✓ 1 town that isn't ashland [Video/Action for New Bark Town]

[exp_loraline]

-- winter? Last time I checked, it was spring. Not that you'd be able to tell in Ashland-- rainy day central.

[Blip. Looks like it's that time again, Route.

The 'gear is focused on a pair of feet, clad in bright yellow rain boots, attached to a pair of ridiculously spindly legs. Glimpses of white claws can be caught at the screen's edges as the 'gear

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[video]

[newhero]

[there is indeed a boy inside that mysterious device-- he's stuck, help! ... or, you know, maybe he's just calling from Goldenrod.]

Hey!

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[exp_loraline]

[She looks a little startled by the voice at first, then takes a moment to inspect her screen a bit closer. No button eyes on this one either.]

Uh... Hello. [A quirk of a grin. She likes your hair. ;w;] So I guess you can hear me on this thing too, huh?

[video]

[newhero]

[surprisingly, Sora's having a rather tame hair day today-- you should see it when he first wakes up.]

Yup! Everybody with a pokégear can hear you. [and, so he's not just another face:]

My name's Sora.

[video]

[exp_loraline]

[It'd still look a bit better than Wybie's hair usually does!]

Oh... [She blinks, wide-eyed.] Everybody...? So... this 'gear thing... is like a really high-tech walkie-talkie? [Her parents won't even let her have a cellphone; this is magic!]

Oh! I'm Coraline. Nice to meet you.

[video]

[newhero]

Nice to meet you, Coraline! [-- give him a minute, he's pausing to write something down. new entry in Jiminy's Journal get!]

Yeah, kinda! That's probably the best way to describe it. So what kinda pokémon did you wind up with?

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[exp_loraline]

[She looks a little curious as to what he's writing down, leaning a bit closer to the screen in some attempt to see what it is--

Oh! A question!] Pokemon... Oh! [She nudges the Sneasel perched on her shoulder, and, with a disgruntled sound, he slinks to her other shoulder.] Just this mangy thing... According to the other machine, he's something called a Sneasel. [She shrugs, which earns another semi-irritated growl from the Sneasel.] Looks like a cat to me-- acts like a cat I knew back home, too.

... I'm guessing there are lots of others, right? I saw a few strange-looking birds.

[video]

[newhero]

Yeah, there's a ton of different kinds of pokémon! I've got a bear, a giraffe, a bee... talking rock, an egg...

[what he's writing down will become apparent in a minute, when Sora falls silent for a moment, then speaks up again--] Hey, how do you spell your name?

[video]

[exp_loraline]

[She stares silently as he describes his team, eyes wide and fascinated.] A... talking rock? Seriously?

Uh... [Spelling is not her strong suit. G-give her a moment. She writes the letters in the air with her index finger as she says them aloud:] C-O-R-A-L-I-N-E. [And she nods.]

Hey... what are you writing?

[video]

[newhero]

Yup! Gimme a second and I'll show you.

[there's a lot of fumbling around, and the feed waves wildly as Sora digs through his backpack for Rock Titan's pokéball-- as he digs and the feed fixes on a nearby building in Goldenrod (he doesn't spend a lot of time inside, cold as it is), he answers that last question.]

Well, back home there's this guy... cricket... who keeps a journal of everybody we meet. He's kind of like... a royal scribe, I guess. He's not here, so I'm doing it for him so he doesn't get in trouble.

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[exp_loraline]

[She's looking more and more fascinated by the moment!]
A royal cricket that writes? [G-giggle.] Too bad he's not here-- I'd like to see that!

[video]

[newhero]

You'd probably like Jiminy! He usually hangs out in the hood of my jacket.

[and Sora pulls the hood over his face for emphasis, once the feed is situated back on him.]

[video]

[exp_loraline]

[She grins-- she'd like to have a writing cricket hide out in her hood too! And she laughs when he pulls the hood over his face. Heh, she likes you already, Sora.]

What's a writing cricket doing hanging out in your jacket?

[video]

[newhero]

That's his job, actually--

[-- and suddenly, something occurs to Sora and his eyes go wide.]

I hope we weren't supposed to be paying him...

[video]

[exp_loraline]

[B-blink.]
Well, he would ask if he wanted to be paid, right? [Ashland: where the movers DEMAND THEIR MONEY.]

And if he's a royal scribe that hangs out with you... [Waaait.] Does the make you royalty?

[video]

[newhero]

-- Me?

[that crown necklace around his neck might suggest otherwise to strangers, but Sora is no prince. he's just a kid who accidentally fell into the hero role and has been winging it ever since.]

No, not even close! I think it was Queen Minnie who told him to travel with us.

... So maybe she's supposed to be paying him.

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[exp_loraline]

Oh.

[She thinks this over for a moment, arms folded.] So you're... kinda like an explorer? [What with traveling around and being followed by a scribe. She leans forward a bit with intrigue.]