001. video; un: cendre

[holocast]

[The video opens on someone who...well, is rather clearly used to using devices such as these to address people. Cleanly centered and well-grounded, focused easily on the man sitting at the table in what looks like one of the nicer apartments available. Not as upscale as his tastes would like, but sufficient for the time being.

His accent is unmistakably French, and his words are easy when he speaks; another thing he seems practiced at.]

Fellow Moonblessed – hopefully this message finds you well, despite all the chaos currently occurring throughout Lunatia. I am Lysandre, a recent arrival from the Kalos region of the world I'm from; more to the point, I'm a scientist and inventor. I specialize in communications technology, mainly, but with regards to other disciplines... Let's say I learn quickly.

The level of technology here is slightly beyond my own world's, but I've been acquainting myself with it since my arrival; I'm interested in speaking to those who have been doing similarly.

I'm also a Pokémon trainer, though I understand that's a bit more uncommon in this place – Pokémon are our dearest companions, and as such something has struck me as odd about the creatures populating this place. Some of them seem intelligent, but the others...

[He gestures a little, vaguely, both to imply the all of that that he finds the others to be, as well as to serve as a placeholder while he figures out what he wants to say.]

They seem a little simple, and strange behind the eyes. Are all of them like that?

[...Lysandre.]

Either way... Thank you for your time, and remain well.

Comments

[nojohnyouare]

Different years. For me... 1999.

[She pauses, realizing that maybe he doesn't have the cross-world context for this.]

Fax is popular. And we still have paper maps.

[holocast]

Oh...? Well, in that case, the confusion is more than warranted.

[nojohnyouare]

Is it not the same for you?

[holocast]

Yes and no - things have advanced a little farther than where they were at that time. I work with hologram technology, back in Kalos.

[nojohnyouare]

Oh. That sounds interesting.

...Sorry. Socializing... Difficult.

[holocast]

It's quite all right. You can take your time, I hardly mind.

[nojohnyouare]

...

[A tiny nod. Miss no-facial-expressions seems to appreciate it.]

Holograms. Like in movies?

[holocast]

Something like that. Three-dimensional light projections. We mostly use them for communication - like the cell phones, we use projections instead of video.

[nojohnyouare]

Your world... It sounds nice. Interesting.

[holocast]

Perhaps yours will get there eventually. It's entirely possible, after all.

[nojohnyouare]

Probably. You invented it?

[holocast]

I did. I like doing new things with technology.

[nojohnyouare]

You're probably happy, then. To be someplace like this.

[holocast]

[That's...honestly something of a loaded statement, but it's not like she knows why, so...]

...Yes. Very much so.

[nojohnyouare]

Mm. A strange place, but interesting. And nice people. I think.