ghostytrainer | prank #40

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who has some happy news they would be willing to share?
seriously, anything i don't care how insignificant of a thing you think it is. it doesn't have to be something earth-shattering or life changing, the only requirement is that it's something happy.
i just want to hear that SOMEBODY out there is having a good day today.
because april 13th is rarely anything other than an overall disappointment for me, no matter what universe i'm in.
i am beginning to wonder if it's just some kind of unspoken rule.
hell, now that i think about it, it doesn't even have to be something that actually happened today.
i want to hear about anything in your life that has ever made you happy. the more recent the better, but it can be stuff from back home too.

there's only one more thing i wanted to ask about, and that is the other father.
he went back home earlier this week. the last time this happened i was...well i didn't deal with it as well as i should have, let's just leave it at that. i ignored some things that should have been obvious and should have been taken care of.
but i am a bit more prepared this time. or at the very least, it didn't hurt quite as much.
that being said, is anybody watching his house at the moment?
i have been giving it some thought the past couple of days and i am very seriously considering going back and continuing what he started. well, in a way.
because i am not the other father by any stretch of the imagination so it wouldn't be quite the same sort of deal but i do think having a somewhere for people to be able to call home when they otherwise don't have one is a good thing.
but i still have things i have to do over in kanto and i am not sure how long it will be before i can get back to goldenrod.
or if i would be stepping on any toes with this, i mean if somebody already has it covered then that's fine.
but if nobody does then hey? why not me?
that's what i figure, anyway.
so uh...basically, tl;dr: who's watching the other house right now and if the answer is nobody, would somebody mind occasionally just...popping over there for me once in a while?
to make sure it doesn't get demolished or something like that. i don't know how stuff like this works, i have never owned a house or anything like that before.
or if he even left it to anybody or anything like that. houses have deeds and shit, right? he built the place himself so that just makes this all the more confusing...
i guess what i am saying is: i call dibs if nobody else has already. to put it as simply and admittedly childishly as possible.

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I have a really long hug with your name on it. Does that count?

[ Even though she isn't there to give it to him right now, it's honestly the best she can do at the moment. Well, perhaps not. She's still digging for good news to share, but it's hard to focus on anything potentially good given what's happened recently, how things have been, how she's felt and feels right now. Still, she's trying. For John, she's trying. For this to happen on his birthday of all days... she reaches to rub her face unseen, idly kicking at her covers. She's not getting up, but the least she can do is shift into a better position if she's going to use the Gear, one that also makes it easier for the Riolu who brought her the Gear in the first place to curl up beside her. Now, let's see... ]

Something good, huh? I met you. I like to think that's a pretty good thing that's happened, even if it didn't happen so recently. I got to watch you tear up the dance floor at prom, too. I'm proud of you, by the way. You did great, just like I knew you would.

yes, i would say that counts.
i will hold you to it when we make it to cerulean. which will hopefully be pretty soon. jane picked a great time for a nap, hahaha.

thanks. you're part of the reason i was able to dance so well so...thank you for that too.
how is cerulean? everything ok over there?
dave's bro and rose's mom aren't driving you too crazy are they?

A nap? what do you mean?

Cerulean is nice. It's a bit different from Pewter, which I consider a good thing after being stuck there so long. I'm pretty sure I would've started going stir crazy if we'd been there too much longer.
Things are decent.

[ Which isn't a complete lie. It just happens to depend upon the specifics of the question, which were left wide open, a little something she's taking advantage of. ]

Oh, you know them. Roxy is being Roxy and Bro is being Bro.

she's in one of those memory coma things.
just passed out a few days ago and hasn't woken back up yet. we're keeping an eye on her though, it will be fine.

haha, i know the feeling. there's a reason i can't stand going to violet city anymore.
the little towns make going stir crazy a little too easy, it kinda sucks.
but i'm glad cerulean is a nice change of pace for you.

so they ARE driving you nuts then. :P

I see. Is there anything I should know?

[ Because, really, she doesn't know too terribly much about Jane's situation back home and it... it's a realization that's hitting her now and causing concern where she would otherwise let it lie with arguably less reluctance. ]

It's not that I mind the small towns so much. Sometimes, they're a nice break from the city, but we'd been in Pewter since late January. That's a pretty long time without movement.

Something to that effect. I'm thinking I should invest in a nutcracker.

uhh...i don't know, is there?
like what do you mean?

