Function (1) - Text/Action for Route 29

[ladywithnovoice]

[Eventually, after punching Royce and a couple one sided conversations and getting the hang of battling before anything else, Red finally discovers her own 'Gear has a text function. She actually types a lot... It's just that none of it really goes through, every line deleted. There's so much to say, she doesn't even know where to start.]

[Well... Royce is on information gathering duty, as much as he hates talking with people, so she finally decides to go with something more mundane.]

I don't know who voted for all the rain, but I don't suppose anyone wants to let a lady borrow an umbrella? [A pause before she adds-] Or a pack of cigarettes.

[And because she can't help herself...]

As for these Pokemon, are there any kind that can sing? Or any more dogs. I wouldn't mind another if I could figure out where to find one.

[For anyone in New Bark or on the route itself, they'll be able to see Red along it along with an Electrike that's constantly chasing Pokemon out of the tall grass. They're both actually rather quiet, but she's quick to look up when she realizes there's someone else nearby. Well... Someone besides Royce, who's nearby as wel and who she's also keeping an eye on.]

Comments

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[awesmazings]

No, it was named Miseryville cause our leader, Lucy- or, well, Lucius- his job is to make everybody in town as miserable as he possibly can.

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[ladywithnovoice]

[You get a very lengthy pause for that, Jimmy.]

It sounds that bad when you put it like that

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[awesmazings]

Yeah, I know it does. But it really isn't so much, honest. I guess it's kinda hard to believe unless you've lived there before.

[Or unless you're, you know. Jimmy.]

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[ladywithnovoice]

Was he bad at making people miserable?

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[awesmazings]

[WEEELL..]

Well, he wasn't always the best...but he was pretty good.

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[me_first]

[Sorry Jimmy but Royce just noticed this conversation.]

his job was to make everyone in town miserable? fascinating! fascinating indeed! why was that, or is that something you were unable to determine?

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[awesmazings]

[Oh goodness hello there! Jimmy doesn't mind it one bit, and answers with as much enthusiasm as one can convey through text.]

Yaknow, I don't really know to be honest! He comes from a really long line of Heniouses, so his dad ruled before him, then his dad's dad, then his dad's dad's dad...

So Lucy is actually the 7th ruler Miseryville has had!

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[me_first]

really? how interesting!

did he serve other functions aside from that, or was he more single-target in function?

[He's just trying to figure out if he's related to something like the Process.]

[Royce no stop Royce people are not computers.]

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[ladywithnovoice]

[Royce no]

[Since Red can't say that, she'll just throw another Pokeball at his head. On the bright side, this one is thrown with considerably less force than before.]

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[me_first]

[It goes 'bonk' quite solidly against his head, and he turns to Red before picking it up and lobbing it back to her in an underhanded toss.]

What did I do this time?

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[ladywithnovoice]

[She catches it and simply stuffs it into her coat pocket before typing out a response.]

People aren't computers, Royce

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[me_first]

... I know that.

[It's just hard to interact with them in other frames of reference.]

It's... a way of looking at things that... well, it makes sense to my brain.

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[ladywithnovoice]

[A quiet sigh.]

Just be careful not to tell it to their faces.

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[awesmazings]

[Jimmy has to think about that for a minute, mostly just to extract some sort of meaning out of what Royce just said.]

Well, he's the ruler of Miseryville! So he's kinda in charge of everything that goes on. Whatever he says goes!

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[me_first]

[Sorry Jimmy, Royce is just weird like that.]

how curious! possibly not the best for everyone, but fascinating!

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[awesmazings]

Yeah, well, Lucy's a pretty cool guy once you get to know him!

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[me_first]

good to hear! very very good to hear. hopefully he doesn't cause you too much trouble!

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[awesmazings]

No, not really! It's not all that bad.

My name's Jimmy, by the way. What's yours?

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[ladywithnovoice]

[After throwing a Pokeball at Royce's head, she gets back to her own part of this conversation.]

I don't think I'll be visiting anytime soon, then.

I'm a bit sick of misery.

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[awesmazings]

[Jimmy's going to like you two- he can already tell.]

I think Miseryville is kinda far from this place anyway, so you prolly won't have to worry about that.

So where are you from?

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[ladywithnovoice]

Cloudbank. It's the only place I've ever known.

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[awesmazings]

Cloudbank? That sounds like a nice place.

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[ladywithnovoice]

It was.

I liked it when Farrah Yon-Dale used to paint the skies, so times when clear skies got the winning vote were the ones I preferred. She really knew how to make it an art. I used to watch them come to life on the balcony of my apartment.

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[awesmazings]

Wait, paint the sky? That sounds so cool!

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[ladywithnovoice]

Yeah. She took requests, too. It wasn't anything anyone had really done before. It was just voted on. She's the one who made it something amazing.