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zelretch

[third jewel] [video/action]

Oct 30, 2010 00:41

[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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it's not me it's you, glitch city, missingno, # violet city, welcome to first gen

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[video] greenwindchange October 30 2010, 04:44:38 UTC

It really does look like come kind of computer display.

But you think that someone actually caused this?

[video] zelretch October 30 2010, 04:49:23 UTC

[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 October 30 2010, 05:08:06 UTC

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 October 30 2010, 05:20:29 UTC

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.

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[video] philanthrotaku October 30 2010, 05:19:31 UTC

Sp-speaking as a professional hacker?

I have no idea what could have altered programming from inside the system itself.

[video] zelretch October 30 2010, 05:24:23 UTC

Then it was something outside, somewhere else. Possibly in a world outside ours. If there's no way to do it from here, then it has to be that... we're stuck inside someone else's game.

[video] philanthrotaku October 30 2010, 05:26:20 UTC

...that's not possible. Not a game, strictly speaking...wh-what if this is all a VR simulation with a virus in the system? Or whoever's controlling the simulation messing with us?

It wouldn't explain the discrepancies in time and worlds between everyone here, but there has to be some logical reason for this--!

[video] zelretch October 30 2010, 05:34:05 UTC

I guess that might be true, too. But reality doesn't always make all that much more sense than fiction or anything virtual, either.

[Pixel!Rubin attacks the Missingno in front of her with a very low-res Shadow Ball, which ultimately... appears to have no effect on it.]

...You've got to be kidding me!

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[video] bakaitoukid October 30 2010, 05:25:34 UTC

Y'know, when I was a kid I always thought it'd be fun to live in a video game.

I didn't mean this.

[video] zelretch October 30 2010, 05:29:59 UTC

This is ridiculous. At least before now, it seemed... kind of realistic, if you didn't think too hard about the whole thing.

I don't think anyone with more than just artificial intelligence would want to live here if this is what it was always like. Whatever happened, whoever messed it up had better fix it soon.

[video] bakaitoukid October 30 2010, 05:34:28 UTC

I didn't even think about this place actually being a video game. I kinda figured it was a real world that was a video game in other places.

Now 'm kinda questioning that logic.

[video] zelretch October 30 2010, 05:37:23 UTC

You and me both. I had thought the same thing, but this just puts a whole new spin on things.

...There's only one thing that doesn't fit.

[She gestures indicatively to her Misdreavus, Rubin, facing off against a Missingno in the form of a fossil Aerodactyl. The first attack to fire off, Rubin's Shadow Ball, just passes harmlessly through it, and Rin makes a face.]

What do you make of that thing?

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[Video] foolishwren October 30 2010, 17:23:23 UTC

[See Heather. See Heather look really uncomfortable. She'd been one of those in-denial people. But now she's starting to wig out. I-if this was a video game, then why did it look and act so real? ... When it wasn't like THIS, anyway...]

[But like with anything that makes Heather uncomfortable, she feels best just reacting to it with anger.]

How the hell could one of US have caused this?

[Video] zelretch October 30 2010, 22:41:33 UTC

...Fine, so maybe it wasn't one of us. But it was something or someone somewhere, maybe not even having anything to do with us.

I hate the thought, but what other explanation is there? Machines don't do anything people don't tell them to do.

Action wontdieifkilled October 30 2010, 17:45:19 UTC

[Suddenly a Skarmory sprite appears in midair.]

Tohsaka, get to the Pokémon Center now! I'll distract it!

Action zelretch October 30 2010, 22:43:41 UTC

No, don't touch it! Forget what I said! If it's really a virus, I was told we're better off leaving it alone!

Action wontdieifkilled October 31 2010, 00:12:13 UTC

I know that, but that's not something we can do if it's spotted us!

Action zelretch November 1 2010, 23:49:35 UTC

Just wait a minute!

[Rin pauses, standing her ground. The thing doesn't have a scratch on it, she suspects due either to errors or typing (does it even have a type? hell if she knows), but it's not attacking THEM, at least.]

Do you really want to mess things up even more?! Your Pokemon might be at risk if you attack it! If I'm going to the Pokemon Center, so are you!!

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