babel_hacker | Day 39

[Now that’s a familiar face. For anyone that’s been paying attention, Atsuro wasn't seen on the network for a while, which is usually odd even with distractions. He looks at his PokeGear, the young man looking a bit baffled if anything.]

So, guys. Just verify this for me. Today is September 18th, right? And not August 27th? ‘cuz last I check, it was still August. I don’t know if it’s just me, the dates got changed or the world got hit by a fast forward button.

[A pause, before he continues. Behind him is a Jumpluff drifting around, going up a little higher when the Pokemon Center’s doors open and the breeze flows inside.]

And I’m pretty sure I was about to leave for Cerulean from Pewter. But somehow, I’m over at Cinnabar Island’s Pokemon Center the next moment.

[His mind is buzzing with various ideas, speculations based on his theories he made about this world. A world that literally works on video game physics, a virtual reality simulation aimed to train Pokemon for an army (his personal favourite theory, yet to be proven)...

Some kind of "glitch"?]

So I could’ve gotten hit by a random teleportation, but I need an explanation for going from August to September. I know I didn’t go into those comas, since my Pokemon can back that up. Or I went home and returned, because my roster’s numbers is still the same.

[As Atsuro talks, or rather speaking his thoughts out loud, his Jumpluff landed on his hat wearing head and shake her cotton-like spores like a cheerleader. The screen shake a little when Atsuro set down his PokeGear, freeing his hands to reach up and take her off his head.]

If you have any possible ideas, let me know.

(OOC: To explain away Atsuro’s absence, he got hit by the Glitch Technique.)

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Nothing if you look at the long terms.

...I do hope your example wasn't personal experience. [Which sounds oddly familiar.] Didn't that happen to someone else before?

Not my personal experience, but I'm quite certain I've seen it happen one time. Or six.

Ice Path...six times... [Hmm, wait.] Didn't that happen to Souji before? I kinda remember him being stranded, so his friends planned a rescue operation.

...You might be right about that. Rescue operations were more common before people managed to obtain Fly.

I'm not surprised. It takes time going from New Bark to Cianwood, plus you have to account for the time we need to train our Pokemon, earn money and deal with things popping up.

You also have to add the time spent returning to Cherrygrove to pick up recently arrived friends.

Yeah. Before Fly's more widely spread, it's no wonder the first part of the year...roughly speaking, took us so long. But afterwards, travel's a lot faster now.

And it helps when that Sudowoodo moved.

Did we ever find out why they stopped blocking the path? They were there for so long...

I don't think we ever did. There could be any number of reasons why they stopped. Moving to a new area, a mass Sudowoodo capture, too much water on that path...?

...Too many trainers moving them forcefully, making their stay there unpleasant...

Most likely. And they probably convey it to other Sudowoodos in the area, like their herd.

[What do you call a group of Sudowoodos? A forest of them?]

It makes traveling much more convenient, but it's quite a shame for them.

[A grove, perhaps?]

Yeah. It's like a good example of human activity causing changing to how animals live.

[A grove of Sudowoodos sounds good.]

At this point, I'm surprised the locals allowed it to happen.

Yeah... We can't be the only ones using that route, so they should have known about it. I'm surprised we didn't hear any activists complaining about it more.

Then again, a safer route to transport merchandise must have pleased the merchants. They could have put money into silencing the stronger dissenting voices.

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