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- [22:15] <[Owen]Marina> VOICEOVER: A wild GM appeared!
- [22:15] <[Owen]Marina> VOICEOVER: Wild GM used “AD HOC PLOT!”
- [22:15] <[Owen]Marina> VOICEOVER: It’s not very effective…
- [22:15] <[Owen]Marina> VOICEOVER: We join Mara and Marina early in the morning as they scout ahead for the rest of the team for their day of spelunking.
- [22:17] * [Owen]Marina refuses to take her sunglasses off even though it's still kinda dark.
- [22:17] <[par]Mara> "I nevah bin to a moutan befer. This iz kinda excitin."
- [22:18] <[Owen]Marina> "Never? Ahh, you gotta point, though; there ain't many around."
- [22:18] <[Owen]Marina> "It's more of a cave, though, so... ever been in a cave?"
- [22:21] * [par]Mara shakes her head
- [22:21] <[par]Mara> "Born on tha ranch. Mah granpaps sed he wuz born in a cave like this wun."
- [22:22] * [Owen]Marina looks at the mountain. So very long ago it was, when first she saw it...
- [22:22] <[Owen]Marina> "Yeah, prolly..."
- [22:23] <[Owen]Marina> "Say Mar, that ranch'a yours..."
- [22:23] <[par]Mara> "Yeah, baus? I mean, Miz Marina."
- [22:23] <[Owen]Marina> "I mean, I never really asked even though I busted you out, but... how bad was it?"
- [22:24] <[Owen]Marina> "I feel like I should know. You know, for... justice's sake an all that."
- [22:25] <[par]Mara> "Uh.. well it wuzn't too bad. I got up at dawn and pulled tha combinez over tha wheat til noon. Than I had lunch and I pulled the ton cratez of grain to tha warehouse."
- [22:25] * [par]Mara isn't very aware of how the conditions really were
- [22:25] <[Owen]Marina> "Did they pay ya' anything, though?"
- [22:26] <[Owen]Marina> "Money? Like, little colored paper, or clink-clink coins or anything?"
- [22:26] * [par]Mara tries to scratch her head
- [22:27] <[par]Mara> "Munny? Colored paper doezn't sound verah yummy."
- [22:27] <[Owen]Marina> "It's, ahh, it's like..."
- [22:28] * [Owen]Marina tries to explain it. She knows all too well about money herself.
- [22:28] <[Owen]Marina> "Humans trade it for stuff. Stuff they want. Food, or clothes, or toys."
- [22:28] <[Owen]Marina> "You work, and get money, and then use money to get things you want."
- [22:28] <[Owen]Marina> "Make sense, yeah?"
- [22:29] <[par]Mara> "Oh uh... I nevah seen nuthin like that. Are we gettin munny fer clothes Marina?"
- [22:31] * [Owen]Marina sticks her tongue out.
- [22:31] <[Owen]Marina> "Peh, no. I don't wear none, do you? I mean, Sara might; her business, not mine."
- [22:32] <[Owen]Marina> "Some-a us got parts we wanna hide, after all..."
- [22:32] <[par]Mara> "You wear them glassiz. Shuld I wear clothez?"
- [22:34] <[Owen]Marina> "Nah. You an' me, we're like, a different sorta species, or genus or whatever."
- [22:35] <[Owen]Marina> "We ain't got no special bits to cover up."
- [22:35] * [Owen]Marina adjusts her glasses.
- [22:35] <[Owen]Marina> "These are just to look badass. Make folk know I ain't foolin."
- [22:36] <[par]Mara> "Oh. Wuza speshal bit?"
- [22:37] * [Owen]Marina rubs her chin. Poor girl, raised in captivity without knowledge... like a slave... like a child...
- [22:37] * [Owen]Marina mutters... {"THIS is why things gotta change. They just GOTTA..."}
- [22:39] * [Owen]Marina motions to her chest area. As they're both reptilian, they don't have breasts.
- [22:40] * [par]Mara tilts her head in confusion
- [22:40] <[Owen]Marina> "Some girls have, like, thingys right her on their chest. They stick out an' give babies milk, I guess."
- [22:40] <[Owen]Marina> "They're called breasts. Humans think they're a big deal or somethin'."
- [22:41] <[Owen]Marina> "So they cover 'em up. Wear clothes. Boys have parts they cover up too."
- [22:41] * [Owen]Marina shrugs.
