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]

Well, that’s surely better than nothing.

[paladinlost]

It's also a sign of luck, in a way. I rarely have the chance to fight them because their attacks are usually too far from my home for me to intervene in time.

[dragoon_pride]

I don’t know how lucky I would call that. Better that a skilled warrior such as yourself is the one intervening, after all.

[paladinlost]

Skill as a warrior matters less here than well-trained Pokémon teams, and those are plenty. Thankfully for the civilians.

[dragoon_pride]

Hmmph, right, how could I have forgotten... Still, I'm sure the background in combat would have served you well.

[paladinlost]

It kept me from panicking, which is an advantage not everyone had.

[dragoon_pride]

Which is a truly helpful advantage in such a situation.

[paladinlost]

Indeed. Otherwise, more than one snowflake would have managed to explode in my yard last winter, and that would have not been pretty.

[dragoon_pride]

Exploding snowflakes? Do I want to know?

[paladinlost]

There is a snowflake Pokémon species. They can learn the move Explosion. It's even more dangerous than it sounds.

[dragoon_pride]

Sounds potentially worse than Bombs.

[paladinlost]

That 'potentially' is completely unnecessary.

[dragoon_pride]

It's that destructive, is it?

[paladinlost]

A handful of buildings were badly damaged, before anyone had the chance to fight back.

[dragoon_pride]

Unfortunate... I trust you were able to repair the damage? Were there many injured?

[So many Mist flashbacks suddenly.]

[paladinlost]

Fewer than there could have been. There were a handful of us in town with Flying-types; the ability to stop them before they reached the ground helped.

[dragoon_pride]

That's fortunate... of course, it's always important to have someone around who can attack from the skies.

[paladinlost]

And also someone who is immune to explosions. Ghost-types are a blessing, at times.

[dragoon_pride]

Ghost... types? What exactly does that mean?

[paladinlost]

'Ghost' is considered an elemental affinity in this world. It comes with an immunity to 'normal' attacks, such as explosions.

[dragoon_pride]

That sounds... useful. Extremely. Though ghost implies... are they the spirits of the dead?

[paladinlost]

...Sometimes, but not always. It depends on their species, and on the circumstances of their creation.

[dragoon_pride]

They're created? How?

[paladinlost]

It varies. Shuppets and Banettes are said to come to life when a doll is abandoned by its owner and taken over by angry spirits, but that's only one method for one evolutionary line.

[dragoon_pride]

What strange creatures they are... they're less like anything we have back home than I'd first assumed.