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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 5, 2019 5:17:56 GMT
Welp, that answers that. "Oh, sorry, didn't mean to startle you." Nori shakes his head and rubs the back of his neck. "For a minute there you looked like somebody I knew, but I must have been mistaken. I'm Nori, Nori Honda."
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Post by ventix on Jul 5, 2019 5:27:13 GMT
Yue shakes her head. "Whatever triggered this was already spreading when we got there, she was just trying to keep me away from it."
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Post by snark on Jul 5, 2019 5:35:59 GMT
"Interesting. You see, that implies she knew something about the phenomenon - enough to want to keep you away from it, at any rate. I wonder... If she also remembers, is this her first time through?"
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Post by lichlord on Jul 5, 2019 5:56:43 GMT
She stares at Nori for a second.
"Thank Arceus, it's the Nori I remember. Come with me, now."
She grabs Nori by his shirt and leads him out of the building to avoid prying ears. Once there.
"Ok so you are wtfing about this as well right? Unless this is some sort of weird game, cause just a few minutes ago you acted like we never met, hit on me with all the nuance of a Golem, and then you joined your friends and fell asleep. And nobody was paying attention, save for me."
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 5, 2019 6:13:59 GMT
Nori isn't sure what he was expecting, but her sudden pronouncement catches him off-guard... but it's a relief, too.
Once they're outside and Alexa explains what's going on, Nori's even more confused. "If the thing I'm supposed to be wtfing about is the time loop, then hell yes. As far as I'm aware, my friends and I were just outside Pewter City, right where it hits Route 3, and there was this... darkness. I thought it was a storm but it wasn't right. And then we wound up back here, just a minute ago - probably when you said we all fell asleep."
He frowns. "But what you're saying is really weird. Because for a start it means you... 'woke up,' or whatever happened, before we did. And also that things aren't going the same way this time, even without us. I know I didn't talk to you before the tournament last time. And I definitely didn't hit on you, I try not to do that out of the blue." The frown turns into a sheepish grin for a moment. "Though I, uh, can't promise I'd be a lot more subtle if I did."
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Post by ventix on Jul 5, 2019 6:19:23 GMT
"Are you guys kissing yet?" Yue asks, leaning her head out of the building and looking at Nori and Alex. "Hmmmm...Guess I should give you a few more minutes..." She says, drawing her head back into the building.
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 5, 2019 6:33:00 GMT
Nori turns bright red. "Yue! I swear to Arceus this is not a good time for that!"
Once she's withdrawn, he turns back to Alexa, still blushing. "Sorry. Uh. Yue does actually remember, she's just... like that. All of our group does. Remember, I mean." As far as he knows, anyway. He supposes it's possible Nue doesn't remember, but it's not like she wouldn't ninja-vanish and guard Yue anyway, so if she doesn't he thinks she'll probably figure it out.
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Post by lichlord on Jul 5, 2019 6:39:10 GMT
"Well it was just a lot more obnoxious like you were way more confident but less careful-"
She shakes her head.
"Not important. But I was in Pewter too and yeah there was that weird darkness I saw for a second, and then next thing I know I'm here... maybe like twenty minutes ago? And yeah, things are different. I'm usually pretty aware, and we are missing like half the people here. But I don't think we are in the same loop. I saw the professor, and holy shit she's like a completely different person."
She looks over in confusion at Yue, and when she retreats, Alexa shakes her head. She's had a weird enough time to aknowledge that right now.
"But nobody else seems to remember. Hell I was traveling with some other trainers from here like you did, and we were all commenting on that weird 'storm' or whatever but none of them remember. Only me. I mean I guess if you experienced it up front that would make sense of why you remember but..."
She looks down.
"Maybe it's cause I'm genre savvy? I mean I've seen way too many movies and shows like this. Could that be it? I mean I've seen Bidoof day enough to quote most of it by heart..."
That last bit is... off. Nori can only think of Patrat day, not a bidoof in sight.
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Post by oddeyes on Jul 5, 2019 6:51:19 GMT
Gwen continued to sit at the table, and clutching her precious egg close to her. This was suuuper F'd up. The others seemed to be catching on, and forming theories, but Gwen was at a loss. What the hell are they going to do!?
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 5, 2019 6:58:34 GMT
"That... sorta makes sense? I was going to ask you if you remembered 'cause I thought people who knew us might be more likely to remember, but genre savvy kind of makes sense too - wait, what?"
