Day 46 - [Text]

[babel_hacker]

[In the light of certain events, such as how Saffron is still like an action movie and full of explosions (or mock explosions? It’s hard to tell), there’s a rather frantic text message on the network.]

STUPID TRAINER ISN’T WAKING UP
WE YELLED AND HE’S STILL DOZING AWAY
DID A SHEDINJA MAKE HIM SLEEP AGAIN?
HELP HELP HELP
WAKE HIM UP
ASTERISK IS CRYING
NO ONE MAKES ASTERISK CRY
NOT EVEN STUPID TRAINER_

[So there’s a frantic Porygon-Z capslocking on the network, because, well, Fortran was around when Atsuro fell asleep last time during the Shedinja incident. Asterisk was there at the time, back when she was a young Cleffa. So...bad memories all around.

Seriously guys, DID A SHEDINJA TAKE THEIR TRAINER AWAY AGAIN?!]

(OOC: Atsuro's in a mod approved canon update coma! He'll be back next week on June 11th aka his birthday with postgame memories!)

Comments

[text]

[babel_hacker]

YES, NO, YES
ASTERISK TRIED TO SLAP HIM
DIDN'T WORK

[Don't abuse his poor, defenceless body!]

[text]

[captainash]

And how long ago did it start? Today? Yesterday? Two days ago?

[text]

[babel_hacker]

TODAY TODAY
HE'S NORMALLY EASY TO WAKE UP

[text]

[captainash]

Does he look sick? Feverish, maybe? That might make him sleepier.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

HE LOOKS TIRED AND SLEEPY
I DON'T THINK HE WAS SICK LAST NIGHT_

[text]

[captainash]

In that case, this might be one of the week-long sleeps that happen sometimes.
Make sure he's in a comfortable position, just in case.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

WEEK-LONG SLEEPS?
I THINK I HEARD ABOUT IT
I THINK
BUT IT'S NOTHING SERIOUS RIGHT_

[Say the Pokemon who would hijack the 'Gear sometimes.]

[text]

[captainash]

As far as I know, everyone who ended up in one of those woke up fine, if a little disoriented. He'll be ok.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

OKAY
SINCE
WE THOUGHT IT'S THOSE SHEDINJA AGAIN
SO HE'S JUST BE SLEEPING?

[text]

[captainash]

Should be, unless you've seen one of those Shedinjas around. What did they do, anyway?

[text]

[babel_hacker]

Uhhhh
I think it's a few years back?
OH YEAH THREE YEARS?
Lots of Shedinjas around.
Trainers looking at their backs, they fell asleep.
Something about their souls being taken.

[text]

[captainash]

...Those things can steal souls, and people still train them? Is everyone here insane?

[text]

[babel_hacker]

I say so!
Everyone's crazy for training them even after that Shedinja thing.





But I haven't heard of anyone's soul being stolen for a while.

[text]

[captainash]

If it only happens once in a while these days, the word might not spread very far, if at all. Especially if the ones affected lose their souls while exploring caves or forests.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

Oooooooh
Okay
But how do they get their souls back?
Shedinja spit them out?_

[text]

[captainash]

...Maybe? I mean, what can a bug even do with a soul in the first place?

[text]

[babel_hacker]

I don't know.
I'm not a bug.
The insect bug one.

[Since, well, the Porygon line are literally made of data.]

[text]

[captainash]

I'm sure your code is very functional and elegant.

[That should be a nice compliment for a being made of data, right?]

Maybe they have a nice taste or something.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

[Yep. Although it's kind of funny, since Porygon-Z are born from Porygon2 being exposed to "dubious" data...]

Thank you!

If souls have a nice taste, wouldn't they want to keep it??_

[text]

[captainash]

Maybe they go bad if they're away from their original bodies. Like milk out of the fridge.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

So human souls are like perishable food.
And their bodies are their fridge?

[text]

[captainash]

That's a possibility. To be honest, I'm not very used to people having confirmed souls, so I'm not sure.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

Not used to?
People have their own minds.
Why not souls?_

[text]

[captainash]

Souls are more of a theory than a fact, in my world.

[text]

[babel_hacker]

Your world?
Oh.
Where you're from?_