mylittlejamjar | First Dig [visual]

[Hello, Ponyville. Your newest import is a small purple dragon with bizarre gem-eyes! And she's walking around, looking at the scroll. Judging from the trees behind her, it looks like she's near the forest. Somehow, her hands are free! What you can't see is that she's using her scarf like a second set of hands, holding on to the scroll. When she speaks, she seems pleasant enough, and her voice has a friendly southern twang to it]

This here scroll's pretty nifty, I have to say! We got somethin' like this, sorta, called a frism. Got one at home, under lock and key! It's a weird little jar made'a ice that's so cold, it can freeze voices. Then when you warm it up, it plays the voice back for ya! But it can't record pictures, not like this! No sir-ee.

Er… [she pauses, tapping her claws to her chin] Ain't what I'm here to talk about though!

My name's Gemineye! Gemmy for short! [she says it "Jimmy"] I'm a Pokémon, ya see. And I'm mighty curious as to who owns this here land. I s'pect this is a good place to live. S'good as any! [she holds the scroll out, showing an area near the foothills of Rambling Rock Ridge. She's marked it off with whatever she could find; rocks, leaves, flowers, whatever.] But I don't just wanna take it over! I got Bits! Plenty of 'em fer land like this! [her Poké and the handful of gems she'd had in her bag had carried over pretty well]

Ah, and once I get the land, I'm gonna need me a favor from one of y'all. Architecture ain't my strongest point, and I'd like a little hut out here. Just a roof to keep out the elements, I reckon. The sooner I get a base of operations, the sooner I can get to servin' this fine community with my special talents![buttering you ponies up? You bet. She turns the scroll back on herself]

I s'pose I should also ask if any of ya know what a "Pokémon" is. Most of the Ponyta --- er… "ponies" -- I talked to ain't never heard of 'em before! Ain't sure how that's possible. They also called me a dragon. I can tell ya what, I ain't no dragon-type! [she laughs, because it's a FUNNY JOKE SEE] I'm a Sableye, like my mom and her mom and her mom before her! We're ghost and dark types! Dragon… pretty silly.

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I'm an engineer! But, you know, different place so I thought I'd branch out! Been doing some scavenging, some repairing. Running a pawn shop. You know expanding my horizons!

An engineer! That's fancy! What kind of stuff do ya like to build?

Uh, well. I've never gotten to build too much on my own you know? I worked at the Rainbow Factory back in my world so I mainly kept all the machines there in running order. And that takes up most my time you know?! Don't really have time to work on my own things!

I mainly just kind of...tinker around with whatever I find. Don't do many personal projects man.

A factory for rainbows?

Edited 2013-05-02 05:12 (UTC)

Well yeah you have to make rainbows. C'mon man, everyone knows that.

... Well, not where I come from. I mean, the Rainbows of Hope went away fer a while, but they came back. Pretty sure they're just what happens when light passes through water droplets just right. Some Pokémon can make 'em, but they happen naturally, too.

Happen naturally? How? It won't even rain or nothing unless we make it rain.

What, it just rains on its own where you're from?

[She seriously, honestly cannot comprehend that.]

Well, yeah! I mean, there are some ways for Pokémon to change the weather, for a lil' while. Rain Dance, Sunny Day, moves like that. But for the most part, the weather is the weather! You can't control it, or predict it very well. It just sort of happens.

[She can definitely hear that in Surprise's voice. What kind of weird world was this anyway?]

Man, that sounds awful! Like you don't know what the weather is going to do at all? How do you know when to start planting, or when to store for winter?

Well, we've got seasons! We take cues from the weather, and nature. When the snow melts and it starts warmin' up, you put berries in the ground. When it starts coolin' down and the leaves change color, you start makin' sure you've got plenty of firewood. It's a cycle! And you may not know EXACTLY what the weather's gonna be like on any given day, but... well, it's not gonna snow in the middle of summer, right? Haw! Well, unless you get an angry Abomasnow, I s'pose.

[Man. How would you know? How would you know that it just wasn't going to go and snow in summer? What a weird and crazy world.]

I dunno man. I guess it makes sense. It's just weird.

It has its perks maybe if you don't have to worry about making the weather. But it just seems like leaving too much to fate.

And fate sucks.

Well I can sure concur with that. Fate has a way of dealin' a bad hand to ya sometimes. But other times it's good! You just gotta learn to roll with what you're given. It's good not to know everything.

Yeah. No matter what, you gotta just roll with it.

I'm not saying I need to know everything, man. There are just some particulars I can't imagine doing without.

I s'pose it's all about how yer raised. I s'pect if I had grown up somewhere where the weather was as predictable as clockwork, it'd be weird to think about it any other way! Haw! It's pretty interesting, talking to all these folk from different worlds, seein' the differences and similarities... don't you think?

Well...yeah! I guess it is! I mean its confusing and weird and sounds terrifying a lot of the time, but its kind of nice I guess. Like, you can always wonder if we're alone out in the universe and I guess the answer now is that we know we're not.

Which is good I guess as long as we're not bringing some kind of mind-warping terror in.

Oh jumpin' Joltiks... that's a good point!! I sure hope we don't end up with some sort of soul-suckin' inter-dimensional horror here!

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