- [22:41] <[Owen]Marina> "Dunno why, really."
- [22:41] <[Owen]Marina> "Sara could tell you. Maybe Missy, too."
- [22:41] <[par]Mara> "Oh. Then why do tha wunz wiff out the lumps covah up? And the sheet they wear round their legs?"
- [22:42] * [Owen]Marina shrugs again.
- [22:42] <[Owen]Marina> "I ain't no human; I don't know all the rules. They're funny sometimes."
- [22:43] <[par]Mara> "Oh, okay. I'll ask Missy or Sara."
- [22:43] <[Owen]Marina> "But look, Mara..."
- [22:43] * [Owen]Marina motions for them to sit down next to a rock wall with a benchlike rock.
- [22:44] * [par]Mara plops down on rock. The seat next to the wall doesn't leave much room for her tail and she sits sideways
- [22:45] * [Owen]Marina sits sideways as well, due to her shell.
- [22:45] <[Owen]Marina> "That ranch... they weren't treating you fair, Mara-girl."
- [22:46] <[Owen]Marina> "They made you work and they didn't give you anything back. Just more work."
- [22:46] <[Owen]Marina> "An' that's called slavery. And girl... that's wrong."
- [22:46] <[par]Mara> "They fed meh."
- [22:47] * [Owen]Marina goes :T
- [22:47] <[Owen]Marina> "They just fed you so you wouldn't die, so you could keep working."
- [22:47] <[Owen]Marina> "Did they ever let you do what YOU wanted?"
- [22:47] <[Owen]Marina> "Would they have let you leave, say?"
- [22:49] <[par]Mara> "Oh... Well uh, they sed what I shuld do and it needed doin. I wanted to help. Tha othahz werent so good at it so I wanted to have less fer them to do."
- [22:49] * [Owen]Marina sighs. The lies they will tell... and she was told plenty in the past when SHE was young.
- [22:50] <[par]Mara> "I like helpin you an yers too. But there's hardly any ta do it seems."
- [22:51] <[Owen]Marina> "They'll be plenty today, Mara. See that cave?"
- [22:51] * [Owen]Marina points. The cave entrance is in view but still a ways off.
- [22:52] <[Owen]Marina> "Humans love that cave. They love to explore."
- [22:52] <[Owen]Marina> "But they love to CATCH. Catch Pokemon, and make 'em work, just like you did."
- [22:53] <[Owen]Marina> "And when you're caught, you don't get no choices."
- [22:53] <[par]Mara> "Well uh, service iz itz own rewerd."
- [22:53] <[Owen]Marina> "Not when you're serving bad people, Mara."
- [22:54] <[par]Mara> "Oh... waz I servin bad people?"
- [22:54] * [Owen]Marina nods somberly, because that's what she believes obviously!
- [22:54] <[par]Mara> "...Then my kin iz servin bad people."
- [22:55] <[Owen]Marina> "Yeah, girl. Those people take good Pokemon like us and don't give 'em any choices."
- [22:55] <[Owen]Marina> "They take Pokemon and treat 'em like animals. But you know what?"
- [22:55] * [Owen]Marina looks to the rising sun. Glasses sparkle!
- [22:55] <[Owen]Marina> "We AIN'T."
- [22:56] <[Owen]Marina> "We're as good as them. They just don't know it yet."
- [22:57] <[par]Mara> "Wow that reallah sum'in. When are we gonna do that?"
- [22:57] * [Owen]Marina punches her fists together.
- [22:57] <[Owen]Marina> "As soon as we get some decent food. But fer' that we need money, and fer' money we need them Moon Stones."
- [22:58] <[Owen]Marina> "So once those sparkly-fox girls wake up we're goin' in."
- [22:59] <[par]Mara> "Oh miz kiri? She's reallah prettah."
- [22:59] * [Owen]Marina smiles and stands back up.
- [22:59] <[Owen]Marina> "Shore is. Shiney-shine~"
- [23:01] <[par]Mara> "She's almost breedah age. She seems like good stock. kerse, all y'all iz good stock."
- [23:01] * [Owen]Marina frowns. Breeding stock...
- [23:01] * [Owen]Marina is glad for her glasses, because her eyes are horrible to look at right now.
- [23:02] <[Owen]Marina> "Don't say words like that."
- [23:02] <[Owen]Marina> "DON'T."
