Journal Entry # 1 [Video/Action]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Anyone who walks by or happens to be watching the network feed will see a frustrated kid siting on the grass and flipping through an old, battered journal.]

There isn't anything in this book about 'Pokémon'! Or how a sheep can produce electricity! That mom lady must have been a shape-shifter who didn't look anything like my mom... and that professor makes McGucket look sane...

[The gear moves towards the boy before it's tossed to the ground. Unfortunately, it lands face down, obscuring whatever threw it and the boy.]

Hey! Don't break that. We might need it later.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

I don't know! I just got here!

[Just admit you missed your family old man.] What are you doing here?

[Someone said this might be a video game. So this Stan might just be an NPC.]

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[embezzling]

[ Is the furthest thing from an NPC... ]

Long story. I've been here for like three months.

Did your sister get dragged along with you?

[ there's a lot to explain here but we're getting the big ones outta the way. ]

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[sneezelikeakitten]

Three months? But you just sent Mabel and me to bed! That's not possible.

[Trying not to look even a little panicked about being separated from his twin.]

No. Just me.

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[embezzling]

Time works really weird here. I've been gone but I actually haven't been gone and anything that was happening while I've been here has kinda stopped.

[ UM. ]

That's not my old man brain kicking in, I swear. Just trust me on this.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[.... there's still suspicion, but after the whole thing with Ford.... Dipper is going to "trust him" on this till he gets a definitive answer.]

Right. So when I go back, I'll still be in bed, asleep.

video; hes so lowkey concerned

[embezzling]

Probably. Haven't heard what happens to people when they go back but it's a guess...

So basically right now I'm a billion miles away nowhere near where you're at. I can work on gettin' out there but it's gonna take a while. You got the Pokemon they gave ya, right?

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[Mystery to be solved. Ask if anyone went back and returned here.]

You mean the electric sheep? It won't leave me alone! Why'd I have to get a sheep?

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[embezzling]

Don't ask me. They pick it for you.

[ oh oh this is the perfect opportunity to be a show-off. ]

I got a cat! [ He swiiiings the camera around to face the Persian settled in on the bed licking her gigantic paws. She squints at her Master and growl-meows. ]

Ain't she gorgeous? Maybe the sheep will... Turn into something cool. [ Though honestly he can't say that with a straight face. ]

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[sneezelikeakitten]

That's not a cat, that's a cougar!

[WHY DO YOU HAVE A GIANT CAT, STAN?

Hey, Lamby is offended. Of course he'll be cool. He's going to look into the camera and glare.]

I think you made him mad.

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[embezzling]

He'll get over it.

Misery here's the greatest cat who ever lived. Check it out-- [ He announces because seriously Dipper just watch. ] Miz, you wanna use Pay Day for me real quick?

[ Misery, having just set her head on her paws, lifts it up. The gem in the middle of her forehead glows and proceeds to shell out a couple of gold coins before she resumes her Resting Bitch Position. ]

She's a walking ATM!

[ good for you stan a+ ]

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[RUDE

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Is that even real money?

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[embezzling]

It's the money they use around here. I've used it at places and it totally works.

It's helping me pay my rent at the Inn.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

But if she can make that much money, why don't you just buy a place?

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[embezzling]

Because I've been busy with other things. That's what being an adult is about, Dipper. Finding real estate in this economy's a killer.

I wanna see you buy a house when you've got six mouths to feed.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[Or you're just going back to your traveling salesman ways, grunkle. For shame.]

Can't these Pokémon feed themselves? The sheep eats grass and seems happy with it.

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[embezzling]

There's SO much more to it, Dipper. When you've gotta get these things to make eggs, they gotta be happy and fed like kings. They're eatin' me outta house and home. Even the ghosts have to eat.

The more they eat, the happier they are, and the more eggs they make. The more eggs they make, the more money I get.

I'm practically an expert by now. You wouldn't understand.

[ he's not an expert at all ]

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[sneezelikeakitten]

So you're using these animals for money now? That's low, even for you grunkle Stan.

[Animal abuse.]

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[embezzling]

Earth to Dipper, that book you've got in your backpack is gonna tell you that some people breed Pokémon and sell their eggs. It's about making a bigger, stronger Pokémon so they can fight each other and win contests. It's a totally legitimate business.

It's like cockfighting but legal.

I'm not doing anything wrong.

You realize you've gotta make that sheep fight stuff, right?

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[What what what what]

I gotta make it fight other people's pets?

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[embezzling]

That's basically why they exist.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

That's like saying deer only exist to be hunted.

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[embezzling]

And I don't make the rules, Dipper. If you wanna go about your time here coddling your sheep, go ahead. I'm tellin' you now that anyone who tries to challenge you is gonna wreck you.

[ Something dawns on him. And what dawns on him is a CHORE. ]

Do you need me to pick you up and take you to Ghost Town with me?

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[How do you coddle a sheep?]

I'll be fine!

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N-No! I'm traveling with a fellow twin named Jade Harley!

video; its not like i want to see my nephew or something b-baka

[embezzling]

[ Has seen a man coddle an alligator...... ]

Oh.

[ He is NOT going to show that he is mildly disappointed he will nOT. ]

Fine. Whenever you make it to Ecruteak in the next century, it's where I'm stayin'. Gonna set up shop. I'll wire you something for Christmas, I guess.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

[HE'S TRYING.]

How far away is Ecruteak?