001. video/action for new bark town

[shuttermouse]

( VIDEO; )
[ Before the video starts recording, the network is flooded by a dozen or so photographs, all of them taken in the area in and immediately outside of New Bark Town. When the video finally comes on, a girl who doesn't look a day older than twelve (spoilers: she's 21, not that you'd be able to tell that just from looking at her) is sitting in a tree with her back against the trunk. There's an Emolga lying draped across her lap, and she's idly scratching it behind the ears as she looks into the camera. ]

Sheesh, the camera function on this thing isn't good enough... The resolution is too low and the shots get grainy when I zoom in.

[ She shakes her head, a hint of disappointment showing on her face. ]

But it'll do in a pinch until I can get something better. Speaking of which, where can you buy decent cameras around these parts? I prefer digital ones, but I don't mind using classics like Instax or Polaroid as long as the film isn't too hard to come by.

[ Well, it seems like somebody here has her priorities exactly in order. From the looks of it, she seems more bothered about not having a decent camera on her person than the whole interdimensional kidnapping thing. She pauses briefly to wait for the Emolga to climb up onto her shoulder and settle itself there, before she continues. ]

Anyway, I've got another question. It seems like I've got two choices here - the ferry heading east, or the forest route to the west leading to... Cherryville? I don't know, I haven't memorized the names on the map yet. Which did you choose? I haven't made up my mind yet, and I'd like to know more so I can pick the more interesting option.

( ACTION; )
[ Anyone in New Bark may run into the tiny girl wandering about with her Emolga hovering in the air just a few feet away. Once in a while she stops to use her Gear to take a picture of whatever captured her interest at that moment; you can find her snapping pictures of the water by the docks, or she's crouching down to take a picture of some stones she found on the ground, or maybe she's even taking pictures of any fellow new arrival who happens to be nearby. ]

Comments

[nvcr]

I chose to head over to Cherrygrove at first, but it should be of little consequence if you should change your mind a few weeks later. If you head up north-ish in both regions there's a train connecting two of their cities together, so if you want to head on over to Kanto from there, you'll be good to go!

...um, as long as you have a pass, of course, but those usually aren't too hard to find.

Anyway.

It's a few weeks on foot, but the shops in Goldenrod would probably have some cameras you could buy. I wouldn't know, though. The preservation of minute instances of time is something I never really learned.

[shuttermouse]

A few weeks on foot, huh? Are there no buses between cities?

[nvcr]

...y'know?

I always went around walking everywhere because I just sort of assumed there wasn't--surely, no one else here before me spoke of one--but it wouldn't hurt to ask, I guess? Unless it would.

I suppose now that I have my Gogoat it doesn't matter much, but jeez! My joints were killing me before she evolved!

[shuttermouse]

From the looks of it, Route 29 doesn't have any proper roads for buses or any other kind of wheeled vehicles... I don't really mind long walks, but this is inconvenient; somebody ought to start some sort of public transportation system.

...What's a Gogoat? I'm assuming it's a goat Pokémon.

[nvcr]

I know, right? I've seen a few trucks, but like...does anyone here actually own a car? Or are cars just an illusion planted in our minds by powers yet unseen, and they were never real in the first place?

Uh, a Gogoat is a goat. You can ride it once it's big enough; mostly, it's popular because it gives you a way to ascend those infernal ledges that you're going to see everywhere once you step out of town.

Take great care not to fall down the ledges if you don't have one. You can go down them just fine, but no one has ever succeeded in climbing back up. So you're pretty much stuck going back the same way you got there in the first place all over again.

[shuttermouse]

[ ...Did this guy just suggest that cars are an illusion? What a weirdo. Though Chie decides not to comment on it. ]

Okay, so the ledges are weird and can't be climbed, gotcha. Show me your Gogoat, I want to see what they look like.

sorry I was eating

[nvcr]

[Sure thing! He fishes around his bag for a second before pulling out a Pokeball and lets out...a plant-goat thing.]

This is Cholla, my trusty steed, or uh, goat?

[shuttermouse]

[ Chie peers at the Gogoat for a long moment, studying its features with an intense fascination. ]

Where can I catch one? I'm gonna need a Pokémon large enough to ride eventually, and that one's cute.

[nvcr]

I've actually got some eggs left over, if you'd like...

[shuttermouse]

[ ...At this point, she's not going to question goats hatching from eggs. ]

I'll take one off your hands. Can you deliver it to Cherrygrove?