ADR - Episode 532: Hell Bell | Actual play podcasting that goes bump in the night

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[00:00:05] Oh, hello and welcome to Al Dente Rigamortis. I'm Review Cultist.

[00:00:22] And I'm the Gamer in Yellow.

[00:00:24] And we're here to discuss those internet stories, most creepy and most pasta, and be critically silly doing it.

[00:00:29] And tonight we have...

[00:00:31] Hell Bell.

[00:00:32] And it's never not weird when I say my name right after you.

[00:00:37] No, it indeed isn't. Yeah, unfortunately this week, Mikey, E stands for Evil, could not attend.

[00:00:43] He's going off to visit some demon family out in the universe.

[00:00:47] So, but we are pressing on with a Pokepasta.

[00:00:53] You know, it's summer. I usually kind of actually attribute the summer to like anime stuff and like Pokemon stuff of that for some reason.

[00:01:00] So I was like, oh, we should find a Pokemon based creep pasta.

[00:01:04] It works.

[00:01:05] Yeah.

[00:01:06] So we found this one Hell Bell by Zancrew on creeppasta.wiki.

[00:01:11] And yeah, before we dive too far into it, we should give our initial recommendations as always.

[00:01:18] I'm going to partially recommend this one.

[00:01:21] I'm going to partially recommend this one.

[00:01:23] Yeah.

[00:01:24] Yeah.

[00:01:25] Same.

[00:01:26] Sames.

[00:01:29] Well, our thoughts might sway each other one way or another by the end of this.

[00:01:33] Yeah, indeed.

[00:01:33] So, well, let's find out why we gave that.

[00:01:37] That's why we gave that mid recommendation.

[00:01:42] Wishiwashi recommendation.

[00:01:43] Yeah, that Wishiwashi partial recommendation for this.

[00:01:45] Wishiwashi sounds like a Pokemon.

[00:01:47] I mean, honestly, that could be.

[00:01:49] Wishiwashi.

[00:01:52] Wabafet.

[00:01:55] Wishiwashi.

[00:01:56] But yeah, let's find out why starting with the rundown featuring Nair.

[00:02:02] So Nair receives a bunch of Pokemon cards and games after her older brother gets fed up

[00:02:08] and tired of the series because of the supposed lackluster status they they have for Generation

[00:02:16] four, which was Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl.

[00:02:21] His loss is her gain, however, as among other things, Nair gets her brother's copy of Pokemon

[00:02:28] Diamond, which she really wanted initially, but had to settle for getting Pearl since her

[00:02:34] bro got there first.

[00:02:35] And she just really likes the legendary from Diamond more than the one from Pearl.

[00:02:40] Dialga versus Palkia.

[00:02:43] Um, bro's game file has been augmented with action replay cheats and codes, giving him

[00:02:50] all the Pokemon in the Pokedex and a bunch of level 100 legendaries.

[00:02:55] After playing around with these cheat codes and and this game file, Nair decides to do some

[00:03:00] trading on the uh, the Pokemon trading center or the trading system, which you can do seeing

[00:03:07] seeing what random Pokemon they can get from randos around the world.

[00:03:11] She puts up a trade for one of her 100 level 100 Rayquazas for a random Bronzong.

[00:03:20] And after a bit actually gets a bite, the the Bronzong is named Hellbell title drop.

[00:03:28] Uh, also Bronzong is a bell Pokemon, so it fits, um, from a user named BLs.

[00:03:34] The this this makes Nair initially very nervous and uneasy as they are a bit religious and

[00:03:43] the naming conventions are a tad sacrilegious.

[00:03:46] Even more so with the stats of the Bronzong being all 666.

[00:03:50] The strangeness continues further when she tries to release the Pokemon because she doesn't

[00:03:56] like the name and stuff like that.

[00:03:57] And she's just like, I'm not going to use this.

[00:03:59] So she tries to like release the Pokemon in the in the system in the in the game's mechanic

[00:04:04] to release a Pokemon, but she can't.

[00:04:06] And in fact, it's holding some messages addressed at least seemingly to her character.

[00:04:12] Uh, it wants her to take it somewhere, uh, specifically to the lost tower area in the

[00:04:19] the game's world.

[00:04:20] Following along, she can't fly directly to this location, which you can do normally in

[00:04:25] the game, but she can get to like the closest location and then walk there.

[00:04:28] And as she approaches the lost tower area, she notices, uh, NPC sprites, uh, are all missing.

[00:04:34] Save for a crazed old man sprite running around repeatedly shouting, ring the bell, ring the

[00:04:40] bell over and over and over again.

[00:04:44] Uh, reaching the tower, a haunting bell sound rings and a hole opens up.

[00:04:50] In the center of the, uh, the base of the tower, which Nair walks into with her character.

[00:04:55] Uh, the sound of the bell ringing, continuing down below is a twisted dark red version of

[00:05:02] the place where the Holy Arceus, the like God Pokemon usually stands in its temple or in

[00:05:09] its, uh, in its, uh, location in the game.

[00:05:11] And it's in this strange new like level area, uh, that Nair meets a gentleman sprite who thanks

[00:05:18] them for returning hell bell.

[00:05:21] They want to know their, uh, Nair's name.

[00:05:24] And at first Nair gives or starts to give the character's name, but the sprite stops her and

[00:05:32] asks for her name specifically.

[00:05:36] Unable to really like stop themselves.

[00:05:38] They sign their name in the DS touchscreen and then blow on it as though it were actual ink to let

[00:05:46] dry.

[00:05:47] Doing this reveals that her soul now belongs to the man who is the gentleman sprite as the old

[00:05:54] character sprite she has been playing with transforms into one of Nair's likeness.

[00:06:02] Then Hellbell uses imprisonment on her, on her sprite and the DS dies shortly after.

[00:06:10] Now Nair doesn't eat, doesn't drink, can't eat, can't drink, and doesn't sleep much as she is bound

[00:06:18] or as she is a bound soul to the devilish fiend that was the gentleman sprite and Hellbell.

[00:06:24] Uh, she doesn't know where Hellbell is now, but suspects they're out there somewhere in the

[00:06:29] trading system and warns the reader about making such suspicious trades.

[00:06:35] Finn.

[00:06:36] So, yeah, that was, uh, the rundown for Hellbell.

[00:06:39] And, uh, I suppose we'll move on to...

[00:06:42] Everyone, Tolerate Instagram Inquisitions!

[00:06:45] At this point, uh, I've got a couple.

[00:06:47] I'm gonna start with one that's, like, really, like...

[00:06:50] I, I, like, I, I saw it and I was like,

[00:06:52] that's wrong.

[00:06:54] Um, and it's, uh, it's actually a Pokemon's name.

[00:06:57] Oh, really?

[00:06:58] Yeah, so, uh, here, here's the...

[00:06:59] Here's the sentence for it.

[00:07:00] Here's the quote.

[00:07:02] Um, I received hundreds of cards to add to my collection.

[00:07:06] The Blastios plush he won at King's Island nine years ago.

[00:07:10] Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

[00:07:11] So, yeah, Blastios is actually supposed to be Blastoise.

[00:07:15] Maybe it's, like, uh, like a Chinese knockoff one.

[00:07:18] Yeah, maybe.

[00:07:19] It's only got, like, a weird name.

[00:07:20] It's only got, like, one cannon.

[00:07:22] Yeah, but, like, in the middle.

[00:07:24] Yeah, it's all green.

[00:07:25] Yeah.

[00:07:28] It's just one of those, like, Chinese knockoff ones that you find from, like, uh, on various sites and such, or, like, go to, when you go to, like, a carnival.

[00:07:35] Yeah.

[00:07:36] That being said, it's probably a typo, but...

[00:07:38] Yeah, I mean, it's such a simple typo, too.

[00:07:40] It's just, like, the I and the O need to be, like, reversed.

[00:07:42] Yes.

[00:07:43] But, uh, move on to the next thing I have here.

[00:07:46] That chapter of his life came to a sad close, while mine just gained something to continue on.

[00:07:54] So, I had a little bit of an issue with this sentence.

[00:07:56] So, like, at first I was, like, continue on with, maybe, at the end?

[00:08:00] Honestly, I'm not sure how I like this sentence, like, if I like this sentence or not, because it makes it seem like Pokemon is the only thing this character has going for them.

[00:08:10] Like, and I don't think that's what it's trying to convey, but that's how I'm reading.

[00:08:14] I keep reading it.

[00:08:16] So, maybe it should be, like, some more lines.

[00:08:18] It should read more along the lines of this.

[00:08:21] That chapter of his life came to a sad close, while I gathered up the pieces and added to my own.

[00:08:28] I don't know, maybe I'm just overthinking this, but it just felt like the original, like, quote, like,

[00:08:34] that chapter of his life has come to a sad close, while mine just gained something to continue on.

[00:08:38] I have nothing else but Pokemon.

[00:08:42] Oh, I see.

[00:08:43] So, you were saying, like, it was almost like she, like, wasn't able to continue on life in general without more Pokemon.

[00:08:52] Or just, like, yeah.

[00:08:54] Yeah.

[00:08:55] Or just, like, if I didn't have my Pokemon collection, I would probably kill myself or die.

[00:09:01] I don't think it's making that hard at all.

[00:09:03] I know that's not what it's probably trying to say, but, like, the way I keep reading.

[00:09:07] I've tried reading it different ways, like, in different reflections, and I keep coming.

[00:09:10] I was like, that bit of my head, like, keeps popping up.

[00:09:13] I was like, I just, I need to change this.

[00:09:14] Because, obviously, this is not what they're trying to say.

[00:09:17] But it, if I'm thinking this, like, constantly, like, I was reading this, like, maybe other people are.

[00:09:23] It's like one of those situations.

[00:09:24] It's a creep process, so, you know.

[00:09:27] I have nothing to live for but Pokemon.

[00:09:30] Yeah, I think the whole problem is the whole continue on part.

[00:09:33] Yeah, that's really what's bugging me about it, honestly.

[00:09:37] So, like, that's why I tried to, like, fix it a little bit with, like, while, like, the brothers, like, chapter came to a side close with Pokemon.

