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Dec. 14th, 2020 02:58 am
vrdantwind: (If I'm right here with you)
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"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

Date: 2020-12-27 05:37 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (relaxed)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Hand to hand, no pokemon. There's certain ground rules all the matches have to follow and if you break them you forfeit the match.

... and honestly, he qualifies because having seen as much as I did in his cave video, I want the chance to look at him for a prolonged period of time with his shirt off and inviting him to a shirt-optional fighting club seemed a less sleazy way to cash in my favor for it than anything else.

Date: 2020-12-27 08:57 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (paper)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Right, sorry.

No killing, no. Not that you *can* kill people here--what happens instead is that right before you die, you instead poof away to a pokecenter where you wake up fully healed (and fully sober) with half your money gone. (I've known two people it happened to.) But suffice to say, if someone *does* get 'sent to a pokecenter', it counts as an automatic forfeit of the surviving combatant and possible grounds for a banning, depending if it was on purpose or accidental.

Fights are 'til knock out (rarely) or (more often) until one of the combatants cries uncle. Maiming is frowned upon and grounds for a suspension or banning. Combatants either register for a fight together or they put their name on the list of fighters without opponents and then they're matched up going down the list. There's no division by weight class, but there is by age, to keep grown adults from fighting fifteen-year-olds.

Date: 2020-12-27 02:56 pm (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (distracted)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
*We* can't, anyway. I'm not sure if it applies to the native people of this world and I'm not going to murder one to find out.

Date: 2020-12-29 08:22 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Exactly. I'm assuming it's death by murder or misadventure that are prevented, not natural causes.

Date: 2020-12-29 08:42 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (earnest)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
No, you're right. I probably should go research that. And maybe even if there's any record of attempted murders among the native people of this world. Even if most ways of death are prohibited, there's always being pushed from somewhere high.

Date: 2020-12-29 09:14 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (wait what)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Seriously? An actual death threat?

Date: 2020-12-29 10:26 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (upfront)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
[Oh. Right. His little slit throat gesture. He'd hardly meant it. If he'd really meant to kill Claude, if he'd meant to do anything but taunt him, he'd have had Acatl teleport with him to about a hundred feat up and then let go.

(He remembers forcing a Loyalist off a roof his first Hunt of the Leaves. He hadn't really gotten a chance to look at the body, what with all the cops getting in the way, but at least he'd gotten in and out of the man's location without being noticed.)

This Claude has an interesting mind. Such a pity he wasn't a real Rocket]


I'd like to see that research too.

[He wonders if Beta rank is enough to access it.]

Date: 2020-12-29 11:10 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (wait what)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
[What.

Steven reads over Claude's reply once more, but it doesn't change.

What the fucking fuck?

Who the fuck is just... telling people that? Seriously? Seriously?

He's scowling as he types his own reply.]


I'd suspect they'd use both the carrot and the stick, whatever that may mean here.

Date: 2020-12-30 02:38 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (relaxed)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of people in my world willing to do practically anything for a job with health insurance or a pension plan or any of that. Throw in vision or dental and that's a pretty big carrot in itself.

[Steven would say that even if he hadn't spent the last two months before Arceus snatched him up doing day labor, for lack of a legal identity.]

But honestly, I think you're right that it really might be that most of what Team Rocket does... isn't that awful, at least compared to the way that organized crime works back in most of our worlds. I think the worst thing they've done since I came to this world was try to steal Lapras from the wildlife sanctuary--and even then, they did it so incompetently that Armin was able to assemble a team to rescue them within *days*--and this with a concussion!

Date: 2020-12-30 07:01 pm (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (paper)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Don't worry about it. Just know they'd be sufficient bribes for someone from my world.

Team Rocket *does* take Pokemon directly from people, either through pick-pocketing or by making the claiming of the loser's pokeballs part of a battle's terms. That really can't be denied. But otherwise...

