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[usedhat]

[the Gear feed displays a young adult, somewhat androgynous, leaning more towards male than anything else. he? has a serious look on his face, hat pulled up slightly to show exactly how serious said look is.]My name is Naoto Shirogane. I'm a detective from Japan, and I'm curious as to know how many other people have been kidnapped and brought here

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[usedeverything]

[ laladeda, just trying to catch up everything here in Goldenrod and looking much better than a few weeks ago. Now, let's just check the network if there's anything ne-- OH SNAP ]

--Naoto?

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[usedeverything]

[ OH SNAP IS IT HER OH MAN IT IS BUT... guess she got her memory restarted so don't mention that right now. Just put on a smile, Seta. ]

Glad to see you.

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[usedhat]

[--oh! well, Souji is here-- that's good. she looks a little pleased about that.

I'm glad to see you, as well. [but that's not something to dwell on, for the moment, there are much more important matters at hand.]

Do you know what's going on?

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[usedeverything]

[ well, let's start this introduction thing by asking the same question he always gives. ]

Ever played or heard of the Pokemon video games?

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[quickattackjack]

Hello! There are a lot of us, I'm afraid. Some of us have been here an entire year.

As for me...I walked from one room to another and--here I was.

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[usedhat]

[if they've been here that long, and arriving here is that simple, then it bends the laws of the already bent reality Naoto is familiar with. there's a faint frown, there, at the information, if not the messenger.]

That's quite strange. In a year, no one has gathered any clues on how we've come to arrive here?

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[quickattackjack]

[Jack shrugs.]

Search me. It's not so bad after a while...but someone told me once that collecting badges might be a way home.

Sometimes, folks will go home at random.

[video]

[usedhat]

If we're supposed to become a champion, that would be the way to encourage it. [her tone is a little crisp, but not altogether unfriendly]

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[shieldofjustice]

Unfortunately, no one knows how we got here or how to return. I've been here for a long time and have yet to find out any information of the sort.

You wouldn't by any chance happen to be a friend of Rise Kujikawa, would you?

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[usedhat]

--I would be, yes. [it's still a touch strange to admit that she has friends, but overall, not an unenjoyable feeling.]

She's here, as well?

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[shieldofjustice]

She is. We arrived here around the same time together, and traveled together for quite some time.

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[usedhat]

How long ago was that?

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[photonsaber]

I just kinda slept as if it was a normal day and when I woke up, I was in another room.

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[usedhat]

[a frown. the different ways everyone arrived here-- it's harder to tell what might be going on, like this.]

There was nothing unusual about your day prior to arriving here?

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[photonsaber]

Nope! It was just your every day stuff like beating up machines and robots and making land... Nothing new.

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[usedhat]

[a very minuscule brow arch. she can't talk; she's helped beat up machines before.]

I see. Thank you for the information.

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[isthisourchance]

[Chie's outside Goldenrod, aiming to take out the last straggler Shedinjas, when she notices her gear blinking with a new post on the feed. She pops it open, and -- well, isn't this a nice face to see!]

Naoto-kun! You're ba-- [She stumbles mid-word and rallies with:] Y-You're here! Ehehe, um, welcome to Johto!

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[usedhat]

["back", were you about to say? oh, that's a mite suspicious.]

I didn't honestly expect for all of us to be here.

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[isthisourchance]

[Oh, she'll explain if she's asked! But she doesn't want to dump all the weirdness on Naoto at once.]

Yeah, neither did I. But apart from Yukiko, the whole team's here now! So, um, has anyone told you the basics yet?

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[usedhat]

--Yukiko isn't here? [that gets a bit of a furrowed brow of all the people to leave out...]

I've heard a small amount-- more pertaining to how to leave than anything else, admittedly.