IC Contact/Voicemail

[ardent]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

[ardent]

I can understand that - I've never really been anywhere outside of the place I grew up, either. Sometimes things were difficult, but it was still home, I guess.

[awesmazings]

Yup. Miseryville might be bad sometimes, but it's still home. You know, I kinda miss it already...and I haven't really been here all that long.

[ardent]

Ah, do you?

I don't miss mine, so I can't say I know what it feels like, unfortunately. It's a shame, though, that you feel that way.

[...youtried.jpg]

[awesmazings]

It's ok! Whether or not I'm here for a while, as long as I have friends to talk to everything will be fine. All you guys I've met so far have made sure of that.

[Admittedly, he wouldn't know what he would do if he were truly alone, here. It's one thing not to have parents or even a guardian to keep watch over you, but it's entirely another to have nobody at all.]

[ardent]

There are a lot of good people here. I didn't really have friends before coming here, but I've made a few since then.

[awesmazings]

That's great, Ishimaru! Everybody deserves to get to have friends.

[ardent]

Do you think so...?

[...ISHIMARU YOU WERE ARGUING THIS VERY THING A FEW DAYS AGO]

[awesmazings]

[ISHIMARU..]

Of course I do! I mean...even the worst people have friends sometimes, don't they? Having somebody there to talk to, or to just be there when you need them is something we should all get to have.

[ardent]

I never did before, for a lot of reasons. My brother was the first friend I'd made, and I didn't meet him until a couple of weeks before I was brought here.

[because that's not confusing at all.]

It always struck me as a waste of time anyway, back then.

[awesmazings]

[...Not at all confusing, no sir. Jimmy's not even sure if he should try to figure out what Ishimaru meant by that, exactly. So, for now, he won't.]

....Really? How come?

[ardent]

Ah...I was usually busy studying, because it was very important that I stayed at the top of my class; I couldn't afford to fall behind. I also had my duties as head of the disciplinary committee to see to.

Now I still study a lot, but it's not like it was before. Not to the exclusion of everything else, anyway. I'm told that's a good thing.

[awesmazings]

I see. Yeah, it's not good to do too much of one thing!

[Says the kid who will do too much of everything if you let him.]

...But you're a good person, Ishimaru! So I'm not surprised you've made friends here.

[Video] OKAY family and health problems have mostly been resolved on this end good lord

[ardent]

...I would prefer somewhere in Johto. Not Goldenrod or Olivine.

Anywhere else is fair game, I think!

[Video] Glad to hear that

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Ecruteak, perhapsssss? It's the midpoint between the two.

[Video]

[ardent]

[...Mnnngh.]

Ecruteak sounds possible - I have business to finish here that's going to keep me occupied for a short while, but I can meet you in Ecruteak.

[Video]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I have no objections to that.

[Like he's going to start screaming about it being unacceptable and wanting his million dollars now.

Actually he probably would, but he's in a good mood for once. Probably because someone's actually offered to meet his demands for once.]

And unlessss you have any objections, I'll head there shortly and you can contact me once you're in town.

[Video]

[ardent]

I'll do that!

[...]

You're being surprisingly rational about this, Mr. Terrorist, and I have no idea why but it's appreciated!

[Video]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I am always rational. Any perceived irrationality is only due to the fact that everyone else here can't sssssee that.

[Let's pretend that makes any sort of sense.]

1/4 text; sometime the morning of the 29th | I'm sorry in advance

[codeforhope]

[Ishimaru might be surprised to find a very strange string of texts on his Gear this morning, a bit disjointed and...none of them particularly seeming to make much sense at all.

In fact, they're not actual words at all. It's all in binary code.]

01010101010100110100010101010010001000000100101101001001010110010100111101010100010000010100101101000001001000000100100101010011010010000100100101001101010000010101001001010101000011010000101000001101000010100100100001000101010011000100110001001111001000000100100001000101010011000100110001001111

2/4

[codeforhope]

0100100100100000010010000100111101010000010001010010000001011001010011110101010100100000010000110100000101001110000011010000101001010011010100000100010101000001010010110010000000101111010000100100100101001110010000010101001001011001001011110000110100001010000011010000101001001001001000000100110001001001010010110100010100100000010000100100100101001110010000010101001001011001

3/4

[codeforhope]

01001101010000010101001101010100010001010101001000100000010101000100000101001100010010110101001100100000010101000100111100100000010011010100010100100000010010010100111000100000000011010000101000101111010000100100100101001110010000010101001001011001001011110000110100001010000011010000101001010011010011110010000001001100010011110100011101001001010000110100000101001100010011000101100100001101000010100000110100001010010011010100000101010011010101000100010101010010001001110101001100100000010001100101001001001001010001010100111001000100010100110010000001010011010010000100111101010101010011000100010000100000000011010000101001010101010011100100010001000101010100100101001101010100010000010100111001000100001000000100100101010100001000000100000101010011001000000101011101000101010011000100110000001101000010100000110100001010010000100100100101001110010000010101001001011001001000000100100101010011001000000101001101010101010100000100010101010010010010010100111101010010

4/4

[codeforhope]

0100000101001110010110010101011101000001010110010000110100001010000011010000101001001000010010010010000001001000010001010100110001001100010011110010000001000111010011110100111101000100001000000100110101001111010100100100111001001001010011100100011100001101000010100100100101010011010010000100100101001101010000010101001001010101001000010010000100100001

[With that the rampant bombarding of NUMBERS seems to eventually subside.

...good luck deciphering all that.]

[ardent]

[...is he supposed to be able to decode the Matrix here, because while whomever's sending him this is probably seeing blondes, brunettes and illicit cakes or something, this is pretty much Greek to him, hold on.

He takes a moment to kind of...headtilt at it before checking the ID of the sender.

Chihiro Fujisaki.

...um. Okay, that's...new. It's possible that this is another really surreal Kagura-chan style text, sent by a Pokemon of some sort; he supposes strings of binary are probably better than random keysmashing and the occasional HYDROGEN and MOON PIE, but...]

Hello...?

[codeforhope]

[If only you could feel Zip's disappointment over the fact that you couldn't understand that, Ishimaru. NO MATTER.]

HELLO!!

USER KIYOTAKA ISHIMARU

I AM ZIP

[ardent]

[Well, he has a hard time parsing disappointment in other humans, Pokemon are usually right out, um.]

It's good to meet you! One of Fujisaki-kun's Pokemon, I'm guessing?