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digitalorunknown) wrote2013-05-05 11:35 am
digitalorunknown) wrote2013-05-05 11:35 am
10 :: video/action for Cherrygrove
[So after a long, grueling four-and-a-half days of traveling through the wilderness while learning how to walk properly, Dorumon and his Bagon arrived in Cherrygrove City. They spent their first night curled up in a bush somewhere, because the concept of inns is something Dorumon hasn't been introduced to yet.
When morning comes, they're hungry (and a little sore, on Dorumon's part. This whole "human body" thing is going to continue to be a pain, isn't it?) So they go to find the food that they were promised they'd find here, looking as shabby and disreputable as a trainer and Pokemon who've been sleeping on the ground and not bathing for a week can.
They do find it, eventually, thanks to Bagon's willingness to run through any pair of open doors he can find. The grocery store, Dorumon decides as he goes through picking up an armful of whatever he recognizes as food, must be this world's greatest feature. It must have very caring overseers. He's smiling as he strolls right out the door with a small pile of apples and meat...]
[video portion 1]
[Hello world, it's a Bagon! This Bagon wants to let those people from before know, via mashing his nose into the camera and growling, that his trainer isn't completely ridiculous anymore and also they found food. So now they're ready to go find you all and show you just how awesome Bagon's going to-
-wait, hold on, something's going on. The camera tilts up. Overhead, Dorumon has stopped, looking back with an expression of wary confusion. There's yelling somewhere offscreen, something about stealing and "come on back here, kid". Dorumon blinks and shakes his head, looking more wary as the seconds tick by. He glances down, then back up.
The yelling gets louder and his eyes suddenly widen. Bagon yelps. The two bolt, video jerking erratically and partially obscured as Bagon hugs the Gear to his chest and hoofs it down the street. A loud thud makes him stop and turn - Dorumon's on the ground, his stuff's everywhere, the man chasing them (the store's manager, now that he and his uniform are on video) is catching up, and...
...from there, it goes right to hell. When the man tries to pick Dorumon up off the ground, the boy just starts fighting, headbutting and yelling and flailing and doing whatever he can to resist the poor, bewildered guy's attempts to restrain a petty thief.
Bagon watches this for a minute, then lets out a battle cry, dropping the Gear. It lands face-down on the ground, picking up more muffled yelling from all three parties for a few more seconds before shutting off.]
[video end]
[After that incident, and after he had everything explained to him and apologized and bought some food properly, Dorumon and Bagon wander around Cherrygrove, eating their lunch and exploring, Dorumon looking a little embarrassed and Bagon looking a little grouchy - and both of them looking very much like they have not only been sleeping on the ground and not bathing for a week, but have also just gotten into a brawl. It doesn't stop Bagon from running up to anything that looks interesting and poking it enthusiastically. Dorumon isn't quite as energetic as that - he's got things on his mind.
Incidentally, Dorumon isn't falling over himself at every step, but he's still not a very graceful walker. They stop a lot for him to lean on walls or sit down and regain his balance.]
[video portion 2]
Where do you get money? [short and sweet.]
When morning comes, they're hungry (and a little sore, on Dorumon's part. This whole "human body" thing is going to continue to be a pain, isn't it?) So they go to find the food that they were promised they'd find here, looking as shabby and disreputable as a trainer and Pokemon who've been sleeping on the ground and not bathing for a week can.
They do find it, eventually, thanks to Bagon's willingness to run through any pair of open doors he can find. The grocery store, Dorumon decides as he goes through picking up an armful of whatever he recognizes as food, must be this world's greatest feature. It must have very caring overseers. He's smiling as he strolls right out the door with a small pile of apples and meat...]
[video portion 1]
[Hello world, it's a Bagon! This Bagon wants to let those people from before know, via mashing his nose into the camera and growling, that his trainer isn't completely ridiculous anymore and also they found food. So now they're ready to go find you all and show you just how awesome Bagon's going to-
-wait, hold on, something's going on. The camera tilts up. Overhead, Dorumon has stopped, looking back with an expression of wary confusion. There's yelling somewhere offscreen, something about stealing and "come on back here, kid". Dorumon blinks and shakes his head, looking more wary as the seconds tick by. He glances down, then back up.
