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  1. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Yeah, nope, he didn't want to talk about it. Fair enough. None of his business. He took a breath. "Sure, bite to eat sounds fine. I saw a decent-looking place a couple streets away on the way to the museum." Andre seemed like an okay kid. Smart, head screwed on straight, little awkward. Dave...
  2. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave nodded along, raising an eyebrow. "About what I figured. Well, your secret's safe with me. Hope they've left you alone since." Still, selling weed - formerly selling weed - didn't exactly make for the sort of big notworthy stuff a lot of Wayfarers were involved in, unless the gang not...
  3. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Huh. Dave looked back at the nearby diorama, dead-serious cowboy Pokémon history in a world that supposedly needed saving. "Yeah, we are a bizarre bunch. Most everyone I've talked to is somehow entangled in something big and fucked-up back home, larger than life backstories and big dramatic...
  4. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave waved a paw. "No siblings, and extended family's mostly also religious nuts. I don't talk to them. But my daughter likes to draw, if that counts. She's ten, not exactly professional-grade, but not for lack of enthusiasm." He furrowed his brow. Wait, there was Sharon. "Oh, yeah, I've got an...
  5. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    It was a bit different to listen to Andre knowing he was practically a kid. Clearly smart and well read and with a strong sense of right and wrong, but he hadn't even been through college, still working through what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Well, I used to read a lot of science books...
  6. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Some legendaries were real? Well, sure. He'd take it. Still no indication they were actually gods over there, just Pokémon that people had latched onto and worshipped. Rich parents did explain a lot about a guy working as a self-employed painter. "Huh. I was taking you for late twenties, early...
  7. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    "Huh. Interesting." Gods that took human and Pokémon forms were definitely a thing in some religions back home, he supposed. "So in your world legendaries are myths, like in mine? Threw me for a loop to come here where they're apparently all just real fucking Pokémon wandering around, but...
  8. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave snorted. "Christ. Yeah, people sure love to cherry-pick their religious scriptures. Justify the bigotry you like, brush aside anything you don't like, then pretend this millennia-old text full of batshit depravity is actually the guide to everything right and true in the world. What else is...
  9. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave took a deep breath. To be expected when he'd mentioned it, really. "It was this insane religious nut. Got it into his head that the science I was doing was an abomination unto the Lord and he was put on this Earth to fix that with a rifle. He missed and killed my coworker, then his equally...
  10. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Andre almost flinched at the police question, Jesus. 'Just a civilian'? Was he a drug dealer? Probably a drug dealer. "Right. Back on the wagon to Terminal Two, you mentioned you had 'experience with criminals'. That plus using your aura sense mostly to detect lies, made sense if that was...
  11. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Huh. That sounded... both a bit like how crank psychics described auras in his world and like the aura concept over here, driving Pokémon attacks. He peered at Andre. "Wait, so you had human aura powers? How does that work? Like a, some kind of fucking sixth sense, or do you just see it?" God...
  12. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave raised a skeptical eyebrow, staring at him. Was he being serious? More importantly, was there any way to tell, when the multiverse was seemingly designed to fuck with him personally? God. "Well, if genetics in your universe works anything like in mine, then if humans are genetically more...
  13. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Huh. Some particular species being sapient while most weren't was a new one. "Yeah, mine's more like Ridley's. Pokémon can be sort of clever within their particular niches, and they're quick to pick up commands, but they don't do complex communication or abstract thinking. Lot of studies...
  14. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Dave cracked a smile at 'I can talk like a regular person, I swear'. "Dave, yeah. It's Andre, right?" They hadn't talked much, had they. He'd been there when they'd gone to see Sierra, when they'd attacked Terminal Two. But mainly Dave remembered him from the wagon, that night, unassuming...
  15. Butterfree

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance
    Threadmarks: Ch06: Dave and Andre Discuss Museums

    The museum was all a bit pretentious, waxing poetic about glorious civilization, but at least it was an interesting window into the state of science in Forlas, and into how the locals thought of their history. Everything extolled Novelux and the triumphant advance out west as the pinnacle of...
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