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[Sooooooo it's been, what, over two months since there's been any peep from this kid? Of course he's been busy if the papers and the journals (along with various books Dipper's gotten since coming here) spread all over his bed. There's a bunch of sleeping Pokémon laying around the room as well, except his Persian. The cloudy white eyes is a sharp contrast to the other eye as it stares at the camera behind its trainer.

Dipper on the other hand looks like he hasn't been sleeping much.]

The Ruins of Alph are incredible! Getting lost in them wasn't. Oh, and I went back to Ecruteak to check out both towers and there's so many ghosts. Definitely worth the trip if you want some ghost types.

[He moves to the bed and shows some of the notes, including all of the drawings, such as the entire alphabet of Unown.]

I don't know why there's Pokemon shaped like letters, but that's probably why they're call Unown. It's too bad that each letter doesn't have a unique move, but I guess since they all are technically the same Pokemon but in different shapes it makes complete sense. They're all lower case letters from the looks of it. How amazing would it be if there was a place where unique letters from other countries? Like ones with diaeresis marks? Those parts would probably have to float over their heads instead of being attached to make sense or else they'd look like alien antennae. [There's a few sketches of Unown that would be possibly part of the Spanish and French alphabets with the appropriate marks above each letter.] Anyone have a guess as to why they're shaped like the Roman lettering?

[Sorry this kid has completely nerded out on you guys.]

Oh yeah! I'm heading to the Ilex Forest next. I heard there's spooky stories about the place. Anyone here who can back that up?

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[Meanwhile as Dipper starts talking to himself, he might hear a certain older sister whispering 'Nnneerrrddd' in the background somewhere.

She loves you, Dipdot, she really does]

[Wow rude people can probably hear that. Dipper turns to her, trying to shush Mabel.

THIS IS IMPORTANT WORK

And he loves you too.]

Huh, I just figured they were shaped like that 'cause English is, like, th' universal language in situations like this.

Like those games where a buncha kids get sucked into a book that's really a magical fantasyland of adventure, or at least looks like it before everything starts trying t' eat their faces off. It's never any actual real place, but what do they speak? English.

Waitaminute, you're telling me there's Pokemon that are shaped like letters?

No, nah that's gotta be...

You're completely serious, aren't you? This is an actual thing. That ya stumbled on.

Did you learn anything interesting in the Ruins of Alph? I had a hard time with those puzzles... [Don't admit that Kira.] But English is not my first language. It was just kinda forced onto me upon arrival.

I'm in the forest now. I haven't seen much of anything that would deem it spooky. It's just a forest... There are supposed to be some unique rare pokémon in here but I haven't seen any.

What have you heard? Is there more to this place than I originally thought? [That'd be neat. He's been pretty underwhelmed with this forest. Finding only common birds and that stupid pinecone pokémon.]

[ Oh god, just look at this nerd. ]

If they're ghosts then how can you see them?

[ Oh god, just look at this newbie. ]

[From there, he might also hear a slight giggle on her end]

You know, you could just make it a lot easier for everyone! I mean, I don't really know what all of this is suppose to mean but...can't you make it in plain ol' English?

[Soos. Soooos.]

You know those shows are voiced in other languages around the world, right? So English isn't exactly universal. We might be speaking English, but this world might translate it to Japanese for a person who doesn't speak English, but we don't know they can't unless they say so.

I'd show off the Dex entry, but I can't exactly do that with the camera on. They're psychic types and all over the ruins.

[It's awesome.]

Knowing my uncle Ford, he's got a bunch of them already.

Wait. You don't actually speak English? [So his theory about people coming from different worlds with languages but able to understand each other might just be holding true right now.] Not really. I'd have to go down in there with more batteries and supplies and do a more through search. And repels, too.

I heard something about there being a haunted shrine in the forest, and there's some kind of mysterious force that makes you get lost in there really easily. As for Pokemon, the locals told me it's mostly grass and bug types in there.

Because they let us see them. They can turn invisible and go through walls if they want to. Well, some of the dual-types can't. My Banette can go through walls, but she doesn't like to.

[That's okay. He'll just nerd out more.]

[Plain old English?]

They're letters. The same letters we learn in school, but none of those letters with the squiggles and the dots.

[Better?]

So pretty much, it's just like one giant alphabet soup all stirred up together? Sounds like a pain to try and spell them all out though.

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Fascinating. Do Pokeball go right through them? Or do they allow that too?

Yeah, not sure how I feel about psychic types, honestly. I don't really want anything around that can read my mind or some crap.

Oh yeah, that dude. He's pretty into critters, huh?

[A Teddiursa peers through the camera with her partner/Trainer Madison looking on curiously.]

By any chance, what sort of Pokémon can be found in the Ruins of Alph?

That's why you draw what they look like so you can figure out what each letter is when it comes to the puzzles down there. Weren't you paying attention at all?

If you don't bring its health down, the sometimes they get into a pranking mood and make the ball go through them. Sometimes Muriel, my Banette, won't go back into her ball and ghosts away so the beam can't touch her.

These things aren't smart enough for that. They have a hive mind, but that's expected with such low level intelligence.

[I.e. these things be dumb]

Yeah! Isn't it great?

From what I saw? There's a lot. Was there a type you're looking for?

[Hey, Teddiursa, don't mind this creepy Persian looking into the camera right at you.]

Ugh, hive minds. Pain in the ass. Hate dealing with'em.

Yeah, sure. He's pretty enthusiastic.

You can train them to spell stuff out. Like a walking billboard. But since you can only have six at a time, that might be hard.

He was like that back home, too.

....they only come in lower case, huh?

Yeah, he reminds me of a guy I knew. Big on critters. Lost a bunch of limbs.

Hey, you might know this...any Pokemon out there with mild paralyzing properties? Like...I dunno, spit or goop or...quills or something?

Yeah, I'm Japanese. I do have some American ancestors in me but that's pretty deluded at this point. Great great great grandpa sorta stuff. I never learned any English except for some common words.

When I arrived here I suddenly knew it which was kind of jarring. And now I have to take a moment and actually think about using Japanese before I can actually get any words out. It's really bizarre. So the letters don't click right away... or at all especially if they look like those symbols. And sometimes I find myself lacking a word in English or not knowing what to call something. There's just little odd hiccups that happen sometimes.

Overall I'd give it a four out of ten. Would not personally recommend the experience.

Haunted shrine, hm? Guess I'll give it another look. I'd ask if you were looking for ghosts or something but since ghost Pokémon clearly exist that seems a little unnecessary. Unless that is what you're doing. Looking for rarer ghosts... maybe?

Dipper, salutations!

[Okay ghost types are cool and all but you saw all the Steel types in the Ruins, right.]

The Ruins ARE pretty incredible, aren't they? I- ...how long were you lost?

[Dipper.]

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