MAY - JUNE TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!

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CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

Feel free to make various prompts in multiple locations!

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Comments

[sisterincrime]

"Really?" She doesn't mean to sound like a broken record, but like. Wow. "I thought it was the easiest to ignore. I was more worried about Skaglet trying to rip my head off."

For its part, the Rattata somehow manages to look somewhat offended at that assumption, though it makes no attempt to jump down.

[fearinahandfulof]

"It..." Cassandra trails off, sighing. "All of it's overwhelming. At least I know what music is." Unlike, say, the machine (Poke... gear?) she's found herself with.

She tries not to shrink in on herself. She hates being vulnerable; it reminds her too much of her.

[sisterincrime]

"You don't know what a Pokegear is?" she asks curiously. "I mean, it's a little out-dated for me - it can't even do holograms," she scoffs, "but it's not too hard. I can show you if you like?"

She steps forward, seemingly automatically into the edge of Cassandra's personal space. "I'm Sasha, by the way."

[fearinahandfulof]

"No, I..." She supposes there's no point in hiding it now. "I don't know what most of this is." And she doesn't know what a hologram is either.

She hesitates as the other steps into her space, then says simply, "Cassandra."

[sisterincrime]

"Most of... you mean you've never used a phone before?"

She dresses like a Vault Hunter, though - albeit a rather understated one. "I guess you're not from Pandora, then," she says jokingly. "Here, let me see yours," she says, offering her open hand.

[fearinahandfulof]

"...Phone?" So that's a no.

She doesn't know what 'Pandora' is either - there might have been another warrior by that name? - but she's not sure she really wants to ask right now. She takes note of Sasha's outstretched hand, but she's not really sure what she's supposed to be putting in it, so right now she... doesn't, yes.

[sisterincrime]

That definitely gets those eyebrows up near her hairline. "Okay then. We'll start real simple."

Because she definitely noticed the lack of anything being put in her hand. "You know that the fancy-looking brick with the black screen, about yae big?" She takes her own gear out as an example. "I can show you how it works, if you give it to me."

She could totally just take it and run, still - the temptation is real - but at this point it's just kicking someone when they're down, and that's no fun. "I promise I'll give it back, if that's what you're worried about."

[fearinahandfulof]

"Oh." At least she can recognize what it is, if not what it's used for (or what it's called).

She hadn't been worried about having her... phone... stolen before, but now she wonders if that's something she should worry about here in general. This place can't be as idyllic as it appears, can it? Still, she obligingly hands it over.

[sisterincrime]

"Thank you." She pops the K as she takes the device, and has a look over it briefly. "Wow, this still used actual buttons...? Okay, see here?"

She holds her hands wide apart on the device, so she can show off the power button. "You hold this down, like so, and it'll turn on." And when it does: "See, it's a touch screen, so you'll want to tap the apps - those specific little drawings, see? And they bring up different programs - kind of like, uh." She frowns, and glances away. "Shit, I'm not sure how to explain that. Like different tasks your 'gear can perform, all on its own?"

[fearinahandfulof]

Right, she should have said - but now Sasha's gone on to start explaining how the phone works, so the opportunity to express her gratitude is temporarily lost.

She listens intently, watching carefully as Sasha demonstrates how the device works. It all looks very complex, and Cassandra thinks it's probably best that she not think too hard about how any of what it does is possible for the moment. "On its own?"

[sisterincrime]

"Okay, so..." She works her bottom lip with her teeth for a moment as she thinks. "This thing is as smart as like. Ten thousand people? But it only works within really specific parameters. Like. I think this one has all the info on these weird little monsters?"

She taps the Pokedex logo, which makes a red light flash on its front. "Huh. Must be camera based. So when you use this app, you'll want to point this-- this eye at a thingy. Like this."

She turns the camera on her shoulder rat, and the device reads out in a smooth, somewhat tinny voice: "Rattata: the Mouse Pokemon. With its incisors, it gnaws through doors and infiltrates people’s homes. Then, with a twitch of its whiskers, it steals whatever food it finds."

[fearinahandfulof]

Cassandra blinks in surprise. "It speaks, too?"