[00:09:45] But they, like, gathered the pieces and added it to their own chapter, like, kind of thing.

[00:09:50] Not, because it makes it seem a little bit more like you're more obsessed than you probably are trying to get across.

[00:09:55] At least, again, maybe I'm just overthinking it.

[00:09:58] Maybe I was, like, in a weird headspace for this.

[00:10:01] I don't know.

[00:10:03] I mean, we have little to go on at the very start.

[00:10:05] So, it's hard to know, like, the headspace of any of the characters right from the get-go.

[00:10:10] Yeah, that's true.

[00:10:11] But, yeah, a little rewrite on that would be good for sure.

[00:10:14] Yeah, for sure.

[00:10:16] So, the next one, welcome to my tense talk.

[00:10:19] Oh, great.

[00:10:20] Here's the quote.

[00:10:22] I know my brother had visited the city before.

[00:10:24] I don't know why I couldn't go there.

[00:10:27] But I didn't take the time to actually think about it.

[00:10:31] I just flew to Hart Home instead.

[00:10:35] So, I think it should be, I knew my brother had visited the city before.

[00:10:39] I didn't know why I couldn't go there.

[00:10:43] I didn't take the time to actually think about it.

[00:10:47] I just flew to Hart Home instead.

[00:10:50] Yeah.

[00:10:51] Also, I did also add a period in the sentence.

[00:10:58] Because I felt like, so, I put a period.

[00:11:01] The entire thing is basically a full, like, a long sentence with, like, three commas.

[00:11:05] So, I took the secondary comma and made it a period.

[00:11:08] Just to kind of break up the sentence into two workable sentences.

[00:11:14] And got rid of the butt after the second comma.

[00:11:18] So, it would fit better.

[00:11:21] And then my next one here.

[00:11:23] Ring the bell.

[00:11:24] Ring the bell.

[00:11:25] Ring the bell.

[00:11:26] Ring the bell.

[00:11:27] Infinitum.

[00:11:28] Yeah.

[00:11:29] That meant nothing to me.

[00:11:31] I didn't bother speaking to him again.

[00:11:34] I just continued on to the tower.

[00:11:38] Okay.

[00:11:39] Yes, there are, like, one, two, three, four, five, six.

[00:11:43] Roughly six lines of ring the bell.

[00:11:46] Repeated over and over in all caps.

[00:11:48] And I get it.

[00:11:50] It's probably a transcription from, like, a dialogue text box in the game.

[00:11:56] But I think for, like, brevity.

[00:12:00] And maybe even, like, just for, like, clarity.

[00:12:03] It would have been nice if it had.

[00:12:06] Maybe if it had mentioned that, like, for clarity that it was, like, a dialogue box.

[00:12:10] Or for brevity.

[00:12:12] You don't have to, like, add, like, every single fucking bell.

[00:12:16] Ring the bell.

[00:12:18] Yeah.

[00:12:19] It's just kind of.

[00:12:21] Yeah.

[00:12:22] Go ahead.

[00:12:22] Like, maybe a couple of them.

[00:12:23] And then, like, dot, dot, dot.

[00:12:24] The kind of thing, maybe.

[00:12:26] But.

[00:12:26] But then.

[00:12:28] You might think that the dialogue box that popped up was just two or three of them.

[00:12:32] Then ellipses.

[00:12:34] Which is.

[00:12:34] Looks a lot less insane.

[00:12:37] I guess.

[00:12:37] I don't know.

[00:12:38] It just.

[00:12:38] It.

[00:12:39] I.

[00:12:39] That is.

[00:12:40] It may be.

[00:12:41] It.

[00:12:41] To me, initially, it feels like filler.

[00:12:44] Like, you're just trying to fill some space in the.

[00:12:46] In your story.

[00:12:48] But.

[00:12:49] I can.

[00:12:49] I can also see your point.

[00:12:50] Like, maybe it's like.

[00:12:51] To, like, help.

[00:12:52] Um.

[00:12:54] Uh.

[00:12:54] Get across that this character is, like, just speaking nonsense.

[00:12:58] Or it's just gone.

[00:12:59] It's just, like, nuts in the game.

[00:13:01] Yeah.

[00:13:01] But.

[00:13:02] Then, for clarity, maybe it should actually say that, like, it was a dialogue box.

[00:13:06] Like, Trent.

[00:13:06] Like, it was pulled from a dialogue box.

[00:13:08] I think.

[00:13:08] It's where it did, honestly.

[00:13:10] Uh.

[00:13:10] No.

[00:13:11] Not that I.

[00:13:11] There was a later one that.

[00:13:13] Uh.

[00:13:13] It pops up with a dialogue box.

[00:13:14] But this.

[00:13:15] In this instance, it doesn't say a dialogue box.

[00:13:18] I think the.

[00:13:19] I think the.

[00:13:19] When the gentleman is talking.

[00:13:20] The dialogue box is mentioned.

[00:13:24] Well.

[00:13:25] Also, the only way dialogue is ever shown in this game.

[00:13:28] Is through a dialogue box.

[00:13:31] That's true.

[00:13:32] Yeah.

[00:13:32] So.

[00:13:32] It's already assumed that any dialogue would be in a box.

[00:13:35] Right?

[00:13:35] Yeah.

[00:13:36] I don't know.

[00:13:37] It just.

[00:13:37] It didn't.

[00:13:38] I didn't.

[00:13:39] I honestly just kind of saw it as, like, a little tedious.

[00:13:41] It's like, all right.

[00:13:41] I'm not going to read all the.

[00:13:42] Ring the bells.

[00:13:43] It's just like a long bit.

[00:13:44] You don't have to read all of them.

[00:13:46] I know.

[00:13:46] No, it just.

[00:13:47] Then wait.

[00:13:47] At a very fast glance.

[00:13:49] That they are all the same thing.

[00:13:50] Repeated.

[00:13:51] I.

[00:13:51] I get that.

[00:13:52] But at the same time.

[00:13:53] Then.

[00:13:53] Then what's the purpose of it?

[00:13:55] Even like.

[00:13:58] Like.

[00:13:58] I'm not.

[00:13:58] I'm not like saying.

[00:13:59] Get rid of all the ring the bells.

[00:14:01] But like.

[00:14:02] Could maybe cut it down.

[00:14:06] Even by half.

[00:14:07] I just didn't think it was that big of a deal.

[00:14:09] I'm not.

[00:14:09] I honestly don't really think it's that big of a deal either.

[00:14:11] I'm just like.

[00:14:12] I'm just putting out there that like.

[00:14:14] This seems like kind of just a filler.

[00:14:16] A bit.

[00:14:18] And you know what's.

[00:14:18] What's another thing about this is like.

[00:14:20] If this had been like a screenshot.

[00:14:22] Like if they'd use a screenshot from the game.

[00:14:24] From a game like they'd made.

[00:14:26] That had this as like a dialogue box.

[00:14:27] I'd be fine with it.

[00:14:29] But because it's like text.

[00:14:31] Like on.

[00:14:32] Like it's a text format.

[00:14:33] And some of that in the story.

[00:14:34] It.

[00:14:34] It just comes off as a little too much.

[00:14:36] Like.

[00:14:37] There's just too much of it.

[00:14:39] I will say this.

[00:14:41] Um.

[00:14:42] Looking at.

[00:14:44] Basically the size of dialogue boxes.

[00:14:46] In the bookmon games.

[00:14:47] You could not possibly fit all that.

[00:14:49] In one dialogue box.

[00:14:50] Yeah.

[00:14:51] Unless it's a situation where it's like.

[00:14:54] You'll see the first.

[00:14:55] Five or six of them.

[00:14:57] And then you hit continue.

[00:14:58] And it scrolls up more.

[00:14:59] And continue.

[00:14:59] It scrolls up more and more and more.

[00:15:01] Until he's actually exhausted all of.

[00:15:03] All of his dialogue.

[00:15:04] Which might be actually what it is.

[00:15:06] But then.

[00:15:07] That's that part where he has to scroll.

[00:15:09] I actually kind of want that in the.

[00:15:10] In the sentence afterward.

[00:15:12] Like that follows.

[00:15:13] Or like they had to scroll through.

[00:15:14] And it's like.

[00:15:14] I didn't know what this meant.

[00:15:15] So I just kept going.

[00:15:17] Like.

[00:15:17] Yeah.

[00:15:19] But it does say.

[00:15:20] Babbled over and over.

[00:15:22] For any.

[00:15:22] An annoying.

[00:15:24] Annoyingly long amount of time.

[00:15:26] Well.

[00:15:27] Congrats.

[00:15:27] You annoyed me.

[00:15:28] It takes a long time to get through it.

[00:15:30] Yeah.

[00:15:32] And congrats.

[00:15:33] You annoyed me.

[00:15:34] When I read the story.

[00:15:35] Apparently.

[00:15:37] So like realistically.

[00:15:38] In the game.

[00:15:38] There's probably like.

[00:15:40] Four or five instances of it.

[00:15:42] Per screen.

[00:15:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:47] But yeah.

[00:15:47] A little more clarification on that.

[00:15:49] Would not do it any harm.

[00:15:50] No.

[00:15:52] But I'll move on.

[00:15:54] From that one.

[00:15:55] Um.

[00:15:57] So I took the stairs.

[00:15:58] And the bell.

[00:16:00] Which.

[00:16:00] I now assume.

[00:16:02] Was hell bell.

[00:16:02] Considering that.

[00:16:03] Bronzong.

[00:16:04] Is indeed.

[00:16:04] A sort of bell.

[00:16:06] Continued to ring slowly.

[00:16:08] So.

[00:16:09] I.

[00:16:10] I had to fix this.

[00:16:12] So I took to the stairs.

[00:16:14] As the bell.

[00:16:15] And then the brackets go on.

[00:16:16] Like.

[00:16:17] Continued to ring slowly.

[00:16:20] Um.

[00:16:22] And.

[00:16:23] I'd almost even consider.

[00:16:25] Like.

[00:16:25] Taking the bracket.

