[third jewel] [video/action]

[zelretch]

[Rin looks really, really out of place in the middle of a blocky, selectively-colored digital environment that is supposed to be Violet City at night. She hasn't left yet due to the ominous weather.]

So if anyone had any doubts that this was some kind of video game, I really hope for your sake you're not still in denial about it after this.

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[video]

[greenwindchange]

It really does look like come kind of computer display.

But you think that someone actually caused this?

[video]

[zelretch]

[Multitasking, dealing with Missingno and talking over the PokeGear at the same time. Fun.]

Someone either here or elsewhere. I don't know what effect the people who get taken here have on the game itself, but if they don't have any influence on it, then who else possibly could but people outside this world?

I don't like the idea of being someone's digital plaything, but I don't know how else to explain it. Stuff like this doesn't just happen unless it was part of the programming, or someone messed around with it.

[video]

[greenwindchange]

If we were brought here deliberately, it sheds a whole new light on things. And I'm no expert with electronics, but if nothing goes wrong without outside influence, why do technicians exist? At home, anyone found to be messing with the fortress' defense barrier would have been court-martialed or killed, but there were always people fixing it.

[video]

[zelretch]

It's a possibility.

As far as I know, there's the physical things that make video games work, and there's the code that tells the game what to do. If the code gets messed up somehow... this is probably one of the things that happens. Something no one expects.

It must be fixable somehow, since it's just data. Someone could be trying to fix it right now, for all I know. But then... it could be that we're here on purpose, or maybe it's all just a gigantic accident someone out there is working to resolve.

[She spares a glare at the Missingno in front of her, who is being confronted by a pixel-Misdreavus.]

...Maybe these things might have something to do with it, at that. They're the only things out of the ordinary here.

[video]

[greenwindchange]

Possibly. Defeating them might be the key.

[video]

[zelretch]

...Or maybe not. I'm hearing from someone else that it's best to leave them alone, and I can kind of see what they mean by that. If it's really a virus, playing around with it could be risky.