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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 06:02:27 PM »

Woke up later today than I planned.  Slept fine, though, and the horrid stomach cramps went away.  I'm feeling much, much better, and well-rested.

Just need coffee to chase away the tired eyes.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 24, 2013, 05:59:40 PM »

Giovanni blinked, then shook his head, and muttered something under his breath. "Anyway, yes.  The third option.  Even if Ms Shank were to win, she and her new pet can't stay in Kanto.  They either leave, or she surrenders Mewtwo to be put down.  No matter where they go, however, I doubt they'll find peace.  Other regions might rally to have the beast put down.  Regardless the outcome, somewhere, some day, justice will be done."


After a few minutes, the scientist and his partner returned. "It's time.  Your eyes should be sufficiently dilated."  He looked to Ryuta as his partner proceeded to lead Mewtwo to the door. "We'll bring it back shortly.  Just going to perform a slit-lamp examination of its eyes, have a look at the retina.  We'll bring it back blindfolded, as its eyes will be especially sensitive, and then Yeung and his team can perform the spinal taps."

Mewtwo gave a final knowing nod to Charizardtwo, and then a nod to the rest of the clones as he was led out of the room.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 08:56:21 AM »

I'll save my nerd rage for tomorrow.  I'm headed to bed with horrible stomach cramps.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 05:37:47 AM »

I'll be changing into my pajamas and heading back up to the campfire.  Good night all, if I don't sneak back down online while heading for the bathroom.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 24, 2013, 05:36:30 AM »

Reese nodded. "I'm just watching out for it."  He returned to his magazine.  "Look, I don't know the whole story between Mewtwo and those other Pokemon.  So, it cloned them, that's all.  How, who knows?  Why, who knows?  All I know is that the Charizard has an attitude, and I'm just doing my job to make sure that it doesn't burn Mewtwo's face off."

Mewtwo ignored the exchange and continued speaking to the Charizard. "Listen to me.  Whatever happens, you need to be strong.  You need to protect the others.  I cannot watch over you forever, which was why I sent you out into the world.  Whatever happens to me, you need to be there for the others.  Be strong, remain in control.  You are all living beings, you all belong in this world.  Do not put yourselves at risk."

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 05:17:13 AM »

...Awkward.

Anywho, I'll be camping out tonight and putting the iPad up to charge.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 02:06:05 AM »

Got the campfire going.  Time for me to go be social.  I was spending the time gathering kindling and protecting Mabel from being manhandled by the overzealous kids.

Now the kids are talking about something they're playing, and my niece said she doesn't want to be evil.  I said, "but, being evil is so much more fun!"

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 12:25:53 AM »

I may draw something later, but I was in the middle of dinner when they started with the requests.  So, I also had the excuse of eating.  Now, they're occupying themselves.  Last I checked, the boys are playing around with sticks and Nerf guns, and the girls decided to play "hospital."

I'm going to go gather kindling for the campfire.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 12:17:33 AM »

Yep, and I told them plainly that that's not how you make a request.  And then I discussed my rates and the requests stopped cold.

Everything stops cold when I start listing my commission rates.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 24, 2013, 12:12:17 AM »

My niece's birthday party is in full swing.  I'm now looking for escapes.  Too many kids, and I've already gotten art requests, mainly in the form of "draw something!"

I'm not a machine.  I'd prefer if you ask nicely, rather than order me around.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 10:46:16 PM »

The man stooped and unlatched the crate, stepping back. "Come on out, we're just going to put in some drops.  We'll have to wait a few minutes for them to take effect."

After a moment, Mewtwo finally emerged, standing to his full height and cracking his back.  He stretched his legs, and then crouched to be at a satisfactory eye level.

"Hold still," the man nodded.  He motioned for his assistant, who tilted Mewtwo's head backward and held it.  The technician uncapped one of the dropper bottles and held Mewtwo's eye open, putting in a few drops. "Good, good, now the other one..." he repeated the process with the other eye. "Blink a few times for me, make sure the drops are in."  He put the bottle in his pocket and pulled out another. "This one will numb your eyes, and you'll start to feel that right away.  Hold still, please," he held Mewtwo's eyelids open and administered the drops, then repeated the process with the other eye. "Good, good.  Now, we'll wait for a few minutes, then test your eye pressure."