[00:16:26] Bracketed bit there.

[00:16:27] Um.

[00:16:28] Where after.

[00:16:29] It's like.

[00:16:29] So I took to the stairs.

[00:16:31] As the bell.

[00:16:32] Continued to ring slowly.

[00:16:34] And then in brackets.

[00:16:35] Which I assume.

[00:16:37] Was.

[00:16:38] Hell bell.

[00:16:38] Considering that Bronzong.

[00:16:40] Is indeed a sort of bell.

[00:16:42] Like have that at the end.

[00:16:44] Instead of like having.

[00:16:45] Like cutting the sentence in half.

[00:16:46] Basically.

[00:16:47] And it's.

[00:16:47] Like this bracket of it.

[00:16:49] Like.

[00:16:49] Don't get me wrong.

[00:16:50] Bracketed like quotes.

[00:16:51] Or bracketed lines are fine.

[00:16:52] In stories sometimes.

[00:16:53] But like.

[00:16:54] In this case.

[00:16:55] It kind of.

[00:16:55] Like.

[00:16:55] I.

[00:16:56] Didn't realize.

[00:16:57] That I was also.

[00:16:57] Continuing a sentence.

[00:16:58] After it.

[00:16:59] Because it was so long.

[00:17:01] Like it literally went down.

[00:17:02] To the next.

[00:17:03] The next line.

[00:17:04] And.

[00:17:05] Yeah.

[00:17:05] And I had to like.

[00:17:06] Then I started reading.

[00:17:06] It's like.

[00:17:06] Oh right.

[00:17:07] And then.

[00:17:07] The continued.

[00:17:08] Continued to ring slowly.

[00:17:10] Is from the.

[00:17:11] The bell thing.

[00:17:11] That was mentioned.

[00:17:12] Before the brackets.

[00:17:14] So.

[00:17:15] Hmm.

[00:17:17] Yeah.

[00:17:18] That'd help it for sure.

[00:17:19] Yeah.

[00:17:20] And then.

[00:17:20] My next one.

[00:17:22] Finally.

[00:17:23] I reached the end of the pathway.

[00:17:24] Which was.

[00:17:25] Just as small.

[00:17:26] Four times four.

[00:17:28] Platform.

[00:17:29] And the bell.

[00:17:30] Stopped ringing.

[00:17:32] So.

[00:17:32] I think it should be.

[00:17:34] Finally.

[00:17:35] I reached the end of the pathway.

[00:17:36] Which was.

[00:17:37] Just a small.

[00:17:39] Just a small.

[00:17:40] Four by four.

[00:17:41] Platform.

[00:17:43] Yes.

[00:17:44] I have that as well.

[00:17:45] Cool.

[00:17:47] And.

[00:17:47] Second last one.

[00:17:49] Why I was listening to this.

[00:17:51] Watching it all play out.

[00:17:53] When I.

[00:17:53] Could easily just.

[00:17:55] Turn it off.

[00:17:56] And.

[00:17:56] Turn it off.

[00:17:57] Or star.

[00:17:58] A completely new game.

[00:17:59] A completely new game.

[00:18:01] I don't know.

[00:18:03] I think it's like.

[00:18:04] Or start.

[00:18:05] Not star.

[00:18:06] I was just missing that T at the end.

[00:18:08] Oh.

[00:18:09] I missed that.

[00:18:09] Oh.

[00:18:10] Yeah.

[00:18:10] And then my last one.

[00:18:13] I was unable.

[00:18:14] To make.

[00:18:15] And.

[00:18:15] Changes.

[00:18:16] After that.

[00:18:18] I think.

[00:18:18] And.

[00:18:19] Should be changed to any.

[00:18:20] So.

[00:18:20] I was.

[00:18:21] Unable to make.

[00:18:22] Any changes.

[00:18:23] After that.

[00:18:23] Yes.

[00:18:25] And.

[00:18:26] That is the end of my grammar inquisition.

[00:18:28] So.

[00:18:29] My.

[00:18:29] Gamer.

[00:18:31] It's weird.

[00:18:32] Right.

[00:18:32] It's weird.

[00:18:33] Yeah.

[00:18:36] Yes.

[00:18:36] Let's see what I have left.

[00:18:38] You got one of mine.

[00:18:40] Which means I only got two left.

[00:18:42] Technically.

[00:18:44] So.

[00:18:45] My first one.

[00:18:45] I don't believe you got this.

[00:18:48] He didn't say anything that made sense.

[00:18:49] But babbled over and over for an annoying long.

[00:18:52] Annoyingly long amount of time.

[00:18:53] Much like when you speak.

[00:18:54] To a specific cyclist on the bike trail in Ruby Sapphire and Emerald.

[00:18:58] So it's.

[00:19:00] It.

[00:19:01] It needs an extra comma in there.

[00:19:03] Even though this sentence.

[00:19:05] Already has.

[00:19:06] Three commas in it.

[00:19:08] It needs a break.

[00:19:09] Yeah.

[00:19:11] Basically.

[00:19:11] In between time and much.

[00:19:14] So it would be.

[00:19:15] He didn't say anything that made much sense.

[00:19:17] But babbled over and over for.

[00:19:19] An annoyingly long amount of time.

[00:19:21] Huh.

[00:19:22] Much like when you speak.

[00:19:23] To a specific cyclist on the bike trail in Ruby Sapphire.

[00:19:26] No.

[00:19:28] Because otherwise it's time much.

[00:19:31] As well.

[00:19:31] Time much.

[00:19:33] Mm hmm.

[00:19:33] Dude.

[00:19:34] Time much.

[00:19:35] Yeah.

[00:19:36] Exactly.

[00:19:41] Because that was like definitely a huge in joke.

[00:19:43] Between like you, me and Mikey.

[00:19:45] How do we both go to cops?

[00:19:47] Meanwhile, it's.

[00:19:48] Time watch.

[00:19:49] Like.

[00:19:50] Why is that cops?

[00:19:51] Because Mikey and I.

[00:19:53] So when we first got the RPG time watch.

[00:19:56] From like Gen Con a couple years back.

[00:19:58] Me and me and Mikey had the idea for a game.

[00:20:00] Which was like.

[00:20:00] Time cops.

[00:20:02] Oh my God.

[00:20:04] Yeah.

[00:20:05] Yeah.

[00:20:06] You haven't even said that that many times.

[00:20:08] But.

[00:20:09] Just me hearing time much.

[00:20:11] Made me go.

[00:20:15] It's for cops.

[00:20:17] That is the strength of memes, my friend.

[00:20:20] Apparently.

[00:20:20] Yeah.

[00:20:21] Wow.

[00:20:21] Even ones that are like within circles of friends.

[00:20:24] Mm hmm.

[00:20:26] And now it's there on the podcast.

[00:20:28] Mm hmm.

[00:20:29] Okay.

[00:20:30] And my next one.

[00:20:30] I have a conjunction junction that I put together while you were doing your.

[00:20:35] Your rundown.

[00:20:37] All right.

[00:20:38] And next stop.

[00:20:39] Conjunction junction.

[00:20:41] But each time I tried to put it into the GTS.

[00:20:46] Wouldn't that be GPS?

[00:20:48] What are we talking about?

[00:20:48] Oh, what's GTS?

[00:20:50] What is that?

[00:20:50] The global trading system.

[00:20:52] Never mind.

[00:20:54] Restart.

[00:20:55] Certainly not the greater Toronto sprawl.

[00:20:58] Yeah.

[00:20:59] That's.

[00:20:59] I really stumbled over that.

[00:21:02] Hey.

[00:21:02] It's a reference to the,

[00:21:03] the,

[00:21:04] the area,

[00:21:05] the city that we played in,

[00:21:06] in our,

[00:21:07] our shadow run game that we played on our sister podcast.

[00:21:10] One last time.

[00:21:11] Plug,

[00:21:12] plug,

[00:21:12] plug.

[00:21:12] Yes.

[00:21:13] But okay.

[00:21:14] I'll serve there.

[00:21:14] Um,

[00:21:16] but each time I tried to put it into the GTS,

[00:21:18] the game informed me that the Pokemon couldn't be offered in a trade.

[00:21:23] It was finally getting more specific,

[00:21:26] which I found oddly relieving rather than feeling a little uneasy as I probably should have been.

[00:21:32] But when I picked Slacian town from the map,

[00:21:37] the game informed me that I couldn't fly there.

[00:21:39] Finn.

[00:21:40] Cause those are the only three I could find in short order.

[00:21:44] Cause someone had to pick up the,

[00:21:46] the torch.

[00:21:47] Cause Mikey wasn't here.

[00:21:49] Did we?

[00:21:50] Yes.

[00:21:51] Did we?

[00:21:52] That,

[00:21:53] that,

[00:21:53] that Thor Ragnarok.

[00:21:54] Let's go on.

[00:21:58] Yeah.

[00:21:58] And that bit being,

[00:22:00] uh,

[00:22:00] and the reason why Mikey and now gamer does this is because I do it in his stead when he cannot do it.

[00:22:07] Yes.

[00:22:08] Because,

[00:22:09] um,

[00:22:10] there are sentences throughout the story that start with words that they probably shouldn't like it's answer,

[00:22:14] buts,

[00:22:15] because there's always better words to use.

[00:22:17] And we grabbed them and put them together into a short story with sometimes hilarious results.

[00:22:21] And sometimes not.

[00:22:23] See this episode.

[00:22:25] Yeah.

[00:22:27] I mean,

[00:22:28] they can't all be bangers.

[00:22:29] They can't all be game at full force.

[00:22:31] It was a squirrel.

[00:22:32] Of course not.

[00:22:33] No,

[00:22:34] like half of the reason of doing this is for potential silliness,

[00:22:37] but also like we're doing grammar and technically helping with editing.

[00:22:42] And that's what this is.

[00:22:43] And it's a lot better to just,

[00:22:45] uh,

[00:22:46] glaze over all of the words,

[00:22:48] sentences that start with words that they probably shouldn't like it's in their butts.

[00:22:51] Cause there's always better words,

[00:22:52] um,

[00:22:52] than doing it one at a time.

