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]

Did it? Well, that's at least... useful. Difficult circumstances can have that effect.

[paladinlost]

Thankfully, those difficult circumstances were not necessary to build partnerships with the swarms that followed. Considering there were sentient swords a few weeks later...

[dragoon_pride]

Sentient... swords? However did you handle that?

[paladinlost]

With plenty of high quality polish and homemade treats, of course.

[dragoon_pride]

Treats.

[Said in the tone of "you lost me", because you lost him.]

[paladinlost]

Cookies.

[A beat.]

Do not ask me how swords are physically able to eat to cookies.

[dragoon_pride]

Your world is... so beyond strange, Cecil. I hardly know what to say to that. Cookies. Swords.

[Is he trolling? Now, if it were Edge he would be certain it was some jest.]

[paladinlost]

Cookies and sentients ice cream, too. Cookies and toxic sludge. Cookies and rocks. But the swords were particularly surprising, yes.

[Cecil's not trolling. The world itself is trolling.]

[dragoon_pride]

How could any of this even be possible?

[Kain is... just going to keep being totally confused and battled here.]

[paladinlost]

The local monsters must have adapted their diet when they started building a symbiotic relationship with humans. And since they are much more varied than the species we can find back home...

[dragoon_pride]

Ah, that would explain it. It seems your monsters are even stranger than our own.

[paladinlost]

Stranger, but also friendlier and easier to control. It's an acceptable trade.

[dragoon_pride]

I suppose so, when you put it that way...

[paladinlost]

Besides, what's a little strangeness when you can raise and train dozens of dragons?

[dragoon_pride]

That part is appealing, at least.

[paladinlost]

It turns out they can be excellent companions, for such powerful creatures.

[dragoon_pride]

Of course they can... we dragoons have known that for centuries.

[paladinlost]

But do dragoons know that they enjoy lounging by the pond while eating strawberry ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce?

[dragoon_pride]

They... what?

[This world will never cease to be completely weird.]

[paladinlost]

Mist is very picky, when it comes to ice cream. Or acceptable lounging spots, for that matter. Dora is willing to accept plain vanilla, however.

[dragoon_pride]

[He just sighs and shakes his head.]

Visiting this place... it’s truly almost dream-like in its logic sometimes.

[paladinlost]

[In an instant, Cecil turns completely serious.]

Hardly. You'd not want to see this world, when it is truly dream-like.

[dragoon_pride]

That sounds like it has a story behind it. Why not?

[paladinlost]

...Because half the time, the dream it resembles is a nightmare. That castle... People lost their Pokémon there. Others were attacked, left in a dungeon...

[dragoon_pride]

How terrible. It seems this world isn't without its share of threats...