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[these_balls]

Who: ANYONE
Where: ANYWHERE
When: May 25th - May 27th
Summary: A MASS MINGLING POST
Rating: What are ratings
Log:


[Anywhere in Johto, there are people interacting. Some of these strangers interacting with other strangers. In short, this is The Ultimate Mingling post, where everyone can run into each other. Primarily for those in the fourth wall who run into another oddball from some other mythical land who's going "What's this place?" just like them, but for everyone who wants to just continue going nuts.

And yes, please, go nuts.]

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Dale Cooper ??

[eaglescout]

<sub>[So a few of you know Coop, right? Right.]

[Except how well do you know his nineteen-year-old self?]

[He's walking around currently (anywhere) looking very intrigued/confused, but more closed off than the adult version. HM.]</sub>

[livesforthegame]

[She's running into a lot of confused-looking kids today, and quite frankly she's pretty confused herself, but there's no way she's going to show it. She knows how to handle herself, no matter the situation. Even if this one is somewhat grating, and the music is obnoxious.]

Do you know the way to the nearest airport?

[eaglescout]

_{[He turns politely towards the stranger but lets his eyes flick around the crowd for a short moment before he looks to her face and shakes his head.]}

No clue. I don't even know where I am.

[livesforthegame]

Argh.

[The same answer she's been getting all day. She hates it when she's got no leads on a problem, man.

Okay, come on, think, Sandiego. If you're not getting the right answers, maybe you're asking the wrong questions.]

No one does. And the ones that claim to don't make any sense, either, because the place they're naming doesn't exist.

[eaglescout]

_{[He tips his head back just a bit, regarding her and that show of temper with what could be interpreted as some annoyance. He's not exactly pleased with things either, but it's easier to deal if you keep a cool head.]}

So what are they calling it?

[livesforthegame]

[What kind of a look is that? Just because this guy's older than her doesn't mean he's better than her. Sheesh.]

You haven't asked?

[See if she'll be nice to you, wise guy.]

[eaglescout]

Yeah, I did.

_{[Getting his aloof on, here.]}

I wanted to see if you got any different information.

[livesforthegame]

[Oh. Okay, well, that's...understandable, she guesses. Grudgingly.]

They call it Johto. This half of the nation, at least. There's another region to the east called Kanto, which suggests this all might be located somewhere in Japan. [Pause.] Except it's not.

[eaglescout]

_{[Oh, good, that means she knows not to settle with just one piece of information.]}

No, it's not.

_{[Not any kind of Japan he'd have imagined, anyway.]}

But that might not be important right now. I'm more interested in how we got here to begin with.

[livesforthegame]

The architecture is wrong, the language is wrong, the climate is wrong...

[Evidently she's had that penchant for showing off all her life, even though it comes through with a bit less finesse in her younger years.]

People seem to think it's some kind of teleportation, but besides being top-secret, the technology for that is only still in the design stages. It shouldn't be ready for years.

[eaglescout]

_{[And he catches it as showing off, too, and there's a hint of a frown. Mostly because he's thinking, though. Last he heard there was no such thing as teleportation, so he looks skeptical.]}

Many years. That's science fiction.

[livesforthegame]

[Hm. He didn't take the bait, when she'd made sure to mention the part about it being top secret — mostly to see if he'd try to inquire further, or call her on her own secrets. He's either very good, or he's oblivious.]

It's science. Whether or not it's fiction is just a matter of time.

[eaglescout]

<sub>[It's more that coming with a claim that seems more or less impossible makes the implied I-know-things lose credibility.]

[He can't argue with that, by the way, but he will remain skeptical.]</sub>

That's probably true. But doesn't exactly help our situation.

[livesforthegame]

[My situation, she thinks a little stubbornly, which the rational part of her knows isn't what he was getting at when he said "our", that he meant it in general as opposed to referring to the two of them specifically as some kind of unit, but still. It bristles a little, and that bristling part of her wants to maintain that separateness, that distinction.

She takes care of herself, and this guy isn't her partner.

...which is a shame, because the thought of Suhara gives her a sudden, surprising pang of wishful emotion. It sure would be nice if he were here right now.]

"Eliminate the impossible, and whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." So what can you eliminate about how you got here?