[00:22:54] Sure.

[00:22:55] Yeah.

[00:22:55] So he's,

[00:22:56] it's actually a very efficient way of doing it.

[00:22:58] Like he does this,

[00:23:00] but that's the end of my grammar.

[00:23:02] And yeah.

[00:23:03] All right.

[00:23:04] Then I suppose we'll move on to actual thoughts.

[00:23:08] So I'm going to start with this quote here.

[00:23:09] In fact,

[00:23:11] I wanted diamond.

[00:23:12] Dialga was a hundred times better looking than Palkia.

[00:23:15] And I rather enjoyed the thought of finally getting to be the one to catch it this time around instead of having to hack one or trade for it.

[00:23:24] I got to agree with Nair here.

[00:23:27] When diamond and pearl came out,

[00:23:29] I specifically wanted diamond because I liked the design of Dialga over Palkia.

[00:23:35] Like,

[00:23:36] like,

[00:23:36] even though it's like a quadruped,

[00:23:38] like kind of like a long neck dinosaur kind of looking thing versus like a T-Rex kind of statured looking Palkia.

[00:23:44] Palkia just,

[00:23:45] it's,

[00:23:45] it's too round.

[00:23:46] I liked the edgy,

[00:23:47] the heart,

[00:23:48] the harder edges,

[00:23:49] uh,

[00:23:49] look around.

[00:23:51] Yeah.

[00:23:51] I wanted the edgier Pokemon.

[00:23:53] I don't know.

[00:23:53] I just liked the spine or like spikier version of Dialga over the,

[00:23:57] uh,

[00:23:57] the very rounded,

[00:23:58] soft,

[00:23:59] um,

[00:24:00] bubbly version of,

[00:24:01] of Palkia.

[00:24:01] So I,

[00:24:02] I'm going to say this Palkia.

[00:24:05] He has like life preserver shoulder pads.

[00:24:08] Yeah.

[00:24:09] And his head is a penis.

[00:24:10] I mean,

[00:24:11] I mean,

[00:24:12] yeah,

[00:24:13] his head is a long shaft shaped thing,

[00:24:15] uh,

[00:24:16] with a helmet on it that ends at two round things.

[00:24:21] Yeah.

[00:24:22] Whereas Dialga is essentially what happens when a xenomorph,

[00:24:26] uh,

[00:24:27] latches into,

[00:24:28] uh,

[00:24:28] like chest bursts out of a,

[00:24:29] of a long neck dinosaur.

[00:24:32] Yeah.

[00:24:32] Kind of like,

[00:24:33] I'm looking at like,

[00:24:35] he has a giant head and like,

[00:24:37] has like the spiky bits.

[00:24:39] Yeah.

[00:24:39] He is way cooler.

[00:24:41] And,

[00:24:41] uh,

[00:24:43] the anthropomorphic penis,

[00:24:44] like,

[00:24:45] like,

[00:24:47] yeah.

[00:24:49] Yeah.

[00:24:50] Palkia,

[00:24:50] like it has like,

[00:24:53] I,

[00:24:53] there is kind of like a nightliness to it.

[00:24:55] Like the,

[00:24:55] like almost looks like he has like night armor and stuff like that.

[00:24:57] But honestly,

[00:24:58] like,

[00:24:58] no Dialga does it better for me than Palkia,

[00:25:01] like design wise.

[00:25:02] Honestly,

[00:25:02] I can't get past the penis.

[00:25:04] I would definitely pass on Palkia and smash.

[00:25:08] Oh,

[00:25:08] we're doing smash.

[00:25:09] No,

[00:25:10] no.

[00:25:14] All right.

[00:25:14] Moving on.

[00:25:15] Yeah,

[00:25:16] please do.

[00:25:17] Um,

[00:25:18] his save information said he had all the Pokemon in his decks,

[00:25:22] even the ones.

[00:25:24] Sorry.

[00:25:26] So that's it.

[00:25:27] Like his decks is like,

[00:25:28] man,

[00:25:29] all the Pokemon in his decks.

[00:25:31] No,

[00:25:31] no,

[00:25:31] nothing in strength,

[00:25:32] nothing in con,

[00:25:33] nothing in intelligence.

[00:25:34] God,

[00:25:35] I'm a nerd.

[00:25:36] I thought you were,

[00:25:37] um,

[00:25:38] hearing that as a different word because I was just referencing how he looks like a penis.

[00:25:44] It is dicks.

[00:25:45] Yeah.

[00:25:47] Oh no.

[00:25:50] That is definitely what they call a Pokedex in,

[00:25:52] in Pokemon pornos.

[00:25:54] Oh,

[00:25:54] definitely.

[00:25:55] Pokedex.

[00:25:56] Yeah.

[00:25:57] Are you kidding me?

[00:25:58] God damn it.

[00:25:59] All right.

[00:25:59] Moving on,

[00:26:00] continuing on.

[00:26:00] So his save information said he had all the Pokemon in his decks,

[00:26:07] even the ones that had yet to be released through wireless events,

[00:26:11] which reminded me that he really enjoyed using action replay codes to,

[00:26:16] enhance his gaming experience.

[00:26:18] So admittedly,

[00:26:19] I never had an action replay though.

[00:26:22] I recall like seeing them,

[00:26:24] um,

[00:26:24] for sale and such as that.

[00:26:26] Um,

[00:26:26] it's nice to know that every generation is going to have its own version of like the

[00:26:31] game genie or the game shark.

[00:26:32] Yeah.

[00:26:33] And everybody's got,

[00:26:34] yeah.

[00:26:35] And also,

[00:26:36] do you see what I did there?

[00:26:37] Generation or generations,

[00:26:39] like,

[00:26:39] because Pokemon have generations.

[00:26:41] Also,

[00:26:42] I'm old.

[00:26:44] Ha.

[00:26:45] Yeah.

[00:26:46] Speaking of age,

[00:26:48] this quote here,

[00:26:50] while the Pokemon encountered with this code were about as weak as if you had given them

[00:26:55] a large number of rare candy.

[00:26:57] I still recall losing to these six frequently.

[00:27:02] This,

[00:27:02] this whole thing honestly gave me like a sense of like nostalgia or like gave me a nostalgia

[00:27:07] trip because I remember using like the missing note sheet to get like hundreds of rare candies

[00:27:13] to level up my,

[00:27:14] my Pokemon to like high levels.

[00:27:16] But I recall like doing that,

[00:27:18] um,

[00:27:19] actually like really like hampered their stats.

[00:27:23] Um,

[00:27:23] like you actually,

[00:27:24] you actually got better stats by training your Pokemon up to like up levels rather than

[00:27:28] using like rare candies to level them up.

[00:27:30] You actually program that in?

[00:27:31] Yeah,

[00:27:31] I think so.

[00:27:32] I'm pretty sure that's how that worked.

[00:27:33] Oh,

[00:27:34] so a level 100 that's been cheated all the way up is probably better than strong as like

[00:27:38] a level 75 one that you actually trained or something like that.

[00:27:41] Yeah.

[00:27:42] Yeah.

[00:27:42] Like,

[00:27:42] like,

[00:27:42] and,

[00:27:43] and like they'll still like crush like a lower Pokemon,

[00:27:46] but like stat wise,

[00:27:47] they're actually pretty pathetic compared to like one that was actually leveled up,

[00:27:50] uh,

[00:27:50] using training.

[00:27:52] Yeah.

[00:27:52] That's cool.

[00:27:53] I appreciate that.

[00:27:55] But yeah,

[00:27:56] the story definitely gave me a strong sense of like nostalgia.

[00:27:59] Cause again,

[00:27:59] like I grew up playing like the original Pokemon games and I even like did get into Pokemon

[00:28:04] diamond.

[00:28:04] I think diamond and pro were like the last ones I got into,

[00:28:06] honestly.

[00:28:07] Yeah.

[00:28:08] I kind of wish I had more nostalgia reading this,

[00:28:11] uh,

[00:28:12] Greenpasta,

[00:28:13] honestly,

[00:28:13] because I,

[00:28:15] back when I was a wee lad,

[00:28:17] um,

[00:28:18] I like collected some Pokemon cards from like gen one and I played a little bit of

[00:28:25] like Pokemon red on someone's game boy.

[00:28:27] I borrowed and I beat the shit out of Pokemon snap on the N64.

[00:28:32] Oh yeah.

[00:28:33] And the Wii.

[00:28:34] Remember when I,

[00:28:34] when I got the port for the Wii?

[00:28:36] Oh,

[00:28:36] that's true.

[00:28:36] Yeah.

[00:28:37] The shit out of that one.

[00:28:38] Yeah.

[00:28:38] Hell yeah.

[00:28:39] Um,

[00:28:39] but that's honestly like all of my exposure to Pokemon.

[00:28:43] For some reason I never got into it.

[00:28:45] I,

[00:28:45] I got so hard into a Pokemon,

[00:28:47] like growing up,

[00:28:48] like I,

[00:28:48] and it's funny cause I didn't have a game cube or like a DS until like late into

[00:28:51] my,

[00:28:52] into like my teens.

[00:28:53] But like even like when in like the,

[00:28:55] in the infant stage of like Pokemon,

[00:28:57] some of that,

[00:28:57] like I was hooked on the cards.

[00:28:59] I love the movies and the show.

[00:29:01] Uh,

[00:29:02] it's funny.

[00:29:02] I vividly remember my mom saying,

[00:29:04] like telling me like Pokemon is going to like go away in like a couple of

[00:29:07] years.

[00:29:08] It's like a trend,

[00:29:09] a fad.

[00:29:10] And I look back,

[00:29:11] it's like,

[00:29:11] Pokemon is still a fucking empire.

[00:29:13] Oh,

[00:29:14] of course.

[00:29:15] Like,

[00:29:16] we find like,

[00:29:17] they just recently,

[00:29:18] like they finally got rid of Ash as a,

[00:29:21] as the protagonist in the,

[00:29:22] in the anime series and are moving on to a brand new,

[00:29:25] uh,

[00:29:26] protagonist.

[00:29:27] Really?

