MINGLE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT

[these_balls]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: November 25 - 27
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
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[ollieoutie]

[The moment the green light appeared his sword shifts from his shoulder into a middle guard position. His death had been only seconds ago and he hadn't forgotten what had caused it. The tension in his shoulders only eases when it's not a white cat.

The light is too distinctive, and the sense of power similiar enough.]

Depends entirely on who and what you are, kid. Funny green light there.

[spacecase]

Thanks, I got it off my dog.

[Nonetheless, she puts up her hands as a gesture of "I am not carrying weapons and I'm not going to suddenly shoot anybody." Not that it would matter if Dave did cut her down, but a friend is a friend even if he suddenly grew up.]

Jade Harley...although you might not be familiar with a name close to that. Maybe Jade English?

[That's also a stretch, though, whatever loops and universes are going on.]

Well anyway, my name is Jade. I think we're not even on Earth anymore, never mind Kansas.

[ollieoutie]

[Dave flickers a glance back at the fire maned unicorn and the steel bug thing calmly watching the situation as if they'd seen it all. His blade is lowered as he takes a step back and drives it into the ground to show combat is over.]

I gathered that when the flame pony found me. You're a bit young to be tossing around the old lady's name so I'll give you a chance to explain how you're connected to her.

[He pushes his shades up, the light running over their surface and nods.]

That's your cue to start talking.

[spacecase]

[Sometimes the Pokemon anime makes references to Earth. It's odd.

But never mind the pedantics, she nods back and starts--]

The long and short of it is there is an alternate universe that I come from where all the roles you know are switched. You're the kid participating in the game along with me, John Crocker--known as Egbert in my universe--and Rose Lalonde. The ones you might know as kids, Dirk Strider, Roxy Lalonde, Jake English and Jane Crocker are the guardians. There is also no fucked up evil trollwitch empire to contend with...though the Earth did still get destroyed by meteors and we are currently playing the game to set things right. So we're going to have to take her down soon enough.

Essentially, I am Jade English, or I'm her younger clone. It's ectobiology shenanigans perpetuated by John in a different time loop.

[But he might not even know about ectobiology at this point. Jade never expected to speak with the man himself, how would she know what he knows?]

[ollieoutie]

[He leans on his sword and watches her as she talks with an unwavering stare from behind his shades. He's old, the blond hair more white and silver and he has the built one sees on fencers with the added definition of any fit man past their twenties.

His brows come down and furrow from the information presented. It's nothing new to him and yet it puts some pieces together. Dave's flat expression shifts subtly, into a small frown.]

So Ectobiology and time shenanigans.

[He has the sense she's telling the truth just like running parallel to that is the sense they were never meant to meet. A timeline is going awry and he can't see the end of the encounter. Scary.]

She won't go quietly. You got to know that much. [It's a sllight admission. He judged quickly (as was necessary) and now eases from his tense stance into something fairly casual.] Anyway.

Why don't you tell me about this devil beast of a dog. Sounds like a certain cat that causes no end of shit.

[spacecase]

Of course I know that, s--[Jade he is not the Dave you know, don't call him silly. She shuts her mouth with a visible click of her teeth, then clears her throat.]

She's a tough batterbitch, that's for sure.

[As for her own version of a devilbeast, she tilts her head at him in the confused dog fashion over hearing that his version of Bec (might not even be named Bec at all) is a cat.]

Bec lived with me on the island and took care of me after my grandpa died, he is--was a first guardian and so had all sorts of weird teleporty powers fueled by the green sun. I'm guessing this cat's the same way, except it is not probably tied to anyone in particular. [Cats are flighty shits like that. Grrrr, cats.

Jade no stop thinking about cats.]

[ollieoutie]

[It's all things he knows. Dave sighs and his sword is returned to his sylladex with a brief flash. He glances at the creatures with him and shrugs.]

You can stop there. It doesn't matter to me anymore. [He is a dead man and he's fine with that. The rest is up to the kids.]

You can do this old dude a favor and tell me why we're here. Just to tie up the loose ends. Shit like that is important to do. Remember that. [He pats the fire unicorn after cautiously holding a hand out to see if the fire would hurt him. It doesn't.]

[spacecase]

I gotcha.

[Ah, death, the staple of any universe. Especially being unexpectedly revived in any universe.]

I'm not sure, actually. I can tell you what I suspect, but I can't tell you the "why" of what we're doing here. My theory is that this is another game that we have been thrown into, but "why" has not become clear to me, there seems to be no ultimate objective that's particularly compelling besides the thrill of collecting Pokemon and proving you can battle them against others effectively. It's unclear who the "hero" of the story is as well, since so many people have been brought in from their own worlds.

Right now, it's just looking like a bunch of horseshit as far as an ultimate "why." Just a nice little diversion until we are thrown back into reality, I guess.