Day 36 - [Action] 4TH WALL

[babel_hacker]

[For anyone checking out Fuchsia’s movie sets, or even walking around the city, you might hear a voice. Or several voices.]

Hee ho!

Hey, stop!

[When you turn to look, you would see Atsuro riding a Cerberus and chasing after a group of Jack Frosts. If you’re unlucky, you might get hit by a stray ice spells from the Fairy demons.

...And, uh, better get out of the way.]

Comments

[babel_hacker]

Hope so. I don't want to worry my Pokemon too much or cause too much trouble.

[Cerberus just stare at the Frosts. Just try and do something to his tamer.]

They are! Some of their entries made me wonder how the researchers find out about the information. Or who wrote them.

[Back home, he can credit the company behind the games. But here? Who knows.]

[jumyouboshi]

[Basically his answer.]

Who knows...? First-hand information must be hard to come by, for certain entries.

[Especially the uh...more disturbing and physically impossible ones.]

[babel_hacker]

Yeah. Sometimes, I wonder if they made up some of them.

[Scandalous. But some entries would be almost impossible to verify.]

[jumyouboshi]

Hm...that would be a matter of concern. Misinformation can pose to be a problem.

[Or information withheld...it meant less choices for people, if they were less educated, or taught the wrong things. But anyway...]

But, I am more curious as to how you are faring.

[babel_hacker]

Yeah. We wouldn't be able to make an informed decision properly.

[He knows all about being on the receiving end of having information being withheld from him. Cryptic, mysterious white haired guys sure love to do that.]

Me? I got all of Johto's badges, so I'm going around Kanto right now and checking the sights.

[He get to see the world he love for himself. There's really no word that can describe his nostalgic fondness.]

[jumyouboshi]

[Hey now, at least he doesn't run away all the time like Naoya does.]

I suppose that will occupy you for a while. That is good.

[Not everyone has teleportation like you, Alcor...]

[babel_hacker]

[Only teleporting away in a deep thought...]

Yeah. I'm taking my time, since there's a big difference between seeing familiar places for myself instead of in video games.

[jumyouboshi]

You are familiar with those locations through video games...?

[Well, he's heard from his time in Route that it was a sort of video game, but he's never dabbled in them much (if at all), so it was still a bit hard to believe. Still, it wasn't as if he was unused to thinking of worlds and matter in terms of data.

...Just a bit strange.]

[babel_hacker]

Yep! They're video games in my world, but they only cover the Kanto region with 151 Pokemon. Seeing the places for myself is very different from pixels on a screen!

[There are a number of things that can get Atsuro going. Talking about what he loves is one of them.]

[jumyouboshi]

[It's no small wonder. Alcor can't fault his excitement.]

Indeed. Although, do you not find it odd that what is fabricated by human imagination in one world is reality in another?

[desu1 to desu2 oops]

[babel_hacker]

It is strange, but I'm not as surprised? I know there's multiple worlds out there, so why not a Pokemon one?

[The idea that his world, the lockdown, might be fiction in another world haven't occur to him.]

[jumyouboshi]

You have a point. The same could apply to even your own world.

[Is he messing with Atsuro, or is he only suggesting a possibility? It's hard to tell.]

[babel_hacker]

My world as a video game?

[The possibility is there, but Atsuro's honestly isn't sure how to feel about it. The lockdown is pretty much something out of an anime, but since he personality experienced it...]

That'd be pretty weird, but I can't rule out the possibility.

[jumyouboshi]

It is interesting to think about, is it not?

["Interesting" is...one way to put it, Alcor.]

[babel_hacker]

[Well, as long it doesn't focus on some things like 10BIT's death...]

Yep, it is! I'm kinda curious about how they present it now.

[Pixels? Sprites? 3D graphics? Visual novel interface? Fighting game? RPG? Turn-based strategy?]

[jumyouboshi]

I'm afraid my knowledge in this matter is rather limited, so I cannot offer any ideas.

[A tactical grid-based RPG...? No, that's crazy talk!]

[babel_hacker]

Since it's a game, it'd be weird to accurately portray it. So either an action RPG format like the Beast Hunter* games. Or a brawler like most sidescrollers...

[Since there's A LOT OF DEMONS AROUND on the battlefield.]

[jumyouboshi]

[He's so sorry Atsuro, but Alcor is simply going to be smiling and staring at him, completely clueless as to how to respond, aside from looking back at Black Frost (Do you know what these video game things are, demon of mine? No, of course not. "Frosty".)

He has no idea what to say or do.]

......

[babel_hacker]

[Sorry, Alcor. Atsuro can go on and on unless someone tell him to shut up.

Give him some time.

...

There we go.]

...Oh! Sorry for rambling.

[jumyouboshi]

Haha...that is all right. I find your enthusiasm charming.

["Charming"...that's...one way to put it, Alcor.]

It's good to see you in high spirits.

[babel_hacker]

[At least he's nice about it?]

I try to be. Beside all of this craziness, I'm doing pretty well here.

[If you ignore his bouts of loneliness and homesickness, whenever they get through his workload barriers.]