first pirouette ❥ ( video )

[waltzhagen]

[ At first the video feed is crackly and sparse, audio barely, well, audible, and you can't really make out what's being said or heard. A loud muffle is all that's coming out through a mostly black screen. In a couple of minutes, for those curious enough to stick around, a technologically illiterate Haine finally figures out how to work her communication device. ]

Hello? HELLO!!!

[ Holding the device in one hand, she fades out of view but returns a moment later, hefting up an squealing Audino in the crook of her arm. ]

Someone left their pig with me! Is this your pig? Where am I? They gave me another mother! Hello?? This is too confusing!

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[lovechronicle]

[Sometimes personal newbie posts such as this one make her think back into the days when she first arrived... And made an accidental audio post of Eternal Snow instead of ...well, anything else. She was so different back then.]

Someone left that creature with you, because it's yours now -- and it looks adorable. You're in Johto, which is a region in the world of creatures called pokemon. Ah, and that one person thinks she's everyone's mother.

[Someone's perfectly calm, but at least she's trying not to sound like an answering machine.]

It's very confusing at first.

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[waltzhagen]

So I've got a pig now? What am I supposed to do with a pig? I don't have any pig food! What do pigs even eat?

[ She looks a little panic stricken. ]

Eh, she's everyone's mother? Does that mean we're sisters? Do I have brothers? This is making my head hurt!

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[lovechronicle]

[She's trying to keep up with all those questions. Maybe this isn't the right time to ask her to calm down a little bit...]

Yes, you've got a pig now. What you're supposed to do with it is up to the guide on your bagpack. And it's a pokémon, you'll find food for it almost everywhere.

[Too calm vs. panic mode? This is going well!]

Ah, well she just thinks that she is everyone's mother when in fact she is no one's mother. Everyone just wake up in her house. I wonder if it makes us sisters, probably not. [But she wouldn't mind new sisters! ...Oh wait, let's get to know you first, talk about sisterhood after that.] Umm, and sorry about your head hurting, it's really very common at first before you get used to everything.

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[waltzhagen]

[ It takes her a second to process all that information. In the end she only gets one thing out of it. ]

So I've been kidnapped!?

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[lovechronicle]

[...She'll explain it much better later, okay...? Okay.]

Well... [...] No one knows how or why we got here, so I wouldn't exactly call it kidnappning. Because people just randomly appear here.

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[waltzhagen]

Then can they randomly take me back?

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[lovechronicle]

Ah yeah, if you're lucky - or unlucky, depending on your life at home - but there's no way of telling who goes next and so on.

But once you get over from the first shock, this is not that bad place to be in.

[W-Well, not anymore. Ask from a 12 year old, suicidal Mitsuki, and she'd say the same with a big, wide smile on her face ...and you'd think that that kid would be telling the truth.]

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[nuko]

Did you check the manual?...

[ The first thing to do at the start of any adventure is to check the manual. But who the heck reads the manual... ]

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[waltzhagen]

There's a manual? Where?

[ She raises her Audino slightly, looking it over like her answers are there. ]

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[nuko]

There's a guide in the bag you were handed? Mine had a book about breeding... there's one for trainers as well?

Hitting the start menu might work to. [ Game logic always works. ]

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[uuing]

[ hey, haine, have a little kid copying you exactly - and pretty happily, too, she's just shouting back at you in return.. ]

Uu-, hello!!

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[waltzhagen]

[ Good. ]

Good afternoon! Please help me!

[uuing]

[ this is now a shouting competition. ]

What can Maria do to help you, uu-?

[waltzhagen]

[ may the victor be gracious ]

What do I do with this pig?

[uuing]

There's a pig? Where?

[ she only sees a pokémon, she just doesn't realise haine is calling that the pig.. ]

[waltzhagen]

Right here! This one!

[ She holds up the Audino, shrieking still, as best as she can. ]

[uuing]

Uu-, that's not a pig, not a pig at all! [ the little kid shakes her head wildly. ] It's a Pokémon..!

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[gyaooon]

[Ow... Ryo's ears are ringing... Looks like there's someone here who can compete with Ai's loudness.]

Um... Please calm down, miss? It's hard to explain things if you're panicking...

[waltzhagen]

I'm not panicking! Am I?...What do I do with this pig?

[gyaooon]

W-Well, you were being kind of loud, so I assumed---

[BZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Um hold on. Okay, picture and audio's clear again.]

Anyway, that pig is your Pocket Monster, and it has super powers! You travel around and raise it to become really strong so it can defeat other Pokemon. Does... that make sense?

[waltzhagen]

[ She sort of understands. ]

So it's a fighting pig?

[gyaooon]

[Ryo nods.]

Yes, you got it~ You can also catch other Pokemon like that and raise them too. It's kind of like having pets... with super powers.