♪ It's Like a Giant Party!

[these_balls]

Who: Anyone and Everyone!
Where: Olivine City
When: April 1
Summary: NO FOOLIN' Benefit Concert is underway!
Rating: PG? If it gets worse, throw a warning in the header!
Log:

It's a day full of fun, friends, and festivities! The NO FOOLIN' Benefit Concert has been set, the microphones tested and on stage, the sound running smoothly, weather cooperative. Food stations are everywhere, ready to feed and rehydrate everyone who's in the area, and the musicians have been given free reign to everywhere.

Throughout the day, live footage will be broadcasted on TV Channel 14, and video and CD recordings will be available for purchase at the end.

So swing your Gear at a donation station and enjoy the concert!


[Format can be whatever you choose. Just have fun!]

Comments

[usedswift]

[She rests her chin in her palm, elbow against her knee as she listens, clearly trying to absorb all of it. Stuff like this just didn't exist for her back home, or if it did, she'd never seen it. It was all pretty, well, cool.]

So did you have a certain message you wanted to show today? [she asks after taking a second to absorb it,] Or did you just decide to improvise with whatever you could think of?

[moveslikestrider]

We just followed Bro's lead today. [He think of a thousand messages he could have sent across the crowd. None of it belong in the peaceful world they're in. It could be said among the darkness where the gods dwelled in the right.

Or within-

He shoves the thoughts aside and spreads his hands.] It was all about helping out that gym leader, seemed rude to steal that thunder for another purpose.

[usedswift]

Yeah, I guess that makes sense, [she answers the second statement first, smiling again.] Maybe another time you can put on a show that has the kind of message you want to show, though!

[She rests more easily against the wall before asking something that had been bugging her,] So when you say 'Bro', are you guys actually related? Or is that just a nickname?

[moveslikestrider]

Yeah we're related. We just call him Bro. [The best way to say his parent is his parent is to just give hints. He leans back a bit as he adds.]

But Dirk is the same dude as Bro, it's a little complicated.

[usedswift]

Dirk...? He was on stage with you guys, right?

[Alright, this is interesting, leaving her leaning in a little more as she glances at him.]

What's that supposed to mean? I mean, if you don't mind explaining...

[moveslikestrider]

It's cool. They're the exact same guy. That's what it means. One comes from the same version of the universe I did, the older one. Younger comes from a flipped version. That's where it gets complicated.

[usedswift]

A flipped version, huh? I think John mentioned something about that, when I asked. Something about your world being destroyed?

Or am I off completely?

[moveslikestrider]

That's right. The flip took who was the rents and who were the kids and flipped them, just not how they were related. If that makes any sense. I'm betting it doesn't.

[usedswift]

[A quiet laugh and a sideways glance.]

It doesn't, really, but I'll take your word for it. It sounds like this place isn't the weirdest thing that's happened to you guys, huh...?

[moveslikestrider]

On a scale from Murder she wrote to MTV, this place doesn't even reach the Twilight zone levels we're used to. Sometimes it tries, but it will never match our lives. [Not enough death and crazy shit.]

[usedswift]

[That whole comparison just went right over her head, but she'll nod anyway.] John's mentioned something about that, but never any specifics. What did you guys do?

Besides rap and slam poetry, I mean.

[moveslikestrider]

Quite a lot of things. Might want to be specific here, how much did you read from John's post?

[usedswift]

All he told me is that you guys played a game and it somehow teleported you to another world before yours got hit by a -- I think he said a meteor?

[moveslikestrider]

Meteors. It was plural and each one bigger than the last. [He makes a wide sweeping gesture with both hands to encompass the whole area.] The president must of shit himself when he saw them bearing down.

[usedswift]

[She drapes both hands over her knees and glances toward him.]

I'm sorry something like that happened, Dave-san.

[moveslikestrider]

Not like it can be changed, it happened. Sucks but that was several years ago. [Dave leans back, putting his hands behind him.] The universe broke, so we had to reset it. The reset is Dirk's universe.

[usedswift]

[She just stares for a moment.]

I guess I see what you mean about this place not being all that weird in comparison, then. What happened to you guys, though? I mean, if you reset the universe, where's your place?

[A pause.]

You don't have to answer if you don't want to, sorry.

[moveslikestrider]

We escaped, heading back to the new universe to see what we can do to win this time. [It's not a topic that really bothers him. In fact, he seems hardly bothered at all. Dave even shrugs.] It's cool. just a bunch of complicated stuff we have to handle.

[usedswift]

[That's something that keeps mystifying her, how he and John can be so calm about this.]

I never realized how much civilians might have to go through... It seems like you guys have got it under control, huh? For whenever you get out of this place.

[moveslikestrider]

I think every universe is different. We have our trials and things that go on. How it is in one place, it isn't in another. We've got it on lock down and ready to deal with it whatever comes up. [Not really. They were dumb kids who were expected to do more than even they knew. He knows once they pierce the new session, the other shoe will fall and blood and death will dominate their lives again.]

[usedswift]

[She just nods, resting her head back against the wall and thinking about it.]

I guess it's kind of the same for us, too. I mean, we don't have to deal with multiple universes usually, but we handle one thing and just wait for the next big thing to break lose and ruin everything.