Thirteenth Scale - Visual

[ceasetoexist]

[Oh look, it's a little dumb dragon in a big dumb hardhat, a set of blueprints rolled up under his arm.]

So yeah I get that the last several weeks - hey, lets call it, the last month - has sucked pretty bad, but you know what doesn't suck really bad?

Video games~

See, since there's a lot of dumb, empty land around the place, we're taking some of that dumb empty land outside town and making it awesome by putting an arcade there. It should be up and running by this time next month, but hey since this place is lame and not like there's much else to do...

You can come and test some of the machines my boys and I made so far. You know. Get a chance to play a few games for free. I'm a pretty nice guy, so I think I can spare that for you, cause you'll be coming back when it opens in proper next month.

Though if you're gonna send a few bits my way, hey, I don't mind.

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[ceasetoexist]

[Pokey doesn't bother to push the bear away, even if he is getting all up in his grill. He even smiles a little.

He'd maybe smile at the big dumb nerd doing nerd things if it weren't for the fact this wasn't going to be a totally happy conversation.]

So, you remember George, the white rat you met a little while back? Well.

George...isn't a nice guy Teddie. And if given a chance? He'd do a lot of bad things to a lot of people here. But I haven't wanted to, you know...tell on him because I wanted to give him a chance to change.

He hasn't. And I still don't want to screw him over entirely. So I'm doing what you do to any psycho animal: I'm putting him in a cage.

[He points over to the arcade's foundations, the Mr. Saturns eating their lunch inside the barely built skeleton of it.]

That's kind of what that is. But in order to fully make it work? I'm not going to be able to do it alone.

So I might need the help of you and your roach brigade.

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[kingofthetvworld]

[Pokey's serious tone tells Teddie that this must be a serious conversation. Not wanting to kill the mood, he drops his playfulness for now and does his best to look as mature as he can about the situation. ...Which means nodding after just about ever sentence Pokey utters.

When he's finally finished, Teddie can only gasp.]

You're grounding him!

[It was the easiest thing he could think of, in terms of making sense of all this.]

But...I don't get it. Why would you need roachies for something like that?

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[ceasetoexist]

Well, see, the thing is about the cage that you have to let people in with him to keep him there. He wants to use the arcade to hurt others; he probably will hurt others, for a day or two. But then when he thinks he is we're going to change things so he hurts people less and less, until he can't really hurt them at all. I'd explain how we'd do that, but you wouldn't get it.

[He waves a hand in front of Teddie, as if to stress the point. The thought never really crosses his mind as this insulting Teddie; he just expects the bear will believe him on it.]

But as brilliant as my plans are to do that - and trust me, they're brilliant - there's still a chance things could go bad. And if that happens?

I need your roaches to swarm the place and....do roach things, I guess. Teddie, what do you think most people think of roaches?

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[kingofthetvworld]

[It's true, Teddie has a hard time understanding. George seemed nice as far as he knew him, but at the same time? He trusts Pokey a whole lot more than he knows George. And this? It sounds important, or at least Pokey was very good at making it sound that way. To just blow it off seemed unreasonable.]

Well normally they don't like 'em that much. Which is weird, right? All they do is crawl around...

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[ceasetoexist]

Right. People think they're gross. See, a lot of people are going to be coming to this arcade. And George is going to try to hurt a lot of those people. But if the arcade is full of roaches instead of ponies, what'll the ponies do?

[He's throwing you a ball here, Teddie. Lets see if you catch it.]