[00:29:27] Yeah.

[00:29:28] That's ballsy.

[00:29:29] Yeah.

[00:29:30] I think it happened.

[00:29:31] I mean,

[00:29:31] it's not to hold up now.

[00:29:33] Yeah.

[00:29:33] I think it only,

[00:29:33] I think it happened a few years ago,

[00:29:34] but like,

[00:29:35] yeah,

[00:29:35] like that it was like,

[00:29:36] yeah,

[00:29:36] they decided to retire Ash as the protagonist of the series and move on to a

[00:29:40] new character.

[00:29:41] So,

[00:29:41] and even a new Pikachu,

[00:29:42] like it's not Pikachu,

[00:29:44] but it's like a new Pikachu mascot or like,

[00:29:46] like character.

[00:29:47] It's a generation Pikachu.

[00:29:49] Yeah.

[00:29:49] I guess what,

[00:29:49] guess what it is.

[00:29:51] It's,

[00:29:51] it's a Pikachu with a captain's hat and his name is captain Pikachu.

[00:29:55] Oh,

[00:29:55] it's still just Pikachu.

[00:29:57] It's Pikachu,

[00:29:58] but it's not Ash's Pikachu,

[00:30:00] but it's like a sassy,

[00:30:01] like,

[00:30:01] and like confident Pikachu with a cat with a captain or the sailors,

[00:30:05] like captain hat.

[00:30:06] Wait,

[00:30:07] does he speak English or something?

[00:30:08] No,

[00:30:08] he,

[00:30:08] no,

[00:30:08] he doesn't.

[00:30:09] He's just,

[00:30:10] he's just,

[00:30:10] how is the sass portrayed in,

[00:30:13] in his motions and like in,

[00:30:14] in how he acts and stuff like that.

[00:30:15] Like he still does like PKP and stuff.

[00:30:17] But it's like all like,

[00:30:18] um,

[00:30:20] like it's,

[00:30:21] it's just done like through like his actions rather than words and such.

[00:30:23] Okay.

[00:30:24] Yeah.

[00:30:26] Uh,

[00:30:26] but yeah,

[00:30:27] so it's,

[00:30:27] yeah.

[00:30:28] And I mean,

[00:30:28] like,

[00:30:28] I don't even know what generation we're on now,

[00:30:30] but like,

[00:30:31] like,

[00:30:31] yeah,

[00:30:31] this one,

[00:30:32] the main Pokemon in the anime isn't a current generation Pokemon to try to

[00:30:36] like push the current gen.

[00:30:38] They're still,

[00:30:39] even at this state,

[00:30:40] this like late in the game,

[00:30:42] they're like,

[00:30:42] no,

[00:30:42] gen one,

[00:30:43] everyone loves it.

[00:30:44] Well,

[00:30:44] it's interesting.

[00:30:44] Cause I,

[00:30:45] again,

[00:30:45] I only know like bits and pieces of it,

[00:30:47] but like,

[00:30:47] it sounds like the,

[00:30:48] uh,

[00:30:48] it started with actually like one of the original,

[00:30:51] one of the new starters,

[00:30:52] the character has.

[00:30:53] Yeah.

[00:30:54] They've quickly gave us captain Pikachu.

[00:30:58] Yeah.

[00:30:59] So they probably started to show it with all the new ones and then it wasn't

[00:31:01] getting much traction.

[00:31:02] Then Pikachu showed up and then all the views showed up too.

[00:31:06] Yeah.

[00:31:07] I mean like,

[00:31:07] like it or not,

[00:31:08] like Pikachu is kind of their mascot.

[00:31:10] He is the best.

[00:31:11] He is yellow.

[00:31:12] Yeah,

[00:31:13] sure.

[00:31:15] I mean,

[00:31:15] to be fair,

[00:31:16] my new starter is,

[00:31:18] is,

[00:31:18] is a green plant,

[00:31:19] a green grass based one.

[00:31:21] So like I'm,

[00:31:21] I'm on board.

[00:31:22] So that's fair.

[00:31:23] They're the chosen starter,

[00:31:24] I think for the new character,

[00:31:27] but anyway,

[00:31:28] um,

[00:31:29] yeah,

[00:31:29] like we both,

[00:31:30] like we have like,

[00:31:31] but you still grew up with Pokemon,

[00:31:33] like in some,

[00:31:34] so like this is sort of like an,

[00:31:36] uh,

[00:31:36] has a little bit of nostalgia.

[00:31:38] Just like I had a little bit more,

[00:31:39] I think because I was kind of don't,

[00:31:41] don't say cultist.

[00:31:42] You're what?

[00:31:43] I was pokeballs deep into Pokemon.

[00:31:49] I'm so proud of you.

[00:31:53] Thanks dad.

[00:31:54] Proud dad moment.

[00:31:56] Proud dad joke moment.

[00:32:00] Uh,

[00:32:01] I was like,

[00:32:01] it like,

[00:32:02] it popped in my head to start saying,

[00:32:04] I was like,

[00:32:04] I should stop.

[00:32:07] But the slightest bit of encouragement will,

[00:32:10] we'll have it come out.

[00:32:14] God.

[00:32:15] All right.

[00:32:15] So moving on,

[00:32:16] um,

[00:32:17] from that.

[00:32:18] Yeah.

[00:32:19] So again,

[00:32:19] this story,

[00:32:20] like it's,

[00:32:20] it's definitely kind of,

[00:32:21] it almost like also reads kind of like,

[00:32:23] um,

[00:32:24] uh,

[00:32:24] like,

[00:32:24] like we're going to have a text.

[00:32:26] Let's play of this guy's interaction with this weird,

[00:32:29] like hacked in quest line.

[00:32:30] That's been added to the story.

[00:32:32] Yeah.

[00:32:32] Added to the game.

[00:32:33] So,

[00:32:34] but yeah,

[00:32:34] I'll move on to the next thing here that I have.

[00:32:38] Uh,

[00:32:39] once in the trading network,

[00:32:40] I offered up or I offered up for a bronze on that.

[00:32:44] I had picked at random out of the first list.

[00:32:48] And there's the Pokemon of the stories,

[00:32:51] titular hell bell,

[00:32:52] because it's literally a bell Pokemon.

[00:32:55] Because that,

[00:32:56] that,

[00:32:56] that's when I realized it was just like,

[00:32:57] Oh,

[00:32:57] bronze on it's like,

[00:32:58] Oh yeah.

[00:32:58] That's why it's called hell bell.

[00:33:00] Cause it's the,

[00:33:00] the monster,

[00:33:01] the,

[00:33:01] the Pokemon in question in the,

[00:33:03] the,

[00:33:03] the titular Pokemon of the story is going to be bronze on because it's a

[00:33:07] bell Pokemon.

[00:33:08] Yeah.

[00:33:08] But yeah.

[00:33:09] So,

[00:33:10] so yeah,

[00:33:10] this talking about like,

[00:33:11] yeah.

[00:33:11] So it was like,

[00:33:12] ah,

[00:33:12] it's a hell bell because it's a bell type Pokemon,

[00:33:15] uh,

[00:33:15] bronze on and such.

[00:33:17] Also classic video,

[00:33:19] video pasta trope here,

[00:33:21] getting a weird,

[00:33:22] spooky Pokemon through a trading,

[00:33:24] form,

[00:33:26] through some kind of trading system from a stranger.

[00:33:28] This is basically like this,

[00:33:31] like this game or this generation's like yard sale,

[00:33:35] thrift store story where like somebody picks up a random creepy item or thing

[00:33:40] from like,

[00:33:41] uh,

[00:33:41] from through a trade of some kind.

[00:33:43] Yeah.

[00:33:45] It's like a digital version of that or like a,

[00:33:48] an online version of that.

[00:33:50] Mm hmm.

[00:33:51] Uh,

[00:33:51] and then the next thing here.

[00:33:53] Oh,

[00:33:54] yeah.

[00:33:54] As soon as I'd said like,

[00:33:55] Oh hell,

[00:33:56] that's why it's called hell bell.

[00:33:57] Cause this is going to be about bronze on.

[00:33:59] And then it's like,

[00:33:59] long story short,

[00:34:01] I received a shiny bronze on named hell bell.

[00:34:03] And as soon as I read that,

[00:34:04] I was like title drop.

[00:34:07] We got the story and we got the story's title.

[00:34:11] Um,

[00:34:12] but the next thing I have here,

[00:34:13] I was shocked to get a shiny in return.

[00:34:16] I never got a shiny.

[00:34:19] I never got a shiny when I traded in PO,

[00:34:22] uh,

[00:34:22] traded in Pearl,

[00:34:23] but the name was unsettling to me being a slightly religious person.

[00:34:28] I'm not comfortable speaking about anything pertaining to hell or anything like that.

[00:34:33] Even writing.

[00:34:33] This makes me feel like I'm provoking a similar event to happen again.

[00:34:38] Okay.

[00:34:39] Sure.

[00:34:40] I,

[00:34:40] you do mention that you're a bit religious.

[00:34:42] So like that explains why you're uncomfortable with this,

[00:34:45] but I'm sorry.

[00:34:47] Like I,

[00:34:48] I couldn't help,

[00:34:49] but kind of scoff at the description of being unsettled by the name of a Pokemon called hell bell.

[00:34:56] I,

[00:34:57] and don't get me wrong.

[00:34:58] It's a good name and a title for,

[00:35:00] for the,

[00:35:00] for the Pokemon and the story,

[00:35:02] um,

[00:35:02] involving this particular Pokemon.

[00:35:05] But that initial reaction of,

[00:35:07] of like,

[00:35:07] I was a bit unsettled by the name and some of that.

[00:35:11] Um,

[00:35:11] it just kind of came off to me anyways,

[00:35:13] as a little bit silly.

[00:35:15] Um,

[00:35:16] it,

[00:35:17] it also kind of is a creepy pasta trope now that I think about it.

