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best_laid_plans) wrote2012-05-17 12:31 pm
best_laid_plans) wrote2012-05-17 12:31 pm
Turn 008 // Video (Text to Rockets)
[Today the feed opens up on a bright, sunny view of the Goldenrod Game Corner. It zooms in on the name of the building, then on the motto inscribed on the sign - "A Safe and Sound Playground!" - before finally landing on someone's smiling face.
Someone's slightly bruised, smiling face.]
Good morning! Is everybody doing all right? How about that weather....
No, I shouldn't joke. [He looks more thoughtful.] I do hope everybody made it through the storm okay. But let's focus instead on the present, and future.
I never introduced myself in full! I'm Malik, and starting today, I'm the new manager of the Goldenrod Game Corner!
[Another pan out. Ta-da! (Whoever's filming this is having a lot of fun.)]
Pretty much everybody on their Pokémon journey goes through Goldenrod at some point, huh? Well, if you've been, I hope you'll give us a second look, and if you haven't - I hope you put us on your list.
Here, I'll show you a little of what's in store.
[He holds the door open for his cameraman, who says "smoo" in reply as something she's riding on lumbers in.]
Right now, in addition to the usual slot machines, we've got a very special game unique to Johto! It's called "Voltorb Flip", and while I'd bore everybody explaining the rules, I'll give you a demonstration today...
[He then proceeds to sit in front of the machine and pwn at it. While doing so, he chats.]
Sorry, is this still boring? Turn it off at any time....but I hope you'll come in and give this a shot for yourself. We've got lots of great prizes - TMs, but also some rare Pokémon, who I'm sure would love to meet great trainers and find welcoming homes. But we can't give those out to just anybody - you have to prove you're dedicated, so be sure to keep stopping back to win coins.
[His game concluded, he turns back to the camera and smiles.]
The staff and I would love to meet you, too! So that's the Goldenrod Game Corner, and my name's Malik. Best of luck on your journeys, and happy playing!
[The feed cuts out. Malik, for his part, has to rub his cheeks from smiling too hard and immediately types up a little memo for his fellow Rockets. Best show them how quickly he can change gears.]
Congratulations to everyone on the mission's overall success. I'm sure it proved profitable for us all.
Onto further business. Advertising could always use an additional boost...
Tell me what you know about the Psychic type.
Someone's slightly bruised, smiling face.]
Good morning! Is everybody doing all right? How about that weather....
No, I shouldn't joke. [He looks more thoughtful.] I do hope everybody made it through the storm okay. But let's focus instead on the present, and future.
I never introduced myself in full! I'm Malik, and starting today, I'm the new manager of the Goldenrod Game Corner!
[Another pan out. Ta-da! (Whoever's filming this is having a lot of fun.)]
Pretty much everybody on their Pokémon journey goes through Goldenrod at some point, huh? Well, if you've been, I hope you'll give us a second look, and if you haven't - I hope you put us on your list.
Here, I'll show you a little of what's in store.
[He holds the door open for his cameraman, who says "smoo" in reply as something she's riding on lumbers in.]
Right now, in addition to the usual slot machines, we've got a very special game unique to Johto! It's called "Voltorb Flip", and while I'd bore everybody explaining the rules, I'll give you a demonstration today...
[He then proceeds to sit in front of the machine and pwn at it. While doing so, he chats.]
Sorry, is this still boring? Turn it off at any time....but I hope you'll come in and give this a shot for yourself. We've got lots of great prizes - TMs, but also some rare Pokémon, who I'm sure would love to meet great trainers and find welcoming homes. But we can't give those out to just anybody - you have to prove you're dedicated, so be sure to keep stopping back to win coins.
[His game concluded, he turns back to the camera and smiles.]
The staff and I would love to meet you, too! So that's the Goldenrod Game Corner, and my name's Malik. Best of luck on your journeys, and happy playing!
[The feed cuts out. Malik, for his part, has to rub his cheeks from smiling too hard and immediately types up a little memo for his fellow Rockets. Best show them how quickly he can change gears.]
Congratulations to everyone on the mission's overall success. I'm sure it proved profitable for us all.
Onto further business. Advertising could always use an additional boost...
Tell me what you know about the Psychic type.
[Private text.]
Understood.
I want to influence others' opinions - to nudge others to steal, to gamble, to hate. I want innocents to do the Team's dirty work, with no recollection after the fact.
Primarily, I want puppets who can't see their own strings. Their perspective has just been...tweaked, as necessary.
Does this explanation suffice?
[Private text.]
It can be done, of course. By working on enhancing an adequate Pokémon species, I suppose it would not be so hard, either. Hypno comes to mind, though I do not doubt that many others could be suitable for those purposes.
[Private text.]
That aside, I'd suspected Hypno might be ideal - I've been training a Drowzee for just this purpose. Confirmation's quite reassuring.
What sort of enhancements did you have in mind?
[Private text.]
You would be surprised by how much of a being's psychic powers are genetically determined. The strength of hypnotic waves, for instance, is all a matter of activating certain synapses. And let us not forget that there is as much latent power in the brains of Pokémon as there is in human ones.
[Private text.]
...Understood.
To tap into a Pokémon's full potential, then. What's the cost of the process, should I deliver you a specimen?
Assuming, since we're discussing this, that your services are available for lending.