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.

Comments

[Video]

[samsa]

[Geeze Dipper, what have you been reading?]

Wow...it sounds pretty intense.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Not reading it. Living it.]

Life and death situations are like that.

[Video]

[samsa]

[Kaneki just nods. Okay, he'll just go along with that for now. Seeing that journal, though, he can't help but ask:]

So...do you like to read?

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Clearly Kaneki needs to spend the surer in the wonderfully paranormal state of Oregon.

ISN'T IT OBVIOUS]

Yeah, I like to read.

[Video]

[samsa]

[Hmm...]

...would you possibly be interested in joining a book club, then?

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Yes.]

No.

[I mean.]

YES.

[Video]

[samsa]

[Kaneki can't help but smile a little at that. SUCH ENTHUSIASM.]

My friend Maka started up a book club not long ago. We have meetings every now and then. Her Alakazam can bring people over who can't travel that far themselves, so that wouldn't be a problem, if you're interested.

[...ah, right-]

I'm Kaneki Ken, by the way. I never introduced myself.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Book club = like minded, intelligent people that a 12 year old might fit in with!]

Maka. Right... wait... Alakazam. Like those magi words "Abra Kadabra Alakazam?"

[Intro time.]

Dipper Pines.

[Video]

[samsa]

That's right. Those are the names of three Pokemon, too, in the order they evolve- Abra, Kadabra, and then Alakazam.

It's nice to meet you, Dipper-san.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[That's as bad as Mabel naming her pig Waddles because pigs waddle...]

Are they magicians?

-san? Are you from Japan?

[Video]

[samsa]

Well...they're Psychic type Pokemon, which are probably as close to magicians as you could get...

And I am, yes. I'm from Tokyo.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[He'll have to look them up.]

Why are Japanese horror movies so weird?

[Ju-on, man. Ju-on.]

[Video]

[samsa]

[Dipper oh my god you don't just ask that-]

I...don't know?

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[HE'S CURIOUS]

Japan sure has a different take on what's scary.

[Video]

[samsa]

You can say that about movies from other countries too though, can't you? I mean...not every movie is all that scary.

[Some American "scary movies" are just as weird, man. Not like he'd know though...he's not much of a movie watcher anyway.]

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

True. "The Shining" isn't that scary once you realize it's supposed to be a psychological horror instead of a horror movie like Alfred Hitchcock's "Birds".

[Eight Legged Freaks is a really weird horror movie. Mutated spiders were a horror movie staple.]

[Video]

[samsa]

As far as "The Shining" goes, I personally like the novel better.

[There's a shock.]

And "The Birds"...well, that has its own style of horror, I suppose.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

Reading is fine, but actually seeing it on screen makes it more real.

[Genre-savvy kid.]

If you want something that might give you nightmares for a while, you should check out "The Thing" or the original "Aliens" movie.

[Video]

[samsa]

[He doesn't want more nightmares, thanks, but that does get him to smile slightly.]

That makes me wonder if this world's equivalent of those movies are here. I can promise you that they're probably...different.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Hey, Bill's not here. Your nightmares would be safe.]

Hmm... I have a feeling that they wouldn't be as gory as the ones I'm used to.

[Video]

[samsa]

Yeah, I doubt it. Nothing here ever really is.

[Have you tried dying here, Dipper? Because you can't. Not permanently, anyway.]

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Passing on the dying, kthnx.]

Can anything bad happen here? Or is it all some PG-13 kids kind of place?

[Video]

[samsa]

Bad things can still happen, of course. They have, in the past.

[Video]

[sneezelikeakitten]

Some guy was talking about killer monsters back in October.

[Video]

[samsa]

Mmhm. They were...fusions of different Pokemon that had been rampaging through the regions. They were attacking people...and it was causing people to change into Pokemon themselves.