generalflirt | Appointments Post ( II )

Something you don't call a dictionary if you don't want Jinora to glare at you?

[...Touche] Dictionaries are books where you can look up the meaning of words. Encyclopedias are books where you can look up information on things. And this pokedex here, is an encyclopedia on pokemon.

...So it has all the stuff I have to learn in it?

No....ot really! But it will have information on any species of Pokemon known to my comrades from the time they're from. It also can get information on specific pokemon when you point it at them, detailing their strengths and weaknesses and their attacks and abilities all sorts of things. You can also use it in a lot of other ways I haven't even figured out-

Oh, here we go.

[Reformatting done, he passes it to Ikki]

Now you need to type in your name and if you're a boy or a girl.

[ She was staring blankly at Masaomi for most of that - okay, she understood it, but huh - but the stare gets well and truly blank at the last bit. ]

Why does it care if I'm a boy or a girl? [ does it change colours or something. But she's obediently tapping in her name, carefully and slowly, not at all used to this thing. ]

You know... I'm really not sure. But it does. I think it sometimes uses female pronouns, maybe?

So if you say you're the other thing it just calls you a boy sometimes? [ She's tapping girl, though. If you insist, magical encyclopedia diary! ]

Pretty much! And that might be weird. [And once she confirms both things there's a welcome message, and then it goes to the main screen for the base data... which is nothing. But then it starts Beeping! And notes that it's downloading/copying all the Data Masaomi has on Pokemon he's seen or caught (which he in turn got from Gold who got it from Crys)

Sync Up]

[ what the hell is this thing doing.

Ikki just stares at it in the same befuddled awe she'd been using to start with, watching as it does...all that it is doing. Sync Up what pray tell strange contraption? What are all these entries. ]

...It says it's syncing?

It's downloading all the Data my pokedex has. Like I said, that's all the things discovered at the time of my comrades, plus some stuff Silver added into my dex a while ago. [Sinnoh Data from Silver who got it from Gold who got it from Platina] Once all this is done I should also send you a few manual entries I've done on pokemon from Unova... Oh and it might ask your height and weight later but that's options.

[He's saying this as he looks over Ikki's shoulder.

Nerd]

Edited 2012-10-06 05:25 (UTC)

Oooooooooh. Wait, what's Unova? Is that the Pokemon world? [ she's still watching the screen, but looks up with a wrinkled nose. ] Why's it need to know my height and weight?

[ THE WORLD'S NOSIEST ELECTRONIC DIARY ENCYCLOPEDIA.

she's glancing back over her shoulder as she questions this nonsense. ]

[Poor Soren....

But no, Masaomi shakes his head] It's actually a region... You see, the Pokemon's world's a liiittle divided and chaotic. Instead of nations, there's regions where people live in. I know of five: Kanto, Johto - where my comrades are from - Hoenn, Sinnoh, and finally Unova. Unova's very far away from the other four, near as I can tell, because no one has any data from it and the people here who are from Unova don't have pokedexes.

[ Poor Soren indeed ]

Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova. [ She'll remember the names, with any luck. ]

That's right! And each region has between a hundred and a hundred seventy-five species of pokemon in it... well, originally from it. There's apparently a lot of overlap.

So we have a lot of those entries but not all of them. [ Because of what he said about Unova. ]

That's right! we'll have somewhere around six hundred pokemon! But I've never countered exactly how many.

[Speaking of, the sync is almost done. Finally.]

That's a lot!

[ Oh cool look at that little bar go. You can make it, buddy! ]

Mmhmm! It is. [He now looks down at Soren...]

Say, Ikki, are you going to be willing to hang with me for the next hour and a half doing a lot of the basic training I went through when I first became Linda's Partner? We won't get it all in the first day, of course, but I think it would be good to start now.

[ Soren had been bored of all this pokedex talk and more of Ikki's dried fruit stash is gone. You saw nothing. 8|a Well no you saw stuff she definitely left it open for whoever to eat some.

Ikki nods, finally looking away from the mystery screen. ] Yep, sure! I already did airbending with grandpa and jitte stuff with Smoker. My only other thing is [ ...lunch with Chien. 8|a WELP. ] ...well I don't have anything else for today 'til dinner at home. And I wrote to Katara and grandpa to say where I am an' who I'm with.

Technically, this training is dangerous enough that I think I should call Katara before I, of all people, put you though it.

[He says this... so. So. Sheepishly]

Edited 2012-10-06 05:50 (UTC)

'Kay. [ SHE LOOKS PRETTY UNCONCERNED. Pokemon attacks are, as near as she can tell, special bending things. Her bending form emphasizes avoiding being hit by bending things, or minimizing the damage. ] I'm pretty good at dodging things, if that helps. An' deflecting.

Ikki, I am positive that if we fought you would give me a run for my money, but I also know that if I were to take you into a sim room where you have to fight pokemon without telling you grandmother, she would rip out my heart and feed it to me.

[He even laughs, darkly, at that as he scoots back from the girl and goes to pull out his journal to call Katara]

I don't think she'd feed it to you! [ She's just. laughing. It's probably easier to be entertained here when she's never actually been the target of Katara's protective anger, but rather one of the beneficiaries.

She settles in to fiddle with the pokedex, though, doing the obvious from Masaomi's mini-lecture and pointing it at Soren to see what happens.

Soren has seen what happens before, but obligingly stands still. ]

[With the Sync completed, it now displays the full Data on Soren. all his moves, all the data there, basically. What the moves do. Etc.

And now he goes to call Katara on Voice]

A...haha, Katara, are you there?

[It takes a few minutes, but she sees this.]

Masaomi? Is everything all right?

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