.002 Δ [Voice]

[ratherbelocky]

Okay. Okay.

[York's voice is the soft but urgent hiss of someone who's freaking out but doesn't want to alarm the people around him. The sound quality, for those sensitive to that sort of thing, indicates that he may have, you know. Locked himself in the bathroom. As one does.]

Can I lodge a complaint? I dunno who to, exactly, but I'da hoped this would be the kind of thing that got covered in the rookie's field manual as early as possible.

[He pauses.]

Turning into a werewolf, I mean.

[The pause is practically italicized. Whatever's happening to York, he is strenuously unhappy about it, and the tension rides his voice hard.]

Like, the fact that that's apparently a real possibility in this universe.

Comments

[Voice]

[tearsofademon]

...Sim whats? Pretty sure Teams Aqua and Magma are just a bunch of asshole thugs.

[Voice]

[ratherbelocky]

Teams...oh. Oh, yeah, I heard of them. The cartoon villains, right?

[He'd heard something about them after his first post, anyway.]

Come to think of it, this situation stinks of someone's Saturday morning plot. Transformations, goofy hybrids...You think one of those teams might have something to do with it?

[Voice]

[tearsofademon]

Wouldn't put it past Team Rocket, at least. The other two seemed more interested in flooding or scorching things than experimentation like this looks like.

Dunno if even Team Rocket would do something this bad, though.

[Voice]

[ratherbelocky]

Experimentation...

[He sighs and rubs at his now-furry face.]

A lot of people are reporting a connection between those hybrid Pokémon and the transformations in us humans. At the very least, we oughta find some way to corral those poor dudes, if they're what's spreading it.

[Voice]

[tearsofademon]

[He's not convinced it's not a thing that gets done around here. Hasn't been since the Shedinja incident.]

Yeah, probably. I feel bad, 'cause I don't think they mean any harm, but...

[Voice]

[ratherbelocky]

Doesn't matter that much to the ones that get harmed, now, does it?

I get this place is big on being humane, so I'm sure someone'll come up with a way to pen 'em without hurting them. And at least some of us who've changed will have an easier time tracing them...

[Voice]

[tearsofademon]

Yeah. If there's one thing those Professors are good for, it's coming up with stuff to contain loose probably-experiments. This is gonna be like those Shedinjas all over again, isn't it...

[Voice]

[ratherbelocky]

There a story there, dude?

[Voice]

[tearsofademon]

It was a few years ago now... Ahh, have you heard about Shedinjas? There's a legend with them that says that if you look in their back, you lose your soul. It's not actually true, though...

...at least, with natural ones.