first game; VIDEO. action for new bark i guess but who is even in new bark right now?

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[ It takes her no time at all to figure out how to work the gear. Nanami is good with electronics, especially the handheld sort that hold games on them (and she did look at the games that came preloaded first off, and then wasted some of her starter cash on one or two of the others...) so it was easy.

...Except that after she finished playing around with that, Nanami spent several days trying to play the game. As in "Pokémon". She eventually gives this up, but it admittedly takes a while. After turning on the video function, she pauses. Takes a moment to collect her thoughts. This is accomplished by staring off into space before refocusing. ]

...Hello. My name is Nanami Chiaki. I’m a Super High-school Level Gamer. ...I'm pretty good with all genres.

[ That's the unimportant stuff. Moving on to the stuff that actually matters: ]

...Although this is certainly "Pokémon", it's a sequel or something, right? New locations, new creatures...even so, there are so many differences compared to that game, aren't there? Almost too many...

[ She puffs out her cheeks, a silent pout, before continuing past her pause. ]

...I started out with a partner already, without having to visit the Professor. There was no point where I was supposed to choose my partner...or my gender, or name, although I don't mind that. ...While I like Munna, that's a little weird, isn't it? And even if the plot is different in this game, which is normal...

I haven't been able to trigger any quests so far, you know? Or tutorials. ...Maybe that ferry to Kanto would be the right choice, but couldn't that be a case of skipping ahead to the boss area without being properly leveled? That I haven't even had a rival encounter, isn't that worrying?

[ Nanami falls silent for a second before her main concern comes out, said more quietly than the rest, though she hadn't been speaking loudly to start with. ]

...It's not working properly.

[ That's...that's apparently all she wanted to bring up...? Trapped in the world of Pokémon, her main concern is apparently that the game is wrong. Where are the quests she knows she ought to be having, or the characters she ought to be meeting? Perhaps it's best to leave her to it...Ah, no, wait. It appears she has a bit more to say. ]

...If there's a new sequence to trigger the main quest, I'd like to know that, please. I'll keep trying to find it in the meantime. ...Ah, it's hard to trigger secret codes if you're in the game itself, isn't it...? At least, the normal codes are a no-go. I'll have to think of something else.

[ ...never mind, this is absolutely the time to leave her to her thoughts. Nanami ends the video after another pause, undoubtedly going off to try to "start" her game once again. ]

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[crystalballer]

[... Wait a second, that unimportant stuff is really important though!!

Hagakure's basically gaping at the screen when he responds.]

D-Did you just say Super High-School Level? Are you from Hope's Peak??

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[ No, that's really not the important part...

We should be talking about Pokemon, instead.

...

Give her a few seconds, here. She's thinking about what to say. ]

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[ ...It probably can't hurt anything, although she's pretty sure that's...? ]

...Super High-School Level Gamer. ...That's not incorrect.

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[throw_stone]

[...Another newcomer - they spoke very oddly. But, at the same time, Ramza was said to speak oddly, wasn't he?]
Are - are you asking where to travel?
[It took him a while.]

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[ ...This...is what they'd call a dream, right?

This is definitely what they would call a dream.

Let her just...peer at the screen a bit.

...

Well, it's not a bad dream, so... ]

...That's right. I want to start the main story. Have you completed it yet?

[ There, that's not too weird, right? ]

[neededlassie]

I noticed all that too... It's kind of weird, but I think it's not really the game. It's like the world that the game is based on!

So we're not like the big hero trainers who catch Legendaries and have rivals and take down Team Rocket and stuff, we're just normal trainers going on our own journeys.

Some people start out as Breeders, too! So not everyone's even a trainer.

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[ !!!!!!!!!

Another one! Talking to her.

...Just give her a minute to calm down, this is unprecedented. That's...definitely that guy, right? She's played this game. ]

...My card says I'm a trainer. So...there isn't a storyline here...?

[ Bummer. Although the perks apparently outweigh the, you know, not perks. ]

text;

[freshprints]

[...what the gently caress.]

Nanami Chiaki, the Super High School Level Gamer?

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[ Hello, mysterious text.

...

...She'll just keep using video... ]

...That's correct. What's your name?

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[superordinary]

...S-Super High School Level...?

[ He barely pays attention to the rest of the video because what the gently caress. ]

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[ ....

She's just. Going to pout for a minute. ]

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[ ...Okay, she'll stop now.

Again, huh? ]

...That's right. Nanami Chiaki.

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[gardentrainer]

I don't think you're really here to play Pokemon like the actual video game! There aren't any rivals or events that get triggered by us. I think we're just supposed to collect Pokemon and travel, but there's really no "winning" this game. I guess winning would be going back home, but nothing we do triggers that.

I've had friends that have been here for awhile, so I think we're just kind of stuck here.

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[ ...What sort of game is that.

Well, so far it's not like there aren't any game elements...talking to video game characters, that's a thing that's worth being here, right? And it's based off the game... ]

...I'd rather stay here. But, I also want to win.

