99th moon [Another Brick in the 4th Wall]

[paladinlost]

[Every day, many wasteful acts are committed across the world: nearly empty shampoo bottles are thrown away, ice cream bowls are not carefully scraped clean with a spoon, quality cold cuts are not placed between slices of freshly-baked bread, regained magic is not cast...

Cecil Harvey is not a wasteful person.

In fact, he's such an unwasteful person that he spends a large part of the weekend teleporting up to random confused souls, offering them ice cream and sandwiches aplenty, and teleporting away.

All of that with hair that looks like it came out of a shampoo commercial, of course.]

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[dragoon_pride]

[It does look delicious... No, what is he thinking, he must not allow himself be become overly distracted by ice cream.]

And what brought the trainers here? There surely must be some explanation for it all, right?

[He sighs, as if resigning himself to madness. Being transported around to random worlds ought to be something he's used to by now.]

...Fine, very well, yes.

[paladinlost]

[And now, thanks to the strawberries, the ice cream has become even more alluring.]

There must be, but it's not been shared with us. Though one of the local Legendaries, the closest this world has to gods, did personally request our help and protect us some time ago.

[dragoon_pride]

[That it has, and he eyes it closely, looking very much tempted by it now.]

Ah, so what happened? Were you enlisted to fight some battle for them in the way we did for Cosmos?

[paladinlost]

[Luckily for Kain it's all his, freely offered for his consumption!]

I was enlisted to stop two criminal groups from destroying each other, with this world as collateral damage.

[dragoon_pride]

[Siiiigh he has no choice at all does he? Besides, he doesn't want it to melt. So he gives in to dig in to the ice cream.]

A difficult position to find yourself in, truly. What happened?

[paladinlost]

Both groups were hoping to take over the world through the use of large crystals and enslaved legendaries. We fought against them to stop those plans, but the power they unleashed went out of control. Had that llama not been there, this world would surely have been damaged beyond repair.

[Somehow, that last sentence comes out completely seriously.]

[dragoon_pride]

[Kain raises an eyebrow, setting down his spoon a brief moment.]

Llama? What sort of powers did it possess?

[paladinlost]

I'd say the power to shield us all from a potentially world-destroying explosion was the most important, but it also repaired the damage to the battlefield.

[dragoon_pride]

What manner of creature is this, to have such power? Surely it was enchanted somehow?

[paladinlost]

It's a legendary. Such impressive powers are to be expected, if even half the legends are true.

[dragoon_pride]

Are legendaries as powerful as the gods then?

[paladinlost]

As far as this world is concerned, they are gods.

[dragoon_pride]

Truly? Do they also have you going to war for them like some others that we know?

[paladinlost]

Not at all. They are content with letting us travel and own businesses as we wish.

[dragoon_pride]

That's it? No further tasks beyond that? How strange...

[paladinlost]

Strange, but pleasant. I've had enough free time to learn how to cook and sew, and my knitting and woodworking are steadily improving.

[dragoon_pride]

That sounds… rather dull, but I suppose pleasant enough. I’m impressed with your patience. I’ll admit, I would be aching for a battle before long.

[But such is his way, training and fighting are so much part of who he is that he’d never imagine putting effort into other pursuits.]

[paladinlost]

I can live vicariously through dozens of powerful, battle-loving creatures. It helps.

[Not much, but it helps.]

[dragoon_pride]

Still, I can’t say I envy you for such a life. [he says as he digs into the rest of the ice cream, have to finish before it melts after all.] At least you seem to have adapted well enough to being something of a summoner…

[He’d rather be in the wild fending off monsters and keeping his spear skills sharp, though. It’s a good thing indeed that he’s just visiting this place.]

[paladinlost]

It was simple enough. That are quite the friendly creatures, and their skills are necessary to travel in this land.

[dragoon_pride]

Are there many threats here that they must deal with?

[paladinlost]

There are none, most of the time. But access to ships is restricted, and they've no airships we can use. Pokémon who can swim and fly are almost a necessity.

[dragoon_pride]

That must make for more challenging travel… What sort of flying creatures do you deal with? Are there many dragon types?

[paladinlost]

Dozens, though not all have the ability to fly. But one can also choose to use birds, moths, statues...

[dragoon_pride]

Statues? How?