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[callbacks]

[Whoa, what's this? A video post from our resident red-texter? The young man in the feed doesn't have much of a facial expression behind his shades, but he seems pleasantly keyed-up somehow, anyway--maybe it's something in the way he bounces as he flops into his chair.]

I was going to ask if there's some kind of survivalist secret Santa for birthdays around here, or if a Pokémon takes care of it. Like, maybe there's just a widespread anonymous cultural practice of delivering rope and hardtack to someone's door on the anniversary of their exiting utero.

[The corner of his mouth slides up a bit.]

But then I discovered the most important item I've yet received here in Pokéworld. Ladies and gentlemen...

[He turns the camera to reveal a Ralts in a scarf probably twice as long as it is tall. It's holding what looks like the kind of cheap wind-up Electabuzz toy you'd find at the bottom of a child's fast food box.]

The Happiny Meal^TM toy.

[Dave is so stoked. The Ralts, more bemused than anything else, winds it up and seems surprised when it rattles across the desk. It crouches to watch the toy more closely as Dave pulls the view back to himself, still practically bursting (you know, for him) with ironic amusement.]

Anyway, since I've got all this kit now, does anyone in the Violet City neck of the woods want to go check out those ruins? I know it's basically freezing and all, but they're not supposed to be too far out, and. [He shrugs.] They sound all right.

[Meaning he really, really wants to go see them, and it is his birthday.]

Comments

[callbacks]

What's that one? The pre-evolved thing.

[killer_sweets]

It's called a Yamask, if you see something floating about holding a mask in the ruins then you've found one. Though if you see floating letters those are just Unknown, which is a dumb name.

[callbacks]

Oh, I saw one of those before. Yamask, I mean. One of the dudes who came in when everything was crazy last week, he had one. Little Egyptian decor looking guys, right? The ones that cry a lot. ...Hmm.

[That is somewhat less appealing.]

What do the big ones look like?

[killer_sweets]

Pretty look like the cases you find mummies in, with sharp teeth, glaring eyes and four ghostly hands sticking out of it.

Oh and it's not crying.

[callbacks]

What, like a sarcophagus? Shit, that sounds kind of dope.

[Dave, no.]

Wonder if it'd be worth it...

[killer_sweets]

If it helps they don't make crying sounds when they're Yamask from what I know, they just have constant crying faces. Like how Crobats look pissed off all the time.

[Yes Dave do it]

[callbacks]

It's not like I'm not used to people in my general living space exploding into tears for no good goddamn reason anyway, so I dunno, I guess I could go try to find one and see if it's any worse than hanging out with Karkat during a romcom marathon.

[killer_sweets]

Yeah...A marathon of romcoms sounds horrible on it's own without someone randomly crying. Ghost types are fun though no matter what form they come in.

[callbacks]

You got a lot of experience with them?

[killer_sweets]

I have loads of ghost types, my starter is one too. So I have way more experience then most people.

[And together with his friend's Pokemon, their house is basically haunted.]

[callbacks]

I heard there's one that's a sword? Where can I find one of those.

[killer_sweets]

A Honedge? Well you can't find them normally but if you want, I can see about getting you a Honedge egg.

[callbacks]

Even the swords come from eggs?

[What the fuck, Pokémon??]

[killer_sweets]

Yeah same goes with anything that's Pokemon inanimate objects or otherwise. It's best not to think about it or you'll go crazy. After seeing a Kangaroo like Pokemon hatch from an egg with a live baby already in it's pouch I stopped questioning the whole egg thing.

[He stopped questioning a lot of things after that day.]

[callbacks]

But--

[Dave hasn't been here long enough to stop questioning things, apparently.]

If it pops babies out into its pouch, then where did the egg come from?