ITT: We Have All Become Pokémon

"It really just seems to me like you're all falling for this elaborate lie conveniently thought up by people who are too weak to admit their true aggression."

"...okay, which one of you assholes is gonna talk about that Dusknoir you guys fought?"

"So "unwilling to admit your true aggression" can make you suddenly have a dark aura?", he asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Lots of pokemon use dark magic, don't they? Isn't that, like, a whole type? Like dark moves or whatever?"

*Jani tries to zone out and play What a Wonderful World in her head to not have to think of everything being said. unfortunately, her research has effectively come to a halt*

edited 6th Aug '17 2:56:08 PM by sarysa

Sushi, we fought a Dusknoir who nearly murdered all of us.

"I nearly murdered a couple of you. That doesn't mean anything!"

What it means is that the Dusknoir took possession of a Chansey, forced us all into a trick room, manifested itself, and continued to not be able to control himself.

edited 6th Aug '17 2:48:44 PM by Team42Larson

"Sounds like he was pretty in control there if he was able to manipulate you all like that, and, also, do all those other things."

"What's a dusknoir again?"

"No, Marlon, I'm talking about him being a vector, I don't need a goddamn play-by-play of the fight." Eliot seems to be causing a bit of commotion...

"Ooh... this reminds me of that one movie where everyone is an Anthromorphic Animal! I think it was called Zootopia or something..."

edited 6th Aug '17 2:51:38 PM by chianticat10

(I try to calm down.)

Listen, Sushi? If you see a Ribombee with PJ, she's likely a vector of this aggression. If she snaps, you'll see.

"That wasn't a virus, and that doesn't sound like what was happening with the Dusknoir."

"That was a really great movie though."

"I mean, if you say so."

edited 6th Aug '17 2:53:32 PM by Afterwards

"But... what if the VA wasn't a virus? What if it was a government plot to kill off species of Pokémon that they found annoying? But hey, That's just a theory. A ga- Nevermind..."

edited 6th Aug '17 2:54:55 PM by chianticat10

Alright. Jani? You can keep going with your research.

"Ehhhhhhhh that still sounds too much like a crack conspiracy theory."

"That's the point."

"Well, I myself am more partial to the theory of it being less of a virus and more of a curse."

"Especially considering the Dusknoir specifically mentioned hearing a voice calling out to him before he went mad."

"Oh. Whoops, didn't catch the joke there, heh."

"Wait, he said what?"

edited 6th Aug '17 2:57:50 PM by Afterwards

*Jani has slipped out during all the arguing, along with the book she was reading. in her haste, she left her prior notes on the book Marlon has, along with a hastily scrawled, barely legible note saying*

This is just too much. I don't want to wig out in the library, so I have to just disappear for a bit. I'm sorry.

*Jani, herself, is digging back to the inn, with the book in tow*

Didn't the Dusknoir mention a woman that gave him his curse?

"So... the VA was a curse? I kinda saw that coming. Who spreads viruses on purpose? And, no. Don't say Typhoid Mary."

If it's a curse, then how does it spread?

"Assuming this is a real thing, it's more believably a curse than a virus, which means either way those guys are wasting their time trying to search for a cure."

Wait, where did Jani go?

edited 6th Aug '17 3:13:57 PM by Team42Larson