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Azume Mods ([personal profile] azumods) wrote in [community profile] azume2018-06-04 03:34 am

Week 1.

WEEK 1.

As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning.

Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim.

It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being.

However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes...

Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good.

CURRENT LOCATION: VEILSTONE CITY
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES

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takestheblame: 6 (6)

[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-04 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Just what kind of place did you come from where there are artificial animals?

[He's seen nothing of the sort other than toys in his world. The thought of artificial animals...it's weird]
eudaimonikos: (a boost over heaven's gate)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hell.

[He considers this, making a little gesture in the air.] Well, that's not what we call it. But it's that general idea.
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
...

[If it hadn't been for the whole emotionless people and multiple worlds, he wouldn't have believed it]

...wow.

[Yeah. He's speechless for a moment]

Does that make you a demon?
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eudaimonikos: (either/or)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He inclines his head slightly.]

That's not entirely accurate, but it's an acceptable term.
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Kinda weird they managed to bring you from Hell.

[This Galactic organization must have a lot of power in...whatever they used to bring them all, he thinks]
eudaimonikos: ('cause everything else)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's deeply disturbing. Especially when you consider the implications of doing this - [Gestures around at Sinnoh In General] - to my world. Do you have any idea how many humans have died since the beginning of your existence? Because I do, and it's in the hundred billions.
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
You didn't see any familiar faces among the grunts back there at the headquarters, right?

[It's unlikely anyone would remember a face among hundred billions and Kiryu knows that, but by sheer numbers the odds someone else from Michael's world was brought here...they're not astronomically small. Maybe they did and nobody's aware of that]
eudaimonikos: (an essay concerning human understanding)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
...no.

[He clearly hadn't fully considered that possibility until now.]

I mean, obviously I haven't personally encountered everyone in the afterlife. Aaaaand I might not recognize every human I've seen over the years. If I've run into them before, they might actually be better off here.
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's obvious. Hell doesn't have a good reputation -- I bet a lot of people would be glad to not be there.

[Is Hell as bad as it sounds like? Youknow better than anyone, eh, Michael?]
eudaimonikos: (start over again and again)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If they were still capable of feeling glad. It's really just exchanging forms of torture, physical for psychological. Given the option, would you choose to be like the people here instead?

[Honest question: he has his own thoughts, but his outlook is pretty different.]
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Well isn't that a clever question? And one Kiryu can't answer. He can't decide what is worse, because both options are so damn awful]

That's like asking what leg you'd rather have chopped off. Both options are terrible.

At least the people here have some hope of being saved, even if it's...just because we got lucky enough to recover from what Cyrus did.

[If it hadn't been for that astronomically unlikely event, there may not have been any hope for anyone]
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eudaimonikos: (you're out in the world)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. Personally, I'd go for whichever seemed the most likely to end eventually. But - [He spreads his hands] - I've got the rest of time to wait for that to happen.

Do you think we will end up helping them in the end, then?

[Because that didn't sound like it was necessarily in the cards.]
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We have to help them. That's something I'm not going to change my mind about.

[Kiryu sure is determined to find a way, no matter how difficult it ends being. This is faaaaar beyond the scope of what he's used to deal with, but he'll try nonetheless]
eudaimonikos: (fear and trembling)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if Cynthia doesn't accept it?

[He seems carefully neutral on the subject, for the moment.]
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[personal profile] takestheblame 2018-06-05 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah. Even if she tries to get in the way later for some reason.

[Kiryu sees no reason for her to not accept it, though. She seems willing to lend a hand and solve this whole thing]
eudaimonikos: (you're out in the world)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2018-06-05 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know why she would, but she was very adamant about just wanting us to go. Which, I do also want to get home as soon as possible...

[He glances away for a second, drumming his fingers rapidly against his leg.]

But helping them is definitely the right thing to do.