Lt. Carter Blake (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lieutenantantichrist) wrote2013-08-25 03:57 am
lieutenantantichrist) wrote2013-08-25 03:57 am
[9] Video/Action for near Goldenrod - "Who are we doing it versus?"
[The video comes up on Blake on the outskirts of Route 35. There's a beat-up Chikorita sitting on a fencepost, letting out small distressed noises and looking nauseous. Blake's got the Gear set up on the next post over, and he's spraying the pokemon with an Antidote with one hand while he holds the guidebook open with the other. He's muttering to himself and squinting at the book in the fading light as the sun sets.]
Fire does extra damage to grass, that makes sense, grass burns easy. Grass does extra to ground, plants...grow from the ground. Electric does less damage to grass-- doesn't lightning hit trees a lot? Ahh, whatever. Here it is.
[He drops the empty Antidote bottle and jabs his finger at the book.]
Poison does double to plants. How's that supposed to make sense? You can't cyanide somebody's geraniums!
[He throws his hands up. Behind him, the Chikorita gets up and shakes itself off.]
And the rest of these- bugs beat psychics? Ice beats birds? Fighting beats rocks? How do the rest of you remember all this crap?
Fire does extra damage to grass, that makes sense, grass burns easy. Grass does extra to ground, plants...grow from the ground. Electric does less damage to grass-- doesn't lightning hit trees a lot? Ahh, whatever. Here it is.
[He drops the empty Antidote bottle and jabs his finger at the book.]
Poison does double to plants. How's that supposed to make sense? You can't cyanide somebody's geraniums!
[He throws his hands up. Behind him, the Chikorita gets up and shakes itself off.]
And the rest of these- bugs beat psychics? Ice beats birds? Fighting beats rocks? How do the rest of you remember all this crap?
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Anyway, you could just write out a cheat sheet.
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There's something like fifteen different kinds of these things. What am I supposed to do, make a chart?
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Is that what you do, carry around a notebook?
[It's with the regulation hint of scorn, but he's really asking. He doesn't know how everybody else does this stuff.]
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[After a second, the combative edge goes out of Blake's voice, and he sighs.]
Got any tricks for it?
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[He's been rolling with it! Though Carter's is not the kind of mind that rolls with anything. His mind is a heavy, solid cube with sharp corners. It's the kind of thing that digs in and leaves a half-foot-deep trail when you try to drag it anywhere.]
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[he has to bitch, otherwise he might lose it completely.]
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