009 Things Acquired - [text;]

[ossifragant]

You know, there's something to be said about this place.

I get here in April and things are strange as a newcomer. It takes some getting used to, but it's not all bad. Then there's May and that's when things get screwy. The weird hail during an otherwise sunny week, and then that weekend when everything went to hell with the crystals and people popping up who aren't normally here. I only wish I could remember more of it clearly.

Then, in June, it snowed that one day. Actually snowed! In the middle of summer! What the hell are the chances of that? It melted the next day naturally so whatever caused it fixed itself.

July gave us a hurricane with sharks flying through the air and then August was suspiciously normal when it comes to weather.

Now, here we are, three days into September, and we've already had dogs and cats falling from the sky like someone up there is taking a metaphor a little too literally.

I'm disappointed we didn't get snakes raining from the sky today. Or porcupines.

I've been here just about five months now and I must admit this place has its ways of keeping a person entertained.

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[ossifragant]

That doesn't sound familiar so I must have arrived after the party ended. What a shame!

[doitrockapella]

In that case, I'll make sure to elaborate a little more thoroughly —

During that unseasonably warm weather in February, there was a swarm of mysterious Pokemon we couldn't identify then, as well. We eventually found out, a few months later, that they'd migrated to a wet area between the two regions — Tohjo Falls — and that some experts from surrounding locales had been invited to examine them.

[ossifragant]

Do you think the cats and dogs are related to that?

[doitrockapella]

I don't know, honestly. But if it's a coincidence, it's a strikingly similar one.

[ossifragant]

That's at least three different unidentifiable species of Pokemon, then. We'd need a few more days of people running into more animals no one has ever seen before to say for certain but this does look like the beginning of a trend.

[doitrockapella]

In the case of the Bloobers — or "Goomies", as we came to find out they were called — someone from one of the surrounding nations recognized them.

I wonder if it's not so much that no one's seen them before, and maybe just that we haven't.

[ossifragant]

Someone told me about the other regions recently, actually. He said that there was one in particular that seemed to pop into existence one day, but that locals acted as though it always existed.

This place does strange things.

[doitrockapella]

Oh? Which one was that?

[ossifragant]

Kalos I think he said?

[doitrockapella]

That's odd. I wonder what your friend was basing that on.

[ossifragant]

Who knows. Maybe because he hadn't heard of it before. It's not like I know about every country in my world, so I suppose one way of looking at it would be if you're given enough information about something that it seems to come out of nowhere.