ghostytrainer | prank #46

[The feed opens up to what is presumably a hotel room, but it's really kind of hard to tell with how much the camera is jostling around. Is that a person? Yeah that's a person, but they don't seem to be paying attention to the camera. There's a static-y sort of giggle and a Rotom's face flashes briefly across the screen. Well that explains that.]

Tron! Come on now, dude, I know you're excited but nobody can see anything if you keep moving around like that. [The figure turns out to be John, who has moved across the room to grab hold of the whirring and giggling device. For a moment, he fixes the screen with a relatively stern look (for John, anyway). It's clearly meant for the Pokémon inside the device, not any of the viewers.]

Caaaalllmmmm. Brrrrzapp!! Good.

[John smiles and lets the device go once more. This time, the image stays still. Yup, that's a hotel room alright. Scattered about the room are a ridiculous number of brightly colored plush toys, one of which is currently having its tentacles chewed on by an Omanyte. Remember that guy? The one from the toilet? Yeah, he's still around apparently. A Lopunny, Lampent, and a Froslass are also visible; the former two chittering happily over a couple of the magnetic plush cephalopods, while the latter drifts lazily around the room, almost seeming bored.]

[But more importantly, there's also a fair-sized pile of eggs next to the couch.]

So I told myself I was only going to breed a couple of my ghosts this time but I may have ended up getting just a little overzealous in the end. [He laughs and shrugs.] Anyway, I need to start putting a little extra money away so I'm selling all of them for P3000 each. Except for the Snorunts, Goletts, and Rotoms, which are only 2000 since they have little to no egg moves. I will be sending out the full list of what I have as well as egg moves in a minute because I will be here all day if I try to verbally list off some of these. If you have any questions about the species themselves or parental temperament or anything like that, I will of course be happy to answer.

I think that about cov-- oh wait! One more thing real quick. Kind of sort of related, but I was talking with my friend Aradia the other day and we were thinking about maybe putting together some kind of ghost club. You know like... maybe get together every once in a while and go check out haunted houses or something. Just a thought, figured I would throw it out there to see if anybody would be interested in that sort of thing.

[He beams and flashes a thumbs up to the camera.]

Tron, if you would please!

Rrrzzzttt!!

[The feed clicks off and a few moments later, a text is sent out with the full list of eggs and egg moves.]

((ooc: There are still plenty of eggs left to be claimed, so have at them if you want.))

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Mmm, yeah. I haven't seen any either. We had some back home though! They were kind of... not your stereotypical ghosts either though, to tell you the truth. Or at least most of them weren't? There was at least one instance of just your normal, average, plain jane ghost.

[...]

...well she was an alien but still! Other than that she was just an average ghost, from what I understand.

... Could anyone at all see ghosts back in your world?

Err... well that depends. [He scratches at his temple, frowning slightly,] See, the thing about my world is that it's actually kind of a two for one deal? I am from Earth, originally, but my Earth was wiped out. My friends and I escaped the apocalypse by travelling to another dimension. So on Earth? No. Nobody that I knew could actually see ghosts save for that one kid in the Sixth Sense but that was just a movie so he doesn't really count.

[He's beginning to ramble, gesturing vaguely and not really stopping to take a breath as he talks.]

But in the other world? Different story entirely, all of us could not only see ghosts, but talk to ghosts as well. Hell, one of them hugged me once. See there are these things called dreambubbles. Which are like...ghostly hangouts made out of memories inside a gigantic bubble floating out in the middle of nowherespace. If you die, whether it be in the alpha timeline or on a doomed offshoot, this is where you end up. So there could actually be several different versions of a single person out there. From what I understand, the ghosts can't really leave these bubbles but it is possible for living people to visit them. You either have to physically pass through the bubbles or you just have to go to sleep!

[He laughs a little.]

So yeah, that's why I said our ghosts are kind of different.

[ ... ]

That sounds overly complicated for what it is.

[ And Josh is the one who runs The Game Of Life And Death back home so that's saying something. ]

And the bubbles are just... out there?

I know, right? That's how a lot of things go where I come from though, to be honest. Nothing is ever simple or straightforward and it rarely makes sense.

[And certainly never all three of those things at once.]

But yeah they're just... out there. Just floating along until some jackass comes along and blows them up and kills all the ghosts inside. Since that can happen for whatever reason.

[You can apparently never be TOO dead.]

[ "Kill the ghosts" is at least a concept Josh is already familiar with, so ]

Well, I think I'm inclined to believe there aren't any of those in this world. And I haven't seen any of the sorts of ghosts my world has here, either. So I'd say we're running low on options.

What are the ghosts in your world like?

[Because when you put it like that... kinda sounds like yours aren't exactly normal either, man.]

Normal.

[ But he laughs. "Normal" is certainly relative here. ]

Moving through the world of the living, invisible to most people, unable to interact with them... ah, they look the same as they did before they died, usually. Normal.

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