paishodown: (I'm too hot to be a good guy amirite?)
Asami Sato ([personal profile] paishodown) wrote2014-08-15 01:50 am

2nd gear | video + action to goldenrod city

[It's around midday, and Asami's 'Gear is propped up to record her sitting at a small table in the park. Her Riolu sits quietly beside her. The worn table is inlaid with a chess board, and the seat across from her is empty for now.]

Where I'm from, we have a game called Pai Sho.

[She speaks while she reaches into her bag to pull out a newly purchased chess set- mainly, the directions.]

It's a game of careful thinking and ruthless strategy. There doesn't seem to be a real equivalent here, but someone did point me toward this. Chess.

[Asami begins taking out the pieces and laying them out on the board.]

Anyone know anything about it?

[She'll be here for a while, reading over the rules and trying to teach Teruko how to play with her.]
friendyousohard: (My hair static requires further study)

[personal profile] friendyousohard 2014-08-27 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Correct on both counts, and no I don't know how that's possible. Certainly none of us who have abilities that the humans here would call supernatural have been allowed to keep them.

[She's just going to try to keep her bitterness out of her voice.]
enjoymyatelier: zach. they're here. (migrane's a comin.)

[personal profile] enjoymyatelier 2014-08-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's... definitely simpler. Honestly, other than the Gym Leaders and the odd Nurse Joy, you're going to get better conversation out of your Pokemon than most of the people here.

Unless, of course, you're absolutely riveted by the saga of Joey's Rattata and how it is, indeed, in the top percentage of all Rattata.
teammother: (well now that you mention it)

[ video ]

[personal profile] teammother 2014-08-28 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, that's not really a bad skill to develop, when you think about it... maybe I should give playing chess another try sometime.
in_praetego: <user name=signontheline> ([!!] | Been a while since I could)

[personal profile] in_praetego 2014-08-29 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the biggest factor of all is how everyone looks remotely human. No matter how different everything seems to be... we all kind of look the same.

usedwrench: (Worrier is worried)

[personal profile] usedwrench 2014-09-01 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm ...not sure. It's been a really long time since I last saw her. Last time I think she was mostly worried about probending shows after just getting into the team.

[That was one really early Korra back from episode 3 of first book or so. She's so sorry for being so unhelpful with this. |:]
enjoymyatelier: i am just done with this shit (ugh whatever)

[personal profile] enjoymyatelier 2014-09-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't we all? It's not as bad when you have people to commiserate with, but it's still utterly baffling in every way.
friendyousohard: (I am not impressed.)

[personal profile] friendyousohard 2014-09-02 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
I think the idea is to keep the focus on the Pokemon, which is why weapons don't tend to work either. There's a certain logic to that, but still, it's aggravating at best.
in_praetego: <user name=signontheline> ([!!] | Why must I feel this way)

[personal profile] in_praetego 2014-09-02 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's one of the first things I noticed, actually. Even the natives of this world look similar to the typical human look.

For a different world, it's kind of surprising.
enjoymyatelier: maybe he should check the foundations, come to think of it. (red car. good point.)

[personal profile] enjoymyatelier 2014-09-03 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you could assume that it just does work... or you just assume there's a shadowy Illuminati-type organization making sure everything functions and, most importantly, tells us where the meat's actually coming from.
dreamsofahero: (conversational)

Re: Video

[personal profile] dreamsofahero 2014-09-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep that in mind.

Ah, I'm Sion Astal, by the way.
usedwrench: (Things you wouldn't believe)

[personal profile] usedwrench 2014-09-04 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, somewhere around there. [You'd think a girl would know to not say about these things at this point of her staying here.]

But people tend to come back here when you least expect them to wake up in that strange woman's house, and then they can also be from whatever time of their life too so... if she ever comes back [or when, because apparently it's a thing from their world too.] she might know you really well too.
dreamsofahero: (cheerful)

Re: Video

[personal profile] dreamsofahero 2014-09-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's a pleasure to meet you, Asami.
usedwrench: (♥ Ed // Never let you go)

[personal profile] usedwrench 2014-09-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nope, it's not selfish at all but then again, Winry has been in that situation many times before... Ugh, she wants to give you the biggest hug ever.]

We can hope so together! If you don't mind that...

M-Meanwhile -- [SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK ABOUT! REALLY, something else, anything. Oh right, intro, sort of again.] -- my name is Winry Rockbell, I'm an automail engineer back home and guess you'd call me just a mechanic here. [She doesn't really need to make automails here, not that she minds making them but ...] I don't actually know about paisho or chess, or strategy games like them - I'm more a board game type myself I guess, but I've been here for over two years, so if you ever need help with anything...
usedwrench: (Smile over shoulder)

[personal profile] usedwrench 2014-09-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Never hurts to repeat the names, except sometimes it does but...]

Yes? We have very advanced prosthetic limbs called automail where I come from! I work with them from building one from a scratch to installing them to people who need them to maintaining the ones I've made. Well, and I've been mostly "just" a regular mechanic here, doing whatever a mechanic can do here, but that's what I do for living back home.

[...not to mention she could go on about these thing called automail all day...]
Edited 2014-09-22 20:00 (UTC)

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