[00:35:21] Uh,

[00:35:22] and if I'm being honest for better or worse,

[00:35:23] of like being like the,

[00:35:26] the character likes reading something in a,

[00:35:28] in a,

[00:35:28] in a video game that they're playing and being like,

[00:35:30] like almost kind of like,

[00:35:33] like silly in the way they're like unsettled by what they read,

[00:35:38] read,

[00:35:38] even though like the readers is like,

[00:35:40] why are you,

[00:35:41] why are you scared?

[00:35:42] Like,

[00:35:42] why are you unsettled?

[00:35:44] Well,

[00:35:45] yeah,

[00:35:47] we,

[00:35:48] okay.

[00:35:48] Part of the problem is we don't know the,

[00:35:50] um,

[00:35:51] we don't know too much about,

[00:35:53] uh,

[00:35:53] the narrator.

[00:35:54] Narrator could be quite young.

[00:35:56] That,

[00:35:57] that is true.

[00:35:57] Yeah.

[00:35:57] It'd be a quite young and be in a very religious family.

[00:36:01] So like any talk of hell is like shush around the house,

[00:36:05] you know,

[00:36:06] like you just,

[00:36:06] you don't.

[00:36:08] Yeah,

[00:36:08] no,

[00:36:08] that's,

[00:36:09] again,

[00:36:09] that's,

[00:36:09] that's true.

[00:36:10] Like there was,

[00:36:10] there was sort of a not satanic panic,

[00:36:12] like in the eighties,

[00:36:13] but there was sort of a panic among certain religious families and stuff

[00:36:16] like that with,

[00:36:17] uh,

[00:36:18] with regards to Pokemon and stuff,

[00:36:20] especially with the gambling angle of like,

[00:36:21] or like how they perceived as a gambling angle.

[00:36:24] There was a poke panic.

[00:36:26] Hmm.

[00:36:27] There was a poke panic.

[00:36:28] There was in the nineties.

[00:36:29] Yeah.

[00:36:30] When Pokemon first came out.

[00:36:31] And so most of,

[00:36:31] I think was had to do with like the fact that like kids were trading

[00:36:34] cards and stuff like that in,

[00:36:35] in,

[00:36:36] in,

[00:36:36] in the schoolyard and stuff.

[00:36:38] But like there,

[00:36:38] there was definitely a poke panic.

[00:36:40] Yeah.

[00:36:41] Interesting.

[00:36:42] Um,

[00:36:43] now again,

[00:36:43] like,

[00:36:44] yeah,

[00:36:44] you're right.

[00:36:44] Like this character might be like very young.

[00:36:46] And so like,

[00:36:47] it may make sense that degree also,

[00:36:50] um,

[00:36:50] at this point we haven't read the part where like their soul is

[00:36:54] literally bound to the devil.

[00:36:57] And so like,

[00:36:58] maybe that's why they're,

[00:36:59] they're feeling a little uneasy,

[00:37:00] uh,

[00:37:00] easy of like writing this in case of like,

[00:37:02] they're provoking like a similar event to happen again.

[00:37:05] Like that.

[00:37:06] I just realized that.

[00:37:08] Yeah.

[00:37:09] This is all happening.

[00:37:10] Well,

[00:37:11] I know it's all happening after the fact now.

[00:37:14] Yeah.

[00:37:14] Um,

[00:37:14] it's basically just like,

[00:37:18] sorry,

[00:37:18] when I was reading the story,

[00:37:19] I didn't think about,

[00:37:21] of it as if after the events of the story,

[00:37:24] the character sat down and wrote this and put it on the internet.

[00:37:28] It was like happening in the moment,

[00:37:30] Catherine or I was just stuck in the moment for some reason,

[00:37:32] but yeah,

[00:37:33] it does make sense.

[00:37:34] Yeah.

[00:37:35] Yeah.

[00:37:35] And yeah,

[00:37:35] again,

[00:37:36] like I'm,

[00:37:36] I'm sort of like,

[00:37:37] I'm kind of humming and hawing about this opinion of this,

[00:37:39] but like,

[00:37:40] I don't know,

[00:37:40] like when I first read it,

[00:37:41] I did,

[00:37:41] I did scoff where it was like,

[00:37:42] I'm so unsettled by the name.

[00:37:44] It's like,

[00:37:45] okay.

[00:37:47] But I can also like,

[00:37:49] like the story does give us some like clues and some,

[00:37:51] like some things in it that like explain their unsettledness.

[00:37:55] So I can't gripe too much about it.

[00:37:58] I can just,

[00:37:59] it just personally,

[00:38:00] it feels a little silly.

[00:38:01] And,

[00:38:01] but like,

[00:38:02] again,

[00:38:02] we don't know exactly how old this character is.

[00:38:04] And also there are some circumstances that happen like by the end that

[00:38:08] we're like,

[00:38:09] okay,

[00:38:09] I can kind of understand your weariness now.

[00:38:11] Yeah.

[00:38:12] But you couldn't say that up front because it would spoil things though.

[00:38:16] it does foreshadow it in a way because it says even writing,

[00:38:20] this makes me feel like I'm provoking a similar event to happen again.

[00:38:24] I was like,

[00:38:25] what event?

[00:38:27] Or are they just talking about the,

[00:38:29] the,

[00:38:29] their little adventure into with this,

[00:38:31] this weird hack,

[00:38:31] or are they talking about the full events that happened?

[00:38:34] But yes.

[00:38:36] Yeah.

[00:38:37] But I'll,

[00:38:37] I'll move on for away from that to my next thing here.

[00:38:41] Clearly it was hacked,

[00:38:43] but it was,

[00:38:44] but it's what I get for offering up a hack first.

[00:38:48] This is regards to like him,

[00:38:49] him or her,

[00:38:50] uh,

[00:38:51] trading a,

[00:38:52] a cheat code version of like Rayquaza for a,

[00:38:55] the seemingly this hacked,

[00:38:57] uh,

[00:38:58] uh,

[00:38:58] Bronzong.

[00:38:59] And I was,

[00:39:00] I read this part.

[00:39:00] I was like,

[00:39:01] Oh my God,

[00:39:01] this story has a moral to it.

[00:39:05] You,

[00:39:05] you get what you give and the dangers of the cheat of cheating the

[00:39:09] system.

[00:39:10] Nintendo.

[00:39:11] Did you put someone up to this?

[00:39:14] Wow.

[00:39:15] Cause I mean,

[00:39:16] Nintendo is like,

[00:39:16] it goes real hard on like their,

[00:39:19] uh,

[00:39:19] on their like anti theft and piracy and like cheat code,

[00:39:22] cheat stuff in,

[00:39:23] uh,

[00:39:23] in their games.

[00:39:24] So that's interesting.

[00:39:25] Cause they made the game genie or did it make,

[00:39:27] who made game?

[00:39:28] I don't think any,

[00:39:29] I don't think any of the cheat code things were made by the game,

[00:39:31] by the companies they do.

[00:39:32] They're always like third party.

[00:39:33] I thought,

[00:39:34] hang on.

[00:39:35] I'm actually looking at that worst by Nintendo.

[00:39:37] And like,

[00:39:38] you know,

[00:39:39] Genie codes in the old Nintendo powers.

[00:39:41] Okay.

[00:39:41] That,

[00:39:41] that,

[00:39:42] that is fair.

[00:39:42] Yeah.

[00:39:43] Uh,

[00:39:43] yeah,

[00:39:43] it was,

[00:39:44] it was designed by code master sold by America and galoob was

[00:39:48] game.

[00:39:48] Genie.

[00:39:49] Maybe by code masters,

[00:39:50] like the same people that made operation flash.

[00:39:52] Uh,

[00:39:52] I guess.

[00:39:54] Hang on.

[00:39:54] Maybe it might be different people.

[00:39:56] Yeah.

[00:39:56] Not important.

[00:39:57] Um,

[00:39:58] Oh my God.

[00:39:58] They're important people.

[00:40:00] I mean,

[00:40:00] yeah,

[00:40:01] you know what I'm saying?

[00:40:02] Yeah.

[00:40:02] This information is not important.

[00:40:06] Uh,

[00:40:06] Oh,

[00:40:07] you know,

[00:40:07] it probably was code masters,

[00:40:08] like the,

[00:40:08] the game because,

[00:40:09] uh,

[00:40:09] they've made a bunch of games.

[00:40:11] Nice.

[00:40:12] Uh,

[00:40:13] yeah.

[00:40:14] Anyway.

[00:40:15] Um,

[00:40:15] yeah.

[00:40:15] So I,

[00:40:17] I just like,

[00:40:17] this is a little like jab,

[00:40:18] like it was just like a funny little jab I had because like,

[00:40:20] again,

[00:40:21] Nintendo tends to ham,

[00:40:22] like,

[00:40:23] like hammer down on,

[00:40:25] on,

[00:40:25] on things like this or like have like,

[00:40:27] have like creepy little things for people who cheat in their

[00:40:30] games.

[00:40:31] Yes.

[00:40:33] Um,

[00:40:34] and honestly,

[00:40:35] I was re I was writing these up in the moment as I was reading the

[00:40:37] story.

[00:40:38] So like this part,

[00:40:39] I was kind of a little bit on,

[00:40:40] not on par,

[00:40:41] but like,

[00:40:41] this was also a moral for like what happens later.

[00:40:45] It's like,

[00:40:45] I mean,

[00:40:45] yeah,

[00:40:46] you're,

[00:40:46] if you're cheating,

[00:40:47] you're,

[00:40:47] you're sinning and you're going to end up in hell or your soul is

[00:40:51] going to be captured by some hell monster or something.

[00:40:53] I mean,

[00:40:54] the last line straight up says that this is a warning caution using

[00:40:57] the training system.

[00:40:59] Yeah.

[00:41:01] Actually,

[00:41:02] I think that's literally my,

[00:41:02] like my last thing here is just like,

[00:41:04] um,

[00:41:05] cause it,

[00:41:06] cause yeah,

[00:41:06] at the end,

[00:41:07] I'll,

[00:41:07] I'll just jump over to this one,

[00:41:08] the ending here.

[00:41:09] So it's like,

[00:41:09] I don't know what became of that Pokemon,

[00:41:12] but if I received it,

[00:41:14] someone else is surely to do so.