Without being bidden, his assistant took a small case from her pocket and opened it, removing a pen-like instrument.  Handing it to her partner, she positioned herself beside Mewtwo again and tilted his head back, holding it in place. "Just relax, we'll make this quick."

The scientist nodded. "Hold very still and look directly at the ceiling," again holding Mewtwo's eyelids open, he carefully dabbed the end of the probe against the clone's eye until the instrument let out a beep. "Good, good, doing the other one," he repeated the same process with the other eye. "Good, good.  Your eye pressure is good.  Now, you sit tight, and we'll come back again and take you to have a look inside your eyes." Smiling, he and his partner left the room.

Mewtwo blinked a few times, the surface of his eyes completely numb.  He glanced at his crate, none too eager to crawl back inside.  As the dilating drops took effect, the lights in the room became brighter as his imprisoned clones became blurry.  Noting the Charizard's distress, Mewtwo made his way to the crate to speak privately with it.

Reese glanced up. "Careful, there.  That Charizard isn't very nice."

Mewtwo responded by shooting a glare over his shoulder. "Mind your own business."  He looked back to the Charizard, isolating his telepathy. "I am working to draw their attention away from you and the others.  It will take time, but we will leave here.  However, for our own safety, we need to follow their rules.  The incident that had brought you all here... it is being blamed entirely on me, and thus I am working to prove your innocence... and in doing that, I must take care to avoid putting myself in further jeopardy..."

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 08:57:19 PM »

Reese glanced up from his magazine and shrugged.  He looked over to Yeung, who was in an adjacent room, preoccupied with a phonecall.  Shrugging again, Reese returned to his magazine.

The door opened and two scientists entered, one of them a bespectacled older gentleman with a pleasing face.  He walked through the room and toward Mewtwo's crate, nodding to Ryuta and Joe. "I'm just here to do an eye exam."  He leaned down and looked at Mewtwo. "Hello there.  I'm just going to put some drops in your eyes so we can examine them.  Will you let me do that?"  He looked to Ryuta and Joe again. "I'm going to put in drops to dilate and numb its eyes, so we can assess eye pressure and have a look inside."

Mewtwo shifted about again, ready to accept any excuse to get out of the crate, even if it was for more tests.


Giovanni sat back in his seat and smiled at Jenny. "I have colleagues who wish to keep Mewtwo, to study it.  But, they lack something that I have; experience.  I've seen Mewtwo's powers in action.  I've seen its abilities.  I've seen the aftermath of its controlled and uncontrolled powers first-hand, and I've been lucky to escape with my own life after it targeted me."

He sighed and leaned forward, resting his hands on his knees and clasping his hands together. "Listen, I understand why my colleagues feel that we should keep it.  Mewtwo is a very valuable creature.  Its creation cost a lot of money, and it was wrought with problems from the start.  We were very happy when Mewtwo survived, and even more happy to know that it was healthy.  But, really...  I've dealt with Mewtwo's temperament, and I know how dangerous it is.  At this moment, I do not have a viable way of keeping it restrained, and I can't set one up on such short notice.  It may be cooperative now, but how long will that last?"

He sat back again. "Let's face it.  Mewtwo hates my guts.  I know it and you know it.  It hates everyone, as it lacks empathy.  It was built to battle, and that's all it knows.  All it knows is how to destroy.  Everything I've done to contain it has been futile, and really," he gave an all-encompassing shrug as his face took on a defeated and saddened look, "I'm running out of options.  I'm at the end of my rope, and the most I can do now is protect the people within our nation."

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 23, 2013, 05:05:47 PM »

I'm still at my half-brother's.  It's raining and the kids are getting antsy.  They're watching Bicentennial Man on YouTube.

