005 [Audio]

[tapestodiane]

I couldn't help but notice how so far, new arrivals have a tendency to come here on Sundays. I wonder if anyone who's been here longer than me can tell me if this has always been the case? Though a seemingly small detail, it's probably significant in some manner. And after all, it's the small details that bear watching.

[If anyone wants action, he's at the outskirts of Violet, filling Diane in on his latest thoughts and observations. Who is Diane? No one knows. He talks to her anyway, using his gear as a substitute for his lost tape recorder.]

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Re: [Video]

[tapestodiane]

I appreciate that you shared that hunch, though.

Regardless, I feel there must be some kind of reason we've been brought here. Someone or something did it and seemingly went to great lengths to get people from many different places, realities and times. I can't help but think of it as some sort of experiment.

... That's a worrying notion. I can only hope that's not the case.

_{[Just because he wants to know why this is happening doesn't mean he wants to leave. And since no one seems to know what happens to the people who disappear ... hm. Well, that's mildly unsettling.]}

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Well, if it is an experiment, there'll be hell to pay when I find out who's behind it. Nobody uses me as a labrat.

<sub>[She does agree that everyone seems to have been brought here for a reason-- for one thing, everyone's got a story to tell. There's no average joes here. Even the simplest -looking person she's met here has usually wound up with something that made their lives stand out.]

[Given the number of people in the world (or worlds...) who went through their lives without a single extraordinary thing happening to them? Heather's guessing the choice of people brought here is somehow deliberate.]</sub>

Re: [Video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[He gives her a bit of a half-smile, but without being patronizing. If anything, it's a sign that he likes her energy.]} I might have complied to it, had I somehow been informed about the issue. If it really is an experiment, though, I guess that would have defeated the purpose.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Hn. Well, I would assume that any experiment that involves kidnapping a bunch of people can generally be assumed to be being performed by people who don't have our best interests in mind.

_{[She does find the experiment theory interesting, though, and files it away for future thought.]}

Re: [Video]

[tapestodiane]

They might not think our well-being is a top priority, but that rouses the question of why we'd all have these pokémon assigned as our partners on arrival. Since they act like both our protectors and partners, I just find the idea of whoever doing this entirely manevolent unlikely.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Her expression actually darkened at that.]}

Just because they don't want us to die does not mean they give a crap about us.

Corpses aren't that useful.

_{[She... had personal experience with this, actually. Of course, not that she thought Cujo or any of the Pokemon were anything like that.... thing, but it wasn't very comforting to have something looking out for you just because the Powers That Be needed you alive for something. As soon as the precious bundle of joy had torn its way out of her, she'd probably have been nothing but a body to Valtiel. If there was even a body left.]}

Re: [Video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[That was interesting. Cooper regards her carefully, with an equally careful blank face.]}

I guess they aren't. _[Pause.] In all fairness, though, we could have ended up somewhere considerably worse than this.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Yeah. ... Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this place sucks.

I actually like it here a lot.

I'm just saying... we shouldn't just assume everything's hunky-dory.

Re: [Video]

[tapestodiane]

I'm definitely not assuming that. I actually feel quite worried about all this, because something with the ability to start an even such as this one must be in possession of a power, technique or skill that most of us would be unable to comprehend. Then there is, of course, the issue as to what they would want with all of this. Where there are no answers, there's seldom any feeling of safety.

_{[But here we have a small smile again.]} Then again, since we at least seem to have fairly good control of our own fates within this world, I don't think it'd be wise to worry too much. Worry weightens the mind when we should allow it to soar.