Nori blinks and rewinds her last sentence in his head. "... Do you mean Patrat Day? You know, the movie with Bill Mudbray reliving Patrat Day over and over?" Bidoof Day was new. He was pretty sure they called the whole holiday Patrat Day, because there weren't any Chespin in Unova and that was what they'd used to tell how long winter was going to be.
Of course, weird timeline things, himself acting weird, a different professor, and now this... "Oh, geez. Alexa, I think we're in an alternate universe. We might not even be from the same one, if you've got different movies like that."
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Post by lichlord on Jul 6, 2019 4:17:12 GMT
Alexa looks like her head hurts for a minute.
"Uhhh yeah no Patrat day- or is it?"
She rubs the back of her neck, obviously looking really concerned.
"How... How do you feel? Does your brain feel really fuzzy all of a sudden?"
She makes a sudden move to round to her bag and pulls out a pen and paper.
"Ok I need to start writing shit down before I lose it cause I think that's what's happening."
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 6, 2019 4:35:46 GMT
Nori shakes his head. "I'm not getting that, I just feel... good. Which is weird -"
He cuts off when he sees how concerned she looks. "Oh, geez, you mean you're forgetting? That's..." Going all Parting Shot, evidently. "Is there anything I can do?"
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Post by lichlord on Jul 6, 2019 4:38:43 GMT
"Yeah I'm going to start writing and if you don't feel this way then please confirm what's before and what you don't recognize. We can go back with your friends if you'd like."
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 6, 2019 4:41:07 GMT
"Probably write first, move after, if you're losing stuff." This has Nori really concerned now, since Alexa seems to have been the only one who remembered anything in the first place. Though her reaction to the Patrat Day thing makes him doubt his impression that she's from a third timeline...
"Okay, I'm gonna be right inside, so call me if you need me, okay?"
Nori ducks back into the cafeteria to go fill the others on what they've established - the apparent alternate timeline and Alexa's losing things. "So somebody besides us remembers, but I don't know what's up here. Either she's from another timeline, or this one's messing with her memories." He bites his lip. "... Which I guess means there's a chance it's going to start doing it to ours, too. So... be on the lookout if it looks like we're forgetting stuff or remembering it differently, okay? Apparently I'm kind of a jerk in this timeline."
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Post by Lessah on Jul 6, 2019 21:58:23 GMT
? Hmm. She never had that dream before? That she could remember. So maybe she had had that dream before? Oww. Stella massaged her temple to help the flow of thoughts. No, she was fairly certain that was new. New-ish. Maybe just a childhood memory jumbled loose? That could happen. Yeah. Good enough. For now.
She looked up and around the table at her time-traveling friends. She wasn't sure what they were supposed to do. Visit a professor and hope they could explain? Continue their journey and try to avoid glitches? Or chase after Yue's not-friend. Uncertain she asked - "Now?"
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Post by ventix on Jul 6, 2019 22:14:32 GMT
"Hmmmm...You look a lot healthier than you did last time around, Nono? Did you get sick a lot as a kid last time? If not, then maybe in this timeline you didn't, so your upbringing and personality was different?" Yue says, offering the rare insightful remark.
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Post by Lessah on Jul 6, 2019 22:22:05 GMT
Stella gives "Yue" a long suspicious look. That conclusion sounded very reasonable. Had the time-travel-event taken their Yue?!
Then she gave Nori a quick glance to confirm that yes "Yue" was right.
And back to "Yue" again. Stella carefully reached out to poke her to make sure it wasn't a ditto or something...
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Post by snark on Jul 6, 2019 22:27:59 GMT
"You do seem slightly taller," Melissa adds, scrutinizing Nori closely for a minute. "So your friend remembers but differently, that's fascinating. A result of her proximity to the anomaly? Close contact with us? Some other factor? We could test the first by asking around in Pewter City. The second... did anyone else have friends or acquaintances here, outside our little group?"
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Post by ventix on Jul 6, 2019 22:32:08 GMT
Yue gasps. "Mara!" She shouts, before getting up and running off to find her favorite Ditto girl.
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Post by Lessah on Jul 6, 2019 22:40:54 GMT
"Mara"? That was a strange thing to shout. Oh well. "Hmm." Stella tries to think if she knew anyone nearby. But other then the people at the table, plus the real Yue, she didn't think so.
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