The yelling gets louder and his eyes suddenly widen. Bagon yelps. The two bolt, video jerking erratically and partially obscured as Bagon hugs the Gear to his chest and hoofs it down the street. A loud thud makes him stop and turn - Dorumon's on the ground, his stuff's everywhere, the man chasing them (the store's manager, now that he and his uniform are on video) is catching up, and...
...from there, it goes right to hell. When the man tries to pick Dorumon up off the ground, the boy just starts fighting, headbutting and yelling and flailing and doing whatever he can to resist the poor, bewildered guy's attempts to restrain a petty thief.
Bagon watches this for a minute, then lets out a battle cry, dropping the Gear. It lands face-down on the ground, picking up more muffled yelling from all three parties for a few more seconds before shutting off.]
[video end]
[After that incident, and after he had everything explained to him and apologized and bought some food properly, Dorumon and Bagon wander around Cherrygrove, eating their lunch and exploring, Dorumon looking a little embarrassed and Bagon looking a little grouchy - and both of them looking very much like they have not only been sleeping on the ground and not bathing for a week, but have also just gotten into a brawl. It doesn't stop Bagon from running up to anything that looks interesting and poking it enthusiastically. Dorumon isn't quite as energetic as that - he's got things on his mind.
Incidentally, Dorumon isn't falling over himself at every step, but he's still not a very graceful walker. They stop a lot for him to lean on walls or sit down and regain his balance.]
[video portion 2]
Where do you get money? [short and sweet.]
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Digimon are...more like Pokemon than humans. We're Digital Monsters. [This is the tone of someone who is struggling to find more words to explain a basic concept.] It's just the creatures that live in my world.
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...so...
...the world you live in is digital too? Like, inside-a-computer digital?
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...Where is this question going.]
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[fucking]
[cool.]
So what you're saying is that in the world you come from, there are full, honest-to-God sentient entities in your computer systems. Not programs.
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Where is this host computer? On Earth, somewhere else? Is it the same planet as anyone else around here? What coding languages are all the Digimon made of? What's the Digital World's topography like? Is it something like Hivecraft or completely different? Jesus fuck, who even made you?
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A lot of the Digital World looks like this one. Digimon live in three terminals divided by time to prevent overload, and Yggdrasill created it when the old Digital World collapsed.
I don't know if there's a name for the way everything is coded. I think...I knew there were other worlds out there, but I don't know where Yggdrasill exists in all that.
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[Sollux. Sollux, friend, stop.]
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[ (but also Dorumon. And Dorugamon and Dorugreymon. And the avatar of death. And a lot of zombies.
I'm so sorry.) ]
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You look like a little kid, dude. Kind of judging Yggdrasil's choice in guard right now.
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A lot happened. I became Dorumon again before I came here, so I'm younger...
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...A lot happened.
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[HE WANTS TO KNOW OKAY.]
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...Escaping to the New Digital World didn't fix the problems that destroyed the first one. When it all got reset again, I got reset too.
[He expects this to spawn more questions.]
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What problems? Did someone from the outside world attack them? And how'd you even find a new Digital World anyway?
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[Full solemn mode is a go. This is not a light topic.]
Digimon can keep growing and growing, but even Yggdrasil has limits. So when the Digital World became overpopulated, it became unstable, which triggered the Hazard.
Yggdrasil came up with Project Ark to save it from total collapse and prevent it from ever happening again. [There's a sour note in Dorumon's voice that suggests he doesn't think too highly of that idea.] It generated a new Digital World that just a few chosen Digimon would be evacuated to...and created the X-Program to destroy everything and everyone else.
[But, as he said before, that wasn't enough to fix the problem, so.]
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[Sollux's tone has darkened a little bit as well, but it was pretty dark to begin with.]
So I guess he didn't manage to keep that Hazard out of the quarantine. Does it infect Digimon with some kind of virus or disease?
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Yggdrasil's plan was to control how Digimon would grow in the new world, and how many and what kinds could live. But when it ran the X-Program, some...some Digimon mutated to become immune to it.
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