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 23, 2013, 08:59:17 AM »

I need to go to bed shortly.  But, on the wildlife front, I found a large female katydid this evening.  She was sitting by the porchlight with a moth on her butt.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 08:15:37 AM »

Yeung smiled. "Excellent, excellent.  I'm in Vermilion, currently, at the Pokemon Institute.  I have a few more tests I'd like to run on the clone, as it has a rather bizarre growth that I need to investigate.  Some imaging, mostly, nerve conduction, biopsy, possibly get in there and see what we're dealing with.  But, after that, we can get started when you're ready.  Though, since this clone is part of an ongoing investigation, we need to be careful with what we do with it.  It might be questioned at a later date, even need to testify, but after that, it just goes straight to a battle trial."

He glanced at his computer again. "It's a shame that Giovanni wants to euthanize it.  I may see if we can put in a request to gain custody of it, should Giovanni win the case."  He paused. "The other talking Pokemon is a genetic stock for the clone's, well clones.  A clone cloning more clones," he chuckled, "isn't that absurd?"

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Entertainment / Re: Sonic the Hedgehog Comics

« on: August 23, 2013, 07:47:14 AM »

I may get back into Sonic, then.  But that depends on how often I can get to a comic store.  I've been wanting to read the crossover, but hearing how it's been pretty meh, I'll just wait for the trade.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 07:14:48 AM »

Ryuta glances towards Mewtwo again before turning his focus back towards Reese, "I think for the sake of staying on track, you'd best just have your colleagues take samples from only Mewtwo and only tout his clones as involuntary accomplices who were unaware of what the culprit imitating him could do."


Hierophant and Jenny remained nonchalant while Phoenix seemed equally dumbfounded by Otto's transformation into a Pokemon bearing the colors of his clothes and skin.  Yan-Yan, feeling that everyone's had their fill of what he can do, quickly retreats back towards Hierophant, causing Otto to lose the shape he turned into and revert back to his original appearance.

Jenny stays neutral as she writes down what she sees on a notepad she carried with her before looking towards Phoenix, "I think it's best you add this to your own notes right now.  I don't think we can afford an encore without drawing the rest of the Institute's attention."

Hierophant remained silent a moment before looking towards Jenny, "Can I be excused a moment.  There's something I need to do before we head back to the station."

Jenny looks towards Hierophant, somewhat unsure of letting him wander the facility unattended, but figuring he knew something he feels will draw the attention of the more sketchy members of the Institute if she and Phoenix followed after him.

"This might go against regulations...." she mutters, "But as long as you're back here in ten minutes I guess I should let you do what you need to do so no one else knows the capabilities of these cards."

Hierophant nods as he heads out of the hallway, relying on Yan-Yan's ability to sense Tarot Skitty and the remaining cards to lead him through the hallways in search of where they were being kept.

Walters had recovered and taken the Ditto into another room.  Otto himself still seemed flustered, but eventually excused himself back to his duties, while Schwartzbaugh thanked Jenny for the demonstration. "That was certainly... unexpected.  Since we're here, is there anything else you might need?  The other Pokemon involved in the incident, we're waiting on orders from the precinct."

Down the hall, Domino had excused herself from her office and made her way to the women's restroom.  She had a terrible headache and her lunch had given her stomach cramps, and trying to figure out Giovanni's mysterious ways was not helping matters.  Readjusting her pigtails, she shouldered her purse and gave one last look to her office before heading down the hall.  Seeing Heirophant walk toward her direction, she dropped her gaze and fiddled with her smartphone.

"Well? I'm in the middle of a scientific breakthrough that...shouldn't go untouched upon any longer." Steiner smiled at the large green tube.

Soon, very soon everything will be under him. With the sheer power Ahrzayl....or Azrial should he say, nothing will stand against him. The base would launch to space and he would control everything with his chaotic queen. As he listened to what the doctor had plans for he steadily became lost in thought within his mind. Not minding the blinking red button on the wall.

The hangar was havoc. The thrusters of the Superia blew wind all around, throwing the workers and scientists around the large room. Some were on ropes, trying their best to get onto the giant ship that was swerving out of control. The cleaning crew and a few others were hiding behind crates, trying to radio to Steiner about the situation.

