Trail #7 - [video]

[trailweblaze]

_{[Hello Johto! Things have been pretty quiet on Miguel's end of the network because How do I technology. He's been mostly loitering around Goldenrod all day long Stealing? What do you mean he's been stealing? Some of you might remember his spectacular luck at the Game Corner. Well, today he finally discovered the prizes]}

So, I bought this for all the Coins I won. _{[He holding a bright blue CD in his hands, turning it over and looking at it from all possible angles.]}

The guy over at the prize corner it could teach a Pokémon a new move but I have no idea how it works.

It says _[squint] Teee.. tech.. nii cal Maa. chiine. Technical Machine. It's an Ice Beam and I want to teach it to Cerdito because he can make snow and all, so I figured it would work but... how?

Comments

[violenceandmilk.livejournal.com]

[That's a good question, actually. Shizuo stares at it for a moment before speaking.] Maybe it's a video?

[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Yeeahh, but how is a video supposed to learn my Pokémon a new attack? _{[Turning the TM over and over still]} It doesn't make sense.

[violenceandmilk.livejournal.com]

Could be an instructional video.

[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Okay. _[Beat] How do I watch it?

[violenceandmilk.livejournal.com]

You have to find a computer.

[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[Oh great more nagging about computers]}

Right. Spectacular.

What's a computer?

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[usedcabbages.livejournal.com]

They... didn't tell you how to use it? [Man, this place is totally useless. B| People are dumb.] Well, it looks like a CD or a DVD, maybe it works similarly.

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[You are confusing him so much now]}

Right. CDs and DVDs. And.. how do they work?

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[usedcabbages.livejournal.com]

[Just as planned. I mean what.]

You put them in a CD or DVD player... and press play. I mean, I don't know if this is exactly the same though... You said it was called a Technical Machine, right?

Then maybe there's a Technical Machine player too?

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[Miguel has no idea what you are talking about, so he's just gonna assume its some other weird contraption]}

Okay. So, some.. machine-thing that can 'play' this TM.. How exactly would that teach Cerdito a new move? _{[Mostly just thinking aloud, hoping that you maybe perhaps hopefully have an answer]}

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[usedcabbages.livejournal.com]

I'm... not really sure either. Someone else may have used one before, though. I didn't know about them until you showed it.

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[He spins the CD around his finger]}

I guess I can try to ask around. Someone should know.

_{[Slight frown]} Unless this is some fake thing of course.

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[usedcabbages.livejournal.com]

That would be some pretty bad fraud if that's the case. [Frowning, but then kind of remembers something.] I'm pretty sure those "Technical Machine" things are real, though.

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hope so. _{[He gives the disc a kind-of glare]} This thing was expensive, so it better be real. _{[Tulio would kill him if it wasn't]}

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[usedcabbages.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you figure it out soon. It would be pretty good to know more about it.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Coins and prizes together? Is there some kind of casino in this place?

And, I dunno, maybe the disk goes in the computer thing.

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a Game Corner downtown. In Goldenrod.

Uuuh.. what's a computer?

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

You don't know what a computer is? What are you, from the olden days?

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

1510-something or other.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Woah dude you look pretty young for your age. How did you do that?

[ :O forever ]

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[Blink blink. What]}

I am not old!

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Well it's 2006 right now so if you were from 1510 and my amazing math skills are correct that would make you four hundred and thirty. That's old. You should be deader than disco.

[ Which, even if the above was true would be completely wrong. Well done Todd. ]

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[What is disco?]}

Oh, ahah, no no no, I, uuh.. I was moved here, to.. Johto and.. ths year, from 1500-whatever.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

That must be why you don't know about computers then.

[ you don't say. ]

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_{[Flat look. Or well. A hint of one]} There wasn't electri-something or these.. fires in glasses.. lamps either back then.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

That must suck; what do you do for fun?

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Uuh.. mostly I just try to survive.. but that's pretty fun sometimes! _[8D]

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Woah dude that sounds pretty sucky. No movies? No rock stars? Not even any lights? 510 must have been a dark dark place. Like, literally I guess.

[ And yes he did just say five hundred and ten. ]

That explains why you don't know how to work the computer disk. Get one of the casino helpers to tell you how to work it - that TM thing. That's what they're paid for. Make them earn their pay.

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

Uuh, no. Nothing like that. If we needed light we made fires _[shrug]

Aah yeah, I suppose I could do that, buut.. I don't think they want to see me anymore.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Did you win big?

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[thattrail.livejournal.com]

_[grin] Pretty much all the coins in the machine.

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[ve-gone.livejournal.com]

Damn dude, you made off like a bandit. I'll have to check that place out and try my luck there too.