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hopeslastreward[Music -- if it can even be called that -- comes through your PokéGear's speakers when you play this video. The image on the screen is of a grimy stone floor; after looking at it for a few seconds, one might eventually make out a series of runes, carved into the floor itself. For any English-reading characters in the audience, a little bit of hunkering down and focusing should make the runes start to look like a certain word:]
Light.
[WE NEED SOME LIGHT, FIRST OF ALL WE NEED SOME-- no okay not singing showtunes here.]
I've been through one of these chambers already, and that had a word on the floor as well. It took longer than I would have expected to figure out... but here I am. [Seriously, though. English isn't his first language, but for some reason it required a lot of focus to even decode the word "ESCAPE".] I won't tell you what the solution to that puzzle was; once you understand the cipher, though, this 'light' should be easy enough as well.
Oh-- and there's one other thing worth noting. [The Gear's camera moves up to show another tangle of Unown runes. Komaeda's been puzzling over this, too, for a good long time, but he's revealing the translation for the sake of the broadcast.] This passage here references an unidentified 'we' "erecting a Pokémon statue outside"... there are plenty of statues in these ruins, but all of them are within some chamber or another. One could easily assume that the 'we' in question created this statue, but it still lies buried... or it is hidden in some other manner. Perhaps some kind of criterion has to be filled before the statue will appear?
Ah. Incidentally [and by this he means 'not incidentally at all'], I understand that some people have gotten the opportunity to speak to people native to the region of Kalos -- which bears a striking resemblance to a country I know called 'France'. There are goodie bags presently being given out in at least one Pokémon Center that are supposedly from Kalos, which contain -- among other things -- a couple of French baked goods known as macarons. It makes one wonder exactly how many things from this world have been lifted from others. Has anyone noticed other similarities?
...Mmm, I probably should have said this at the beginning, but please feel free to disregard this message, if you haven't done so already. It's just some worthless babbling. [He laughs.] Well, in any case, good night.
Light.
[WE NEED SOME LIGHT, FIRST OF ALL WE NEED SOME-- no okay not singing showtunes here.]
I've been through one of these chambers already, and that had a word on the floor as well. It took longer than I would have expected to figure out... but here I am. [Seriously, though. English isn't his first language, but for some reason it required a lot of focus to even decode the word "ESCAPE".] I won't tell you what the solution to that puzzle was; once you understand the cipher, though, this 'light' should be easy enough as well.
Oh-- and there's one other thing worth noting. [The Gear's camera moves up to show another tangle of Unown runes. Komaeda's been puzzling over this, too, for a good long time, but he's revealing the translation for the sake of the broadcast.] This passage here references an unidentified 'we' "erecting a Pokémon statue outside"... there are plenty of statues in these ruins, but all of them are within some chamber or another. One could easily assume that the 'we' in question created this statue, but it still lies buried... or it is hidden in some other manner. Perhaps some kind of criterion has to be filled before the statue will appear?
Ah. Incidentally [and by this he means 'not incidentally at all'], I understand that some people have gotten the opportunity to speak to people native to the region of Kalos -- which bears a striking resemblance to a country I know called 'France'. There are goodie bags presently being given out in at least one Pokémon Center that are supposedly from Kalos, which contain -- among other things -- a couple of French baked goods known as macarons. It makes one wonder exactly how many things from this world have been lifted from others. Has anyone noticed other similarities?
...Mmm, I probably should have said this at the beginning, but please feel free to disregard this message, if you haven't done so already. It's just some worthless babbling. [He laughs.] Well, in any case, good night.
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Date: 2014-11-03 06:35 pm (UTC)I haven't heard of the first three. Are they other cultures from where you come from?
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Date: 2014-11-03 07:43 pm (UTC)Yes, they are, along with the Dwarves and the people of Mythril. Do you come from one of those planets that have no inhabited moon or underworld, then? Or do such races simply use different names instead?
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Date: 2014-11-03 08:08 pm (UTC)[Notice that he's not saying they don't exist. They could totally exist! It's just that humanity isn't aware of them, which isn't exactly uncommon. He has faith in humans, but he also acknowledges that they're... not very smart.]
We have dwarves, or a concept called dwarves, but they exist only in fantasy. Dwarves are a common race in stories that introduce intelligent species other than humans.
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Date: 2014-11-03 10:33 pm (UTC)[video]
Date: 2014-11-04 12:18 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2014-11-04 05:19 pm (UTC)[video]
Date: 2014-11-04 11:29 pm (UTC)[Not making any judgements here, but just sayin'.]
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Date: 2014-11-05 02:13 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2014-11-05 04:04 am (UTC)[Sorry, just give Komaeda a moment as he just. Blinks.]
...Nothing? In all that time?
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Date: 2014-11-05 01:52 pm (UTC)[video]
Date: 2014-11-06 01:45 am (UTC)Our worlds will not go on without us, but our consciousness is here instead of where it should be in our native world and time. I take it that we know of nothing bad happening to the worlds in our absence, so there's no pressing need to go back [unless you're someone who actually gives a shit about their world], but still.
Four years.
[He's got his stern face on, but Komaeda's actually freaking out a little in his head.]
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Date: 2014-11-06 04:25 am (UTC)Four years, yes. Up to four years and five months, even, for an unlucky few; I arrived approximatively three months after them. ...But the majority of newcomers do not last that long, if it makes you feel better.
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Date: 2014-11-06 04:28 pm (UTC)[Komaeda smiles pleasantly. Internally, it does not make him feel better at all.]
Well, since you've been here so long, I'm sure you must be very well versed in battling and other things unique to this world.
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Date: 2014-11-06 06:51 pm (UTC)[Disclaimer: Cecil's answers might or might not be actually useful when applied to specific situations.]
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Date: 2014-11-08 08:16 pm (UTC)I'm in Violet City right now. The Gym Leader has flying types. Do you know where I could catch an Electric-type around here? Also... is Surfing on Pokémon a possibility here?
[The reason he asks is because Electric-types are more useful than Rock-types, in the long run. Of all the things Rock is strong against, half of them (Bug and Ice) are hardly ever used. The third, Fire, can be covered by a Water-type, which he would need to Surf anyway. Electric-types, on the other hand, are strong to both Flying and Water, which itself is a very common type.]
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Date: 2014-11-09 03:36 am (UTC)You'll find Mareeps on route 32 south of Violet, and using a Pokémon to Surf is indeed possible. But you'll need the badge from Ecruteak, and the HM from Olivine or from a very helpful friend. You can also buy eggs with the necessary type or move from the Breeding Center in both cases, but that'd involve a few additional weeks of training.
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Date: 2014-11-10 12:12 am (UTC)I see. Well, it would take me a few weeks to get up to Ecruteak anyway.
Thank you for your help.
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Date: 2014-11-10 02:37 am (UTC)[Well, duty might not quite be the word for it.]