[00:41:16] Use caution while using the trading system.

[00:41:18] Dun,

[00:41:19] dun,

[00:41:19] dun.

[00:41:19] Um,

[00:41:21] and yeah,

[00:41:21] I thought it was an interesting twist that the devil BLs above is

[00:41:27] using the Pokemon trading system to capture unsuspecting souls.

[00:41:31] Like gotta catch them all.

[00:41:33] Yeah.

[00:41:34] Um,

[00:41:36] also,

[00:41:36] uh,

[00:41:37] perhaps they're targeting specifically cheating,

[00:41:40] like,

[00:41:40] like individuals who are cheating the system or sinning.

[00:41:44] Cause they're bad.

[00:41:45] Yeah,

[00:41:46] exactly.

[00:41:47] It's like getting on the naughty list from Santa or,

[00:41:49] uh,

[00:41:49] going to the bad boys club.

[00:41:51] Um,

[00:41:52] I do wonder though,

[00:41:54] if Nair is now a slave to BLs,

[00:41:57] um,

[00:41:58] or if they are a slave now to BLs,

[00:42:02] why?

[00:42:02] So this sort of also thing from what I said earlier about like their religious,

[00:42:06] uh,

[00:42:06] like hesitance and creepiness of this,

[00:42:09] uh,

[00:42:10] why be hesitant to repeat hell bells name and,

[00:42:14] uh,

[00:42:14] or six,

[00:42:14] six,

[00:42:15] six from earlier.

[00:42:15] Like when they were writing the story,

[00:42:17] uh,

[00:42:18] is,

[00:42:18] is it for fear things happening again?

[00:42:21] Are they afraid that they're just going to double,

[00:42:23] double down on enslavement on their soul?

[00:42:26] Like they're already enslaved.

[00:42:28] Their soul's already like enslaved by BLs above.

[00:42:30] Like what more,

[00:42:33] I guess maybe like,

[00:42:35] I,

[00:42:35] maybe they're,

[00:42:36] maybe they're,

[00:42:36] uh,

[00:42:36] they're afraid that like writing this story and like mentioning like the

[00:42:40] hell bell and like six,

[00:42:42] six,

[00:42:42] six thing from earlier,

[00:42:43] it's going to bring BLs is attention to,

[00:42:46] to her and that she's writing the story as a warning out there.

[00:42:50] Just like to try and like warn people away from the trading system for,

[00:42:55] or,

[00:42:55] or from bells tactics or BLs tactics.

[00:42:57] Yeah.

[00:42:58] Cause as far as we know right now,

[00:43:00] she is able to like live her life normally aside from not sleeping or being able to drink or eat.

[00:43:07] Yeah.

[00:43:08] But yeah,

[00:43:08] if the demon that's possessing her gets wise to this and doesn't like it,

[00:43:15] I'm sure you can make it a lot worse on her or,

[00:43:16] you know,

[00:43:17] kill her and drag her to hell.

[00:43:18] Yeah,

[00:43:19] basically.

[00:43:20] Um,

[00:43:21] also,

[00:43:21] I just realized something with BLs is name.

[00:43:24] It's not just that it's like,

[00:43:26] uh,

[00:43:26] it's a,

[00:43:27] I don't know what the,

[00:43:28] the,

[00:43:29] I can't remember what that type of word is when you,

[00:43:30] when you cut a word in half and use the only part of it.

[00:43:33] Um,

[00:43:34] but it's not just like BLs dot,

[00:43:36] dot,

[00:43:36] dot above BLs,

[00:43:40] hell's bell,

[00:43:41] hell bell,

[00:43:42] BL,

[00:43:43] bell.

[00:43:44] This might be a stretch.

[00:43:45] It might be,

[00:43:46] but I just like it,

[00:43:47] like as soon as I read,

[00:43:47] like I was like,

[00:43:48] I mean,

[00:43:48] we've been talking about like the bell thing.

[00:43:50] And like,

[00:43:51] I just said,

[00:43:51] like I've said BLs a couple of times.

[00:43:53] I was like,

[00:43:53] wait,

[00:43:54] BLs bells.

[00:43:55] God damn it.

[00:43:56] It's close ish.

[00:43:57] Yeah.

[00:43:59] But I'll move on to the next thing I have here.

[00:44:01] It's close enough.

[00:44:01] You could rhyme it in a song.

[00:44:03] Yeah.

[00:44:05] Um,

[00:44:06] so the next thing I have is I selected the deposit Pokemon option and selected hell bell to release it.

[00:44:13] But each time the party sprite shrunk away,

[00:44:17] it immediately came back with a message saying something along the lines of hell bell doesn't want to leave you.

[00:44:23] So at this point in the story,

[00:44:25] I was like,

[00:44:25] is this story going to make me feel bad for this bronze song?

[00:44:28] And I mean,

[00:44:29] update.

[00:44:30] No,

[00:44:30] it really doesn't.

[00:44:31] But there was a moment where it was like,

[00:44:32] are we going to have like a sad,

[00:44:33] tragic thing where like hell bell has been traded and like,

[00:44:36] but like is now like,

[00:44:37] we're,

[00:44:38] we're going to have like this,

[00:44:38] like sad,

[00:44:40] like the whole like issue in,

[00:44:42] in,

[00:44:42] in certain way,

[00:44:43] when you're dealing with Pokemon,

[00:44:44] you're sometimes dealing with,

[00:44:45] or you're sometimes using it as a analog or a,

[00:44:48] uh,

[00:44:48] a representation of like animal abuse and stuff.

[00:44:51] Are we going to have like a fucking like abandonment thing going on here?

[00:44:55] Um,

[00:44:56] but no,

[00:44:56] we didn't get that.

[00:44:57] It's,

[00:44:57] it's actually going straight for the,

[00:44:58] uh,

[00:44:58] the,

[00:44:58] the hell and demon thing.

[00:45:00] That being said,

[00:45:01] we still don't know.

[00:45:03] I mean,

[00:45:03] it still could have an abandonment angle that we're not aware of it.

[00:45:06] Continued.

[00:45:07] Cause we don't know much about like hell bell itself.

[00:45:11] I know.

[00:45:11] I feel like it's more or less like a BL's set brings,

[00:45:15] uh,

[00:45:15] like hell bells in on it.

[00:45:17] The bronze longs in,

[00:45:19] in on this,

[00:45:19] on this,

[00:45:20] uh,

[00:45:20] on this,

[00:45:20] uh,

[00:45:20] scam that BL's is doing is like,

[00:45:23] it's like,

[00:45:24] yeah,

[00:45:24] like it's convincing kids like who,

[00:45:26] who are,

[00:45:27] uh,

[00:45:27] who trade,

[00:45:28] who trade for it to take it to the specific area that it's like hacked into

[00:45:32] their game so they can get their soul state,

[00:45:34] uh,

[00:45:34] caught by BL's.

[00:45:36] So,

[00:45:37] yeah,

[00:45:39] but I'll move on to the next thing here.

[00:45:41] Um,

[00:45:43] lost tower.

[00:45:44] It was finally getting more specific,

[00:45:46] which I found oddly relieving rather than feeling a little uneasy as I

[00:45:51] probably should have been.

[00:45:53] At least I knew where it wanted to go.

[00:45:56] Maybe I'd leave my part.

[00:45:58] Maybe it'd leave my party after I took it there.

[00:46:02] I'd like to know why this Pokemon was making my game behave so strangely.

[00:46:06] The Pokemon was hacked,

[00:46:07] not the game itself.

[00:46:09] As far as I know,

[00:46:11] a decent hack doesn't affect the game and a bad hack can make it crash,

[00:46:16] but this was doing neither more like something in between.

[00:46:22] So I,

[00:46:22] when I,

[00:46:23] when I got to this point,

[00:46:23] we didn't have anything real idea about like the devil stuff,

[00:46:26] but I really liked the angle that this was almost seemed like it was like

[00:46:30] kind of adding where this idea of like this hacked Pokemon that you got

[00:46:34] from the trading thing added in like a modded quest in your game.

[00:46:39] Yeah.

[00:46:39] Somehow.

[00:46:40] I don't,

[00:46:41] yeah,

[00:46:41] I don't know that,

[00:46:41] but like,

[00:46:42] obviously it's probably like way,

[00:46:43] way less realistic than,

[00:46:44] than it should be,

[00:46:45] but it just,

[00:46:46] it's such an interesting idea of like,

[00:46:48] cause that's how I would have taken,

[00:46:49] I would take as like,

[00:46:50] wait,

[00:46:51] did I get some weird like virus that like added in like a weird,

[00:46:54] like it added in some extra code to make a quest line in my game.

[00:46:59] What the fuck?

[00:47:01] Like,

[00:47:01] and I think even like,

[00:47:02] uh,

[00:47:03] the character does kind of suggest that in a way,

[00:47:06] or like they,

[00:47:07] they don't suggest it like,

[00:47:09] um,

[00:47:11] in a,

[00:47:11] in a blatant way.

[00:47:12] Like I kind of wanted them to,

[00:47:13] like,

[00:47:13] I did kind of want them to like have that like possible speculation,

[00:47:16] but they do,

[00:47:17] I think bring up something along the lines of like,

[00:47:21] um,

[00:47:22] where like the game had added this thing,

[00:47:24] this,

[00:47:24] this quest for their,

[00:47:25] their,

[00:47:26] their game.

[00:47:27] Or added this,

[00:47:28] or added in this new level,

[00:47:29] this new area,

[00:47:30] like underneath the,

[00:47:31] uh,

[00:47:31] the lost tower area.

[00:47:33] So here's the thing though.

[00:47:34] Um,

[00:47:35] Nair has never played this game before.

[00:47:37] That's true.

[00:47:38] That's the whole point of the story.

[00:47:39] Yeah.

[00:47:40] And for all Nair knows,

[00:47:43] as soon as,

[00:47:44] uh,

[00:47:44] the player character acquires a brawl,

[00:47:47] it goes through this event.

[00:47:49] Yeah.

[00:47:50] That's what they,

[00:47:50] they said in the game,

[00:47:51] in the story.