"...that's basically the gist of it," Yeung explained. "You've done more work in this field than anyone, so I'd like your help with this project.  The thing that's holding me up, aside from the police, is the fact that I don't know how the Shadow Pokemon process will affect talking Pokemon.  I have two of them, one's a Meowth that taught itself to speak, and the other's a telepathic clone that--get this--made its own clones.  For highly-intelligent Pokemon, I'm concerned with what could basically be a lobotomy."  He glanced at his computer, pulling up a recent e-mail, which he read with a despondent sigh.  "But... Now Giovanni's changing his mind, so if you're busy, then don't worry about it.  I mean, we got the clone, and we can do anything we want with it, but now he's talking about just euthanizing it.  It's too dangerous, he says."

Yeung gave off another sigh.  He didn't like Giovanni's alternate plan one bit.  It seemed like a waste to spend so much money on creating a powerful and highly-intelligent creature, only to turn around and destroy it for its sheer disobedience.

"If you already got something you're working on, then I'm sorry I bugged you."  Yeung turned away from his computer.  "Good to hear from you again, though..."

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: August 23, 2013, 06:49:14 AM »

Same here. But thinking like that actually made me want to eat them.

That's why I love broccoli so much.

OM NOM NOM TREEEEEEEEEEEES 

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Entertainment / Re: At The Movies With RPM

« on: August 23, 2013, 06:43:08 AM »

Go home, Internet.  You're drunk.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 06:40:24 AM »

"I think it's got something to do with the stripes and the mottling," Reese shrugged.  "Wants to make sure they're not diseased or anything."  He shrugged again. "But, if they're just clones, and Mewtwo's the only real factor in this, then I guess we could just skip them.  Not sure what to do with the clones, though, haven't heard from my supervisor."

Mewtwo gave off a low growl. "Whatever you wish to know about my clones, I will tell you.  Do not involve them in your testing."

"Whatever you say," Reese shrugged. "Look, I'm just doing my job.  Mooney comes in next, and he can give you more info.  I'm just a lab tech.  You need me to get samples, I'll do it, but really, I don't have a lot of say."  He glanced at the schedule again. "But, hey, if you really want to take your little clone buddies' places, then we'll get some skin scrapings off of you.  Doesn't make a difference to me."


Otto nodded and held Yan-Yan, pointing the design towards the Ditto.  He waited for a long moment until the Ditto assumed the correct shape, and a few moments later, Otto dropped his gaze to the floor, quiet and distant.  An odd glow began to surround his body, which caused Walters to back up.  Another few minutes passed, and Otto had assumed an almost-holographic semblance of his Ditto's shape.

Walters let out a startled gasp and Schwartzbaugh's jaw dropped.  Even the Ditto emitted a sharp squeak, which snapped Otto from his trance, the apparition fading.  His grip loosened, dropping the card as he came to his senses.

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Roleplay / Re: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

« on: August 23, 2013, 05:03:17 AM »

Dr. Walters returned with a young male Trainer. "This is Otto, he specializes in Dittos."

Otto gave a nod and doffed his cap. "How do you do?"

"Otto is a three-time League champion and is currently interning here to advance his studies in Pokemon transformation," Walters explained.


Joe nodded to Ryuta, and then looked to Reese. "So, when's the next evaluation?"

Reese glanced up, and then made his way to a computer, pulling up a schedule. "Okay, um... Okay, Yeung's got a lumbar puncture scheduled for Mewtwo later.  Two, actually.  He also wants some skin scrapings of the Blastoise..."

Mewtwo bristled at the mention of his Blastoise clone. "Leave my clones out of this."

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: August 23, 2013, 04:47:49 AM »

I always saw eating broccoli as a giant eating tiny trees.

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: August 23, 2013, 04:33:41 AM »

I love broccoli, but I don't particularly care for carrots.  I'll eat them, but I don't necessarily like them.

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Entertainment / Re: At The Movies With RPM

« on: August 23, 2013, 04:32:14 AM »

Ben Affleck as Batman... That's... that's... I don't... what the...

*brain BSoD*

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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth

« on: August 23, 2013, 01:33:31 AM »

Over at my half-brother's.  Stomach's been acting up since dinner.