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[struck_out]

N-no way...

[He never expected for someone outside their class to show up!]

With a title like Super High School Level Gamer, you've gotta be from Hope's Peak! I'm Leon Kuwata; nice to meet ya, Nanami-san!

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[ Well, at least he didn't question her about it.

...She'll give him points for that. ]

That's correct. ...It's nice to meet you, Kuwata-senpai.

[ STILL ROLLING WITH THAT.

It feels wrong to call them like her classmates, anyway. ]

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[shadows_edge]

[Wh...]

[Gurl, what are you even on about right now. Are you high?]

I am afraid I don't really follow what it is you are trying to ask. Am I to understand that Pokémon is a video game in your world?

[Somehow this...subject has not come up yet. This is news to Faize.]

video; 1/idk be done in a sec tho

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[lieutenantantichrist]

It's not a nintendo game, kid. Kinda looks like one, but it's as real as it gets, and you're on your own.

[For somebody who thinks she's stuck in a video game, she's taking this pretty well.]

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[ ...oh, this guy.

...

...Now she's curious which path they're both from. :|a ]

...I'm not on my own.

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[styxiedust]

[That's funny, she feels like she's seen this girl before, her memory is still a little fuzzy but that's nothing new to her.]

Nanami-chan? Try to think of it as making your own game, we've all not been given any particular quest to go on ourselves besides winning badges or collecting and breeding Pokemon.

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[ Sadly, Nanami has no similarly fuzzy memories. Alas, 4th wall. ]

...Well, I found a rival, so it should be okay now.

[ That's a goal, after all. ]

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[mayushiii]

You play games too Nanami? Dontcha just love this game too? Oooh, and you're a pro too?

[She's happy as a lark, nodding her head from side to side as she asks a lot of questions.]

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[ ...So many people to talk to. She's getting a little sleepy, but she doesn't want to stop.

Especially because this person just said something incredibly important. ]

You're...another gamer? ...It's true, the sorts of games where you raise monster to fight, I like those a lot. And my level...it's probably pro.

What sorts of games do you like...?

[shslasshat]

[BEEP BEEP HERE COMES THE ASSHOLE MOBILE.]

[Alright but no, for once in his life he actually bothered checking the Network and he's kind of glad he did, since...well. A SHSL.

Which is entirely at odds with what they were told in the final trial. Unless...]

Nanami. A title like that must make you a student from Hope's Peak, does it not? What class were you in?

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[ ..............You know, Togami-kun really does look like this guy.

...................................

Give her a few minutes, here. ]

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

[Super High School Level Gamer? That sounds like something from a manga or a game. But her gaming talk caught his attention more.]

The others probably filled you in already, but you can't exactly tackle being a Pokemon trainer like in the games. [With unlimited grinding and cheats. Their Pokemon are living creatures and do need their breaks.] The closest thing to a tutorial we get is our starting manual.

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...That's too bad, but...I guess there are "perks", right?

...The move limit, that's not a thing that seems to be the case.

[ Feels cheatsy to someone used to having to pick between four, but. ]

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[diamondo]

[No way, another person from Hope's Peak? But weren't they the last class? Oh, so maybe she's older than he is!]

Super High School Level Gamer, huh?

[Wow, that sounds even more useless than his title!]

I'm Mondo Oowada, Super High School Level Biker Gang Leader. It's nice to meet someone else from Hope's Peak!

[Though by now she's probably met a few of the others. He's a bit late to responding thanks to work. Mondo absently runs a hand through the back of his hair, still grinning a bit awkwardly.]

I can't really tell you much about the Pokémon games 'cause I never really had a chance to play 'em, but this definitely seems like the world, y'know? I mean, there are a lot of Pokémon other than fucking Pikachu, but it's a pretty great place!

[Much better than a murder school, at any rate.]

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[ Don't think about it too hard, Mondo. ]

Ah...it's nice to make your acquaintance, Oowada-senpai.

[ .......She talked to Hagakure first, and somehow that suffix came out of it.

Technically, these students meet the requirements in relation to her person, right? They're older, and started before her.

...She thinks. ]

...It's too bad you didn't get to play them, but I guess not everyone did. Ah, my classmates might not have either. Tsumiki-san had never played any games before she played them with me...

...I think that's probably a bit sad.

[divinitea]

[Celes lovingly ignores everything this...strange girl says after her name and Super High School Level title - nothing else matters to her, after all. She's currently sitting in her room in the Dangan house, a chirpy Eevee perched on her knee and a steaming cup of tea in her hand.

How very curious.]

Did you say 'Super High School Level' Gamer?

[Obviously, she has to investigate.]

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[ That's pretty much the only thing the other students are focusing on, huh?

...Not that she can blame them.

By this point, Nanami knows exactly why they're asking. ]

...If you're going to ask if I'm in a class from Hope's Peak Academy, the answer is "yes".