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[After switching on, the video flops about in a haphazard, obviously-Pokemon-directed way. As the cameramon struggles to point the Pokegear in the intended direction, the interior of a room at the Goldenrod inn becomes visible. A television is running in the background, but it's turned down and not clearly audible over the noise of the 'Gear being fumbled with.

Finally it settles on its intended target:

A pair of small, snoozing, fuzzy Pokemon! They're taking up the whole top end of the bed, and seem to have gotten turned around since falling asleep...

The camera lingers on them for a while, as the cameramon coos quietly to herself. Oh god they're so cute so adorable aaaah.

The video shuts off.

It turns back onto a scene from about half an hour later. The Shinx is galumphing around the edges of the bed, jumping and tripping over the rumpled-up covers. The Absol is lying on his back in the center of the Shinx's circular path, exchanging swats with the smaller Pokemon. After running a few rounds, the Shinx jumps on the Absol's face, and the two squawk and yowl as they bat playfully at one another, rolling back and forth and then off the bed completely.

The video shuts off again.]

[Later in the day, Ondorus makes a text post, unaware of earlier antics.]

These questions are for anyone who wishes to answer any portion of them.

- In and around Goldenrod, what sights and attractions would you recommend to someone who is unfamiliar with cities?

- Do you bother keeping track of your birthday in Johto? If you do, and if the year of your world is not of the length of a Johto year, how do you measure out when that and other dates from your world occur?

- Where raising young Pokemon is concerned, does anyone have any wisdom to share that isn't often found in the books on the subject?

- To misters Sion and Ryder: the eggs I purchased from you have hatched safely and healthily, in case the parents wish to be informed. Thank you, again.

((ooc: If you want to reply to the first, earlier entry, you'll just get Pokeshenanigans for a while. Ondorus might come back to those replies later in the evening after he's caught on, if there's anything in them that begs responding to.))

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I don't think it'll be an issue. I wouldn't have been celebrating anything for another few years, anyways, but it was interesting to see how others would handle the problem of equivalence.

Edited 2012-09-22 01:27 (UTC)

You only celebrate your birthday on certain years? Do you only bother with milestones, or is there another reason for it?

[wh...oh no wait]

Your world is civilized only by humans, like this one, isn't it? In mine, it's not uncommon for different species to measure time in different intervals. It's a matter of scale.

For the most part, yes. There used to be beings that couldn't exactly be defined as human to some extent, but they're long gone. Of course, there are things that were formerly human or are made to imitate humans, but that's not what you're getting at here.

I would assume that your species is much longer-lived than humans, then?

[That's a shame...and kinda creepy but uh]

Yes. We univir can live many times the human lifespan, as can some other monsters. Of the peoples of the earth, elves have exceptional longevity as well.

Edited 2012-09-27 16:27 (UTC)

[you have no idea...]

There are elves in your world? There are myths about them in mine, although I suppose I should have assumed there would be some overlap given that you brought up golems in another conversation. I don't believe I've ever heard of univir, though.

[...it... sounds kind of like 'unicorn,' though, so...]

Indeed. Elves are one of the most prevalent peoples of Adonea, though their original homeland lies overseas. My people are much less so, especially in the modern day.

[understatement...]

The overlap is fascinating, especially where it's only partial. When the same terms are used for concepts that are only thematically alike - is that a strange consequence of translation, or more deeply rooted in each of our worlds and languages?

I see... they're generally depicted as being somewhat elusive in the more recent adaptations of myths, although whether they were or not is really anyone's guess.

Well, Pokemon themselves seem to be an example of this. A great deal of them seem to resemble animals from my world, but they're called completely different names and function very differently.

I do wish that people were not the only things brought to Johto from other worlds. To have texts and artifacts to study... [booooks]

I've found some general resemblances between Pokemon and the monsters or animals I know, but only a few seem direct. Heracross and hercules beetles, and Arcanine and hunter wolves, for instance.

I agree wholeheartedly. That could be absolutely fascinating-but I suppose having things like that would be far too convenient.

Some Pokemon seem to resemble objects or certain myths, which makes it even more complicated than it would otherwise be. I ended up catching Pokemon that resemble floating, oversized cells and animate piles of sludge.

Animate piles of

[A few seconds pass, then the video clicks on. It's obscured for a moment, then swings up to point at a piece of paper against a desk and the hand that is finishing up a sketch. And then there was voice!]

This is a kind of monster called a slime. Does it look anything like that Pokemon?

[It's a few moments before Kayneth replies-he also switches to video because, well... he is holding a pretty good sketch of a Grimer and a Muk.]

They look like this, actually, though I suppose there are some slight similarities.

[...how the hell does its body work...]

I see...how odd. What kind of abilities do they have?

The sorts of things you'd expect from an animate pile of toxic sludge, really-throwing filth everywhere, poison gas... that sort of thing.

[how did he get that thing to level 44

he has no idea...]

"Toxic", hm. What sort of habitat could such a monster occupy naturally...?

Areas inundated with industrial waste and toxic chemicals, I'd imagine. There was actually an incident a while back where they were spontaneously generated from trash, though I'm not sure if that's their usual mode of reproduction.

[ew...poor monsters :c ]

So...monsters - Pokemon, I mean - aren't necessarily linked to nature as you or I would define it. That's surprising.

It doesn't seem that way, no. What's even more surprising about it is that in the majority of cases, they don't seem to be particularly different from the Pokemon that are natural in origin.

In attributes, or in temperament?

In both, really. I would have expected them to be genderless like some Pokemon I've seen, but... they aren't, which leads me to suspect that they could interbreed with more natural Pokemon, as well.

...not that I'd want that to happen, of course. I have no idea how any of this occurs, but I imagine it wouldn't be pleasant.

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