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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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[ Mandy scratches their head. Man-made ducks? Like those rubber Psyduck toys? But why would that have to do with glitches? They wrack their brain for a moment, trying to remember what duck Pokémon there are. And what did he mean by "man-made"? Unless... ]

[ All at once, they realize what Umbar was trying to say, and smack their forehead with a chuckle. ]

"Oh! PORYGON? There's an idea! Appropriate. I could do a lot worse for a mascot. Maybe a PORYGON-Z - lean on the idea of it being a friendly place for devices that aren't behaving quite normal!"

[ They chuckle again, and rise to their feet. ]

"Well! With that thought, I should probably get going. Again, awful grateful to have met the both of you, even if things got weird there for a bit. I'll be sure to keep in touch!"

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"That's the one," Umbar snaps his fingers. He wouldn't even know about the Porygon family if it wasn't for that incident in Hisui back in the days when a bunch of strange Pokemon appeared through time-space distortions. When Mandy took so long to remember it, Umbar was starting to worry it hadn't been created yet. Good to know he didn't accidentally break the timeline or anything.

"Oh!" Gold jumps to his feet. "I'll lead you out!" When Umbar moves to stand up, Gold tells him "No, you wait here. I still wanna chat with you when you're like that!"

"Oh, very well then," Umbar chuckles, and waves to Mandy. "Good luck with your work, and I hope to see you around!"

And with that, Gold leads Mandy back out of the house, the same way they came in. He pauses in the doorway, holding the door open.

"Um, I still feel kinda bad about knowing your secret, so, maybe next time I'll tell you a secret about me so we're even!" He then pauses awkwardly, not sure what else to say here, so he ends up just saying "Bye!" and closing the door, whether Mandy was responding or not. Sorry, Mandy.

((ooc: since the thread seems to be ending i wanna say this was a lot of fun and i hope we can thread again! mandy's a really neat character concept! and it was fun having umbar interacting with them like that))