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[uber_marionettist]

[[Dirk is making a rare video post, partially because he's just completed work on some kind of... something... albeit a something slightly more anime looking and triangular than you're probably picturing it right now. He's wearing it, too. Which is definitely a choice of some kind. There's a lot that's unclear here in the first seconds before he opens his fucking mouth and finally says something.]]

Don't say it.

I'm fully aware of how this looks.

It's a working prototype, it's going to be ugly. Emphasis here on 'working.'

Speaking of working, there's a museum of natural history in Pewter City. I know a thing or two about stealing from those, but I'm going to need hands for that. More than two or four.

[I don't give Carly a literal nod, but I think the figurative one is reasonably well deserved.]

That heist at the Safari Zone was a pretty crude affair--the mechanical equivalent of an unbaited box trap set with a stick and string, or a block of dry ice and a spring-loaded hammer. Frankly, I was really riding roughshod over reality back there, just trampling all over the flimsy fantasy figures of this featured fiction. I'm almost embarrassed about how shoddy my shit was.

Not this time.

[Now that I'm watching a screen, I can tell that having a 360+ view of my surroundings is going to take some adjustment. It's fine if I'm standing still, better if the cameras didn't have to constantly reposition and correct to cover any blind spots, but directional movement of any kind is going to be a real trip.

I intend that not be a literal one.]

I am back on my mastercrafted, flawlessly-tuned automechanical game. I'm operating with nanometric precision.

Which means I'm gonna need a count of heads before I can assemble this thing. You know, so I can allocate those heads to slot into the necessary moving parts.

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[breakyourlife]

[Steve is... on a boat, by the looks of it, but he's at least been smart enough to respond to this video in a cabin. Perhaps in part thanks to the guidance of the gruff looking Swampert currently hovering behind his shoulder.]

I don't know. I kind of like it.

[Steve's future science fair project is a traffic cone he passes off as a volcano, so that's not exactly high praise. But hey. A compliment from Steve? Take it while you can get it.]

Where's Pewter? I've never even heard of that place, and I've been pretty much all over Johto.

[uber_marionettist]

[I don't know this guy well enough to assess whether I should take that compliment as damning or reassuring. Either way, it's not the look I'd like to be sporting, but the technology behind wireless communication between devices is real hit or fucking miss here, so that's a problem for a better test type.]

Not Johto. Kanto.

Do you not have a fucking map? Does Team Rocket not give you those? They just turn you lose into the unsuspecting civilian population like feral fucking animals?

...

Actually, that sounds completely plausible. Fuck it. Okay. Step one: get a map. Step two, look at the fucking thing.

There's an entire second half of this continent. That's a whopping 50% more cartographically rendered geography for your boonbuck.

And even that's not entirely accurate because there's definitely more of the continent to the north, but that's not important right now. It's all terra ignota.

[breakyourlife]

I have a map.

[He just doesn't pay all that much attention to it. How does he avoid getting lost? Let's just thank his Pokémon for that one.]

I know there's a second part to it. Duh. I'm going there as soon as I get all my badges here.