Seventh Viking Charge [Video]

[punchandkiss]

[Astrid is sitting on a bench outside of one of the big stores in Goldenrod, looking...a bit cross. After a minute of glaring at the camera, she reaches off screen and holds up a blue and yellow guitar.]

Whoever told me you could buy axes in Goldenrod, if this is what you meant...

[Yes, she's cross!]

This is not an axe! It's some kind of music...thing. I don't know. I asked for an axe and the guy sold me this. I don't even know what to do with it! I thought maybe it was a carrying case for an axe, some kind of modern...trick.

But it's not!

[She huffs and sets her guitar back down in her lap, plucking irritably at one of the strings.]

I don't suppose anybody does know what to do with it? I bought it, I have to do something with it.

[Another pause, and then she seems to remember something.]

Oh right, also. There's a thing that teaches pokemon to fly? A disc or square or...I don't know, whatever the word is. Someone said you can use it more than once, does anybody in goldenrod have one I could borrow for a couple minutes?

Comments

[action]

[paladinlost]

...Because the more you try to make sense of it, the more you realize that there's something wrong with it.

[punchandkiss]

If I had to. [Maybe. Probably not.]

I guess.

[punchandkiss]

Is this like Karkat claiming this is all a game?

[action]

[newberktown]

[He doesn't say anything to that because by this point, he knows anything could happen. But it makes him happy to hear her say it, anyway.]

Right! No harm in asking. And even if he doesn't know, I bet he could point you in the direction of someone who does.

[action]

[punchandkiss]

Why, do all musicians know each other?

[It's...hard to tell if she's kidding or not.]

[action]

[newberktown]

Well, birds of a feather flock together, and all that.

[Video]

[su6tlecoruscate]

...this place really wants us to rely on our Pokemon...

[papshooshing]

Wouldn't surprise me. I did spend roughly six hundred hours at this shit.

[Video]

[punchandkiss]

I still don't think that's fair.

[punchandkiss]

Wow, that's a lot of training.

[paladinlost]

Quite a few people have said that they previously knew this world through video games... But there is also the untraceable meat, the lack of government, strange happenings that took place nearly two years ago...

[It says a lot about his stay that he can say that in such a casual tone.]

[punchandkiss]

...strange happenings?

[paladinlost]

Weeks of stale air, all the music being replaced by a single tune, all the locals repeating a single sentence over and over again, the world itself being made of squares and a handful of colors, the Pokémon no one could identify...

[Funtimes.]

[punchandkiss]

...Okay, that's pretty weird. It hasn't happened since?

[paladinlost]

[He shakes his head.]

Only the once. At midnight on the first of November, everything was suddenly normal again.

[papshooshing]

That wasn't training. That was fucking survival.

[action]

[punchandkiss]

I guess.

[She shrugs, then looks at the cubone.]

So what's with the skull baby thing?

[punchandkiss]

...Isn't that soon?

[And now she's a little paranoid.]

[punchandkiss]

Well, can't it be both?

[Video]

[subtlecoruscate]

There's nothing we can do about it...

[paladinlost]

...Yes, it is. But last year we only believed ourselves to truly be our costumes, so we might be fine this time.

[action]

[newberktown]

[The 'skull baby thing' squirms a little to get more comfortable. It was a miracle she could consider Hiccup 'comfortable' at all, really, with how twiggy he is.]

Oh, Val? She just likes it when I carry her around. And, uh, cries if I don't. Cries at a lot of things, really...

[beforethedarkness]

So why an axe?

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[punchandkiss]

...We could make weapons.

[punchandkiss]

Oh well that's...what?