VIDEO..?

[seacub]

[Look who it is, it's Emporio! He's doing a pretty spectacular job at manifesting a visual of himself, little cubone (minus helmet) and all, but more importantly, a visual of...

...Emporio what are you doing.

Imagine if you will, a floorplan. Now imagine it just sort of got...Extruded. Made '3d' but it's only made of paper, and it's still clearly been drawn on with graphite or charcoal or something.

That's about what the visual of what he's showing is, and he appears quite focused on the matter!]

I think I've almost got this finished..but I wanted to ask everyone for advice as well.

I guess, when someone in the Lum Guild ranks high enough, Polteageist starts looking for somewhere in the town they can handle more construction? Because at the end of the year, they told me to come up with a design for 'the perfect house' for me to live in.

[He pauses, considering this.] ...I kind of get the impression he's used to Pokemon taking a while on this. I guess when you're used to just building a nest in the wild, the idea of a house is kind of...weird?

It is a pretty human thing to do... [Emporio admits, walking about.]

A-anyway, I had some help from others here, but this is I think what I like for the final one?

[The floorplan is as follows; whatever lot of land Emporio was offered, it's built into a hill, so Emporio's capitalized on that. The entry is at the top of the hill; and that floor is also where a living-dining area, a simple but still rather nice kitchen (thanks for the ideas Sanji), a study, and even a balcony, can be found. Downstairs however, in the 'basement', and Emporio has a simple washroom, a somewhat large bedroom that has a divider screen in it...

...And one bonus room to fill the gap that should have been there to offer support to the rest of the house. It's not got a normal door (which is saying something since the projected idea involves walking around paper cut-outs). If anything, Emporio seems to just. No-clip through the paper into it.

But this room is different.

Because this room has a much clearer idea, in what it looks like.]

I...I don't know if it'll turn out to be too much...I guess I'll find out when I show Polteageist, b-but..!

...It. It was the room I grew up in, so...

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[33elk]

Oh? You've got a long-term plan here, that's for certain.

[ The figure - a Stantler - is not familiar. ]

Then again... I suppose you're stranded.

[seacub]

Uh-huh.

[No issues saying that, nope. Nice rack, deer guy.]

My planet's not waiting for me, and Polteageist said if anyone tried to make me leave once the way back home is found for the others, they'll handle those Pokemon personally.

[He is well aware of what that probably means.] ...So, I want this to have as much thought as possible.

[33elk]

So you call them planets.

[ He is noting this. ] Then shouldn't you attempt to blend in? Instead of recreating your old home? Unless you were a little drake beforehand.

[seacub]

[Eh. There's a shrug.]

...I guess technically the whole universe is gone, actually. So I guess. The reality I came from?

...I try not to think about it that much.

[It's....a pretty big death toll. Anyway-] ...It's only this room that would've been home. And...it's a memory. Everyone I knew there is gone for the most part- this is...one of the ways I can keep some of that.

The rest of the house, I'm using the homes here for a reference. It was...kind of hard actually? ...I've never had a house until coming here...

[As the cubone trails off, he pauses, and then looks over himself.]

...Oh, I don't think I'm a 'drake' now, actually. It's weird, but I'm warm-blooded. So....presumably I'm some kind of mammal...

[notyourbloodymessiah]

What would be weird about Pokémon that already live in houses building more houses, exactly?

[ that is a very very nice house, yes. but that more pointedly sticks out to eleanor. granted, she has no idea how houses work. ]

[seacub]

Oh, not that part.

Most Pokemon don't naturally live in houses, is what I mean; there was actually a lot of discussion about it before you got here, but since a lot of the Pokemon in Bottlecap are refugees from human settlements, they seem to have taken a lot of those habits with them.

So...even though Pokemon in the Spire, or the Canopy live closer to what we've seen the local Pokemon doing, even that's still a step beyond what you'd expect. I was only there for a little bit, back before they could figure out where to put everyone, but there are even rooms with furniture in the spire after all...and the canopy, well.

Those are still houses, to a point.

[notyourbloodymessiah]

And if that's what they want to be doing, I still don't see the fuss. A nest serves the same function as a house.

[ to her, anyway, the spire is possibly the nicest place she's lived. granted, she does still miss aunt grace's apartment in the sinclair deluxe. it was run down, and old. it had only the basics. but they were happy - exceptionally so. and compared to her later living situations, both that apartment and the spire are luxury. it's likely the same for the pokemon around her. ]

It's just houses suited to their needs and preferences. I can't imagine, say, a Goodra being able to live in a regular house. The slime alone would ruin most things - it'd be easier to build something specific.

