011 | Goldenrod City | Video / Action;

[nostabbing]

[It's a legitimately beautiful day in the neighborhood when the video comes on — the skies are partly cloudy but there are streaks of sun in places, and there's no snow on the ground. Rather, a bunch of probably incredibly confused plants have evidently decided that spring has arrived egregiously early this year, and are already starting to bud; the grass around is turning greener with every passing day, and ordinarily Parker would probably approve of that because green is objectively the best color, but today, she's...

Well.

From the looks of things, she's sitting against a tree in black jeans, a T-shirt, and a flannel hoodie over; her hair is long and a veritable mess, because she hasn't bothered to tie it back and she certainly hasn't bothered to brush it lately. And she's not really looking at the camera, despite being the one who intentionally turned it on. There's an equally tired-looking Eevee (one that, strangely, seems to be wearing a little white uniform with red trim) snuggled against her chest, and flanking her on either side are Nate the Mightyena (still in his dapper fedora) and Sophie the Ninetales (still in her diamond necklace collar), snug against her sides as though they're standing guard.

The camera angle is haphazard and sideways — not quite a Myspace angle, but clearly chosen without a whole lot of care for how the picture ultimately comes out.

Probably because it's a good reflection of Parker's mood right now.]

It's sixty-five degrees outside. In January.

[When she speaks, her voice is dull and flat — almost robotic, in the way she's just sort of pushing the words out.]

In January.

[A pause.]

Is the world ending? Maybe the world's ending.

[There's another pause, and this time when she speaks it's under her breath, more to herself than to the camera.]

Yeah. Maybe that's it.

[For a brief time, she doesn't say anything more, and then just when it's starting to look like she's forgotten she's still recording, the camera jiggles as her hand moves, and almost as an afterthought she switches the feed off.]

Comments

[video]

[rocketralph]

Maybe someone hit the reset button?

_{[Brickhead here comes from the land of perpetual summer.]}

[video]

[nostabbing]

Maybe.

[For a minute, it looks like that's all she's going to say, but then— ]

But then everything'd be fixed. Wouldn't it.

[video]

[rocketralph]

<sub>[That was a good question. Sometimes resets worked and sometimes they didn't. Sometimes things got worse. Or you got a blue screen.]

[It starts to sink in that Alice isn't her peppy jump-across-rooftops self today.]</sub>

Not necessarily but...I don't think the world's endin'.

[video]

[twinsanity]

I doubt the world is ending - this seems about normal to me, actually.

[video]

[nostabbing]

Maybe you're just weird.

[Thanks, Parker.]

[video]

[twinsanity]

No, I'm pretty sure the entire Southern Hemisphere feels the same way.

[Siiiiiiigh.]

So do you want someone to ask you about it, or are you just looking for idle conversation?

[snotfaced]

[OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE BOTHERED BY THIS.]

It's totally ending. That's gotta be it!

[nostabbing]

Yeah. It's not...supposed to be like this.

[Assuredly she is still talking about the weather. Yup.]

[snotfaced]

Right? We should be getting blizzards! The snow's not supposed to be melting, yet.

[He nods, sure of it now.]

The sky'll probably go red like blood any minute, now.

video

[saxsongs]

... I'd rather not have another end of the world. One was enough.

video

[nostabbing]

So this just...happens? The game just ends. Bad stuff happens and...

video

[saxsongs]

I wouldn't go that far. I mean, yeah, the weather's weird, but it doesn't necessarily mean the end. I imagine we'd have a freaky storm that wrecks everything if that was the case. Like the one we had last Christmas...

Voice

[strongestoftheturks]

...don't think so.

[The end of the world usually involves a giant meteor summoned by a crazy genetically altered super soldier.]

Voice

[nostabbing]

So what, then. It's just hot out?

Voice

[strongestoftheturks]

Could be.

[Weirder things have happened here then a spell of hot weather.]

[video]

[captainash]

The world already ended December before last. I don't think they'd do it again so quickly.

[Johto is usually more creative, from what he's seen.]

[video]

[nostabbing]

People keep saying that.

So does the game just break or something...?

[video]

[captainash]

Hell if I know. There was light, and there was a lot of damage, but other than that everyone was fine.

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[This is somebody Blake shouldn't talk to, and he knows it. The smart thing to do is stick the phone in a drawer and go back to regrouting the kitchen tile (yeah, these apartments are supposed to do their own maintenance, but he couldn't let it slide, the shit was fucking disgraceful.)

He never was real good at leaving well enough alone.

He pulls off his gloves, sits back on his heels, and hits the button to respond.]

There's a corner I used to drive by all the time. There was always this guy out there hanging around, handing out pamphlets about how the end of the world is coming any minute now.

He was there for a good five years. For all I know, he still is.

[video]

[nostabbing]

[Oh, it's this guy. And believe it or not, Parker actually doesn't get mad — at least, she hasn't yet — but that's mostly just because she's too out of it to want to muster the strength to bother.

The saving grace there is, her voice comes out dull and flat, completely lacking in the severity that would ordinarily accompany an accusation.]

Bet you thought he was crazy, right. You punch him, too?

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[The lady's not even pissed off to see him. ..that can't be good.

Her voice sounds weird, too. None of the annoying chirpiness or piss and vinegar it usually has.]

Oh, yeah, he was crazy as a soup sandwich. Harmless, though. Never gave us any trouble.

It's a fuckin' beautiful day. What's your problem?

video;

[lullabytes]

Maybe Onox, General of Darkness, has come here...? We should talk to the Maku tree immediately.

[ ..............Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. ]

video;

[nostabbing]

...You want to talk to a tree?

[video]

[crystalballer]

I dunno Alice-chi, I haven't gotten any premonitions suggesting it but the weather's definitely weird.

[But that's not the only weird thing about Alice's post. There's...quite a lot wrong actually.]

Is that Eeveemaru?

[[OOC: I'm late to this, I hope that's okay. idk how I missed it, it's totally something Hagakure would react to.]]

[video]

[nostabbing]

[Oh, right. Hagakure. He'd know if the world were ending, wouldn't he? Yeah. Yeah, he'd know.

So he must be right. Probably.]

Yeah. I stole him.

[Eeveemaru, she means.]


[OOC: It's fine!]