sixteenth bubble; text/action for pewter. BACKDATED TO THE 2ND/yesterday.

[timelymaid]

no :(
this is entirely unfair!
ive been waiting to go to the museum in pewter ever since john told me about it on day one
and then jade gave me that book for christmas
and i planned it all out so i could come and see it after all of the fossil things!
this was the plan!
to go to the museum!

this is so stupid!!

by the way the museum was robbed i guess
and now its closed
and i cant go in

kanaya will you go to mt moon with me i guess we can at least TRY to salvage this

people who rob museums are the worst

[ After sulkily lurking outside of the museum for a little while in the morning, Aradia will be drawing up a plan of attack for Mt. Moon, easily found either at the inn or on a bench outside or at a cafe somewhere. She is not the happiest of campers for once, although her mood will not last long at all. As ever she'll match whatever mode of reply she gets. ]

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[viiru2alert]

I heard there's a guy named Bill there. He runs the Johto/Kanto Pokémon storage system.

Wanted to ask him a few questions.

[timelymaid]

We can always drop you off on our way to Fuchsia, if nothing else?

[ Automatically assuming the festival is of minimal interest to him, honestly. ]

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux contemplates this. The festival is of minimal interest to him, but... he has a feeling that neither she or Kanaya want him to ditch again. He'd probably feel kind of guilty if he did.]

Well, one way or another I could just Fly back there if we happen to be passing through. [He shrugs.] If I'm really wanted at Fuchsia, it's not that big a deal if I just... go back later.

Besides, he might not even be there that day. I'm sure that guy has a lot of shit to attend to around the bi-Regional area.

[timelymaid]

[ Aradia shrugs, turning back to the collection of maps and travel guides, chewing the end of her pencil absently. ]

It's not like you have to go, Sollux. If you don't want to go, you should just go do whatever you want to do. [ She doesn't really care one way or the other, although she'd assumed even if he did go he'd just...stay in his hotel room or something? Who knew, the Breeder's Convention had been the last thing she'd really seen him attend. ]

And I'm sure if he isn't there you could at least get his direction. Or better yet, maybe there's some sort of schedule somewhere...or maybe he does public talks about his system? That sounds like the sort of thing there ought to be conferences about.

[viiru2alert]

If he did public talks, there would be people in this world who knew how the Storage System functions.

Literally no one does, Aradia.

[But that's not the worst part; the worst part is that seemingly no one seems intent on finding out. Think about what could happen if they brought this technology back to Alternia somehow...]

[timelymaid]

I've always just assumed it works like sylladexes. Except without fetch modii, and more...general.

[ Aradia shrugs, although she does look curious despite herself. ]

Honestly, it's not like anyone seems to understand how pokeballs work, either.

[viiru2alert]

And you don't find that to be a little weird?

[timelymaid]

Sollux, I'm used to things like that. I'd of course like to know how they work, but I don't find it strange at this point. If anything, they're keeping up with their own theme.

[viiru2alert]

Well, I want to. [Though granted, it's probably because he already has an interest in related subject matter. A normal person probably would not give a shit about how their Pokémon get from point A to point B, as long as they get there.]

Eventually I'm going to figure out what's going on with him. You don't have to come along, but it's gonna happen.

[timelymaid]

Okay. Let me know what happens, I guess. Kayneth would probably be pretty interested in what you find out.

[viiru2alert]

He's the one who got me to thinking about it in the first place, I was gonna tell him what I find anyway. But I'll give you a shout too.

[timelymaid]

I'm not surprised! He's one of the smartest people I know.

[ That's said with a fair amount of fondness; she likes Kayneth, he's rad. ]

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux nods, with an expression indicating that he really does have to admit it -- Kayneth is pretty smart.] He does know his shit. Not bad to talk to, either, when he doesn't talk like someone out of the Earthly medieval period.

[timelymaid]

Does he talk like that?

[ She's never had that issue, really. ]

Still, I'd probably say he's one of the people I speak to most, here. I think we're good friends!

[viiru2alert]

Well, that's what it seems like to me. [Sollux shrugs. He's used to people communicating in extremely vulgar ways, so talking to someone as noticeably controlled as Kayneth is a weird experience.] I mean, I'm getting used to it. But to be honest he's not the kind of guy I would normally talk to, y'know.

[And yet here he is, finding out information for the guy.]

[timelymaid]

Hm...I guess I probably would speak to him, anyway. But I can't think of many people I wouldn't speak to.

[ at least not really. ]

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux shrugs and looks somewhere off to the side.]

Well, of course you wouldn't, AA. I mean, you talk to everyone anyway.

[timelymaid]

Is that a bad thing?

[ She's never found it to be. ]

I think it'd be boring if I didn't.

[viiru2alert]

No, it's not a bad thing.

It's just a thing that most people don't do. We all have our little types of people we interact with. ...And then there's you.

[timelymaid]

Do you really think you have a type, though, Sollux?

I mean, look at our group of friends.

[ exactly what type covers them all. ]

[viiru2alert]

No, that's what I'm saying! You have no type. You just talk to... everyone.

[Which is probably the only reason why you talk to him, because his type is so intolerable that there is literally no one else willing to tolerate it.]

[timelymaid]

Yes, but you talk to all our friends, too, I mean - what sort of "type" do you actually have here?

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux looks at her with a bit of a judging look.]

I'm not here to make friends, AA. I mostly call out the stupid people and that's about it.

[He tried to do something else for a while, and it... didn't really end well. But no one can say that he doesn't deserve a gold star for trying!]

[timelymaid]

Sollux, I mean our actual friends. What "type" would include Karkat, Kanaya, and I?

[viiru2alert]

...

Batshit insane alien refugees type? I don't know.