ghostytrainer | prank #21 | action for violet city/video

[Action for anywhere in Violet City; Around noon]

[Hello Violet city. Having a nice day? Say, have you ever seen a seven foot tall ghost before? No? Well today's your lucky day then, because there's one (a Dusknoir to be exact) floating down the street this very moment. Should you happen to be walking toward this lazily floating spectre, you might not notice anything odd at first. Though if you look at its "collar" you'll see a set of human hands grasping each side of it.]

[Strange.]

[If you stand still and continue watching, letting the ghost float past you, however, the hands will make sense as you will be greeted with the following sight:]

[Yes, this is apparently the Dusknoir equivalent of a piggyback ride, and John is having the time of his life...even though it really isn't moving any faster than he could walk on his own. In fact, it might actually be moving slower.]

[Approach? He'll just be floating around for a while and doesn't appear to be too terribly busy.]

[Video Transmission; some time later...probably about 30 minutes to an hour.]

[When the feed clicks on, the image is very dark. Like, really dark. The only thing you can actually, sort-of see is John's face. And that's only because the dim light of the pokegear screen is reflecting off of his face. It's causing some major glare issues with his glasses, so you can't really see his eyes. However, he has what is quite possibly the biggest, most excited, grin ever on his face.]

Hey, did anyone know that the zig-zag pattern on Dusknoir's body is actually some kind of mouth? [A stifled, giggling noise.] Guess where I am right now?

[The feed clicks off.]

((ooc: Since the second one can technically also be action, please specify which scenario you're doing if you're going the action route. Thanks! :D))

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Good afternoon, sir!

[The Dusknoir turns around, his single red eye looked down at Jack and then just...staring.]

[Aaaaaand staring.]

[Elliot doesn't talk much, Jack, sorry. Silently staring is more his thing. However, John heard the his greeting just fine and thinks that this is the perfect set up for a prank. Remaining hidden inside his cozy ghost of a fort, he answers, hoping that whoever this person he is isn't somebody he knows who could potentially recognize his voice.]

Good afternoon to you too, my good fellow!

[] I've never met a Pokémon that could speak human languages before! I hope people haven't bothered you too much - [] You sound familiar somehow...

[The prankster's gambit meter ticks a few notches in John's favor. Or it would if it were actually a meter that exists here.]

Oh it's not a bother at all! And human speech is a fairly rare skill among pokémon, excluding psychic types, of course. It took me quite some time to master it. Though it's strange that you would find my voice familiar. I do not believe that we have met before.

That is impressive! It must make a lot of things easier for you - I just wish I could figure out why you sounded familiar.

Do psychic types learn to talk often? []

Oh yes, much easier. And I'm not sure...perhaps you may have passed by me talking to someone else and didn't know it.

[Though the more John hears him speak, the more he gets the sneaking suspicion he's heard Jack's voice too. Though he can't quite place it. Mostly because he only overheard Jack's conversation with Rose.]

I would say so, all the ones I know do. They are all about psychic-mind speak with their trainers.

Possible... you seem very distinctive, though. []

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I guess Amaranth is probably just a bit young; there's a lot she's been learning.

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Edited 2011-08-04 06:52 (UTC)

[Oh my god, he has a Buneary. Eeeeeee--no. Focus, John. You can look at the cute little Buneary later.]

Hmm...very strange, I can't imagine why I would sound distinctive. [Suddenly, John's thinking he should have gone with a silly voice instead of his own. But haha, what is forethought?]

That's probably why she hasn't done it yet, though. Usually it's a skill that develops with time and evolution.

Well, you sound surprisingly normal, but I don't think I've ever seen a Pokémon like you before ...

That would make sense; she's very young - ...Amaranth? [] ...I feel like I'm missing something.

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Well that's...uh. Because my kind is not native to this region. So there aren't many of us--

[Fortunately for Jack, Elliot isn't much of a prankster. He's kind of starting to feel sorry for the human. So right as John is about to finish his explanation, he opens his "mouth" to reveal the boy sitting cross-legged inside.]

[This is fortunate, because otherwise John would sit here and do this all day. Or until Jack finally remembered where he heard his voice. Whichever came first.]

...here.

[Welp.]

Uh...hi there!

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You're one of the people I got Alice from! [] That's amazing! I didn't know you could do that - you had me pretty well!

Ali..oh! [He spots the Buneary from earlier and suddenly there's a party of lightbulbs turning on in his head. John suddenly understands everything!] That's right! I thought your voice was kind of familiar...I heard you talking to Rose when we were selling Casey and Halos's eggs.

[He holds out a hand with a smile, still comfortably sitting cross-legged inside his Dusknoir.] My name is John Egbert.

prank #21 | action for violet city/video

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[Action] John's so lucky Jack mostly talked to Rose when he got the egg XD

[Action] yuuuuppp. pretty much. XD

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[Action] I am so sorry for the delay >.>;

[Action] it's totally fine! :D i have no problem backtagging