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]

If that's the penalty, I'd gladly take my chances.

[He smirks in amusement at that. And oh man, if leaving town is a punishable offense, Kain basically would be doing permanent, constant community service, whoops.]

[paladinlost]

Truly? You'd accept weeks of washing dishes as a punishment?

[Can he get that in writing, for the day Kain finally comes home for good?]

[dragoon_pride]

If it also means weeks of fighting as I ought to...

[Kain hinges enough of who he is on his fighting abilities and his need to practice it... that any price is worth it.]

[paladinlost]

...I must say I'm not certain if saying 'weeks' is being terrifyingly optimistic, or a sad but correct evaluation of the local police force.

[dragoon_pride]

How encouraging. [It's said in that typical sarcastic tone of his.] This is a difficult situation you've landed yourself in, it would seem.

[paladinlost]

It could be much worse. For all that the locals are confused by our presence, they've been surprisingly accepting of our ignorance of their customs.

[dragoon_pride]

I'm almost afraid to ask... but are there any other strange customs that they have?

[paladinlost]

Other than challenging all who meet their eyes to a pet battle, and taking money from young children when they lose?

[dragoon_pride]

Well, that's... somewhat strange, but it could always be worse, I'm sure.

[paladinlost]

It easily could, if young trainers ever ran out of funds. There's nothing quite like guilt to ruin the sweetness of victory.

[dragoon_pride]

What a strange culture, but I suppose if it makes them... stronger, perhaps it's worth it.

[paladinlost]

Considering the average level of the natives' teams, it's not. Truly.

[dragoon_pride]

It sounds like they have a lot of work ahead of them.

[paladinlost]

They do, but even that might not suffice. It's as though they never gain strength, even after years of training.

[dragoon_pride]

That seems unusual... why wouldn't they grow stronger after so much training?

[paladinlost]

They should, according to the rules of their world. Yet their teams remain the same, and so do their strategies.

[dragoon_pride]

How can they be so limited? Does no one train them to show them how to reach their full potential?

http://paladinlost.dreamwidth.org/27573.html♥?

[paladinlost]

They speak of their training quite often, and a few such as the Gym leaders use multiple teams of varying levels, but beyond that...

haha headed there in a few!!

[dragoon_pride]

They really ought to be surpassing their past, building their strength. It's rather disappointing to know that they aren't...

Yay!!

[paladinlost]

...It might not be their fault. This world changes only rarely, and always in a strange manner.

[dragoon_pride]

And just what do you mean by a 'strange manner'?

[paladinlost]

We've had a dozen species change their elemental affinity in the middle of the night. Would you consider that strange enough?

[dragoon_pride]

It certainly would be... How is that even possible?

[He couldn't imagine suddenly being affiliated with fire or something instead of air, himself.]

[paladinlost]

...The universe might or might not have been rewritten at that time.

[They were asleep, it's hard to tell.]

[dragoon_pride]

And how is that even possible? Was it some sort of god’s doing?

[They do have a thing for wars and such, after all.]