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

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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I really don't understand the point of it at all. It's like they're trying to say something along the lines of "Look at how far we're willing to go, you should consider us to be a threat!" but it comes off as "Look at how we're wasting our time on completely pointless acts that barely mean anything."

Granted, there were attacks some time ago that seemed to be legitimately threatening, but it's hard to reconcile them with, well, this.

i feel like they keep boomeranging between extremes
like between being an actual legitimate threat and just being sort of a silly nuisance that is better suited to the acts of cartoon villains
perhaps there are two factions within the group and they just keep changing who among them is in power i dont know
this is silly

btw what all do you know about team rocket?

What you've said is basically what I know. I encountered one of the actual legitimate threats within the organization some time ago-an individual by the name of Seth. I have absolutely no idea who he is, but he launched an attack on Goldenrod some time ago that was actually rather well coordinated in design, even if I can't say his motives made much sense.

ive never heard about this "seth".
but i do have a few pieces of information, for whatever theyre worth.
idk if you put this together beforehand or knew it but according to multiple sources i trust "rocket" is actually something that people start out as
just like a trainer or a breeder

thats one piece

the other is that apparently the starters these people are supplied with get chipped?

[ he's one of two people she's spreading that information to, doesn't he feel special. ]

Edited (gdi color) 2013-08-19 02:01 (UTC)

He was active before I met you. I also remember him posting the aftermaths of attacks on various natives several times, though not recently... he may have been a non-native who was returned home.

As for your information... I seem to recall someone theorizing about the first piece, and I'm glad to hear it confirmed. I suppose I can count myself lucky that I was assigned to be a breeder rather than a common thug.

As for the other... what do you mean by chipped?

[...technological illiterate here. And yes, he feels super special.]

huh
well in that case i will keep an eye out but yes

yeah i have it confirmed on two parts
apparently anyone who doesnt start out at moms place is suspect
though i would have found that odd to start with tbh
i expect anyone bright enough will just gloss over that
or we would have noticed it much sooner

basically they have microchips or something put in them
so that when the rocket disobeys the team the pokemon attacks them?
that is my understanding of what i was told

[...wow that second point sounds... kind of familiar

he's pretty sure Armstrong wasn't a Rocket, though-]

That, and it's easy enough for someone to pretend that they simply haven't been terribly interested in the gear for a few weeks, particularly if they're from a less technologically advanced world. Though, what places have people started in aside from Goldenrod?

Ah, I see. That doesn't seem terribly surprising... though, if the Pokemon was traded to someone outside of Team Rocket, would they act in the same way?

very true
also, i think people have started in goldenrod and new bark
thats it

:T you know i am not sure??
i dont know that any of them have ever tried to trade their pokemon...

Ah, I see. Well, it's something to keep in mind. After all, not everyone is going to immediately know about the implications behind the different starting locations.

Someone I knew had a Pokemon that had it out for him, and it was certainly... oddly single minded about it. I suppose I wouldn't be too surprised if he just had a Pokemon that hated him, but I really have to wonder... well, I suppose I shouldn't be too concerned about it given that he's been gone for quite some time now.

very true!!
i didnt think anything of it until i was given a reason to tbh
because really i assumed there wasnt much logic in a random teleportation to this place to start with

it does make you look at things differently
i imagine if this information were more public it would cause problems
at least i predict it could

Yes, it's far more organized than you'd think. Though, I've been suspecting the teleportation may not be as random as we think for some time...

Oh, most certainly... but who would it cause more problems for, in the long run?

oh?
what tipped you off? :o

its hard to say
it could cause problems for the rockets but
honestly
the ones who arent outted are at least playing nice half of the time if not more
if youre known to be a member of a criminal team would you bother with even that much?

Well, among other things... though I can't say there are any rules that this place seems willing to break thus far, I did notice something curious when talking to someone about the theory of infinite parallel words. With all the people that have come and gone multiple times, you'd think that there would be more variation in the worlds that they came from, but more often than not, they're merely from a different point on the same timeline.

I know from my own experience in running into someone from a world similar to mine but with a very notable point of divergence that this place isn't incapable of drawing from very similar versions of a world, but it seems strange that there are less instances of significant divergence than one would expect.

...ah, yes, that's quite true. Furthermore, I'd imagine the ones that have the intelligence to play nice are the ones who are actually competent...

that is odd
and something i have no explanation for
except that all timelines seem to have that level of coincidence
time is a tricky thing you know

yes exactly
there is absolutely no reason to give anyone a reason not to play nice i think
thats just the way i see of looking at it
also i expect some people might get upset with rockets who are more or less just pressganged into it by the world

What do you mean by that? I'll admit I'm not exactly an expert on the subject, but like I said, I'd think there would be more variation based on the little I've heard about it.

There's that too, I suppose. I do think it's better to keep the information under wraps either way, as it gives us the extra advantage - even if it's just to keep tabs on who's likely to be in or not.

timelines seem a lot more chaotic than they actually are
everything that has happened was always going to happen
and everything that will happen was always going to happen
that sort of thing
i'm not privy to the flow of time here, but maybe it runs much the same way

basically, yes.
right now, they don't know we know, for sure.
and i am always in favor of being on the side with more information, to be honest.
it makes things easier

There apparently is a legendary Pokemon that controls time, so even if time wouldn't otherwise function that way, that Pokemon may be ensuring that it does, for whatever reason.

Yes, it certainly does. Granted, it can't exactly be said that we have more information... we just happen to know some things that they do without them really knowing.

How did you come by this information, anyway? Is it from someone who's in the organization against their will?

those who control the flow of time have reasons that are often inscrutable to others
and have to do with the flow of time itself
at least thats what i have found

thats something to start off of anyway!!
we can keep an eye out and if we notice any members i suppose keep a closer eye out
perhaps we will learn something of interest

by two persons who were in the organization against their will actually
they both told me parts of this of their own choosing
i hadnt suspected either honestly

Well, you'd know more about that than I would. Though, I have to wonder how similar this being would be to you or anyone else with time-related abilities from your world? I want to assume that things like the operation of time would function somewhat similarly across universes, but that may not be the case.

Most certainly. Even if it takes them some time to do anything terribly underhanded, they do have more resources available to them than we do.

That makes sense. I can't imagine anyone who had anything resembling loyalty to the organization to give this kind of information out so freely.

wed need more details to say specifically
if we had time details i could pull dave and we could discuss it
but i dont think either of us has seen anything particularly notable in that sense as of yet

it would be nice if we had an organization backing us admittedly

definitely not
it would be a questionable move
although it could always be that loyalty to the organization came second to loyalty to someone else

If we were even in the same region as that Pokemon, that would likely be a bit more feasible. This region does have Celebi, but that's not quite the same.

Indeed it would, but I'd rather not have to put up with being beholden to... well, that

Oh, certainly - and really, that "someone else" could easily always be one's self.

perhaps someday we can prevail upon the leaders to allow us to have a field trip
if
theyre the ones keeping us here...

yep
no interest in having an obligation to team rocket
or
well
any other team ive heard of

ngl i feel like that is a common loyalty priority

They do seem like our best bets to seeing other parts of the world, but I've heard things that make me rather doubt that they're in charge of our actual presence here.

...what, are there others?

No, it's very true. Of course, it's not like I can blame anyone for that.

what things would those be :o
but yes i was referring to keeping us in johto and kanto
regionally locking us i mean

i suppose only that vague mention of an opposing team formed from our numbers
so not really

i cant really either!
although if i had to choose sides i am not sure "my side" would be the one i would be on

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