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

[lullabytes]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[gardentrainer]

No. He was a teleporting kind of dog!

[It flew over her head.]

[lullabytes]

...I'm not sure what game has that...

[ They're having the same conversation.

Probably. ]

[gardentrainer]

It wasn't really a game. He was just a dog. But he can also teleport and teleport things. I guess normal dogs can't do that, but mine could.

[It is a mysteryyyy.]

[lullabytes]

...That sounds like a game to me.

[ TO BE HONEST. ]

[gardentrainer]

I guess it kind of does. Explaining SBURB would take sooooooo long. [Also, shit doesn't make sense most of the time.]

[lullabytes]

SBURB? Is that a game? What's it about?

[ PLEASE TELL HER EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT IT. ]

[gardentrainer]

It is a game! It's a game that my friends and I got involved with. Uhhh...that's hard to explain. The what's it about part because I think our game kind of got out of control and went in ways that weren't really supposed to happen...

[lullabytes]

...So how do you play?

[gardentrainer]

You don't want to play. It's not fun.

[lullabytes]

[ BUT IT'S A GAME...

But there's at least one "game" Nanami wouldn't class as such... ]

Then it's not a game. A game is something you get something from, right?

[gardentrainer]

Well! We kind of got things out of it. We kind of became gods and I could teleport and do all kind of neat stuff.

But I would have been completely fine with not having them if it meant my friends were happy and safe.

[lullabytes]

You...became gods...? How did that happen, I wonder...?

[gardentrainer]

We died.

[lullabytes]

...I see. I'm sorry for asking about it, then.

[gardentrainer]

You don't have to apologize. I'm alive, see? [Jade smiles. For someone who's died, she seems pretty happy regardless.]

It's weird to imagine dying and being alive again. It's something that only happens in video games.