to be a future thing...

[Or maybe a space thing?? Is this guy from space????]

[rhythmaction]

huh? future thing??? just how old are you, old man?

[epitaffio]

I'm not old!
I'm from 2001, even the PokéGear is way more advanced than the cellphones we had!

sorry for the huge delay LOL

[rhythmaction]

woah...............

so youre like

OLD school

how does it feel to be so old?

NO WORRIES i've been there

[epitaffio]

[Abruptly, Doppio's video feed turns on to reveal his freckled, youthful face.]

I'm not old!

[He's pouting a little. No one would believe he's in his mid-thirties, including him.]

[rhythmaction]

[Chai stares at the screen for a few moments, his head tilted to the side as he stares at Doppio. Chai, himself, looks to be about in his mid-twenties and has a Chatot perched on his shoulder.]

Um, sorry, man! Didn't mean to call you old-- [he totally did] --but, jeez, 2001....

[He pauses for a moment, scratching his chin.]

I gotta ask, though--is that hair naturally pink, or did you dye it?

[epitaffio]

What's wrong with 2001?

[It's more of an annoyed mumble than an actual question. It's a new millennium! That's neat, isn't it? But anyway...]

Uh... No, it's natural. Why?

[rhythmaction]

Oh. I just wanted to ask, 'cus, like, one of my friends Korsica has this kind of red-pink hair, and I thought that she dyed it. So I complimented her on it, since it looked really clean and cool. It's hard to do a full head of dye. Believe me, I've tried. One time I--

[He stops.]

Getting off topic. Anyways, it turns out that it was her natural hair color all along and she got mad at me for thinking it was dyed, soooooo--

[He snaps his fingers, grinning sheepishly.]

--figured I'd ask before I make the same mistake!

[He's learning. Kind of? Ish.]

And, hey, nothing's wrong with 2001! Some of the best albums came out in 2001, like...um...White Blood Cells by The White Stripes, or Toxicity by System of a Down!

[epitaffio]

It’s not that rare of a hair color, is it? Maybe that’s why she got mad.

[He knew… at least one other person with pink hair back home? And he didn’t fraternize with people on a regular basis, so that’s got to count for something.

Doppio doesn’t seem to mind the change of topic, but in any case—]

I’ve heard of those guys! They’re pretty modern…

[Maybe Doppio should have mentioned it was April when he ended up here. Not that he would have lived to see either of those albums come out, anyway.]

text; un: wanderer

[noamuth]

If you introduce a source of some other music, sometimes it seems to cancel out the perpetual "soundtrack."

I am not sure that any explanation we fellow otherworlders could give you would mean much more than the explanations you can get from the locals, though. Unless you mean that you have been abducted from one location in the pokemon world to another, in which case I think you might be on your own anyway.

un: hichai

[rhythmaction]

ohhh so if i get like a radio or something would that work?

otherworlders? you mean other people have been brought here in the same situation?

[noamuth]

Woken up one morning in a house in New Bark Town, with a woman who claims to be our mother but is most definitely not, and sent out into the world to seek our fortunes with a pokemon to fight our battles and no further explanation? Yes, practically everyone who uses this network.

[rhythmaction]

why is this lady pretending to be EVERYONE'S mom??????????? unless her name *is* mom.............

hey this kind of reminds me of a video game i played once

[noamuth]

If she wished to convince me she was my mother, she did a very poor job of it. I have no idea what her angle is.

Interplanar travel isn't entirely unknown where I come from, but usually one knows why it is happening.

[rhythmaction]

maybe shes just confused. or a robot

interplanar travel, huh....? are you..............a wizard?

[noamuth]

I am a priestess. Lady Lolth does not typically suffer her priesthood to pursue arcane power.

[rhythmaction]

a priestess?? aw, thats boringgggg

you should try and do magic anyways cus it sounds fun

[noamuth]

I have little need to study the wizard's art, when my goddess grants me spells directly.

Not that it matters much here. No one's magic seems to function, save a few minor abilities to commune with beasts.

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[soupguy]

Personally, I think the music's a little too cheery already, as it is. But being here a while, the music I've liked most is still the music in New Bark Town. And then Cherrygrove is okay, I guess.

[He's not even going to try dealing with there "where am I?" question. He figures that most people who are new will probably be bummed out by the doom and gloom he brings to the subject, even if in his opinion doom and gloom is a pretty appropriate response to a kidnapping.]

[rhythmaction]

too cheery?!? theres no such thing my dude

but what kind of music do you usually listen to? personally im a fan of any and all rock but i love garage and alt rock and punk rock and also industrial rock i guess

[soupguy]

I like blues. And folk music is pretty good. Jazz can be okay, some of it. But really, I like dirges best.

[rhythmaction]

dirges? like funeral songs??? wow man you must be a hardcore emo

[soupguy]

Well, I don't know what an emo is, but I don't think I've ever been a hardcore anything. Except maybe a hardcore laundry...doer.

[rhythmaction]

well everyones gotta have their own niche

even if laundry is kind of boring i guess

[soupguy]

Yes, but that's what I like about it! A lot of boring things are nice. They're safe and cozy.

[rhythmaction]

WHAT??????

[Chai's brain can't process someone who would intentionally do BORING things.]

but then

but then youll never do anything exciting ever!!!

[soupguy]

I would be okay with that! But my friends never let it happen. Whether here or back home, there's always someone getting into a situation that stops things from being calm for too long.

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[chickenchoicejudy]

Couldn't agree more! If it's synths and guitars you want you GOTTA check out Chicken Choice Judy!!!

I'm on guitar, my buddy Min-Gi is on the synth, and we've been playing gigs all over Kanto. LIVE music!!! 🎸🎹🎵🐥

[rhythmaction]

woahhhhhh, youre an ACTUAL rock star??? cool! you got any demos i could listen to?

(I'm so sorry this is so late!)

[chickenchoicejudy]

Yeah man!!! We had a video get popular a little while back. I guess it's called going viral, or something??

Here it is, check us out!!!

NO WORRIES, IT HAPPENS

[rhythmaction]

woahhh your sound is totally retro!!!

its giving 80s rock in ALL the best ways

you guys got an album yet???

[chickenchoicejudy]

ha! thanks? it's 1987 back home soooo that makes sense

Eh, we're working on it. we play a ton of live shows in Kanto though and we're always getting more warps so we can take the show on the road. 🚗

[rhythmaction]

warps???

[And then after looking it up in his trainer guide--]

YOU CAN TELEPORT HERE?!?!?!?!?!

[chickenchoicejudy]

YEAH MAN IT'S GNARLY

but you can only do it with places you've been to so you have to go camping a lot first, but then you can just zip between a lot places!