[John honestly doesn't know a whole lot either, considering he has yet to actually MEET Jane back home.]

yeah that...that is a very long time.

hahaha! it'd have to be a pretty big one though.
they are huge nuts, it's something that runs in the family tbh.

About her situation back home, I mean.
Come to think of it, I don't know that much about any of your situations...

[ Which bothers her. It really does, now that she's thinking about it. ]

Entirely too long.

There's probably a nutcracker pokemon or something. I'll have to look into it. If there isn't, I'm sure someone knows where I can purchase a larger nutcracker.

uh well...
to tell you the truth, i never met jane back home. so i don't really know the answer to that.
we are from the same world, but different versions of it, remember? so...jake would probably be a better person to ask than me, since he's from the same session as her.

likely a wise investment if you plan to keep hanging around them, hahaha.

I remember. I thought you guys might have talked about it maybe. It's okay. I'll ask Jake.
Although I think I need to talk with all of you at some point about this.

I agree. It feels kind of permanent. The sooner, the better, I suppose.

oh?
about anything in particular or...what, exactly?
what is "this"?

Just about your situations back home in general.
Or anything else you'd like to tell me.
It's kind of funny how you can travel with someone for so long and still know so little about them.

oh, gotcha.
hehe, i am probably not the best one to ask though.
most of what i know is what other people have told me, so what i actually know of the story for myself is pretty short.

John, you can't possibly tell me you don't know what your favorite type of pizza is or what size show you wear, not if you're being honest.

oh. well i can tell you those things, yeah!
i thought you meant like...you know, the weird/important stuff.
ngl, my life before sburb was pretty unremarkable. not that...sburb necessarily made it BETTER but it did make it more interesting.

(also: all pizzas, but pepperoni and sausage is probably my favorite. size 7.5, but i am still growing!)

I meant both the normal stuff and the weird/important stuff. All of it ties in, after all.
Define 'interesting'.

What's your favorite flavor in general, then?

well you do at least know that playing it allowed us to survive the apocalypse, right?
how is that not interesting.
i think if we hadn't managed to fuck the game up so badly, it actually would have been a lot of fun to play.
it gave us all the chance to meet in person for the first time plus we all had our own planets and quests and all kind of stuff.

uhh...jeez, i don't know that's really hard to pick!
unlike SOME people i know, i am not a picky eater so i will basically be happy with anything as long as it's edible.
err well...edible and doesn't have peanut products in it because i really would rather not go to the hospital any more than is absolutely necessary, you know?
and cake is...man, idk anymore.
i have a complicated relationship with cake.

Edited 2013-05-21 19:40 (UTC)

You might have mentioned something to that effect.
You mean to tell me you guys hadn't met in person before the game?
How did you mess up the game exactly? And what's this about planets and quests?

I'm glad you mentioned that allergy. I was thinking of trying to make some peanut brittle for everyone. That's definitely off the table now.
Maybe I'll just stick to popsicles. It's getting warmer.
Should I ask?

bingo!
we all lived pretty far apart so we couldn't really just walk over to each other's houses to hang out or anything like that.
and to drive there would take days in the case of myself, dave, and rose and would be impossible for jade since she lived on an island in the middle of nowhere.
basically we accidentally created an undefeatable boss? then some other stuff happens and it gets even worse. from what everyone tells me at least.
basically our game was never meant to be winnable from the start.
every sburb player gets a planet when they enter the game. the planet is tailored to their personal quest, which is in turn tailored to their title.
and your title basically determines your powers.
like dave is the knight of time, so he can time travel.

you can still make it for everybody else if you want, i won't be offended or anything like that.
it's not like i know what i am missing out on.
incidentally though, jake has the same allergy.
but popsicles are always good.

basically: my dad kind of had this thing for baking. and when i say "thing" i mean he baked at LEAST one cake per day.
don't even get me started on what he'd do for my birthday.
you think cake all the time would be this really awesome thing, right? like what kid doesn't want that?
wrong: you actually burn out on it after a while.
but the biggest problem was that he only used the batterwitch brand and she's basically evil.
but the batterwitch isn't here and it's been two years (plus about four months i guess? since i skipped backwards to january when i got here) to the day since the last time i had any cake.
in retrospect, hating it as much as i did on my 13th birthday just seems kind of childish on my part.
and cake/baking reminds me of my dad and i really miss him and

basically it's just complicated.

[It's CAKE, John. CAKE. CAKE IS NOT COMPLICATED.]

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