- [23:02] <[par]Mara> "Huh? Werds like wut?"
- [23:02] * [Owen]Marina grits her teeth.
- [23:02] <[Owen]Marina> "Breeding, stock. We're, NOT, ANIMALS."
- [23:03] <[Owen]Marina> "It... makes us sound like, we are. Like... we're only useful for our bodies."
- [23:03] * [Owen]Marina clenches her fist.
- [23:03] <[Owen]Marina> "We... have... BRAINS, DAMMIT!"
- [23:03] <[par]Mara> "Oh uh... sorrah baus..."
- [23:03] * [par]Mara cowers
- [23:03] * [Owen]Marina Mega-Punches the ground!
- [23:04] * [Owen]Marina creates a decent dent in the semi-hard soil and puff up a small cloud of dust.
- [23:05] * [Owen]Marina growls.
- [23:06] <[Owen]Marina> "My... old masters... s'was all they cared about after a few years..."
- [23:06] <[Owen]Marina> "Breeding. Fine the strongest genes... best cross-species... purest water..."
- [23:07] * [Owen]Marina spits on the ground into the hole she made.
- [23:07] * [par]Mara covers her eyes with her hands
- [23:07] <[Owen]Marina> "Peh. Like I'd have left my kids to the hell they'd have had in THOSE humans' hands."
- [23:09] * [Owen]Marina rages for a while longer before cooling back down.
- [23:09] * [par]Mara is still cowering
- [23:09] <[Owen]Marina> "Gaah... Hey Mara, you okay?"
- [23:11] <[par]Mara> "I'm reallah sorrah baus I'll nevah do it again!"
- [23:12] * [Owen]Marina lifts her head up with a caring hand.
- [23:13] <[Owen]Marina> "Hey now, don't; don't be like that. I'm no boss, girl."
- [23:13] <[Owen]Marina> "I'm me. An' you're you. And you don't take no orders for me, and I don't take no orders from you."
- [23:14] <[Owen]Marina> "That's called being FREE."
- [23:14] * [Owen]Marina points into the distance.
- [23:14] <[Owen]Marina> "That ranch weren't no FREE. You took orders. You had a boss."
- [23:14] * [Owen]Marina points to the ground.
- [23:15] <[Owen]Marina> "Ain't no boss here, no orders. Just, friends. You hear? Friends."
- [23:16] * [par]Mara slowly shakes her head
- [23:16] <[par]Mara> "We like kin."
- [23:19] * [Owen]Marina considers the proposition.
- [23:19] <[Owen]Marina> "I... guess. Kinda."
- [23:20] <[Owen]Marina> "Except not like REAL kin, but... okay, sure."
- [23:22] <[par]Mara> "Well, I nevah met most of my kin. But we wuz all kin at tha ranch."
- [23:23] * [Owen]Marina nods.
- [23:23] <[Owen]Marina> "Good point."
- [23:24] <[Owen]Marina> "Some day y'all oughta meet my REAL kin, though. Got a sister who's takin' care of the kids while I'm out saving the world, ya see."
- [23:24] <[Owen]Marina> "She's way nicer than me."
- [23:24] * [Owen]Marina goes :T again.
- [23:24] <[par]Mara> "I hope ta seem them all, mah real kin. Most em got were taken to a nersery cuz I had ta git back to werk.
- [23:26] * [Owen]Marina nods.
- [23:26] * [Owen]Marina also shakes her head.
- [23:27] <[Owen]Marina> "S'a crime, takin' kids away... Once we get used ta this adventurin' we'll have to crash that entire ranch."
- [23:27] <[Owen]Marina> "That's gonna be a tough shell to break, though..."
- [23:28] <[par]Mara> "Okay. It'll be nice ta see mah kin again. And meeting yer sis sounds good too. Anywun who's yer kin must be good people."
- [23:28] * [Owen]Marina smiles up until the last little bit and winces again.
- [23:28] <[Owen]Marina> "...Sis is good, yeah......"
- [23:29] <[Owen]Marina> "...Bro's not."
- [23:29] <[par]Mara> "Oh uh... okay..."
- [23:29] * [Owen]Marina just looks away.
- [23:29] <[Owen]Marina> "Let's not talk about that."
- [23:31] <[par]Mara> "Surah."
- [23:32] * [Owen]Marina leads Mara back to where the other girls slept for the night. Time to go have a real adventure, now...
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