[seacub]

[AH- He thinks he sees the point where they're missing each other now.]

Right-!

When I say weird, it's less that a house built to specification would be weird...more that it seems a lot of Pokemon Polteageist offers houses to aren't familiar with the idea. So they need more time to come up with it. It's 'weird' to the Pokemon here, in the sense that they've just...never thought about a house before.

And that doesn't make it bad. Like you said, it'd still have the same function- probably even more function actually!

[secondsmartest]

[Hey, does he remember this particular Pokemon from a dream? That's a little strange, but it catches his attention enough for him to bother to chime in.]

How peculiar. Is there a reason you've not included a door?

[seacub]

[He almost doesn't- but then Sherlock speaks, and Emporio visibly- mentally??- brightens.]

There is! [He answers first.] ...The original room didn't have a visible door from the outside.

I have to figure out how to make a hidden one though...since I can't just recreate the one it did have. It was unique to where I used to live.

[secondsmartest]

You grew up in a room with a secret door?

[His tone is carefully neutral, but he doesn't like that. Not at all. It worries him. That's not a good place for a child!]

Do tell.

I am so sorry for every nonsense word coming Sherlock,

[seacub]

[Emporio is a smart kid- excessively so, more than enough to realize that a neutral tone here might not necessarily be neutral. Certainly not when one asks for further details!

Thus, he gives a hand waggle.] Yes and no.

You've probably heard about it by now...but not all realities are the same. Mine had...for lack of a better term, sometimes people had 'superpowers'- Stands, manifestations of willpower and survival. ...I think they were rare, but...Honestly speaking, Green Dolphin was probably inflating the odds. I can't accurately gauge the ratio.

[Not the point, though. He looks around the room.] Mine didn't manifest as an entity. Just an ability. But does it make sense, if I say this is 'the ghost of a room'?

It's a memory- of a room that burned down about 16, 17 years before I was born, and then built over.

I hid in this room, because no one else in the prison could find it. Or me.

[There's a lot to unpack here, unfortunately.]

[dripdrive]

What's with the divider screen in the bedroom?

You planning on bringing people over?

[seacub]

...In case one of us wants privacy?

[dripdrive]

... I guess?

...That never was a problem before in the other places we shared.

[seacub]

Well, obviously.

I just thought maybe it could be something we'd like? Like...maybe if one of us wants to stay up late reading or something, while the other just wants sleep. That kind of thing.

[loopsiedaisy]

It looks like you've got it all figured out! Do you really need advice?

[The room Emporio grew up in, huh... doesn't Siffrin remember him mentioning something about a prison...? Maybe? Fancy prison.]

[Rather than the lack of a door, there's something else they don't see in there as pictured...]

[...]

Did you sleep inside the piano.

[seacub]

Well, it's always good to get a second opinion. Or a third. Or more...

[Anyway.]

Well, there wasn't a bed, so it was the best option!

[loopsiedaisy]

[...wait, really? And here they were joking and expecting Emporio to say he was sleeping on the bench... he's small, it's plenty big enough for him!]

[Or, no, wait, he wouldn't have been a Cubone. Maybe he wasn't that small for a human? (But how tall could he have been, with how old he is?)]

[...]

...was it even comfortable?

[Aren't pianos full of like... strings, and things...]

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[consequerer]

It is quite a lot of space for you, is it not?

[ 'You will not find it to be too much?' Yes, yes, he cohabits with Anasui, for one, but. ]

[seacub]

Ahah...

Y-yeah, apparently if I evolve, there's records of really, really tall Marowak...

So I was told to consider that, and then Anasui's really tall..

ig it's video now bc;

[consequerer]

Now, when you say 'really, really tall', do you mean in relation to others of the species, or...

[ a pause, before something is offered over the telepathic link. the memory of a a dog, armored and armed...

pet repeatedly until. well.

quite tall indeed. ]

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[outbounds]

Your drafting skills are verrrry impressive.

[ That's clearly the most important thing here, right? Emporio's thoroughly thought out blueprints? ]

Though. Maybe it is easier when we can just show others what we are thinking?

[seacub]

Oh!!! Th-thanks...

[He's doing his best so the compliment really hits!]

I think so..?

...My scale might be off if I think about it...

[outbounds]

What is your scale, anyway?

[ Do we have a standardized metric system in play. Imperial? Cubone-heights? How tall is one of those floors, Emporio. ]