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.]

Comments

[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?

[paladinlost]

...I'm not certain. It could be a side effect of their ghost half.

[dragoon_pride]

Ghost statues. Of course, I should have known. [He raises an eyebrow thoughtfully.] They must be powerful ghosts to carry people like that...

[paladinlost]

Every creature in this world is powerful. Or has the potential to become powerful. Even the weakest bugs and fish.

[dragoon_pride]

Everything? You must have to be constantly on guard, wary at all times, then…

[paladinlost]

Not at all. Wild creatures are strong, but mine are even stronger. I'm perfectly safe.

[dragoon_pride]

Even so, it sounds as if you must have as many encounters with the local creatures here as we did back home...

[paladinlost]

Of course I did. How else could mine have become so strong?

[dragoon_pride]

Strong enough to save the world should it come to it? We do seem to get quite our share of those situations...

[paladinlost]

I'd not send them out to battle Chaos or Zeromus, but they can easily hold their own against the local threats.

[dragoon_pride]

Ah, well, that’s good that they can manage, at least. So this world hasn’t had any threats on that level? How fortunate.

[paladinlost]

The local threats tend to be either extremely powerful or relatively malevolent, but not both at once.

[dragoon_pride]

Not both? [He raises an eyebrow at that.] So no one has tried destroying or conquering this place… or… anything else that evil forces tend to do?

[paladinlost]

As far as we can tell, every instance of near destruction was not deliberate. The main form of evil in this world is theft of sentient beings.

[dragoon_pride]

You mean… people attempting to steal those creatures of yours? Does this happen often?

[paladinlost]

Not to me, but many have not been nearly so lucky.

[dragoon_pride]

I hope they all put up a good fight, at the very least...

[paladinlost]

They try, but many of the children are unused to battle and war.

[dragoon_pride]

They all have to get used to it someday. Better to begin their battles early...