33rd moon [video/action]

[paladinlost]

[Today, Cecil is posting from the street right in front of the Olivine Gym. Flare is sitting beside him, looking tired but happy.]

Rosa, Rydia, are you both still well? Flare needs to rest first, but we'll soon be able to come find you. We'll not be long, I promise.

[Now that the most important thing he had to say is out of the way, he has a question for everyone else.]

Could anyone tell me more about the Mahogany and Blackthorn Gyms, along with the roads that lead to them? With the end of the road so close, it'd be a shame to stop now.

[Flare barks quickly in agreement, and Cecil ends the message.]

Comments

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[reveiller]

Promises are easy to break.

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[paladinlost]

Not that particular one. Quite a few people are ready to help me keep it.

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[reveiller]

Mm, will it be foolproof?

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[paladinlost]

It is extremely difficult to prepare a plan that is completely foolproof, but we can come close.

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[reveiller]

I'd like to think of the relationship between plans and perfection to be asymptotic in nature. Forever approaching, but never quite reaching it.

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[paladinlost]

...And completely isolated from one another, in certain cases.

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[reveiller]

On the other hand, that's only if you have a very narrow definition of perfection.

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[paladinlost]

The world is safe, and no one died. Is that too narrow?

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[reveiller]

It could be, if it's unattainable.

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[paladinlost]

...It is, I suppose.

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[reveiller]

Settle for second-best.

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[paladinlost]

...Low casualties. Tricky but possible.

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[reveiller]

Aiming for the impossible is a sad venture, anyway. You know the saying-- shoot for the moon, and you'll land amongst the stars?

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[paladinlost]

...The moon is much easier to reach than the stars, as long as you have the right ship.

[No, he doesn't.]

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[reveiller]

[a chuckle, here.] Well, for those of us who don't have that ship-- they say that the stars are an acceptable alternative.

What do you think?

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[paladinlost]

...It'd not work if the problem can only be stopped by going to the moon in the first place.

[Both literally and metaphorically.]

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[reveiller]

And it extinguishes the stars.

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[paladinlost]

That'd take a rather great problem.

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[reveiller]

When it's your problem, of course it'd seem great.

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[paladinlost]

I believe that particular problem would be considered objectively great.

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[reveiller]

Seem, being the keyword. Is any problem truly great?

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[paladinlost]

When thousands if not millions of lives are threatened? Yes.

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[reveiller]

Not to the tyrant. Not to the child.

Not to the flower that blooms from the ashes of war.

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[paladinlost]

There'd be no children or flowers left, and the tyrant is probably responsible in the first place.

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[reveiller]

So in the end, there's still the tyrant to account for. Even the greatest problem might not be a problem in the eyes of others.