David started humming an old tune that he had probably heard years ago but all that stuck with him was the roughly how music went. He was old, somewhere in his mid-fifties by now. Maybe this was going to be his last year because he was starting to feel tired and as he stared off into the horizon, he could feel his eyes slowly close as the gentle rock of the ship and the sound of the waves invited him to sleep. 

"-ister David how nice to finally make your acquaintance." Startled awake, David snorted as he turned around to see who had said his name. It was a young lad with a very eager face. "Ah yes, Ranger Veyas, it is nice to meet you two." It probably came as a surprise that the gruff looking old man was actually quite friendly and even stranger was his ability to put a name to a face. In fact, he could pretty much name every new Ranger on board. Speaking of which... it seemed like most of them were here. "Hm... Is this everybody?" He addressed the whole crowd. A few people seemed to be missing but the time was set and the meeting should have already begun. "No matter, I suppose. I guess they won't be joining us..." The man scratched the back of his head, thinking how he wanted to approach this next part. "Alright so welcome Rangers to your new assignment. I'm David Norris, co-director of operations up here so I'm pretty much in charge of what happens to you all up here. Now you all probably know what you are supposed to do but to give you some direction I have a Senior Ranger waiting for you all when we make port. She'll kind of point you all in the right direction. Her name is elrrr..." David rubbed his forehead as he entered his thoughts. [i]What did she want to be called again? For goodness sake, the woman must really have an identity crisis.[/i] "...Uh... well just look for red hair. I believe she said something about Cafe Sur but it'd be best to try every place on the waterfront just to be thorough."

David wasn't really a good public face, which was fine, but when briefing new Rangers, he didn't have much to say. "Oh! I went ahead and tasked some of the cabin boys to stash your new gear in your rooms. I believe it consists of a Holomap of the region, which will have fancy interaction to help you navigate. A Pokedex or an upgrade if you already have one, that will be up to date with all known information. It will even record any newly discovered Pokemon and with the analysis of a researcher, it will provide data to all Ranger Pokedexes in the region. You get the official Ranger gear which includes heavy winter gear if you need it. A video phone which is supposed to be pretty good with the weather but I've heard that Rangers had trouble using it in vicious blizzard conditions. And finally you get a pair of Bliz-Goggles which will help you see in heavy blizzard conditions. I think it uses SONAR or something. Anyway that's all I got."

David peered past the group as he saw the ship threw out its heavy chains to dock. "Well Korrano awaits. I'll see you all out there!"

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"That's our girl!" The Senior Ranger, Mya Mayfield exclaimed while in the company of her two most loyal Pokemon, Esperon and Houndoom. Whatever David told them, she hoped that it would eventually lead them to Cafe Sur. It wasn't officially how things were supposed to be done but Mya liked to meet the new Rangers before everyone sort of spread out across the vast island.