Well. Just a list of things I remember Team Rocket doing since I got here, just by going with what got on the news or I heard about later (or in one case I was actually *there* for):

February - Stealing from the Pewter Museum Vaults
March - Stealing the Goldenrod Granbulls' Mascot 'Zeus'/Destroying Baseball
May - Stealing Lapras from the Wildlife Preserve
June - Terrorizing Kurt the Ball-maker and Stranding Him In The Slowpoke Well
July??? - (nothing on the news Sento Kiryuu starts claiming there's been a series of single night crime sprees in various cities, like some sort of muggle speedrun)
August (Pre-Sinnoh Trip) - Stealing Shinies From A Dog Show (in which I was in the audience)
August (During Sinnoh Trip) - The Tricky Bandits Steal From Wealthy People And Set Traps In Their Homes
August (End of Month) - Evolutionary Stone Heist at the Blackthorn Mine
September (Mid) - Raid on the Fuschia Gym Ends With Them Blowing A Hole In It To Escape The Jennies

And nothing since then, apart from the Christmas market, though I suppose there's been plenty of small scale single individual crime that just doesn't make the news. I mean, don't get me wrong, Team Rocket is a pain and a half, but they're not nearly as terrifying as they by all rights should be.
Edited Date: 2020-12-30 07:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-01-01 06:14 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (relaxed)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
[Steven blinks twice, than rereads what he just typed.]

... a typo for 'mugging.' My God, I need a nap.

But yeah, August was pretty nuts as far as Rocket activity went. But I know most of us people from other worlds were gone for the middle of it, so that might have had something to do with it? Since, uh, it looks like otherworlders are better at fighting Team Rocket than the Jennies.

That's the 'Sinnoh Trip' that I mentioned. You know how we're only allowed to be in Kanto and Johto, right? Well, Sinnoh was another region that let us visit for two weeks in August, albeit only in a small handful of places. It was nice, actually, and it threw a lot of us together who otherwise might not have met. I actually met my current boyfiend on it.

Date: 2021-01-01 06:16 pm (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (relaxed)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
I mean, it might mean something in slang, but it was definitely a typo. Possibly because my employee, Scorpia, was talking about the Huggles in the background. (Mr and Ms Huggles are two of her Bewears. She's got four so far. They make good bouncers.)

The Sinnoh Trip was fascinating. I did a few radio segments about it, if you'd like to listen to them. Let me know if you want the MP3s.

And, well, thank you. I never expected to be with him--I was already dating someone when we met, but that... didn't work out in the end. And he helped a lot with me getting over my broken heart.

Date: 2021-01-03 08:07 pm (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (thinking)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
No, no, they're definitely dating. Scorpia's assured me on that point.

The radio stuff is because I used to work at the Tower. I started out in the receptions area, then they let me into the Newsroom back in May. I had a background in broadcast media back home? Television rather than radio, but it's similar enough. Fight Club happened because my ex-boyfriend, Jack, was looking to invest in a few new ventures--which is how Medusa, the resident burlesque club also exist by the way--and I had the idea for it and roped my friend Tyler into it pretty much right away. Tyler was actually the guy who ran Fight Club on a day to day basis until a couple weeks ago, but he disappeared about a week after Jack did and I... ended up in charge, with nothing but two native employees and some of Tyler's pokemon to help. Which lead to me leaving the Tower and hiring Scorpia and Chloe and thank God that Thace (my new boyfriend) is up to helping out with most of it.

But yeah, I'm glad I found him too. Jack and I were only nominally together by the end there--I was actually getting ready to leave him before he disappeared? Just because, well... the thing about dating a narcissist is that it's really great at first? Because his ego has him pulling out all the stops for you? But after you're past the early relationship, it starts to take its toll, because you're always putting more into the relationship than he is.


[And you know, the whole thing where Steven found out what Jack did to his daughter, but that's not the kind of dirty laundry you air to just anyone.]

But Thace isn't like that, thank god. Our relationship feels a lot more equitable.

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