video | june 18th

[pokexplorer]

[The video feed opens up to the image of a man with a weird coat and an even weirder hairstyle. It'd be weird enough without the translucence provided by his Iris Moonblessing, honestly. He is located somewhere in one of Greatmoon Groves' parks from the looks of things in the background, and he seems very excited to speak with the network.]

Greetings! I've yet to make a post to the network, so I would like to introduce myself first and foremost. I am Colress, a scientist working for the Lunar Scientia and a fellow Moonblessed!

I am addressing the network today with an inquiry! But before I get to that, I would like to make just a few more introductions. This will be related to my inquiry.

[Colress then pans the camera to five creatures whom he introduces as Klinklang, Beheeyem, Magneton, Rotom and Porygon-Z. Klinklang and Rotom seem particularly interested in crowding around the communication band to get their time to shine, while Beheeyem and Magneton hang out as far off-screen as possible. Porygon-Z looks like it has no idea what's going on, honestly.

Colress manages to settle them all down before returning his attention to the feed.]

These are my Pokemon! I have been here for about two months, and have taken notice to the fact that everyone I've spoken to has had no idea what Pokemon are. Allow me to provide a brief description: Pokemon are creatures in my world with unique abilities and affinities to various elements. There are hundreds of species, and they have had a long-standing symbiotic relationship with humans. Pokemon are a cornerstone of my world's culture and my primary subject of study, so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that I seem to be the only one with knowledge of them here!

However, I have met several individuals with similar companions. This brings me to my inquiry: Are there others present in Lunatia that arrived with pets or companions similar to Pokemon? I would love to compare and contrast our experiences, and learn more about the creatures of your worlds!

[As Colress goes on, the upside-down head of Porygon-Z can be seen peering in from the top left corner of the feed.]

Of course, I am also happy to elaborate on the subject of Pokemon as well, if anyone found interest in my description.

Thank you for your time!

Comments

[bloodisthicker]

Hopefully my absence isn’t actually causing any problems. I would like to hope I can just go back to when I left and resume things, but I really have no idea how this kind of thing works... we will have international aid if it gets bad enough, though. I’m sure of that at least.

[pokexplorer]

It is difficult to say. We don't yet have a way of telling whether or not time is passing in our worlds as we are here, and if it is, at what rate. While the calendar system of Lunatia is similar to my own, space has a way of distorting time.

But with luck, we will be able to return at the same time that we left. After all, some people have arrived from different periods of time entirely, if the case of your acquaintance.

[The situation is definitely not as pressing for Colress, but he would like to have not missed out on all that time to work on his research...]

But it is good to know that you will have support, at the very least. I would try to focus on that knowledge, should the true scenario of time passage turn out to be less than desirable.

[bloodisthicker]

That’s what’s making me think everything might actually turn out fine... but then again, even if people returned to the same point in time, wouldn’t we suddenly know about the existence of other worlds because they went there and came back?

...

The more I think about it, the more questions I have...

[pokexplorer]

You raise a good point! However, many parallel dimensions exist, and it could be that our particular dimensions have not had someone return with knowledge of other worlds.

[...]

Ah, well, I suppose my own could be discounted. It is not widespread knowledge, do have knowledge of other worlds. Or at the very least, other dimensions.

[This...is probably just making it sound more complicated than before, honestly.]

[bloodisthicker]

...

So... basically just try very hard to hope for the absolute best case scenario, then. Got it.

*but we do have (wow self, nice missing words)

[pokexplorer]

Pre...cisely.

[That comes out a little awkwardly, as he's pretty sure he managed to make this confusing.]

My apologies, I got rather carried away, didn't I? I have knowledge of this subject, so...it came naturally, and I did not consider how complicated it may seem to an outsider.

[bloodisthicker]

No, it’s fine. This is why I’m in politics rather than science, after all. I do find it pretty interesting, but at the end of the day I’m more equipped to handle dealing with people than theoretical science.

[pokexplorer]

[Colress eases into a smile.]

And that is a wonderful skill to have in its own right! I do well enough with talking to people, but handling them in a political sense is far beyond me. I suppose you could say that we have both bases covered, when it comes to how this world operates.

[bloodisthicker]

And that's why we have such an excellent partnership going on here, I think.

[pokexplorer]

A fine way to put it! Indeed, I would say it is an excellent partnership- no uncertainty needed!