leftinbasketforfbi | 1st Genius α Video/Action for New Bark Ω

[It takes him a bit to figure out how the hell to start the feed. When he finally does, all PokéConnect is treated to the sight of a deceptively calm man dressed in purple pants and a white shirt tied with a gray obi, the traditional psychic’s outfit. An Absol keeps pacing behind him, as if expecting him to fall over at any moment and preparing itself to catch him. Honestly, that’s because it is, since its new Trainer has had a massive panic attack that caused him to pass out once already, and Absol can sense that there will be more to come. This is going to be a long partnership.]

Morgan, if this is a prank, alright. You got me. You win the war.

[The man holds up his hands in defeat, still unnaturally calm.]

I don’t know how you did it, but you can stop now. I get it. You can make the Pokémon go away. Once again, I have no idea how you did it…

[His throat gets tight. He struggles to keep his breathing even.

Please, Morgan. Please oh please make this stop.]

But you can stop it now. I have a lot of work to do, and giving me strange clothes, asking a woman to pretend to be my mother, and trying to make me doubt my own sanity is not helping.

[Please let this be a prank. Please say he’s not completely insane.]

And you can turn off the music while you're at it.

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I am thinking rationally. [No he's not.] In fact, I'm thinking in odds. I know this isn't a dream because I am able to feel pain and I am aware of the unreality of what's happening to me without being able to control it. That means that this scenario is either that my coworker is pranking me, I am hallucinating, or reality as I know it has departed from the fundamental laws it's followed since the theoretical moment after the Big Bang.

At this point, I realize my coworker isn't behind this. I don't doubt he could get a lot of people in on a joke, but he would never let it go on this long if he thought I was genuinely upset, so that leaves the latter two options. The odds of my hallucinating are much larger than those of this being real, which are basically nonexistent.

[No, actually that just sounds like a lot of rambling to Hope, not counting the things he doesn't understand because they may be cultural or world-related things.]

And how can you say that we're all just hallucinations? [An Umbreon yowls in offense in the background. Really now, master!]

You're rather quick to judge, it seems. But please, think about this first before doing anything else. This world is dangerous as it is, and you said it yourself-- you're able to feel here.

There are more creatures out there than just your Absol and the ones you can see behind me [a big cottony wing waves from behind him and Hope waves the Altaria away].

Well, if I'm hallucinating, there's no way for me to identify what is real and what isn't beyond trying to think about what would rationally be real. [And so far, he's had people jabbering about being trolls and giant robots and Pokemon, so he's thinking you're all just as fake as this world.]

I'm not--I'm not judging. I'm deducing the nature of the situation based on the facts. The facts are that it's more likely that I am hallucinating than it is that this is actually happening. [But he raises an interesting point, about getting hurt. Reid runs a hand through his hair, pursing his lips.

With hallucinations this intense, Reid has no way of knowing if he's sustaining an actual injury or if he just thinks he has. Or he could even be unaware of an injury he already has. The nature of schizophrenia is that it feeds slanted or outright false information to the senses, and thus people see, feel, hear, and just generally sense things that aren't there. He really is helpless.] I have no way of knowing that threats I perceive are real.

[Crosses his arms. Nope, he's starting to run out of options to say, but he manages to latch onto that last part.]

It may be true that you currently don't have a way of knowing if anything is real, even myself, but for now... I think you should operate under the assumption that this is real.

[He's probably going to get kicked for saying the next part-- hell, if he doesn't get kicked, he might just kick himself for it.] There is bound to be at least one hallucination looking out for the person, right?

[Yeah he might just have to kick himself.]

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