intro post 8)

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[ A lone figure can be seen walking up the western beach of Ohritori, past Banyan Labs and towards Turnbloom, carrying a backpack and dressed warmly (beanie, turtleneck, cargo pants, gloves and boots) despite the tropical weather. They seem to be talking to themself, looking around with jerky, birdlike head movements, and poking at a classic Pokégear on their left arm. ]

"Now ain't this a pickle. Don't think I stumbled into weirdspace, don't think I'd be eligible to bubble up twice in a lifetime, but if this beach is in INDIGO I'll eat my hat. And that means... drat. The POKéGEAR's no use either. 'Area unknown'? Come on. It's not even doing anything interesting."

[ They over-enunciate the words "Indigo" and "Pokégear", as if each proper noun were its own sentence. ]

"Well! Nothing for it! Guess I'll hoof it 'til I meet someone to ask for directions."

[ With that, they start whistling a tune and continue on their way... ]

((OOC: Heh, been a long time since I wrote this character... or did LJRP at all, for that matter. But I saw advert posts about Faraway Place and decided I might as well dip my feet back in. Hi all! ))

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Gold and Umbar listen to the initial explanation with no interruptions, nodding along. But when Mandy unrolls their sleeve, their eyes turn wide. Gold leans back a bit on instinct, while Umbar leans closer to try and see better, to understand what it is he's seeing. After the first shock, Gold leans closer too, awed.

"Whoa..." he says, tilting his head right, then left, to see from different angles. "That's so weird! I thought you'd have like, a scary secret or something but that's so cool! Like, super cool!" The way he says 'weird' sounds like a big compliment.

"It's like a distortion in reality," Umbar whispers. He's heard of Distortion World before, and he's heard of Pokemon - humans, even, at times - who seem so otherworldly their existence breaks the rules of reality, but this is his first time seeing something like that up close. It was as if Mandy were made out of distortion themself. Unimaginable, before this moment.

The way Mandy explains the glitch that caused the items to multiply has Gold's eyes kind of glazing over, but he's nodding along despite not really getting it. So it's a mystery power, he thinks. Umbar doesn't get it any more than Gold, but he thinks about how marvellous it is, for someone to see the world in a completely different way than others, to look at things unimaginable to Umbar and explain them like they're simple physics with a logical explanation. It makes him feel like the world is so much bigger than he ever thought, even though he's lived such a long time. He finds himself smiling fondly.