[00:47:52] Like,

[00:47:52] uh,

[00:47:52] he suspected that like the,

[00:47:54] the getting this bronze on or game,

[00:47:55] this Pokemon had like unlocked a part of some secret part of the game.

[00:47:59] Yeah.

[00:48:00] Like that's just normally coded in you fire a standard one,

[00:48:04] getting one that's named this way and hack didn't change that.

[00:48:07] Or even like getting a shiny one.

[00:48:09] Right.

[00:48:09] Like,

[00:48:10] yeah.

[00:48:11] Yeah.

[00:48:12] Like I,

[00:48:12] that would,

[00:48:13] that would be a really cool angle.

[00:48:14] That's like what the story was trying to do.

[00:48:15] And then we got this,

[00:48:16] I don't even know.

[00:48:17] I liked the supernatural angle.

[00:48:18] Cause it was like,

[00:48:18] it didn't,

[00:48:19] I did not actually really see it coming until like the very end until like the gentleman

[00:48:23] sprite showed up.

[00:48:24] And I was like,

[00:48:24] Oh,

[00:48:26] the gentleman was the doubt BLs.

[00:48:28] God damn it.

[00:48:31] But yeah.

[00:48:32] Um,

[00:48:34] but yeah,

[00:48:34] so I'll,

[00:48:35] I'll,

[00:48:35] I'll move on from that to my next thing here.

[00:48:39] After a moment of complete silence,

[00:48:41] the sound of a deep brazen bell began to slowly toll.

[00:48:45] If you're curious about how that sounded exactly,

[00:48:49] start up your heart gold or soul silver game.

[00:48:52] That's that bell.

[00:48:53] That's the noise.

[00:48:54] So I actually did pull up my,

[00:48:56] my heart gold game,

[00:49:00] uh,

[00:49:00] on my,

[00:49:01] on my,

[00:49:01] on my DS.

[00:49:02] And,

[00:49:02] and yeah,

[00:49:03] like right.

[00:49:03] As soon as you start the game,

[00:49:04] there's just like a boom,

[00:49:07] like,

[00:49:07] like one of those deep,

[00:49:08] like temple bell kind of ringing from like a Japanese,

[00:49:12] uh,

[00:49:12] like temple bell that goes on for,

[00:49:14] for,

[00:49:15] uh,

[00:49:15] for,

[00:49:15] for a few times.

[00:49:16] And then it,

[00:49:17] it gets into a more like whimsical,

[00:49:18] like kind of,

[00:49:19] um,

[00:49:20] uh,

[00:49:21] uh,

[00:49:22] lighthearted sort of like nice tune.

[00:49:24] But the first couple of rings is kind of haunting.

[00:49:28] And like,

[00:49:28] it's also great with this,

[00:49:30] like,

[00:49:31] um,

[00:49:31] this story overlaid over top of them.

[00:49:34] Yeah,

[00:49:34] exactly.

[00:49:35] If it was just,

[00:49:35] especially since it's just the bell that's tolling,

[00:49:38] like rather than adding this like whimsical music,

[00:49:40] like a few,

[00:49:41] a few,

[00:49:41] uh,

[00:49:42] a few tolls after,

[00:49:43] like if it's just the tolling,

[00:49:44] like that is kind of a haunting bell toll.

[00:49:47] And also like,

[00:49:48] it's very like sharp as well when it first happens.

[00:49:51] So almost be like a jump scare.

[00:49:53] Yeah.

[00:49:56] Um,

[00:49:57] I still do wonder if the bell is actually just being a good boy to his

[00:50:01] master.

[00:50:01] Yeah.

[00:50:02] Yeah.

[00:50:03] Yeah.

[00:50:03] In that scene,

[00:50:04] in that scene where like you're walking closer and closer in the

[00:50:07] bell,

[00:50:08] the ringing is getting quicker and quicker.

[00:50:10] That's just him getting excited to see his own.

[00:50:12] Yeah.

[00:50:12] It's like a dog wagging its tail faster and faster.

[00:50:14] Yeah.

[00:50:15] Yeah.

[00:50:16] Yeah.

[00:50:17] No,

[00:50:17] I,

[00:50:17] I honestly,

[00:50:17] again,

[00:50:17] like hell bell was in,

[00:50:18] it was an inside job.

[00:50:20] Yeah.

[00:50:21] It's like when,

[00:50:22] when a kitten goes out on the road,

[00:50:24] like when somebody is like walking,

[00:50:25] um,

[00:50:25] and there's like a hundred,

[00:50:27] like a dozen other kittens in the grass,

[00:50:28] in the long grass waiting for the,

[00:50:30] for the one that's gone out to like,

[00:50:31] like basically,

[00:50:33] uh,

[00:50:33] let them know that like the coast is clear or like we found somebody

[00:50:37] that'll take care of us.

[00:50:38] Yes.

[00:50:39] It's like that kind of thing.

[00:50:40] Yeah,

[00:50:41] exactly.

[00:50:42] Uh,

[00:50:43] yeah,

[00:50:43] I'll move on to the next thing I have.

[00:50:44] Yeah.

[00:50:45] Yeah.

[00:50:45] You fade into view one space ahead in front of my sprite.

[00:50:48] It was just a simple gentleman's sprite.

[00:50:51] And the party sprite of hell bell came out of me and stood in the space

[00:50:56] between us facing him.

[00:50:58] The game informed me that I handed over hell bell.

[00:51:03] Next,

[00:51:03] a thing popped up on the touchscreen.

[00:51:06] It looked like the part of the trainer card where you sign your name again of the voice

[00:51:13] spoke.

[00:51:14] Would you mind telling me your name,

[00:51:16] please?

[00:51:17] So that I may thank you properly.

[00:51:19] As soon as I read that,

[00:51:20] I was like,

[00:51:20] don't do it.

[00:51:21] That serves the devil.

[00:51:23] And I did that jokingly,

[00:51:26] but then update.

[00:51:27] Wait,

[00:51:28] he was actually the devil.

[00:51:32] I mean,

[00:51:33] that's what I realized BLs.

[00:51:34] Ah,

[00:51:35] fuck.

[00:51:36] And then we get the whole,

[00:51:38] just catch that he was Beelzebub at the end.

[00:51:41] Oh,

[00:51:41] no,

[00:51:41] no.

[00:51:42] Like I,

[00:51:42] I caught it as soon as I said,

[00:51:43] like,

[00:51:43] as soon as I saw BLs,

[00:51:44] it's like,

[00:51:44] oh,

[00:51:45] yeah.

[00:51:47] Um,

[00:51:48] yeah,

[00:51:49] especially with like six,

[00:51:49] six,

[00:51:50] six stats and like hell bell and some of that,

[00:51:52] like they're going real into the,

[00:51:53] uh,

[00:51:54] the,

[00:51:54] the naming conventions of,

[00:51:56] of hell.

[00:51:58] He's not trying to hide it at all.

[00:52:00] Yeah.

[00:52:01] Um,

[00:52:03] but yeah,

[00:52:03] like,

[00:52:03] I just love that.

[00:52:04] It was like,

[00:52:04] cause I was like,

[00:52:05] don't do it.

[00:52:05] That's,

[00:52:05] that serves the devil.

[00:52:06] And I was like,

[00:52:07] wait,

[00:52:07] no,

[00:52:07] this actually is going the devil's like bargain route or the devil's packed route.

[00:52:12] Um,

[00:52:13] and,

[00:52:13] and actually speaking of that,

[00:52:14] regardless,

[00:52:15] I began writing my brother's characters name,

[00:52:18] which was dust.

[00:52:19] I made the first stroke.

[00:52:21] It was in black ink,

[00:52:23] just like normal and made a D,

[00:52:25] but the voice stopped me.

[00:52:26] No,

[00:52:27] no,

[00:52:28] your real name,

[00:52:28] please.

[00:52:29] I can't thank you with a false name.

[00:52:31] You know,

[00:52:32] my heart felt like it stopped for a second and sunk right into my stomach before violently bounding back up into my chest.

[00:52:41] How the hell did the game know that I wasn't signing my real name?

[00:52:46] Okay.

[00:52:47] Up till this point,

[00:52:48] I could have maybe chalked all this to just being like a weird hack or like a virus or something that because of the trade and such.

[00:52:54] Um,

[00:52:55] with the extra like quests and all that kind of stuff.

[00:52:57] This is actually where like things got like interesting on a supernatural angle.

[00:53:02] Yes.

[00:53:03] Cause it was like,

[00:53:03] Oh shit.

[00:53:05] But I poop something is,

[00:53:07] there's a ghost in the machine talking to him.

[00:53:10] Also,

[00:53:11] I,

[00:53:11] I'm going to bring this up now.

[00:53:12] Cause I don't actually have it in my notes,

[00:53:13] but like I thought about this morning,

[00:53:15] this is actually a poke a pasta where the care where we're getting a character who plays a,

[00:53:19] who's playing a game.

[00:53:20] And something actually happens to the player in an interesting and like dynamic way.

[00:53:27] It's not just like,

[00:53:28] I was scared or,

[00:53:30] or I,

[00:53:31] Oh my,

[00:53:31] like drops to the floor on your knees.

[00:53:33] I've abandoned my boy as,

[00:53:36] as like you realize that like the Pokemon that you,

[00:53:38] uh,

[00:53:39] you left in a save file from when you were a kid and you come back to it as an adult and the Pokemon are all in like gravestones and stuff like that.

[00:53:45] Cause they died abandoned.

[00:53:47] Like it's,

[00:53:48] it's don't get me wrong.

[00:53:49] Those are like interesting and like fun little concepts of like high concept,

[00:53:54] kind of like philosophical things of like the,

[00:53:56] the idea of like abandoning things that are like toys.

[00:53:59] Yeah.

[00:53:59] But like for like a,

[00:54:01] an actual like dynamic visceral scare or like a visceral like consequence.

[00:54:07] Um,

[00:54:08] this one breaks away from like a lot of the pokeposses where it kind of has the same hit of as like,

[00:54:13] it was all a dream.