Subject: Re: [PW!] There's No Place Like Gym Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 04:37:58 GMT From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Tech Weaver - Biggest Dreamer wrote: > "A person in a place with a thing." <newhaights@aol.comanyte> wrote in > message news:20020105163034.18480.00003271@mb-fw.aol.com... > > Rob wrote: > > >If there are ninjas, and I'm > > >pretty sure there will be, I want you to use your leek like a nunchaku > > >and Swords Dance crazily in order to scare them away with your mad leek > > >skills. > > > > kamonegi g0t m4d l33k ski11z yo!!!!!11111 > > > [Thinks about that for a minute] > > OH! "Leek"! > > [Laughs for the next five hours] > > I don't get it. @_@ [Out-of-continuity backstory here...] Aerie sighed as she read the note in her hands once again. It was a printout from a chansey at a pokemon center on Mt. Silver. The chansey had not asked what a girl with no visible pokemon or pokeballs was doing wandering across the mountain alone; if Aerie had told the truth about following up on a rumor that Minax was in Johto, the chansey would just have worried - doubly so, if Aerie admitted to seeking her mother. But merely fail to mention a few things, and the chansey was mroe than happy to type up directions to Violet City. If only she had not used Leek Speak...or, properly, "l33k sp33k". A derivative form of the dominant human language, it was said to have been invented by some farfetch'd who had trouble typing on a keyboard properly. They kept hitting 3 instead of e, 0 instead of o, z instead of s, and so on...so they turned that into an artistic statement. It was rarely enough encountered that few people were anywhere near expert at reading it. Even Doppler had neglected to include that particular skill in his library, though Aerie could struggle through the translation. History, her future self had said, would probably note it as just another faddish pidgeot language...though it was disturbing that, even more than 10 years in the future, her other self had still encountered it in her own history. Already Been Continued...