worktodo: (ARRIVE ☮ i'm here the day is saved)
Albert Rosenfield ([personal profile] worktodo) wrote2012-07-22 08:08 pm

001 | New Bark Town | Video;

[Good morning, Johto! Today, for your viewing pleasure, we have...what appears to be the rather dark and damp interior of a Poochyena's mouth, complete with glistening teeth and a tiny smear of drool at the edge of the camera feed. Not a very decent view, but that's okay, because there's plenty of audio to make up for that — and it seems we've tuned in right in the middle of some rather belligerent ranting...]

—ow what kind of game you're playing here, lady, but I have neither the time nor the patience to stand around while some overzealous kitchen marm tries to stuff me full of animal crackers and ship me off to elementary school. I want to know who you are, I want to know where I am, and most importantly I want to know how the hell you got me here to this godforsaken boondocks in the first place. I have plenty of work to do, and I do not have time for your inane prattle. Just give me some answers so I can be on my way.

[There is some background chatter here, which careful listeners may recognize as Mom's standard speech.]

Listen, June Cleaver, I'll make this very clear: I could not care less about these Puggymans you insist on rambling continuously about. The question is simple: where the hell am I?

[More background chatter! Are we sensing a trend?]

Hn. Forget it.

[Footsteps begin to tap across the linoleum, and in response, the camera begins to shake; evidently, the owner of those teeth is trotting over to give her own greeting to this rather angry newcomer to Johto. And it appears, when the footsteps pause, that he's just noticed her.]

What do you want?

[More shaking of the camera, and then suddenly there is bright light and a whole lot of twisting and rotating as the man apparently takes the Gear out of the dog's mouth and turns it over in his hand, twisting it every which way and tapping it as he inspects it. People who get motion sickness, this is really not the video for you.]

...what is this, a toy or some kind of Star Trek — HELLO.

[And hopefully no one had their volume turned up on their gear, because the man holding it is using his Outside Voice as he addresses the microphone that is apparently about three inches away from his face at the moment.]

I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU'VE GOT SOME ANSWERS FOR ME, MR. SCOTT?
punchandkiss: (You aren't serious.)

Action?

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone can hear you.

[Hey look, there's a viking teenager standing outside near an open window, a skeptical expression on her face. She had been sitting outside when she'd heard the...commotion...and decided to take a look.]

The whole town.
no_ufo_ending: (:()

[video]

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2012-07-23 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not that kind of video game...but you're stuck here. For a while.
punchandkiss: (Now you listen here...)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Astrid actually looks down at herself at that statement. Leather shoulderpad, leather spike-covered skirt, big boots, leggings, skull belt. What.]

...Do I look like a fairy princess?
foolishwren: new horrorterrors just dropped!! (BABE wake up!!!)

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[personal profile] foolishwren 2012-07-23 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Once you've been here awhile, the sparkliness wears off.

[Yes, Albert, have ALL THE PEOPLE talking to you at once.]

Anyway, point is, don't need to yell. We can aaaaaaall hear you and your delicate sensibilities loud and clear.
punchandkiss: (So as you can see...)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that means nothing to her, considering she's probably from the dark ages, technologically speaking.]

I'm a viking, get it right. [She started to say something else, but then her Axew was suddenly rushing past her to stare up at the newcomer intently from maybe a foot away.]

Come back here!

[He pretty much ignores her.]
no_ufo_ending: (no go home space robot)

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[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2012-07-23 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
A while, I don't know! I don't think anyone has died yet.
no_ufo_ending: (brb bein shy)

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[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2012-07-23 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Henry falls silent for a long moment as he turns that over in his head.]

Are you a coroner?
punchandkiss: (So what's your problem anyway?!)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, a viking.

[Because duh. And then she shrugs at the question.]

Apparently. He's been following me around since I woke up. Hey!

[This shout gets the Axew's attention, and he twists around to stare at her. She snaps her fingers and he scurries back and plops down next to her...for a moment, before he starts gnawing on a rock.]

You've got one too.

[She must have meant the dog.]
tapestodiane: (morgue)

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[personal profile] tapestodiane 2012-07-23 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Gandhina.

[He corrects almost absently. No worries, Pooch - Coop knows your real name.]

There are no hotels in New Bark. I suggest you either make nice with Mom or find something to do outside.

[That this is his only correction naturally means that yep, that's about right.]
punchandkiss: (Let me axe you a question.)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I've taken four of them away from him so far, he keeps finding more. [She actually sighs.] I found some sticks but he chewed through them. I'll find more later.

[She would, but keeping up with the chewing habits of a baby pokemon was apparently kind of daunting.]

Yes. I woke up in there two hours ago.

[She thumbs at Mom's house.]
punchandkiss: (I don't think this will work...)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a dragon, not a baby. [Astrid was of the opinion dragons were generally hard to break. Which they certainly were back home. And then she shrugged and held up a hand.]

Pokemon adventure, this one is mine, here have some pokegear, go see the world.

...I was only half listening, really.
punchandkiss: (On her dragon - Here we go!)

Action!

[personal profile] punchandkiss 2012-07-23 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Not an expert, but I had one back home. She was...bigger.

[And could fly. She turns to watch the pooch running off, and then sighs as the Axew goes bounding after it. But at least he isn't chewing on the rock for the moment.]

Apparently there's a larger town a few days walk from here.

[Not that Astrid had any experience with towns bigger than this one, really, but she wasn't going to say that.]

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