foolishwren | 039. Video/Action

_{[You know how most workplaces have those ridiculous, seemingly-arbitrary rules concerning things like cell phones and mp3 players that make sense in theory but really don't in practice? Well... turns out Johto's no different.]}

[The feed flickers on and off a few times so anyone who's looking at Heather's channel is being treated to a sort of trippy view of the ceiling of one of the many floors in the Goldenrod Department Store, jiggling around as though the 'Gear is the subject of a tug-of-war.]

[And uh... judging by the voices that are conversing in heated tones somewhere off-screen, it is.]

I'm telling you for the last time, Temp! NOOOOO PokeGear use during your shift!

It's my break! I'm not even DOING anything right now!

DON'T you backsass me, young lady! I know your type! Traveling trainers who want to make a quick buck-- you're all the SAME!

Wh-- jeez, calm down! I'm not like-- trying to question your authority or something!! Take a chill pill!

YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!

The guys on the fifth floor said they could use their 'Gears during break!

WELL. This isn't the fifth floor, IS it?!

_{[There's a pause, and then a low, almost inaudible mutter on Heather's part of:]}

Oppressive tyrant....

_{[... But apparently it wasn't inaudible enough.]}

BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO TIE OUR MESSAGES TO PIDGEYS AND HOPE TO DEAR ARCEUS THAT THEY DIDN'T GET EATEN BY ARBOKS ON THE WAY THERE!!

E-eep!

I HAD TO WALK TWENTY MILES TO WORK EVERY DAY IN BLINDING SNOWSTO--

_{[The feed clicks off.]}

_{[A very resentful-looking Heather slumped in her seat at the cash register, smoldering darkly and glaring at the file cabinet in the staff-room where her PokeGear had been dumped, locked, and left. The words 'AND YOU CAN HAVE IT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' were still ringing in her ears.]}

[Jutting her chin out resentfully, she planted it on one palm with her scrawny elbow on the counter, plucking uncomfortably at the fairly-silly-looking Department Store clerk's uniform she had to wear. Yes, there was even a cutesy little hat and a popped collar.]

God, it's like high school all over again....

_{[ooc: Video replies will be answered later in the day when Heather gets off of work and has her PokeGear returned to her!]}

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That depends on if I could get away with it without being drawn and quartered.

Be sneaky enough about it and you won't get caught.

You can't be the only one she chews out like that, yeah?

No, the whole department is terrified of her.

Apparently some janitor disappeared last month.

We think she ate him.

[He snickers.] Somehow I wouldn't be surprised.

But if you make it look like an accident, and she does wind up figuring something out, that means there's plenty of other suspects~

You sound like you're advocating I push her down the stairs or something.

_{[Heather had been thinking more along the lines of... I don't know, hiding a tape recorder in her desk that made fart noises or something. She didn't think big.]}

[That's right Envy, not all problems can be solved with ~~murder~~ violence. To be fair, he hadn't actually been thinking of something like that, but pretty much everything he suggests sounds like it anyway.]

Maybe~

Nah, not really. That would be too much trouble. [He's totally joking. Mostly.]

Bet one of your pokemon might be helpful.

I guess Cooj could lick her to death or something. But then it'd just be yet another public building he and I are banned from.

_{[... Wait, you mean there's OTHERS??]}

[Have a raised eyebrow, Heather.]

How often do you get kicked out of public buildings?

Sounds like you could do with some lessons in subtlety~

_{[She sounds a TAD flustered.]}

Well, it's not like I get kicked out've 'em on PURPOSE!

Yeah yeah, I believe you.

[He looks interested though.] So what happened? Not like I could much disapprove, whatever it was.

_{[There's a pause.]}

.... Well, first my dog kind of ran over an old woman in the lobby after I tried to give him a bath in the shower....

And uh...

_{[An even longer pause. When she talks again, she sounds sheepish.]}

Then I kind of gave one of the nurses a concussion with an IV pole.

By accident.

[He lets out an impressed whistle.] Damn, if you wanted to keep that rate up you really would have to push your supervisor down the stairs. Accidentally.

Although since that doesn't seem quite your style, what were you thinking?

[Left stranded in pokemonland with nobody to take revenge on himself yet, and so deprived of one of his most favorite pastimes, clearly the solution is to find other people and help them with theirs.]

Um... nothing in particular.

Stupid stuff.

_{[The fart tape recorder would be hilarious, though. Admit it.]}

Well if she likes pidgeys carrying her mail so much, you could always catch a wild one in a box or something and let it loose in her office, if she has one. Coulda just come through a window on its own after all~

[Yes. Yes it would be, and Envy would totally have to admit it.]

.... Hm. I like how you think.

_{[Juvenile humor is always best.]}

Heh. Well I do have pretty great ideas~

Let me know if you do it, I think that's something I'd wanna see.

[Indeed it is. And there is probably some way to do both for twice the lulz.]

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